History Film / SummerCampNightmare

* KnifeNut: Stanley Runk, who is rarely seen without his hunting knife.

* {{Diary}}: Donald Poultry uses a tape recorder to dictate an audio diary of the events that take place during his time at Camp North Pines. The audio diary is later confiscated by the police at the end of the film as evidence, though Donald does ask if he could have the tapes back when they're through with them.

* HelloNurse: The visiting nurse from Camp South Pines is given this reaction by the teenage boys of Camp North Pines upon her arrival at the beach.

* DearDiary: Donald Poultry uses a tape recorder to dictate an audio diary of the events that take place during his time at Camp North Pines. The audio diary is later confiscated by the police at the end of the film as evidence, though Donald does ask if he could have the tapes back when they're through with them.

* YouBastard: Debbie's reaction to John Mason's denial of the rape he committed against her at the trial.

* TheAlcoholic: Jack Caldwell, the sports director of the camp, who is seen taking quick nips even during times when he should be watching over the children for their safety. The children eventually get into his stash and use it to liven up their parties during the takeover.

* BoundAndGagged: Mr. Warren is presented at the first kids' dance at the camp with his hands tied behind his back and his mouth taped over, with Trixie playfully taunting him with some seductive dancing. Stanley and John tease her behind her back about this as they watch, saying that she must like older men.

''Summer Camp Nightmare'' is a 1987 horror film featuring Chuck Connors and Charlie Stratton, which is based on the 1961 novel ''Literature/TheButterflyRevolution'' by William Butler. In the film, the teenage counselors-in-training stage a takeover of the all-boys Camp North Pines to liberate it from its strict camp director Mr. Warren, locking up all the adult counselors and also liberating the nearby all-girls Camp South Pines. At first things start off fun as they celebrate the takeover with a co-ed dance. However, as a rape and a murder occur during the takeover, things take a turn for the worse, and one counselor-in-training must get the police to rescue the children from the camp and put the ringleader, Franklin Reilly, under arrest.

* TheAlcoholic: Jack Caldwell, the sports director of the camp, who is seen taking quick nips even during times when he should be watching over the children for their safety.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Donald Poultry during the early part of the revolution is conflicted over whether he should follow his friend Chris Wade or Franklin Reilly, the counselor-in-training that saved his life. He decides to go with Franklin, but when things really get deep and people in the revolution start acting really strange, he chooses to turn against Franklin and side with Chris.

* DeanBitterman: Mr. Warren is the camp director version of this trope, as he hardly allows the teenage boys of Camp North Pines to have any fun, going so far as to have the rec room's TV set only receive one channel which is full of religious programming. He also ends up cancelling the co-ed dance planned with Camp South Pines over John and Stanley's obscene performance of "Beef Baloney", and further restricts any contact with the girls' camp after Chris Wade is caught making out with Heather. One of the teenagers comments that he used to be a very strict high school principal. He ends up killed halfway through the film, and his body is dumped into a cave.

* TheHero: Chris Wade, the counselor-in-training who turns against Franklin Reilly and his regime and also rescues his friend Donald Poultry when he is forced to go across the broken rope bridge as punishment.

* SilentTreatment: Because Chris Wade and Heather wouldn't go along with what Franklin's gang of revolutionists want to do regarding control of the camp, they were given this even by their best friends by order of Franklin himself.

* SwappedRoles: In Camper-Counselor Turnabout Day, the campers and camp counselors swap roles for a day, which starts off as light-hearted fun, but then Franklin uses it as an opportunity to stage his takeover of the camp, freeing Chris Wade from detention and putting the adult camp counselors into detention.

* SmashTheSymbol: Mr. Warren's butterfly collection board, serving as a sort of symbol for the camp director's rather oppressive rule over the campers and junior counselors, gets smashed and taken down by the revolution as they take the supports for it and use it for roasting a pig over an open fire.

* DeanBitterman: Mr. Warren is the camp director version of this trope, as he hardly allows the teenage boys of Camp North Pines to have any fun, going so far as to have the rec room's TV set only receive one channel which is full of religious programming. One of the teenagers comments that he used to be a very strict high school principal. He ends up killed halfway through the film, and his body is dumped into a cave.

* GadgeteerGenius: Donald Trump, who constantly carries around a suitcase full of tools and uses them to do things such as hack into the box on top of the rec room building that controls the number of channels the rec room's TV set receives.