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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
1st Jun, 2021 12:29:45 AM
Needs a page but Brain Camp?
- To begin with there are all the disappearing campers... as well as the ones that disappear, and then come back. And the ones that are growing feathers and vomiting up embryonic alien birds. It soon becomes clear that the counselors are doing more than just giving kids extra ice cream at night - they are implanting them with alien brain parasites that turn kids into zombies, but also makes them model citizens and total "brains" (ie, academic over-achievers) Can Jenna and Lucas escape?
Paradoxic
Since: Oct, 2016
2nd Jun, 2021 12:08:57 AM
@jormis29 That's the one!
Edited by Paradoxic
Basically, it's about two teenagers who get shipped off to a summer camp, which is secretly a front for a gigantic bird-like alien that's planning on using the campers to incubate its young ('chicks'), and has the cooperation of the camp staff (including the director) + parents of the campers. The 'chicks' are parasitic, and have a brainwashing sort of effect, which the protags manage to break via an antidote that causes them to vomit up the 'chicks'. The protags manage to escape at one point, but are separated and then brought back by their parents (has the effect of letting the brainwashing - which they'd been able to resist - take hold). I also remember a scene where the Alpha Bitch asks for aspirin while exiting a bathroom cubicle, complaining that her head hurts, then realises that there's bulges in her forehead after looking in the washroom mirror.
Edited by Paradoxic