Marshmallow

Morgan is sent to a summer camp following a traumatic experience with his grandfather. He is plagued by nightmares and a deep fear of water and drowning. He begins to make new friends and meets Pilar, though he also endures bullying from C.J.

During the first days at camp, Morgan bonds with Pilar and others, but is targeted by C.J.'s bullying. The social dynamics create tension and heighten his sense of vulnerability. The sense of belonging becomes a key emotional thread at the camp.

During a campfire, staff tell a spooky tale about a doctor who abducts misbehaving children and performs unthinkable surgeries in his basement. The story unsettles Morgan and foreshadows darker events to come. The legend sets a tone of creeping dread around the camp.

Morgan notices strange flashing from a building and sneaks out at night to investigate. He finds a basement that seems to corroborate the staff's legend, deepening the mystery. He glimpses the doctor and realizes the story might be real.

As panic grows, the doctor begins stalking the kids and uses an electrically powered wand to stun them into unconsciousness. The group scrambles to find safety as the danger intensifies. The basement encounter confirms the story's threat is real.

Amid the chaos, a sympathetic staff member provides the security code to the main camp building, enabling a path to safety. One child escapes to a main road and is picked up by a police car, though the officer ends up handing her over to be zapped. The system's control over the children is highlighted.

The camp staff regroup in the main building and locate Morgan among the missing children. The sense of crisis deepens as they realize something is seriously wrong. The retrieval marks a turning point in the night’s events.

It is revealed that Morgan and the other children had died in various circumstances and are being recreated using new technology for families who lost them. The camp and similar facilities are used to grow and program the kids before returning them to their families. The revelation reframes the experience as a chilling conspiracy.

The staff wipe the kids' memories of the night, erasing the trauma from most. However, Morgan and Pilar are offered the choice to remember what happened by a sympathetic staff member. This choice leaves a seed of individual truth in their minds.

The next day everything seems normal on the surface, with day-to-day camp life resuming. Behind the scenes, staff injuries from the night are awkwardly explained to the curious kids. The pall of what happened lingers beneath the veneer of normalcy.

In the final twist, the bullying by C.J. is reinterpreted as an early sign that the 'created' kids have faults. The film hints that malfunctions are spreading across camps and that the programming is failing. The chilling implication is that these 'recreated' children may be unstable.