The authors’ fresh take on the slasher genre, blending its classic influences, allows this horror story to resonate with a broad audience.

They say a mysterious killer, armed with a machete and a crowbar, prowled the region long ago. At least that’s what the camp leaders say to frighten the kids at the summer camp Lucie, a young orphan, is attending. Mocked and sidelined, Lucie is humiliated daily by her fellow campers, until the day things irreparably spin out of control. Meanwhile, in a quiet residential neighborhood, a young woman and her boyfriend are brutally murdered by a mysterious figure that seems to match the legend exactly…