Camp Slaughter (2005)

A group of kids break down while driving on a remote country road. They stumble upon Camp Hiawatha in full swing and packed with seemingly happy teenagers. However the teens and the camp are trapped back in 1981. The clothes the music the hair are 24 years back in time. Take a trip back to the 80 s in this over-the-top slasher film that delivers blood mayhem and death 80 s style! Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 854769001040 Manufacturer No: LHE0503DVD Product Description

Not that bad!

Okay, I know I'm in the minority here, but I honestly didn't think the movie was that bad. Maybe I just had low expectations. Don't get me wrong. This is definitely not the best movie ever, but I don't think it is the worst either. Yes, the acting is amateurish and some of the camera work is awful, but I thought the overall story line was interesting and some of the death scenes were cleverly staged. It reminded me a lot of some of David DeCouteau's films with its subtle (and not so subtle) hints of homosexuality and gratuitious shirtless guys. If you have a good sense of humor and don't expect too much, this film is worth viewing. May 27, 2008

Ugh...

I had to pat myself on the back for actually sitting through this movie. The plot, yes, was original, but it was so poorly put together that it was almost unbearable. There were parts that were so confusing that I had to rewind a lot of the way because I just didn't get it, and that's really annoying.

Anyway, the basic plot of the movie is that a group of friends are stuck in the forest when their car breaks down. The next day, they find themselves in a camp that holds a "terrifying" secret. The kids at the camp relive the same terrifying day over and over again, and the four friends become trapped in their merry-go-round of terror.

The ending is awful, and unexpected, and I've said this a lot before, but never before have I wanted characters to die more than in Camp Slaughter. It's totally made an atrocity of the name "B-movie." December 17, 2007

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!

SERIOUSLY, this had to be one of the WORST movies I have ever laid eyes on. The acting was HORRENDOUS! I felt like i was watching fledgling student actors improv about 95% of the movie. The death scenes were completely uninventive and unexciting. The plot could have been really cool, but the directing, production, cinematography and acting were all sooooooooooooooooooo bad that there was no saving this disaster of a movie. I also want to state how shocked I was at the camera work and overall movie "QUALITY"...because this movie looked like it was filmed on a 500 dollar camcorder. Not even SLIGHTLY scary, and incredibly boring. Don't waste your time on this trash. It's definetly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The only people I could see enjoying this movie would be fans of that guy from Kyle XY since he is in it. November 16, 2007

Amusing and clever surprise.

Camp Slaughter (Alex Pucci, 2005)

Camp Slaughter (aka Camp Daze) is the first real out-and-out slasher flick that isn't part of a series in well over a decade. And not to put too fine a point on it, it may well be the best slasher flick that hasn't been part of a series since the original Friday the 13th; it's certainly the best slasher-flick spoof to come down the pike since 1981's Student Bodies. That said, the market for this movie is going to be those of us who were teens in the eighties and couldn't get enough of low-budget godawful slasher films; everyone else will probably wonder what all the fuss is about. If you're one of us, though, you're going to love this.

The plot: four modern-day young-and-beautifuls get lost in the Maine woods. While spending the night in their car, they witness a slasher killing someone. The next morning, the body is gone, and they find themselves embraced by the rather retro members of Camp Hiawatha, which was probably a scary enough place back in the eighties. They're soon told the reason everyone looks so weird: it's because camp Hiawatha is under a curse, reliving over and over the events that took place when a killer eviscerated the place (if you'll pardon the pun) in August 1981. The counselors know what's happening, and they believe the young-and-beautifuls, being outsiders who have wandered into the repetitive scene, may be able to break the camp out and finally put the souls to rest.

This is great stuff-- though, like I said, you already have to be a fan of the genre to get a lot of the in-jokes. It's what Scream might have been had that film not tried to take its postmodern angle so seriously; good, stupid fun where you, as the viewer, know the filmmakers are laughing with you, not at you, but (unlike the similarly brilliant Club Dread) stays enough on the horror side of the fence that the laughs are uncomfortable more than once. Camp Slaughter walks a balance, and does it well. More than that, buried under the deconstruction of the slasher film mores, there's a brain here. You may have to dig to get to it sometimes, but it's well worth the effort. *** ½
July 18, 2007

People you need to get this movie

This film had me dying of laughter on the floor, don't get me wrong it did have good scary scenes and the death scenes are great. People you need to get this movie. March 25, 2007

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