After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Direction
Schoenbrun weaponizes nostalgia until it chokes you.
Acting
Anderson's reclusive star is devastating, unknowable, magnetic.
Cinematography
Looks like a moldy VHS dream you can't wake from.
Director
Jane Schoenbrun
Hannah Einbinder
Kris
Gillian Anderson
Billy
Amanda Fix
Young Billy
Arthur Conti
Alex
Eva Victor
DJ Ella Giastic
Zach Cherry
Will
Sarah Sherman
Kris' Agent
Patrick Fischler
Rudolph
Dylan Baker
Jeffrey
Jasmin Savoy Brown
Mari
Quintessa Swindell
Julie
Kevin McDonald
Anthony / County Sheriff
Jack Haven
Little Death
Aren Buchholz
Thor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schoenbrun is the first openly non-binary director to helm a major slasher franchise, and this film explicitly interrogates what 'queer horror' means when the genre traditionally punishes transgressive desire.
The title's provocation is deliberate—Schoenbrun has called it 'a promise and a threat,' referencing how 80s slashers marketed titillation while delivering punishment. The film makes good on both.
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