Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) dir Jane Schoenbrun

I recently caught a screening of Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), and I’m happy to report that they remain an interesting filmmaker making interesting films. The first of those, 2021’s We're All Going to the World's Fair, didn’t really work for me but was at least formally and visually inventive. I thought a better balance was struck with I Saw the TV Glow (2024), which was funny and tender as well as looking great (and calling on both 90s nostalgia and Buffy fandom). TSaDaCM feels like another case of Schoenbrun applying their own sensibilities onto a familiar genre template: this time, specifically, the meta slasher movie. The specifics of plot are less important than the fact that (as both writer and director) Schoenbrun is exploring very personal subjects in a smart way, and with a lightness of touch that invites the audience to participate in, and draw from, the film. The movie is very light on the horror aspects, and is more interested…