Hannah Einbinder topless in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026; now in theaters)

This is a “meta” slasher film about making a slasher film. It is part slasher film, part genre parody, part psycho-sexual adventure.

A queer filmmaker is hired to direct a new installment of the long-running slasher franchise Camp Miasma. The director becomes fixated on the prospect of casting the reclusive actress who played the final girl in the original film. As the two women begin to work together, they descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.

IMDb: 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% (!! ??)

There are things I like about the film. I love the introduction. As often seen in Wes Anderson films, the auteur created an elaborate, intricate fictional universe with a back story too detailed to absorb without the pause button. In that universe, Camp Miasma is a legendary horror franchise that rivals Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, with similar highs and lows in the history of the franchise. That fictional world is supported by faux newspaper articles, VHS/DVD boxes, reviews, billboards, video games, board games, etc.

I found the main body of the film unappealing. There is very little forward movement in the narrative, and I am an impatient person. The sex scene pictured below, between Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, is more than eight minutes long. Other sex scenes between them (without nudity) take up another four or five minutes. I rarely fast-forward during a sex scene, but I was so bored here that I made an exception.

These images and clips come from a mediocre cam.

Jack Haven is a biological female born as Brigette Lundy-Paine, but now identifying as non-binary with “they” pronouns.

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Here is the part of the film I liked: the ersatz history.