Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Tonight, we're discussing the 2026 films.

Teenage sex and death at Camp Miasma.

Brand new

film hot off the presses.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection.

But when she visits the original star's now reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Starring Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson...

Very interesting movie.

If you heard the movies we loved in, I believe, 2024 episodes, you know how much we both loved I Saw the TV Glow.

And I think both of us were anxiously awaiting Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma from the second they first announced it.

Yes.

I wanted to love it, and I did.

But I feel like I often feel misunderstood or people don't understand what... my way of seeing the world.

And so to have a filmmaker who sees the world in the same way and has used media as a comfort and also sometimes as a crutch in the same way that I do, it makes me feel less alone.

It makes me feel very... connected to something and like feel like i am understanding myself better the more films of jane's that i watched yeah so yeah like i think that's that's one of the things that i keep chewing on from camp miasma is the way that we can hide in media but also use it as an invitation to try on a new side of ourselves that maybe we're afraid of which i think is so interesting and i don't know layered and cool and i love this movie yeah

Yeah, I'm so excited that it's out now to stream so that when I get these like thoughts about the film, I'm like, okay, now I need to go and watch it currently, like right now, right after we record this.

You wish that it was interspersed more throughout the entirety of the movie? I kind of wanted more, like...

Of, like, the original camp miasma.

Yeah.

I love the intro, like, title sequence where it's showing you all, like, the sort of, like, pop culture stuff of, like, the legacy of this franchise, which, like, occurs from Friday the 13th and some other stuff.

exactly.

If you did...

It turns out that the cheat code is, what if you just did a Stevie Wonder song? Camp Miasma, it is one of the few experiences, and I haven't got to rewatch it yet, but I should just buy it on iTunes or whatever.

It was one of the rare experiences where I watched it, and then my brain was like, you should just sit there and watch the movie again when it reruns to the next thing.

Yeah.

I mean, the one that's the most recent for me is Camp Miasma.

I just did a screening of it a few days ago, and it has these movies within the movie, and they're very much a nod to 80s slashers, which are how I first got into horror.

So I was watching that movie, and I felt transported back to being a 14-year-old popping Friday the 13th in for the first time as a tape.

So that's the most recent one that's doing it for me.

Well, let's take a listen to this.

This is a clip from the trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

In this clip, a young filmmaker named Chris meets the original Camp Miasma film actress, Billie, for the first time.

In some cases it's been really successful, but, but in other cases, it really begs the question for me, like, why are these things coming back and why are no, no, why is no one really asking questions about why is it happening right now? So.

And then one of the more interesting films, like thinking about a film that could not have had the discourse that it had 20 years ago, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

I don't want to call that film controversial because I think that is kind of like... too salacious of a word.

But it does feel like it was very divisive in terms of who got it and who didn't.

We've only got like six days until Halloween.

I'm going to have reviews for Teenage Sex at Camp Miasma.

There we go.

I'm going to have a review for Buddy as well as for Paranorman, Evil Dead.

The kind with a lake and a killer at the bottom of it, and a body count that gets higher every sequel.

Today we're talking about Jane Schaunbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and I have been waiting to talk about this one since the first time I watched it because it got into me.

Here's the framework I want you to hold for the whole episode.

This movie is a love story between two women, and each of them is a kind of horror.

I genuinely do not know how to talk about a movie without spoiling it.

My brain just doesn't work that way.

So if you haven't seen Camp Miasma yet, pause this, go watch it, and come back.

I'm I'll be here.