To be clear, this is a zero-budget indie. In my opinion, it's in desperate need of editing down the runtime. What is cheaply charming at first, turns into an over-exposure of bore which ends up being obnoxious mainly due to horrid audio. Still, the odd choice of casting, spewing out ridiculous comments and wearing costumes that look they came out of a trash can somewhere, has a spark of entertainment here and there. There were some missed opportunities for exploitive sleaze that would have added a few stars. The lowest point on this one for me is the terribad voice soundtrack dub. Makes me wonder if they had some kind of technical disaster and had to call the cast back in to redo the audio.. which is why the majority of the sound effects are missing. Bizarre..
5 Reviews
Forced, numbingly outrageous gore movie bombs
r-shasta23 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Movies that imitate the style of sleaze master Herschel Gordon Lewis are inherently problematic. KILLER CAMPOUT starts out with a montage of all of the killings that take place throughout the movie, narrated seemingly from the grave by Mr. Lewis himself. Lovers of the ultraviolent stuff might want to check out after about two minutes into the film, because Mr. Lewis practically divines that there is nothing else to see beyond this incoherent prologue of carnage.
The remainder of the movie plays out in the overused style of FRIDAY THE 13TH, as a group of wayward teens get lost in the woods of West Virginia and one by one encounter a hulking, cannibalistic man monster who systematically butchers the cast. You can forget about well-developed characters. Acting also suffers, with mostly unknown performers that can barely articulate the trite dialogue.
In a revealing bit of perhaps autobiographical screenwriting, one of the characters complains that even though he loves watching the most violent horror movies he is in his heart a non-violent person who was put on medication because of his anti-social attitudes. Could explain where these filmmakers are coming from.
In a scenario such as this, the only purpose of these witless characters is to line up for slaughter in ways that in some cases seem physically impossible. Wailing stabs of electronica intended to wake us up prior to the killings is also very 1980s by design. The movie's emphasis is on the killer, but he is a run-of-the-mill head bashing, drooling maniac played by an actor who seems to be enjoying it all too much. The director, Brad Twigg, can't construct a scene unless it is supposed to make you wretch.
Film historians will note there are cameo appearances by fan magazine editor George Stover and John Russo, the man from Night of The Living Dead. While Stover has made a marginal career of appearing in schlock, Russo should know better.
The most interesting aspect of KILLER CAMPOUT is the critics' reviews from apparently different websites that are in some cases use the same verbiage and push unconvincing gushing admiration for the director. A bit of promotion that didn't quite come off.
The remainder of the movie plays out in the overused style of FRIDAY THE 13TH, as a group of wayward teens get lost in the woods of West Virginia and one by one encounter a hulking, cannibalistic man monster who systematically butchers the cast. You can forget about well-developed characters. Acting also suffers, with mostly unknown performers that can barely articulate the trite dialogue.
In a revealing bit of perhaps autobiographical screenwriting, one of the characters complains that even though he loves watching the most violent horror movies he is in his heart a non-violent person who was put on medication because of his anti-social attitudes. Could explain where these filmmakers are coming from.
In a scenario such as this, the only purpose of these witless characters is to line up for slaughter in ways that in some cases seem physically impossible. Wailing stabs of electronica intended to wake us up prior to the killings is also very 1980s by design. The movie's emphasis is on the killer, but he is a run-of-the-mill head bashing, drooling maniac played by an actor who seems to be enjoying it all too much. The director, Brad Twigg, can't construct a scene unless it is supposed to make you wretch.
Film historians will note there are cameo appearances by fan magazine editor George Stover and John Russo, the man from Night of The Living Dead. While Stover has made a marginal career of appearing in schlock, Russo should know better.
The most interesting aspect of KILLER CAMPOUT is the critics' reviews from apparently different websites that are in some cases use the same verbiage and push unconvincing gushing admiration for the director. A bit of promotion that didn't quite come off.
im sorry
godinamachine16 November 2022
HEY EVERBODY IS ME ,(4) ........and today we review ....BEEP! The movie !!!!
Okay let me start off by saying i appreciate indie films .... for their obvious love of the horror genre and how creative they can get when making their own films ....
HOWEVER ... i was NOT sure if this was supposed to be a horror film or a horror/comedy or what at first because i thought MAYBE the BEEP to cover up (only certain) curse words was being used ironically at first .. but no..... it continued the ENTIRE TIME !!!! And became VERY annoying .........- advice when using the curse "bleep" take the sound WAY down in volume because the frequency it's on will always sound louder ........or else you have ear splitting BEEP every so often and people start stabbing out their own ear drums with pencils to avoid it ... and as the beginning of the film progressed the way everyone acted at first it SEEMED like it MIGHT become a comedy to some degree ..like the acting was slightly over the top, and bad ....so i began to think......" okay this is going to be a terrible on purpose kind of thing, i love those" .....no..... no it wasn't ...as according to my wife ....i again.... am wrong .....
NOW on the subject of sound .... dubbing ? ... if your going to so sound in post ...that's fine ....bring in everyone and redub so the natural sounds of wind etc do NOT drown out the actors voices ..good idea .... but IF you do that please make sure they sound natural ..... and in the case of having actors read off of the script literally at their feet ....wow .... please write the scene so they can read it in sections to make it make sense or else you end up with a VERY weird read at a camp fire with a lesbian trying to be all profoundly deep about her life and it just ends up sounding like she's stroking out ....no ...not like that ....perverts ...
honestly the film probably had more protentional that most will give it credit , myself included... for that I'm sorry ... kudos for making a movie and getting it out there , seriously good job .... learn and grow .....
being honest here i got to give it a 2/10 ... i appreciate you guys making the film ....
i just didn't feal like i knew where it was supposed to go ... the acting was ROUGH and the writing was as well .... i guess there is a second one , so i NEED to check it out and see what changes are made and how the film evolves if at all .... but until them..... yea ....
Okay let me start off by saying i appreciate indie films .... for their obvious love of the horror genre and how creative they can get when making their own films ....
HOWEVER ... i was NOT sure if this was supposed to be a horror film or a horror/comedy or what at first because i thought MAYBE the BEEP to cover up (only certain) curse words was being used ironically at first .. but no..... it continued the ENTIRE TIME !!!! And became VERY annoying .........- advice when using the curse "bleep" take the sound WAY down in volume because the frequency it's on will always sound louder ........or else you have ear splitting BEEP every so often and people start stabbing out their own ear drums with pencils to avoid it ... and as the beginning of the film progressed the way everyone acted at first it SEEMED like it MIGHT become a comedy to some degree ..like the acting was slightly over the top, and bad ....so i began to think......" okay this is going to be a terrible on purpose kind of thing, i love those" .....no..... no it wasn't ...as according to my wife ....i again.... am wrong .....
NOW on the subject of sound .... dubbing ? ... if your going to so sound in post ...that's fine ....bring in everyone and redub so the natural sounds of wind etc do NOT drown out the actors voices ..good idea .... but IF you do that please make sure they sound natural ..... and in the case of having actors read off of the script literally at their feet ....wow .... please write the scene so they can read it in sections to make it make sense or else you end up with a VERY weird read at a camp fire with a lesbian trying to be all profoundly deep about her life and it just ends up sounding like she's stroking out ....no ...not like that ....perverts ...
honestly the film probably had more protentional that most will give it credit , myself included... for that I'm sorry ... kudos for making a movie and getting it out there , seriously good job .... learn and grow .....
being honest here i got to give it a 2/10 ... i appreciate you guys making the film ....
i just didn't feal like i knew where it was supposed to go ... the acting was ROUGH and the writing was as well .... i guess there is a second one , so i NEED to check it out and see what changes are made and how the film evolves if at all .... but until them..... yea ....
When will these young folks ever learn to stay out of the woods?
Woodyanders31 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
A group of emotionally troubled teenagers are taken into the deep forest by a pair of youth counselors for a weekend of solitude and confrontational therapy. Things turn deadly after said group runs afoul of a crazed and ferocious cannibal hermit.
Okay, so the hackneyed premise doesn't break any new ground, but fortunately director Brad Twigg shows a positively infectious affection for 80's slasher fare: We've got buckets of spilled and spurting blood, an equally handy helping of in-your-face gruesome gore, a take-no-prisoners nasty tone, several amusing pop culture references, some tasty gratuitous T&A, a few nifty plot twists, a shivery synthesizer score, and cool cameos by genre favorites George Stover as local weirdo Bob, John Russo as doddery old coot Burt, and Herschell Gordon Lewis, who in the opening narration warns viewers about the film's extreme graphic carnage. Moreover, Twigg earns extra praise for not only taking time to develop the characters, but also for eschewing CGI in favor of funky old school practical make-up f/x. Fans of retro 80's body count flicks should get a big kick out of this hugely enjoyable outing.
Okay, so the hackneyed premise doesn't break any new ground, but fortunately director Brad Twigg shows a positively infectious affection for 80's slasher fare: We've got buckets of spilled and spurting blood, an equally handy helping of in-your-face gruesome gore, a take-no-prisoners nasty tone, several amusing pop culture references, some tasty gratuitous T&A, a few nifty plot twists, a shivery synthesizer score, and cool cameos by genre favorites George Stover as local weirdo Bob, John Russo as doddery old coot Burt, and Herschell Gordon Lewis, who in the opening narration warns viewers about the film's extreme graphic carnage. Moreover, Twigg earns extra praise for not only taking time to develop the characters, but also for eschewing CGI in favor of funky old school practical make-up f/x. Fans of retro 80's body count flicks should get a big kick out of this hugely enjoyable outing.
Decent if somewhat underwhelming indie slasher
kannibalcorpsegrinder2 March 2020
Arriving at a secluded spot in the woods, a woman takes a group of teens out to a trip attempting to have them reconnect with themselves, but when they start disappearing around the woods they realize there's a cannibalistic serial killer out in the woods with them hunting them one-by-one and must try to get away.
This one wasn't too bad of a backwoods slasher effort. One of its strongest elements here is the film's central and single-minded purpose to showcase constant interactions between the oblivious victims and the maniacal killer. The opening series of encounters between the various hikers showing each of their run-ins with the killer living in the woods over the years which sets the stage for some stellar series of brief slashing encounters that focus on random people coming across the killer. This ends up giving off a wholly full-throttle pace and tempo that moves this along quickly into the next situation nicely and makes for a fun time here. That manages to highlight the film's other great quality, it's over-the-top gore and graphic kills. From getting scalped with an axe, having a pitchfork rammed through their neck, bung gutted with an axe or getting knifed through the jaw, the kills here are quite fun and exceptionally graphic. The vast majority of the kills and encounters here result in vicious fountains of blood-spray that couldn't possibly exist yet it does so here as the blood-flow from these wounds creates plenty to like here. The random encounters to enhance the body-count do this one well as they generate some solid action here as well, managing to bring out some great aspects to this one overall as there isn't much wrong here. Among the film's few problems is the completely scatterbrained and simplistic storyline that barely looks to hold itself together. The fact that it's doesn't even introduce the campers at all or what they're trying to do, merely content to feature them hanging around far more than the other random interlopers that are hiking around supposedly abandoned woods that it finally dawns on you they're the main characters in the running order. That's rather strange to have the lead characters be dumped on-screen without any kind of purpose or distinguishing marks for what they're here for or even who they are since we don't know they're names immediately and they only pop out as main characters through the amount of time spent with them as a default. The other real issue to be had with this one is an ending that doesn't seem to know when to end. The encounters with the shocking amount of family members that emerge out of the woodwork to continually threaten their escape attempts go on far too long than necessary with these seeming like an opportunity for some supposedly shocking actions but come off as just lame. The epilogue featuring the extra characters encountering yet another member that we've never met before for what seems like a lame twist to the whole affair has no real place here being that it's just tacked on for no real purpose in how it connects to the film as a whole. Combined with some of the same problematic issues that continually plague low-budget indie efforts that some might have an issue with, these are the film's flaws.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, Graphic Language, lesbian sex scenes and themes of necrophilia.
This one wasn't too bad of a backwoods slasher effort. One of its strongest elements here is the film's central and single-minded purpose to showcase constant interactions between the oblivious victims and the maniacal killer. The opening series of encounters between the various hikers showing each of their run-ins with the killer living in the woods over the years which sets the stage for some stellar series of brief slashing encounters that focus on random people coming across the killer. This ends up giving off a wholly full-throttle pace and tempo that moves this along quickly into the next situation nicely and makes for a fun time here. That manages to highlight the film's other great quality, it's over-the-top gore and graphic kills. From getting scalped with an axe, having a pitchfork rammed through their neck, bung gutted with an axe or getting knifed through the jaw, the kills here are quite fun and exceptionally graphic. The vast majority of the kills and encounters here result in vicious fountains of blood-spray that couldn't possibly exist yet it does so here as the blood-flow from these wounds creates plenty to like here. The random encounters to enhance the body-count do this one well as they generate some solid action here as well, managing to bring out some great aspects to this one overall as there isn't much wrong here. Among the film's few problems is the completely scatterbrained and simplistic storyline that barely looks to hold itself together. The fact that it's doesn't even introduce the campers at all or what they're trying to do, merely content to feature them hanging around far more than the other random interlopers that are hiking around supposedly abandoned woods that it finally dawns on you they're the main characters in the running order. That's rather strange to have the lead characters be dumped on-screen without any kind of purpose or distinguishing marks for what they're here for or even who they are since we don't know they're names immediately and they only pop out as main characters through the amount of time spent with them as a default. The other real issue to be had with this one is an ending that doesn't seem to know when to end. The encounters with the shocking amount of family members that emerge out of the woodwork to continually threaten their escape attempts go on far too long than necessary with these seeming like an opportunity for some supposedly shocking actions but come off as just lame. The epilogue featuring the extra characters encountering yet another member that we've never met before for what seems like a lame twist to the whole affair has no real place here being that it's just tacked on for no real purpose in how it connects to the film as a whole. Combined with some of the same problematic issues that continually plague low-budget indie efforts that some might have an issue with, these are the film's flaws.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, Graphic Language, lesbian sex scenes and themes of necrophilia.
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