IrateTyrant C
Incompetent to the point of enjoyability
This is an example of a movie that deserves a much lower score than I even award it, yet salvages so much in its own self-absorbed try-harding that it manages to achieve slightly better results. The actors range from god-awful (Tim Young) to nearly interesting (Michael Taylor). Instead of simply over-relying on horror tropes like running through the woods, it runs them into the dirt and creates a world of its own. I can probably safely assume that even from here, the director's following movies went downhill, as it must be hard to recreate such blatant non-awareness in a movie. Shot on video and redundant with camera work, it still manages to get exciting in certain scenes beyond its own admitted capabilities with stupid sound effects and non-climactic special effects. The first scene has boobies, which doesn't come across as gross as often could be done in these kinds of movies, and some actually witty dialog in that scene sort of works to lead the viewer's expectations. Just a little subversion of the usual predictions throughout the movie really labors at making it entertaining. It's really, really bad, but totally sit-throughable, and almost not a complete waste of time. I enjoyed myself watching it, but it wasn't enjoyable. By the way, if you want plot synopsis; it's essentially a ridiculously no-budget Friday the 13th, without any cabins (nor reason to call the wilderness tract it takes place on a "camp" at all), an entirely not scary clown mask instead of a hockey helmet, and almost zero creativity in the kills.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
09/01/24
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Camp Blood was released in 1999 yet it looks like it was filmed with a home video camera from the 1980s. Camp Blood focuses on 4 friends going out to Camp Blackwood known by locals as "Camp Blood" for a weekend camping trip. I will not speak negatively about the director because me and him did build up a little bit of a friendship but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna criticize this film because, well, I am. This is a nice little tribute to Friday the 13th, it's not really anything original though. It's basically just your cheap slasher set in a camp. Does this film having a plot you've seen like 300 times make it a bad horror movie? Well, yes and no. There are a lot of problems going into this movie, for example, the editing. The editing is pretty low even for a microbudget horror flick. There is one scene where one of the male characters is swinging on a random Tarzan swing and you get very poorly shot POV shots and then an abrupt transition to the clown wandering around in the woods for a split second and then you cut back to the friends doing their things. The clown does look creepy so that is one positive for sure! The sound effects are also a problem. Whenever someone gets killed, it sounds kinda like a cash register. Overall I'd say that this movie is so bad that it's decent. It's not too special but it isn't terrible either.
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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I will say yes, I do agree that this movie is poorly edited, poorly filmed, poorly produced, and just poorly made overall. Yes, the acting complete garbage, the camera quality is frustratingly bad, the sound effects are just petrifying, and the gore is just unfortunate. But this movie does have a decent atmosphere and a cool design for the killer, it also has a nice premise for the film. Am I saying this movie is good? No. I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying it's so bad that it is quite entertaining. So, therefore, I'm gonna be fair and give this one a 2/5.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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steve d
A really bad and really cheap Friday the 13th rip off.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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A laughable, truly awful movie with no talent. Good thing it was a short movie, but they could have made it a 30 minute feature. What they paid the actors with is beyond me. I made fun of the movie to myself to keep from falling asleep from boredom. I will try to watch "Camp Blood 2", maybe a few beers will help.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/15/23
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So this is a pretty mundane slasher, it really could be any other crappy low budget/no budget horror, there's nothing stand-out about it. I thought the gore FX were good though. What is it with these movies and the poor cinematography? Do these people just have NO ambition visually? The acting was better than normal in these types of movies but it still doesn't make it less dumb. Why the hell did the girl on fire jump in the tent? JEEZ! I do not recommend this at all.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/29/23
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