A new teaser for Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma teases a meta-horror revival starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, produced by Plan B and released by MUBI on August 7, 2026
A newly surfaced teaser and accompanying marketing materials offer the first clear look at Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Short, pungent and sometimes savage in its humor, the clip mixes slasher trappings with sharp riffs on fandom and franchise culture. The studio has set an August 7, 2026 theatrical launch, and the early rollout appears aimed squarely at horror devotees and festival programmers as much as mainstream audiences.
What the teaser and press packet reveal
– Tone and approach: The teaser flirts with both tribute and takedown. Archival-style cues from an imagined original series sit alongside behind-the-scenes footage of a reboot in production; the result reads like a conversation between past and present rather than a straight remake. Visuals alternate between polished, almost glossy palettes and hallucinatory, jolting edits that lean into black comedy and heightened gore.
– Narrative hook: At the center is an eager young filmmaker trying to revive a once-popular slasher franchise and the withdrawn original star she needs to win over. The interplay between ambition and celebrity withdrawal is staged to dramatize tensions between legacy and reinvention.
– Aesthetic team: Eric Yue returns as cinematographer, and the
Cast, credits and creative backers
The project pairs familiar faces with fresh talent. Hannah Einbinder is named as the protagonist; Gillian Anderson is listed as the franchise’s original star, now removed from the public eye. Supporting names include Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald and Jack Haven. Production partners include MUBI and Plan B, with The Match Factory handling international sales and Scythia Films’ Daniel Bekerman credited as a local executive producer.
How the campaign is being staged
Marketing appears deliberately phased. The teaser functions as an appetizer intended to spark conversation among hardcore horror communities and programmers; planned follow-ups include character-focused clips and festival-targeted edits. The Match Factory is coordinating sales activity outside territories slated for MUBI distribution, and internal notes point to a roll-out that leans on festival buzz before wider international deals or platform placements are locked in.
A hybrid distribution strategy
Financing and rights have been structured to balance prestige and reach. MUBI is listed as financier and primary distributor in an unusually broad group of territories—North America, Latin America, the U.K. and Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Italy, Turkey, India, Australia and New Zealand—while The Match Factory handles the rest. Plan B is attached as a lead production partner, and Scythia Films provided local production services. Contracts reportedly tie festival commitments and marketing spend to performance triggers, reflecting a cautious, awards-conscious commercial model.
Themes at the film’s core
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is being positioned as more than a genre exercise. Drafts and production notes emphasize sexual subjectivity after gender transition, treating intimacy as reclamation rather than merely trauma. Multiple revisions moved the narrative away from a victimhood frame toward consensual, sensorial depictions of desire—often layered over slasher beats and darkly comic moments. Editorial and sound teams, plus consultants with lived experience, advised on authenticity and consent, and those conversations shaped everything from blocking and costume to how explicit certain scenes should be for ratings and festival viability.
The creative trade-offs
That choice to center sexual pleasure post-transition makes the film a deliberate provocation. Leaning into recognizable horror iconography broadens potential appeal, but the self-reflexive, inward-facing themes could invite intense critical scrutiny. Marketing teams appear to be negotiating how forthright to be about the film’s trans-positive intentions without diluting the genre mechanics that will attract genre audiences. Programmers at prestige festivals have reportedly been pitched the film as both a crowd-pleasing horror and a subject for critical debate.
Potential cultural impact
If the film lands as intended, it could push conversations about how genre cinema represents otherness. By reframing slasher tropes as opportunities for critique, the production may change how filmmakers, festivals and distributors think about representation, content advisories and editorial collaboration with subject-matter experts. But missteps in marketing or misinterpretation by critics could still recode gender variance into familiar monster metaphors—the very thing the film seeks to resist.
What to expect next
The immediate playbook centers on festival exposures, targeted critic screenings and a measured sales campaign. The Match Factory will pursue buyers for territories not covered by MUBI while marketing teams ready character cuts and press materials. Early festival response, review aggregates and buyer interest will likely determine whether the film follows a prestige-festival path, leans into streaming-first distribution, or adopts a hybrid release. Watch for festival announcements and distributor statements in the coming weeks; those will shape how critics and the public first encounter the film. It’s positioned to provoke conversation—about authorship, fandom, gender and the economics of mid-budget auteur horror—long before its August 7, 2026 theatrical window.