Review: Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ turns slasher tropes inward
<p>It was an unexpected turn of events after seeing Jane Schoenbrun's buzzy third feature “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.”which received its <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2026/07/09/mubi-fest-chicago-teenage-death-at-camp-miasma-lurker" target="_blank" >Chicago premiere at Mubi Fest in July</a>. Suddenly, after nearly 30 years of not thinking about the Counting Crows, their 1996 ballad “A Long December” was firmly stuck in my head, and it wouldn’t go away.</p><p>The film itself, a playful pastiche of shlocky, problematic slasher films, and send-up of the pressure to create within the confines of Hollywood reboot culture, had not left me especially transported.
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<p>It was an unexpected turn of events after seeing Jane Schoenbrun's buzzy third feature “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.”which received its <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2026/07/09/mubi-fest-chicago-teenage-death-at-camp-miasma-lurker" target="_blank" >Chicago premiere at Mubi Fest in July</a>. Suddenly, after nearly 30 years of not thinking about the Counting Crows, their 1996 ballad “A Long December” was firmly stuck in my head, and it wouldn’t go away.</p><p>The film itself, a playful pastiche of shlocky, problematic slasher films, and send-up of the pressure to create within the confines of Hollywood reboot culture, had not left me especially transported. It seemed, at first, like something that had been made expressly for film snobs and critics, the kind that flatters insider knowledge, niche fandoms and unabashed love of bad movies, a self-consciously styled cult classic in the making. But I couldn’t stop thinking about that song, and the strangely sublime sequence that accompanies it.
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- <p>It was an unexpected turn of events after seeing Jane Schoenbrun's buzzy third feature “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.”which received its <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2026/07/09/mubi-fest-chicago-teenage-death-at-camp-miasma-lurker" target="_blank" >Chicago premiere at Mubi Fest in July</a>. Suddenly, after nearly 30 years of not thinking about the Counting Crows, their 1996 ballad “A Long December” was firmly stuck in my head, and it wouldn’t go away.</p><p>The film itself, a playful pastiche of shlocky, problematic slasher films, and send-up of the pressure to create within the confines of Hollywood reboot culture, had not left me especially transported.
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Review: Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ turns slasher tropes inward
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