‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Trailer: Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson Fall in Love and Psychosexual Madness

The wild new meta-horror movie from "I Saw the TV Glow" director Jane Schoenbrun opens theatrically from Mubi starting August 7.

It was one of the most acclaimed movies out of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival — now, Jane Schoenbrun‘s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” is heading into a summer tour and a theatrical release from Mubi starting August 7.

Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in a bloody, lusty, sapphic meta-horror movie centered around the re-making of a fading slasher franchise called “Camp Miasma.” Einbinder plays the enthusiastic young director, Kris, hired to resurrect the franchise with a “woke” perspective, per the committee of executives overseeing her every creative move. Kris decides to visit the movie’s original star, Billy Presley, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery who lives in the campgrounds where early iterations of the franchise were shot. As Kris opens herself up to a sexual awakening as well as a creative one, the two women fall into gory, delirious psychosexual freefall.

Schoenbrun, who wrote and directed “Teenage Sex” after their first two features “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “I Saw the TV Glow,” told IndieWire at the Cannes Film Festival that the new film 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.”

“When you guys watch it, you tell me, but I think it’s about as commercial as I can do, which is maybe not commercial,” they added.

More from my review of the film: “In terms of craftsmanship, ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ is through and through a Jane Schoenbrun movie; there is absolutely no one else, alive or dead, who could have made a feature that looks and feels like this one. The pas de deux between Billy and Kris is entrancingly sexy, and the film’s love relationship to movie magic is just as romantic, from Anderson’s grand-dame costuming to the matte paintings that serve as backdrops in both the film-within-the-film and the one containing it. Brooklyn hipster-adored musician Alex G returns to contribute melancholic, acoustic songcraft, while ‘TV Glow’ cinematographer Eric Yue delivers on Schoenbrun’s promise of making the kind of cozily sinister movie you’d watch furtively in your friend’s basement during adolescent sleepovers.

Watch the full trailer for “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” below ahead of the Mubi release starting August 7.