Horror Movie Summer Camp Lets You Live Out A Slasher Flick

Steven Bogos

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Horror Movie Summer Camp Lets You Live Out A Slasher Flick


Who would you be in a horror film? The first one to die? The panicky bimbo? The hero that sacrifices himself to save others? Now you can find out.

Ever wondered how you'd fare in a slasher flick like Friday the 13th or Scream? Do you think you'd break into full badass mode and save the day, be the first one to die, or be that inevitable scumbag that betrays his friends to save his own neck (and then still dies anyway)? Those of you in the Los Angeles area (or those willing to travel there) can find out courtesy of the Great Horror Campout, a summer camp that lets you live the horror movie experience, without having to die at the end, of course.

The campout will take place over the 7th and 8th of June, in the Los Angeles State Historic Park. "[the camp is an] overnight, immersive experience that puts campers into an interactive horror camping adventure. Whether campers decide to stay in their tents or venture into the darkness, they are fair game. You will be lured out of your tent one way or another," says the camp organizers.

"The interactive 'Hell Hunt' experience will give campers whom wish for a more extreme experience a run for their money as they come face to face (and closer) with their worst nightmares in order to retrieve the items for which they are hunting. The Hell Hunt will be an extremely high-octane hunt for items that will send campers bathing in the blood of a 'Pope Lick,' partaking in a sacrificial voodoo ritual, digging through road kill amongst 'Beasts of Bray' and more. Campers will have to use creative thinking and problem solving to find the most coveted items."

There will of course be a "safe zone" available for campers who have had enough, where they can relax, and watch horror movies while roasting marshmallows. If you are scoffing at the very idea of a safe zone, keep in mind the following disclaimer from the event organizers: "During Great Horror Campout you may be forcibly handled, moved, bound, hooded, chained and subjected to simulated torture by our actors. You may witness strong verbal content, which may be considered offensive in nature. This content is part of the experience and is presented for entertainment purposes only."

The event costs $149, lasts 12 hours (8pm-8am), and is restricted to those aged 18 and above. The only rule? "We can change the rules. When we want, for any reason we want and without any notice." Happy trails!

Source: The Great Horror Campout [http://greathorrorcampout.com/#/tickets]

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razer17

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Wait. Isn't this an episode of Psych? I'm pretty sure it turns out people die for real.
 

Darken12

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This is what in the business we call "tempting fate."

I foresee only disaster for all the poor souls involved in this.

It would be somewhat interesting to see the plot of this camp revolve around a killer who stalks people who go to a horror movie camp (to recreate a movie about a group of people who go to a horror movie camp). I wonder how many levels of meta you can cram into something like this before it implodes upon itself from too much irony.
 

King_Julian

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its all fun and games until a real serial killer joins the camp and starts taking them out 1 by 1 while everyone else thinks its fake
 

Yopaz

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razer17 said:
Wait. Isn't this an episode of Psych? I'm pretty sure it turns out people die for real.
Yup, this popped into my head when I saw the article.

Also personally I am not sure how scary this will be. They know what they have signed up for and they know they wont be killed. Meh, maybe I'm just a cranky old man.
 

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Sounds like those crappy haunted rides to me except that violence could happen when somebody decies they dont want to play along.
 

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Darks63 said:
Sounds like those crappy haunted rides to me except that violence could happen when somebody decies they dont want to play along.
This is exactly why I never cared for the Scare Tactics show. You know it's fake, the actors and the setup person know it's fake, but the victim does not. So when the victim goes into fight mode rather than flee, it stops being fun.
 

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Yopaz said:
Also personally I am not sure how scary this will be. They know what they have signed up for and they know they wont be killed. Meh, maybe I'm just a cranky old man.
You'd be surprised, ive done something like this before...

Basically was a tie in to James Camerons Aliens, where you and other tourists were escorted by a marine en route to the evac zone on a dying ship under attack by xenomorphs.

Looking back at it, the effects were kinda cheesy and the xenomorphs (guys in suits of course) would appear behind smoke vents and such to hide their lower half and look scary when they jumped out and tried to grab a tourist (who would scream and certainly look rather worried).
The lone marine would be leading the group and barking orders and shooting blanks at the aliens (this is all in retrospect, i was like 12 at the time so to my impressionable young mind it all seemed real xD).
One cool moment was when we were in the elevator and thinking we were safe, then aliens burst open the elevator door and grabbed the person who was standing closest to the door and she got dragged away all screaming whilst the marine cursed xP

The marine actor was awesome aswell, he was basically acting like Apone from the movie and growling at us not to get in his line of fire and how he hates being stuck escorting a group of dumbass colonists (us) but like hell he was gonna let any of us die and stuff xP

Point being it was awesome, and this was just like a 5 minute thing where we basically ran from one end of a corridor to another separated by those elevators before boarding the dropship and the other side of it would lead back to the queing area.

so yeh, even if you know its fake, if one is of the right frame of mind, its plenty possible to feel scared and immersed in the fake environment.

Kinda ranting away here, so on topic if i was in LA area id totally do this :) Call it tempting fate but ain't any worst then skydiving and other extreme sports and you're bound to get some good exercise running away from psychos.
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
Who else wants to be the first ones to die by having sex in the back of a pickup truck parked on the side of an abandoned dirt road?
Wooo, death by snu snu!
 

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King_Julian said:
its all fun and games until a real serial killer joins the camp and starts taking them out 1 by 1 while everyone else thinks its fake
But it would make a good film.
 

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Father Time said:
7th and 8th of July? That's a Sunday and a Monday. I know it's summer but there are people not in school who might like to go. I even live near L.A. Sure I don't have a job yet but I'd definitely have one by July.
After double checking, it appears I made a typo! The event is actually the 7th and 8th of June, which is a friday and saturday
 

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Remus said:
Darks63 said:
Sounds like those crappy haunted rides to me except that violence could happen when somebody decides they dont want to play along.
This is exactly why I never cared for the Scare Tactics show. You know it's fake, the actors and the setup person know it's fake, but the victim does not. So when the victim goes into fight mode rather than flee, it stops being fun.
Also if I read this right they are trying to to quote the article "During Great Horror Campout you may be forcibly handled, moved, bound, hooded, chained and subjected to simulated torture by our actors." How will they accomplish this? By putting a sack over someones head? that could trigger alot of bad things like a heart attack. Also there is the dude who goes in there wanting to fight.
 

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Father Time said:
What if you make the movie so that you don't know which of the killers is real and which one is the fake camp one? That could be interesting.

If you don't do it that way then you have to have a scene at the end where the fake killer has a battle with the real killer.

I'd watch either one.
You could go even further and confuse which people are dead for real and which people are just playing dead with pretty good make up effects. Then you could have further confusion with the fake protagonist (who is going by a script) and the real protagonist, who has seen real dead bodies (and the real killer) and is going steadily more insane as they keep spouting Cassandra truths that nobody believes until it's too late.

Father Time said:
Oh you were asking how many levels of meta, we could go? Ever ridden the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios? Well in the ride they're showing you all the herbivores then your boat accidentally wanders into the restricted part of the park with the carnivorous dinosaurs that wasn't supposed to be part of the ride. Add something like that into the fake fake camp, and we're at 3 levels of meta which is dangerous. Have the campers watch Cabin in the Woods and you've got highly unstable levels of meta not known to have existed before.
Oh, that's a pretty cool one!

You can also have the people behind the scenes watching Cabin in the Woods, for maximum irony, and snarking about what a terrible organisation it has behind the whole thing.

Father Time said:
Now just add someone from Inception saying we need to go deeper, a zombie flash mob and a reference to the Scary Movie series and the space time continuum will collapse in on itself with that much meta.

Great Scott!

But still if you're lucky to have a catchphrase from a trailer become a meme (like This Is Sparta!) you can rewrite the script to reference it becoming a meme on top of everything else.

This is a whole new level of meta feared by even the bravest of theoretical physicists.
There must be a Scream reference too, definitely. It's the grandfather of horror meta, after all.

The catchphrase idea was genius. It could only be better if it was already a meme in the in-universe movie (which was also modified at the last minute when the catchphrase went viral), so that the memetic effect becomes recursive and nested. It will be like Inception, but painful.