Like Gen Z’s answer to The Craft, the trailer for Camp navigates grief, witchcraft, and the power of female friendship.
Written and directed by Avalon Fast (Honeycomb), the dreamy, sapphic, coming-of-age horror hangout movie will be summoned into theaters on June 26 via Dark Sky Films.
Zola Grimmer stars as Emily, the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt.
When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness. Just as Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.
Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp, Sophie Bawks-Smith, Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith also star.
Taylor Nodrick, Jacob Glickman, Jackie De Niverville, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, and Maya Cadieux-Rouillard produce, with Paul Cadieux, Milan Chakraborty, Peter Kuplowsky, Michael Peterson, and Sanjay M Sharma serving as executive producers.
Camp premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest, where it won Best Feature in the Next Wave Competition. it went on to play the Toronto International Film Festival, Sitges, SXSW Sydney, and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, among others.
I wrote in my Boston Underground Film Festival coverage, “Like its main character, Camp requires the viewer to give itself over to the experience. If you’re on its wavelength, it will suck you into a hypnagogic limbo that exists in the space between dream and reality; adolescence and adulthood; grief and acceptance.”
