Coming of Age Takes a Terrifying Turn in Charlie Polinger's 'The Plague'

Coming of age takes a terrifying turn in Charlie Polinger's 'The Plague'

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with writer and director Charlie Polinger about his new horror film, "The Plague."

Indie Film ‘The Plague’ Locates the Horror in Male Adolescence

First-time feature film director Charlie Polinger was inspired to write the screenplay after reading personal journals from when he was 12 years old at summer camp.

The Plague — Charlie Polinger [Review]

It is tempting, in times like these, to ascribe to an archetype its particular incarnation, to historicize it one way or another. Such might be the tendency for toxic masculinity of late, as its critics and fanatics alike clamor to mine metaphor out of mere expression. Sometimes these metaphors are there truly by design. In [...] The post The Plague — Charlie Polinger [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

THE PLAGUE – Review

Everett Blunck as Ben, in THE PLAGUE. Courtesy of IFC THE PLAGUE is one of those horror films that taps into familiar childhood, in this case, early adolescence and the bullying that frequently comes with that, and uses this familiarity to create the horror. THE PLAGUE opens with on-screen text giving a very specific time, Summer 2003, the second session of Tom Lerner Water Polo Camp. The camp is supposed to instill a sense of camaraderie in the…