Rural Roundup: Three New(ish) Picks for Your Watchlist

The roundup recommends three recent rural-set titles: Jane Schoenbrun's horror film ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,’ starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson; HBO's ‘Lanterns,’ a Green Lantern adaptation set in fictional Rushville, Nebraska, from co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom King; and Ridley Scott's ‘The Dog Stars,’ a post-pandemic survival drama starring Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley shot partly in rural Colorado and Abruzzo, Italy.

Each piece is praised for using its rural backdrop to complicate familiar genre expectations rather than simply trading on small-town stereotypes.

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