Year: 2018
Runtime: 12 mins
Language: English
Directors: Erik Bloomquist, Carson Bloomquist
She’s not just a campfire story anymore… A campfire story comes to life for a group of counselors on the last day of summer at Camp Briarbrook.
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During an end-of-season party, the counsellors at Camp Briarbrook are persuaded into performing a blood ritual to summon Nurse Agatha by Peter [John Pope], the prodigal grandson of the camp’s owner and family patriarch, Gilbert McAlister. According to urban legend, Agatha terrorized the camp with occult experiments forty years earlier until she was forcibly stopped. The ritual proves to be successful and Agatha possesses a counselor Danny and several children Peter’s brother Shawn had been driving home. Danny suddenly bludgeons another counselor Kellie to death in front of the others and in turn he is killed by Mike [Ehad Berisha] in self defense. The children return to the camp where they resurrect Agatha.
The counsellors return to the main lodge where head counselor and mother to Peter and Shawn, Heather, is tidying up. The power goes out as she calls the police injuring her. Three counselors Mike [Ehad Berisha], Veronica and Dylan go to look for two missing counselors Ben [Justin Andrew Davis] and Ashley [Olivia Helaine] when Dylan scares Veronica causing her to run away. Mike finds Veronica bound to a bed with her tongue cut out. Ashley is also killed and devoured by the possessed children.
Confronting his mother Heather, Gilbert, and Shawn (who had returned to the camp), Peter earns the full truth. Agatha began working at the camp after she promised she could heal Gilbert’s wife Evelyn of her crippling illness. However, she became obsessed with Gilbert and began poisoning Evelyn so she could be with him. During a state of severe emotional turmoil, Gilbert gave in to her advances and slept with her mere hours before Evelyn’s death. After which she began experimenting on Heather and the other campers. Gilbert discovered the truth when he saw Agatha wearing Evelyn’s wedding ring and murdered her, burying her body in the deep forest. The resurrected Agatha now seeks to reclaim the ring.
The children surround the lodge and Mike and Peter formulate a plan to trap them in the basement. Mike lures them inside and escapes only to find Dylan at the top of the stairs who cruelly kicks him back into the children who quickly surround and kill him.
The group then formulate a plan to trick Agatha into revealing herself, using Gilbert and Evelyn’s ring as bait. As they do so Dylan forces Ben out of the lodge and he tortures him and leaves him as an offering to Agatha. Shawn, Peter and Lauren [Peyton Michelle Edwards] go to save Ben but Peter is killed by Agatha.
The plan proves to be successful, however Agatha grows angry and kills Gilbert when she discovers the ring is fake. The survivors then attack and defeat Agatha. They decide to dismember her and toss the pieces into the lake in hopes it will prevent her from returning. The next morning an officer arrives, having been called by a surviving Ben. The film ends with Lauren looking on in horror as the audience hears Agatha laughing, implying that they failed to destroy her.
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