top of page

The Plague

United States of America | 2025 | 95m | English

IMDB_Logo_2016.svg.png
rottentomatoes_logo_40.336d6fe66ff (1).png
1200x630bb_edited.jpg

CAST: Everett Blunck, Joel Edgerton, Kayo Martin

DIRECTOR(S): Charlie Polinger

Abandoned by his mother at an all-boys water polo camp, 12-year-old Ben (Everett Blunck) is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Almost debilitatingly shy and terrified of incurring the wrath of his feral campmates’ pint-sized ringleader (Kayo Martin), Ben joins the braying pack in mercilessly tormenting Eli (Kenny Rasmussen), an awkward kid whose unsightly skin rash has been branded “the plague” and deemed highly transmissible by the boys. But when Ben begins to find similar blemishes on his own body, he questions whether there might possibly be some credence to their wild claims…

Courtesy of VIFF

bottom of page