Ruggero Deodato directs this Italian slasher film, Body Count made to look like it was an American production, taking place in Colorado (while being filmed in Italy). While this is not necessarily a truly bad slasher film (compared to a lot of the shot-on-video crap I watch) it was fairly mediocre with a jumbled plot and ridiculous ending.

There are so many characters it is hard to keep track of who is who but I understand this is irrelevant because they are only on the screen to die in various degrees of violence.

Of all things I actually enjoyed the camera work in a few scenes!

David Hess and Charles Napier appear in Body Count. Unrelated trivia: Both actors were born in 1936 and died in 2011!

Ruggero Deodato's enjoyable entry in the popular 80's summercamp slasher genre!

This belated entry in the campsite slasher cycle is primarily of interest for being directed by Ruggero Deodato and its terrific cast of horror/giallo/exploitation veterans that includes David Hess (in surely a career worst performance), Mimsy Farmer, John Steiner and Ivan Rassimov, as well as the unlikely casting of Charles Napier.

With Deodato at the helm and the title Body Count (re-titled from the also "does exactly what it says on the tin" Italian original, Camping del Terrore) you might expect this to be some sort of pre-Scream ironic deconstruction of the slasher movie. But no, it's just a slavish imitation of its American inspirations but being Italian just that little bit dafter. The fact that four people are credited on the screenplay is incredulous.

Ruggero Deodato's enjoyable entry in the popular 80's summercamp slasher genre!

This belated entry in the campsite slasher cycle is primarily of interest for being directed by Ruggero Deodato and its terrific cast of horror/giallo/exploitation veterans that includes David Hess (in surely a career worst performance), Mimsy Farmer, John Steiner and Ivan Rassimov, as well as the unlikely casting of Charles Napier.

With Deodato at the helm and the title Body Count (re-titled from the also "does exactly what it says on the tin" Italian original, Camping del Terrore) you might expect this to be some sort of pre-Scream ironic deconstruction of the slasher movie. But no, it's just a slavish imitation of its American inspirations but being Italian just that little bit dafter. The fact that four people are credited on the screenplay is incredulous.

Ruggero Deodato directs this Italian slasher film, Body Count made to look like it was an American production, taking place in Colorado (while being filmed in Italy). While this is not necessarily a truly bad slasher film (compared to a lot of the shot-on-video crap I watch) it was fairly mediocre with a jumbled plot and ridiculous ending.

There are so many characters it is hard to keep track of who is who but I understand this is irrelevant because they are only on the screen to die in various degrees of violence.

Of all things I actually enjoyed the camera work in a few scenes!

David Hess and Charles Napier appear in Body Count. Unrelated trivia: Both actors were born in 1936 and died in 2011!

Generic slasher with lots of nudity and some violent kills. Not much of a story, the characters are really hard to tell apart but still fun.

By the 1987 slasher was pretty much dead and buried, before resurfacing in the '90s. Not the worst slasher ever made but pretty lifeless effort with full of cliches.