Camp Murder

This has to be some of the worst acting I've seen in my life. Honestly, it's probably an insult to the fine thespians in high school plays across the country to compare the actors in this movie to them. Not a single believable portrayal in the whole movie.

One Polonia movie always leads to another! This is Mark's tribute to the Friday the 13th with a little Halloween thrown in. I know he already made some of the Camp Blood movies, but that wasn't his own series so I get the appeal in making his own movie.

Lots of Polonia regulars and a hefty dose of gore make this a pretty damn fun and breezy 73 minutes. The mask the killer wears is actually really awesome and Jeff Kirkendall wields a weapon in the appropriately menacing sort of way.

But the most important thing is that Jamie Morgan plays a character named Roxy Rumble and she's a professional wrestler and at one point her and her boyfriend decide to play a game of how long can she sit on his face so she may be the greatest character in the Polonia Universe.

It amazes me the amount of horrible acting that happens in this film. I'm all for independent low budget films but at least make the dialogue flow and not cliche. The old lady in the car discussing her lady needs and the doctor confessing to a one night stand as the love of his life is beyond ridiculous. And the actors trying to play younger than their actual age, really? Trying to portray like you are in campground when I'm fact your are in someone's backyard was beyond believable.

Interesting cast of actors in this one but I actually enjoyed this for a low budget movie. Lighting and sound was above average but the soundtrack was a little irritating at times.

The movie ultimately feels like a proof of concept film that would be shown to investors, and not the actual public. Think if Hatchet had no budget, and the acting wasn't as good. Being someone who was a Polonis fan for over a decade, I can say that this might be his weakest film to date. Overall, it just feels uninspired and boring. The kills, while the gore effects were decent, are just consistently bland, and there was one that felt like he wanted to do the kill in a certain way, but just didn't for whatever reason. And the acting wasn't bad enough to find funny, and the dialog just felt mono throughout the whole film. There were a few funny moments, and I don't regret watching it, but he could do better.