Jack Haven Embraces the Killer's Innocence in 'Camp Miasma' Slasher

Jack Haven's approach to playing the killer in the fictional slasher flick buried inside Camp Miasma is weird in the best way. Instead of leaning into the typical "evil for evil's sake" playbook, he's mining something stranger—a kind of childlike confusion wrapped in violence.

"I like a character that just doesn't quite know how human things work, but is interested in playing with them," Haven explained. It's a vibe that actually makes sense: a predator who's curious rather than calculated. Not sympathetic, necessarily, but intelligible in a way that makes the horror hit different.

That kind of nuance separates a character that's just jump-scare fodder from one that sticks with you. Haven's treating the role like there's real psychology underneath the blood—even if that psychology is fundamentally broken. It's the kind of detail that elevates a slasher from crowd-pleasing gore to something that actually says something.

Camp Miasma seems to be having fun playing with genre conventions, and if Haven's bringing this level of thought to the killer's perspective, the movie's probably smarter than it has any right to be.

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