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 unprecedented 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 nudity, heteronormative sex) and less common ones (psychopathic killers, liters of blood, violent deaths).