Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Trailer Released
Jane Schoenbrun has quickly become one of the most distinctive voices in modern genre cinema, and the newly released trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma suggests the filmmaker is about to drag the slasher genre kicking and screaming into deeply strange territory once again.
The first official trailer for the upcoming horror film has now arrived online ahead of the movie’s theatrical release this August, teasing a blood soaked collision of slasher nostalgia, surreal psychological horror, obsessive fandom, and warped Hollywood satire.
Watch the trailer below.
Unlike a traditional reboot or remake, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is being described as “a new kind of horror remake.” The setup itself sounds like something pulled from a cursed VHS tape hidden at the back of a video store.
The film follows an ambitious young filmmaker hired to resurrect the long dormant Camp Miasma franchise, a once beloved slasher series that has spent years drowning in cheap sequels and dwindling fan interest. Things begin spiralling into nightmare territory when the director visits the original film’s reclusive star, leading both women into what is described as a world of “desire, fear, and delirium.”
If the trailer is anything to go by, Schoenbrun is not interested in making a conventional cabin-in-the-woods slasher. Instead, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma looks like a fever dream about horror itself. The footage swings between neon drenched imagery, eerie VHS textures, screaming crowds, masked killers, unsettling conversations, dreamlike edits and moments that feel closer to psychological collapse than straightforward body count carnage.
Hannah Einbinder, best known for HBO’s Hacks, leads the cast alongside Gillian Anderson, whose horror and genre credentials already include The X-Files, Hannibal and The Fall. Anderson appears particularly unsettling in the trailer, playing the former Camp Miasma scream queen with an unnerving mix of glamour, sadness and barely concealed madness.
The supporting cast is stacked with genre favourites and rising stars, including Jack Haven, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald and Quintessa Swindell.
Schoenbrun previously turned heads with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair before exploding into wider acclaim with I Saw the TV Glow in 2024. That film became one of the most talked about horror releases of the year, blending psychological horror, nostalgia and identity themes into something hauntingly original. Rather than relying on traditional scares, I Saw the TV Glow built dread through mood, emotional isolation and the terrifying feeling that reality itself might be slipping away.
The film earned widespread praise for its unique visual style and emotional storytelling, with many horror fans comparing its impact to cult classics such as Donnie Darko, Videodrome and Twin Peaks. It also cemented Schoenbrun as a filmmaker far more interested in emotional horror and surreal atmosphere than simple jump scares.
That same energy appears to be bleeding directly into Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The trailer feels less like Friday the 13th and more like someone locked inside a nightmare about Friday the 13th after watching too many bootleg tapes at 3am.
There are still flashes of classic slasher DNA throughout the footage though. We get masked killers, screaming victims, isolated woods, campfire imagery, blood soaked violence and what looks like several brutal murder sequences. But every frame seems filtered through Schoenbrun’s uniquely dreamlike style.
The title alone feels like an intentional riff on exploitative slashers from the late seventies and eighties, when VHS shelves were overflowing with movies that sounded like they had been generated by smashing together random horror buzzwords. Somehow, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma manages to sound both ridiculous and genuinely intriguing at the same time.
The movie has also earned an R rating for “bloody violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and some language,” suggesting Schoenbrun is not abandoning the nastier side of horror while experimenting with the genre.
Mubi will release Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma in theatres beginning August 7, 2026 across the United States, Canada, the UK and several international territories. The film is produced by Mubi alongside Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
Whether the movie ends up becoming the next cult horror sensation or leaves audiences staring blankly at the cinema wall wondering what they just witnessed, one thing already feels certain: this is not going to be another forgettable nostalgia slasher.
And honestly, after decades of horror franchises returning from the dead more times than the average masked killer, that alone is refreshing.
