At Cannes, Jane Schoenbrun reshapes slasher genre in ‘Teenage Death and Sex at Camp Miasma’
By Miranda Murray
Published on May 13, 2026.
Director Jane Schoenbrun's new horror film, "Teenage Death and Sex at Camp Miasma," premiered at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in France. The film was inspired by a desire to remake the slasher genre, which has been criticised as transphobic for equating gender nonconformity with mental illness or danger. The director's character, Hannah Einbinder, stars as a screenwriter who visits the "final girl" actor from the "Camp Mia" slasher franchise, played by Gillian Anderson, to bring her on to a new reboot. The movie was selected to open the festival's Un Certain Regard category.
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