CAMP (2025) Movie Script
1
[acoustic music]
(SINGING) I'm a
long way from home
Far as I have ever been
I wonder if there is a
place for us to kick back
When the wind blows
Remember I love you so
You will never see me again
You will never see me again
You will never see me again
I thought that I was
able to do what is best
But now that I
don't got you here
I failed another test
When the wind blows
Remember, I love you so
I wish that I had never left
[whistling]
[harsh music]
- Let's do something.
- Like what?
- Fuck.
I don't know.
- Dare me to do something.
- Ange.
I dare you to kiss her.
- No problem.
- Yeah.
Get it.
- Perv.
- It's your turn now.
- OK.
Emily, truth or dare?
- Dare.
- Mm.
What do you guys think?
Hmm.
Sorry, I'm drawing a blank.
- Truth, then
- I still don't know.
[whispers]
OK.
Emily, what's your
biggest regret?
- Oh, that's a good one.
I had a pretty gnarly
haircut in first year.
Did any of you
guys know me then?
Lucky you, I guess.
- Can we get something juicier?
Like you're sure you never
slept with your best friend's
boyfriend or
brother or anything?
- Have I ever slept
with my brother?
- Oh my God, no.
Gross.
I just mean, like, a haircut?
Really?
I know you.
You must have a better
story of regret for us.
- Oh, fuck.
Uh, OK.
I killed a-- I
killed a kid once.
- What'd she say?
- What?
- I mean, accidentally,
of course, with my car.
Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
I had no idea.
- You know, actually,
in all honesty,
I really don't mind
talking about it.
I feel like people think I'm
too fragile or something,
but I mean, it's not like
it's something that I forget,
so I try to remember her.
Do you guys want to
know what happened?
- Um, do you feel like this
is a safe space to open up?
- Not necessarily, Ange, no.
- Yeah.
I just think, um, with
this kind of thing,
it might be best
to talk with people
who are more like a part
of your inner circle,
like with this kind of thing.
But with that, though, I am
truly always here to talk.
- Right, yeah.
Thanks Well, you
guys are boring.
Where's Charlie?
[laughter]
[murmuring]
- It did feel like he was here.
- Hey, have you
guys seen Charlie?
- Who?
- Charlie.
- Um, I think she's with Nick?
- Who's Nick?
- Well, you know Nick.
- I know Nick.
- What are you guys drinking?
- It's my lemonade seltzer.
- It's her lemonade seltzer.
- Can I try a sip?
- Well, you could just have one.
I've got so many in my bag.
- Thanks.
Geez, this sucks.
- So have you seen Nick?
- Not yet.
I'm hoping to.
[knocking]
- It's just me.
[sniffs]
- Who are you?
- Have you guys seen Charlie?
- No.
Are you just looking
for your friend?
- Yeah.
- Is that it?
[door creaks]
[rain pattering]
- Oh, fucking finally.
Thank God.
- Where were you?
- How was your night?
- It was shitty.
Yours?
- Bad, bad.
Very bad.
Is this yours?
- Yeah, it's my
lemonade seltzer.
[coughing]
Hey, do you want to just leave?
There's this other party.
It's going to go
kind of late, but.
- Hell yeah.
Should we, like, just, you
want to just go right now?
- Think anyone's
going to even notice?
- Probably not.
- Wait, are you drunk?
- No.
- Jesus, Charlie, you should
really try and sober up
before we get there, you know.
These are, like,
art school people.
- What do you mean,
art school people?
- What do you mean?
Why was your night
so bad anyway?
- Ah, it was that
fucking Nick guy.
It's gross.
- Why?
What'd he do?
- I don't even know.
It doesn't matter.
- All right.
You want to know what I did?
- Yes.
- OK, well, after I lost you
into the abyss, I went to go
hang out with,
like, Ange and Kale.
You know those people?
- Yeah, that's shitty.
- Yeah.
And they were playing truth or
dare, and Ange just straight up
asked me what my
biggest regret is.
Yeah.
- Emily.
- I know.
- What, you didn't fucking lie?
Say that you cheat on your
boyfriend or something.
- No, no, unfortunately.
- Oh my God.
Damn, you're fucked.
- Yeah, I know dude,
they think I need help.
- Don't you?
- I mean, not really.
I don't really-- I haven't felt
the need to go back to therapy
in, like, over a year.
- Hell yeah, dude.
Fuck 'em.
- Yeah.
- I love you, man.
- Really.
- Do you have any coke?
- Yeah, actually, I got
some right before we left.
- Ooh.
Ooh, I had something I
really wanted to tell you.
- OK.
- Oh, fuck.
I was making out with Nick
and the whole time I just kept
thinking, I really have to--
- I'm really over it.
- Fuck off.
I knew I had to tell
you this amazing fact,
and now I can't
fucking remember.
Where is this shit?
- Charlie, no, no, no.
- What?
You said I should sober up.
It's not like you're
going to do all of this.
- I did say that, but.
Charlie, come on.
At least just wait till I
can have some too, all right?
[sniffs]
Charlie?
Charlie?
Charlie?
Charlie?
No, no, no, no, no.
Stop, stop, stop.
Charlie.
Charlie!
Charlie.
No, no, no, stop, stop, stop.
Charlie, just-- Charlie, move.
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
[coughing]
[panting]
- Let's go do something now.
I'm sick of this.
- You're sick of this?
This is my fucking life!
It's what I have to go
through every fucking day.
You think I want
this for myself?
You think I feel good about
having to come home and start
over again?
[dramatic music]
- Well, I guess therapy
has spiced up once again.
- Yeah, definitely.
I think they put me
on suicide watch.
- They did.
Yeah.
What's funny?
- I was not suicidal.
- Well, that's
really great news.
- I mean, it seems
like a suitable option
for someone in my
position, don't you think?
- I don't really know
how to answer that, Em.
- It's just that I was marked
by tragedy so early on,
and now it's just
completely covered me.
I mean, it's the first thing
you see when you look at me.
It's the only thing
that you see, actually.
Life has just made it so
fucking difficult for me
to want to be here right now.
I mean, what is there
for people like me?
I'm like a real life serial
killer on the rise, Dad.
- You're not.
- Yeah, but I am.
- I had an idea for you.
- OK, shoot.
- There's this camp for
damaged kids, kind of like you.
But you can be a
counselor there.
You have all the
certifications to do it.
- Come on, don't you
think I'm too scared up
to talk to any more kids?
- It's up north.
You could take the train.
I could pay for it.
Then when you make
the good money
that I know camp counselors
do, you could pay me back.
- Are the counselors supposed
to be damaged as well?
- Oh, I'm sure.
- OK, I'll think about it.
[train rumbling]
[ominous music]
[phone ringing]
- Hi.
- Hi.
How's the ride?
- Um, it's OK.
I fell asleep for a
while in the lounge car.
Didn't mean to.
- Oh.
Did I wake you?
- No, I was already up.
I'm in my room now.
- Oh, good.
- Dad, I think this
is a church camp.
- What?
- God.
Dad, I think it's a God camp.
- Well, is it a good camp?
- I don't know.
- I'm sure you can find
some non-believers.
- Yeah, let's hope so.
- I'll let you sleep.
Good night, Em.
- OK.
I'm probably not going to
go back to sleep, though.
- Then just look out the window.
- Yeah, OK.
[ominous music]
- Happy with kids.
[knocking]
Hey.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I'm Emily.
- Oh, Emily.
You're here.
- Yeah.
- I'm Dan, camp leader.
Welcome.
Take your bags off.
Stay a while.
- Sweet.
- Long trip?
- Yeah, I took the train.
- Ah, beautiful.
There's an introduction campfire
for tonight for the staff.
- Uh-huh.
- And this here is just
general camp rules.
Sign it when you can, and
get it back to me after.
- OK.
- Great.
- I could just sign
it now if you wanted.
- Um, it's OK.
Why don't you take a
read through it first
and get it back to me after?
- Sure, yeah, if that's
what you'd prefer.
- Great.
Yeah.
Please.
And if you can't find me
here, I'll be in my cabin.
It's the only cabin
with a wood stove.
Not to brag or anything.
Not that I need it in this heat.
Not that anyone needs
it in this heat.
[laughter]
- Yeah, true.
OK.
- Emily?
- Hi.
- Emily, this is Jo.
Did you get all that sorted out?
- Oh, yes, I went in
and revised the rock
climbing liability section.
It's more clear now.
- Great.
Put that away.
Jo is one of our longest
attendees and a second year
employee.
So if you have any questions
at all, she's your gal.
- Did you get here OK?
- I did, yeah.
- I'm so happy you're here.
- Oh, thanks.
Me too.
Thanks.
- Well, dinner's at 6:00
if you haven't eaten.
And you'll be rooming
with Rosie in cabin 18.
- Rosie, cabin 18.
- Yeah.
- I think I got it.
- Great.
[creaking]
- You're here.
- I'm here.
- Hi.
- Hey.
You're Rosie?
- Yep.
And you're Emily.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Were you sleeping?
- Yep.
Big, long day of napping.
- So have you been here before?
Oh, all right.
Like a-- like a
counselor, camper?
- Yeah, I've been here before.
I chose to be your roommate
because I'm the nicest.
- Oh, that's good.
I need that.
And you know the other
counselors as well, then?
- Mm-hmm.
For a long time.
- OK.
And you're all still here?
That's encouraging.
- Yeah.
You're going to love them,
if you love freaky weirdos
and getting sloppy drunk.
- I think I'm going
to unpack for a bit,
so I'm just going to hop down.
- OK.
- OK.
- OK.
I'll see you down there.
- OK.
- You like the summertime?
- Yeah, it's all right.
I like the fall more.
- You smoke, right?
- Oh, yes, please.
Thanks.
- Yeah.
I like the fall, too.
But in the summertime, there's
all this mixed up hot energy
just lingering in the
air, and I love that.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah, I know what you mean.
So you can get away with
this sort of thing out here?
- What sort of thing?
- Oh, you know, drugs.
- Weed isn't technically a drug.
- Technically speaking,
I believe it is.
- [laughs] Yeah, we get
away with a lot out here.
- And the owners
just don't care?
- The owners are crazy, and
they live someplace far away.
So it's basically just
us and Dan out here.
Have you met Dan?
- Is he the guy who
works at the front desk?
Yeah, I met him earlier.
He's pretty--
- Cute?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, everybody thinks so.
He's also super invested
in the Lord, so good luck.
- Thanks.
- Under 500
calories, that's when
you have an eating disorder.
- Yeah.
- Under 1,000,
that's just normal.
- No it's not.
- It is.
- Everyone, stop
talking, and meet Emily.
- Sorry, guys.
Hi.
- So lovely to meet you, Emily.
We were just discussing
Nev's depressing little life.
- Oh, please.
As if it's more
depressing than yours.
- It's a good life.
I love my life.
- Emily, this is
Nev, Hope, and Clara.
You know what we
could talk about now?
- What's that?
- Who the hell decided
to put us in cabin 18?
It is revolting.
- I was there last year.
Pretty nasty.
- I mean, it looks
pretty normal to me.
Are the other ones nicer?
- It's just the way it feels.
Sorry.
Is that Kayne?
Rosie, oh my God, stop.
- Don't say the
Lord's name in vain.
[laughter]
- I can't believe
he came back here.
- Who is he?
- He's from my hometown.
Back in high school,
threw his girlfriend
down the stairs so
bad she broke her leg
and had to wear it in a
cast the whole first term.
- Jesus.
- Yo, Rosie, stop that.
Someone tell her to stop that.
- I feel like that's something
that would happen to me.
- It was, like,
super sweet, though.
He'd carry her books for her
since she had to use crutches.
- Aw.
[laughter]
- Hey, I'm just kidding.
He's a fucking asshole.
We should slice him.
You and me.
- OK.
- Hello, everyone.
Welcome back.
I have really missed
this, and you.
I found it important
around this time of year
to reflect on why you
first came to camp.
It's not always easy.
I first got dropped
off here when I was 11.
My parents were
getting a divorce.
Even then, I had known it.
I remember feeling
so awkward, so lost.
I never had any siblings to
comfort me, No close friends.
But then, thank
God, came guidance.
Be that guidance that
your younger self needed.
Be that for them.
[clapping]
- That was beautiful.
Beautiful.
- I will now pass this on
to our lovely leader, Dan.
- Thanks, Jo.
All right, yeah, this is it.
We're back here once again.
Some returning and a
couple newbies, yeah?
Emily, JB, would you guys like
to do a small introduction
to the group?
- Do you want to go first?
- OK, yeah, need
the talking stick.
- Let's see how this goes.
I'm JB.
Mostly, I'm just here to
make some memories, friends,
and have a good summer for once.
I find a lot of peace in God.
- Oh, yeah?
Oh, great.
- And I am just so
excited to be surrounded
by all you nice people.
- That is great, JB.
We are so blessed
to have you here.
It's great stuff, man.
- Hi guys.
I'm Emily.
I grew up outside of
the city, but I just
recently moved to the
valley to be with my dad.
Now I'm here.
I've had a pretty weird year
and weird ones before that too.
My dad suggested
I come, actually,
so that's why I'm here.
Yeah, I think that's all.
Thanks.
- Welcome, Emily.
Welcome.
[clapping]
Yes.
All right.
Well, the kids come tomorrow,
and we will welcome them
with love and
trust, the same way
you've welcomed back your
returning friends here today.
Remember, everyone, these
kids live really tough lives.
We want camp to be a for them.
The most fun they're
going to have all summer.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Great.
I'm keen to see how
you are with them.
Be gentle.
Be patient.
And for the Lord's sake,
just please be good, yeah?
Yeah.
All right, yeah.
Great.
- Woo!
- He's so hot.
[eerie music]
[laughs]
[laughter]
- Oh my God.
[laughter]
- That guy from last year.
- Kayne?
- He was so obsessed with you.
We fucking wrecked him.
[laughter]
- Yeah, we did.
- To another year.
- Another year.
- Cheers!
- OK, see, and that's why I
was so excited when I saw Emily
sitting there on her bunk.
I thought, amazing,
another gorgeous weirdo
like the rest of us.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
- So, Emily, what was it
like growing up in the city?
- Oh, I grew up
outside the city.
I don't know.
It was all right.
- We used to go
there all the time.
It's cool.
The city, I mean.
- Yeah, kind of.
- So do you guys travel
together a lot or how
do you know each other?
- We met here.
We travel together sometimes.
[laughter]
- We get around.
[laughter]
- Hope.
Hope.
Can we show Emily the attic?
- Yeah.
Tomorrow night, come to the
attic above the dinner hall.
- Me?
[deep breathing]
[clattering]
- Where's Emily?
Where is Emily?
Oh.
She can't even move, can she?
[laughs] She doesn't
even know where she is.
[laughs]
[barking]
[growls]
[laughs]
- Emily.
Wake up.
Kids arrive in, like, an hour.
Let's get ready.
- OK, just give me a minute.
- OK.
I'll just see you
out there, then.
- OK, sounds good.
- First day of camp is
the best day of camp.
- Yeah.
What do you think of Emily?
- I'm actually really
excited for these kids.
- I know, me too.
Well, I don't know.
I hope they're not as
annoying as last summer.
- Oh, they will be.
- There was, like, the one.
There was that fucking--
I swear, I was about to.
- I know, right?
[counselors chattering]
- Hi guys.
- Hi, hey.
- There you are.
How you doing?
- I'm OK.
Hey, did I fall asleep
at the fire last night?
- Shit, did you?
I don't know, we were
all pretty wasted.
- Yeah, I think I did,
but I woke up in my cabin.
- Nice work.
- Here they are.
- Little nightmares.
- Welcome to camp!
- Are you two sisters?
- No.
Do we look like sisters?
- Yes.
And she's the older one.
- Oh.
[laughs]
- Great.
Hey, how's it going?
- I'm OK.
- Just OK?
Is it your first time at camp?
- I guess.
- Are you excited?
- Yes.
Are you my leader?
- Seems that way.
You looking for
four leaf clovers?
- How'd you know?
- Lucky guess.
- Have you ever found one?
- Yeah, maybe once when I was
little, but not in a long time.
(SINGING) Oh, you
can't get to heaven
Can't get to heaven
On roller skates
On roller skates
Because you roll right by
'Cause you roll right by
Those pearly gates
Those pearly gates
Oh, you can't get to
heaven on roller skates
Because you roll right
by those pearly gates
I will not grieve
My Lord no more
- Are you still coming
with us tonight?
- All together now.
- Yeah.
- (SINGING) I will
not grieve my Lord
I will not grieve my Lord
I will not grieve
my Lord no more
[applause]
- OK, that's enough.
OK.
- Well, you guys look cozy.
- Yeah.
- Did everyone have
a good first day?
- Yeah.
- When are we going
swimming in the lake?
- After your swim
test, which is?
- Tomorrow.
OK, guys.
Good night.
[door slams]
You're really good with them.
You know, the kids.
- Thank you.
I've been here for years.
It kind of just comes with time.
And I had one once.
- A kid?
- Yeah.
Can you believe it?
I can barely take
care of myself.
- Yeah, I can believe it.
You seem like you'd
be a really good mom.
- Well, I wasn't.
That's OK, though.
I'm excited for tonight.
- Yeah.
What are we going to get up to?
- We're getting fucked up.
- Oh, really?
Where?
- First the attic,
and then we shall see.
- OK, cool.
You think I should
be getting changed?
- Sure.
Do you want to borrow something?
- Sure, yeah.
- This would actually
look really good on you.
- Oh, you think?
- Definitely.
- OK.
- Kids kind of suck sometimes.
And Eden is the trickiest
one in the group,
so don't be hard on yourself if
you can't get through to her.
- Oh, do you know her?
- Yeah, she's been coming here
for, like, three years, I think.
- That's weird.
She told me this was
her first time at camp.
- Really?
See, that's what I mean.
They're all fucking psychopaths.
They make me feel like
I'm going crazy sometimes.
- Yeah.
I know what you mean.
So have you been coming
here for a long time?
- Yeah.
- Did you come here as a kid?
- Yeah.
I met Clara here when I was
15 and the other girls later.
- Wow.
Cool.
- Mm-hmm.
- So are you guys
all religious then?
- Fucking religious?
Jesus, no.
Like, Christian?
You thought we were,
like, good Christians?
Jesus, no.
- I don't know.
I was confused.
I mean, it's a God
camp, isn't it?
- Well, it's a God
camp if you're Dan.
- Half the staff doesn't even
know there's an attic up here.
- Oh, so you guys just
set it up yourselves?
- Mm-hmm.
Pretty much.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- I'll explain
what we do for you.
The rest of us already know.
So we are putting our wishes
out into the universe tonight.
Sounds middle school, I know.
But when I tell you
it works, it works.
But you must do it right and
well and exactly how I say.
You share your wish with us.
You share your
wish that is true.
You sip your wine,
but not just a sip.
You sip it till it's dry.
Close your eyes for
five whole seconds.
Watch your wish come true.
Hope, do you want to start?
- Sure.
Might as well.
I wish to not feel
that guilt, to never
feel empty or unsatisfied.
Yeah.
- My turn.
I wish my family
would take me back.
- No.
You tried that last year.
- Please.
- Well, it hasn't come true.
- Because it's boring and
it's not what you truly want.
- Oh yeah, Clara.
What do I truly want?
- Probably Dan.
[laughter]
- He wouldn't.
- He might.
- He'd want to marry me.
- Is that such a bad thing?
- I truly wish to fuck
Dan really, really hard.
Happy?
- Oh, is it my turn?
- Just be honest with yourself.
- OK.
I think that I wish for peace.
Yeah.
Like, I just want to feel good,
you know, just a moment of pure
good.
No more mourning or
grief, just forgiveness.
Myself, mostly.
[gentle music]
- Sparks fly.
- Sparks fly.
[laughter]
- Everyone is here.
- Yeah.
- Do you want me to
introduce you to anyone or?
- In a bit.
I'm just taking it all in still.
Yeah.
- You wanna sit?
OK.
[ominous music]
I'll be right back.
- OK.
[ominous music]
- I love this song!
Summer forever!
[upbeat music]
[cheering]
[upbeat music]
[laughter]
- This is so fun.
- I'm so happy that you're here.
- Do you know why I'm here?
I mean, why I came here?
- No.
Do you?
- My best friend ODed in my car
four months ago on my drugs.
- Fuck.
- I hit a four-year-old girl
with my car when I was 16.
She ran into oncoming traffic.
- Triple fuck.
Come here.
- OK.
- You know you didn't
do anything wrong.
You know that, right?
- I don't know.
- I do.
- I don't feel
completely innocent.
- Who does?
- Hey, girls.
- You think it's
his first party?
[laughter]
[dog barking]
- Yeah, definitely.
Oh, shit.
He's going to come over here and
tell us how much he loves us.
- Shit, you're so right.
You want to do something fun?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
Come with me.
- I love you guys.
- Oh my God.
[giggling]
[ominous music]
- Is he fucking praying?
- Of course he is.
What are we doing here?
- We're going to invite him.
- To the party?
- Yeah.
[knocking]
[ominous music]
- Hey, girls.
What's going on?
- Well, we were just
in the neighborhood
and wondering if
maybe you wanted
to come to a small gathering
happening out by the field.
- Small gathering?
- Come party.
- I can't.
I can't.
I have games to plan.
- Come on, Dan.
Show the crew you know
how to have a good time.
- I don't know how
to have a good time.
- Then let us show you.
Please?
[cheering]
[upbeat music]
Look, everybody's here, Dan.
- I can see that.
- Look who we brought.
Drink up, Dan.
- You girls are crazy.
- Come on, Dan.
Just a little.
- Have you seen Nev yet?
- Not yet.
- Unlucky.
- Dan, she's right there.
See?
- Dan.
- Come on, Dan.
- We could stay right here.
- Dan, don't be such a child.
When you want
things in this life,
you have to go
out and take them.
Onwards.
- What are you doing here?
Oh, how kind of you to join us.
- Yeah.
- Come dance with me.
Come on.
- One dance, yeah?
- One dance.
- One dance.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- He's looking kind of scared.
[laughter]
- It looks like
she got her wish.
- Not yet.
Look up.
- Is it real?
- Let's find out.
[blows whistle]
- OK, now stay in the water
for five whole minutes.
And if you don't sink or
drown, you get a wristband.
[cheering]
I'm going to count for y'all.
1, 2, 3.
- Are you not hungover?
- Are you kidding?
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11.
- I mean, you don't
really look it.
- Good genetics.
16, 17, 18.
OK.
I need somebody to
take over counting.
I'm going to take a break.
Thanks.
- 19, 20.
- Did you have fun last night?
- Yeah.
Most fun I've had in
a while, actually.
I love that, like, ritual
thing that we did before.
Is that what you call it?
- Sure.
- 32, 33.
- Hey, five minutes is not up.
Don't you want a wristband?
- My stomach hurts.
- OK, well, you're going to
have to retake the test if you
want to swim while you're here.
- OK, come on.
Let's go for a walk.
Come on.
- Just meet us back
at the cabin, OK?
- Yeah, sure.
- 40, 41.
- Do you think
you're having cramps?
- Maybe?
- Have you ever experienced
this kind of thing before?
- No, not like this.
- OK.
I think maybe you've
gotten your period.
So we're just going to
go back to the cabin,
and I'll get you some
stuff, and you can just
go sort yourself out, OK?
Hey, Eden, it's all right.
You don't need to get upset, OK?
- For the sinkers.
- Feeling any better?
- No.
- Fair enough.
But I think today's
your lucky day.
- Oh my God.
Where did you find it?
- Just over there.
- I love it.
- Yeah, I thought you might.
So are we good?
- Did you just ask
if you were good?
- No, I mean, like, you and I,
we're, like, friends, right?
Cool.
Well, I think it's
almost dinner time.
So if you want to just
head back to the cabin
and wait for the
rest of the group,
I'm going to go
on a little walk.
- OK, sure.
- All right.
See you.
[insects chirping]
Am I interrupting?
- You couldn't.
I'm boring myself
to death up here.
You OK?
- Yeah.
This girl, Eden,
in my group, she
just got her first ever
period during the swim test,
and I just kind of, like, dealt
with it, but I don't know,
it feels kind of wrong.
Like, shouldn't that be
her mom or her older sister
or something who talks
to her about that?
- Yeah, probably.
But you had no choice.
I think that's cool.
She's going to
remember you forever.
- That sucks.
- Yeah, kind of.
- Oh, and like, Dan's being
really weird with me too.
He just, like, straight up
ignored me on my way over here.
But I don't know,
maybe he's just
having a bad day or something.
- It's because he fucked Nev.
- Big deal.
- It was for him.
- Why?
Did he-- did he really like her
or something or not like her?
- He was a virgin.
- No.
- Yeah.
It has been our
mission for years.
Looks like Nev just had to
put it out into the universe.
But, yeah, it totally, like,
fucks with his morals, right?
He was saving himself.
He's probably having an identity
crisis or more than that.
I don't know.
I don't really deal with the
whole self-righteous God,
but I think the
general punishment
is to burst into flames.
He's been dancing
with the devil.
Fuck if I know.
Still, pretty bitchy of
him to ignore you, though.
- Yeah.
Geez, poor guy.
- Not our problem.
Do you want to do something
after dinner tonight?
- Like just you and me?
- Yeah.
- Sure, yeah.
That'd be cool.
- Well, actually, we'd
have to invite the others.
- Oh, right.
- Yeah, we always
hang out all together.
- Yeah.
For sure.
You know, honestly, I think I'm
just going to go straight to bed
tonight.
I'm so tired after yesterday.
- Yeah, yeah.
No worries.
Save yourself.
Tomorrow's a big night.
- Why?
- Full moon.
- Come on.
[yelling]
- Oh my God.
- Not on my team.
- Green team wins.
Let's go again.
[cheering]
- Fuck, fuck, fuck.
[ominous music]
- Good job on your
swim test today.
- Thank you.
- You killed it.
Do you guys remember last year
when that kid almost went under?
I wasn't paying attention.
I feel like we're all
growing so much this year.
Do you guys feel that?
Yeah, totally.
I definitely feel that.
[sighs] There you are.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Staying back?
- Yeah.
- No worries, girl.
I'll see you in the morning.
Sleep good.
[ominous music]
[all chattering]
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Hey, Dad.
It's me.
- Emily, finally.
- Yeah.
Sorry I haven't called.
The reception out
here isn't so good.
My cell's actually
hardly working.
- Oh, I see.
Well, I'm glad you
found some time to talk.
- Yeah.
- Are you OK?
- No.
- What's going on?
- Just everything.
I'm just kind of
freaking out right now.
- Are you taking
care of yourself?
- No.
- Is there anyone
there you can talk to?
- Sort of, yeah, actually.
There's a few people.
- Oh yeah?
You made a friend, then.
- Yeah, kind of.
- Well, that's so great.
Are you just having
a moment, then?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna be OK, though.
- I know you will.
I am so proud of you.
- Thanks, Dad.
I think I'm gonna go now.
[suspenseful music]
I started waking once, twice,
three times without my body.
I walked over to your house
in the cold summer morning.
Your mom stared at me with pity.
The moon turned to red.
The lake knows more, but
she still won't tell me.
[suspenseful music]
Eden?
Eden.
- One, two, three, four.
[water splashing]
[rain pattering]
- Hey, Rosie.
Hey, Rosie, wake up.
It's pouring.
Rosie, it's pouring outside.
Come on, get up.
- Tell them it's a crafts day.
- OK.
- Hey, guys.
Everyone needs to
get up now, OK?
It's raining outside,
so we're going
to have a crafts day today.
So just get up, up, up, up.
Come on, everyone.
- It's too early.
- It's 8:00.
- It's 6:30.
- Oh, shit.
Um, sorry, guys.
Just-- yeah.
[rain pattering]
[ominous music]
- Takes a while
to get used to it.
Being out here.
- I just feel like
I'm losing my mind.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just homesick.
- What do you miss about home?
- Not much.
My dad.
I miss my dad a lot.
- You're close?
- Kinda.
Actually, we're really close.
He's become more like a
friend to me recently.
- It's good to miss him.
It's important to
remember people.
- Every day I'm
here, I feel like I
remember him less and less.
- Maybe it's time to go home.
[ominous music]
[rain pattering]
- Eden, what is that?
Eden, what is that?
What is this?
Oh my God.
She's drawing us but
all fucked up and evil.
- Because you are evil.
- Wait, Eden, stop.
[laughter]
Eden!
Eden, stop!
Stop, Eden!
Eden!
Hey!
Eden!
[thunder rumbling]
[sobbing]
[gasps]
[sobbing, babbling]
[sobbing]
There's something evil
here, isn't there?
You and all your friends
were really nice.
Right, you're really nice, OK?
But I don't know you,
and I can't trust you.
I'm so sorry.
I don't know if you're
even there at all.
I'm fucking up that little girl.
I know I am.
- Hey.
Hey, she was already--
- Don't you-- just
fucking leave me--
- She was already fucked up.
- Oh my god.
- She's disturbed, Emily.
That's why she's here.
[sobbing]
- I have to go home.
I have to go home.
- What's home?
Huh?
Sounds like you had a
pretty good life, huh?
Stable job.
Washed up college parties.
Long, dark days spent in
your childhood bedroom.
A daddy who tends to hover.
You think I don't understand?
How the fuck do you
think I got here?
Hey, I don't know what
exactly happened to you, what
you've done or been through.
I know what it's
like to be lost,
to be lost with a guilty
conscience about some fucked up
shit that should
have never happened.
You found us, Emily.
You found me.
And I need you the
same way you need us.
- Help me.
- We're just like you.
The rest of it does
not make any sense.
I know.
[sobbing]
- Help me.
[sobbing]
- Stay here.
[rain pouring]
[ominous music]
- Fall from grace now.
- Into what?
- All of this.
Do you feel like one of us now?
- Sorry?
- She's asking if you
feel like one of us now.
[ominous music]
- How did we do that?
- Magic.
- And we can just do
that all the time?
- So in our world, when
we sacrifice someone,
as we did with
Dan's virginity, we
get these powers, new things
we can do, new strengths.
[chuckles]
- Sucks to suck, Dan.
- So you're just feeding off
other people, breaking them down
to fill yourself up?
- Sure, if you want
to be a pessimist.
- It's kind of sad.
- You know when you get really
drunk, like, really fucked up
and maybe you'd been hurt
earlier by someone or something,
and all of a sudden you
just don't care anymore?
- Yeah.
- And all the people in the room
just don't matter, even the ones
you love or loved
when it's just you.
Because it is just you, Emily.
It's just you and it's just me.
Or at least it was before all
this, before we came together.
- Don't you get kind of nervous,
though, doing this kind of thing
at God camp?
- Do you want to know something?
- Yes.
- You know how I used to come
here when I was younger, right?
One of those troubled kids.
- Yeah.
- I hated it.
I hated being here so much.
My parents sent me every year,
and I always wanted to leave.
I didn't believe in God.
Not one bit.
Then, after feeling useless
for three years, one night
around the fire, I just
gave up and gave in.
That's when I was 15.
And it was so strange,
because that night,
that was the night I was led
to the clearing, embraced.
God brought me to the devil
and to my closest friends.
And now to you.
- Hold on.
How do you know you let God in?
- I was desperate.
And--
- No, not you specifically.
I mean, how do you
know you let God in?
How does that feel?
- I mean, it didn't really
work out for me, Hope.
- Maybe it could for me.
I mean, that's how
people deal with this.
Right?
God's like freedom
for some people?
Maybe it could be for me.
- Things will fix up, Hope.
You'll see.
I feel like doing drugs.
- Do you have any?
[ominous music]
[coughing]
[laughter]
[ominous music]
- Hop in.
- Thank you.
- I'm serious.
They say these woods are alive.
- Who says that?
- Everybody.
- It's one of my
favorite places.
[ominous music]
- When I hit that little girl
with my car, I saw her coming.
It's not like I was even
distracted or a bad driver.
My brakes just weren't
particularly good.
Before that, though,
I was untroubled.
I remember when I was
a kid, I was happy.
I mean, it was kind of
lonely, but I was happy.
I guess that night when she
took those drugs from my bag,
they'd been cut
with something bad.
Something really fucking bad.
And I never went back
to our apartment.
I made my dad go get my stuff.
[ominous music]
- Share with each other
what we're reflecting
on when we get back home.
[ominous music]
[coughs]
- He's a virgin.
- No.
- I swear he's a virgin.
I can see it.
He's a virgin.
- Follow me.
Wake up.
Wake up for me.
Follow me.
it's just like weed,
a very mild high.
- Are you sure?
[sniffs]
[laughter]
- Where are the kids?
- Uh, they all left.
We waved goodbye.
Where were you?
- Probably up here doing this.
[laughter]
It's the best.
I think I feel the
best right now.
You guys can't leave me, though.
- We wouldn't.
- Ever.
Don't think about that.
- Check to see if he can hear.
- Hey, babe.
Want a blowjob?
He's out.
[laughter]
- Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
[laughter]
[ominous music]
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Emily.
Hi.
I Was trying to reach
you on your phone,
but I wasn't able to.
Maybe the service isn't
so good out there.
- No, it's not.
- How are you?
I miss you.
- I miss you so much.
And I'm doing a lot better, Dad.
I made some friends here, and
they really care about me,
and they listen to me.
- That's so great.
- Yeah.
- I couldn't remember if
you were traveling back
tonight or tomorrow.
If you stayed back
for a few days,
I could drive up
to get you, and we
could road trip home together.
- Oh, yeah?
- I just had that
idea last night.
I thought it would be a good
way to end your time there.
- I think I'm going to stay.
- And wait for me
to pick you up?
- No, I-- I think I'm--
I think I have to stay.
The girls and I are going
to take a trip together.
- Oh.
Well.
Well, that makes me sad.
And happy.
- Me too.
- Oh, Em.
What are we going to do?
You are so brave.
I am so proud of you.
- Dad?
Jo?
Jo, what's happening?
- I thought I
could help you see.
I thought you would see.
[ominous music]
[panting]
[ominous music]
- All you.
God led us to evil.
- It's funny the places
you go when you're
so close to something else.
In my final moments with
you, I thought of her hair,
orange and soft.
I cut a piece of it off
before I left you in my car.
Burn with me, soft and orange.
[fire crackling]
[ominous music]
[i hate sex, "san francisco"]
(SINGING) Walked 10 miles
to a hole in the ground
The only ghosts that I see
Are pieces of you
still reflected in me
I hope you destroy yourself
Drive fast into
the burning bridge
And leave me on the
side of the road
But you'll live
It will be a ritual
of remembering
Hang your family from your
living room ceiling fan
With your small intestine
But they'll live and it will be
A ritual of remembering
You said no matter how many
candles I light in a black mass
I will never change
everything that I still lack
But I'm still waiting for
pieces of your ear in the mail
And I'm still carving
I am my own god
Deeper into my forearm every day
So what the fuck has changed
Yellow paint won't
save the world
My little Van Gogh
You deserve so
much more than this
You deserve so
much more than this
You deserve so
much more than this
[acoustic music]
(SINGING) I'm a
long way from home
Far as I have ever been
I wonder if there is a
place for us to kick back
When the wind blows
Remember I love you so
You will never see me again
You will never see me again
You will never see me again
I thought that I was
able to do what is best
But now that I
don't got you here
I failed another test
When the wind blows
Remember, I love you so
I wish that I had never left
[whistling]
[harsh music]
- Let's do something.
- Like what?
- Fuck.
I don't know.
- Dare me to do something.
- Ange.
I dare you to kiss her.
- No problem.
- Yeah.
Get it.
- Perv.
- It's your turn now.
- OK.
Emily, truth or dare?
- Dare.
- Mm.
What do you guys think?
Hmm.
Sorry, I'm drawing a blank.
- Truth, then
- I still don't know.
[whispers]
OK.
Emily, what's your
biggest regret?
- Oh, that's a good one.
I had a pretty gnarly
haircut in first year.
Did any of you
guys know me then?
Lucky you, I guess.
- Can we get something juicier?
Like you're sure you never
slept with your best friend's
boyfriend or
brother or anything?
- Have I ever slept
with my brother?
- Oh my God, no.
Gross.
I just mean, like, a haircut?
Really?
I know you.
You must have a better
story of regret for us.
- Oh, fuck.
Uh, OK.
I killed a-- I
killed a kid once.
- What'd she say?
- What?
- I mean, accidentally,
of course, with my car.
Yeah.
- I'm so sorry.
I had no idea.
- You know, actually,
in all honesty,
I really don't mind
talking about it.
I feel like people think I'm
too fragile or something,
but I mean, it's not like
it's something that I forget,
so I try to remember her.
Do you guys want to
know what happened?
- Um, do you feel like this
is a safe space to open up?
- Not necessarily, Ange, no.
- Yeah.
I just think, um, with
this kind of thing,
it might be best
to talk with people
who are more like a part
of your inner circle,
like with this kind of thing.
But with that, though, I am
truly always here to talk.
- Right, yeah.
Thanks Well, you
guys are boring.
Where's Charlie?
[laughter]
[murmuring]
- It did feel like he was here.
- Hey, have you
guys seen Charlie?
- Who?
- Charlie.
- Um, I think she's with Nick?
- Who's Nick?
- Well, you know Nick.
- I know Nick.
- What are you guys drinking?
- It's my lemonade seltzer.
- It's her lemonade seltzer.
- Can I try a sip?
- Well, you could just have one.
I've got so many in my bag.
- Thanks.
Geez, this sucks.
- So have you seen Nick?
- Not yet.
I'm hoping to.
[knocking]
- It's just me.
[sniffs]
- Who are you?
- Have you guys seen Charlie?
- No.
Are you just looking
for your friend?
- Yeah.
- Is that it?
[door creaks]
[rain pattering]
- Oh, fucking finally.
Thank God.
- Where were you?
- How was your night?
- It was shitty.
Yours?
- Bad, bad.
Very bad.
Is this yours?
- Yeah, it's my
lemonade seltzer.
[coughing]
Hey, do you want to just leave?
There's this other party.
It's going to go
kind of late, but.
- Hell yeah.
Should we, like, just, you
want to just go right now?
- Think anyone's
going to even notice?
- Probably not.
- Wait, are you drunk?
- No.
- Jesus, Charlie, you should
really try and sober up
before we get there, you know.
These are, like,
art school people.
- What do you mean,
art school people?
- What do you mean?
Why was your night
so bad anyway?
- Ah, it was that
fucking Nick guy.
It's gross.
- Why?
What'd he do?
- I don't even know.
It doesn't matter.
- All right.
You want to know what I did?
- Yes.
- OK, well, after I lost you
into the abyss, I went to go
hang out with,
like, Ange and Kale.
You know those people?
- Yeah, that's shitty.
- Yeah.
And they were playing truth or
dare, and Ange just straight up
asked me what my
biggest regret is.
Yeah.
- Emily.
- I know.
- What, you didn't fucking lie?
Say that you cheat on your
boyfriend or something.
- No, no, unfortunately.
- Oh my God.
Damn, you're fucked.
- Yeah, I know dude,
they think I need help.
- Don't you?
- I mean, not really.
I don't really-- I haven't felt
the need to go back to therapy
in, like, over a year.
- Hell yeah, dude.
Fuck 'em.
- Yeah.
- I love you, man.
- Really.
- Do you have any coke?
- Yeah, actually, I got
some right before we left.
- Ooh.
Ooh, I had something I
really wanted to tell you.
- OK.
- Oh, fuck.
I was making out with Nick
and the whole time I just kept
thinking, I really have to--
- I'm really over it.
- Fuck off.
I knew I had to tell
you this amazing fact,
and now I can't
fucking remember.
Where is this shit?
- Charlie, no, no, no.
- What?
You said I should sober up.
It's not like you're
going to do all of this.
- I did say that, but.
Charlie, come on.
At least just wait till I
can have some too, all right?
[sniffs]
Charlie?
Charlie?
Charlie?
Charlie?
No, no, no, no, no.
Stop, stop, stop.
Charlie.
Charlie!
Charlie.
No, no, no, stop, stop, stop.
Charlie, just-- Charlie, move.
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
[coughing]
[panting]
- Let's go do something now.
I'm sick of this.
- You're sick of this?
This is my fucking life!
It's what I have to go
through every fucking day.
You think I want
this for myself?
You think I feel good about
having to come home and start
over again?
[dramatic music]
- Well, I guess therapy
has spiced up once again.
- Yeah, definitely.
I think they put me
on suicide watch.
- They did.
Yeah.
What's funny?
- I was not suicidal.
- Well, that's
really great news.
- I mean, it seems
like a suitable option
for someone in my
position, don't you think?
- I don't really know
how to answer that, Em.
- It's just that I was marked
by tragedy so early on,
and now it's just
completely covered me.
I mean, it's the first thing
you see when you look at me.
It's the only thing
that you see, actually.
Life has just made it so
fucking difficult for me
to want to be here right now.
I mean, what is there
for people like me?
I'm like a real life serial
killer on the rise, Dad.
- You're not.
- Yeah, but I am.
- I had an idea for you.
- OK, shoot.
- There's this camp for
damaged kids, kind of like you.
But you can be a
counselor there.
You have all the
certifications to do it.
- Come on, don't you
think I'm too scared up
to talk to any more kids?
- It's up north.
You could take the train.
I could pay for it.
Then when you make
the good money
that I know camp counselors
do, you could pay me back.
- Are the counselors supposed
to be damaged as well?
- Oh, I'm sure.
- OK, I'll think about it.
[train rumbling]
[ominous music]
[phone ringing]
- Hi.
- Hi.
How's the ride?
- Um, it's OK.
I fell asleep for a
while in the lounge car.
Didn't mean to.
- Oh.
Did I wake you?
- No, I was already up.
I'm in my room now.
- Oh, good.
- Dad, I think this
is a church camp.
- What?
- God.
Dad, I think it's a God camp.
- Well, is it a good camp?
- I don't know.
- I'm sure you can find
some non-believers.
- Yeah, let's hope so.
- I'll let you sleep.
Good night, Em.
- OK.
I'm probably not going to
go back to sleep, though.
- Then just look out the window.
- Yeah, OK.
[ominous music]
- Happy with kids.
[knocking]
Hey.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I'm Emily.
- Oh, Emily.
You're here.
- Yeah.
- I'm Dan, camp leader.
Welcome.
Take your bags off.
Stay a while.
- Sweet.
- Long trip?
- Yeah, I took the train.
- Ah, beautiful.
There's an introduction campfire
for tonight for the staff.
- Uh-huh.
- And this here is just
general camp rules.
Sign it when you can, and
get it back to me after.
- OK.
- Great.
- I could just sign
it now if you wanted.
- Um, it's OK.
Why don't you take a
read through it first
and get it back to me after?
- Sure, yeah, if that's
what you'd prefer.
- Great.
Yeah.
Please.
And if you can't find me
here, I'll be in my cabin.
It's the only cabin
with a wood stove.
Not to brag or anything.
Not that I need it in this heat.
Not that anyone needs
it in this heat.
[laughter]
- Yeah, true.
OK.
- Emily?
- Hi.
- Emily, this is Jo.
Did you get all that sorted out?
- Oh, yes, I went in
and revised the rock
climbing liability section.
It's more clear now.
- Great.
Put that away.
Jo is one of our longest
attendees and a second year
employee.
So if you have any questions
at all, she's your gal.
- Did you get here OK?
- I did, yeah.
- I'm so happy you're here.
- Oh, thanks.
Me too.
Thanks.
- Well, dinner's at 6:00
if you haven't eaten.
And you'll be rooming
with Rosie in cabin 18.
- Rosie, cabin 18.
- Yeah.
- I think I got it.
- Great.
[creaking]
- You're here.
- I'm here.
- Hi.
- Hey.
You're Rosie?
- Yep.
And you're Emily.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Were you sleeping?
- Yep.
Big, long day of napping.
- So have you been here before?
Oh, all right.
Like a-- like a
counselor, camper?
- Yeah, I've been here before.
I chose to be your roommate
because I'm the nicest.
- Oh, that's good.
I need that.
And you know the other
counselors as well, then?
- Mm-hmm.
For a long time.
- OK.
And you're all still here?
That's encouraging.
- Yeah.
You're going to love them,
if you love freaky weirdos
and getting sloppy drunk.
- I think I'm going
to unpack for a bit,
so I'm just going to hop down.
- OK.
- OK.
- OK.
I'll see you down there.
- OK.
- You like the summertime?
- Yeah, it's all right.
I like the fall more.
- You smoke, right?
- Oh, yes, please.
Thanks.
- Yeah.
I like the fall, too.
But in the summertime, there's
all this mixed up hot energy
just lingering in the
air, and I love that.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah, I know what you mean.
So you can get away with
this sort of thing out here?
- What sort of thing?
- Oh, you know, drugs.
- Weed isn't technically a drug.
- Technically speaking,
I believe it is.
- [laughs] Yeah, we get
away with a lot out here.
- And the owners
just don't care?
- The owners are crazy, and
they live someplace far away.
So it's basically just
us and Dan out here.
Have you met Dan?
- Is he the guy who
works at the front desk?
Yeah, I met him earlier.
He's pretty--
- Cute?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, everybody thinks so.
He's also super invested
in the Lord, so good luck.
- Thanks.
- Under 500
calories, that's when
you have an eating disorder.
- Yeah.
- Under 1,000,
that's just normal.
- No it's not.
- It is.
- Everyone, stop
talking, and meet Emily.
- Sorry, guys.
Hi.
- So lovely to meet you, Emily.
We were just discussing
Nev's depressing little life.
- Oh, please.
As if it's more
depressing than yours.
- It's a good life.
I love my life.
- Emily, this is
Nev, Hope, and Clara.
You know what we
could talk about now?
- What's that?
- Who the hell decided
to put us in cabin 18?
It is revolting.
- I was there last year.
Pretty nasty.
- I mean, it looks
pretty normal to me.
Are the other ones nicer?
- It's just the way it feels.
Sorry.
Is that Kayne?
Rosie, oh my God, stop.
- Don't say the
Lord's name in vain.
[laughter]
- I can't believe
he came back here.
- Who is he?
- He's from my hometown.
Back in high school,
threw his girlfriend
down the stairs so
bad she broke her leg
and had to wear it in a
cast the whole first term.
- Jesus.
- Yo, Rosie, stop that.
Someone tell her to stop that.
- I feel like that's something
that would happen to me.
- It was, like,
super sweet, though.
He'd carry her books for her
since she had to use crutches.
- Aw.
[laughter]
- Hey, I'm just kidding.
He's a fucking asshole.
We should slice him.
You and me.
- OK.
- Hello, everyone.
Welcome back.
I have really missed
this, and you.
I found it important
around this time of year
to reflect on why you
first came to camp.
It's not always easy.
I first got dropped
off here when I was 11.
My parents were
getting a divorce.
Even then, I had known it.
I remember feeling
so awkward, so lost.
I never had any siblings to
comfort me, No close friends.
But then, thank
God, came guidance.
Be that guidance that
your younger self needed.
Be that for them.
[clapping]
- That was beautiful.
Beautiful.
- I will now pass this on
to our lovely leader, Dan.
- Thanks, Jo.
All right, yeah, this is it.
We're back here once again.
Some returning and a
couple newbies, yeah?
Emily, JB, would you guys like
to do a small introduction
to the group?
- Do you want to go first?
- OK, yeah, need
the talking stick.
- Let's see how this goes.
I'm JB.
Mostly, I'm just here to
make some memories, friends,
and have a good summer for once.
I find a lot of peace in God.
- Oh, yeah?
Oh, great.
- And I am just so
excited to be surrounded
by all you nice people.
- That is great, JB.
We are so blessed
to have you here.
It's great stuff, man.
- Hi guys.
I'm Emily.
I grew up outside of
the city, but I just
recently moved to the
valley to be with my dad.
Now I'm here.
I've had a pretty weird year
and weird ones before that too.
My dad suggested
I come, actually,
so that's why I'm here.
Yeah, I think that's all.
Thanks.
- Welcome, Emily.
Welcome.
[clapping]
Yes.
All right.
Well, the kids come tomorrow,
and we will welcome them
with love and
trust, the same way
you've welcomed back your
returning friends here today.
Remember, everyone, these
kids live really tough lives.
We want camp to be a for them.
The most fun they're
going to have all summer.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Great.
I'm keen to see how
you are with them.
Be gentle.
Be patient.
And for the Lord's sake,
just please be good, yeah?
Yeah.
All right, yeah.
Great.
- Woo!
- He's so hot.
[eerie music]
[laughs]
[laughter]
- Oh my God.
[laughter]
- That guy from last year.
- Kayne?
- He was so obsessed with you.
We fucking wrecked him.
[laughter]
- Yeah, we did.
- To another year.
- Another year.
- Cheers!
- OK, see, and that's why I
was so excited when I saw Emily
sitting there on her bunk.
I thought, amazing,
another gorgeous weirdo
like the rest of us.
- Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
- So, Emily, what was it
like growing up in the city?
- Oh, I grew up
outside the city.
I don't know.
It was all right.
- We used to go
there all the time.
It's cool.
The city, I mean.
- Yeah, kind of.
- So do you guys travel
together a lot or how
do you know each other?
- We met here.
We travel together sometimes.
[laughter]
- We get around.
[laughter]
- Hope.
Hope.
Can we show Emily the attic?
- Yeah.
Tomorrow night, come to the
attic above the dinner hall.
- Me?
[deep breathing]
[clattering]
- Where's Emily?
Where is Emily?
Oh.
She can't even move, can she?
[laughs] She doesn't
even know where she is.
[laughs]
[barking]
[growls]
[laughs]
- Emily.
Wake up.
Kids arrive in, like, an hour.
Let's get ready.
- OK, just give me a minute.
- OK.
I'll just see you
out there, then.
- OK, sounds good.
- First day of camp is
the best day of camp.
- Yeah.
What do you think of Emily?
- I'm actually really
excited for these kids.
- I know, me too.
Well, I don't know.
I hope they're not as
annoying as last summer.
- Oh, they will be.
- There was, like, the one.
There was that fucking--
I swear, I was about to.
- I know, right?
[counselors chattering]
- Hi guys.
- Hi, hey.
- There you are.
How you doing?
- I'm OK.
Hey, did I fall asleep
at the fire last night?
- Shit, did you?
I don't know, we were
all pretty wasted.
- Yeah, I think I did,
but I woke up in my cabin.
- Nice work.
- Here they are.
- Little nightmares.
- Welcome to camp!
- Are you two sisters?
- No.
Do we look like sisters?
- Yes.
And she's the older one.
- Oh.
[laughs]
- Great.
Hey, how's it going?
- I'm OK.
- Just OK?
Is it your first time at camp?
- I guess.
- Are you excited?
- Yes.
Are you my leader?
- Seems that way.
You looking for
four leaf clovers?
- How'd you know?
- Lucky guess.
- Have you ever found one?
- Yeah, maybe once when I was
little, but not in a long time.
(SINGING) Oh, you
can't get to heaven
Can't get to heaven
On roller skates
On roller skates
Because you roll right by
'Cause you roll right by
Those pearly gates
Those pearly gates
Oh, you can't get to
heaven on roller skates
Because you roll right
by those pearly gates
I will not grieve
My Lord no more
- Are you still coming
with us tonight?
- All together now.
- Yeah.
- (SINGING) I will
not grieve my Lord
I will not grieve my Lord
I will not grieve
my Lord no more
[applause]
- OK, that's enough.
OK.
- Well, you guys look cozy.
- Yeah.
- Did everyone have
a good first day?
- Yeah.
- When are we going
swimming in the lake?
- After your swim
test, which is?
- Tomorrow.
OK, guys.
Good night.
[door slams]
You're really good with them.
You know, the kids.
- Thank you.
I've been here for years.
It kind of just comes with time.
And I had one once.
- A kid?
- Yeah.
Can you believe it?
I can barely take
care of myself.
- Yeah, I can believe it.
You seem like you'd
be a really good mom.
- Well, I wasn't.
That's OK, though.
I'm excited for tonight.
- Yeah.
What are we going to get up to?
- We're getting fucked up.
- Oh, really?
Where?
- First the attic,
and then we shall see.
- OK, cool.
You think I should
be getting changed?
- Sure.
Do you want to borrow something?
- Sure, yeah.
- This would actually
look really good on you.
- Oh, you think?
- Definitely.
- OK.
- Kids kind of suck sometimes.
And Eden is the trickiest
one in the group,
so don't be hard on yourself if
you can't get through to her.
- Oh, do you know her?
- Yeah, she's been coming here
for, like, three years, I think.
- That's weird.
She told me this was
her first time at camp.
- Really?
See, that's what I mean.
They're all fucking psychopaths.
They make me feel like
I'm going crazy sometimes.
- Yeah.
I know what you mean.
So have you been coming
here for a long time?
- Yeah.
- Did you come here as a kid?
- Yeah.
I met Clara here when I was
15 and the other girls later.
- Wow.
Cool.
- Mm-hmm.
- So are you guys
all religious then?
- Fucking religious?
Jesus, no.
Like, Christian?
You thought we were,
like, good Christians?
Jesus, no.
- I don't know.
I was confused.
I mean, it's a God
camp, isn't it?
- Well, it's a God
camp if you're Dan.
- Half the staff doesn't even
know there's an attic up here.
- Oh, so you guys just
set it up yourselves?
- Mm-hmm.
Pretty much.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- I'll explain
what we do for you.
The rest of us already know.
So we are putting our wishes
out into the universe tonight.
Sounds middle school, I know.
But when I tell you
it works, it works.
But you must do it right and
well and exactly how I say.
You share your wish with us.
You share your
wish that is true.
You sip your wine,
but not just a sip.
You sip it till it's dry.
Close your eyes for
five whole seconds.
Watch your wish come true.
Hope, do you want to start?
- Sure.
Might as well.
I wish to not feel
that guilt, to never
feel empty or unsatisfied.
Yeah.
- My turn.
I wish my family
would take me back.
- No.
You tried that last year.
- Please.
- Well, it hasn't come true.
- Because it's boring and
it's not what you truly want.
- Oh yeah, Clara.
What do I truly want?
- Probably Dan.
[laughter]
- He wouldn't.
- He might.
- He'd want to marry me.
- Is that such a bad thing?
- I truly wish to fuck
Dan really, really hard.
Happy?
- Oh, is it my turn?
- Just be honest with yourself.
- OK.
I think that I wish for peace.
Yeah.
Like, I just want to feel good,
you know, just a moment of pure
good.
No more mourning or
grief, just forgiveness.
Myself, mostly.
[gentle music]
- Sparks fly.
- Sparks fly.
[laughter]
- Everyone is here.
- Yeah.
- Do you want me to
introduce you to anyone or?
- In a bit.
I'm just taking it all in still.
Yeah.
- You wanna sit?
OK.
[ominous music]
I'll be right back.
- OK.
[ominous music]
- I love this song!
Summer forever!
[upbeat music]
[cheering]
[upbeat music]
[laughter]
- This is so fun.
- I'm so happy that you're here.
- Do you know why I'm here?
I mean, why I came here?
- No.
Do you?
- My best friend ODed in my car
four months ago on my drugs.
- Fuck.
- I hit a four-year-old girl
with my car when I was 16.
She ran into oncoming traffic.
- Triple fuck.
Come here.
- OK.
- You know you didn't
do anything wrong.
You know that, right?
- I don't know.
- I do.
- I don't feel
completely innocent.
- Who does?
- Hey, girls.
- You think it's
his first party?
[laughter]
[dog barking]
- Yeah, definitely.
Oh, shit.
He's going to come over here and
tell us how much he loves us.
- Shit, you're so right.
You want to do something fun?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
Come with me.
- I love you guys.
- Oh my God.
[giggling]
[ominous music]
- Is he fucking praying?
- Of course he is.
What are we doing here?
- We're going to invite him.
- To the party?
- Yeah.
[knocking]
[ominous music]
- Hey, girls.
What's going on?
- Well, we were just
in the neighborhood
and wondering if
maybe you wanted
to come to a small gathering
happening out by the field.
- Small gathering?
- Come party.
- I can't.
I can't.
I have games to plan.
- Come on, Dan.
Show the crew you know
how to have a good time.
- I don't know how
to have a good time.
- Then let us show you.
Please?
[cheering]
[upbeat music]
Look, everybody's here, Dan.
- I can see that.
- Look who we brought.
Drink up, Dan.
- You girls are crazy.
- Come on, Dan.
Just a little.
- Have you seen Nev yet?
- Not yet.
- Unlucky.
- Dan, she's right there.
See?
- Dan.
- Come on, Dan.
- We could stay right here.
- Dan, don't be such a child.
When you want
things in this life,
you have to go
out and take them.
Onwards.
- What are you doing here?
Oh, how kind of you to join us.
- Yeah.
- Come dance with me.
Come on.
- One dance, yeah?
- One dance.
- One dance.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- He's looking kind of scared.
[laughter]
- It looks like
she got her wish.
- Not yet.
Look up.
- Is it real?
- Let's find out.
[blows whistle]
- OK, now stay in the water
for five whole minutes.
And if you don't sink or
drown, you get a wristband.
[cheering]
I'm going to count for y'all.
1, 2, 3.
- Are you not hungover?
- Are you kidding?
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11.
- I mean, you don't
really look it.
- Good genetics.
16, 17, 18.
OK.
I need somebody to
take over counting.
I'm going to take a break.
Thanks.
- 19, 20.
- Did you have fun last night?
- Yeah.
Most fun I've had in
a while, actually.
I love that, like, ritual
thing that we did before.
Is that what you call it?
- Sure.
- 32, 33.
- Hey, five minutes is not up.
Don't you want a wristband?
- My stomach hurts.
- OK, well, you're going to
have to retake the test if you
want to swim while you're here.
- OK, come on.
Let's go for a walk.
Come on.
- Just meet us back
at the cabin, OK?
- Yeah, sure.
- 40, 41.
- Do you think
you're having cramps?
- Maybe?
- Have you ever experienced
this kind of thing before?
- No, not like this.
- OK.
I think maybe you've
gotten your period.
So we're just going to
go back to the cabin,
and I'll get you some
stuff, and you can just
go sort yourself out, OK?
Hey, Eden, it's all right.
You don't need to get upset, OK?
- For the sinkers.
- Feeling any better?
- No.
- Fair enough.
But I think today's
your lucky day.
- Oh my God.
Where did you find it?
- Just over there.
- I love it.
- Yeah, I thought you might.
So are we good?
- Did you just ask
if you were good?
- No, I mean, like, you and I,
we're, like, friends, right?
Cool.
Well, I think it's
almost dinner time.
So if you want to just
head back to the cabin
and wait for the
rest of the group,
I'm going to go
on a little walk.
- OK, sure.
- All right.
See you.
[insects chirping]
Am I interrupting?
- You couldn't.
I'm boring myself
to death up here.
You OK?
- Yeah.
This girl, Eden,
in my group, she
just got her first ever
period during the swim test,
and I just kind of, like, dealt
with it, but I don't know,
it feels kind of wrong.
Like, shouldn't that be
her mom or her older sister
or something who talks
to her about that?
- Yeah, probably.
But you had no choice.
I think that's cool.
She's going to
remember you forever.
- That sucks.
- Yeah, kind of.
- Oh, and like, Dan's being
really weird with me too.
He just, like, straight up
ignored me on my way over here.
But I don't know,
maybe he's just
having a bad day or something.
- It's because he fucked Nev.
- Big deal.
- It was for him.
- Why?
Did he-- did he really like her
or something or not like her?
- He was a virgin.
- No.
- Yeah.
It has been our
mission for years.
Looks like Nev just had to
put it out into the universe.
But, yeah, it totally, like,
fucks with his morals, right?
He was saving himself.
He's probably having an identity
crisis or more than that.
I don't know.
I don't really deal with the
whole self-righteous God,
but I think the
general punishment
is to burst into flames.
He's been dancing
with the devil.
Fuck if I know.
Still, pretty bitchy of
him to ignore you, though.
- Yeah.
Geez, poor guy.
- Not our problem.
Do you want to do something
after dinner tonight?
- Like just you and me?
- Yeah.
- Sure, yeah.
That'd be cool.
- Well, actually, we'd
have to invite the others.
- Oh, right.
- Yeah, we always
hang out all together.
- Yeah.
For sure.
You know, honestly, I think I'm
just going to go straight to bed
tonight.
I'm so tired after yesterday.
- Yeah, yeah.
No worries.
Save yourself.
Tomorrow's a big night.
- Why?
- Full moon.
- Come on.
[yelling]
- Oh my God.
- Not on my team.
- Green team wins.
Let's go again.
[cheering]
- Fuck, fuck, fuck.
[ominous music]
- Good job on your
swim test today.
- Thank you.
- You killed it.
Do you guys remember last year
when that kid almost went under?
I wasn't paying attention.
I feel like we're all
growing so much this year.
Do you guys feel that?
Yeah, totally.
I definitely feel that.
[sighs] There you are.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Staying back?
- Yeah.
- No worries, girl.
I'll see you in the morning.
Sleep good.
[ominous music]
[all chattering]
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Hey, Dad.
It's me.
- Emily, finally.
- Yeah.
Sorry I haven't called.
The reception out
here isn't so good.
My cell's actually
hardly working.
- Oh, I see.
Well, I'm glad you
found some time to talk.
- Yeah.
- Are you OK?
- No.
- What's going on?
- Just everything.
I'm just kind of
freaking out right now.
- Are you taking
care of yourself?
- No.
- Is there anyone
there you can talk to?
- Sort of, yeah, actually.
There's a few people.
- Oh yeah?
You made a friend, then.
- Yeah, kind of.
- Well, that's so great.
Are you just having
a moment, then?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna be OK, though.
- I know you will.
I am so proud of you.
- Thanks, Dad.
I think I'm gonna go now.
[suspenseful music]
I started waking once, twice,
three times without my body.
I walked over to your house
in the cold summer morning.
Your mom stared at me with pity.
The moon turned to red.
The lake knows more, but
she still won't tell me.
[suspenseful music]
Eden?
Eden.
- One, two, three, four.
[water splashing]
[rain pattering]
- Hey, Rosie.
Hey, Rosie, wake up.
It's pouring.
Rosie, it's pouring outside.
Come on, get up.
- Tell them it's a crafts day.
- OK.
- Hey, guys.
Everyone needs to
get up now, OK?
It's raining outside,
so we're going
to have a crafts day today.
So just get up, up, up, up.
Come on, everyone.
- It's too early.
- It's 8:00.
- It's 6:30.
- Oh, shit.
Um, sorry, guys.
Just-- yeah.
[rain pattering]
[ominous music]
- Takes a while
to get used to it.
Being out here.
- I just feel like
I'm losing my mind.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just homesick.
- What do you miss about home?
- Not much.
My dad.
I miss my dad a lot.
- You're close?
- Kinda.
Actually, we're really close.
He's become more like a
friend to me recently.
- It's good to miss him.
It's important to
remember people.
- Every day I'm
here, I feel like I
remember him less and less.
- Maybe it's time to go home.
[ominous music]
[rain pattering]
- Eden, what is that?
Eden, what is that?
What is this?
Oh my God.
She's drawing us but
all fucked up and evil.
- Because you are evil.
- Wait, Eden, stop.
[laughter]
Eden!
Eden, stop!
Stop, Eden!
Eden!
Hey!
Eden!
[thunder rumbling]
[sobbing]
[gasps]
[sobbing, babbling]
[sobbing]
There's something evil
here, isn't there?
You and all your friends
were really nice.
Right, you're really nice, OK?
But I don't know you,
and I can't trust you.
I'm so sorry.
I don't know if you're
even there at all.
I'm fucking up that little girl.
I know I am.
- Hey.
Hey, she was already--
- Don't you-- just
fucking leave me--
- She was already fucked up.
- Oh my god.
- She's disturbed, Emily.
That's why she's here.
[sobbing]
- I have to go home.
I have to go home.
- What's home?
Huh?
Sounds like you had a
pretty good life, huh?
Stable job.
Washed up college parties.
Long, dark days spent in
your childhood bedroom.
A daddy who tends to hover.
You think I don't understand?
How the fuck do you
think I got here?
Hey, I don't know what
exactly happened to you, what
you've done or been through.
I know what it's
like to be lost,
to be lost with a guilty
conscience about some fucked up
shit that should
have never happened.
You found us, Emily.
You found me.
And I need you the
same way you need us.
- Help me.
- We're just like you.
The rest of it does
not make any sense.
I know.
[sobbing]
- Help me.
[sobbing]
- Stay here.
[rain pouring]
[ominous music]
- Fall from grace now.
- Into what?
- All of this.
Do you feel like one of us now?
- Sorry?
- She's asking if you
feel like one of us now.
[ominous music]
- How did we do that?
- Magic.
- And we can just do
that all the time?
- So in our world, when
we sacrifice someone,
as we did with
Dan's virginity, we
get these powers, new things
we can do, new strengths.
[chuckles]
- Sucks to suck, Dan.
- So you're just feeding off
other people, breaking them down
to fill yourself up?
- Sure, if you want
to be a pessimist.
- It's kind of sad.
- You know when you get really
drunk, like, really fucked up
and maybe you'd been hurt
earlier by someone or something,
and all of a sudden you
just don't care anymore?
- Yeah.
- And all the people in the room
just don't matter, even the ones
you love or loved
when it's just you.
Because it is just you, Emily.
It's just you and it's just me.
Or at least it was before all
this, before we came together.
- Don't you get kind of nervous,
though, doing this kind of thing
at God camp?
- Do you want to know something?
- Yes.
- You know how I used to come
here when I was younger, right?
One of those troubled kids.
- Yeah.
- I hated it.
I hated being here so much.
My parents sent me every year,
and I always wanted to leave.
I didn't believe in God.
Not one bit.
Then, after feeling useless
for three years, one night
around the fire, I just
gave up and gave in.
That's when I was 15.
And it was so strange,
because that night,
that was the night I was led
to the clearing, embraced.
God brought me to the devil
and to my closest friends.
And now to you.
- Hold on.
How do you know you let God in?
- I was desperate.
And--
- No, not you specifically.
I mean, how do you
know you let God in?
How does that feel?
- I mean, it didn't really
work out for me, Hope.
- Maybe it could for me.
I mean, that's how
people deal with this.
Right?
God's like freedom
for some people?
Maybe it could be for me.
- Things will fix up, Hope.
You'll see.
I feel like doing drugs.
- Do you have any?
[ominous music]
[coughing]
[laughter]
[ominous music]
- Hop in.
- Thank you.
- I'm serious.
They say these woods are alive.
- Who says that?
- Everybody.
- It's one of my
favorite places.
[ominous music]
- When I hit that little girl
with my car, I saw her coming.
It's not like I was even
distracted or a bad driver.
My brakes just weren't
particularly good.
Before that, though,
I was untroubled.
I remember when I was
a kid, I was happy.
I mean, it was kind of
lonely, but I was happy.
I guess that night when she
took those drugs from my bag,
they'd been cut
with something bad.
Something really fucking bad.
And I never went back
to our apartment.
I made my dad go get my stuff.
[ominous music]
- Share with each other
what we're reflecting
on when we get back home.
[ominous music]
[coughs]
- He's a virgin.
- No.
- I swear he's a virgin.
I can see it.
He's a virgin.
- Follow me.
Wake up.
Wake up for me.
Follow me.
it's just like weed,
a very mild high.
- Are you sure?
[sniffs]
[laughter]
- Where are the kids?
- Uh, they all left.
We waved goodbye.
Where were you?
- Probably up here doing this.
[laughter]
It's the best.
I think I feel the
best right now.
You guys can't leave me, though.
- We wouldn't.
- Ever.
Don't think about that.
- Check to see if he can hear.
- Hey, babe.
Want a blowjob?
He's out.
[laughter]
- Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
Every time I hear her,
I know it's almost over.
As long as I am empty, there
is no ground beneath me.
[laughter]
[ominous music]
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Emily.
Hi.
I Was trying to reach
you on your phone,
but I wasn't able to.
Maybe the service isn't
so good out there.
- No, it's not.
- How are you?
I miss you.
- I miss you so much.
And I'm doing a lot better, Dad.
I made some friends here, and
they really care about me,
and they listen to me.
- That's so great.
- Yeah.
- I couldn't remember if
you were traveling back
tonight or tomorrow.
If you stayed back
for a few days,
I could drive up
to get you, and we
could road trip home together.
- Oh, yeah?
- I just had that
idea last night.
I thought it would be a good
way to end your time there.
- I think I'm going to stay.
- And wait for me
to pick you up?
- No, I-- I think I'm--
I think I have to stay.
The girls and I are going
to take a trip together.
- Oh.
Well.
Well, that makes me sad.
And happy.
- Me too.
- Oh, Em.
What are we going to do?
You are so brave.
I am so proud of you.
- Dad?
Jo?
Jo, what's happening?
- I thought I
could help you see.
I thought you would see.
[ominous music]
[panting]
[ominous music]
- All you.
God led us to evil.
- It's funny the places
you go when you're
so close to something else.
In my final moments with
you, I thought of her hair,
orange and soft.
I cut a piece of it off
before I left you in my car.
Burn with me, soft and orange.
[fire crackling]
[ominous music]
[i hate sex, "san francisco"]
(SINGING) Walked 10 miles
to a hole in the ground
The only ghosts that I see
Are pieces of you
still reflected in me
I hope you destroy yourself
Drive fast into
the burning bridge
And leave me on the
side of the road
But you'll live
It will be a ritual
of remembering
Hang your family from your
living room ceiling fan
With your small intestine
But they'll live and it will be
A ritual of remembering
You said no matter how many
candles I light in a black mass
I will never change
everything that I still lack
But I'm still waiting for
pieces of your ear in the mail
And I'm still carving
I am my own god
Deeper into my forearm every day
So what the fuck has changed
Yellow paint won't
save the world
My little Van Gogh
You deserve so
much more than this
You deserve so
much more than this
You deserve so
much more than this