I understand why these camps are all teenagers for horror films but do teenagers really go to summer camp? I always thought summer camps were for children and teens were the counselors.
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They do, but the camps are usually organization-oriented and the teens are there with a specific group. There are many Christian organizations that host camping retreats in the summer and there are some secular ones as well that focus on teaching a moral system of some sort. The camps usually have a purpose and aren't just "Send your kid into the woods because you don't want to deal with them" type things for rich parents as they usually are in these slasher films. They even have art camps and filmmaking camps.
shareI agree with the OP. And I'm assuming OP meant 'camp' like in these movies. Last time I went to 'camp' was summer after 5th grade. And then the summers after that the camps I would go to would be specialized and goal-oriented. For instance I attended baseball, tennis, choir, horse camps but they were usually at a facility that bore no resemblance to what 'camp' was when I was a kid. Some were on college campuses and we stayed in dorms. It did seem weird to see these teens just being shipped off to regular 'camp' as campers and not counselors.
Interesting now, because my sister wanted to send her kids to camp but it was almost prohibitively expensive. I guess it's like college tuition that surpassed inflation rate. I know my parents wouldn't have spent $5K in today's dollars to send me to regular camp for two months. Sad that my nieces didn't get to experience that during their childhoods.
I feel like the teens in this movie are supposed to be 12-16 but they obviously cast actors that are clearly 20-25 so it makes viewers think that they're supposed to be older teens
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