Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Kris (Hannah Einbinder) is a film-obsessed director entrusted with remaking the once-popular horror film “Camp Miasma” (something like “Friday the 13th”), which has begun to lose its loyal fanbase because of its subpar sequels. She visits the original film’s star, Billy (Gillian Anderson of “The X-Files”), a reclusive and mysterious actress whom she plans to persuade to play the *final girl* in her film. The more intimate Kris’s relationship with Billy becomes, the stranger and more surreal her original reason for making the trip to Camp Miasma grows. Desire takes over, and death follows; everything that initially seemed like just a film idea written on paper becomes reality. This meta-horror film, which won the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is currently making a successful run at festivals and in cinemas internationally. Many see the queer-cinema rebel and the film’s director, Jane Schoenbrun (“I Saw the TV Glow”), as precisely the kind of fresh-eyed filmmaker whom both fans and haters of genre cinema will have to take very seriously in the near future. Helmut Jänes Read more.