The knee-jerk synopsis you’re likely to hear most frequently for CAMP is a dreamy, mumblecore version of The Craft. And honestly, that’s a fair place to start. Like that ’90s classic, CAMP does center on a group of teen girls who form a coven, of sorts, and their magic does have real manifestation. Unlike The Craft, though, CAMP doesn’t really have a Fairuza Balk type character that drives a movie-defining wedge into the sisters, CAMP’s coven is one of empowerment and support—for better or worse.

Netflix brings the French-language Marianne to the Halloween table.

In the opening of the talk, Doughty jokingly pointed out that her parents said they hadn’t really “seen the signs” of her inclination toward the morbid as she was growing up. In one instance, she mentioned finding a diary from her childhood in which the sole entry was a celebration of Halloween finally having arrived.

The four-act structure and the subsequent slide of one woman, living alone, into the relentlessly grinding maw of social expectations, culture, and the Old High German titular “witch” (Hagazussa) concept was a deeply moving joy.