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Muffins are just so good.

I'm going to figure out the rest. What?

What am I supposed to eat? Muffins all the time? That's all I'm going to do.

Hold on.

Are you okay?

Deserves a quiet night.

The photograph on the candle taking is

gold.

Turned around at once.

So the wind chills.

And the street light reveals the picture.

They cannot see me.

Please take away.

Please take away.

I just got into town and I'm meeting Billy tomorrow.

She wants to kiss me dead, but I'll probably just like crap at a hotel for a

night and then head back to the city Thursday.

Good. Wouldn't want you marooned out in the wilderness with Norma Desmond from

Sunset Boulevard.

She's not Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard.

Didn't you say she's a recluse?

No, I mean, yeah, she's reclusive, but she seems like totally with it. She just

hasn't acted in a while.

It's going to help you crack the reboot.

Can you just drop a pin for me when you get there, okay?

And watch out for any rusty nails left flying around.

Yes!

I have a sweet heart in me, Julie.

Anyway, what are you up to tonight? I'm going to a poetry reading with Thor,

that bisexual king I've been seeing.

Hi to Thor.

Hi from Chris.

Oh. What up, Chris?

Thor says, what up?

Oh, my God.

You'll never guess what they're selling at this gas station.

Methamphetamines.

Illegal firearms.

Confederate flag decals for the backs of various pickup trucks.

No, can't be as a part six.

Part six.

Like your hair, by the way? Not the one with the faces and the skin wall.

No, no, it's the one after that where they try to, like, voice correct back to

basic. It's actually pretty good. I have

you

in for one night.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

And I was just wondering, do you have any rooms with DVD players?

DVD?

Like, if I wanted to watch this.

Oh my gosh, yes.

I'm in that movie.

What? Yeah, they shot it at the Haunted Summer Camp about 20 miles up the hill,

Camp Kimberley.

They film around here and they cast some locals and parts, you know, to save

money.

Yeah, I actually thought you looked familiar.

You know, I think I do have a DVD player or two around here.

I'll just go look for them.

Come on, I thought you wanted to go skinny a bit.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know. It's July, Megan. The water's warm even at night. No, it's

not that. It just... Isn't this that defunct sleepaway camp those teenagers

got murdered all those years ago?

by that pervert in the ceiling vent hole.

Oh, you scared a little dove.

Scared he's gonna take his big rusty spear and penetrate you?

Anyway, that was years ago.

That freak has been dead for hours. How many years?

How many aspens are opening this year?

Come on.

The water's gonna feel so good on your body.

I promise.

It's over now.

He's dead.

Forever.

This time.

No.

Never over.

Don't you understand?

He's still down there.

At the bottom of the lake. He's still hungry.

I'm almost to Billy's house, but have you ever done GPS where it's just

coordinates, like numbers? Because she just gave me numbers.

Great. Yeah, that's great.

So listen, I just got a text from Tracy. They want you to be with the head of the

studio on Friday. Can you do Friday?

Okay, I'm going to confirm. And remember, for the origin story, they're

looking for Elevated, a.k.a.

Woke. So, oh, I'm getting another call. Bye.

Turn right onto Frog Hallow Road.

Continue for 1,000 feet.

There's no road.

In 500 feet, the destination is on your right.

Return to the route.

What route? Return to the route.

Thank you.

I feel like they're about the future. I'm scared.

Hi.

I'm Billy Bradley.

You must be the writer-director.

Yeah, hi.

You came out of nowhere. I didn't know you were in here.

I'm hungry.

I saw you in a woman that killed you.

It's only fair, right?

You've already seen me.

kind of away from me i suddenly realized that i didn't have any food for dinner

so i had to do an emergency takeout run the options around here as you can

imagine are not that well good so i hope you like fried chicken

oh shoot i should have asked but you're not vegan or something are you

gluten-free that's big right now huh

I love fried chicken.

Good.

Right answer. I like fried chicken too.

Now if it gets too real...

You can always turn it off.

That was promotional.

For the whole video release.

But I kind of liked it. Sorry, I didn't mean to. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I wasn't here when you showed up. No, that's amazing.

I didn't realize that you... Yeah, how did you choose

to live at the abandoned sleepaway camp from the first Miasma film?

Well, isn't that obvious?

And if you've seen his movies, you know.

Always comes back.

Oh, my God. You

thought that I was some crazy lady. I saw it on your face. You thought I was a

full bugs under the skin recluse crazy lady.

Like, what's her name?

From Sunset Boulevard? I know who you're talking about.

Yeah, I can't remember her name.

Anyway, a real estate agent showed me the old camp.

I thought it was sort of morbidly fitting, you know? The first movie

really left its mark on me, and I needed to get away from reality.

I liked the seclusion, the vastness of it all.

I can work on my paintings in peace and nobody bothers me.

Guess I bought myself a private alternate universe.

I totally get that desire.

Speaking of desire.

Do you like dipping sauce?

I love dipping sauce.

I love dipping sauce too.

So, Chris, here you are in my home eating chicken.

Why don't you tell me about yourself?

Oh, God.

I don't know. I mean, I'm sitting here in silly Presley. I don't want to talk

about myself.

Now, don't flatter me. No, I'm not trying to flatter you.

But, okay, well, yeah.

Well, I'm a filmmaker, but you know that.

My work explores the intersection of...

queerness and cultural depictions of monstrosity. I made my first feature a

couple years ago for like $6.

I saw it.

You saw Joy's song?

Yeah. I had to drive into town to get enough Wi-Fi to rent it, but yeah, I saw

it. I did my research.

What did you think of it?

Well, um... Oh, you hated it. No, I didn't hate it.

Well, you remade Psycho from the perspective of the shower curtain.

That was only the last third.

It's a meta commentary on the gender trouble inherent to the slasher genre.

Or is it just generations at all?

Anyway, yeah, audiences mostly didn't get either, but enough critics liked it

that it opened some doors for me in Hollywood, and that's kind of where this

whole opportunity came from.

To remake Can't Land.

Yeah, which, like, on the surface is, like, a weird...

career move for me, but they got it all figured out.

What they don't know is that the original cameo was basically like my

queer awakening.

I'm going to beat Hollywood in its own game.

The execs all butter you up. They tell you your perspective is so fresh.

They call you the voice of a generation, but I know the real reason they were

willing to give me the keys to this franchise.

It's zombie IP.

They need me to resurrect it.

I guess a little death has been killed so many times you could think of them as

a zombie.

No, no, no, not a zombie movie, zombie IP.

Yeah, the IP itself is undead and too problematic to reboot because of woke,

which in Hollywood right now is a really big problem because intellectual

property from decades ago is basically the only thing anyone's willing to spend

money on anymore, what with the capitalism being so late and all.

And look, every long-running franchise has skeletons in its closet. I mean,

James Bond...

literally assaults women in Goldfinger and Thunderball. And Mickey Mouse did

blackface that one time. Mickey did that? So what does a studio do when

there's easy money just waiting to be made on a movie franchise, just sitting

there dormant, but it's one as blatantly transphobic as can't be asked?

They hire a queer person to paper over the ugliness, give Little Death a more

tragic backstory, weave in some perfunctory message about gender,

trauma, being yourself against all odds. Bam.

zombie IP resurrected, sure, we'll just get paid.

Chris, I didn't ask you about your work.

I asked about you.

I want you to tell me about yourself.

Sorry.

I have a tendency to get kind of fired up about that stuff.

Sometimes I kind of think I am my work.

Well, I'm sure that's not true.

Okay. Let's see.

Well, I'm 29.

I grew up in the suburb, but I haven't really talked to my family

since shortly after I came out. I use she, they pronouns.

Are you married?

No. God, no.

No. No, I'm poly.

What's poly?

Like polyamorous.

Oh, I don't know, Polly.

Yeah, basically, I have a partner, and then my partner has another partner,

too. Oh, kind of like cheating.

Yeah.

Yeah, but with game nights where you have to hang out with bisexual guys,

maybe. You don't sound too excited about it.

No, I am. I am. I just, I don't know. All that stuff has just kind of always

been in the background for me.

Sex or whatever.

I mean, I love my partner, really, I do, and I want their needs to be met. But

just for me, sex has always felt like kind of a distraction.

My primary partner tends to be my work.

I'm noticing a trend.

Yeah.

I guess love, sex, all that stuff, if it's ever been.

Easy for me.

Sometimes I think my art is like a place for me to hide from all that.

Well, like this canvas for me.

It's your own private alternate universe.

But when I was younger, sex was stressful for me too.

I created some kind of a block around it.

That I couldn't quite hang.

Exactly.

I had to find a way to get out of my head.

And this helped.

No, you're good.

No, I mean, I'm sorry about bringing all this up. We shouldn't be talking about

my sex life. We're going to do that.

Why not?

Because it's weird.

It's a work meeting, and I want to be, like, me too-ish.

Me too-y.

Honey, I auditioned for the Burnham.

You know who created that?

You know, Carolee.

Besides, this isn't a business meeting.

We're eating fried chicken and smoking weed and talking about making art

together.

Okay, well, in that case, can I ask you something personal?

Uh-huh.

Why'd you stop acting?

You had a few bit parts, and then you started in the original, and then you

kind of just fell off the face of the earth.

Well, they invited me back for the sequel and the third one, too.

But I was pretty burned out.

After a while, they stopped calling.

I guess I just aged out.

Miss Presley, Billy, I just have to say I am a lifelong fan, and I know we're

only just meeting, but I feel very, very strongly about the potential of this

collaboration. It comes hard. I'm serious.

I don't know how to explain it, but I just know that being here is going to

help me crack the Mia story.

You know, I don't want to make another dumb sequel in the Camp Miazma

franchise. I don't want to make a remake of a remake of a remake. I want to make

something that feels fresh and new.

Like I said in my letter, I mean, to me,

the soul of Camp Miazma has always been that.

Exactly.

That look has been seared into my memory ever since I saw it on a VHS tape. I had

absolutely no business being able to watch as an eight-year-old. If I capture

that look in your eye again three, five years later, then I will have done my

job as a teacher.

I know.

I read your letter.

It's a good pitch.

I'm just not convinced that it'll work.

Why not? Because you talk about it so academically.

And cat miasma, it wasn't about cultural

depictions of monstrosity or gender trouble or any of that stuff.

It was about two very simple things.

Flesh and food.

I really appreciate you, yeah, taking the time. And I'm sure our reps will be

in tension.

But hopefully we can work something out. But obviously, you know, no worries if

one of us don't align.

Chris, you don't need to leave, you know.

I made up the guest room upstairs.

That's very kind, but I should probably get on with it. Well, it's a bit late to

drive, isn't it, especially in the weather?

I don't want to impose any more than I already have. It's not an imposition.

It's okay.

Chris.

Chris, I'm asking you to stay.

Is that an order?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's an order.

We can get to know each other.

We can watch my print of the first film together.

You can tell me more about that look in my eye.

Well, we have to be on the same page.

Can we get him?

Please.

It's more in her head than in her body.

She's got potential.

Hold on.

I didn't know what you wanted for breakfast, so I got a variety pack from

Costco.

Look at that. Isn't that cute? You got your frosted flakes and your Froot Loops

and your Cocoa Krispies. There's a little something for everyone.

Something wrong? No.

Well, actually, yes.

Sorry, I'm just going to say this to you and if it sounds weird. Is there...

Is there someone else in the house with us right now?

What are you talking about? Last night before I went to bed, I thought I heard

talking. It sounded like maybe you were talking to someone else.

I don't think so.

As far as I know, it's just the two of us here.

There was no one in your bedroom last night?

Your dead taxidermied mom? Just like a totally random example?

No.

Just the two of us.

If you don't believe me, you can go look. No, I believe you.

No, I'm serious.

Go look. It's okay.

I must have been making it up. Go look.

Amazing. I mean, she's clearly the same person from the asthma one, the final

girl, but she's so much more, too. Like, she's weird and, like, sexy and tough,

but also, like, really funny, too. And she's a stoner.

Oh, God.

I mean, it's amazing.

There is so much more to explore in her that the first film barely even hinted

at. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm upset.

Tell the studio I'm upset.

You're still just thinking a cameo, though, right? No, no.

It's her. I mean, the whole movie's gotta be her. Did I tell you that she

literally lived at the abandoned sleepaway camp from Miasma 1? You

mentioned that, yeah.

Come on.

Um, are we thinking of supporting roles? Because I only set expectations with the

studio.

Beyonce. No, listen to me. You're not hearing what I'm saying. She is the

lead, okay?

The final girl.

Again. Chris, taking over the Miasma franchise is a really...

really big deal the studio is taking a chance on you okay i know you love your

trivia but they're not gonna want to build a franchise reboot around a 60

year old lady who doesn't even have a wikipedia page no offense well what

about those new halloween movies those made like a billion dollars that may

start a 60 year old lady or maybe never mind those rumors aren't true

Billy Presley is not Jamie Lee Curtis.

She's not Nez Campbell.

She's not even... What's her name from the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie?

Heather Langenkamp. Yeah, exactly. This is a niche property, Chris.

Okay, how can I explain?

Can you tell me the name of the lead actress from the Sleepaway Camp movie?

Talissa Rosen, the original and Hamlet's first scene in the sequel.

Who, fun fact, is Bruce Springsteen's sister.

There you go. I'd say in 2026, Billy Presley has about as much star power as

Bruce Springsteen's sister.

Honestly, if I were putting money on it, I bet they don't even know who she is.

Okay, but just focus on the origin story. That's what this studio is eager

for you to crack, and then we'll be closer to a green light.

Fine, whatever.

Well, how about Final Cut? Any word on Final Cut?

Chris! We've talked about this. That's not how this works.

Are you playing squash right now?

is such a stud.

Says our lady of Corduroy.

I can't even know.

Where is it that you are going?

Excuse me?

I said, where exactly is it that you kids think you're going?

Um, we're the new counselors at the sleepaway camp from the hill.

Camp My Asshole.

Nubile. Surely you'll wake him, won't you? I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean...

You're doomed.

What do you think about what we're going through? What do you think of virginity?

That means we're marooned until the campers get here tomorrow.

All

right,

all right. Who's going to do the honors this year?

The honors?

Yeah, who's telling the origin story?

The tale of little death?

Go for it, man. It's all I do.

It's very transphobic.

So, this was a long time ago.

A long time ago.

Before I was even a camper here myself.

But the counselors, they used to talk about this one kid.

A real freak house.

Who never said a single word to anyone all summer.

He had this special arrangement with the camp.

To have one bed in the boys bunk.

And one bed in the girls' ballroom.

It was a great love behavior.

This kid, see, he was a boy.

He had a little wiener, so he had to be, right?

But on certain days of the week, like it was the most normal thing in the world,

he would pack up all his stuff and move over to the girls' side of camp.

And then he would show up to swim practice.

Get up and clean!

On Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, he was a boy.

And the rest of the week, honest to God, he was a little schizophrenic. I thought

he was a girl.

Major freak out more.

Us, the big parents, were even bigger freak houses than him.

They were hermaphrodites.

They met at a mental hospital, killed the guard, and escaped.

The mom dressed as a boy and the dad dressed as a girl.

They raised their son to be a different gender every day of the week until he

finally lost his mind too.

Easy bake, free cows.

Never had a chance.

Or free cows bake oven is what I meant to say actually.

Eventually, there was an incident at swim practice.

Some of the kids, they made the mistake of teasing him, and he just went

ballistic.

So they drowned him.

I mean, they had to.

Parents covered it up so the kids wouldn't get in trouble.

Can't be anything down for two.

Some people think that he's still down there at the bottom of the lake.

That he's still hungry.

That he's waiting to rise from the dead.

Rise, little death.

Rise and take your revenge.

She's making brownies.

Did she shit her pants?

Dude.

It's just a joke.

All right, let's hear this story.

Can't be asked, but this is DJ and I'm adjusting broadcasting all night long.

Let's get this party started with Anorak Christmas by Sally Freak.

What's wrong?

I thought I saw someone out there watching me. It was like I

sensed someone.

And then my perspective changed. It

was like I could see myself standing here through

his eyes.

Who are you?

Little Beth?

I don't know.

Hey, hey.

You're shaking.

I think we need to get you inside.

I know a little spot.

I guess maybe I do.

I can't remember.

Holy crap!

Thank you.

It's not true.

Yeah.

yourself. So I can finally

Nothing stupid.

It's like a game we play.

It's just a way to mark time, you know?

Don't look at that. Don't look at that.

Shoot. The power just went out.

That happens sometimes.

I must have seen that movie a hundred times.

I've never seen it like that.

Look in your eye.

I don't just want to watch it. I just want to film it and put it in a movie.

I want to experience it too.

Out here, being all alone, there are certain times when you just get

this feeling when it's really light and really quiet.

When all of a sudden, you just know.

Do you ever get lonely though?

Living out here all alone in the middle of nowhere?

Of course I can. I'll be great.

Billy.

Tell me what you like.

Whatever you want.

I'm in your hands.

But what do you like? How do you like to be touched?

Do you have a choice?

It's okay. It's okay.

There's no bad at six.

There's no bad at three.

Oh, you're shaking. Let's get you warm.

I'll put some tea on the stove and we can make some wars in the fireplace.

Would that be nice?

And easy for so many people, but for me, I've just... I've never been able to

get there.

For some little sense, I'm really far away. And my head just... Fully

someplace else.

I don't touch you.

I imagine

myself becoming

a character in the Basha film.

Mandy the Bookworm in part two or Colleen in the other.

You work for, again, either you,

your character, the first movie, and

then...

I started off with an NPS myself.

This little death comes for me and...

I

don't feel... as alive.

Death's bouncing as I run for my life.

My nipples...

It's stupid.

And with such a mistake.

I think I saw too many movies as a kid and it fucked me up real bad.

Do you think I'm disgusting?

Well, I think you're very sexy.

And have you wanted to come back with me?

Cause it's all good to play.

And that's why he built this place.

If it gets too real.

Do you guys have Wi-Fi?

Hi.

Hi there. Sorry to be a few minutes late.

Oh, no problem. We're actually... Still waiting on Jeffrey, but he may be on

momentarily.

Right on.

Where are you right now, Chris?

I'm in the Pacific Northwest near Canada.

I think I maybe mentioned, yeah, on our last call. But, yeah, I got a meeting

with Billy Presley.

It's pretty exciting. I don't want to conflict or anything, but I'm pretty

excited.

Hey, guys.

I'm here.

Jeffrey.

What? What, Jason?

Oh, I just got off with Jason's love about the new Halloween

miniseries. Watch.

So Michael Myers, Mike Myers.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyway, we're so excited to hear about our little sleepaway camp. Yeah.

Nothing coming along, Chris. Well, I was just saying I have some pretty exciting

news.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Billy Presley is going to

sign on to join the project.

fan service.

Reddit is going to prematurely ejaculate in their tight little jeans.

So true. Actually, I think we're all just really excited to hear

about this origin story.

Yeah, I've actually been reworking it over the past few days.

So, Lake Miette, that iconic lake, viewers know so well. But

there's something viewers don't know about what's lurking underneath the

water. A little bath?

No.

No?

No.

A hole.

A hole?

There is a hole.

At the bottom of the lake, where the movies come from.

I'm going to translate someone.

Say it's a meta.

Yeah, meta.

Meta, like New Nightmare by Frightmaster Wes Craven.

Nightmare by Frightmaster Wes Craven.

It's not meta.

Like New Nightmare by Frightmaster Wes Craven.

Not meta.

Nightmare by Frightmaster Wes Craven. In an allegory? It's real.

Okay? Like, actually real.

It's realer than this call.

It's not a movie. If anything, this is a movie. You all are characters in a

movie. Okay?

Okay.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

There is a hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from.

It has been there since before the first movie. Okay? It has been there since

before the murders that inspired the first movie.

Little cat.

in us that we made him when really he made

us that we watch him when really he

watches us

him to scratch.

There's a lot to unpack there. Thank you so much, Chris.

Let us circle up, and we will collect our thoughts, and then we will get back

to you with notes.

Yes. Thank you, Tracy. Well said.

That was something else, but we'll be in touch.

Whoa. Where exactly is it that you kids think you're going?

Me? Do you mean me?

I'm a filmmaker.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm a filmmaker here from the big city.

I'm here making a movie at the old sleepaway camp up on the hill.

Oh.

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

This remains highly unfinished. I don't like it at all.

Totally. Still sleeping out below and a child like you.

So... young and nubile don't forget nubile and nubile surely awaken for sure

for sure you're doomed like doomed doomed doomed you're you're doomed

doomed

We got a slow one for all the lovers out there tonight.

start to come through.

It's hard.

I didn't want to go with him that night.

But I told myself I had to.

That it was a ritual.

A rite of passage that everyone has to go through.

I was 24.

I had 17.

And at the time, I lost my virginity.

The girls at camp told me how, when I was just a camper.

But I never understood.

My head just got tired.

And then, that night, on that grimy mattress,

with that irrelevant cream.

it to me I

was losing my virginity

and it was exactly as bad as I had always imagined it would be

when he entered me I went far away in my head

I tried to think about anything else I tried to

Stop being myself there on the bed.

Just like in the movies when you see the shot going back and forth,

real rapid like.

I was the watcher, and I was the one being watched. And I was the killer,

leering and breathing hard.

And I was the victim, too, lying on the bed with that look in my eye.

And then I lifted the spear, and at the same time, I saw it from the bed,

looking up at it, and it was coming down towards me.

And then I came.

the biggest one I ever had.

And I thought, why'd he make it feel like that?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Is this going to be? Is this the moment?

What should happen next?

You can't call me if you don't get too much of a head start. So you really have

to run. I love that idea.

Do you want to push me or?

I'm a fan, obviously.

No offense, but I'm...

I got so worried when I didn't hear from you.

Thor got a pickup truck.

We drove all day.

We're here to save you.

Babe, I think we might have just ran out of gas.

Oh.

What up, Chris?

Oh, hey, babe. What's up?

I'm Thor.

What's your name?

Wow. God, there's so many trees out here.

We totally get it, but we want it to be a little bit more commercial, a little

bit more anthemic.

Jeffrey's just going to be about five minutes.

Don't watch yourself.

Watch the movie.

This only happens for a little while.

You stay down and play.

Stay down and play.

It's Halloween.

Thank you.

Are you

happy?

Forget everything you know about Jolly Ranchers. These are like their complete

own thing.

What is this thing with brands doing gummies these days? You got your Airhead

gummies, your Lifesaver gummies, your Jolly Rancher gummies, your Starburst

gummies. No money gummies. I mean, we're living in the golden age of gum and

candy. I think we are.

But these are the best.

Oh, yeah?

Mm-hmm.

Trust me. All right.

Put them in the basket.

It's okay to feel the canister directly from the pump?

Yeah,

no problem.

I like your guys' outfit.

Thanks. I like your hair.

He's still down there, you know, at the bottom of the lake.

He's still hungry.

Can you feel it?

He'll be back soon.

To feed again.