For fans of The Substance, comes a new kind of smart ‘identity horror’ from Jane ‘I Saw the TV Glow‘ Schoenbrum, one of the most exciting new voices in cinema, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. A young horror director finds herself on a strange odyssey of fear and desire.
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Einbinder) for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star (Anderson), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Like Schoenbrun’s previous films (I Saw the TV Glow was a big hit with Palace audiences!), their latest uses a horror genre lens to explore a rich array of themes and ideas – identity and sexuality, memory and nostalgia, the nature of female desire, the state of the entertainment industry – with humour, vulnerability and affection.
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder & Patrick Fischler
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK, Canada
Running time: 1hr 52mins
“Schoenbrun’s elastic, open-hearted feature wants us to get out of our heads and enjoy the ride. A whole new world of visual pleasure and cinematic possibility opens up before us when we do.” – Sight & sound