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As the film opens you find yourself wondering why all slasher movies have to start with a group of teenagers at Summer camp? Is that written down somewhere in Chapter One of "Horror Filmmaking for Dummies"? It must be.

As the film opens you find yourself wondering why all slasher movies have to start with a group of teenagers at Summer camp? Is that written down somewhere in Chapter One of "Horror Filmmaking for Dummies"? It must be.

You plod through the first bit of the movie as these particular teens frolic at camp, over-emoting as only teenage stars can. Turns out they're not too particular. After over-indulging in some [[Dixon Cider]] (the hard variety) they turn over the car keys to the one kid who hadn't been drinking. Unfortunately, he'd been unknowingly inhaling the fumes of a two week old head of cabbage that had rolled under his bunk and he ends up hitting a hitchhiker on their drive back home. Relying upon their keen powers of teenage logic, they decide to dump the dead body at the local garbage pit and pretend nothing happened.

You plod through the first bit of the movie as these particular teens frolic at camp, over-emoting as only teenage stars can. Turns out they're not too particular. After over-indulging in some [[Dixon Cider (TM)|Dixon Cider]] (the hard variety) they turn over the car keys to the one kid who hadn't been drinking. Unfortunately, he'd been unknowingly inhaling the fumes of a two week old head of cabbage that had rolled under his bunk and he ends up hitting a hitchhiker on their drive back home. Relying upon their keen powers of teenage logic, they decide to dump the dead body at the local garbage pit and pretend nothing happened.

Cut to the following summer and the kids are all back at camp. Things go from bad to worse as one of the teens receives a letter letting them know that "i saw what you did thar". As if the sheer anxiety of knowing that someone had seen them drinking the previous summer is not bad enough, the kids are kidnapped one by one and put through psychologically devastating tests which force them to commit unspeakable acts to save themselves from fiendish traps. You can't decide if the most horrific test in the film is where two of the kids have to saw off the tags from their own clothes or the fiendish Reverse Lobster Trap. One thing is for certain, however: the villain behind all of it has the worst grammar and spelling in the known world.

Cut to the following summer and the kids are all back at camp. Things go from bad to worse as one of the teens receives a letter letting them know that "i saw what you did thar". As if the sheer anxiety of knowing that someone had seen them drinking the previous summer is not bad enough, the kids are kidnapped one by one and put through psychologically devastating tests which force them to commit unspeakable acts to save themselves from fiendish traps. You can't decide if the most horrific test in the film is where two of the kids have to saw off the tags from their own clothes or the fiendish Reverse Lobster Trap. One thing is for certain, however: the villain behind all of it has the worst grammar and spelling in the known world.