Camp Miasma Draws 6-Minute Cannes Ovation as Mubi Bets on Polarizing Queer Slasher
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Updated · Variety · May 13
Camp Miasma Draws 6-Minute Cannes Ovation as Mubi Bets on Polarizing Queer Slasher
8 articles · Updated · Variety · May 13
Six minutes of applause greeted Jane Schoenbrun’s “Camp Miasma” at its Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere, with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson joining the director onstage after the screening.
Big laughs ran through the film’s Hollywood-reboot satire and blood-soaked slasher set pieces, but the response was split—some viewers stayed to cheer while many headed for the exits as the credits began.
Mubi’s synopsis casts the story as a revival of a fading slasher franchise that pulls a young director and a reclusive original star into a world of desire, fear and delirium; the distributor opens it in U.S. theaters on Aug. 7.
The premiere extends Schoenbrun’s run of festival-launched horror films after “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “I Saw the TV Glow,” reinforcing the director’s niche in queer horror and trans-identity themes.
In her Cannes debut, how does Gillian Anderson’s performance as a 'final girl' redefine the iconic horror role for a new generation?
How does Schoenbrun’s film use classic slasher tropes not just for scares, but to explore the modern experience of trans identity?
Can a queer horror film rejected by most studios but celebrated at Cannes finally reshape Hollywood's approach to funding trans stories?