Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma to Close SXSW London, UK Theatrical Release August 21
South by Southwest London has announced that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the new film from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, I Saw the TV Glow), will close the festival’s Screen programme. The film will receive its UK premiere at SXSW London before opening in UK theaters on August 21, 2026. The festival runs June 1–6 in London.
Schoenbrun’s follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow stars Emmy Award-winner Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) as a filmmaker tasked with resurrecting the Camp Miasma franchise — a beloved cult slasher series that’s been through one too many slapdash sequels. To do it right, she tracks down the original film’s star: a now-reclusive actress played by Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files,” “Sex Education”). What follows pulls the two women into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium. It’s Schoenbrun doing what they do best — using genre architecture to excavate something far more interior and emotionally charged.
“Jane Schoenbrun has been building one of the most fascinating bodies of work in cinema today,” said Anna Bogutskaya, Head of the SXSW London Screen Festival. “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma builds on every touchpoint of Schoenbrun’s work, exploring horror, fandom, memory, and identity, and pushes it further. Every scene between Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson was so charged I was afraid the screen might catch fire.”
Schoenbrun’s previous films — We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) and I Saw the TV Glow (2024) — established them as one of horror’s most distinctive and emotionally intelligent voices, blending coming-of-age dread with a genuinely unsettling grasp of identity and transformation.
SXSW London runs June 1–6. Tickets and full programme details are available at sxswlondon.com.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opens in UK theaters August 21, 2026.
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