Dustin (Cocaine Cougar) Ferguson takes the reins from Mark Polonia for the fourth (or fifth, depending on if you count Within the Woods) entry in the Camp Blood franchise. In pure Ferguson fashion, he pads out the film with flashback scenes from Camp Blood: First Slaughter, a long opening credits sequence, gratuitous newsbreak footage, pointless walking scenes, gratuitous montages, dance sequences, irritating slow motion scenes, and multiple scenes of women applying their makeup. In fact, this might be the first movie in history that doesn’t start till its halfway over.
I never thought anyone could make me wistful for the cinematic prowess of Mark Polonia, but I guess Dustin Ferguson is that kind of guy.
A group of friends on their way to a rock concert stop off at Camp Blood for a little R and R. They instead wind up getting S and S. (Stalked and Slashed.)
The flashbacks to Camp Blood: First Slaughter take up roughly half the running time. This might not have been a bad thing if I had never seen First Slaughter, but since I basically watched these two flicks back-to-back, it became repetitious and irritating in a hurry. It also just goes to show how much better Polonia was at staging the murder scenes than Ferguson. It’s especially obvious when you can compare the two almost simultaneously within the same flick. Ferguson also gives us a lot of nighttime scenes that are hard to see, which also amps up the irritation factor.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it ends with an annoying cliffhanger for Part 5. I mean, when you sit through a bad movie (or two halves of two bad movies as is the case here), you expect at least some kind of resolution. Oh well, at least I didn’t have to wait long to find out what happened as I watched Part 5 soon after…
yeah this is probably the worst entry in the series with all of the padding, the murder scenes are alright but you have to sit through way too much crap to get there.
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