Director: Thomas Walton
An abandoned campsite hides more than overgrown cabins in "Camp Pleasant Lake," a 2024 horror feature from director Thomas Walton that digs up a decades-old disappearance.
What is Camp Pleasant Lake about?
A couple sets out to reopen a long-shuttered summer camp, hoping to fill it with new energy and new campers, but the property has other plans. Renovating the grounds keeps turning up traces of a twenty-year-old case involving a young girl who vanished without explanation, and the pair soon realize the site never let go of whatever happened back then. Strange occurrences pile up around the cabins and the lake itself, pushing the couple to dig into local rumors and half-buried records instead of simply chalking things up to an old building settling. What starts as curiosity about the camp's history turns into something closer to danger, as the couple gets pulled toward the people and events connected to the original crime. The film leans on its isolated, wooded setting to build a sense of a place that has been waiting, quietly, for someone to disturb it again.
Cast & crew
Kelly Lynn Reiter and Jonathan Lipnicki lead the cast as the couple restoring the camp, joined by Leila Almas Rose, James Di Giacomo, and genre veteran Bonnie Aarons, whose presence signals the film's horror pedigree.
Context & significance
Director Thomas Walton sets the story in a classic summer-camp horror tradition, using the isolation of the lakeside setting and the slow reveal of a cold case to build dread gradually rather than relying only on jump scares. The film treats the campsite almost as its own character, letting weathered cabins and overgrown trails carry as much unease as any single scare.
Where & how to watch
"Camp Pleasant Lake" is available on K-Time with a Farsi interface and Persian subtitles, so Persian-speaking horror fans can follow the mystery in their own language. The page is free to browse without logging in; a free K-Time account is only required to press play.