‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Trailer – Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson Star in Jane Schoenbrun’s Horror-Comedy

Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow).

The film follows a queer director making a sequel for a slasher franchise when she becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s “final girl.” The cast also includes Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald, and Jack Haven with music by Alex G.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premiered at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm, an independently sponsored award for LGBTQIA+ cinema. It will be released in U.S. theaters on August 7, 2026 via Mubi.

According to the synopsis, the story follows Kris (Einbinder), an enthusiastic young director tasked with rebooting the Camp Miasma slasher franchise, which is waning in popularity after a number of haphazard sequels. She goes to the original filming location, an abandoned summer camp, to track down the original movie’s star, Billy (Anderson), who is now a mysterious recluse. The two women fall into a world of desire, fear, and delirium as the campsite killer “Little Death” seemingly returns.

In an interview with IndieWire, Schoenbrun said the movie is about “coming into one’s own body, one’s own identity, one’s own sexuality, for me, for the first time in my life at age 34 … the movie is about teenage things. The movie is about stuff that most people figure out about themselves when they’re 15 or 16, because I didn’t get a first puberty that made sense. What else can I tell you? Yeah, it’s a movie about sex.”

Einbinder adds, in an interview with Variety, “The film largely reckons with a thing that probably most people have experienced in this room, which is shame and discomfort around sex. And definitely in doing this film I had to examine just how true that was for me. And I think it’s something that we do not talk about — that’s why I think this film is so important.”

The film has received immense praise from critics. The Guardian’s review called the film “a very enjoyable display of transformative ecstasy and submissive rapture, treating us to a bizarre pop-cultural black mass of fiercely believed-in trash and kink.” The Deadline review praises Einbinder’s performance in particular, saying she played her role with “the strength and vulnerability that is necessary to make this trippy, gory and still somehow perversely romantic love story its beating, bloody heart.”

Watch the official trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma above.