Camp Miasma and the Queer Slasher Dream | Washington DC News

Washington DC News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 14, 2026 · 2m

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is a wild, dreamlike slasher that turns VHS-era horror into a queer coming-of-age odyssey. Following Hannah Einbinder as Kris, a filmmaker obsessed with remaking the cult classic Camp Miasma, the film plunges her into a surreal, sexually charged journey with Gillian Anderson’s enigmatic Billy. As they revisit the original camp’s haunting location, reality fractures—blurring fiction, trauma, and desire in Schoenbrun’s signature style. It’s a bold, hilarious, and deeply personal reckoning with obsession, nostalgia, and the…