Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

When young director Kris (Hannah Einbinder) gets the chance to reboot the iconic ’80s slasher franchise Camp Miasma, she travels to the dilapidated summer camp from the original film. There, she meets the original ‘final girl’ Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), who lives there as a stylish recluse. As the two watch the old film reels together, a sultry, sensual dynamic develops, and the boundary between film fantasy and reality begins to blur in a hypnotic fashion.

That this mix works so extraordinarily well is thanks to the visual magic of director Jane Schoenbrun (I SAW THE TV GLOW). Schoenbrun seamlessly weaves together the nostalgia of FRIDAY THE 13TH, the humor of SCREAM, and the thrill of Sex Education. The result is a stylish, psychedelic ‘midnight movie’ anchored by the phenomenal chemistry between a disarming Einbinder and Anderson.

What truly makes the film such a hit is that it doesn’t just cleverly deconstruct clunky horror tropes, but transforms them into a liberating, sensory ode to desire and identity. An instant cult classic.