Camp Wedding

More silly than scary, this horror comedy is more Meatballs than Friday the 13th, a playful stalker mystery that nevertheless is not quite a spoof of horror movies. The madcap storytelling keeps the characters and audience guessing with modern twists, satirizing fad diets, our dependency on our phones, and our natural inclination to overinterpret text messages and social media posts. The setup has fun by knowingly piling on horror cliches like the sleepaway camp being at the site of Indian massacres, witch burnings, and having at least one unexplained camp attendee disappearance. It's a small budget effort with a limited cast and a single setting. Good for a slumber party with friends who don't like anything too scary.

This movie is not scary or really that funny. The story is a reasonable effort, don't expect big things though. Some bits were good and some bits were bad, this is the reason for my average rating. I would recommend it, if you have nothing better to do.

Yep. This was a super cheesy flick.

Was there even one drop of blood? I don't think there was.

However, there was a lynched Cabbage Patch doll, a Teddy Ruxpin, a walkman, cassette tape, polaroid camera and a gluten-free knife.

This was just a no.

The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars is because it did a good job at making the cell phone screens and conversations easy to see and read. That's a little thing that gets on my nerves but they did a decent job with it.

Everything else was a big NO.

I really rather enjoyed this movie. It certainly hasn't been graced with the largest budget and A list actors or anything, but it more than made up for that by being fun and original. The acting was not superb but it was better than a lot of television acting in syndicated shows. It may have helped that I've known some the stereotypes depicted in this to actually occur, especially with misinterpreted text messages. The plot moved along rather briskly and had numerous twists and deceptions lain throughout, while still being firmly based in horror tropes. The wit in the movie flopped badly at times but still delivered a few great laughs. All in all I came away pleased that I'd spent my time viewing the film and instantly thought of a couple friends who'd enjoy this at least as much as I. Gravitas seems to be picking up a higher quality collection of films this year after seeing this and Blood Paradise. I read some other reviews before watching this and realized that I had to write a review that wasn't oddly biased like the others I'd read. Hopefully you'll give this one a chance if you're into low budget silly horror flicks.

I'm willing to bet dollars to pennies that these other reviews were bought and paid for by people tied to the movie. This film was one of the lowest of low budget trashterpieces I've seen in a good decade. The practical effects look like someone fired the makeup artist and just sent one of the interns on a Dollar Tree run and gave them a promotion for a few hours. The acting was so ridiculously thespian that I was waiting for the house lights to come on mid-film. And the editing...why do low budget films feel the need to hang onto long dialog pauses? Edit that stuff out and move to the next line and/or scene already. The humor had a few small puns that exerted a snide chuckle here and there but it was mostly sophomoric at best; we're talking freshmen level National Lampoon here. Don't get bamboozled, folks.