Tales From The Campfire (2017)- A New Anthology That Warns “Some Tales Can Be Deadly”- Fitz of Horror Review

Written by Bryan Fitzgerald (Fitz of Horror) April 30, 2018

Synopsis- Four friends plan a camping trip at a small campground to spend an evening around a fire, telling each other campfire stories that all supposedly happened close to the area that they’re staying at. 

Tales From The Campfire from writer/director Tim Bell and Night of Terror Films is an inspired anthology with a bit of a different formula than we are used to. With anthologies becoming all the rage, it’s not the uniqueness of the individual stories that matter as much as the creative wrap around story to tie everything together and on that level these guys succeeded greatly.

The film starts out with our main characters getting ready to go camping where they will exchange scary stories about the local area surrounding their camp site. With the wrap around established the three stories can be told.

“Dark Past” sets the foundation of the film telling the story of a house with a shady history and strange happenings that continue to haunt the area and anyone who comes near.

“Ha Ha Cemetery” finds two unlucky characters stuck between two evil forces, The Raven and a multi weapon wielding hooded figure, who are out to dispatch of each other and anyone who gets in their way. This isn’t the last we see of these two either.

“Dead Will Rise” totes some horrible acting and some strangely placed music but the decision to go with black and white for this story was great. As the characters come across a cemetery in the middle of the woods, the dead rise from the grave in a very cool “Night of the living Dead” moment which leads our group to a house also in the middle of the woods and it is a house you will recognize from the first story and the reappearance of the hooded man.

As the third story is wrapped a chain of events is set in place that brings our stories and some characters into the wrap around story in a tie in that is very well done and a solid end to the film.

The production quality of Tales From The Campfire was much better than just “some people with a camera in the woods shooting a movie” but not quite up to par with recent anthologies like 10/31 or Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories but they also made this film on roughly $5,000 Canadian money ($4,000 U.S.) so bravo to them for putting together such an original film.

A physical media release hasn’t been set for this film yet but when it does it will be going in the collection.

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