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* ButtMonkey: Poor David Stevenson never gets any letters and his parents don't bother to visit him. [[spoiler:Either one]].

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* ButtMonkey: Poor David Stevenson never gets any letters and his parents don't bother to visit him. [[spoiler:Either one]].one, though in main David's case, his family were implied to be dealing with an emergency and thus didn't have time to write or call]].



* DontAskJustRun: When David meets the other David, he begins to explain that he came from the other camp. The other David immediately becomes panicked and tells him to leave repeatedly, not even explaining why. The protagonist David is so shocked at this that he runs away quickly. That David was probably warning him about the other campers at his camp, [[spoiler: whom are actually bloodthirsty zombies]].
* INeverGotAnyLetters: David is in indignation that his parents have so far not sent him any letters to the camp, even though they had promised to write to him every day. The most he gets (which is actually probably the only one that's really to him) is a letter telling him that he's going to be sent to his great-uncle John.

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* DontAskJustRun: When David meets the other David, he begins to explain that he came from the other camp. The other David immediately becomes panicked and tells him to leave repeatedly, not even explaining why. The protagonist David is so shocked at this that he runs away quickly. That David was probably warning him about the other campers at his camp, [[spoiler: whom are actually bloodthirsty zombies]].
ghosts]].
* INeverGotAnyLetters: David is in indignation that his parents have so far not sent him any letters to the camp, even though they had promised to write to him every day. The most he gets (which is actually probably Near the only one that's really end of the story, the head counselor attempts to him) is a letter telling him explain that he's going David's parents just called the camp to be sent explain they hadn't written because they had to his great-uncle John.go away for a bit to deal with what's implied to have been a family emergency.



* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:It's not entirely explained what the deal with Camp Timber Lane Hills is or why the letters for the other David Stevenson were so harsh. Sam says the only other camp in the area burned down years ago implying other David and the kids were ghosts, but that doesn't explain why the other Stevenson parents seemed almost eager to foist their son onto someone else.]]



* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: David is revealed in the end to be this. He apparently begged harshly at the main character David to depart immediately because the rest of the campers are maniacal and want to feed on living people in a campfire]].

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* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:The other David is revealed in the end to be this. He apparently begged harshly at the main character David to depart immediately because before the rest of the campers are maniacal find out he's in Timber Lane Hills and want try to feed on living people in a campfire]].
kill him]].
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* ClashingCousins: Ashley and Greg. She constantly makes fun of her, to which she always snaps back at him. However, when it comes to saving each other from the chest monster, they don't hesitate.

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* ClashingCousins: Ashley and Greg. She He constantly makes fun of her, to which she always snaps back at him. However, when it comes to saving each other from the chest monster, they don't hesitate.



* KilledOffscreen: Implied. To combat the freakish poison ivy, counselors Larry and Craig decide to go out at night with weed whackers and weed poison, intending to battle the plant all night long. Matt notes that he never say them again. [[spoiler: And when the rest of the camp is congratulating Matt and his bunkmates for saving them all, Larry and Craig are nowhere to be seen]].

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* KilledOffscreen: Implied. To combat the freakish poison ivy, counselors Larry and Craig decide to go out at night with weed whackers and weed poison, intending to battle the plant all night long. Matt notes that he never say sees them again. [[spoiler: And when the rest of the camp is congratulating Matt and his bunkmates for saving them all, Larry and Craig are nowhere to be seen]].

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* ShoutOut: There are references to ''Series/ILoveLucy'' and ''Series/{{Star Trek| The Original Series}}''.



* {{Allusion}}: There are references to ''Series/ILoveLucy'' and ''Series/{{Star Trek| The Original Series}}''.

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* {{Allusion}}: ''Film/TheKarateKid'' is what the bullies mockingly call Jack.


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* ShoutOut: ''Film/TheKarateKid'' is what the bullies mockingly call Jack.

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* IllTimedSneeze: When stalking the aliens up close at night, Stanley can feel a tickle in his nose. He wants to prevent it, but he can't help it, and he sneezes. This alerts the aliens to his position, causing him to be taken to their ship for probing.



* SneezeOfDoom: When stalking the aliens up close at night, Stanley could feel a tickle in his nose. He wanted to prevent it, but he couldn't help it, and he sneezed. This alerted the aliens to his position, causing him to be taken to their ship for probing.

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