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...for a very disturbing ending!

Sleepaway Camp is a well known slasher classic from the early 80's, and surprisingly I never saw it before today (2022).

As a slaher fan, I had to correct that!

The plot is quite simple and starts with a father and one of his kids getting killed by a motorboat in front of the other kid.

Said kid is adopted by their aunt, a strangely mannered lady, and grows up with their cousin. That kid is named Angela, and she's quite traumatized by what she lived 8 years later.

She's sent with said cousin Ricky to summer camp where she will be heinously bullied by older teenagers because she acts very shy and silent.

Then, the murdering begins...

As you can see, classic plot, no surprise. And for the most part, that movie is exactly what you imagine it to be. People bully Angela, they get killed.

So who's the murderer? It's becoming quite obvious in the last part of the movie, when most murders happen. But in the end, the very end, the last image... will probably stay engraved in your memory. I did not expect that, especially when 3/4 of the movie has been so tame.

So, not the best slasher you'll see, far from it, even under the average (yes, the average slasher is quite a low standard), but just for this shocking ending, with the look in the killer's eyes, the maniacal face and the very upsetting noise, watch it. Seriously. Watch. It.

This animated cartoon series was a follow up to the pretty bad (and hilarious) 1995 movie with Jean-Claude Vandamme.

The storyline unfolds the stupid and nonsensical adventures of Colonel (sic.) William Guile and his ragtag group of undercover agents cleverly called the "Street Fighter".

This cartoon, back in the day, was only made with the intent of selling ugly toys capitalising on the success of the previously mentioned movie and the most successful franchise of versus fighting video games.

If not good, it can be funny at times, especially because it's absolutely moronic, and there are some nice apparitions of some characters and names from other Capcom IPs, like Street Fighter Zero/Alpha and Final Fight.

I particularly liked the moment when that guy waiting for its train while reading a newspaper headlining the fall of the Mad Gear gang (Final Fight).

Overall bad and inconsistent in term of animation and art (ranging from mediocre to absolutely atrocious), this is simply a Mask or G. I. Joe with some Capcom characters thrown in.

Add to the mixture bad voice acting, cliché accents smelling of racist humour, and you got a typical bad show from 25 years ago.

Next!

...when this absolute pile of steaming turds of a movie was over.

Un uninspired found footage taking place in a hauted derelict sanatorium where a bunch of stupid social media influencers (pleonasm?) lock themselves for a "fear challenge".

If you manage to drag yourself into the ending part, you'll have the pleasure to see a double plot twist so idiotic and cliché you'll wonder if that wasn't just a joke.

I don't know how some filmmakers can still tell themselves, nowadays, that making that kind of movies is a good idea, and some producers to give them the money to make them.

Special mention to the French dub, bad enough to make it almost funny.

So, if you value your time (unlike me), take a wide berth around this wreck and go watch something else.

Let's be honest, this is NOT a bad movie.

Pretty good actors, the direction is good, the sound is par with the rest... No, nothing bad here!

(Well, maybe except the CGI, that are really sub-par.)

So why the under the average grade?

It's so cliché, ten thousand times déjà-vu, there's little to no original work in this movie.

Everything that movie throws at us, we already know since the 70's.

I know there's a fad around Folk Horror, lately, and I love that's subgenre, but please, taking an overused plot and adding witches and tree-gods does not make your movie Folk Horror!

Well, at least, this one spared us the deer skulls...

After only 10min into this flick, I had guessed the vast majority of the plot. It so predictable, so cliché...

The acting is not very good, photography is not bad but very déjà-vu, the characters have little to no depth, music starts screaming on every so called horrific scene, cheap jumpscares.

Honestly, sticking deer skulls and pines on a stereotypical satanic cult US movie does not make it "folk-horror".

It absolutely can't compare with Midsommar or The Wicker Man.