Overview
- The film premiered at Cannes in May and won the festival’s Queer Palm, winning sustained festival attention for director Jane Schoenbrun.
- Critics have praised the movie’s cine‑literacy and lead work from Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, calling it a bold, distinctive horror that mixes pastiche and personal themes.
- The story follows a queer filmmaker rebooting a fictional 1980s slasher franchise who visits its reclusive original star, and the film explores sexual liberation after transition while deliberately reworking trans‑coded horror legacies.
- Coverage highlights the film’s explicit gore and sexual content, an R rating, the use of practical blood effects, and the presence of an intimacy coordinator to choreograph sex scenes safely.
- MUBI is distributing the movie with Plan B as a producer, the film opens in select U.S. theaters on Friday, August 7, and MUBI and partners have rolled out preview screenings and official retro merch such as Mutant VHS sleeves and trading cards.