If with Scream horror cinema entered its meta phase, with Teenage sex & death at Camp Miasma, which opened the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, the genre enters a new phase of hyper-reflection and absolute self-awareness. Jane Schoenbrun's film is a love letter to the slasher subgenre of the 80s – that of sagas like Friday the 13th, Halloween, or A Nightmare on Elm Street– and, at the same time, a relentless satire full of cinephile jokes about Hollywood's current obsession with remakes, and reboots. But, above all, it is something unusual in 2026: a vindication of the Dionysian power of horror cinema, which was the audiovisual space in which various generations of teenagers – especially those of the 80s video stores – experienced their sexual awakening amidst predictable stimuli (female motherhood, heteronormative sex) and others less common (psychopathic killers, liters of blood, violent deaths).