Real talk: I had never watched this before...until this post prompted me to do so today. And, uh, I have a ton of questions! But also, I think your take is spot on. There's so much other cruel shit going on at camp that the murders are kind of par for the course. *Of course* someone is gonna snap and start offing campers at that place, even if they're marginally well-adjusted! Anyway, the whole flick does have a certain charm about it; it's not "good," and it is wildly fucked-up in a lot of different ways, and yet...
Real talk: I had never watched this before...until this post prompted me to do so today. And, uh, I have a ton of questions! But also, I think your take is spot on. There's so much other cruel shit going on at camp that the murders are kind of par for the course. *Of course* someone is gonna snap and start offing campers at that place, even if they're marginally well-adjusted! Anyway, the whole flick does have a certain charm about it; it's not "good," and it is wildly fucked-up in a lot of different ways, and yet...
Right??? The big reveal at the end casts a LONG shadow over the rest of the movie's fucked up business!