Movie Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, starring Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, and Kevin McDonald

I've made it a personal mission to never meet my heroes. The few times I have have been awkward as hell, from musicians to artists to comedians except the very rare times I never realized who I was talking to. In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a filmmaker gets to meet their hero and it goes pretty well, all things considered.

     Kris drives her way to a snowy former campground through a few strange locals to meet Billy, the former final girl of the Camp Miasma slasher franchise. Tasked with revitalizing the dead and problematic franchise as an up and coming queer art filmmaker, Kris also wrestles with why the film made her so damn horny and why she's not feeling frisky now. Billy has plenty of fried chicken and weed to deal with all that.

     Billy's been up at this summer camp where the movies were filmed by herself for a while, watching her old movies. She's clear and not a bit crazy. Movie references abound, from the 80s slashers to Norma Desmond, and long discussions are had about the cinematic tropes Kris academically recites like a grad student three beers deep with their favorite professor. Billy cuts through that bullshit saying the movies she was in only mean two things: flesh and fluids.

     Pretty soon the two of them are getting carnal as Billy breaks down Kris's dipping sauce and Little Death, the vent-headed killer of the franchise, raises their the rusty spear. People get chopped up and blood geysers to the ceiling in a viewing of Camp Miasma that breeches into the real world. Little Death orgasmically climaxes with violence as Kris and Billy are covered in both flesh and fluids.

     Gilian Anderson kills it as Billy, saying the repeated line "If it gets too real, you can always turn it off." Hanna Elenbrinder makes a meal of the young Kris who by the end has to remind herself she's "nubile." I enjoyed seeing Kevin McDonald as the local with a small part in a big franchise.

     There's a lot of love and therapy that went into this highly detailed and entertaining movie. Check it out.