‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Kills Summer’s Horror Hot Streak

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Mubi This summer has been a historic one for horror, with low-budget indies Obsession and Backrooms setting one box-office record after another while films like Hokum, Leviticus, and Evil Dead Burn solidified the genre’s hold on theaters. It’s rarely been a better time to love scary films, which is why it’s disappointing to find that the season’s latest highly anticipated release—from one of cinema’s up-and-coming auteurs—stops this…