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Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma uses a meta-slashers framework to explore overcoming sexual trauma, presenting a queer romance where desire is treated as safe play and noting that if things get too real, you can turn it off.
Variety details Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, highlighting a bloody, multi-location one-take sequence where Little Death massacres a summer camp to Counting Crows’ A Long December. Cinematography by Eric Yue and editing by Graham Mason combine practical effects, an iPhone Steadicam workflow, and heavy VFX to create a heightened, POV-shifting ballet that fits the film’s queer-forward lens. The piece also notes an ambitious opening title sequence and world-building, with the film currently playing in select theaters via Mubi.
Director Jane Schoenbrun uses nostalgia and ritual to deconstruct the slasher genre, framing fear and desire as interconnected and exploring trans identity through candy, campy spectacle, and a meta-horror lens in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Ahead of the August 7 release of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, MUBI and Mutant are selling retro merch for a fictional 14-film Camp Miasma franchise, including VHS sleeves and a 12-card trading card pack. VHS tapes aren’t included since the films aren’t real, but the sleeves and cards are for display. The full sleeve set costs $40 and the card pack $10, with additional items like posters, T-shirts, and a cap also available. The film stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson and is produced by Mubi and Plan B Entertainment; pre-orders are open through Mutant’s shop.
A pointed critique of David Ellison’s NYT op-ed and the Paramount-Warner merger, arguing it would cost jobs, curb artistic risk, and entrench studio power, alongside coverage of Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s bold reimagining of Jean Grey and Jane Schoenbrun’s Camp Miasma exploring trans storytelling and fandom.
Jane Schoenbrun’s new meta-slasher, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, uses a scholarly gaze on horror to unpack beloved franchises—Psycho, Psycho II, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Evil Dead II, and Friday the 13th Part 2—while exploring reboot culture, queer-coded desire, and the film’s dreamlike, cinematic play between image and longing.
Hannah Einbinder shifts from Hacks to Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, playing a queer director who becomes obsessed with Gillian Anderson’s ‘final girl’ in a cross-generational, psychosexual drama that riffs on horror’s sex-and-power tropes; Schoenbrun’s third feature opens August 7 and uses the final girl concept to explore identity, sexuality, and messy creative dynamics.
IndieWire critic David Ehrlich argues Cannes 2026 offered a weak lineup, but three films—Camp Miasma (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Mishima) by Jane Schoenbrun, Club Kid by Pawel Pawlikowski, and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur—stood out for their bold formal daring and incisive examinations of identity and reality. Camp Miasma uses autofictional horror to map mind and body, Club Kid follows a sober, maturation arc of a gay Manhattan scenester, and Minotaur places a domestic crisis within a brutal geopolitical frame, culminating in a haunting final image. Together, they demonstrate cinema’s power to disrupt and redefine perception even amidst a festival lineup Ehrlich found lacking overall.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Cannes 2026 film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma turns a retro slasher into a sharp, compassionate meditation on nostalgia, gender trauma, and queer desire, anchored by Gillian Anderson’s presence and Hannah Einbinder’s performance, with lush visuals and wry humor.
At Cannes, Hannah Einbinder says she won’t let fears of being blacklisted silence her advocacy for Palestine, arguing the cost of not speaking out is higher. She discussed the Cannes world premiere of Camp Miasma and her collaboration with Gillian Anderson at the Kering Women in Motion talks, praised Palestinian and Jewish allies, and suggested she’d love to work with other pro‑Palestine celebrities as she reflects on the final season of Hacks. Camp Miasma opens Aug. 7 in theaters via Mubi.
At Cannes, Jane Schoenbrun's horror film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma received a warm reception, including a near-six-minute standing ovation after its Debussy Theatre world premiere; the reboot-focused slasher, starring Einbinder and Anderson, aims to spark conversations about sex, gender, and trauma and will be released by Mubi on August 7, 2026.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Camp Miasma, a queer slasher starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard to a six‑minute standing ovation, delivering sharp satire of Hollywood reboot culture amid bloody, delirious thrills; U.S. release is August 7 via Mubi.
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson discuss Jane Schoenbrun’s Cannes-bound queer horror Camp Miasma (Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma), with Einbinder describing how intense, fear-driven scenes pushed her to confront desire and trauma, and Anderson praising the film’s blood-soaked exploration of identity, pleasure, and belonging as Kris revives an ’80s slasher while navigating marginalized communities and fandom.