Synopsis
Campfire Stories Can Be Deadly
During the winter season, a family camping in the woods, and a group of camp counselors training in the same forest both find themselves being killed one by one by an unhinged psycho.
1989 Directed by Michael S. O'Rourke
During the winter season, a family camping in the woods, and a group of camp counselors training in the same forest both find themselves being killed one by one by an unhinged psycho.
Blake Gibbons Ingrid Vold John Marzilli Tom Hamil Jill Foor Joe Balogh Ann McFadden Pamela Ross Kelly Mullis Joleen Mullins Larry Coven Sioux-z Jessup Alex Wexler Joseph Christopher Greg Mardon Neil Kinsella Michael Capellupo Kelly O'Rourke Ernie Abernathy Ron K. Collie Ken Hanes Carl Solomon Mark Archuleta Susan Hannah Tracy Hutton Sam Williams Myron Sayan
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This was a pretty ok slasher, not the best i've ever seen but also not the worst. The kills were ok not that well done but you can see that effort was put into them even tho you can see that the movie was made on a low budget. The acting was not horrible it was tolerable. And the story was pretty basic for a slasher. And i liked that this movie was set inside a winter camp.
Overall if you like slashers i would suggest this movie to you, it's not the best but not the worst.
Can’t trust those humans out in the wild,
cause they’ll give you the axe every time!
Moonstalker the campfire slasher in Vinegar Syndrome’s second Homegrown Horror Set goes back to its regional no-budget full of charm coziness, just this time in an actual snowy wilderness setting. Bernie, a deranged man-child in a strait-jacket and hooded mask, who later changes his entire killer outfit and identity—still not sure how I feel about this absurd decision lol— is stalking and terrorizing a vacationing family and horny camp counselors one by one—sound familiar? Moonstalker is formulaic, but never bored me to tears especially with the constant introduction to new characters meeting Bernie’s axe and losing limbs.
I would usually call these late 80s slashers mindless…
"Moonstalker" is a 1989 slasher effort directed by Michael S. O’Rourke. Being a small regional effort, it is obviously of a low budgeted variety, but still cohesive in its application to connectively tell a story. The narrative follows a crazed killer named Bernie, who has somewhat been formulated into a manner through years of being chained up by his father, simply dubbed as "Pop". Pop runs a scheme of letting Bernie loose to terrorize campers so that he can collect valuables left over. We are introduced to this scenario with a typical family in the beginning of the film, and then the narrative shifts to the typical trope of twenty something campers out in the woods for "wilderness training". Bernie…
I am honestly afraid of the day I run out of new cheap-ass 80’s slasher trash to watch. I have no idea what I’ll do but I hope it’s far enough away that I can forget what I’ve watched and just rewatch these wonderful movies over again like it’s my first time.
I really kinda liked this! I mean it’s awful...really awful...but totally my kind of awful. This one is about a bunch of people camping in the winter...like in the snow...and let me just tell you that it snows non-stop all winter where I live and NO NO NO, “snow camping” is NOT a thing! So, we know from minute 1 that believability is not an issue this movie…
Walter White takes Skylar and the kids in his RV into the woods to cook meth and have a good old family vacation. The kids who would have preferred to have gone to Miami or Cali but who wants to wait in those lines? Amirite? They probably should have braved those busy cities instead of deciding to camp in the middle of nowhere. Their peaceful vacation is soon interrupted by a madman who's soul purpose is to have a working microwave and a colour tv!
Anyhow this is a serviceable low-budget slasher that does exactly what you expect. Weirdo with a potato sack for a mask who halfway through the film ditches the mask for a pair of sunglasses and…
"THERE'S A BAD MOON RISING...AND IT JUST GOT WORSE!"
Moonstalker is a subtle little slasher gem. It plays it pretty straight and delivers a cheesy dose of bloodshed and thrills. It's surprisingly high kill count, memorable characters and overall premise elevate it's formulaic nature. Plus there's more than a few notable scenes. Diaper masked killer trudging through the snow covered in chains whaaaa?????? And then ditches the diaper mask for a cowboy hat and aviators??? Whaaa???
Moonstalker feels more like an early 80s slasher as it's fairly conventional for 1989.
The minimal yet memorable creepy score, the competent acting, copious amounts of flannel. Not gonna lie I was a little disappointed with how traditional it is. Which will please lots…
Last film of the Homegrown Horrors vol 2 boxset. I think they sold the dvd of this film at a dollar store when I was in high school. Never picked it up though.
Anyway this was another low budget slasher with cornball characters, some sleaze, alotta cheese, a snowy campfire setting, and a killer that randomly switches outfits half way through the film(from mask/straight jacket combo to a cowboy hat/shades combo). One of the characters reminded me alot of legendary scream queen Linnea Quigley. The kills are a bit of a letdown but still passable in a cheap n charming way.
I think I enjoyed the first Homegrown Horrors boxset a bit more than this one with Winterbeast being my favorite of the 6 films so far. Looking forward a third volume whenever it drops.
A very country-western looking Glen Danzig type hacking his way through a bloodless but very impressive body count. Lackluster but involved, does all the wrong things in just the right way. Doesn't follow any rules. Just wanders in and out of chaos, freeform. Love a movie where pretty much everybody dies, everybody is up for grabs. The intro was genius. Quickly knew that this was going to be some premium out there bullshit. Keeps you smiling till the end.
A father takes his family on a winter camping trip in the woods of Nevada, much to the chagrin of his teenage children, both of whom would have preferred a weekend on the beaches of California. They will soon learn the hard way that they should have gone to the beach after all. This forest is inhabited by an unhinged madman who had to grow up without a microwave oven and who has a score to settle with the whole of humanity. I get it, because, had I not possessed the equipment to make Hot Pockets during my youth, then there is no telling how I would have turned out.
The 1989 low-budget slasher, Moonstalker, directed by Michael S. O'Rourke,…
Film #36 of Shocktober17
Super goofy, late 80s slasher movie that is extremely middle of the road. We start off with a family who, against nearly everyone's wishes except their father, are vacationing in the woods... in winter. Their camp grounds are disturbed when a man hitching a trailer arrives, and brings with him his straight outta the psych ward son, Bernie (which is maybe the least threatening name ever?)
There's some cool stuff going on especially in the beginning when Bernie is wearing a strait jacket and non-descript mask/hood which is actually creepy, but it ditches this get up only 20 minutes into the movie for a less creepy cowboy hat and flannel so he can stalk some kids…
Snowy sleepaway camp slasher with a Wings Hauser lookalike in place of Jason Voorhees or Cropsey. Absolutely nothing you haven't seen before but it's competently shot by Michael Goi (The Town That Dreaded Sundown remake), and features a pretty neat gag toward the end.
"You son of a bitch... you FUCKER"
Someone explain why the score goes so hard?
Stupid as fuck and snow covered below the radar slasher that has no business being such a good time. I blame it on its c-level antics that are just as much fun as its unhinged axe wielding madman who goes by the name of Bernie. The only thing holding it back from a five star rating is the amount of off screen kills... still violent though so it gets a pass.
My body count for backwoods slashers on a budget that I've sat through is alarming and for the most part they're forgettable. When something like Moonstalker comes along you cherish it though, all that wading through the craptastic filth to find a gem of garbage as horribly entertaining as this makes it all worth it.