10 Subversive Slashers to Watch After ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’

Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is out in the world now. Though it doesn’t lean into frights, it does explore in vivid detail the power of slasher movies—especially for audiences who obsess over even the sillier aspects of their horrors. While Camp Miasma offers a particularly frisky example of what happens when you rearrange all the tropes slasher movies have become known for, it’s not the first subversive flick to emerge from the genre. There are nearly as many meta slashers as there are straightforward ones at this point—a natural outcome when the often predictable source material is so easily poked fun at. Here are 10 other standouts. Obviously. Wes Craven’s 1996 franchise-starter looked the audience in the eye and said, “We know you know what happens in these movies, and so do the guys in the Ghostface mask.” And for anyone who didn’t know that slasher movies have specific rules, the Randy character appears at just the right moment with a hilariously accurate rundown on them. While we didn’t love everything about In a Violent Nature, there’s no denying it’s powered by a clever concept, telling its story from the point of view of a silent killing machine