Great cast and great body count. How many? Dozens...maybe 40 or 50, most offed with a very big knife in this slasher epic. Oh, a fine cast of peeps you want to see...like Michael Pare and Devanny Pinn, and standouts from Mahal Empire films like Robert LaSardo. Nostalgic for those 80 slasher film tropes? Here they are...set at a summer camp by the lake with counselors and stupid campers, and killers who relish in gutting them....oh yeah, Michael Pare is in it...I guess I said that. Our feature today is 2024's "Camp Pleasant Lake," directed by Thomas Walton.
22 years ago a lot of bad stuff happened, and I'm not talking about the Bush Administration. In brief, a great looking couple, Ruby (Leila Almas Rose) and John (James Di Giacomo) are headed to a marriage counseling retreat but first need to drop their two children off at summer camp. They barely get there after being traumatized by a weird, perverted, and sadistic family. Mom and dad will be murdered in humiliating fashion by the weird family in which Angel (LaSardo) and Lou (Mike Ferguson) will noose them. The kids? Echo and Jasper? Humiliation and horror await them at camp. Present day, Echo (Kelly Lynn Reiter) and Jasper (Jonathan Lipnicki) are back...as killers that hang around that camp. The camp? New owners! Rick (Pare) and his wife have turned it into a horror camp themed after the horror that took place 22 years ago. The horror that took place? It will be replayed now, with the new campers and counselors.
Supposedly, the campers and counselors will endure the horror of the kind little Echo and Jasper endured long ago. They don't know that those two kids are back as psycho adults, and both have big knives. Oh, remember that weird family, which included Angel and Lou? They are still around. The adults that need killing, in the minds of Echo and Jasper, number almost 60. Certainly, in a 90 minute movie these two psychos won't get to all 60? Or will they? The knives get plenty of use, as does torture, and various other slasher weapons. A lot here, and the confluence of horrible events that occurred 22 years ago are gone into in great detail.
We should note the performance of Devanny Pinn. Her scene toward the end of the film is classic slasher horror, and merits some sort of Oscar. Okay, the death count is high, but will Michael Pare survive this slasher onslaught? Just what happened to Echo and Jasper over the past 22 years? Do the counselors and campers deserve their fates? For dozens of bloody stabbings, and twisted backstories, see "Camp Pleasant Lake."
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