Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Camp Miasma is a long-running slasher franchise that originated in the 1980s. Its recurring villain is "Little Death", the ghost of a child who was purportedly raised as both boy and girl by their parents. After being drowned by hateful campers, Little Death periodically rises from the lake that borders Camp Miasma, slaughtering everyone they find with a spear. The series' original installments were successful, but a spate of low-quality, unprofitable sequels has left it in limbo.

Queer filmmaker Kris Williams is hired to direct a reboot of Camp Miasma. Though she knows that she has been selected to make the franchise's transphobic premise more palatable to a modern audience, Kris feels genuine attachment to the series owing to her childhood experiences watching it. She is particularly interested in casting Billy Presley, an actress who abruptly retired after playing the original film's final girl. She travels to the Pacific Northwest, where she discovers that Billy lives on the abandoned campgrounds used to film the series. Kris finds Billy warm, perceptive, and obsessed with Little Death. She quickly opens up to her, discussing her dissatisfaction in her polyamorous relationship and her general discomfort with sex. Billy dismisses her overly academic interpretation of the series, but expresses interest in acting again. To her agent's chagrin, Kris becomes convinced that the reboot should star Billy in her old role.

Kris and Billy watch the original Camp Miasma together. Kris is especially fond of a shot in a sex scene featuring Billy, but the campgrounds' power goes out just as the shot appears on screen. Kris and Billy return to Billy's house. Kris initiates sex with Billy, but can't get out of her head enough to enjoy it. Billy explains how she learned to orgasm and enjoy sex: she imagined Little Death watching her have sex, similar to the Camp Miasma sex scene, and killing her. Kris admits to fantasizing about imagining herself as a sexualized final girl. Billy offers to "make a movie" with Kris.

The next morning, Kris offers a deliberately unmarketable pitch to the studio executives, in which Little Death imagines the world through the Camp Miasma films rather than the filmmakers creating them. Kris and Billy appear to travel into the world of Camp Miasma, and Kris assumes the role of the final girl. She is chased by Little Death and watches them kill her partner, agent, and superiors. Finally, Kris is chased to a cabin where Billy awaits. As the two women have sex, Little Death confronts them; Kris first pleads for her life before accepting her death, appearing to have an orgasm as Little Death spears Kris and Billy simultaneously. In Little Death's lair under the lake, a copy of a new film called Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma appears.

Dawn breaks and Kris and Billy revive, still covered in blood. They leave the campgrounds, travel past the carnage left by Little Death, and return to the gas station where both the film and the original Camp Miasma began. They buy snacks and leave.