Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) on Netflix
R20261h 52mComedyHorrorRomance
Kris Williams is hired to reboot the Camp Miasma slasher franchise. She seeks out Billy Presley, the actress who retired after the original, and finds her living on the abandoned campgrounds.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.2/1010,040 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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Plot summary
The Camp Miasma franchise began in 1980, its killer a ghost called Little Death, a child their parents raised as both a boy and a girl, drowned by campers and rising from the lake with a spear. Cheap sequels left it dormant. Kris Williams, a queer filmmaker, is hired to reboot it, aware she was chosen to soften its premise for a modern audience but attached to the series from childhood. She wants Billy Presley for the lead, the actress who left acting after the first film. Billy lives on the abandoned campgrounds where the series was shot. She is obsessed with Little Death, and Kris tells her about her polyamorous relationship and her dissatisfaction with it. Billy dismisses Kris's academic reading of the series yet says she would act again.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
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- Jane Schoenbrun said the film's central theme would be learning to enjoy sex after transition, describing the difficulty of having good sex in the wrong body before transitioning.
- Schoenbrun said the film would engage with what they called the problematic trans representation of horror classics including Psycho, Sleepaway Camp, The Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, honoring and critiquing how those films codified transness as monstrous.
- Schoenbrun likened the film's concept to Portrait of a Lady on Fire set inside a Friday the 13th sequel, and cited Bram Stoker's Dracula as a reference for its Gothic, romantic quality and matte paintings.
