As the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is officially underway, filmmaker Avalon Fast has given horror lovers an inside look at her new horror movie CAMP – a story of modern witchcraft and redemptionCAMPDirector Avalon Fast talks new indie film CAMP featured at the 2025 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival(Image: Dark Sky Films)

As this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival kicks off, director Avalon Fast has shared an inside look at the making of her brand new surreal indie horror movie, CAMP.

CAMP – which spans 1 hour and 51 minutes – is featured at this year’s horror festival in Brooklyn, New York, and will mark the film’s official East Coast premiere. CAMP follows the main character of Emily who, to escape her own personal tragedies, signs up to become a camp counselor at a remote Christian summer camp.

While there, Emily encounters a group of modern witches and embarks on a journey of impossible redemption. Diving into the inspiration and themes explored within the film, Avalon told The Mirror US, “There are lots of themes – grief and magic and female friendship and power. And I say female friendship, but just deep friendships in general.”

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She added, “Deep friendships within your community and being uplifted by other people when you’re experiencing grief and kind of like melting into other people and needing guidance. Guidance is a huge theme in this film. If there was something I wanted an audience to take away from CAMP, it would be hope and light and a healing.”

CAMPCAMP is having its East Coast premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival(Image: Dark Sky Films)

Avalon concluded, “I want there to be a sense of magic or like it’s giving some kind of gift or a different path or a different way of thinking about moving forward and processing.”

Sharing her favorite scene featured in the final cut, the filmmaker said, “I would say the opening sequence, the second opening sequence, not the credits, but the angel moment. That is probably my favorite piece of art I’ve created – just those two and a half, three minutes. The film itself, CAMP, is my favorite film that I’ve made, but that is my favorite piece of art I’ve ever made in a movie, or ever made in general. And I call that the angel TV.”

Despite CAMP being featured in a “horror” festival, Avalon’s goal is to inspire, not to frighten her audiences. She shared, “I don’t think audiences will be walking away in fear, and I hope that they’re not. It was never my intention to invoke fear, even with my earlier film Honeycomb; I don’t think that’s my goal.”

Avalon said that when it comes to her art, she is open to all interpretations and diving deeper into conversations around the work she’s put out into the world. She shared, “I actually love to hear what people think and more than that I love questions. I love to know what people are wondering on a deeper level.”

She added, “Where, why, how, what did you mean by this, I liked to be questioned with those things because I’m at a place of exploration with the movie. I don’t understand exactly what I’ve done in full, and I don’t think that as an artist you ever do until – I don’t know if you ever do.”

CAMPThe film was directed by Avalon Fast(Image: Dark Sky Films)

Expressing how it feels to be granted the honor of being featured in this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Avalon said, “I’m stoked. I’m stoked that it has the centerpiece position. I’m stoked that the programmers connected with it so much. Brooklyn Horror is a festival that I used to submit my short films to when I was in high school, so being here and being recognized in this slot is very cool.”

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival runs from Oct. 16-25 with screenings at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park. For a full lineup of projects featured and tickets to screening,s click here.

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