Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Kept my attention till slowed down a bit two-thirds of way thru. I considered shutting it off but kept on and it picked up--fast. Overall, pretty realistic, good variety of characters, decent acting. A couple of corny romantic scenes--but still that was alright as far as adding variety. Enjoyed the different types of people in the group of campers-- bikers and their chicks, an old army officer in his Winnebago with his wife, two teen boys and their girlfriend, etc. Watching it,I tried to place it in time. estimated 1983 (based on the styles)--but at end I saw the Roman numerals said 1988. Also the conflicts between the characters kept the interest. Some funny lines, in fact, a lot of humor in the movie. The violence and killing seemed just right. I like B-movies and this one filled the bill. Entertaining.

My summary really tells you all you need to know about this film, or all you really should expect from it. I had my hopes up for Memorial Valley Massacre, per say, because from the very beginning it seemed as if it had that good sense of cheesy B-Movie fun and I can always get a kick out of a B-Movie if it's done correctly.The movie does get really very stupid at times, but that's to be expected at the least, and at other points in the movie it gets so uninteresting that I forget I'm even watching it for a little while, that is, I kind of shied away and then remembered that it was still on. The plot isn't that great either and even though the acting was decent enough it gets weak at a few parts, but in the end, it entertains, and it has some decent murders, even though the killer is not scary, horrific, or intimidating in any way. For this type of film, they had very good character structure as well, such as, some of the characters are appealing and enjoyable, and even though it has a lot of problems, you really shouldn't expect it to be flawless to begin with, because of course it's going to disappoint in a few areas, but it is too lighthearted for me to hate, though it is certainly no masterpiece. Overall, Memorial Valley Massacre shouldn't be taken too seriously, at all. Put yourself in the right mood and you can find it somewhat likable, I'm positive.

**SPOILERS** The movie "Memorial Valley Massacre" tries to be different from your average run of the mill killer on the loose films and in a way it succeeded it what it set out to do.The villain in the film a clean shaven cave boy,John Caso, does kill more then half the cast in the movie by the time its over but at the same time you can't hold it against him for what he does. The cave boy we later find out was abandoned by his father and never had a normal childhood. This instilled a deep resentment in the boy for the human race whom he held, together with his dad, responsible for the predicament that he finds himself in: Living in a cave and living off the scraps of tourists who vacation in the valley.All this killing and destruction would not have happened if it wasn't for real-estate tycoon Allen Sangster, Cameron Mitchell, deciding to build a campground in the valley that the cave boy dwelled in. With dozens of campers in the area the cave boy just went wild, in his hatred for civilized man, going on a rampage killing some dozen of them by the time the movie was over. We have to understand the cave boys frame of mind in what he did. Feeling that the campers represented his father the cave boy took it out on them for what his dad did to him by leaving him out in the woods to fend for himself at an early age.Besides the interesting and deep psychological aspects, father and son relationship,of the film the rest of the movie was just too hard to take seriously even if you tried. The cave boy not only survived in the wild for some 17 years he also somehow learned how to drive heavy earth moving equipment, like bulldozers, and how to start fires. Not by rubbing two rocks or sticks together but by releasing gas from a gas-tank and then having the unsuspecting victim light a match blowing himself, and anyone within 50 feet of him, to pieces.The cave boy at first has the local park ranger George Webster, John Kerry, feel that it's a killer bear that's doing all the killing in and around the "Memorial Valley" campground. Together with his assistant Allen Sangster's son David, Mark Mears, Webster sets out to track down the killer bear before he does any more damage. Later when two of the campers bikers Eddie & Leon, Eddie D. & Don S.Fambeau, helping in tracking down the bear instead find the cave boy's home, with scores of human body parts and bones in it, thing really start to get unraveled. The cave boy feeling he's the victim of a home invasion loses it. Mad at what Eddie and Leon did, in stealing his prized skull, the cave boy comes out in the open killing everyone, including Eddie & Leon, that he comes in contact with.The movie ends on a high note, of sorts, with the cave boy finally finding his old man who in fact, instead of abandoning him, was searching for the confused young man all these years. ****SPOILER ALERT**** The heart-breaking ending has the cave boy, in his efforts to keep people from finding his secret lair, unwittingly do in his old man. All this happens when father and son were about to reunite, after some 17 years, and forget about the past.

Memorial Valley Campground is opening for business, even though they are having a rough start and not quite ready to open. The roads aren't quite ready and no running water are a few of the problems, but the biggest problem is a maniac caveman running around the campground killing off the campers. Extremely dull horror fare is neither gory nor horrifying. Memorial Valley Massacre takes forever to get started and by the time it does you don't even care. The acting is fairly terrible with the caveman being the worst. Who came up with this idea? Even if you are a fan of 80's serial killer movies this is one that is just not worth the bother. BOMB! Zero out of ****