Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a queer, sensual riff on slasher lore that one review calls "slasher nerd nirvana." The film follows Kris, played by Hannah Einbinder, a queer filmmaker who travels to an isolated summer camp to convince reclusive Final Girl Billy, played by Gillian Anderson, to return to cinema. The Ginger Nuts of Horror review describes several days of movies, junk food, pot, and intensely erotic slasher fandom rather than a conventional spoof or satire. Schoenbrun layers Sleepaway Camp trivia, explicit gender iconography, and nods to Carol J. Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws into a watercolor-fever-dream style that the reviewer calls funny, bloody, tender, and accepting. The film also features a striking antagonist called Little Death, a transgender marauder armed with a double-blade spear and an air-vent helmet. The reviewer recommends seeing the film and frames it as both a personal psychodrama about transformation and a deeply loving homage to aggressively sexual, sexually ambiguous slasher cinema.
