Camp Slaughter
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Movie Reviews of Camp Slaughter
Movie Review: Nail biter
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an interesting movie that keeps you guessing until the end.. Its too bad the handsome Vade swears so much.. and that he had to die.. He looks like Josh HartnetMovie Review: An attempt at bringing us back to the classics
Summary: 2 Stars
Camp Slaugher a.k.a Camp Daze directed by Alex Pucci is a low-budget modern homage to the days of 80's camp slasher films. The film begins with your typical camp scene from the 1980's. The counselors strumming his guitar, the kids are singing and the marshmellows are roasting. Everything seems just radical until murder and mayhem breaks loose among the campers! Cut to 2005. Four twenty some things are driving along and get lost after taking a shortcut (sound familiar?). Suddenly day becomes night and strange some things are happening all around the vehicle. They hear screams, see darting images, and blood and dirt are gradually covering the car. They fall asleep and awaken to a bright and sunny day in a time warp right back to 1980's. The four guests are shown around by a group of colorful campers and counselors.
They swim, they eat, they mention the Internet and get an array of blank stares. They wonder where their car is and why the hell the tow truck isn't coming along. They soon discover as night falls upon them that this camp has been stuck reliving the same night for 24 years after a massacre that took place in 1981. The counselors beg them for their help. Despite it's low budget, I did enjoy the movie and it kept my interest. The death scenes were very reminiscent to the Friday the 13th series, and Jason was of course mentioned throughout the film. During the movie there are very few sound effects which makes it difficult to really get into the action and gore. The DVD transfer is very poor and the images are stretched out and slightly distorted.
The special effects weren't done well, the blood was too red, the latex was clearly visible, and if you ever decide to do a hanging scene make sure you're not showing the separate rope around the guys waist that's being used to hoist him off his feet. The acting was decent. There was some great comic relief by Anika C. McFall who's bad ass attitude made me feel like I was watching an episode of The Berni Mac Show but with more profanity. I recognized Kyle Lupo right away from Devin Hamilton's film BIRTH RITE, and he is a very promising young actor who's appeared on a few other low budget flicks and the t.v. show WILDFIRE. Overall, I felt this movie was a good attempt at bringing us back to classics although I don't think it quite got there. Maybe next time.
Movie Review: Bad but Funny, even unintentionally!
Summary: 2 Stars
Well the original title of this film was Camp Daze and it was changed to Camp Slaughter I guess to make is sound more attractive. I supposed I would agree with that. Camp Daze makes it sound like one of those 80's teen sex & drug comedies instead of a horror film. The title may be about the best thing is in this lame, technically horrible, piece of junk. The plot is just weird enough that it will raise and eyebrow and make you think that it sounds pretty interesting. But then the execution turns out to be just lousy, less than amateur skill level.
Anyway a group of young-somethings are traveling along through a remote forest road when they break down. They eventually come upon Camp Hiawatha, and find themselves somehow transported back in time to 1981, and the night when a killer went out a rampage killing the teenaged campers. Somehow this group has got to free the kids from this curse and rescue them while trying to stay alive themselves. It's kind of like that movie "Frequency" meets "Friday the 13th". I guess the filmmakers were trying to do a bit of a tribute to those slasher films of the 1980's but I guess my question is, why not just do a good slasher film in the 80's tradition without the convoluted time traveling plot?
Beyond that the movie is just so technically inferior. I understand low budget and all but come on....the sound was just awful, the camera work was terrible, the lighting was poor, and the acting was strictly high school dram club, particularly with the female cast members who were all in their very first screen credit. You know that's a problem. The one positive is that it's pretty funny. They go so over the top in trying to get the 80's look and feel that it comes off more as a spoof. Not sure if they intended it that way or not but it was funny.
Movie Review: Ugh...
Summary: 2 Stars
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."
Movie Review: Very disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I was very disappointed with this movie and I love B horror flicks. I thought this was a rip off rendition of Friday the 13th. It is held in a summer camp, come on, with teenagers that scream, please. The idea of the plot was a good one, but executed very wrong. If you want to see a summer camp movie, see Friday the 13th series.