I don't know what is worse - the movie or the movie's reviews. Clearly the reviews are either paid advertising or belong to people who helped make the film. This movie is such a waste of matter. Knowing that matter cannot be created or destroyed, the existence of this movie means that someone transferred matter from something good in this universe into this abomination of a film. Someone needs to destroy this movie and everything related to it so that all of that wasted matter can be returned to the universe and be used for something better. Hell, use it to feed Michael Moore and that would be a better use than existing as Spirit Camp.

SPIRIT CAMP is a little better than I'd hoped for, what with it being a no-budget independent horror film and all. This one's a slasher that heavily copies Friday the 13th, replacing the summer camp locale with a cheerleader camp set in the isolated woods. This means that almost the entire cast is female with just a couple of guys in support.The gender reversal twist is probably the most interesting part of this story, as are the attempts at characterisation that you don't normally see. Certainly the slasher aspects are predictable and the gore quite cheap and disappointing. The acting is average but not the worst I've seen, and at least the actresses are making a genuine effort here. I can't call SPIRIT CAMP a good film, but at least you get the impression that the filmmakers tried their best here.

The film I thought took me back to the older horror films when it was just basic people trying to escape a psycho killer. But the real thing that makes this film so good is the smart comedy mixed in, it is a horror, comedy, you can watch over and over again. It is one of those horror films which also doesn't need loads of special effects because it's so good anyway, and it just never gets boring, it will have you glued to the screen. Some people may think the acting is a bit low rated because the actors are not super well known, but who cares? If you liked other films such as Friday the 13th or Halloween then this is the sort of film you need to be watching. The film picked out a cast of characters that really work well with each other, if they had used different actors the film would of been ruined.

Pretty girls being slaughtered at a lakeside cheer-leading camp—hardly the most original idea for a horror film. Clearly believing that the only way they could possibly get any mileage from this already well-worn plot, the makers of Spirit Camp opt to play much of their film for laughs, only attempting anything remotely resembling real scares in the closing moments.Ironically, it is the tongue-in-cheek humour that comes across as the most tired aspect of the whole film, slasher films having been subject to mockery for many years now, whilst the scary bits in the finale actually work the best. I suspect that if director Kerry Beyer had had a bit more conviction in his abilities as a film-maker he could have made a genuinely good slasher, instead of a cheesy, trashy and laugh-free spoof with not nearly enough blood and guts. Maybe next time, eh?Still, I suppose it could be worse: the women in the film are attractive, buxom, and aren't shy about taking off their cheer-leading outfits for a spot of much appreciated nudity; the acting isn't all that bad considering that most of the cast seem to be new to the job; the film has a polished look to it, belying its low budget independent roots; and with such delights as a camp counsellor being killed while breaking in a sex toy, several sneaky up-skirt shots, the campest male cheerleaders imaginable, and a fat guy going down on his total babe of a girlfriend (the lovely Katy Rowe), at least Spirit Camp can never be accused of being boring.