When it comes to slasher parodies I don’t tend to look much further than Scary Movie. They nailed the spoof genre firmly on the head and for me it hasn’t really been topped since.
I was asked to check out Camp Death III in 2D last year but never got around to it until director Matt Frame himself reached out and urged that I check it out. I watched the trailer and after seeing the kind of batshit crazy I was about to step into I hit the play button.
A direct spoof of Friday the 13th: Part III (3D), Camp Death III in 2D started as a crowdfunding campaign.
Four years later we have a movie that drops purile gags, a ridiculously low level of acting ability and a script that may as well have been written on stained toilet paper. But guess what, it’s fucking funny in places!
Following the camp mates of Camp Crystal Meth a slasher is on the loose. Well, that’s about the plot summed up.
Disengage your brain for the outrageous, the ridiculous the “I can’t believe I’m watching this sh*t yet I can’t take my eyes off the screen” reactions. It’s basically Sharknado but without sharks and way more shit.
To even review such a film like this requires about as much work as the acting coach did on set. I feel as thou this very review is a parody of film reviews in itself!
The humour in Camp Death III needs a certain acquisition of insane taste. It certainly won’t appeal to the masses. There’s no intelligent use of spoof humour like Scary Movie it’s just unapologetically stupid. Take everything with a pinch of salt and you’ll be okay for the most part.
Camp Death III should really be in a genre of it’s own, everyone looks as thou they’re having fun doing whatever the hell they like but without a direction to go in, this film just becomes a home video movie with much better cinematography.
Summary
As a film it’s fucking awful. As a display of a group of guys and gals having a great time on set and providing crude batshit crazy entertainment well it would be a five-star review all day. It’s crass, it’s immature, it’s ridiculous, it’s atrociously awful but it’ll be hilarious to some and that counts for something!
