Everything since has been directly connected to that original incident, and sometimes directly influenced by Lavinia’s actions. What happened to Bobby is a gory set piece, but also a horrible accident. Jingles (who put half of the ghosts in the camp), Margaret (who put the other half of the ghosts in the camp), and Lavinia (who is the reason all those souls are trapped in the first place), it elevates the camp simply from a place that’s evil to a place that’s tragic, after a fashion. It’s a ghost we haven’t heard about now, but the Camp Redwood ghosts haven’t really been a focus, just a throw-in. As it turns out, she’s got a great reason to hate counselors, almost as much as she hates her son Benjamin Richter. Lavinia turns out to be a great role for the brilliant and much-missed Lilly Rabe, who absolutely storms onto the screen from the opening moments of the episode (where she up-charges a child for licorice and pockets the difference) and holds that strong performance throughout the episode as a grieving, vengeful spirit known as the Lady in White, who terrorizes not only visitors to Camp Redwood but also her fellow spirits, chasing them down and murdering those who aren’t fast enough or smart enough to get away from her. The post-war prosperity that Americans would enjoy well into the ’60’s didn’t quite spread to single mothers, unfortunately.
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It’s great for all those kids of Gis who came home from the war, but for war widow Lavinia, the camp is a chance for her awkward sons Ben and Bobby to meet other kids, get some fresh air, and have a free place to live. Camp Redwood’s tragic history goes back to the camp’s very beginnings, as a post-war America looking for a place to send the Baby Boomers for the summer opened summer camps in droves, like Camp Golden Star. However, Redwood’s tragedy isn’t as recent as a ’70’s era slaughter of counselors and campers. American Horror Story Season 9 Episode 7Ĭamp Redwood, like every summer camp from every horror movie, has a tragic backstory.
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This American Horror Story review contains spoilers.