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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"..........

I wasted 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back after watching this.

For the first 68 mins I was waiting for the movie to get going...then nothing really happened. Stupid illogical characters, no horror or scares. It's basically PG

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.

It was long ago when I stumbled upon "Camp Cold Brook" , thought the poster's cool and it's produced by Joe Dante, so it has been sitting on my watchlist for a year or two. Now that it has finally come out, I can officially say that I'm disappointed.

"Camp Cold Brook" is an undeniably eventful and effortful piece of horror - we follow Jack (Chad Michael Murray) and his paranormal team of the show "Haunt Squad" as they find themselves making their hopefully game-changing new episode on the grounds of an abandoned summer camp where a mass murder has taken place years ago. It might seem that the found-footage shtick might be in use, but it's not, just minimalistically. It's still a classic, (at this point) conventional story & to spice it up, the filmmakers mixed it up with... one or two other conventional story lines. The twists are largely predictable, the characters are one-dimensional and the action - bland. "Camp Cold Brook" has very little flair, even less originality, but a lot of effort for the cliché's and cheese, which I personally can't give much props for. The acting performances are fine, albeit clothed up in uninspiring characters, genre fans will likely appreciate seeing Danielle Harris. The cinematographer has really tried to make "Camp Cold Brook" aesthetically enjoyable, dynamic, but on the background of other flaws, it eventually wore itself out or, in other words, ceased to impress.

"Camp Cold Brook" is a horror movie for those less experienced in the genre, for it utilizes old tropes, cheap technical solutions and bland story arcs. It has little to none gore or sexuality, so I'd assume teenagers can a get a kick or two out of this. My rating: 4/10.

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.

A good horror movie shot with the paranormal style of storytelling. Good jump scares and surely worth the watch

This is well acted. Everyone involved did a pretty good job of getting into their parts, and I appreciate it greatly when actors make the effort. It's what they should be doing and speaks well of them as professionals. I give them all kudos and frankly it's the only reason I rank this a 5 out of 10.

This is well filmed, it has that quality you hope to find in a movie when you view one: clear video, steady cameras, good story-boarding.

Unfortunately that's it. Plot wise it was very unoriginal. It's been done before by only, oh I don't know.. 60 or 70 other movies? I'm being facetious of course, but seriously, it's been done before. The plot was so stale that I was able to guess the ending almost immediately after the first hint was passed out. The second I heard, "28 children died" BOOM! I knew exactly what the ending was going to be. I also guessed the part about the co-worker. I won't spoil it, though trust me there isn't much to be spoiled. It was so predictable.

Additionally I felt like there were some real holes. Many of the scenes in the film were cliches from other movies, but some of them were left somewhat uncooked. This happens mainly in the supporting characters. They'll say something like (loose paraphrase to avoid spoiler) "You know what we did!" And then we never find out what they did. Lol.

As far as being scared goes, there is little to scare you. The special effects are limited (thankfully) and when they do appear they are not terribly effective.

I think the biggest problem is that there is a very discernible lack of focus. Is this a scary movie? It's not that scary. Is it a mystery? It's too easy to guess. Is it a comedy, nope. Is this about the (NON-SPOILER CHARACTER) or the other (NON-SPOILER CHARACTER)? Maybe neither? It felt as though the intent of the film kept changing somewhere in the middle. All told, it just didn't fly with me.

Trying to save his show, the lead of a paranormal hunting team takes the crew to scout a location shoot involving a supposedly haunted summer camp, but the longer they stay at the area the more they come to believe it's stories and haunted history are true and must try to get away alive.

For the most part, this one was an enjoyable enough genre effort. Among its better features is the strong backstory about the history of the camp and how it got its haunted reputation. The backstories told about the incident at the camp involving the woman who lost her daughter and then decides to take to witchcraft to commit the murders against the children which are shown in a brutal yet tasteful flashback involving the kids suddenly and without warning beating each other with ordinary objects and being lead to death-by-drowning. It serves itself well enough to a likable setup for a show like theirs to be interested in exploring. This fine and serviceable setup help to make the later ghost-hunting scenes come off with some atmospheric touches. The first night where he does the lone investigations of the still-lighting fire and the strange symbol nearby is a fine start, while the later scene featuring the technological flare-ups is somewhat unsettling. That these tend to provide a nice bit of tension by mixing them filming everything for the show which enables some nice found-footage style sequences with narration about strange odors and markings along the walls alongside the real-time monitoring showing them being unnerved at the situation is a fun touch. Likewise, the series of hauntings and confrontations leading into the finale as these scenes manage to make the storyline rather chilling. The attacks in the bathroom stalls or on the playground offer enough of a hint that things are building nicely which is what happens as the true purpose of the hauntings is revealed. This leads to a rash of fun encounters and confrontations throughout the campground which all brings about a highly enjoyable and somewhat surprising series of revelations that have some shocks involved for the most part. These, for the most part, are the more engaging aspects of this one. There are some issues with this one. One of the biggest issues is the nonsensical storyline involving the series of twists and turns this takes in the finale. Featuring several twists that are quite lame and just underdeveloped due to be introduced so late that it's somewhat questionable why it would be featured at all with no build-up makes this section look rushed and inconsequential. As well, for supposedly professional ghost hunters they display some startling unprofessional behavior, from their attitude towards the job, failing to recognize when something's supernatural and just being unaware of what's going on, which just seems to lower this one.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Not setting out to reinvent the wheel, this summer camp cum ghost hunter caper provides solid entertainment, and some modest scares for the horror afficionodo. Faced with cancellation, a team of ghost hunters heads to an abandoned summer camp which no other team has explored. We find out why. Ab abrupt shift of gears in the third act really sidelines what could have better a better film, but the tidy, well-defined script delivers on it's modest pleasures. Horror fans will want to see, and for that it's recommended.

"Camp Cold Brook" is a boppy, cheesy, campy style of indie horror film. This type of movie will appeal to a certain type of audience and its one you wont find me in. This is typical Joe Dante involvement shlock. The style of the film reminds me a bit of "Gags the Clown" which is another stinker. It's childish and devoid of any real sense of style. "Camp Cold Brook" is directed by Andy Palmer and this is far from his first film. Looking back on his previous work it should be a clear foreshadow to how this film will be. I do like Chad Michael Murray and he wasn't all bad here, nor was Danielle Harris. The acting is actually good but it's the tone that hurts it. Its just too...colorful. Sometimes I can tell by the cover and preview for a movie entirely how the movie plays out in my mind, scene for scene, before even watching it. This is what made me hesitant to purchase this movie and sad to say it was just as boring and stupid as I thought it would be. I love reviewing great movies and usually could care less about the duds but every now and then there is one sooo horrendous I just HAVE to review it to warn peeps.

The only reason I gave this film a watch is because of Chad Michael Murray. The trailer looked average, but I was hoping Chad would save the film, sadly not.

A group of ghost hunting TV stars head to Camp Cold brook to film a new episode. While things start off really slow, the group start to discover the history of the camp and the ghost that come along with it.

This was not an exciting film to watch. The acting was not good from most of the cast, and the run down camp still looked pretty clean with a bunch of cobwebs to make it look "old and dirty". It's pretty boring, and I feel sorry for Chad who was such a big star many years ago and now has to work in these low budget films to make some coin :(

First of all, Chad Michael Murray is a good actor, average at best so I decided to give this a try since I haven't seen any movies of him recently.....I was wrong on this one, this is a real letdown of a film, they could have done much better with the scares, but they did not do it, predictable story, flat ending and lesson learned this time.

not worth a watch. watch something scarier and better...

Jack's hosting a ghost hunting show on the brink of being cancelled. He and his irritable workers (Angela, Kevin, and Emma) arrive at Camp Cold Brook for one last hurrah, in an effort to earn another season.

All this movie did was leave me with a bunch of nagging questions. What does the "new girl" (Emma) do on the show (besides cop an attitude)? This is never established in the entire running time. Jack has done 3 seasons of Haunt Squad, and he says he hasn't seen anything? And they let him go 3 seasons? (Assuming he's a big phony?) I've watched a lot of these ghost hunting shows, and the majority of the time they come up with something interesting, and present it with some context and history, which offers intrigue. Why watch a ghost hunting show that can't find anything?? And how are they supposed to get this blockbuster show if they're not filming? WTF. They are supposedly "scouting the location" throughout this film. And it is thrilling watching them wander around. No sense of place, just random locations. In one rare instance, Angela gets out her camera. Then the ghosts only appear on her camera?? And she doesn't show it to anyone? Wouldn't this be great material for their comeback show? Hello?!

Where does everyone go at night if they're just scouting? (For that matter, where IS everyone half the time?) Wouldn't this be more effective in the daytime? How is every piece of paper they've got, crumpled up? What is with Kevin's hipster dufus hat? I absolutely loathed this character. He's like a long lost surly Franco brother. How did the sherrif find Jack's mom if she didn't leave any contact information? They're pulled over at the side of some random road! I LOL-ed when I saw Jack sitting in the hospital with his head bandaged up like a cartoon character. And last, but not least, how did Danielle Harris and Joe Dante get associated with this disaster?

Ok, this movie is about ghost hunters and we hardly see any ghost hunting. To make matters worse, they've apparently "solved" the problem of the small percentage of people who get motion sickness. They (by "they" I mean two of them, who actually filmed one scene a piece) carry around these mini Steadicams. So all the "found footage" is steady! IMHO, this makes it much, much less effective.

There is a discussion on the Blu-ray between the writer and the director as an extra. I flat-out disagreed with several things that were said. Then they showed the original opening. They opted to go the "re-enactment" route?! My entire experience with this movie was puzzling (and infuriating).

The scariest thing about this movie is when the audio goes out of sync for a couple minutes, around the hour mark. Literally, that scared me more than anything.

I hate this trend in modern horror. It's lazy filmmaking. There is no attention to detail, logic, and nothing is thought through.

Zero. Point. Zero.

Dumb storyline. Dumb ending. Not worth the time to watch. Shallow characters. Kind of open ended and inconsistent.

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.

I think this horror movie was done well and had all the required jump scares. It got me at few places and a good twist. Acting was good, and makeup could have been better. Overall i think its still a good movie to watch alone at night

Well that was a waste of time. I love Danielle Harris but that was just bad. Turned it off about an hour into it. I'm surprised I got that far. This movie could of been half way decent with a higher budget. Don't bother on this one people.

Really enjoyed this film from the beginning voice over (I thought Don LaFontaine passed away some time ago?) to the final scene. The acting and story were good and I felt like it moved along well. I enjoyed a lot of the "jump" scenes and think it was a nice change from films in this genre that seem to like to fall back on sex and gore. The story of the campers seems intriguing and would love to have seen more of that. All in all definitely a film I would recommend to someone who enjoys suspenseful horrors.

Jump scares and creepy cabin and scary kids...love em!

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

This is really another atempt at the paranormal investigation film genre... well to be honest if you want to be scared try a tv reality show on the subject, you may have more luck. Really poor.