Dir. Jane Schoenbrun · 2026 · 112 min · streaming on Mubi
Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) is a queer filmmaker hired to revive Camp Miasma, a long-running slasher franchise. To do it she needs the original film's final girl, Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), who walked away from the series and the screen. Kris tracks her down at the abandoned campgrounds, and what starts as a casting pitch turns into something stranger: two people bonding over a villain called Little Death and over their shared difficulties with sex and desire. That is as far as this review goes.
Schoenbrun wrote and directed. The film opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May 2026, reached US cinemas in August and arrived on Mubi on 2 October. The score is by Alex G.
Almost everyone who has reviewed it agrees on the same thing: the tone. Hannah Strong at Little White Lies gives it five stars and compares Anderson and Einbinder to "the new Bogey and Bacall", and she singles out a sequence set to Counting Crows' "A Long December" as a mix of rage, sadness and euphoria. At Sight and Sound, Blake Simons praises the formal sophistication alongside the emotional openness, and Jack Haven's wordless turn as Little Death.
Wise, kind, and playful about sex and cinema
Blake Simons, Sight and Sound
MaryAnn Johanson at FlickFilosopher reads it as a film about fandom and how the things we love shape who we become. The overall picture is steady: Metacritic shows a score of 89 from 48 critics.
The dissent is small but real. Nick Schager at The Daily Beast is listed on Metacritic as one of the few mixed reviews, finding it light on insight and suspense. Rendy Jones, who gives it 4.5 stars at Rendy Reviews, says the metatextual layers can feel emotionally distant on a first viewing. And JoBlo's reviewer notes the surreal final act could divide audiences. If you want a straight slasher with a body count and a mystery, the reviews suggest this is not that film.
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