Camp Blood Commentary

 Hello Readers,

So this is it, the final Chapter of Long Night at Camp Blood.  I have also decided to comment on Senior Prom so next week I can Jump into The Curse of Camp Blood.  As I post 2 chapters a week this month I will review 2 Chapters until we have covered the entire story.

A Long Night at Camp Blood Ch 5: Night's End

So Chapter 4 ended on a cliffhanger.  Despite doing her best to evade the killer Sienna ended up falling right into their hands.  The killer's motivations are revealed to be a psychosis over the trauma of having lost a son to the lake many years ago at this very camp due to counselor negligence.  The original counselors were killed but the person never wanted this camp re-opened.

A reoccurring clue to the killer's identity and the only one I gave honestly was the color of their eyes.  Blue eyes.  There are a few characters with these but a lot of them died.

Sienna thinks Denise is the killer, probably wanting her out of the way to get to Jackson except she killed Jackson.

The killer takes off their mask and reveals their identity as Paula, the waitress from the restaurant, and Denise's mother.  I did state in the prologue that the mother and daughter had the same eye color.  

So I don't know if you have been back to my Pinterest and I have uploaded the final 2 cast photos for Denise & Paula.  Now before I go into their casting let me say that I obviously adapted Friday the 13th (original) and placed Jackson & Sienna in that situation.  I get what the original writer/director were doing with Pamela Voorhees in the original movie, in those days who would have thought that she was the killer at first glance.  What I have grown to not like about that situation is that we never saw her or got to know here prior to her appearance during the final act.  That is why for my story I introduced Paula (my homage to Pamela) in the very first chapter.  Of course I hoped that you would all think that Denise was the killer wanting Jackson for herself.  My cast choices for the mother daughter were Lauren Graham (Paula) and Alexis Bledel (Denise) from Gilmore Girls.  I mean... would you have suspected the mom?  Did you? (Anyways)

Paula does take her eye off her goal during her monologue and that allows the previously thought dead Jackson Fuller to make his return.  Now, I don't know if you actually bought the fact that I "killed" Jackson, no one commented on it so I have no idea.  I built the scene to cause tension and create a final girl scene but to also surprise the reader (hopefully) when he returned at the end of the story.

We get the reunion conversation between Jackson and Sienna upon his return and he lays out what they need to do if they want to survive.  Paula proceeds to search for the teens until she eventually finds them in the barn.

I originally was going to duplicate the fight at the lake but having done something similar in Cruel Summer I decided to move the fight to the barn.  Sienna serves as the distraction to lull Paula into a false sense of security and to divert her attention from their plan.

Now the scenario could have ended with a simple hanging... but that would have only given Jackson his moment to shine in getting rid of the killer.  I wanted to have Sienna actually earn the title of Final Girl not just arbitrarily awarded it because she was the final girl alive.

The two have a knock down drage out fight with Paula being the dominant one throughout the fight.  It is only when Paula reminds Sienna of the fact that she killed Sydney and Melinda, two people that loved one another and didn't deserve to die, that she loses her composure and attacks with rage.  Taking a move out of pro-wresting, Sienna pokes Paula in the eye causing her to release her grip on Sienna.  Sienna then finds Paula's machete and decapitated her ending the killer's reign of terror.

The next scene finds Sienna in the back of an ambulance having passed out after killing Paula.  Jackson is alive and patched up and the two leave Crystal Lake.

The final scene sets up the third story.  Repairmen are fixing the power pole and restoring electricity to the camp.  The two men are killed by an unseen person who hides their bodies and takes the hockey mask(?) hanging off of the the rearview mirror...

Senior Prom

So let me start this with an interesting fact.  I wrote this part of my trilogy first.  I had the story plotted but when I originally was plotting my Halloween story series there was no first story.  I was going to do two one shots and then the Curse of Camp Blood.

The first story was just going to gloss over the events that had transpired, would focus on the fight between the crazed killer and Sienna with Jackson coming to her rescue and that was it really.  Senior Prom was always the set up and if you notice I only mention Sienna by name a few times until she gets into an argument with Gina (original character).  That was because when I wrote the story I wanted there to a bit of a mystery as to who Jackson was dating.  You see with there being no first story I did not plan for the two to be "Fake Dating".  They worked at the camp, they knew each other, and then the event.  Them spending the summer in San Jose was how I built a real realationship.

When I fleshed out a first story I then created a pseudo-relationship between the two and then had to go back and make some changes.  However I didn't feel like completely redoing the first few thousand words I had already written so I just made a few changes to make it work.

The whole purpose of this story is to show what happened to Jackson and Sienna immediately after the first story, introduce characters that will appear in the next story and to solidify Jackson/Sienna's relationship.

The next story features a cast primarily from Fuller House.  There are a few OC's in the story but I will cover that next time.