Camp Daze (2005)

OK, so I'm bias. I had the opportunity to work on this film and mostly I can say it was a great deal of fun and a lot of long days. I realize it was not a greatly made movie, but I'd like to see someone do better on such a low budget with such a tight shooting schedule. This movie was shot in Maine over the course of about a week and a half. Every person on crew got about 4-6 hours of sleep due to the extended shooting schedule. Of the equipment it was not the best, lots of clamp lamps, simple rigs, etc. But the cameras and sound equipment were better than most used in independent production. The people involved were a blast!!! Some of the most fun I have ever had was working on this movie. The death scenes were a blast to see setup, I even got to be in one, as one of the stoners (the blonde one)who gets impaled which shotgunning a joint. Most of the crew, at least it's true when it came to me, got paid very little to nothing. And for me, having virtually no film experience it was a great learning experience. I would like to get into acting/filming and anything at all that you can have on a reel is better than nothing. Oh, and Camp Slaughter (Camp Daze) won Best Feature at the Indy Film Festival, so some of the horrible opinions of this movie that can be found here should be ignored by anyone interested in checking this film out.

Bloody awful, I say that.My first impression after watching the first few minutes after the prelude was.."Dude, this movie must be for all those people who talk like this.. or people who hate people who talk like this, cause I already know at least three of em' are gonna die." Was I right or was I right? Although I was having a few hopes that they'd all just die.Anyway, it was an easily commentable film, and an easily predicable film.. or home movie. As others have said, and I agree.. Drinking game.There were some pretty god awful plot points in this film as well, plus, the whole.. Rehersial was pointless. I suppose the point of this random gore-fest was just for the sake of adding random gorefests? Anyway, following this, the whole killing starts and we start the time warp, in which when I realized they went back in time I'm laughing and singing "time warp" from rocky horror...Another small problem. What's the motive? Are they just all psychotic, the two councilors that start all the killing and persuade the other two into doing it with them...There wasn't much explanation...

It's a laugher in the start, but LOTS of BLOOD to come, no T&A :( This movie is about some kids stuck in 1981 at a slaughter camp. The typical slasher film, with many look aways and no chance of seeing the killer until the end. It all makes up any 80s slasher or gore movie we all saw as kids. We need more directors to do more slashers; kids today do not know who Jason, Michael Myers or Freddy really were! In the movie, one new kid seems to have telepathic powers and can see the future and the way the camp kids will die hopefully he can help them. There is nothing wrong with this film, it has the makings of OLD SCHOOL Horrors. I liked it as a decent slasher movie, it's worth a rental. Brad

I'm not very good at writing reviews, but the sheer awfulness of this movie compels me to do so.Let me state for posterity that this could have been a great movie if it had been done right.OK.They decided , first of all, that a scene showing a quick motion of a hand with an arrow or circular saw blade (yes, they actually use that as a weapon), followed by a scene of someone clutching their throat or chest, or gushing up a fountain of blood from the mouth(even if not hit in vitals that make you bleed from the mouth), was a perfectly acceptable way to show a murder. Or being choked, and not struggling very hard to get free or anything. Seriously, I've seen school projects with about as much realism. The murders also get repetitive. If you were to play a drinking game, and drink a shot every time two people got stabbed with same pike, or pitchfork, or arrow, or whatever, you would be f-ed up by the end of the movie, my friend.Hey, you know that Ted Nugent reality show on VH1? Where it starts out with that arrow going through his property and it looks like it's attached to the camera while it's 'flying'? They actually used that effect when one of the campers was killed by an arrow.Also, they don't go in depth in the story at all. Normally, I don't mind this and give most movies the benefit of the doubt, but when the most you get out of this for a plot is "So, they killed everyone, and now there is this magical curse on the camp or something, so they have to kill everyone everyday, and they have to kill 4 non-campers to escape it, but they don't want to leave the camp, but they want to kill the non-campers anyway?", you know it is bad.The camera, sound, and lighting effects noticed in the other reviews are absolutely right, meaning all the technical stuff is horrible. I couldn't make out half of the things they say, even after rewinding it.There was way to much stuff that was complete filler. The stuff mentioned already in other reviews like the drama counselor killing everyone, the psychic visions, the unnecessary glove thing, it was all not needed.The dialog was not only corny, but unnecessary, repetitive, boring, and inane.I believe that the girl that survived should have been the first killed. I would have given the movie a three or something then, because I got so annoyed by her constant 'bad-girl-thang' chatter that even I wanted to kill her by the end of the movie.The ending was also the worst I have ever seen. She's a novelist now, for no reason whatsoever other than (I guess) to create a suspenseful ending and, oh yeah, the murderers find her somehow. They then decide to warn her that they will be at her book signing tomorrow, while a photo of them, all gangsta like with beanies and stuff, appears. Wooooooooo, creepy!! Also, you have to wonder how she explained that all of her friends were dead when she got home.There's just way to much sheer bad to write a legible review and get all of the details in, so...If none of this convinces you not to rent this movie for reasons other than a good laugh, just think about this: A guy gets killed by ONE hand choking him to death from behind a tree. ONE HAND. He apparently forgot that he had arms and legs and stuff with which to fight back.Seriously, if you want to see a bad horror movie, go watch Frankenfish because it at least had some redeeming qualities. This offers absolutely nothing.I say this in all seriousness when I state that this is the absolute, hands-down, worst movie I have ever seen.