Body Count (1986 film)
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| Directed by | Ruggero Deodato |
| Written by | Alessandro Capone (as Alex Capone) Dardano Sacchetti (as David Parker Jr.) Sheila Goldberg Luca D'Alisera |
| Produced by | Alessandro Fracassi |
| Starring | Charles Napier David Hess Bruce Penhall Mimsy Farmer |
| Cinematography | Emilio Loffredo |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Music by | Claudio Simonetti |
| Distributed by | DMEG Forum Hollywood DVD Ltd. Magna Pacific Palace Home Video |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 min (90 min: uncut release) |
| Country | Italy/United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
Body Count (released in Italy as Camping del Terrore) is a 1986 slasher horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato.[1]
Body Count is one of the numerous sub-categorized "backwoods slashers" that occurred during the eighties made famous by Friday the 13th franchise and The Burning, along with such others as Don't Go in the Woods, Mother's Day, Just Before Dawn, Madman, The Final Terror and The Prey.
Plot
The film begins as two students named Rosie and Tom excuse themselves from a basketball game and head to a campground where it is revealed that the campground was built on a haunted Indian burial ground, adopted by an ancient Indian shaman to watch over the ground site. After Tom and Rosie finish having sex, Rosie heads out and finds an abandoned police car, not knowing that the Shaman is watching her through the bushes. Rosie gets inside the police car, only for the Shaman to attack from behind the seat, causing Rosie to flee and in the progress, gets stabbed in the hand. As Tom searches around for Rosie, Rosie hides inside a log, where the Shaman stabs her through the log. Tom heads towards the log and looks inside, only to see the Shaman disguised in Rosie's clothing and stabs Tom's neck. Soon, a kid looks behind the log and witness the deaths of Rosie and Tom.
Several weeks later, Rosie and Tom's friends (Abe, America, Barb, Brett, Drew, James, Jef, Kellan, Mick and Shannon) go into the woods to look for them. Mick jokingly theorizes that the Shaman, a deity worshiped by the Indians, killed Tom and Rosie. The teens split up into groups of two to look for their friends. Almost immediately after the split up, the Shaman decapitates Abe while he is urinating and stabs Brett. Afterwards, he corners Shannon inside a rock alcove and slashes her death. Shannon's partner, Jef, searches for her, but cannot find her.
James and America get bored while searching and have sex. Afterwards, the Shaman stabs America repeatedly in the breasts and castrates James. Jef finds their dead bodies and the Shaman cuts open his stomach. Mick and Drew find the dead bodies of Rosie, Tom, Abe, Brett, and Shannon. They race to save the others, and run into Kellan and Barb, but they do not believe Mick and Drew. The Shaman then appears and throws his knife into Kellan's head. The others run, but the Shaman catches Barb and slits her throat.
Drew and Mick hide in a cave. When the Shaman follows them in, they assault him by throwing rocks at him. He seemingly dies. Drew and Mick run out of the cave and flee the woods. One year later, Mick returns to the woods to hunt and kill the Shaman. However, the Shaman attacks him instead. Mick tries to run, but he trips on a root and is stabbed by the Shaman. Drew is then seen in his home watching a news report about Mick's death. The Shaman attacks Drew in the kitchen. Drew flees into his garage and hides before murdering the Shaman with an axe.
Cast
- Charles Napier as Drew
- David Hess as Mick
- Bruce Penhall as Kellan
- Mimsy Farmer as Barb
- Nicola Farron as Jef
- Andrew J. Lederer as James
- Cynthia Thompson as America
- Nancy Brilli as Shannon
- Stefano Madia as Brett
- John Steiner as Abe
- Ivan Rassimov as Deputy Sheriff Ted
Production
Bodycount's filming began in October of 1985 in Abruzzo, Italy and was finished in November of the same year, but had a limited release in the United States in 1986 and had a release in Italy in 1987
Release
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The film has been released on DVD in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. As of 2011, the film was not theatrically released in the United States. It was released on video as Body Count however.
Critical reception
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Allmovie called it a "derivative slasher entry" and "one of Deodato's least interesting films."[2]
References
- ^ "Body Count". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
- ^ Robert Firsching. "Camping del Terrore (1986)". Allmovie. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
External links
- Body Count at IMDb
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