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.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi's gripping It Was Just an Accident may well mark the start of a new chapter in the celebrated Iranian director's career. Since his 2010 imprisonment and subsequent ban from filmmaking, Panahi has been making meta-cinematic movies starring himself. Shot clandestinely in tight and/or remote spaces far from the prying eyes of the authorities, these films (which include Closed Curtain, , and the masterpiece