Boobirt
Stylish but barely mediocre overall
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Leofwine_draca
After noting the director, Ruggero Deodato (the man responsible for the gruelling cannibal flick CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST), and one of the film's main stars, David Hess (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT), you might be forgiven for thinking this slasher film is going to be packed full of extreme violence and gore. Well, you'd be mistaken, as it's merely another rehash of Friday THE 13TH, with a few gruesome deaths but nothing that hasn't been done before.It's not that the film is particularly bad, it's just average, but I would have expected a lot more from Deodato. However, this run of the mill story goes through all of the expected stalk and slash clichés with hardly a single original shot in sight. We've got the showering girls, the POV killer shots, the running through the woods. The deaths are mainly stabbings and axings, plus the expected Friday THE 13TH death rip-off where a girl lying on a bed has a knife shoved through her chest from underneath, just like Kevin Bacon had an arrow shoved through his throat from underneath a bed in that film.The main cast of teenagers are the expected clichéd group: the fat guy, the nerd, the blonde bimbo, the athletic guy, the cool guy. None of these actors and actresses are very good, passable though. It does get annoying after a while to see actor Bruce Penhall continually riding around on his motorbike and doing stunts, but I guess that's what you get from a former motorbike champion turned actor. It's pretty absurd to watch the excuses for all the main female cast members lose their clothes, so rest assured that there's a lot of nudity here from the 'teenage' actresses.There are a couple of interesting actors in the film, namely Charles Napier (RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II) who does his usual tough policeman stuff; Mimsy Farmer; and the aforementioned David Hess, whose frightening persona is woefully underused but fun anyway. It's good to see Ivan Rassimov (MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD) in another film too, this time in the small role of a doctor. The score, by Claudio Simonetti from The Goblin, isn't bad either, while the monster makeup is pretty effective and scary. The killer is obvious from the start, though, and the red herrings are slightly over-emphasised and can be seen a mile off. If you're looking for a typical slasher film then you could do worse than this, but other than the novelty value of being Italian, this is nothing we haven't seen before. Check out THE BURNING instead.
Bezenby
I'm not sure if the version I watched was cut, but it certainly seemed so...anyway....This is a late eighties Italian slasher flick starring no less than Mimsy Farmer (Black Cat), John Stiener (Tenebrae), Ivan Rassimov (Deep River Savages), David Hess (Last House on the left) and Charles Napier (every film every made in the history of mankind). It's late eighties Italian film, as I said, so everything is much more toned down and cheap looking that we're used to...there's also a lot of 'inspiration' from what's current in the US film market. So Camping del Terrore is a rip off of Friday the 13th/Sleepaway Camp etc etc.Don't be put off though - The director is no less than Ruggero Deodato, the man who put everyone off eating turtle in Cannibal Holocaust! And Phantom of Death! Not seen that one? Oh well, never mind- I haven't either and I've owned it for months. What I'm trying to say is that Ruggero ain't just the master of needlessly murdering animals just to make some cash! He can also make almost coherent films.SO, what you've got here is a slasher film 'like' Friday the 13th set at an abandoned somewhere came where years before a murder toozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. You know what I'm talking about or you're looking at the wrong film. There's teenagers here. They get killed one by one. There's about 5 or 6 suspects. The killer isn't who I imagined it would be, but then, as this is an Italian horror, the ending took off in a spaceship and headed to Gleise 581, also known as 'The Star where the endings of films make no sense whatsoever'.The only version around seems cut. It's quite good, with some sub plots that don't have anything to do with the killings. But...it's a generic slasher really. For sad pathetic Italian horror movie fans only. All 12 of you. And that includes me.
EVOL666
Although the fact that BODY COUNT was helmed by the notorious Ruggero 'CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST' Deodato-the film itself treads pretty much the same territory as any string of interchangeable '80s teen-slashers. Annoying group of kids go to a cabin in the woods...'scary back story' about haunted woods...kids drink and act stupid...tits...David Hess...people die...bad dialogue/acting...bad '80s-style music...worse '80s-style hair...more tits...more people die...'big reveal'...the end. Although this one brings nothing particularly new or fresh to the table-it's still fun enough if you haven't seen one of these types of films in a while. There's nothing standout to highly recommend this film-but it's worth a loom for slasher fans or Deodato completists. 6.5/10
trashgang
There was a time when directors had to take a lot of bad comments on their flicks. Sometimes directors really got into trouble by making explicit movies. Deodato is one of them. We all know him from Cannibal Holocaust. A flick not for the faint hearted. There is animal cruelty in it, killing real animals, there is the inmate impaled, there is the cutting off of a guy his dick all in view for the watchers, due the animal cruelty and the way the movie was filmed (handycam style like Blair Witch Project) people in those days thought that it all was real. So Deaodato had to run away from Italy avoiding a lynching. Weird. he will always be remembered for that cult gem. What I would like to say, Cannibal Holocaust is a gem, this one is an OOP, I can understand it, it is terrible. The acting is extremely low. The storyline is terrible, even that David Hess (Last House On The Left) is in it doesn't help the movie. Well Ruggero, you should better run away when you made this trash instead of running away for cannibal Holocaust, avoid this rubbish.
