Murder Camp
2023 · 15m
Directed by Will Lagos, Jeremy Radin
Genres: dark comedy, horror
Tones: darkly comic, tense
Two slasher killers make the fateful mistake of showing up to the same summer camp on the same night.
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The scouts
Two killers, same camp, same night—it's the kind of absurdist collision that shouldn't work but does, and the fact that it mines genuine tension from what could've been a one-liner premise is exactly the subversive move that makes slasher fatigue disappear.
The film demonstrates a sharp understanding of genre syntax, using the predictable architecture of slasher conventions to build something formally aware of its own irony—a tonal balancing act that recalls the best of the elevated-horror lineage without leaning on pastiche.
The masterstroke is the decision to treat the killers' collision not as spectacle but as mutual inconvenience; that tonal choice—the almost mundane frustration of two professionals in the same space—is what separates this from dozens of other high-concept horror comedies.
Reviews
Zwei unterschiedliche Killer, die unerwartet aufeinandertreffen. Leider nicht unauffällig, so dass sich die Killer gegenseitig abmurksen wollen, sondern im Zuge von fehlerhafter Zeitplanung.