‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Will Teach You How to Turn Trauma Into Kinky Lesbian Sex

By Anna Menta Published Aug. 12, 2026, 8:00 a.m. ET “If it gets too real, you can always turn it off.” That’s the mantra repeated several times in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the new slasher from director Jane Schoenbrun, that serves as a follow up to their 2024 beloved critical hit, I Saw the TV Glow. At it’s heart, that mantra is what this strange, meta, referential film is really about: the safe kind of fear. And, yes, OK, kinky lesbian sex, also. Everyone say, “Thank you, Jane Schoenbrun.” [Fair warning: Plot spoilers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ahead!] Written and directed by Schoenbrun, Camp Miasma takes a meta approach to the slasher genre. Hannah Einbinder stars as Kris Williams, a “Sundance darling” queer filmmaker who has been hired to reboot a fictional, p