Pop and Bernie have a good angle. Pop saddles up to campers and tells them how much he misses his dead son, who is really insane and kept in a straightjacket in a trailer until the campers trust his dad and then he is unleashed. Pop gets their gear, Bernie gets to kill, we have a movie called Moonstalker.
This is a movie nobody talks about because, well, who was watching slashers other than mutants like me and you in 1989?
Also known as Camper Stamper, A Demon Is Loose (Brazil), Bloody Moon (Mexico) and Terror Camp (Argentina), It also rips off John Carpenter both visually and audibly. About the only cool thing I can call this out for is Marcie, who wears a camp bikini, carries a whip and gets off to Wagner. So there’s that at least.
You may not care now, but when the Vinegar Syndrome $59.95 slipcase edition comes out, you will.
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I was lucky enough not to pay $59.95 for this, because I found a DVD of it at a thrift store and even managed to haggle them down to $1, my argument being that the copy they were selling was a dollar-store edition that would have been $1 when it was new and therefore a used copy shouldn’t be more than that. They agreed and that pleasant shopping experience added enjoyment to the movie. 🙂
I love a good thrift short dvd find. My best two are a beta of House On the Edge of the Park for twenty five cents and Alone In the Dark for three bucks.