Instead of a 1900 Melbourne, Sager beams us into up-country New York State in, more or less, our times.
In the endpapers of Last Time I Lied American author Riley Sager, (left) acknowledges his debt to this film (and the short story on which it was based). I remember pub and dinner party talk for months after being dominated by interpretations and explanations about what might have happened to the ‘lost girls’. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.Īnd the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.I was working in Australia when Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic At Hanging Rock premiered. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp’s twisted origins. Yet it’s immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings–massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses.
The last she–or anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night.
Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale.
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