How do you craft an original remake from a horror movie that’s been remade umpteen million times?

That’s the question asked by Hannah Einbiner’s character Kris in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Kris, an up-and-coming filmmaker, is tasked with directing yet another sequel to the Camp Miasma slasher film franchise, but she wants to do something that’s never been done before. How she attempts to do that is the mystery behind the actual film, written and directed by Jan Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow.)

Kris goes to visit Billy (Gillian Anderson), the reclusive star of the decades-long movie series, at her home at the film’s setting, a campground that served as Camp Miasma. And then things get weird. “Out here there are certain nights when you just get this feeling there’s some psycho killer who’s gonna chop you up into a million little pieces,” Billy tells Kris.

“Oh, I like that feeling,” she says enthusiastically.

The movie’s logline reads, “After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.”

There will be blood, if the trailer is any indication, as we see it literally spouting out of the ground in a crimson geyser, and Billy and Kris strike up a steamy sexual relationship as well.

In the trailer Kris asks Billy why she chose to live at the abandoned sleepaway camp from the first film. Billy says, “Someone’s got to be here when Little Death (the franchise’s unkillable villain) comes back.”

“Little Death isn’t real,” says Kris.

“Well, not with that attitude, he isn’t,” intones Billy. “If you’ve seen his movies, you know he always comes back.”

And whether he’s a flashback, fever dream, or this actually happens, we see a harpoon-wielding man in a white jumpsuit who sports a radiator block of some kind on his head. But the experience of being stalked by a killer awakens much more than terror in Kris.

Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald and Jack Haven also star in the film, which was produced by Plan B and is being released to theaters by US distributor Mubi on August 7th.

Camp Miasma premiered at Cannes Film Festival in April in the Un Certain Regard category, and received a standing ovation.