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“I’m a huge fan of lesbian pulp fiction.”
Award-winning Adult Time Chief Creative Officer Bree Mills is a self-professed
“culture vulture” and she told AVN that one of her inspirations is the 1980s, when the
teen exploitation genre was in its neon Hollywood heyday.
At the time, mainstream audiences packed theaters for director John Hughes’
coming-of-age classics like Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles, but Mills’ tastes skew a
little more sinister and tawdry, toward titles like 1986’s Reform School Girls (starring
B-movie siren Sybil Danning, with an odd appearance from Plasmatics’ lead singer
Wendy O. Williams) or high school grindhouse thriller The Slumber Party Massacre,
directed in 1982 by Amy Holden Jones.
So, when Mills decided to revive Adult Time’s ‘80s-centric Girlcore label, which
hasn’t seen a release since 2020, she thought it might be the perfect opportunity to
do a big all-star, all-girl feature with a conversion therapy twist.
“One of the very first original series that [Adult Time] developed was Girlcore and
that series was honestly kind of my ultimate dream lesbian series,” Mills explained,
“and it had been a few years since I had done the Girlsway features, which were
what I really started doing in this industry when I got into it—so... I wanted to create
a series that married the two aspects, like the two things that I most loved as a pop
culture vulture myself, I love the ’80s. I’ve always loved the music, the style of films,
just like the whole excessiveness of the ‘80s—I’ve always been a big fan of that
decade.
“And I’m a huge fan of lesbian pulp fiction,” she continued. “I collect the old
paperback books and I love how many of the themes you find in lesbian pulp fiction
are some of the most popular tropes that people look for today. So, I wanna make
a series that takes place aesthetically and inspired-by the 1980s but lifting some of
the plots and types of stories that were told in lesbian pulp fiction.”
Escape From Camp Conversion wrapped at the end of March. The feature stars
Octavia Red in the lead role of Jenna, with co-stars Lulu Chu, Alex Cole, Leana
Lovings, Freya Parker, Ameena Green, and Selena Ivy as the kidnapped, coerced
campers. Charlie Forde, Codi Vore, Cami Strella, Sophia Locke, and Lexi Luna
play the slightly sadistic crew of camp counselors who are determined to scare the
stubborn young lesbians straight with a strict regime of religiously-based sexual
reprogramming. Mills makes a cameo appearance, as does the movie’s producer
and Adult Time brand ambassador Casey Calvert.
The power dynamics bred by the cult-like backdrop of a forced detention camp
sets the stage for strict BDSM boundaries to be pushed and shameful, sinful
scenarios that also involve jealousy, betrayal, and secrets from long ago.
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