This Blood-Drenched Intimacy Scene Will Blow Moviegoers’ Minds

Mubi The setup of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is an intriguing one.

When Kris (Hannah Einbinder) is hired to reboot a storied slasher franchise, Camp Miasma, she meets with Billy (Gillian Anderson), the final girl from the original film.

Things get weird, fast, as the lines between reality and fiction blur.

But one thing’s clear: Kris and Billy desire each other.

One might even say they need each other.

And it all culminates in a legitimately mindblowing sex scene.

Unlike, say, I Want Your Sex , in which both characters excitedly leap into sex with reckless abandon, things are far more trepidatious in Camp Miasma (in theaters now).

That’s not because Billy and Kris aren’t into each other—in fact, their desire for each other is off the charts.

But Kris, as much as she desires it, finds the idea of actual sex and intimacy rather terrifying.

For her, sex “has always felt like a distraction… my primary partner tends to be work,” she confesses to Billy.

In an earlier scene, Kris attempts to seduce Billy, appearing in her cabin wearing just a pair of plaid boxers and socks.

It works at first, and the two kiss and fall to the floor together.

But Kris backs out in a panic, revealing her intimate secret to Billy.

Kris can only achieve any semblance of sexual pleasure by disassociating, imagining she’s part of an old slasher film, particularly one in the Camp Miasma franchise.