''Camp Slaughter'' (also known as ''Camp Daze'') is a 2005

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written and directed by Alex Pucci, and co-written by Draven Gonzales.

Plot

During a

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at Camp Hiawatha in 1981, two revelers sneak away to have sex and are killed by an unseen assailant. Twenty-four years later, four friends (Angela, Jen, Mario, and Vade) are driving through the area on their way to

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. The quartet becomes lost (passing the same sign several times) and their

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breaks down after night comes unusually early. All the electronics fail to work, and the group is thrown into hysterics when screams emanate from the surrounding forest, and the vehicle is pelted with debris, prompting them to spend the night in it. In the morning, the travelers are found by campers and counselors from Hiawatha, and invited to stay at the camp, which looks like it has not changed since the 1980s. As the quartet is shown around (noticing how

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the place is) someone murders any campers who go off on their own or in a pair. That night, the killer rampages through the facilities, butchering everyone except the quartet. At dawn, the travelers awaken to discover that nothing appears to be wrong and that everyone is alive again. Daniel and Ivan, a pair of counselors who are aware of what is going on, find the four, and explain that the camp is in a

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, stuck repeating the day of the killing spree. To prove they are telling the truth, the counselors take the others to witness the first murder, a strangulation in the woods, which they have never been able to stop, despite their best efforts. The time-displaced four try to leave on their own, but the SUV will not appear until nightfall, and walking away just brings them back to Hiawatha. Daniel and Ivan state that they are limited in what they can do, but with the help of outsiders, they may be able to break the loop and move on to whatever fate awaits them. The night of the massacre, it is revealed that Daniel and Ivan are the murderers and that they manipulated Michelle and Ruben, a pair of outcasts, into helping them with their

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. The psychopaths intend to have the travelers take their place in the cycle, which they believe they can achieve by murdering them, so they can get out. Mario and Vade die, but Angela and Jen manage to kill Daniel and Ivan. The girls go to the SUV, where Lou, the

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, is attacking Michelle and Ruben. Lou snaps Michelle's neck and exposits that he took out the perpetrators of the original massacre minutes after it occurred. A wounded Ruben then shoots an arrow into Angela's chest and is stomped to death by Lou as Jen escapes in the SUV. Three years later, Jen has become a successful writer, and while in her office one day, she receives an email. It is from Daniel and Ivan, who have written that they cannot wait to meet their "favorite author" soon.

Cast

* Kyle Lupo as Daniel * Anika McFall as Jen * Joanna Suhl as Angela * Jon Fleming as Ivan * Eric McIntire as Vade *

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as Mario * Bethany Taylor as Michelle * Miles Davis as Ruben * Ashley Gomes as Nicole * Philip Jess as Jay *

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as Patrick *

Jessica Sonneborn Jessica Sonneborn is an American actress, writer, director and stunt double, who is known for starring roles in ''Bloody Bloody Bible Camp'' and ''Dorothy and the Witches of Oz''. Sonneborn worked on many independent films in New England before ...

as Elizabeth * Troy Andersen as Tommy * Brendan Bradley as Paul Marq * Kyle Langan as Wesley * Jesse Gurtis as Mark * Amanda Gallagher as Linda * Jim Marlowe as Lou

Reception

A 2/5 was awarded by Jay Seaver of eFilmCritic, who referred to ''Camp Slaughter'' as an "illogical" and "deeply stupid movie" that "winds up being for gorehounds only".

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* * {{IMDb title, 0462220, Camp Slaughter 2000s science fiction horror films 2000s teen horror films 2005 horror films 2005 science fiction films 2005 films American independent films American science fiction horror films American teen horror films Films set in 1981 Films set in 2005 Films set in 2008 Films set in Maine Films shot in Maine American slasher films Films about summer camps American supernatural horror films Time loop films Films about time travel 2000s English-language films 2000s American films

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