Camp Cold Brook

Camp Cold Brook (2018) is a movie I recently watched on Amazon Prime. The storyline follows a group of reality TV ghost hunters whose show is about to be cancelled so they're shooting for one last episode they think may save them so they get picked up for another season. Their only problem is their chosen location may be too good to be true. This movie is directed by Andy Palmer (The Funhouse Massacre) and stars Danielle Harris (Dont Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead), Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax), Courtney Gains (Back to the Future) and Michael Eric Reid (Fame). The storyline for this actually has a pretty good setup and potential, both the primary storyline and the flashback to what happened at the camp. Unfortunately once the movie gets going the horror elements are weak and fall flat. The kill scenes and special effects are limited and really contain no gore. The horror elements/children aren't really scary due to how they're used to execute the kill scenes, which is too bad because how they original died is eerie. The twist at the end is also a bit blah and disappointing. This is a movie that had big picture good writing but implementing the premise is poorly executed. I'd score this a 3/10 and recommend skipping it.

Run of the mill camp suspense movie that we've seen 100 times before.

Once again here we go with a movie that had such possibilities but ended up being a total pile of garbage. LOVE Danielle Harris but even she could not save this movie. I gave it a 5 just because of her. They could have taken this ghost story to such awesome levels but left it totally flat. Not sure what is happening with Hollywood these days.......someone just seems to wake up one morning and say "hey, lets make a horror movie today but let's not think it through let's just go for it and see what happens"..........

Jack Wilson (Chad Michael Murray) is the star of the paranormal show, Haunt Squad. Angela (Danielle Harris) is his costar. They are getting canceled. It's time to go big or go home. They are given one more show to turn things around. They head to Camp Cold Brook. There was a murder spree in the past and no one has ever investigated the site.

The premise is kinda cheesy. This does have CMM and Danielle Harris. With only four characters, the kill potential is limited. Nothing happens for far too long. It's only the last fifteen minutes when it does anything. By then, it's too late. It's not anything that scary anyways.

I was expecting this to be a pretty b grade movie, I was surprised, to start off it was better then I expected. Nice and tense, got my heart racing a little. And then it got to the ending. It feels like they ran out of budget and just slapped together a 2 minute scene to finish the movie. I was so disappointed. Up until the end I would have rated it a 6 or possibly a 7. Honestly, it's enjoyable but be prepared to be pretty peed off at the ending.