Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

disdressed12 "Campfire Stories" was pretty lame,in my opinion.the opening sequence,with the so called flaming skull,looked like it was made on the cheap,to be polite.normally,i try to be diplomatic about bad acting in movies,but that would be hard in this case,so i won't say any more about that.aside from that,i didn't find it scary.i guess it's supposed to be something like "Tales From the Crypt" or "Creepshow",but it certainly doesn't measure up to either of those anthology series.i don't know what else to say.i guess i could talk about the lack of suspense,or even tension in the movie.or the fact that is not much gore for you gore hounds.to be fair, i didn't watch the whole thing.i didn't even watch all of the first episode.i fell asleep,but I'm fairly certain the rest of the anthology is no better.most people would likely be bored by this one.my advice is to avoid "Campfire Stories" and look elsewhere to satisfy your entertainment needs.I'll give this movie 3/10,at most.

Matt_Layden Not as bad as "Carnivore", this low budget film is still sh*t, but I have more respect for it then I have for "The Worst Movie Ever, Carnivore". Anyways...Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) having car trouble, so they go into the woods to find campers she said she saw, they run into Ranger Bill, and he starts telling them these campfire stories. There are 3 stories, one involves a lunatic killer, the other a haunted Indian/weed pipe and the last one is yet another killer story. Personally I liked the last story the best, but that is not saying much. I mistakenly bought Carnivore in a 5 dollar bin at Wal mart, I got this at Christmas. There was a deal if you buy one movie, you get another one, my mom picked it while she was getting the "Awesome" Dog Soldiers.The acting is mostly high school level and the music is really lame. The worst performance is "Ranger Bill" played by David Johansen, he really sinks this movie. I will admit, at the beginning I had hopes for it, it was going alright, then they meet up with Bill and it goes downhill from there. Now the acting is as bad as Carnivore (I'll be making lots of references to it) but it is worse than Evil Dead. So you get the idea, the best performance is from a guy who has 2 lines it, the escaped lunatic mental killer in the first story. The first story, about a group of jocks picking on a school handyman, doesn't fair much better in it's acting or production values. Once it gets going there is a level of creepiness to it but the whole set up before the climax is so poorly done that you find yourself caring very little about what happens.Aside from some poor special effects (well good in a high school class project sort of way) the second story involving three troublemakers looking to profit from the murder of a native man, fails to really grab the viewer. There isn't much wrong with the story it just doesn't do much until the twist ending. At that point everything registers and the story makes sense, unfortunately it's not much fun getting to that point.The final, and best, story is a nice little "who-done-it". While the story, of four friends getting together for a night of "passion" which ends in murder, doesn't really set itself up as well as it could, it does contain the most suspense of the 4 stories. This entry contains the best of everything in the movie, best story, acting and suspense. The topper is that is also contains the best ending as you continue to guess who the culprit is.If you are the kind of fan who likes low budget campy kind of stuff, then be my guest. If you thought carnivore was at the very least okay, then give this one a try, it has a lot of of screen gore, like chainsaw scene in Scarface. For instance, the lead jock's neck and a saw come to meet, but all you see is the blood drip onto his chest. There's no nudity, hardly any language this movie doesn't feel like a real horror movie to me, just some kind of thriller, with one or two horror elements thrown in.

noizyme OK, by the title screen of any of these thrown-together-DVDs for horror, you should know that the movie is gonna be crap. This movie was entirely. Buster Poindexter (I can't even think of the guy's name, because that's all he ever plays is that "character") plays a ranger in the woods (who wears a boy scout leader uniform) who helps pass the time in a creepy fashion along with 2 guys and a girl who both have very poor maintenance of their cars. They stick around for his stories (why? I dunno...at the end it kinda reveals why, though) starring horribly contrived characters and too many twists for your head to remember.I enjoyed seeing the Misfits play at the end, even though the camera was flying about all the time so you couldn't quite get a grasp on them being there. And the movie altogether was light-hearted, making some of the longer sequences with nothing but music in the back of these montages of killing or whatever a little bit watchable. Overall though, the movie is trying to show you that there was a comic book put out called Campfire Stories and here is the movie based on these stories. The ranger was annoying, the actors are all annoying and not convincing, and you wanna smack the director in the head for telling the camera to go closer towards the wall in many shots (in the 1st story). All in all, watch it if somebody owns it and you don't have to pay money to rent it.

Lady-of-Rohan *MAJOR SPOILERS! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!*The movie begins with with a digital skull in a roaring campfire talking for about 6 minutes. Seriously, this thing talks for 6 minutes. I couldn't really tell what the heck it was saying because my friends were laughing hysterically so I couldn't hear. Does it really matter what it's saying? Anyways, it's still talking. When it finally finishes, we meet two guys who are on their way to a party in the woods (!) and they blow a tire and come across a girl who is stranded. While they look for help, they come across a creepy ranger/cop that demands that he tells them stories. The ranger/cop tells them three stories, and they are: 1 )A group of boys harass and attempt to kill a mentally insane janitor at school and find the time to beat the hell out of him after school. The janitor gets his revenge by torturing them and cutting off their heads with hacksaws. 2)Three stoner 20-something friends stalk and kill a Native Indian man for his peace pipe. They settle down and enjoy it when they get the life sucked out of them and turn into old people.3) A young girl is terrified that someone is stalking her and believes that it is her boyfriend that taped her and spread the dirty stuff all over the net. She seeks revenge with her best friend by taping their boyfriends in return. Everyone is murdered with a knife, and the audience doesn't know who is committing these grisly murders. They think its the crazy grandma (long story) but it's really the girl. The ranger/cop is done his story time and the threesters are finally allowed to go. The remaining 5 minutes are weird so try to follow along. The tow truck picks the kids up and drops them off at a place where they can make some phone calls. Inside is a weird night club with a Slipknot look-alike band playing. The two guys (where did the girl go?) look a little freaked out, go to the bartender for drinks, they turn around and all the bad guys from the the campfire stories are there in the club. They kill the boys, and the girl runs out screaming of the club and waves down a car and says, "Oh thank goodness you're here. I'm having some car trouble". She then turns to the camera, gives an evil grin, and her eyes turn red. Credits roll. I'm not sure that that evil grin means. Maybe the film makers are trying to make us believe that it was the girl who planned this all out. Who cares. It's a bad movie.Don't rent this film useless your prepared to have a really confused look on your face for 90 minutes. The acting is atrocious, as well and the special-effects (They really are special). The whole film looks like it was filmed with a handy cam. The production is typical High School project status. It probably cost $10 to make. 1/10