Camp Wedding

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.

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 could've been a ton more intriguing, but the unbelievably thin plot and pace screwed it all up. I watched it over a span of two days...and yet it still felt like an eternity to complete. Three stars for some fun dialogue.

I watched this because it's listed as comedy-horror. I thought maybe it would be like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (great movie, btw. If you haven't seen it, go watch that instead of this) but no.

I don't want to be mean here, so I'll say one nice thing about this. The story was somewhat unique. Now onto the bad:

The acting - some were over the top, while others seemed to be phoning it in.

The dialogue - It came across unnatural and silly. I founf myself wondering more than once "who talks like this?"

The comedy - I kept waiting for the funny, but the jokes just fell flat. It felt as though a laugh track might have helped as a que to let people know "oh, that was a joke."

The horror - what horror, where?

If this is/was a student film (which is exactly what it felt like) I'd say they deserve at most a D+ cause at least they tried, kinda.

Boring, unimaginative, loaded with anti-christian stereotypes, obligatorily PC and top coated with obscenity here and there.

I don't mind the low budget movies. What I do mind is bad stories and bad storytelling.