Campfire Tales

[Offthewall]

I found my copy of this. It's pretty good but I believe there's 2 movies under this same title. The one I saw was about the 4 kids whose car crashes on the way home from a concert and tell each other 3 campfire tales. I really loved it. At one point it was my favorite movie. Anyone else see this? Thoughts?

[John]

>I found my copy of this. It's pretty good but I believe there's 2 movies under this

 Yup, IMDB lists two movies, one in 1991 and another in 1997. Both sound like they were based on the same idea.

>same title. The one I saw was about the 4 kids whose car crashes on the way
>home from a concert and tell each other 3 campfire tales. I really loved it. At one
>point it was my favorite movie. Anyone else see this?

 Yup, I've seen it. I like anthology movies, although I get a little tired of the 'twist' always being that the people telling or listening to the stories are dead.

[Mofo Rising]

Eh.  It was alright, I guess.  I've seen much worse.

More notable for having some now small-time famous people in it.  Ron Livingston (OFFICE SPACE), James Marsden, Amy Smart, Chris Masterson and Christine Taylor.  It also had REAL WORLD "alumni" Jacinda Barrett.

Probably alright for somebody who never watches horror movies.  The problem is, since these stories are based off popular urban legends, we are already familiar with them.  There's no suspense.  The film doesn't have enough atmosphere to carry itself along without the element of surprise.  So it's sort of D.O.A..

[Lee]

I liked it. It's not great, sure as HELL ain't original, but I thought it was pretty well done. It followed the old anthology rule about tying all the stories together at the end(which I thought was well done here.).

[J.R.]

I liked the first CT, but I haven't seen the sequel(s?). It was pretty well-made for a direct-to-video-quickie, with some effective jumps and twists. What's more, it was a DTV low-budget horror film NOT made in Canada! Some major release films (cough, Jason X-Men, cough) even have that bacony stink wafting from them.

[John]

>Probably alright for somebody who never watches horror movies. The problem
>is, since these stories are based off popular urban legends, we are already
>familiar with them.

 I admit that the stories weren't that original, but I thought they were fairly well done, especially the one called The Locket where the guy on the bike ends up at the old time farmhouse and events keep repeating. Of course I've always liked ghost stories.