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- Meatballs. Bill Murray, Chris Makepeace, Kate Lynch. 159 votes. A hilarious and entertaining film, Meatballs follows the comedic misadventures of a group of camp counselors and their eccentric manager at a summer camp.
- Friday the 13th. Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby. 121 votes. Arguably one of the most famous horror franchises in film history, Friday the 13th introduces viewers to the terror that lurks beneath the seemingly innocent Camp Crystal Lake.
- Wet Hot American Summer. Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter. 132 votes. Set in 1981, Wet Hot American Summer is a hilarious satire of traditional summer camp movies.
- Heavyweights. Tom McGowan, Aaron Schwartz, Ben Stiller. 127 votes. Childhood obesity is given a comedic twist in Heavy Weights, making it both a laugh riot and an underrated gem.
- 10 Indian Summer
- 9 Moonrise Kingdom
- 8 Camp
- 7 Jesus Camp
- 6 Ernest Goes to Camp
- 5 Little Darlings
- 4 Crip Camp
- 3 The Parent Trap
- 2 Friday The 13th
- 1 Wet Hot American Summer
Starting right away with the nostalgia, Indian Summer is all about summer camp nostalgia. Alan Arkin is about to retire as the longtime director of a summer camp, and invites a gaggle of his favorite former campers back for a reunion. The ex-campers include Diane Lane, Bill Paxton, Kevin Pollak, Elizabeth Perkins, and even Sam Raimi (a childhood fr...
Summer camp is not for everyone, and it’s definitely not for Sam, or at least not after he meets Suzy, who lives with her family on the same New England island as Camp Ivanhoe. They become pen pals and work out an elaborate plan over the course of a year, which will come to fruition when Sam is back on the island for another summer at Camp Ivanhoe....
This is the movie for the kids that did theater and show choir and would have loved nothing more than a whole summer doing just that. Based on stories from a real performing arts camp called Stagedoor Manor, and is a place where a bunch of kids deemed nerdy, angsty misfits at school can sing and dance and act and just generally be themselves (inclu...
This documentary is a very, very different take on summer camp. As the evangelical right has risen to be a huge force in America, you might find yourself wondering what the kids are like, and how they got that way. This will give you a pretty good idea. The camp is located in North Dakota, and the campers are largely homeschooled kids from conserva...
Jim Varney rosefrom a humble acting career playing the bumbling Ernest P. Worrell in a series of local Nashville tv spots, saying goofy things to his neighbor Vern, who is never seen on camera. He managed to parlay this into a Saturday morning sketch show that won him a Daytime Emmy, and a series of Ernest films followed. Ernest Goes to Camp sees o...
This '80s cult classic starred Tatum O’Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, and Matt Dillon, and features the somewhat scandalous premise of a bunch of Atlanta teen girls heading to summer camp, two of them with the express purpose of losing their virginity. This becomes a camp obsession, with bets being placed on whether Angel or Ferris will be ...
Barack and Michelle Obama were executive producers for this Oscar-nominated documentary about a New York camp for teenagers with disabilities. The camp was started in 1951, and a number of former campers have become activists in the disability rights movement. The documentary picks up in the '70s, when the camp was highly influenced by an unstructu...
The last thing we want is to be divisive, so we are not going to play favorites between the 1961 and 1998 versions of The Parent Trap, both classics in their own right. Both films had legions of little girls scanning their camp cabins to see if maybe there wasn’t another camper who looked exactly like them. Hayley Mills did double duty as Susan and...
It’s the movie that spawned a franchise (and a thousand tropes) when two counselors at Camp SIlver Lake in the '50s sneak out to have sex, but get murdered by an unknown killer. Fast-forward twenty years and a young counselor is on her way to the newly opened camp, warned by a truck driver that a kid drowned there years ago. The young counselor (na...
Now take every bit of camp memorabilia from the previous films, add a bunch of comedians, and you have the best camp movie there is. Michael Showalter, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, and more, are a bunch of horny camp counselors, not all that concerned with their charges on the last day of camp in 1981. There’s a ...
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- Meatballs (1979) You have to start any list of the best summer camp movies with the Bill Murray classic, Meatballs. It not only launched Murray’s career as a film star, but also marked the first time the SNL star teamed up with director Ivan Reitman.
- The Parent Trap (1961 And 1998) It’s pretty rare that a remake be as beloved as the original, but that is the case with 1961’s The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills and the Lindsay Lohan-led remake from 1998.
- Wet Hot American Summer (2001) Another stone-cold summer camp classic is the rauchy teen comedy Wet Hot American Summer, which owes a lot to Meatballs.
- Friday The 13th (1980) Friday the 13th is the slasher film that redefined the genre in the ‘80s. This one is like the anti-Parent Trap and certainly not suitable for all ages.
May 31, 2024 · Summer-camp movies offer all the fun of staying up late in your bunk, without the bug bites. We ranked the 17 best, from ‘Parent Trap’ to ‘Troop Beverly Hills.’
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Dir. Stephan Elliott, 1994) Mitzi (Hugo Weaving), Bernadette (Terence Stamp), and Felicia (Guy Pearce) are three drag queens travelling across the outback in order to meet up with Mitzi’s secret wife and child.
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Dir. Russ Meyer, 1970) The Kelly Affair, a rock band headed by Kelly (Dolly Reed), Casey (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella (Marcia McBroom), travels to Los Angeles where they seek fame and fortune.
- Barbarella (Dir. Roger Vadim, 1968) Based on Jean-Claude Forest’s adult comics of the same name, Vadim’s campy sci-fi classic turned Fonda into a sex goddess of the 60s and 70s.
- Yentl (Dir. Barbra Streisand, 1983) Yentl’s (Barbra Streisand) independent nature is a trait that doesn’t sit well with the people her small Polish village.
Jul 14, 2023 · From genre tropes like inter-camp competitions or the threat of a camp's closure to complete subversions that see slashers on the loose or campers going against authority, there's a film for every viewer. No matter the tone, all summer camp movies are the perfect way to usher in the season.
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A teenage boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp. He finds that the camp is run like a military training camp, and he resolves to turn it into Party Central.
