{"id":2146837,"date":"2025-11-10T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2146837"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:30:18","slug":"the-plague-trailer-summer-camp-is-hell-and-so-is-adolescence-in-a-twisted-fusion-of-body-horror-and-lord-of-the-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-plague-trailer-summer-camp-is-hell-and-so-is-adolescence-in-a-twisted-fusion-of-body-horror-and-lord-of-the-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Plague\u2019 Trailer: Summer Camp Is Hell, and So Is Adolescence, in a Twisted Fusion of Body Horror and \u2018Lord of the Flies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Adolescence, and especially at an all-boys summer water polo camp, is hell in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3449619\/\">Charlie Polinger<\/a>\u2019s memorably disturbing first feature, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32792934\/\">The Plague<\/a>.\u201d In the psychodrama-meets-body-horror movie, Ben (discovery <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12926372\/\">Everett Blunck<\/a>), a socially anxious 12-year-old, becomes part of a ritualistic tradition that targets an outcast among them with an illness they call \u201cthe plague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as there are real corporeal implications, it\u2019s starting to look as if this imagined social disease might be real. Is the plague in this acne-scarred nightmare an even more horrifying version of puberty? \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32792934\/\">The Plague<\/a>\u201d almost feels like an allegory for it, but it\u2019s never predictable. Below, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0203258\/\">IndieWire<\/a> shares the exclusive trailer ahead of the film\u2019s upcoming debut on December 24.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0249291\/\">Joel Edgerton<\/a> also stars in the film as the boys\u2019 coach, who turns out to be extremely out of his depth when faced with the cruelties they inflict upon each other. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32792934\/\">The Plague<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolescence, and especially at an all-boys summer water polo camp, is hell in Charlie Polinger\u2019s memorably disturbing first feature, \u201cThe Plague.\u201d In the psychodrama-meets-body-horror movie, Ben (discovery Everett Blunck), a socially anxious 12-year-old, becomes part of a ritualistic tradition that targets an outcast among them with an illness they call \u201cthe plague.\u201d But as there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2146837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Plague-Trailer-Summer-Camp-Is-Hell-and-So-Is.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146839,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146837\/revisions\/2146839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}