Line #30 Film/CampfireTales1997


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3	A horror AnthologyFilm from 1997.
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5	#"The Hook": The opening story. A couple (Creator/JamesMarsden and Creator/AmySmart) tries to have sex in their car while a hook handed killer lurks around.
6	#"The Campfire": The wraparound story. Group of teens are stranded in the woods after their car crashes. As they make a camp for the night, they start telling [[GhostStory scary stories]] based on UrbanLegends to each other.
7	#"The Honeymoon": Two newlyweds (Creator/RonLivingston and Jennifer [=McDonald=]) decide to spend a night in the woods when their RV runs out of gas. Big mistake.
8	#"People Can Lick Too": Little girl Amanda (Alex [=McKenna=]) has to spend time alone at home with the family dog Odin, while some creep stalks her.
9	#"The Locket": A guy (Glen Quinn) driving across the country has to spend a night in a strange house after his motorcycle breaks down.
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11	!!"The Campfire"
12	* AbandonedArea: The cast find a decrepit church in the woods, and decide to camp there for the night.
13	* AndYouWereThere: [[spoiler:The people in the campfire stories are based on people seen by Cliff before he died, such as a couple he almost ran off the road and the two paramedics.]]
14	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Though everyone died in the car wreck, Cliff at least appears to obtain forgiveness from his friends before they all pass on into the afterlife.]]
15	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The TwistEnding reveals that most of the campers [[DeadAllAlong actually died]] in [[OffscreenCrash the car crash]]. The not-so-dead Cliff learns the truth and sheds a SingleTear just before he {{Flatline}}s]].
16	* TheStinger: There's a scene in the middle of the credits with [[spoiler:a car driven by a hook handed man arriving on the crash site. It is the same hook and the car from the opening segment]].
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18	!!"The Hook"
19	* AllInTheEyes: The rear mirror does this effect on Eddie and Jenny when they look around them.
20	* AutoErotica: Eddie and Jenny are trying to make out in their car, but the girl keeps seeing something in the dark.
21	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: It's all in black and white.
22	* EvilCripple: Willy "The Hook" Peters, whose name derives from the fact that he has a hook in place of a hand, and is implied to be a vicious criminal.
23	* TheGhost: We never actually get to see the hook-handed killer, just his hook hand. [[spoiler:At least until TheStinger of the wraparound segment.]]
24	* HookHand: After driving to burger joint, Eddie finds the killer's detached hook hand hanging on to his car door.
25	* UrbanLegend: The story of the couple at MakeOutPoint and the hook-handed killer is a famous urban legend.
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27	!!"The Honeymoon"
28	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cole [[{{Jawbreaker}} has his jaw ripped off]]; Ricky is ripped open and left hanging by his ankle from a tree on top of the trailer.]]
29	* DontGoInTheWoods: Staying in the woods spells doom, since something hunts for people there.
30	* EvilIsBigger: The crow men are rather tall.
31	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: It's Ricky and Valerie's honeymoon.
32	* {{Lunacy}}: Cole warns the newlyweds that "they" come out to hunt during full moon. And they do.
33	* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Ricky wants to go check the Clayton's Cavern, where a bunch of pioneers had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Valerie convinces him to have sex instead.
34	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: The "crow men" are at least somewhat lycanthropic in nature, being flesh-eating humanoid monsters that come out to hunt human prey on full moons.
35	* UrbanLegend: Very loosely based on the tale of a couple at a MakeOutPoint when their car breaks down and the boyfriend goes to look for help, [[spoiler:but is murdered by an escaped lunatic and his corpse is strung up above the car, his feet tapping against the hood]].
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37	!!"People Can Lick Too"
38	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler:"Jessica" kills Odin and leaves his corpse under Amanda's bed.]]
39	* CouldntFindAPen: True to the source material, [[spoiler:"Jessica" smears the titular message on Amanda's mirror in blood.]]
40	* {{GIRL}}: "Jessica", whom Amanda has been chatting with in the internet is actually a man, who now knows that she is alone for the night.
41	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Amanda's 12th birthday is tomorrow.
42	* InternetSafetyAesop: Or "Chatroom Safety Aesop". Though it seems the antagonist of the feature might have already known where Amanda lived before they started chatting online.
43	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:According to Cliff, "Jessica" is still out there.]]
44	* MsFanservice: The perpetually cleavage-baring Katherine is played by the gorgeous Devon Odessa.
45	* SerialKiller: "Jessica" keeps videotapes of the children he's stalked, and considering that he keeps a pair of garden shears handy, it seems pretty likely that he kills them.
46	* ShearMenace: "Jessica" picks up a pair of old garden shears from the backyard bushes as he stalks Amanda's home.
47	* UrbanLegend: Based on the urban legend where a young woman or girl is menaced by a killer [[spoiler:who kills her dog and hides under her bed, licking her hand all the while]].
48	* WouldHurtAChild: It's implied that the antagonist of the story has molested and/or killed a ''lot'' of little girls.
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50	!!"The Locket"
51	* BadassLongcoat: The father's ghost wears a long, black overcoat that helps to solidify his menace.
52	* CuteMute: Heather can't talk, but Scott is stricken by her beauty.
53	* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Scott opens the locket, and sees a picture of himself alongside one of Heather. Then Heather's head falls off. It isn't ever made clear if it's an ancestor of his, or if he's a ghost himself.]]
54	* HauntedHouse: Heather's home is haunted by ghosts. [[spoiler:And she's one of them.]]
55	* LivingMemory: The father's ghost repeats the events of him murdering his family. If someone else is present while he does it, they are in danger too.
56	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The father's reaction — almost verbatim — to [[spoiler:murdering Heather and her lover.]]
57	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Heather has been DeadAllAlong]].
58	* TheVoiceless: Heather doesn't speak, and communicates with Scott by writing on a blackboard. [[spoiler:She is unable to speak because her father [[OffWithHisHead cut off her head]] in the past. Once Scott removes her locket, she can speak but her head then falls off right in front of him]].
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