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‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’ Review: Jane Schoenbrun’s Psychedelic Slasher Is An Instant Cult Classic – Cannes Film Festival

Deadline·Damon Wise·19 days ago
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Fear and desire make an explosive cocktail in Jane Schoenbrun ’s instant midnight-movie classic Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma , a psychedelic tribute to the slasher-horror cycle of the early ’80s that subversively reclaims the genre from the traditional male gaze. It’s clear from the outset where Schoenbrun is headed, creating a mash-up of the better-known canon — Halloween , Friday the 13 th and A Nightmare on Elm Street (in order of appearance) — but the added twist is the inclusion of 1983’s Sleepaway Camp , which ends with a transgressive twist that still somehow divides LGBTQ+ film critics, despite its obvious transphobia. The title alone does most of the heavy lifting, being the most glorious since Kathy Acker’s 1984 novel Blood and Guts in High School . It also fairly describes the majority of the film’s preoccupations — also including comfort food, which comes in the form of KFC, Jolly Rancher gummies, KitKats and more.…

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