Queer horror comedy with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score premieres at Cannes to glowing reviews

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to glowing, five-star reviews.

Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw The TV Glow promises a bloody queer horror comedy.

The film stars an incredible pairing: The X Files star Gillian Anderson and Hacks actress Hannah Einbinder. The film also stars Sorry, Baby’s Eva Victor, Yellowjackets’ Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Prime Target’s Quintessa Swindell.

In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Einbinder plays a filmmaker who is handed the reins of a slasher franchise. Anderson plays the enigmatic woman who starred in the original films.

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

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

‘Anderson raises her own bar’

In their review of the film, AwardsWatch labelled Schoenbrun a “definitive voice of their generation.” They continued that they are a filmmaker who “perfectly blends their personality with an expert blend of humour, melancholy, and exhilaration.”

Little White Lies also adds: “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma defies easy categorisation.

“It’s a romance, sure, but it’s also a horror film about the agony of contorting oneself in traditional gender and sexuality binaries, and undoubtedly it’s a comedy too, poking fun at the self-seriousness of prescriptive horror analysis and the idea we have to constantly qualify the pop culture that made us with acknowledgements of its flaws.”

Time Out‘s five-star review states the film “is a gift that keeps on giving.” The review also praises Anderson’s showcase: “Anderson raises her own bar to deliver a performance of deeply moving range.”

Additionally, a review from Vogue shared the “compelling” film is “a big swing, certainly, but one that also results in something messier, shaggier, and knottier than TV Glow.

“It’s guaranteed to be catnip for fans, just as it’s likely to alienate newcomers to Schoenbrun’s work, who may find their last project, strange though it is, more easily digestible than this one.”

It also currently has an incredible score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, after 31 reviews.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is due for release in US cinemas on 7 August and UK cinemas from 21 August.