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The Brilliant, Funny, Strange New Movie That Grapples With a 1980s Cult Classic
['Sam Adams', 'Keith Phipps']
Slate Magazine
Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder), the 29-year-old Sundance prodigy in Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, would have passed through Peak Problematic Fave at an impressionable age, but not before imprinting on the cheesy slasher franchise that gives the movie part of its title.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma builds an entire movie around that insight.
It’s the equivalent of the screamed punch line to a campfire horror story—and hanging from the car door … WAS A HOOK—which is also how we learn Little Death’s backstory in Teenage Sex.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementKris eventually reveals to Billy that she tends to dissociate during sex—that she can orgasm only by imagining herself in a different place, and that place is Camp Miasma.
I don’t know if Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma quite gets as far as its protagonist does.