Don't listen to the negative reviews

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There was a time when directors had to take a lot of bad comments on their flicks. Sometimes directors really got into trouble by making explicit movies. Deodato is one of them. We all know him from Cannibal Holocaust. A flick not for the faint hearted. There is animal cruelty in it, killing real animals, there is the inmate impaled, there is the cutting off of a guy his dick all in view for the watchers, due the animal cruelty and the way the movie was filmed (handycam style like Blair Witch Project) people in those days thought that it all was real. So Deaodato had to run away from Italy avoiding a lynching. Weird. he will always be remembered for that cult gem. What I would like to say, Cannibal Holocaust is a gem, this one is an OOP, I can understand it, it is terrible. The acting is extremely low. The storyline is terrible, even that David Hess (Last House On The Left) is in it doesn't help the movie. Well Ruggero, you should better run away when you made this trash instead of running away for cannibal Holocaust, avoid this rubbish.

Body Count aka Camping Del Terrore is another one of those 80's Friday The 13th rip offs where a group of fun loving kids explore the Colorado wilderness during the summer vacation But at a campsite managed by the mysterious Robert and his wife, Julia, they hear the old legend of the Shaman- half-man, half-beast and before you know it the teens gets picked off one by one in a fairly routine matter.Body Count is not the greatest camping slasher but it's still very entertaining the beginning is quite effective where you get the two teens at the beginning getting killed, plus the killer manages to copy the female victim's hairstyle with a wig, totally unrealistic but makes up for that by dispatching them in a brutal manner knife in the head, despite that fact there's a policeman near by whose surprisingly still got his job after while he was screwing the campsite owners wife two teens got murdered I mean did he even get reprimanded or suspended from the police force. Then it cuts to the present day where we get a bunch of teens who look about late 20's early 30's heading towards the same campsite where those murders took place many years ago.However there are quite a few unbelievable and stupid parts that spoil this movie, like the flashback scene where it shows 2 teens arriving in the same area where the killer's been lurking all those years ago getting killed themselves, that part I liked it's just that the part when the male teen dies the girl doesn't do the normal thing by heading for the front door instead she goes upstairs and has a lie down then gets killed, well serves her right for being so stupid. Then we get the main heroine when she's being chased instead of running into the woods she runs into the tool shed a complete dead end. Other than that though the movie is pretty much OK we get a good body count and some gruesome kills which settles all the stupid stuff into place. In addition to some fairly bad dialogue, it also features the most annoying variation on the chubby practical-joker character that I've ever seen, and it takes entirely too long for the killer to end the audience's discomfort. Still, it's rarely boring, with a few good moments, and many of the murders are pretty graphic (if not as gory as I'd been led to believe; I mean, this was directed by the same guy that helmed CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), for Pete's sake!) All in all Not terrible and not great either but still worth a look.

"Body Count" is a remarkably fun and enjoyable slasher.**SPOILERS**Years after a horrible tragedy, teens Tony, (Stefano Media) Sidney, (Andrew J. Lederer) Cissy, (Cynthia Thompson) Tracy, (Nancy Brilli) and Carol, (Luisa Maneri) decide to head for an abandoned campground where Sharon, (Elena Pompei) Scott, (Sven Kruegar) Dave Kelloway, (Bruce Penhall) have already arrived. Trying to have some fun together, they begin to hike through the woods and generally have a great time being together. When they start to disappear mysteriously, they initially take it as going off on their own accord. As more and more of the group wander off, they realize that something is wrong and blame a local legend about an ancient Indian Shaman that has cursed the land. Finally learning the truth about the killings around the camp, they band together to survive the night against the demented killer.The Good News: This was a surprisingly good slasher film. While not in any way original, this one manages to do several things right. One of the main ones is that it gets the slashing down quite expertly. The stalking scenes in here are just this side of brilliant and are very well-done. The stalking through the woods from the outhouse through the trees is a classic suspense angle, as the frantic search to get away from the killer, who is only glimpsed in such brief flashes that it's almost impossible to tell, and that leads to a great tension-filled scene that is quite fun. Anytime in the outhouse is quite brilliant, as the main double-murder is loads of fun. The absolutely chilling atmosphere through the entire scene, the pacing is completely tense, and the jump comes brilliantly to the end, all culminating in a great scene. There's also plenty of scenes spread throughout the film, all of them at the very least containing a few suspenseful ideas. The final confrontation with the killer is a really standout sequence as well, using the established rules for how they're supposed to play out well in hand and offering up only a nice surprise in the revelation of the killer. This is perhaps given all the better treatment when it's revealed who the killer is after they're dealt with rather than before everything happens, and it's such a nice change of pace. There's also a really high body count in here to provide plenty of deaths, including a knife through the neck, one through the back of the head to come out through the mouth, a meat hook through the face, some scratching with a razor, a spear through the stomach, an ax in the head and some body mutilation with an ax along with a lot more in here as well. This here gets in some pretty high totals with the kills, and they're all quite brutal. As is usual with these kinds of films, the usual attitude of sleaze in here is handled with the usual amount of comfort that most of these films usually have. The last real big positive is the film's incredible pacing, which is just about perfect. The murders start happening very early on, the majority of the time is spent on the stalking and slashing and subplots are at the minimum, leaving this to thankfully never become boring at all. Overall, it's a really enjoyable affair.The Bad News: There wasn't all that much wrong with this one. One of it's problems is that it's simply way too familiar for it's own good. There's a sense of this just playing by the rule-book simply without change for the duration, hitting all the notes along the way there. While this is nice, it doesn't really offer much for those looking at films for a different feel that others. This one isn't all that different from practically any others out there, and can get lost in the shuffle if not in the particular mood to enjoy it. There's also a problem where the deaths in here aren't as graphic as they could've been. With all the brutal sounding ones described above, this one should've been a bloodbath and a gore-hounds' dream yet this one doesn't really let loose as well as it should've. These, though, are the only real problems and can easily become non-factors.The Final Verdict: With only minor, minor flaws that can be overlooked quite easily, this is a really nice addition to the slasher genre. It's not a revelation in the genre that will alter it, but for those that enjoy these kinds or even die-hard European horror fans should give this one a healthy look.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Full Male and Female Nudity and Language

Ruggero Deodato's (the man that made the exploitation classic "Cannibal Holocaust") rather late entry into the 80's slasher genre is a rather enjoyable and atmospheric one. To sum up an extremely thin plot: a nasty Indian shaman is hacking and slashing his way through a group of horny, fun-loving teens on a campsite in the middle of the woods that happens to be built on an Indian burial ground. That is the complexity of the plot but for late 80's slasher does it need an in-depth plot?To make up for the lack of story there is plenty of gory, vicious deaths (stabbings, axe to the face, throat impalements), a nice amount of nude women (and a naked fat guy), a creepy soundtrack and characters that I actually wanted to live. The cinematography is quite nice (the shots through the woods are especially excellent) and there are a bunch of famous horror veteran actors to fill the supporting cast. We have David Hess ("Last House on the Left", "The House on the Edge of the Park"), Ivan Rassimov ("Jungle Holocaust"), Charles Napier ("Beyond the Valley of the Dolls") and John Steiner ("Cut and Run", Deported Women of the SS Special Section"). This movie may not be his best venture into horror, it ain't got a very high rating here and it is definitely not the most memorable horror but as a slasher it is damn entertaining.3/5