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Films like Summer Camp.

Summer Camp (2016) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

13 Sins (2014) poster
1. 13 Sins2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Trick (2019) poster
2. Trick2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Price We Pay (2023) poster
3. The Price We Pay2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

No One Lives (2013) poster
4. No One Lives2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Funhouse (2019) poster
5. Funhouse2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shank (2010) poster
6. Shank2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death Bell (2008) poster
7. Death Bell2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cross the Line (2020) poster
8. Cross the Line2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Julia X (2011) poster
9. Julia X2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Two (2021) poster
10. Two2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

My Bloody Valentine (2009) poster
11. My Bloody Valentine2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lake Bodom (2016) poster
12. Lake Bodom2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Summer Camp’s neighbours — where are yours?

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