What Excites Us? What Scares Us? Find Out at 'Camp Miasma'
Jane Schoenbrun’s reboot turns a divisive slasher franchise into a queer psychosexual story about fandom, filmmaking, and identity.
- On Thursday, August 13, 2026, Director Jane Schoenbrun released 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,' a 112-minute R-rated film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson exploring queer desire through a fictional slasher franchise reboot.
- Schoenbrun's film follows independent filmmaker Kris, who attempts to modernize the 'zombie IP' of the Camp Miasma series while correcting the original franchise's transphobic themes for a studio reboot.
- Recruiting original 'final girl' Billy Presley, the narrative documents four days of interactions between Kris and the reclusive actress, exploring personal identity and cinema's power to shape desire.
- Schoenbrun employs metatextual filmmaking with practical effects and genre deconstruction; proponents of 'style is substance' will find much to adore in the impressionistic aesthetic.
- Continuing Schoenbrun's media-obsessed work, the film positions itself as a 'tale of personal journey of identity' filtered through pop culture, extending the director's exploration of how media shapes queer selfhood.
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And av stupid manure uppmärksammade filmerna från årets Cannesfestival går upp på bio i helgen. And bloody and queer slasher satir by American director Jane Schoenbrun. Kulturnyheternas filmredaktör uppmanar tonåringar och föräldrar att se den, men inte tillsammans.
After several improvised sequels and an increasingly dim popularity, the Camp Miasma fictional horror franchise falls into the hands of Kris (Hannah Einbinder), a young independent filmmaker called to bring back life to this old slasher universe. Her search leads her to Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), the mysterious and confined protagonist of the original film, who lives in the camp where that tape was shot. The encounter between the two wome…
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Add Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma to your watchlistDifferent generations maybe, but Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder are both screen idols. Anderson, 58, found fame as paranormal investigator Scully in The X-Files, while Einbinder, 31, is riding high thanks to acclaimed comedy series Hacks. Now they’re co-starring in the new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, with Einbinder’s budding director Kris trying to convince Anderson’…
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