"Campfire Stories" a stale retread of "Campfire Tales"

[Dano]

Anyone seen "Campfire Stories"?  It's essentially the exact same movie as "Campfire Tales" (1998) in that some kids have car trouble and wind up telling stories in a spooky forest while they wait for help - with each story being a short horror film - and then the inevitable creepy twist ending.  Unfortunately the stories in "Stories" aren't nearly as well done in the tales in "Tales" and the twist ending for the kids with the car trouble is much better in the original.  With no improvements, one wonders why they bothered with a remake just 4 years later.  "Tales" is recommended - "Stories" is amateur.

[Drezzy]

I'm guesing Campfire Stories is the one with the Crow-people story, and the twist being that...








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...they all died in the car accident?

[Offthewall]

I loved Tales

[Dano]

No Andrew - that one was "Tales."  "Stories" has an extraordinarily weak slasher story, a somehwhat imaginative clash between a mystical indian and three street thugs, and sort of a Halloween meets Blair Witch Project horny-teens-in-trouble story.  In "Stories", two guys have car trouble and meet the daughter from Sopranos (who also has car troubles), and in trying to get to civilization they come across a campfire and the creepy story teller - a park ranger played by Buster Poindexter.  The twist...












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... is that the girl from Sopranos, and Buster Poindexter, and the villains in the stories are all part of a wierd semi-super-natural cult that have lured the two guys into a trap and kill them in the end.  Unlike "Campfire Tales" there are really no clues scattered around that might tip you off.  Although one might make a guess.

[John]

Are you sure it's intended as a remake and not just a followup? In other words, another movie using the same gimmick in order to tell a series of short stories. Many movies have been like this including the original Tales from the Crypt.