At Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image, NYC: Camp Miasma Props and Horror Posters, Free Through Nov. 8

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, is showing "Reframing the Slasher," an exhibition built around Jane Schoenbrun's film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. It runs through November 8, and admission is free. The show fills the museum's ground-floor Founders Hall and includes about 35 objects.

The film is a meta take on the slasher genre. A queer filmmaker, played by Hannah Einbinder, is asked to revive a 1980s and '90s horror franchise about supernatural murders at a sleepaway camp. She seeks out the original series' reclusive "final girl," played by Gillian Anderson, for inspiration.

The installation pairs screen-used props from the fictional Camp Miasma franchise with real movie posters. The props include VHS tapes, posters, merchandise and a costume. Schoenbrun selected the posters, among them Psycho (1960), Sleepaway Camp (1983) and Dressed to Kill (1980).

Each poster carries descriptive text written by the director. The captions point to the sources she drew on, and each of those works contributes to the genre's complicated treatment of gender, desire and sexual deviance. Seeing invented franchise artifacts next to genuine horror marketing makes the film's lineage easy to trace.

The exhibition opened July 30, ahead of the film's August 7 theatrical release. Mubi is the presenting sponsor.

Museum hours are Thursday 2–6 p.m., Friday 2–8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m. The final day, November 8, is a Sunday. The museum is at 36-01 35 Ave in Astoria.