Product Details

• Actors: Kyle Lupo, Anika C. McFall, Matt Dallas, Joanna Suhl, Miles Davis
• Directors: Alex Pucci
• Writers: Draven Gonzalez
• Producers: Pete Jacelone, Alex Pucci, Alex Dove, Jason Morris
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lightning Ent
• DVD Release Date: April 11, 2006
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E97HVC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,332 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Camp Slaughter" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleepaway Camp meets Groundhog Day!, January 4, 2007

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Miyana Belgarde "Punky Bruiser" (The L.B.C., CA.) - See all my reviews
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YES, this movie is cheesy, but it's supposed to be! I totally loved it...but I also loved Sleepaway Camp! It's too funny to really worry about "why" they repeat the same day over and over!!! If your really anal about poor transitions and bad sound effects, you'll hate it, but it's a spoof of cheesy 80s horror movies, and the Groundhog Day effect gives it a unique twist that I've never seen done in a horror film before!
Sleepaway Camp meets Groundhog Day!!!
Mmmmwwwaaahahaha!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars matt dallas fan, July 18, 2008

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K. Hyson "sahm mom" (Vineland, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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I bought this movie because I'm a Matt Dallas fan. I've seen clips of it before. I thought it would be good. It wasn't that good like I expected.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Move over atomic bombs and cell phones, Camp Slaughter has now replaced you as "worst thing to ever happend to mankind", November 4, 2006

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Ty Arthur "xFiruath" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camp Slaughter (DVD)

Some horror movies are so bad the audience laughs. Others are so bad the audience can do naught but stare, slack jawed and with glazed over eyes, wondering what the producers and director were smoking to make them think this movie would be a good idea. Then there is the third category, which Camp Slaughter falls firmly into, that are so bad one might wonder if there is some sort of bizarre plot to resurrect a long forgotten dark deity of death and despair by getting enough people to watch something as horrible as this. Other than to wearily discuss the whole train wreck with your coworkers the next day around the water cooler, there is literally no entertainment value whatsoever to be derived from Camp Slaughter.

Apparently this is supposed to be a tribute to the whodunit style of teen slasher films of years long gone. How something can be labeled a tribute, when it is worse than every single teen slasher movie put together, is a question that should be put to Alex Pucci, who directed the whole gods-forsaken mess. Savvy horror movie buyers will notice there are actually film festival awards listed on the back of the DVD case, indicating the movie was actually praised by an independent panel of judges, leading many to believe the film might be worth buying. After viewing Camp Slaughter, it will become painfully obvious that either the film festivals referenced don't exist, or Pucci himself oversaw them.

None of this criticism is intended in any way to discourage Pucci and co from doing any future films. After all, you've gotta crawl before you can run. Camp Slaughter just happened to not even be out of the womb yet. It's clear that this was intended to be a great slasher flick, and that a lot of work went into it, it's just that every single facet of the movie failed on a level never seen before. The word "acting" can't even be used in reference to camp slaughter, it's really more like a bunch of young kids goofing off in front of a camera. Almost every scene of the movie is an extreme close up of someone's face. Add to this the fact that when the camera cuts from one extreme close up to another of people who are supposedly in the same scene talking to each other, the time of day and sounds in the background obviously change, it becomes apparent that the director couldn't even get all of the cast to show up at the same place at the same time for shooting. Anytime some sort of assumed action is occurring, the camera switches to comical warp speed reminiscent of ultra low budget TV shows to try to hide the fact that nothing is actually happening.

The standard elements of a slasher style horror movie are all used throughout the script, but they all inevitably fail, each more spectacularly bad than the last. It all starts by the number, with a group of teens driving down an empty expanse of the Great American Highway System. Of course, the vehicle breaks down at an inopportune time leaving the teens stranded in strange surroundings. The intrepid travelers soon discover there is a killer amongst them (but who?), there's a lot of unnecessary dialogue and explaining of why the killing is happening, and then finally the whole thing ends with the "oh no the terror isn't really over" ending that should have been dumped with the Friday the 13th series. To discuss the specifics of what is going on in this particular slasher entry would be to lend some sort of legitimacy to the plot, which anyone who enjoys horror movies should staunchly refuse to do.

Maybe with an expanded budget, some actors who have at least a modicum of talent, a script that doesn't lead viewers to randomly commit suicide, and a little more experience under their belts, the criminals responsible for Camp Slaughter will give us something that fits in the "so bad it's funny" category. In the meantime, don't be surprised if Cthulhu rises from his watery sleep to rest control of the earth from the gods of light once again.