Campfire Tales
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| Directed by | Martin Kunert |
| Produced by | Eric Manes Larry Weinberg Lori Miller |
| Written by | Martin Kunert Eric Manes |
| Starring | Christine Taylor Christopher Masterson Ron Livingston Amy Smart James Marsden |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | 1997 (USA) |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Language | English |
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Made by Martin Kunert and Eric Manes,Campfire Tales is a 1997 film about urban legends with a modern twists. It stars Amy Smart, Christopher Masterson, Ron Livingston, and James Marsden.
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[edit] Cast
- Jay R. Ferguson - Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
- Christine Taylor - Lauren (segment "The Campfire")
- Christopher Masterson - Eric (segment "The Campfire")
- Kim Murphy - Alex (segment "The Campfire")
- Ron Livingston - Rick (segment "The Honeymoon")/RV Driver (segment "The Campfire")
- Jennifer MacDonald - Valerie (segment "The Honeymoon")/RV Passenger (segment "The Campfire")
- Hawthorne James - Cole (segment "The Honeymoon")
- Alex McKenna - Amanda (segment "People Can Lick Too")
- Devon Odessa - Katherine (segment "People Can Lick Too")
- Jonathan Fuller - 'Jessica'/Internet Man (segment "People Can Lick Too")
- Glenn Quinn - Scott Anderson (segment "The Locket")/Paramedic #1 (segment "The Campfire")
- Jacinda Barrett - Heather Wallace (segment "The Locket")
- James Marsden - Eddie (segment "The Hook")
- Amy Smart - Jenny (segment "The Hook")
- Rick Lawrence - Rockin' Rob (segment "The Hook")
[edit] The Stories
[edit] The Hook
The Hook was the first story of the movie. It is the only story out of the four that doesn't really fit in with the scheme of things. It is mostly there to set the mood and to give an idea of what's to come.
It is a retelling of the classic urban legend about a young couple at a local make out spot. An announcer interrupts the music to alert listeners that a killer has escaped from a nearby asylum. Citizens are to be on the lookout for a man with a hook in place of his hand. The girl gets scared and asks to be taken home. When they get back, the boy goes to open the door for her, there is a bloody hook dangling from the handle.
[edit] The Campfire
Some people are traveling down the road when their car goes off to the side. They retell all of the stories, called The Honeymoon, The Locket, The Hook, and People Can Lick Too. When they are done with the telling of the stories, they soon realize that they were killed in the accident and their ghosts were telling the stories.
[edit] The Honeymoon
This story was about two young lovers who were recently married. For their honeymoon, they rent an RV and take it on a road trip. While traveling, they spend their time making love and having fun. They head for a famous tourist attraction, some caves where a group of people were encaved and three surived by supposedly eating the others.
While they have stopped in the woods near the cavern, the husband finds a man with a shotgun outside the RV. He warns them that someone or somethings were circling around their RV and shows them footprints around it. He tells them that around this area, when it's night and the moon is full, they come out to hunt. Although what they are is never fully explained.
When the two leave, the man is attacked by the things he warned them about.
As the continue driving, the RV breaks down and learns that their gas was siphoned. The husband sets out to a gas station for help and leaves the wife by herself. So the wife waits around in the RV as the husband starts walking. As the husband keep's walking, he finds the truck belonging to the man they met before, and gets attacked by the things in the woods.
The wife continues to wait for her husband, and gets attacked by a group of the things. However, she manages to stay alive for the entire night. In the morning, a sheriff comes and knocks on the door, waking her up. He leads her away from the RV and tell her not too look back. But the temptation overcomes her and she looks back. She sees her husband, hanging upside down from a tree and mutilated, and the sound of his wedding ring scrapping against the RV can be heard.
[edit] People Can Lick Too
This story is about a young girl staying home with her sister. The sister goes to the mall with her friends, leaving the young girl home by herself. The girl isn't too afraid, as she has her faithful dog by her side. The girl starts talking to a friend that she met over the internet. She tells her friend about how she's staying home by herself and how she wasn't afraid.
When she goes to bed, she puts her hand under her bed and lets her dog lick it. After falling asleep, she is woken by the sound of a dripping faucet from her bathroom. She brushes it off and lets her dog lick her hand so she can fall asleep. This happens a total of three times. On the third time, she sees the headlights of her sister's car and decides to go turn off the faucet.
In her bathroom, she finds the body of her mutilated dog, hanging from the shower faucet and dripping blood into the tub. Written on the mirror in big red letters was a single phrase, "People can lick too".
[edit] The Locket
A guy is riding his motorcycle through the plains when it runs out of gas. The guy stops at a house nearby where he meets a girl that is a mute. The girl says (not literally) that her father is far away, herding cattle. The house she lives in has no electricity, and she lives using candles and 19th Century tools and materials. When night comes they soon make love, but after having sex the guy falls asleep. Only to awake to see a guy outside by the well. It's storming outside at this time, and the girl is downstairs. Someone is referring to her using degrading sexual terms, such as slut, whore, and bitch. The guy gets out of the bed and finds the girl on the stairs not even touched. They go downstairs to see the entire house shaking.
The girl tells the guy that her house is haunted. After this the guy is back outside of the house next to the well. The storm continues on as the girl is now in another room with the door shut. Stuff starts flying around the room, and there are numerous blood stains (and even wet blood) dripping and running all around the room. The man from the well appears inside of the room and starts screaming more sexually degrading words at her. The guy and the girl run from the house and run to a field far away.In this field they fall asleep underneath a tree, with the guy waking up the following day. Once he wakes up he takes a locket from the girl's neck and open it. As he opens it, inside is a picture of the girl and him, one picture per piece of the locket. After this the girl's head falls into the guys lap and the story ends.
Coincidently, the actor from this story appears to be a paramedic later on near the ending.
