Very well executed

Good concept, poorly executed.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Every review I've read has said the same exact things about how the film is very different and disappointing for the director especially regarding the amazing cast so I'm not going to go into that; but I do want to say that the soundtrack reminded me of Klaus Schulze's for Angst (1983) which is possibly my favourite movie soundtrack of all time so it definitely has that going for it. Other than that, this film started off as a six for me and it continued and ended in exactly the same way. No highs and no lows. Just a solid, standard American style 80's slasher, despite having been made in Italy. Don't think this will have anything about it that's reminiscent of giallo other than the base themes that the general slasher took from the genre because it does not resemble gialli at all. I own a VHS rip and it still looks pretty awesome to me so that says something. Dated, but awesome. As others have noted, the location is A plus and Mimsy Farmer is absolutely stunning.

Obviously, Italian director Ruggero Deodato was trying to get a piece of that successful "Friday The 13th" cake with this film. Let me mention right away that this movie indeed is worth seeing for the pretty gory deaths and the (lots of) female (and even male) nudity featured in it. Other than that, there is no reason to watch it. A bunch of stupid teenage characters with absolutely no background gets slaughtered in the woods. The legend goes that an old Indian Shamhain roams the woods. Naturally, it's a dude in a wrinkly mask. When you learn who the killer is near the end, and especially why he turned onto a killing spree (oooh, it's trauma-time once again!), I guarantee you will laugh. Charles Napier has absolutely nothing to do in this flick, except shagging Mimsy Farmer, who's on her terms cheating on David Hess, who himself is so obsessed over that Shamhain figure that I wondered why he didn't try to make love to it. When all is over and done with, the movie presents you its final freeze-frame shock-moment. That one made my day! An 80's slasher without that final frozen shock-shot simply isn't a true 80's slasher. Deodato at least learned that lesson.

you didn't miss much.By the numbers slash and stalk affair. You neither care that these people die or how, to be quite honest. No, I tell a lie, these people get offed in whichever way Deodato thought best, and then their "friends" get on with their long weekend, as if nothing ever happened. That in itself is quite amusing.Aside from Claudio Simonetti's soundtrack, which is quite intriguing, and the location, which is very pretty, but not used to its fullest extent (proving Deodato really is just a hack who should've been collecting his pension cheque), this film simply adds to the the mid to late 80s horror industry decline.You've seen it all before and probably better too. Go watch Friday the 13th Part II again, if you feel the need for backwoods horror, or pick up Madman if you haven't seen it, or even Tony Maylam's The Burning. All are far superior backwoods horror films, with similarly effective soundtracks and much spookier atmosphere.

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.