Camp Miasma Wins 2026's Best Horror Label With 1 Remote-Site Slasher Reboot

3 articles · Updated · The Seattle Times · Aug 13

Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” is hailed as the year’s standout horror film, praised as both bloody fun and unexpectedly beautiful.
Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, an acclaimed indie filmmaker hired to reboot a divisive slasher franchise, whose trip to one remote Pacific Northwest shooting site drives the film’s horror and self-examination.
Gillian Anderson’s Billy Preston—the original film’s secluded “final girl”—helps blur the line between fiction and reality as the story probes horror’s allure and its cruelty toward women, queer and trans audiences.
The review singles out Eric Yue’s visuals, a practical blood-geyser opening and a finale where the film’s world cracks open, arguing the movie turns a small-scale setup into a metatextual horror classic for a new generation.