Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Starts Dallas Run

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is now playing at the Texas Theatre, giving Dallas horror fans several chances to catch Jane Schoenbrun’s new slasher on the big screen.

The local run continues through September 2. Three screenings are scheduled for Sunday, August 23, followed by additional evening and weekend showtimes over the next ten days. Tickets are available through the Texas Theatre.

Remaining Dallas Showtimes

• Sunday, August 23: 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 25: 6:50 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 26: 9:20 p.m.
• Thursday, August 27: 6:50 p.m.
• Friday, August 28: 4:40 p.m.
• Saturday, August 29: 2:40 p.m.
• Wednesday, September 2: 9 p.m.

Showtimes can change, so check the theater’s listing before making the trip.

What Is Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma About?

The film takes place inside the history of a fictional slasher franchise that has been weakened by years of rushed sequels and fading interest. An enthusiastic young filmmaker is hired to bring Camp Miasma back, but her effort to involve the original movie’s reclusive star pulls both women into something far stranger and bloodier than a conventional reboot.

Hannah Einbinder plays the filmmaker, while Gillian Anderson steps into the role of the original star and final girl. Anderson’s involvement also gives the movie an immediate connection for horror and science-fiction fans who know her from The X-Files.

Schoenbrun wrote and directed the movie after We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. MUBI describes the new film as horror, comedy and LGBTQ+ cinema, with the familiar machinery of a slasher remake used to explore movie nostalgia, identity and desire.

Why the Dallas Run Matters

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opened in U.S. theaters earlier in August, but the Texas Theatre schedule gives local viewers a useful window instead of a single easy-to-miss event. The mix of afternoon, evening and weekend screenings also makes the run more accessible than the one-night repertory engagements that often disappear before many horror fans hear about them.

The title sounds like a direct throwback to exploitation-era summer-camp slashers, while the premise promises a more self-aware movie about the way those stories keep being remade. That tension, combined with Einbinder and Anderson, is the clearest reason this one stands out from an ordinary local listing.

What We Think

Gillian Anderson is the immediate draw for us, but the fictional-franchise idea is definitely an interesting hook. This isn’t your normal slasher franchise fare, however. If you’re expecting a Friday the 13th, then you’re going to be very surprised.

Coming from the director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, this should be a very different experience. I haven’t seen either of those, but I’ve seen enough and talked to enough people to know this movie will lean heavily into coming of age and sexuality rather than just horror.

Personally, Jane Schoenbrun’s movies aren’t normally the kind I run out to see, but hearing the praise for her newest may just get me into the theater. And getting to see it with a Dallas audience feels like the perfect setting for this one.

But once again, now I gotta convince Amy

Sources: Texas Theatre, MUBI