Time After Time After Time After Time...: Camp Slaughter (2005)

Camp Slaughter (2005) (AKA "Camp Daze")
Ratings: *1/2
Starring:  Kyle Lupo, Anika C. McFall and Matt Dallas

It probably looked good on paper; a slasher film about a group of teenagers getting themselves stuck in a mysterious time loop, doomed to live a repeating massacre over and over again. It's novel idea, not  lot of people had done it for its time, so what went wrong?

Everything.

Some teens in a truck venture into the wrong road one night and ends up getting attacked with mud pies; later in the morning, they find themselves in Camp Hiawatha, where every counselor and campers act and dress as if they're in the 80s. Before you could say "Jason" (actually, a character there kept mentioning his name every time something creepy happens to the point that it's annoying. Really fucking annoying.), a gloved killer starts bumping off the campers and counselors with some rather uninspired and repetitive kills.

"WE LOVE SHORT SHORTS! I LOVE SHORT SHORTS!"

Just as about they're about to meet their ends that night, our teens see themselves waking up in Camp Hiawatha again, everyone that was killed before alive and well, reliving the same day. Yeah, it's Groundhog Day (1993) meets Friday the 13th. (Part 2,3,4,5,6,7,8...every one of them!) Now that they're aware of what's happening, our hapless teens decide to help the counselors survive that night in order to free them from repeating the same night over and over again. But is that all there is? Who is the actual killer? Or Killers?

Camp Slaughter (2005) (or Camp Daze for some releases) has a lot to offer concept-wise, but its lack of money to budget such a big idea hinders it from being an effective horror flick. The kills are recycled and, I can't believe I'm saying this, happened way too much as we got a lot of unnecessary sub-plots and scenes that are just there to heighten up the kill count, such as a "double flashback" that took place in the end and a "nightmare massacre" where one pissed-off play director kills an entire cast after they couldn't do their roles right.

The script is weak and the acting is off too many to count, but at least it did manage to waver us from figuring out the killers too soon. If done right, the film would had been a mini-cult classic as horror's first time travel-slasher film, predating Timecrimes (2007) and even Triangle (2009). But it flopped right by the time we get to meet the casts, hear the low quality audio, cringe at the bad acing and groan at the really unoriginal deaths mashed together for a film that's clumsily executed even for a B-Movie!

Not sure about you guys but this film is garbage. At least the producer's Frat House Massacre (2011) was an improvement...

Bodycount:

1 male strangled with a noose

1 female killed

1 male strangled

1 female had an arrow shot to her neck

1 male had his head crushed against a tree with a belt

1 male had his neck slit with a knife (dream)

1 male stabbed to death (dream)

1 male and 1 female skewered together with a spear

1 male hanged and had his gut hacked open with an axe

1 male had his neck slashed with a machete

2 males skewered together with a spear

1 female pitchforked on the back

1 male same pitchfork from above stabbed to his chest (so...they're skewered again...)

1 male stabbed to death with a hunting knife

1 female axed on the face

1 male had an arrow head taped to the door swung into his throat

1 female hacked to death with a machete

1 male hanged

1 female had an arrow shot to her eye

1 male decapitated with a thrown buzzsaw

1 male speared

1 male hacked to death with machete

1 male beheaded

1 male speared

1 male hacked to death with cleaver

1 female neck broken

1 boy drowned (flashback within a flashback...I'm not kidding...)

9 males shot with arrows (flashback)

1 female shot with an arrow

1 male had his neck crushed

Total: 40