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The mystery, set at a sleepaway camp, is still in preproduction, per IMDb.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

It was 2011, and hot enough that my sleepaway camp—based in the Northwoods of Wisconsin—loaded us onto buses to take us to the nearest indoor aquapark to splash around for the day.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2024

One of his kids, preparing for a recent sleepaway camp, asked whether they would be safe there.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

“Couldn’t she have sent us to sleepaway camp?”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

I stare at the Director, almost in awe of how he is able to twist the idea of imprisonment to make it seem like sleepaway camp.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed