

Then we have Rupert (Dave Fife), a young man who has tagged along with them in order to do a little research on the legend of the sea-creature which has supposedly been terrorizing the residents of this town for the last couple of years. On the one hand, we've got Rodney (Brice Kennedy) and Tonya (Erika Smith), two lovers who simply want to get drunk and stoned, have some premarital sex, and watch the Riptides beach concert. The film takes place on and around - appropriately enough - Splatter Beach, a small beach where a group of friends have decided to set up camp for the weekend for various reasons. That changes next month (or last weekend if you're lucky enough to get screener copies), and the only thing that I can say is "It's about damned time."

Almost exactly one year ago, I received an email announcing the launch of Camp Motion Pictures, a branch of Alternative Cinema which would specialize in "newly produced feature films, never-before-released exploitation fare, yet to be discovered gems from bygone decades." That one little line sold me, and seeing their initial lineup certainly didn't hurt after all, how could any horror-loving geek not get excited about a distributor that would be giving some love to all of those forgotten eighties horror flicks that have yet to see a DVD release? However, while we've seen a lot of forgotten gems get solid DVD releases over the course of the last year, we've yet to see a single newly produced feature film.
