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Puberty is one of the scariest times in our lives. That period where our body experiences changes, each one bringing with it a certain paranoid terror. Remember going to school with that first giant pimple on your face? I shudder to think of it. Thus is the horror of writer/director Charlie Polinger’s The Plague. And today, we have an official trailer from IFC for what looks to be an intense journey through adolescent paranoia.
In the film, “at an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call ‘The Plague.’ But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.”
Whoo boy, does that trailer bring back memories of being a kid, none of them good. Between changing bodies and the cruelty of children, adolescence really is the scariest period of our lives. Following in the vein of other coming-of-age horror films such as Carrie, Polinger appears to be capitalizing on that horror in ways that are certain to make you appreciate being an adult.
Check out the trailer here for The Plague :
The Plague stars Joel Edgerton, Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin, and Kenny Rasmussen.
Discover the horrors of The Plague when IFC brings the film to theaters in NY and LA on December 24th, before expanding wide on January 2nd, 2026.
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