Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Summer Camp: The title suggests a slasher film, even the build up points to this with a mysterious knife wielding stranger in the woods and odd new age travellers in the area. Three Americans are hired as counsellors to work with the director at a Spanish camp in an old building. Problems abound as animals come down with a strange illness, turning savage.Soon humans are also affected and turn violent after vomiting up a dark liquid. This is a fast zombie style illness involving biting and feral behaviour. Some impressive action scenes as the violent ones hunt the uninfected through the building and the forest. Perhaps a little drawn out and the attacks/violence becomes a tad repetitive. Nevertheless it is an effective directorial debut by Alberto Marini who also co-wrote the screenplay. 7/10.

The horror genre is getting to the point where if a film isn't completely terrible, it's almost considered a good film. A sad but true fact. 'Summer Camp' falls almost exactly into that scenario. It certainly isn't a good horror movie in any way, yet because it is adequately made and isn't totally uwatchable you find yourself asking yourself, "was that good?" The film is trying to be a 'Cabin Fever' of sorts (a very fine horror movie), but it fails in all the areas that made 'Cabin Fever' so good. Firstly, the characters in that film were brilliant. They were realistic, yet endlessly likable. In 'Summer Camp' the characters are about as thin a wafer and as unlikeable as they ever come. No genuine time is spent trying to boost them and give them some dimensions. The director simply wants to get the blood and guts underway.Secondly, there's no creativity put into any of the horror. Not once did I even come close to getting a shock or a fright and all that was left was boring zombie-like nonsense that has been seen a thousand times over. All this makes it seem like this was a much worse film than it really was. The truth is it's probably better than 65% of horror films out there. However that says more about the state of the genre than anything else.

You need to see around 10 minutes of this movie to realize it's everything you've seen before 1000 times. All the moves, the reactions, the plot, the actors and so on.But look what happens if you pass 25 minutes: it gets better! It gets somewhat different, and you start to actually enjoy it. To connect with the characters a little, to feel the tension around, even to start to wonder. Rarely have I seen something that starts out from bottom and ends up nicely indeed.I will recommend it as I do consider it better than many such productions. It was a pleasant surprise and I'm glad I found this one. You just have to make it through the first 25-30 minutes. But it will all be worth it.Cheers!

It seems like just another slasher stereotype: a group of young attractive camp Counselors, alone in the woods trying to get to know each other before the kids come. This time around however, a strange outbreak turns anyone exposed into a raging murderer for a small period of time. It eventually wears off, but do to the nature of how it spreads, anyone at anytime can become the slasher and as easily not become the slasher.It makes for a very suspenseful film not knowing who was going to be the slasher or the victim at any given time, and it was very impressive that they kept this up with so limited resources for 83mins. It's starts off slow and very corny. The movie is filled with a lot of OMG and WTF moments that are very slasher campy, but as the mystery of the outbreak begins to unravel the camp turns form bad to really good. Summer Camp seems to go for one big punch line instead of a few good kills, which turned into a smart tactic that makes this cleaver film work.It's the type of Horror film all slasher fans should check out.