I fell asleep watching a movie on Tubi and when I woke up Mystic Mountain, AKA, Camp Fear had just started. The movie starts out with a bunch of topless sorority sisters heading to and from the shower. Not a bad way to wake up from a nap, but the movie quickly devolves to low grade schlock!
Vince Van Patten start along with his then wife Betsy Russell, of SAW fame, and his brother Nehls, call it a family affair if you like. Van Patten actually does a fairly decent acting job here and looks like an oscar winner compared to the rest of the cast!
The movie was shot in 1991, but the film quality, acting and "Special" effects look like a late 70's motorcycle movie. When I say "Special", the fight scenes are terrible and the styrofoam lake monster push it from a B-Movie to a clear C-.
Saying all that the movie does have some redeeming qualities like George "Buck" Flower, a regular in John Carpenter movies, playing the town drunk. When he sees the ghost of an Indian chief Buck Delivers the line of the movie when he proclaims "I need a beer, I don't wanna die with an empty bladder!"
Betsy Russell is her normal gorgeous self, but the love seen with Van Patten is one of the weirdest I've seen. We see Van Patten's hand on her hip inside her underwear, then they pan away and pan back to the same shot, pan away back to the same shot and then they are dressed and gone.
I really feel like this was one of the titular movies designed to suck boys and young men in with the open nude scenes because they had nothing else. Changing the name seemed like it was only done to suck in a whole new crop of the same audience.
Vince Van Patten start along with his then wife Betsy Russell, of SAW fame, and his brother Nehls, call it a family affair if you like. Van Patten actually does a fairly decent acting job here and looks like an oscar winner compared to the rest of the cast!
The movie was shot in 1991, but the film quality, acting and "Special" effects look like a late 70's motorcycle movie. When I say "Special", the fight scenes are terrible and the styrofoam lake monster push it from a B-Movie to a clear C-.
Saying all that the movie does have some redeeming qualities like George "Buck" Flower, a regular in John Carpenter movies, playing the town drunk. When he sees the ghost of an Indian chief Buck Delivers the line of the movie when he proclaims "I need a beer, I don't wanna die with an empty bladder!"
Betsy Russell is her normal gorgeous self, but the love seen with Van Patten is one of the weirdest I've seen. We see Van Patten's hand on her hip inside her underwear, then they pan away and pan back to the same shot, pan away back to the same shot and then they are dressed and gone.
I really feel like this was one of the titular movies designed to suck boys and young men in with the open nude scenes because they had nothing else. Changing the name seemed like it was only done to suck in a whole new crop of the same audience.