Triggered first published by VODzilla.co “We all did fucked up shit in high school,” says Ezra (Steven John Ward) in Triggered, directed by Alastair Orr (From A House On Willow Street, 2016) . “No one here is innocent.” Nine former school friends have an impromptu reunion, camping out for the weekend “literally in the middle…
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (aka Nightmare Vacation 2) (1988)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (aka Nightmare Vacation 2) first published by Movie Gazette Warning: contains spoilers about the first Sleepaway Camp film In the cinema of the 1980s, teenagers had one of two predefined rôles. Either they charmed, emoted and, let’s face it, annoyed their way through comedy dramas about love, class and young…
Mansfield 66/67 (2017)
Mansfield 66/67 first published by SciFiNow In the Sixties, Marilyn Monroe’s one-time rival Jayne Mansfield was a falling starlet, better known for her off-screen antics and wardrobe malfunctions than for her on-screen appearances, and on June 29, 1967, her life, already metaphorically a car wreck, ended in a real one. This was only a year after…
Summer Camp (2015)
First published by Twitch (now known as Screen Anarchy) There must be something in the Andalusian water to explain the ability of Spanish filmmakers to create so much genre cinema of the very highest order. Alberto Martini has long been in the background of this tendency, playing a role in the production of Iberian stunners…
Stage Fright (2014)
“I’m going to reinvent the entire production and cover it with a postmodern face.” So says Artie Getz (Brandon Uranowitz), a pretentious director of musical theatre brought into Center Stage Camp to get their latest production noticed by Broadway before the camp’s manager Roger McCall (Meat Loaf) is overtaken by debt. What Artie has in…