She Came from the Woods

At Camp Briarbrook’s end-of-season party, the counselors find themselves drawn into a dangerous blood ritual to summon Nurse Agatha, led by Peter McCalister [Spencer List], the prodigal grandson of the camp’s owner Gilbert McCalister [William Sadler]. According to a living legend, Agatha haunted the grounds forty years earlier with occult experiments until she was forcibly stopped. The ceremony appears to succeed, and Agatha possesses Danny [Erik Bloomquist], a seemingly ordinary counselor, flipping the mood from celebration to fear in an instant. He lashes out and brutally bludgeons Kellie [Emily Keefe] to death in front of the others, a shocking act that ends with Mike [Ehad Berisha] defending himself and killing Danny in a desperate bid to protect the remaining campers.

As dawn breaks, the children—now under Agatha’s dark influence—return to the camp with a chilling hunger, resurrecting the old terror in the process. The mood shifts from a party to a nightmare as the survivors grapple with a threat that has learned to bend the rules of life and death. In the aftermath, Heather McCalister [Cara Buono], the head counselor and mother to Peter and Shawn, tries to restore some sense of order in the lodge even as the lights fail and someone calls the police, leaving a wake of fear in her wake.

Three counselors—Mike [Ehad Berisha], Veronica [Giselle Torres], and Dylan [Adam Weppler]—venture out to locate two missing colleagues, Ben [Dan Leahy] and Ashley [Sienna Hubert-Ross]. The search grows increasingly dire when Dylan unintentionally spooks Veronica, sending her fleeing. The horror deepens when Mike discovers Veronica bound to a bed with her tongue cruelly cut out, a brutal clue that the danger is personal and immediate. Ashley is found dead as the possessed children close in, leaving the group to confront a foe that has now crossed from superstition into a living, hungry nightmare.

Confronting his mother and the truth, Gilbert, along with Shawn [Tyler Elliot Burke] who has returned to the camp, Peter pieces together a tale that traces Agatha’s cruelty back to a wounded history. Agatha had promised to heal Evelyn [Emily Rafala], Gilbert’s wife, but instead she poisoned her, and the scandalous secret drove Gilbert to take a brutal stand against the woman who would become the embodiment of vengeance he could not escape. The realization that Agatha wore Evelyn’s wedding ring on her own finger shatters the fragile calm, and the former alliance collapses into a dangerous obsession. The resurrected Agatha now seeks to reclaim the ring that fates had already sealed away.

With the lodge sealed and the survivors planning a desperate trap, Mike hatches a plan to draw the possessed into the basement, using darkness and a precise perimeter as their only defense. The tactic works until Dylan coldly shoves Ben out of the lodge and turns him into an offering to Agatha, a grim failed gambit that further tightens the noose around everyone’s hopes. Shawn, Peter, and Lauren Davis [Clare Foley] race to Ben’s aid, but Agatha seals Peter’s fate with a lethal blow, a brutal reminder of the price of trying to outsmart a resurrected terror.

The plan shifts again as the living use Gilbert and Evelyn’s ring as bait to reveal Agatha, only to discover that the ring is a counterfeit and that the threat is more cunning than they anticipated. In a fit of fury, Agatha kills Gilbert when the ruse is exposed, throwing the remaining survivors into a furious, chaotic counterattack. The group fights back with urgency, dismembering Agatha and casting her remains into the lake in a ritual attempt to seal her away—an attempt that feels designed to fail as dawn brightens the horizon.

The morning brings a quiet that feels like an illusion; an officer arrives after Ben manages to reach out for help, a last glimmer of official intervention in a night of horror. But the final image is one of dread and ambiguity: Lauren looks on in horror as the audience hears Agatha’s malicious laughter echo across the camp, a chilling reminder that some evils, once summoned, refuse to stay buried. The camp’s grounds hum with the ominous implication that Agatha’s return is not a matter of if, but when, leaving the survivors to live with the haunting possibility that the nightmare may begin again.

Last Updated: November 29, 2025 at 00:47