Camping del terrore (1987)

Director:

Ruggero Deodato

Writers:

Alessandro Capone (screenplay)
Alessandro Capone (story)

Release Date:

14 May 1987 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

A Spring Break Vacation Turns Into a Nightmare Come Alive!

Plot:

A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Vacation | Impalement | Monster | Insanity

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Bruce Penhall	...	Dave Calloway
Mimsy Farmer	...	Julia Ritchie
David Hess	...	Robert Ritchie
Luisa Maneri	...	Carol
Nicola Farron	...	Ben Ritchie
Andrew J. Lederer	...	Sidney (as Andrew Lederer)
Stefano Madia	...	Tony
John Steiner	...	Dr. Olsen
Nancy Brilli	...	Tracy
Cynthia Thompson	...	Cissy
Valentina Forte	...	Pamela Hicks
Ivan Rassimov	...	Deputy Sheriff Ted
Elena Pompei	...	Sharon
Charles Napier	...	Charlie, the Sheriff
Sven Kruger	...	Scott

Also Known As:

Bodycount (UK) (video title)
Camping della morte (Italy) (informal title)
The Eleventh Commandment (USA)

Runtime:

Argentina:90 min | Italy:87 min | UK:83 min

Country:

Italy | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Abruzzo, Italy

Company:

Racing Pictures Production

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Scott, one of the characters, is blond and has long hair, but when he is pushed off a cliff, during the fall his hair looks short and dark

Quotes:

Charlie, the Sheriff: [Warning Robert] By the way... there's alot of kids around here... if anything happens to them... I'm gonna hold you responsible.

Soundtrack:

She Can Steal Your Hearth Away

A surprisingly tame offering from exploitation king Deodato...

(**1/2 out of *****) For his first venture into straight slasher territory, Deodato (famous for the notorious gross-out classic "Cannibal Holocaust") pulls together an interesting, international cast of B-movie/genre film veterans, including David Hess ("Last House on the Left" and Deodato's "The House on the Edge of the Park"), Mimsy Farmer (Dario Argento's "Four Flies on Grey Velvet"), Ivan Rassimov (from Deodato's other cannibal `epic' "Jungle Holocaust"), John Steiner(Argento's "Tenebre" and Deodato's "Cut and Run") and Charles Napier (one of Hannibal's unfortunate guards in "Silence of the Lambs"). With Deodato directing and this unique cast (not to mention Claudio Simonetti of Italian group Goblin providing the soundtrack), I expected -- well, I don't exactly know what I expected, but what I got was a so-so thriller with some interesting ideas, a bit more plot than usual, and a few suspenseful chase and murder sequences here and there, but not a whole lot else. Hess and Farmer play a dysfunctional married couple who own a campground that was closed down after two kids were murdered by an `Indian shaman' killer. Well, it's fifteen years later, and the killings are starting all over again, and, coincidentally, an RV full of dumb teenagers (including the couple's traumatized son) just happens to show up for the onslaught. There's your typical horny stud who wants to screw all the girls, your typical prankster clown who you'd like to see get offed after about three minutes, your typical nympho babes who take showers every five or ten minutes, and the hit list goes on. Hess's character, while still decidedly mean and ugly, is at least not quite as despicable as the sadistic characters he played in the two afore-mentioned House movies. Deodato tries to make the identity of the killer a surprise, but it's still pretty much a no-brainer. Thanks to the "Friday the 13th" franchise, these killer-in-the-woods movies are the most prolific of the slasher genre.

HIGHLIGHT: Hess's and Farmer's son has a totally WHACKED-OUT dream with sexy severed legs, strangling tentacles, constricting nets -- it reminded me of some of the frat parties I went to in college.