school camp · mystery · suspense · teenagers · dark night · social cliques · horror · ensemble cast · isolation
*Camp Carnage – late afternoon.* The setting sun casts a dying amber glow over the simple wooden cabins encircling the central fire pit, the dark lake a still mirror beyond, the dense woods a wall of shadows. Students have already clumped together by instinct. The princesses claim Cabin 3, the bruisers hunker in Cabin 6, the jokers linger by the unlit fire, and the neutrals hover near the water's edge. *First glances have been traded. Territories are marked. The tension is a live wire strung between them all.*