Camp Hell (2010)

One of my all time favorites.

good back-story, and good acting

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Blistering performances.

As they say, "Fiction is better than fact" -- or they should say that if they were honest.For one thing, aside from throwing Dante's fiction away, this movie keeps switching between an evangelical point of view and a Catholic point of view. I don't think even Pentecostal Catholics hold the positions that were represented in this film. For that reason alone, none of these characters are actually real. (But maybe I'm not quite in tune with Evangelical Catholics -- quite possible.) But secondly, there was a set-up at the beginning about a coven. Up to the half-way point of the movie, there was some sort of clan in the woods that seemed to be building on this concept. But this is basically dropped as far as the plot goes, except for an amusement park spot, which moves the plot forward only slightly and not nearly as much as the opening suggests.Thirdly, the movie takes time to set up some interesting theological concerns either about Catholicism itself or Christianity in general. To this end, some decent, if not nuanced, dialog was written. And then, oops, where'd that go? And why have Eisenberg in the field at all? This makes little sense from a monetary perspective. He talks for 20 seconds in the film, maybe? (Correct me someone.) All in all, it promises interesting philosophical insight, but doesn't fulfill. The problem is, it could have: Good cast, good questions, and then... ....what?!?Maybe the director will tell me that I just don't get it, but then it's not my job to get something that is intentionally or unintentionally obscured from me.

I think that you can see this movie from 2 points of view: religion and the wish to see a thriller movie.About the thriller movie: it's more like a spiritual horror, as many said. It manages to induce some freak, but not too much.About the religios side, because it is inspired from real facts, I think that the character didn't manage to get the real sense of religion, not even after many years. Why? because he ended the movie by wondering what could be God useful at if he didn't help him to get over his nightmares. one important thing wasn't said in this movie: if you want God to help you, then you have to ask him and pray. And in a real way, not forced by your parents or the priest. Of course your parents and the priest may guide you. We can make choices, but we can choose the good or we can choose the bad. If we choose bad then it's not God's fault that he doesn't do anything. Like Einstein said: dark is the absence of light. I think this is what we should have understood from this movie, but I didn't see that and it's a deception to see that a man who passed through that didn't finally understand the important things. And he even made a movie. deception. it my opinion.

I just saw this film and it blew me away. For some people, this film will be a disappointment. Why? Because people are expecting a conventional horror flick. They see "religion" and "demon" and think: "Oh, exorcism movie, not again." This film takes the religion theme to a whole new level.It's basically a social commentary on the dangers of how some people interpret religion. Religion itself has nothing wrong with it, it's how people interpret it that makes it such a touchy subject. The concept of "Saint vs. Sinner" is executed beautifully and it will make you think long after the credits have rolled. If it doesn't, then maybe films like this one simply aren't for you.I've seen many people on here talking about how this is not a horror. This is not true, but not false either. Horror is subjective. Some see blood-and-gore flicks as horror, some say horror is something psychological. Is this a horror film to me? Absolutely. Jump scares, dramatic music and tension doesn't equal horror in my book. That's evoking a natural human reaction known as shock. Jump scares aren't a valid horror device because it doesn't evoke fear. Fear is being afraid of what is to come, not screaming with your heart going 300 BPM because someone just jumped out of a closet to really loud musical effects.Camp Hell is a very interesting and beautifully executed psychological horror film that pushes the boundaries of what people perceive as horror. If this doesn't apply to you, you're watching the wrong genre of films. Harsh? No, simply an opinion. The horror community needs more films like this.

Why a 4? Because it will flash back and forth from some normalcy to scary images LOUDLY and that will give you a shock. Albeit so would a cymbal smash from nowhere! To the reviewer that said this was a 90 minute ad for Christians I say. "Wow! You could NOT have watched this movie at all and must be one of those people that attack religion for no reason to make yourself feel important." Really this movie would put more people off religion than on it. The movie is slow paced,kind of interesting,but not scary. Toward the end has a really interesting event happen (don't want to spoil it) but then am the end, the main kid's point of view makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! We never understand exactly why the events are happening and with so many people that are stars in this movie I have to wonder why they were in it. Skip this movie. Oh,and the only thing I waited for in this movie was for that statue to move because it wasn't a statue!! Way too obvious!!