Re: [HoE] Camp, Or how the horse was shot and the Audience Laughed

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

At 10:01 PM 7/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a dictionary with an entry on the term camp, dated 1947.  It refers
>to the concept we've been discussing- as such, I very much doubt the term
>originated with campus "movie clubs".  I'd be surprised if such things even
>*existed* circa 1947.

I don't think it has anything to do with movies on college campuses...
there's another term for those movies, usually "cult classics" a la Rocky
Horror. 

Camp I think refers to "summer camp", as in really cheap, lame movies that
only a summer camp could afford to show a bunch of kids with poison ivy, or
it refers to movies like Friday the 13th and a whole batch of
imitators/sequels. Even the original Evil Dead had a very "summer camp"
feel to it with the whole cabin thing.