The Plague Review
Eerie ‘The Plague’ Offers Both Body Horror And Psychological Unease. Writer-director Charlie Polinger makes his feature debut with ‘The Plague,’ mixing ‘Lord of the Flies’ savagery with unsettling physical manifestations. Arriving literally at the tail end of 2025 (and expanding right after the New Year), ‘The Plague’ is one of the year’s most original and thoroughly unsettling movies.
It’s not horror, not exactly, but it has a thick atmosphere of dread and disquiet to rival more conventional genre offerings. In fact, ‘The Plague’ is almost indescribable, but calling it a mix of psychological thriller and twisted coming-of-age drama wouldn’t be far off the mark – and it’s an unnervingly winning combination in the hands of Charlie Polinger, making his feature writing and directing debut, and an outstanding cast of boys.
