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Actors: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, John Hensley (II), Joshua Harto, Charlie Day (II), David Johansen
Directors: Jeff Mazzola, Andrzej Krakowski, Bob Cea
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
DVD Release Date: December 17, 2002
Run Time: 95 minutes
Average Customer Review:
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Reader Reviews
Heck, it even has its moments when it borders on being good! "Campfire Stories" (not to be confused with the superior "Campfire Tales") is a new horror anthology that begs to be rented at the very least. The opening could put a jolt through some people, if they`re watching it alone and in the dark, featuring a creepy talking skull introducing the movie you are about to view, but he stays on the screen too long and just becomes stupid. Actually, the only reason the thing is scary to begin with is because it makes you feel like you're about to watch one of those Traces of Death videos everyone talked about with such high respect in grade school. The story he takes you into is that of two young men driving down a deserted road and stopping suddenly at the sight of a young, female traveler (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) standing in their path who also claims to have had car trouble (though her car is nowhere to be seen). The travelers decide to team up and look for help by, of course, wandering into the woods, and this is where they encounter a very unsettling David Johansen playing an oddball character called "Ranger Bill." Ranger Bill is clearly a freak. He instructs the kids to have a seat around a campfire and listen to his stories while they wait for the tow truck to arrive. The Ranger's first story is about a campus bully who picks on the wrong school groundskeeper. The creepy guy is actually an escaped mental patient who learned a lot about the art of inflicting pain from his even crazier doctor back before he "checked out." After the tedious flashback intro where we see the mental patient being tortured by his doctor until finally escaping, the story begins interestingly enough with the antics of the mean-spirited football players, led by the bully quarterback, causing a stir on the campus lawn and making us think maybe, despite the horrible acting, this might get interesting. Unfortunately, it really doesn't, as the rest of the story consists of the football players running through the forest trying to find the groundskeeper while he is slowly picking them off one by one. That's pretty much all of that story. No real clincher to it. I suppose the end scene in the psychotic groundskeeper's lair is supposed to be shocking, but it really isn't. At this point I should mention that, since Ranger Bill IS narrating the stories, his voice does come in now and then and pretty much ruin any scariness that might be on the verge of being felt by the viewer. His fake backwoods accent makes it sound like you're watching an old Disney nature story every time his voice interrupts with a comment, usually spewing out something that makes absolutely no sense. The second story is a tad more creative. Unfortunately, it drags on in the drug-use sequences. The story opens in an old diner in which it seems only the elderly come to eat, except at one table occupied by three hoodlums; two male, one female. Then, in walks an elderly Native-American man. When he leaves, the hoodlums follow, and when they find him sitting outside his trailer smoking something funny, they are dying to take part. The three set out to murder the old man, and they do so, and spend the rest of the night smoking his pipe and hanging out in his trailer. But, when the trip starts to go bad and the CGI snakes start swirling around, it's all downhill from there. The next day, we find our three hoodlums tragically altered by the bad medicine. Finally, the last story comes around, and this one is pretty good. Okay, maybe it's just another "Scream" or "I Know What You Did Last Summer" rip-off, but I thought it was pretty creative, and it keeps you guessing throughout. The story involves a young girl living in an old house her grandmother left to her, with her very cute, but very unstable roommate. The two have been having some guy troubles and decide to turn the tables on their mischievous boyfriends. Their plan is to humiliate the boys on camera and then post the video on the internet, as they suspected the boys were planning to do to them. But, there are a lot of bad vibes flowing through the old house, and someone is up to more than public humiliation. Trying to figure out who's the real baddie isn't as easy as it seems, even if it probably should have been obvious from the start. Now, we come to the end of the movie. Ranger Bill has told his stories, and the Tow truck is ready to go. But, of course, this film isn't going to end on a happy note, so someone in the group of weary and frightened travelers is probably not going to make it home alive. Overall, this movie is bad, no doubt, but it CAN be fun to watch, especially with a group of friends. The acting is bad, of course, and the writing too, though I gotta say that the last story I thought was pretty okay. And, then there's the wraparound story, which I thought had a good little ending to it. No, there's nothing much in this movie that's scary, unless the punk band "The Misfits" freaks you out, but it's still good, sick fun. The only DVD extra is the trailer though, and you'd probably be better off not watching it until after seeing the movie.
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