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CAMP
2025
Director
Avalon Fast
Starring
Zola Grimmer
Alice Wordsworth
Cherry Moore
Runtime
111 minutes
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“I was marked by tragedy so early on, and now it’s completely covering me,” Emily tells her father after watching her best friend overdose and die right in front of her. This traumatic event happens almost immediately after Emily confesses to having accidentally killed a child with her car. To reset and see what healing might be found, Emily takes a summer job as a counselor at a Christian kids camp, despite not being religious. Luckily for her, she makes friends with other counselors who definitely don’t seem religious either: they drink, they smoke, they hook up with each other, and Emily suspects they are witches. She decides to see what power they can find together.
Avalon Fast is quickly establishing herself as one of the most essential voices in genre cinema. With her debut feature, HONEYCOMB, she showed her interest in complex, difficult stories of the feminine and women who can be cruel to one another. Since then, Fast has acted in the generation-defining trans epic CASTRATION MOVIE and the similarly witchy-themed THE SERPENT'S SKIN. A queer, punk, DIY attitude is a vital part of Fast’s filmography, and CAMP takes this to the world of Canadian folk horror.
The descriptor 'dreamlike' gets thrown around a lot, but one of CAMP’s crucial elements is the protagonist’s inability to distinguish between what she thinks is happening and what may all be in her head. The visual effects have a lo-fi, ‘90s throwback quality that adds to this unreality, with the magic happening around Emily presented in an analog, digital haze. The score is composed of ethereal synthesizers and pounding percussion, creating a feeling of familiarity with no sense of the world we see around us. The witchcraft is placed in the familiar language of shooting stars, hypnotic music, and discussions of divinity—the kind of things you find at any religious summer camp. A coming-of-age movie, a celebration of female friendship, a creeping sense of the violence needed to overcome trauma—CAMP is sure to be one of the strangest and most cathartic experiences of the year. (Fantastic Fest)
Avalon Fast is quickly establishing herself as one of the most essential voices in genre cinema. With her debut feature, HONEYCOMB, she showed her interest in complex, difficult stories of the feminine and women who can be cruel to one another. Since then, Fast has acted in the generation-defining trans epic CASTRATION MOVIE and the similarly witchy-themed THE SERPENT'S SKIN. A queer, punk, DIY attitude is a vital part of Fast’s filmography, and CAMP takes this to the world of Canadian folk horror.
The descriptor 'dreamlike' gets thrown around a lot, but one of CAMP’s crucial elements is the protagonist’s inability to distinguish between what she thinks is happening and what may all be in her head. The visual effects have a lo-fi, ‘90s throwback quality that adds to this unreality, with the magic happening around Emily presented in an analog, digital haze. The score is composed of ethereal synthesizers and pounding percussion, creating a feeling of familiarity with no sense of the world we see around us. The witchcraft is placed in the familiar language of shooting stars, hypnotic music, and discussions of divinity—the kind of things you find at any religious summer camp. A coming-of-age movie, a celebration of female friendship, a creeping sense of the violence needed to overcome trauma—CAMP is sure to be one of the strangest and most cathartic experiences of the year. (Fantastic Fest)