Simply A Masterpiece

Must See Movie...

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

SUMMER CAMP is a Spanish/American collaboration featuring a quartet of indistinguishable characters who head off to summer camp, only to encounter the same kind of aggression-causing rabies virus as we saw in 28 DAYS LATER and its sequel. What has plenty of potential, and at least one fresh and original twist, is wasted in the hands of a low-fi director who substitutes suspense and tension-building for incessant screaming from his cast members and a whole lot of scenes that are spoilt a little by the continuous shaking camera nonsense. It's dark and low rent, as with so many modern horror films, and apart from the usual bloodshed it doesn't have much to offer.

Summer Camp: The title suggests a slasher film, even the build up points to this with a mysterious knife wielding stranger in the woods and odd new age travellers in the area. Three Americans are hired as counsellors to work with the director at a Spanish camp in an old building. Problems abound as animals come down with a strange illness, turning savage.Soon humans are also affected and turn violent after vomiting up a dark liquid. This is a fast zombie style illness involving biting and feral behaviour. Some impressive action scenes as the violent ones hunt the uninfected through the building and the forest. Perhaps a little drawn out and the attacks/violence becomes a tad repetitive. Nevertheless it is an effective directorial debut by Alberto Marini who also co-wrote the screenplay. 7/10.

A small group of American teens or near teens stuck in the woods threatened by monsters or things that go bump in the night. Where have we seen this before? Twelve hours later, when you have completed your list...this one is not about monsters or zombies, although the zombie connection is not that dissimilar. The group have flown to Spain where they are to teach young kids English at a summer camp miles from the nearest town, only the kids haven't arrived yet, so they are currently amusing themselves. No, not like that, shame on you for even thinking it; there is no sex at all in this film, and not much else bar people running around in the dark screaming. One of our heroes is bitten by a rabid dog, and goes crazy. Or was it really the dog? We are given the answer near the end of the film, the dog bite was actually a coincidence. What has really been happening is somebody has been mixing mushrooms with water, as you would do. This has led to an outbreak of stachybotrys, better known as black mould, something that is actually mentioned in the "Bible". In the real world this condition can cause a wide variety of medical problems, especially in the young. Fortunately the effects are temporary, in this film at any rate, which begs the question how many of them will survive till the end? Unfortunately, to find that out, you too will have to survive to the end, which is barely an even money proposition.

To me originality in horror is the most important thing, and this film has it in spades. It gives you all the usual enjoyment of a zombie horror but with a great dynamic, which is used to full effect, to make it much more interesting and compelling.There is something of the Evil Dead about this movie and I would be surprised if the makers weren't heavily influenced by it. The most important thing to note is that it starts off kind of slow and then steadily gains momentum throughout and never loses steam. There is also a good amount of dark humour scattered throughout which I really enjoyed. As for people's issues with shaky cam, I honestly don't get it. I have seen some horrors with terrible camera work that spoils the movie and I didn't even notice anything wrong here.Overall I was highly impressed by this movie, thinking it was going to be just another generic slasher from the set up and title, but it was much more. There is a chance that this is done on purpose, along with the title, to mislead its audience since it does spend a lot of time on trying to fool you, but in the end it all works and makes the overall effect better, despite seeming trivial at first.