Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream

Director Jane Schoenbrun's new film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is built to satisfy slasher superfans without alienating general audiences—no small feat. According to Ars Technica, Hannah Einbinder stars as Kris, a queer filmmaker hired to create a 'woke' reboot of a Friday the 13th-style franchise. Her pitch fails, plunging her into a surreal fantasy drawn from her own psyche, one that opens with David Fincher-level precision before subverting the slasher formula entirely. Gillian Anderson steals scenes as Billy Preston, the original final girl, making the whole thing a warm-hearted love letter to anyone who grew up watching horror they absolutely shouldn't have.

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