Bloody Bloody Bible Camp

As a child of the 1980s, my friends and I used to stay up all night to catch the gory slasher flicks they used to play "Only after midnight" on the networks. These films were not Shakespeare, and the lead characters weren't riddled with pathos either. That was just fine with us, we enjoyed them because they were scary, gory, and (most important of all) FUN. When I watched "Bloody Bloody Bible Camp", I was instantly reminded of those good times.The film begins with a set of grisly murders which take place at the Happy Day Bible Camp in the late 70s, by a homicidal masked figure known as Sister Mary Chopper. Flash forward to a few years later in the early 1980s, and we find Father Cummings (the "Hardest Working Man in Horror" himself, Reggie Bannister) heading to the camp with a fresh band of horny (and often clueless) bible campers. They're forewarned of the potential danger, but of course they don't listen. They're too busy thinking about themselves, who's going to score with who, and who's going to win the Bible Bowl trivia contest. They pile into their van and head out towards their doom, gleefully singing their favorite ode to Jesus (it's an original tune written by Reggie Bannister himself, and so catchy you might find yourself singing along before you know it).All the trope characters you love are represented. The Jocky D-Bag (played with manic jerk energy by Matthew Aidan), The Comely-but-Dim Sex Princess (Jessica Sonneborn), The Childlike Fat Kid (Christopher Raff), The Rakish Camp Counselor (Jay Fields), The Shy One (Troy Guthrie), The Troubled Goth (Deborah Venegas), and The Subdued Mysterious One (the excellent Ivet Corvea). They spend their time frolicking in the lake, talking about sex, sneaking out of their cabins, and removing their clothes for no reason (and who needs one?). All the time they're blissfully unaware there's a twisted killer working up a bloodlust for their hides, just around the corner (a villain who truly creeped me out but also amused the hell out of me).Make no mistake, this movie keeps its tongue firmly planted in its bloody cheek and that's the very top reason I loved it so much. It never takes itself too seriously, it's a tip of the hat to the high spirited slash-fests of yore and it never shirks from owning that fact. It's campy, it's purposely ridiculous, never brutal but consistently gory (early in the film comes one of the sickest and hilarious decapitations I've ever seen, equal parts gleeful violence and twisted humor). The production values here are solid for an independent horror film, and I was actually surprised at just how good the special effects are. I've seen some painful indies that look like they were done with a handy-cam and a tube of fake blood from the neighborhood costume shop, but you'll find none of that here (even the music was impressive for a small budget film).It just had everything I loved from old school slasher flicks (right down to the gratuitous T&A). I felt I got more than my money's worth with this movie. So far I've only watched it by myself but it's going to be perfect for future slash-fests with friends. In fact, I'd go so far as to say this movie is tailor-made for that purpose, especially for those who remember late-night horror sleepovers as kids in the 1980s.

It's possible to parody horror movies and be funny. It's possible to play horror tropes straight and be funny. It's possible to use dumb comedy to riff on how dumb slasher movies are and be funny. Scream, Cabin in the Woods, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and more have shown this repeatedly.BLOODY BLOODY BIBLE CAMP, though...isn't any of that. This is an attempt at comedy that falls flat. It's an attempt at parody that doesn't understand parody. It's an attempt to mock the stupidity of slasher movies that manages in *every conceivable way* to suck harder than some of the worst slasher movies ever made. Picture a movie on the same level as Uwe Boll's HOUSE OF THE DEAD, add in a layer of attempted comedy that constantly falls flat, and you'll have an approximation of how abysmal this is.It's *so excruciatingly unfunny* that Ron Jeremy cameos as a snarky, foul-mouthed Jesus Christ and even THAT wasn't funny. Literally one joke in this cinematic abortion made me laugh: while quizzing the campers on the Bible, the father asks "What happens to homosexuals?" and one girl replies "They become priests!" There. Now you don't have to watch it.Most of what's clearly supposed to be "funny" in this movie comes from groan-worthy double entendres that were clearly wedged in with a crowbar; they're presented as accidental, but nobody would ever actually say these things unintentionally. Much of the rest of the "humor" is way too on-the-nose. To give you an idea of what level we're operating on, a woman gets an axe wound right in her, ah, "axe wound," if you follow me.Comparing realistic human speech to most of this movie's dialogue is like comparing a lingerie model to the contents of a morgue drawer. To say that this tire-fire of a film was written like bad porn is to do a disservice to bad porn. I would say I could've written a better movie by sh*tting on a keyboard, but "sh*tting on a keyboard" is what whoever wrote this was already doing.As if the writing weren't bad enough, the acting is so cheesy that I think I need my cholesterol checked. Calling the characters two-dimensional would be giving them too much credit. It doesn't help that of a central cast of eight, at least six of them are idiots, misogynists, racists, homophobes, bullies, perverts, or some combination thereof. I'll grant that it's okay to have some unlikeable characters in a slasher movie, even some who might deserve to get carved up by the killer du jour, but this goes way too far. Speaking of going too far, we were treated to depictions of human feces not once, but twice (including being shoved into someone's mouth). So there's that. Then again, watching this movie is like having crap smeared across your eyes for 90 minutes, so it's kind of fitting.Another complaint to throw on the dizzying pile is that many of the characters who get killed by the villain appear to quite literally just stand there and let themselves be stabbed. When someone does fight back, finally, the killer just stands there and gets punched repeatedly in quite possibly the least interesting fight scene ever filmed. They could've gotten better action putting a training dummy on a turntable. The editor, cinematographer, and fight choreographer must have been drunk throughout the entire production.This movie is a crime against cinema, comedy, and storytelling. If there is a Hell, they have streaming services there and this movie is one of the only selections. The director, editor, actors, and producers should all have been fired; the writer should have been *incinerated.* I only wish I could give this abomination several hundred negative stars to cancel out the four stars it inexplicably bears on Prime Video's rating system.

Bloody Bloody Bible Camp might be the most offensive movie ever made...for Christians. As a Christian myself, I had a hard time with some of the sacrilegious elements in this movie, but I do have an open mind. So I was able to push my beliefs aside and enjoy the slasher and comedy elements that this movie had in store. This is a fast-paced and fun ride that delivers everything a good slasher needs to. And in many parts of the film, it had a real Friday the 13th feel to it. The setting, the murders, and even some of the music really paid good homage to the Friday the 13th series. And this thing is full of gore. There are several murders in the first ten minutes alone! And there is also nudity. So Bloody Bloody Bible Camp might offend many people, but if you are open minded I say give it a watch. It's a lot of fun, in spite of itself.

If BLOODY BLOODY BIBLE CAMP had been made 25 years ago, it would have played on cable a lot, especially on USA's Up All Night. It's a fantastic throw-back comedy in the guise of a classic slasher flick. I read the great review it got in Rue-Morgue's online column, BLOOD ON A BUDGET, and figured I'd give it a shot, and I was not disappointed. Like most lower-budget features, not all of the jokes and gore gags work well, but I was pretty amazed at how often they did. There's a lot of really funny stuff in this movie. Many times I found myself hitting the rewind to see a hilarious joke, or really cool kill again. There's even a couple of reaction shots near the end that are priceless. A must-see for fans of budget horror films, like RODNEY CECIL PSYCHO HERO. Even some of the jokes that bomb are endearing in that late-night cable way.

i saw the title and had to watch if you like the cheesy horror of the 80's this movie has plenty of it i think the worse thing about it was casting a former porn star as god .

Absolutely dire. Bottom of the barrel acting, cretinous script , amateur hour direction..Everything about it is inept and useless on every level.Brainless fare for the easily pleased.

Kein Grusel- kein Sex !!! Eine ganz miese Produktion !!! Mir fehlen die richtigen Worte, um dieses Grottenwerk zu beschreiben! FSK 12 würde reichen und selbst die Kids würden einen fragen, was das für ein Schwachsinn ist !!! Alleine schon der Synchrontext und die Stimmen sind der absolute Tod dieses Streifens. Die mordende Nonne ist ein Kerl im Kostüm und in dem MAKING OF rühmt sich noch diese Piepe von Regisseur mit der Fototapete am Unterarm!! Nur KRANKE !!!!! FINGER WEG VON DIESEM TEUREN DRECK !!! 12.- Euro