'Camp Miasma' Slashes Its Way Onto Digital
Jane Schoenbrun's slasher isn't playing nice, and that's exactly the point. After a Cannes premiere that walked away with the Queer Palm and a summer theatrical run that had critics reaching for words like "delirious" and "essential," Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is now available to rent or buy at home. If you missed it in theaters, this is your chance to see what all the screaming was about.
What's the Movie Actually About
Hannah Einbinder stars as Kris Williams, a queer filmmaker hired to reboot the Camp Miasma slasher franchise for a new generation. To do it right, she becomes obsessed with tracking down Billy Presley — the original film's "final girl," played by Gillian Anderson, who has spent decades in reclusive isolation at the very campgrounds where the original movie was shot.
What starts as a research trip curdles into something much stranger. Billy reveals the abuse she endured during the making of the first film, and how it warped her relationship to pleasure and violence forever. As Kris digs deeper into Billy's past, the line between "making a horror movie" and "living inside one" dissolves completely. By the time the franchise's masked villain, Little Death (played by Jack Haven), is being discussed as something closer to a god than a slasher-movie boogeyman, Camp Miasma has stopped being a movie about a movie and become something closer to a fever dream about art, trauma, and desire.
It's the third feature from Schoenbrun, who broke through with 2024's I Saw the TV Glow, and it carries the same DNA: genre furniture repurposed to say something much more personal underneath.
The Cast Is Doing Career-Best Work
Critics have been especially loud about Anderson, who plays Billy with a mix of exhaustion and menace that's been called some of the best work of her career. Einbinder, best known for comedy, holds her own opposite her as the story pulls Kris further into obsession. The supporting cast rounds out with Jack Haven, Patrick Fischler, Sarah Sherman, and Dylan Baker, all of whom show up in a franchise-within-a-franchise that keeps blurring who's really in control of the story.
The film currently sits at a stellar 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics singling it out as a genuinely strange, genuinely felt entry into the "meta-slasher" conversation — the kind of movie that uses camp-counselor-body-count tropes as a Trojan horse for something far weirder and more sincere.
Why This One's Worth Your Watchlist
Slasher throwbacks are everywhere right now, but most of them are content to wink at the genre and move on. Camp Miasma actually interrogates it — what it costs the people who survive to become "final girls," and what it costs the artists who keep telling their stories over and over. Add a filmmaker as distinctive as Schoenbrun behind the camera and two actors this committed in front of it, and you get a slasher that lingers well past the credits.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is now available to rent or purchase on digital platforms.
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