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      Cannibal Campout

      1988 1h 29m Horror List
      Reviews 33% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Foolhardy campers (Jon McBride, Amy Chludzinski) wind up on the menu at a backwoods cannibal feast. Read More Read Less

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      Film Threat Rated: 2/5 May 22, 2007 Full Review Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com What's on display here is simply too stupid to believe. Rated: 1.5/5 Jan 16, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Brian F The last scene in the movie says it all Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/16/24 Full Review Chris Y It's 1988, and feels every bit of it. This is the stuff that midnight movies are made of. Go in expecting a "shot in a college kid's backyard on home video" feel, and you will enjoy the ride, toggling between laughing and cringing. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/24 Full Review Audience Member You have to wonder why more slashers didn't have a killer with a fighter pilot helmet. Maybe Joe has one on in this because it came out after Top Gun, unlike the majority of slice and dice movies. Regardless, it's a great look*, even if the quality of this movie isn't always top of mind. Don't get used to any of the victims. I mean that — everyone, including their unborn children — is fair game for the three killers. In addition to Joe, there's Rich and Gene, hillbillies who treat their mother with the same kind of reverence as Addley and Ike do their mama in Mother's Day. McBride would follow this gory assault on senses with Woodchipper Massacre, which is just as disgusting and I say that with love. Despite the lack of taste, budget, effects and acting on display here, this movie made me laugh numerous time and really, isn't that why we watch these things? There's no defending my love of this film — much less any SOV piece of junk — but there is no need for defense. I don't believe in guilty pleasures and I am unashamed to admit that I like plenty of absolutely revolting and poorly made movies. *It also covers the face of co-director Jon McBride and probably allows him to have others in the shot while he directs. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Sure it's bad. It's just so enjoyably bad. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member The worst cheesy movie ever made. A Total trash Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member [center][img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/21/731121.jpg[/img] [font=Courier New][size=2] [/size][/font][left][font=Courier New][size=2]With [i]Cannibal Campout[/i], I expected the same sort of goofy fun that [i]Woodchipper Massacre[/i], both directed by Jon McBride (though this film has a co-director, Tom Fisher), contained. I enjoyed [i]Woodchipper Massacre[/i] for what it was worth, but couldn't find the same sort of enjoyment with [i]Cannibal Campout[/i]. Instead of being a well crafted home made movie, it ends up being along the same lines as any forgettable 80's gore-fest. The movie features a predictable group of redneck cannibals that terrorize a group of college kids camping out in the woods. It's funny that these people are supposed to be hillbilly like, but none of the actors can manage to cover up their Jersey accents. I kept expecting one of the killers to shout "fuhgetaboutit!" at some point in the film. The movie does display a decent amount of gory scenes, and surprisingly even some nudity as well. I wish the killers could have been more frightening, this might have made the gory scenes a little more enjoyable. One of the killers in the film is wearing a fighter pilot outfit, helmet and all, which was a very odd choice. His face is disfigured, so I guess that is why he is dressed like that. But is the fighter pilot outfit the best they could do? I like that when the group of college kids are first hassled by the killers in the woods, they decide to go ahead and campout anyway. Why are people in horror films so stupid? I know if they would have left there wouldn't have been a movie, but I can't understand why people, especially younger ones, in horror films always stay in the scariest of places. Even when they know it isn't safe. The music in the film is a little better than the music that was in [i]Woodchipper Massacre[/i]. It actually has some great scary themes to it, and fits a little better with most of what was going on in the movie. But the predictability and unoriginality of the film caused this to be a sour experience. What a disappointment considering how much fun [i]Woodchipper Massacre[/i] turned out to be.[/size][/font] [/left] [/center] Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Foolhardy campers (Jon McBride, Amy Chludzinski) wind up on the menu at a backwoods cannibal feast.
      Director
      Tom Fisher, Jon McBride
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 20, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 29m