Cub

• Adventure
• Horror

A young boy's vivid imagination blurs the line between childhood games and genuine terror in this unsettling adventure-horror. Sam, fueled by fantastical stories of a monstrous creature in the woods, approaches scout camp not with excitement, but with a growing dread and a self-imposed mission to protect his troop. The film establishes a uniquely unsettling atmosphere where the mundane rituals of boy scouting – building tree houses, earning badges – are gradually infiltrated by a creeping sense of paranoia and genuine threat. While seemingly a typical summer camp scenario, the narrative expertly channels adolescent anxieties about belonging, bullying, and the loss of innocence, culminating in a brutal and shocking shift in perspective that reframes childlike play as a desperate fight for survival. The film lingers on the visceral impact of violence, not for gore's sake, but to underscore the shattering of a child’s world.