Milk_Tray_Guy
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Fairly obscure Spanish horror flick starring Jack Taylor (best known for his collaborations with Jess Franco) and Belgian Eurohottie Dyanik Zurakowska.
A coachload of workers on their way to start new positions in a Spanish town are forced to spend the night in a small village when their driver dies at the wheel. A village that doesn't appear on any map. Initially they find the place deserted and decide to make themselves comfortable for the night. The next day, however, the population returns. The travellers are made to feel welcome, but as time goes by they find more and more obstacles to their leaving. One-by-one they discover the truth about their hosts - they are all vampires!
It's a pretty standard 'travellers forced to stay in isolated place' plot. The acting is okay but not outstanding, and as with a lot of these Eurohorrors the music *really* doesn't fit with some scenes. However, the film's strength lies in the atmosphere it generates (despite the dodgy music!); it's very creepy and unsettling, and the vampire attacks (including one really nicely set-up in the disabled coach) are genuinely menacing.
Zurakowska is ably supported in the glamour stakes by Helga Liné and Charo Soriano, and there is nudity in the full-length version, although it's nowhere near the skinfest you might expect from the title. And, surprisingly, for a vampire film there's actually very little gore (when you consider Hammer had been splashing blood all over the screens for years and were *very* popular in Europe).
Worth a watch but not one I'll revisit any time soon. 5.5/10.
A coachload of workers on their way to start new positions in a Spanish town are forced to spend the night in a small village when their driver dies at the wheel. A village that doesn't appear on any map. Initially they find the place deserted and decide to make themselves comfortable for the night. The next day, however, the population returns. The travellers are made to feel welcome, but as time goes by they find more and more obstacles to their leaving. One-by-one they discover the truth about their hosts - they are all vampires!
It's a pretty standard 'travellers forced to stay in isolated place' plot. The acting is okay but not outstanding, and as with a lot of these Eurohorrors the music *really* doesn't fit with some scenes. However, the film's strength lies in the atmosphere it generates (despite the dodgy music!); it's very creepy and unsettling, and the vampire attacks (including one really nicely set-up in the disabled coach) are genuinely menacing.
Zurakowska is ably supported in the glamour stakes by Helga Liné and Charo Soriano, and there is nudity in the full-length version, although it's nowhere near the skinfest you might expect from the title. And, surprisingly, for a vampire film there's actually very little gore (when you consider Hammer had been splashing blood all over the screens for years and were *very* popular in Europe).
Worth a watch but not one I'll revisit any time soon. 5.5/10.
Pamela Springsteen's second turn as 'Angela'. This one goes very heavy on the dark humour. It's obviously very low budget (apparently SCII and SCIII were made back-to-back for a total of just $1m) and everything looks like it's pretty much a first take. But Springsteen is as funny as ever, with that 'Hey-ho, guess I've got to kill everyone again' attitude. Some of the kills are pretty good (love the flagpole death). The rest of the young cast do what they're asked, although there's no real talent on show.
Like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp is a 'boobs 'n' blood' slasher. The T&A is all over the place - although a lot of the gore was censored at the time (1989). Thankfully it's now been restored. Shoutout to the gorgeous Stacie Lambert as 'Jan'. She can't act, but she's got a body that looks like it came straight out of 1980s Playboy. Sadly, IMDb shows this as her only acting credit. She could have had a nice little career in horror at the very least.
I've never seen Sleepaway Camp as a top tier slasher franchise but it is fun. Good movie to watch with mates. 6/10.
Like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp is a 'boobs 'n' blood' slasher. The T&A is all over the place - although a lot of the gore was censored at the time (1989). Thankfully it's now been restored. Shoutout to the gorgeous Stacie Lambert as 'Jan'. She can't act, but she's got a body that looks like it came straight out of 1980s Playboy. Sadly, IMDb shows this as her only acting credit. She could have had a nice little career in horror at the very least.
I've never seen Sleepaway Camp as a top tier slasher franchise but it is fun. Good movie to watch with mates. 6/10.
Not just one of the greatest Stephen King adaptations, but one of the greatest horror movies. The casting is perfect, the score is fantastic, the camera work and lighting are first rate, the direction is tight, and the effects are so good they still stand up nearly 50 years later.
Sissy Spacek (Oscar nominated) is perfect in the title role, Piper Laurie (also Oscar nominated) has a ball as Carrie's religious nutjob mother, and Nancy Allen's Chris is one of the most insanely hot and *meanest* 'mean girls' ever to grace the screen. Plus there's a terrifically nostalgic 1970s high school setting, and a climax that is one of the greatest horror set-pieces ever filmed.
I'm not over-keen on De Palma's use of split-screen, which I find annoying and distracting. And the oft-criticised 'tuxedo rental' scene' is a real misfire, feeling ridiculously out of place; comedy can act as relief to further heighten tension later on, but that? It's not even funny the first time you see it.
Other than that, the film is just so good. Oh, if 'Chris' can talk like that with her *ahem* mouth full, she is one *very* talented girl!
8/10.
Sissy Spacek (Oscar nominated) is perfect in the title role, Piper Laurie (also Oscar nominated) has a ball as Carrie's religious nutjob mother, and Nancy Allen's Chris is one of the most insanely hot and *meanest* 'mean girls' ever to grace the screen. Plus there's a terrifically nostalgic 1970s high school setting, and a climax that is one of the greatest horror set-pieces ever filmed.
I'm not over-keen on De Palma's use of split-screen, which I find annoying and distracting. And the oft-criticised 'tuxedo rental' scene' is a real misfire, feeling ridiculously out of place; comedy can act as relief to further heighten tension later on, but that? It's not even funny the first time you see it.
Other than that, the film is just so good. Oh, if 'Chris' can talk like that with her *ahem* mouth full, she is one *very* talented girl!
8/10.
