Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
MUBI | Release Date: August 7, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
91
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 15, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a title so good you feel the film to which it’s attached should really have to earn it: happily it does so within three minutes. Read full review
100
VarietyJessica KiangMay 15, 2026
A steamy stew of sex, death, VHS and junk food, as though workshopped by Eros, Thanatos, Colonel Sanders and the Jolly Rancher in the seediest recesses of a Blockbuster Video, Schoenbrun’s delirious third film is their most accomplished, most persuasive and most playful movie yet. Read full review
100
The A.V. ClubLuke HicksMay 15, 2026
Lavish with cultural references and fresh imagination, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma is a revelry of comedy, murder, intellectualism, sexual awakening, queerness, and more. Read full review
100
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMay 15, 2026
This picture is, in part, an attempt to assuage guilt at enjoying the teen-camp slasher at its most misogynistic and transphobic. It is also, as the director would admit, an amusing send-up of where they now find themselves. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 14, 2026
There’s a vulnerability to being touched by something, to finding something sexy or scary, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is filled with a wry but immense compassion for its heroine and her habit of holding up concepts to ward off her own reactions. Read full review
100
Time OutSophie Monks KaufmanMay 14, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a meta horror-comedy and a whip-smart entertainment industry satire. Still, on a deeper level, in a hole at the bottom of its lake, is a hard-won sexual awakening. Read full review
100
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 14, 2026
Jane Schoenbrun unveils a very enjoyable display of transformative ecstasy and submissive rapture, treating us to a bizarre pop-cultural black mass of fiercely believed-in trash and kink. Read full review
100
TheWrapZachary LeeMay 13, 2026
What happens to these spaces when we feel comfortable in our bodies again? Does resurrection always have to require a type of death first? Is there ever a point in our lives where it’s too late to transform? That the film manages to make room for these ideas while lacing it all with enough tacky genre thrills to make it all palatable and thought-provoking is a miraculous feat in its own right. Read full review
100
Radio TimesPatrick CremonaMay 13, 2026
It's an endlessly engaging and often very funny film equipped with arresting imagery, gorgeous design (including some beautiful matte paintings) and no shortage of gleeful gore. Or to put it another way, this is another instant cult classic from Schoenbrun, and it's already fascinating to ponder what they might do next. Read full review
100
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossMay 13, 2026
It is a film that feels movingly personal while speaking to the ubiquitous tussle between duty and desire, and that does so through the gnarling of fresh and guts and bones to find what is buried deep within one’s being: a throbbing vein of wanting, undeniably alive, and that, once freed, will not stop until its thirst is quenched. Read full review
91
AwardsWatchRyan McQuadeMay 15, 2026
With Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun has fully formed into a definitive voice of their generation, one that perfectly blends their personality with an expert blend of humor, melancholy, and exhilaration. Read full review
90
IGNChase HutchinsonMay 13, 2026
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a joyous blast of a film about sex, desire, and death with a killer yet vulnerable performance by Hannah Einbinder. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineDerek SmithMay 19, 2026
This endlessly playful, humorous, and mirthfully gory film is pure Jane Schoenbrun. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMay 13, 2026
Our favorite slasher movies are often a little rough around the edges, a little unhinged, and a little inconsistent. And very few of them are this wildly entertaining. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 14, 2026
I’ll admit that Camp Miasma‘s more winking moments . . . did more to break the movie’s spell than enhance it. When Schoenbrun does decide to stare back into the void, however, their ability to cast a dark spell on the viewer is surely unrivaled in contemporary cinema. Read full review
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 13, 2026
You can view the work as a visceral slasher send-up, a stylish academic exercise about gender expression and inquiry in horror iconography, or as just a plain old, super fun, future cult lesbian classic. Either way, it will take multiple viewings of this film to fully embed yourself inside it — body, brains, and all. Read full review
80
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellMay 14, 2026
The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in Jane Schoenbrun’s formidable third film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a gonzo pop art slice of catharsis which works as both a recovery and discovery of the queer gaze in horror cinema. Read full review
80
ColliderEmma KielyMay 14, 2026
Overall, this is their most conventional film yet, and it further cements Schoebrun as one of the pre-eminent queer filmmakers of today, one who continues to bring clear vision and nuance to themes of identity, sex, and selfhood. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 13, 2026
A dizzyingly ambitious meta-satire about Hollywood, IP, hacky horror, and gender and sexual identity, Teenage Sex And Death cannot help but occasionally misstep, but the rush of ideas and the confidence of the filmmaking never waver. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonMay 13, 2026
It’s heady, strange stuff, perhaps not as emotionally resonant as TV Glow, but captivating in both its confusion and honesty. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureCody DericksMay 15, 2026
It’s easy to feel left behind by the film’s intentions. But no matter viewers’ specific level of interpretation, what Schoenbrun does with the slasher genre, using it as a springboard to explore ideas that clearly resonate with them, is compellingly intelligent and consistently fascinating. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 14, 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma sometimes gets tangled up in the rigging of its ideas, and the film blows off course more than once on its way to the ending. But its joyousness, tethered to its deep affection for movies that plenty of people would just call junk, is its guiding spirit. Read full review
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