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Best movie in a camp setting

Started by joe, April 18, 2003, 02:34:30 PM

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joe

Of course you have just about most of all the Friday the 13th's, you have Sleepaway Camps 1,2,  and 3, the Meatballs Movies, which, unfortunately I have yet to see and the Burning. I'm going with the Burning. I love that movie so much. Also Salute Your Shorts was a cool show. Any oher camp movies I'm forgeting?


Evan3

Ha there was a great kid's movie featuring a very young Ben Stiller called Fat Camp I think. It was very fun, at least for a kid, plus Stiller plays an uncannilly mean camp instructor!

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The Burgomaster

How about CARRY ON CAMPING? It is part of the series of British "Carry On" comedies from the 1960s and 1970s. Strangely enough, there is a collectors boxed set of these movies available, and CARRY ON CAMPING is not in the set! It includes CARRY ON CLEO, CARRY ON DOCTOR and a bunch of others . . . but the all time nudist-camp classic is missing from the set!

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systemcr4sh

Evan you're thinking of the disney movie HEAVYWEIGHTS (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110006) I think. Ben stiller trys to whip them all into shape and they're mad that he takes over the camp they once loved, or something to that effect.


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Bubba

Oh, there's "Ernest Goes to Camp" starring the late Jim Varney!

JohnL

There's Camp Nowhere which was kind of lame. For older movies I seem to recall liking Gorp, although I really don't remember anything about it.

slimrockwell

I loved Meatballs 1 & 2. the third sucked. but I watched the other two many many times. I think I still quote scenes from the movies. Just the other day i did the pee wee middle finger for you and the horse you rode in on bit. lol.

zombie no.one

seeing as the thread's been bumped, I have to give a mention to...NUTS IN MAY (1976)

set on a camp site in Dorset. hilarious film IMO but probably not for everyone. some people don't 'get' the humour, which is fair enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daEocG2dKCU

ChocolateChipCharlie

CHEERLEADER CAMP aka BLOODY POMPOMS is a good one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092744/

Leif Garret!!!

Psycho Circus

ooh, that's a toughie! You'd probably have to say one of the first seven F13th films (take your pick!) but they're the ones most people are familiar with and are all pretty damn interchangeable, not to mention predictable. I'd have to go for a tie between Sleepaway Camp and The Burning.

voltron

Summer Camp Nightmare (1987)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSBGyjPG5Uo

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Nightowl

Have to go with the obvious, the Burning.

bob

there's also Camp No Where and Daddy Day Camp
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Jack

Spirit Camp - a slasher/comedy that came out a while back.  I really enjoyed it.  Sort of like Cheerleader Camp, but I liked the humor in this one much better.

Miner's Massacre - A slasher that's a personal favorite of mine.  It's not "at" a camp, just people camping in the woods. 

Camp Utopia - If I remember correctly, this was watchable.  Can't even remember if it actually takes place at a camp;  I think it does.

Safety in Numbers - on a tropical island, but still sort of a "camp" I guess.  Enjoyable slasher.

Survival Island - a love triangle with people marooned on a tropical island.  The babe was hot - movie wasn't too bad either.

Pinata Survival Island (aka Demon Island) - killer Pinata chases people around a tropical island.  I enjoyed it  :teddyr:

Alien 3000 - people camping again, not actually at a "camp".  Terrible terrible movie.  I've watched it 3 times   :teddyr:
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Quote from: Jack on June 24, 2011, 07:01:26 AMTerrible terrible movie.  I've watched it 3 times   :teddyr:

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