My mother decided to rent some films today, many of the time she will get films I have NEVER heard of. I'll say is this a low budj mom? and she'll get defensive and explain that it's not. Anyway on to my review for Camp Hell. I thought it would be some sort of knock off Jason film with an axe murderer killing off teens doing God knows what in the woods. From the first 10 minutes I realized it would be a religious film or maybe a film about demons. I noticed that Jesse Eisenburg * star of Social Network, Rio, and many other films* was filming in this movie, he's even on the front cover. Once it came to his role, his scene was there for about 5 minutes. I thought, maybe he'll appear later on in the story. As I continued to sit through the film I was very confused. The story takes place in a strict "christian" camp, yeah you know the ones that don't allow you to do a thing and everything is a sin? First off, it was completely confusing, because they were mixing Catholic and Christianity religion together, which shows the writer probably had no real knowledge base in the religion at all. Throughout the film it is mentioned repeatedly how masturbation is one of the largest sins you could probably make because it brings you closer to the devil.. If that was the case I'm sure about a minimum of 80% of the world would desecrate in the pits of hell. The main character, Tommy, shows interest in a girl going to the camp and they go off in the woods and begin kissing and then dry humping with a few breast grabs. Meanwhile during this entire scene Tommy has a leaf just sitting right on top of his butt which totally throws off the sensuality of whatever this scene was trying to achieve. After this happens a particular "evil" is unleashed and a priest now has headless doves under his pillow, a young teen is "possessed" sitting in his own urine, and well... that's about it. I still have no clue what was going on and where was Jesse Eisenburg? I mean he's on the front cover! A second scene flashes towards the end of Jesse slashing his wrists and sitting in a bathtub... and it ends there. That's it that's what got him on the front of the cover. Anyway, Tommy is again confronted by the priest and all of sudden the "evil" appears and takes over the priest's body. He runs to a chapel where his mother is basically the statue of Mary, the statue falls on him, and the "evil" appears again. He wakes up in a hospital.... says he doesn't believe in God anymore and about 5 minutes later throws some kind of bible out of the window ... THE END. This movie was absolutely terrible, even for an aspiring filmmaker, I know just how hard it is to get a strong cast, funding, equipment, special fx, etc. , but none of this matters if your story is not good. This film could have had so much potential, but failed miserably. If you see this in your local RedBox just skip to a movie you've actually heard of or one that is just not Camp Hill... or Camp Hope , it seems that they didn't decide on the title either.
