When Amy and her college friends arrive for a fun-filled weekend of camping in the wilderness, they quickly learn the horrors of being on the wrong end of the food chain. Only brutal murder, torture and mutilation await as one by one they are stalked and terrorized by a brood of bloodthirsty mountain dwellers, who will stop at nothing to appease their hunger for sliced, diced, and barbecued camper. Cannibal Campout is written by John Rayl and directed by Tom Fisher and Jon McBride. The acting atrocious and there is quite a bit of unintentional comedy due to this. The camerawork and editing is decent. The electronic soundtrack is pretty good and pretty effective. It´s gory and the carnage is shown mostly in full view, it´s all practical make-up fx. Some of it looks pretty good especially when one considers what these guys probably had to work with, and I guess that the embryo eating scene might be considered as the highligt of carnage on screen. In the T & A department there is some nudity..
This review is based upon the region 1 DVD release from Camp Motion Pictures which is Unrated.
Rating: 2½ out of 7. It didn't disappoint, I´m a avid lover of backwoods gore pictures and I don´t care that the plot is unoriginal or that the acting is hilarious, the best part of this movie is the gore and the brutality displayed by the bloodthirsty mountain dwellers.
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A hippie killer with a sex-fueled, murderous bloodlust is on a rampage and he´s brutally murdering innocent young couples! A nationwide trend of killings with the same m.o. happens to catch the eyes of Detective Haller and Sergeant Connor. Every five yers, within five days of each other, the killer strikes! Now it´s up to Haller and Connor to find out who is behind the grisly murders. Who is this crazed, blood thirsty hippie? And more importantly, what is the significance of the third "five"? 555 is written by Roy Koz and directed by Wally Koz. The acting is just horrible, it was made on a very low budget, evident in the cheap sets and many other ways when you watch it. The camerawork and editing is barely decent and some scenes are pretty dark but that could be due to the sourcematerial for the DVD. Zero atmosphere and no tension at all. It´s brutal and gory but most of the gore looks very fake, in one scene the blood appears to be purple, but there are a few exceptions and the highight is a decapitation by machete which is very well made and is pictured on the DVD cover. All the fx is practical. There is gratuitous nudity, some very dull soft-core sex scenes and there is necrophilia as the killers m.o. is to decapitate the man and brutally knife the woman to death. After this, he proceeds to rape the dead corpse.
This review is based upon the region 1 DVD release from Massacre Video.
Rating: 1 out of 7. 555 gets points for being such a gory and sleazy little flick and for playing it straight (running time 80 minutes) but it´s also badly made and the acting is just horrid. It´s a pretty bad movie but it is cool to own it and to have seen it.
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What do a pair of escaped convicts, a preacher and his assistant, and a pair of pretty hikers have in common? They re all delicious. After an extraterrestrial parasite crash-lands in a backwoods American town landing squarely on the head of a local fisherman it sparks a fast spreading zombie infestation. As the brain hungry monsters multiply, three pairs of unlucky misfits convene on a fishing lodge for shelter. With zombies pounding at the door, the stranded, mismatched travelers must band together to stop the invasion or serve themselves up as a main course. The problem is, they may lose their minds to each other before losing their brains to the zombies. Brain Dead is written by Dale Gelineau and directed by Kevin Tenney. The acting is good and it´s a nice and entertaining bunch of characters, it´s a a flick with rapid pacing. It´s totally unoriginal but there isn´t a dull moment in this mix of gore and tongue in cheek humor, I sure did have some good laughs. The camerawork and editing is good. This flick should make the gorehounds happy. It´s gory, it´s cartoonish carnage and it´s mostly old fashioned practical make-up fx and a lot of it looks good and I think that there might be some computer gendered stuff.. not 100% sure. The mutant make-up fx design is pretty decent. In the T & A department I can report that there a plenty of eye candy in the form of Sarah Grant Brendecke, Cristina Tiberia, Michelle Tomlinson and Tess McVicker. Several of the very attractive female cast members provide gratuitous nudity, including full frontal.
This review is based upon the swedish Region All DVD release from Dark Entertainment.
Rating: 6½ out of 7. I had fun watching it. Over the top gore, humor and gratuitous female nudity. Take it for what it is and you'll have a good time.
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