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While so many movies about adolescent girls focus on body insecurity, The Plague uses body horror to shine that light on male insecurities (the fact that the boys are physically exposed as part of ...

The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.” The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history ...

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William Golding’s 1954 novel “The Lord of the Flies” strands a group of young boys on an island. There, they must fend for themselves, but in the absence of rules and ethics, they devolve into ...

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The casual viciousness of children is the centerpiece of the film, which has triggered audiences who grew up in the same era as Polinger. After he directed a 2018 short film named “Sauna” with similar ...

“There's this desire to push boundaries and wreak chaos,” says the director of capturing the liminal tween years in his Cannes Film Festival break-out. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...

The Plague is a psychological thriller, which is directed and written by Charlie Polinger. Joe Edgerton is in the cast list as well as the producer of the film. The film is vaguely based on a weird ...

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

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