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      Camp Dread

      2013 1h 34m Horror List
      Reviews 7% 50+ Ratings Audience Score Cast members (Felissa Rose, Brian Gallagher) on a new reality-TV show soon learn that a devious filmmaker (Eric Roberts) has tricked them into a very real fight for their lives. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Aug 02 Buy Now

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      Audience Member Pretty typical attempt at playing off the old summer camp slashers. Has a couple decent ideas at its core, but it wastes them. It's pretty tame and uninteresting. The cameos can't save it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review anthony j This low budget 80s campground horror film finds the campers competing against each other to survive till the end for 1,000,000$ payoff. With maybe a handful of decent kills, Camp Dread is pretty forgettable with its dismal and contrived story with bland music and cheap cinematography. This by the numbers campy slasher film couldn't even be saved by the promise of Eric Roberts, Danielle Harris or Felissa Rose. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member While this film is not quite "camp dreadful", it isn't particularly good or memorable. Overall this film is just plain dull, the characters aren't particularly likeable, the twist ending while inventive is anti-climactic. Eric Roberts is phoning in his performance, Danielle Harris has next to no visible screen time, and some of the dialogue is just terrible. On the bright side there are Montana Marks and Ashley Sumner, both stunningly beautiful and attractive, both have some acting ability, and by the end while remembering the back stories of the characters, you really only feel sorry for their characters. where as with other characters you understand why they are at the camp. In the end while it lead me to discover Ashley Sumner and Montana Marks and see what their upcoming films are, this film had very little going for it and would only recommend it to hard core slasher/horror genre fans. But then again that's only my opinion. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Nice twist preceded by a very average and at times direly scripted hour and a half. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Unfortunately this was a complete waste of 90 minutes. The narrative was too predictable and felt weak overall. The dialogue was poor, and the ending was almost comedic. The editing wasn't great, there were many unnecessary cuts etc. and finally, the actors performances could have been better. At no point during the film did i feel like i made a connection with the characters, or anything that was happening. There was always some sort of mistake, or bad dialogue distracting me from becoming fully immersed. Alongside this, the way the film was shot and cut made me feel lost and disjointed. I do not recommend this film. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member There's a fine line between respectfully imitating the slasher genre and failing at it. I can't quite tell you why it works at times and why the concept falls flat at others. The "Scream" movies did a great job of being self-aware, celebrating all the typical ingredients of a good killer flick, and then expanding upon it. "Camp Dread" is a movie that gets the overly-tried and true formula for fun, sophisticated gore, and thrills right for the most part. A group of troubled young adults are recruited to attend a summer camp at the location where a series of slasher films were made in the 1980s. Director Julian Barrett (Eric Roberts) invites them to take part in a reality TV-based reboot of his franchise where the last person left alive wins a million dollars. The attendees think it's all staged until corpses are found strewn out all over the campgrounds. "Camp Dread" tries very hard to rise above the countless other clones of "Friday the 13th" that are released weekly straight-to-DVD. Although not perfect, its genuine effort through the use of practical gore effects and an attempt at a fun surprise ending far outweigh its sometimes tedious checklist of genre do's and don't's. In a world firmly submerged in the use of CGI, it's a breath of fresh air to see the use of theatrical blood and prosthetics, even if they don't always look as "real" as they should. The cast of victims are your typical bunch of multi-cultural types from all walks of life. Each one is given traits that instill in the viewer a sense of urgency to see each of them die a horrible death. The actors play their roles quite well on a B-movie level. Eric Roberts is as smarmy and loathsome as ever in his role as the washed-up and desperate movie director. Danielle Harris gets far too little screen-time playing the token sheriff of the small town where the camp is located. It's entertaining to see the little scream queen from all the "Halloween" movies grown up and playing an adult in a position of power. "Camp Dread" is not rated, but could easily carry an R. There's bloody violence, language, adult situations, and nudity. It has everything long-time audiences of slasher films have come to expect... and in one scene a little more possibly. "Camp Dread" is a fun rollercoaster ride of thrills and gore that commemorates the slasher films that came before it. The movie mimics its predecessors on purpose while wanting to be taken seriously through throwing in some interesting plot twists and turns in its finale. Fans of "The Burning," "Friday the 13th," and other similar films will take pleasure in this bloody romp through the woods. http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/849014/eric_shirey.html Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com The film's final third, in particular, is filled with bold cinematic choices. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 5, 2020 Full Review Paul Freitag-Fey Daily Grindhouse It may not reinvent the genre, but it certainly embraces it in a perfectly entertaining fashion, rarely falling into the traps in which so many retro-slashers become burdened. Aug 2, 2019 Full Review Matt Donato We Got This Covered Being a low-budget rendition of 80s campfire slashers isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as you have enough of your own creative ideas, like Camp Dread does. Rated: 6/10 Apr 9, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Cast members (Felissa Rose, Brian Gallagher) on a new reality-TV show soon learn that a devious filmmaker (Eric Roberts) has tricked them into a very real fight for their lives.
      Director
      B. Harrison Smith
      Producer
      Arthur Berry III, John J. Paleski
      Screenwriter
      B. Harrison Smith
      Production Co
      Class of 85 LLC
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 1, 2014
      Runtime
      1h 34m
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