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Camping del Terrore

Body Count
Camping della Morte / The Eleventh Commandment

Italy / USA 1987
produced by
Alessandro Fracassi for Racing Pictures
directed by Ruggero Deodato
starring Bruce Penhall, Mimsy Farmer, David Hess, Luisa Maneri, Nicola Farron, Andrew J.Lederer, Stefano Madia, John Steiner, Nancy Brilli, Cynthia Thompson, Valentina Forte, Ivan Rassimov, Elena Pompei, Charles Napier, Sven Kruger, Lorenzo Grabau, Stefano Galantucci, Clelia Fradella, Fabio Vox
written by Alessandro Capone, Dardano Sacchetti, Luca D'Alisera, Sheila Goldberg, music by Joel Goldsmith, Claudio Simonetti

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Even though the campground of Robert (David Hess) and Julia (Mimsy Farmer) Ritchie is closed to the public after a murder that happened twelve years ago and Robert has since set up mantraps all around the place, a group of teenagers (Bruce Penhall, Luisa Maneri, Andrew J. Lederer, Stefano Madia, Nancy Brilli, Cynthia Thompson, Elena Pompei, Sven Kruger) put up camp there, mainly because they made friends with the Ritchies' son Ben (Nicola Farron). Of course, soon enough a maniac in the mask of a shaman starts killing off the teens.

Oddly enough, our teenagers do not seem in the least concerned that their numbers are rapidly decreasing and that noone ever comes back from the bathhouse - where the shaman prefers to do his killings.

Meanwhile, Robert and Julia have a marital dispute, that ends with both of them trying to kill each other, with Robert finally succeeding.

Then, with our group of teens shrunk down to four, they finally realize that they're in danger ... what they don't know though is that one of them is the killer, Ben, who has witnessed the killings 12 years ago and has since gone mad, most probably because the killer was his father. But before Ben can kill all our teenagers, he is shot dead by the Sheriff (Charles Napier). Then the Sheriff wants to go after Robert, too ... but Robert is killed by a real Shaman (!).

Genre faves John Steiner and Ivan Rassimov can be seen in this one as local physician and deputy, respectively. Neither role has any impact on the film's proceedings.

 

By and large, director Ruggero Deodato is known as a dilligent craftsman with the occasional touch of greatness (mainly Cannibal Holocaust), in Body Count though, his talents are sadly wasted: Body Count is a mindless teen slasher that follows the formula of countless other (American) teen slashers to the t and even emulates the impersonal style of these films. It's got everything you would expect from such a film: teenagers that do their best to stay one-dimensional, atrocious 80's pop music, a masked killer who gives away his identity way too soon to stay within the genre formula, a few explicit but not very inventive murder scenes, and a silly shock ending. Ultimately there is nothing in Body Count that one has not seen in hundreds of other slashers that came before and after it and that were not the least bit more interesting as it is.

In other words, a disappointment.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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