A group of young kids ranging from very young to teenagers are about to start their summer at Camp North Pines.The girls camp is not far away from boys.A camp director named Mr. Warren played by Chuck "Tourist Trap" Connors is the main problem.He is deeply religious and conservative.So no hijinks and intimate contacts with girls.Introverted but pretty dominant Franklin becomes the leader of new revolution.He is well-versed,reads Thoreau and without hesitation crosses dangerous rope bridge.He tells all the kids that all of the other kids that society uses fear to control them and that once they could control fear they can control society.It's time to liberate camp and kidnap camp counselors.Revolution begins...with future stabbing and rape."Summer Camp Nightmare" is not a slasher flick.It's pure 80's cheese with some great one-liners and memorable characters like Runk the Punk.Very charming and somewhat nostalgic movie soaked with cheese.8 revolutions out of 10.

Based on William Butler's The Butterfly Revolution, Summer Camp Nightmare quickly descends into something like an after school special on crack with this story of campers taking over two adjoining summer camps and imprisoning the counselors because they don't like the overly strict camp director, who is overly fond of the "time out" approach to child discipline. Besides the obvious allusions to Lord of the Flies, the plot is marginal, the campers descend into madness rather quickly (literally within a day or two of taking over), people are raped and killed and it all comes down to our protagonist being forced to walk a rickety bridge.

Summer Camp Nightmare is a pretty good camp movie. Likethe guy before me said its not a horror movie. Its morelike a drama/thriller. The movie is about a bunch of kidswho are fed up with the rules at the camp and decide tolock up the adults and take over the camp. The leader calls the takeover a revolution. But even the revolutionhas rules and a couple of people break those rules and are punished. The movie isn't great, but it delivers enough goods to entertain for 90 minutes. All in all a prettygood camp movie. I give Summer Camp Nightmare **1/2 out of ****

This movie is like a mix of "Meatballs" and "Taps". The title is misleading. This isn't a "Friday the 13th"-type horror film. It's a pretty good little film about a teenage counselor who organizes all of the kids to take over the camp and lock up the adults. They do it because the new camp director (Chuck Connors) runs the place like a dictator and doesn't let the kids do anything fun. I wish we had done this when I was kid at bible camp! The teen counselor isn't exactly playing with a full deck either, but the kids don't mind as long as they get what they want, which is rock n' roll, parties, and sex. The supporting characters are well-drawn, especially Runk the Punk. Check this movie out if you come across it in the video store. It's a good time-killer.