Against all odds they roll to a gentle stop just outside a property owned by Camp Jellyjam, where the motto is “Only the Best” and you better like sports because there’s literally nothing else!Īs the two step out of the camper, a counselor named Buddy greets them with a big creepy smile and leads them towards the camp. Unfortunately, Stine couldn’t very well kill off kids in such a realistic and statistically probable way. Here’s to both these parents who should have had a little foresight about how fucking dangerous this was in the first place Of course the camper becomes unhitched and the two of them are pretty much guaranteed to die or at least sustain some sort of injury as it barrels down the forest covered mountain. The pair of them are bored during this road trip and end up getting shoved into the camper that’s being towed behind the car to keep themselves amused.Īnother set of caring, intelligent parents I see. Here we’re introduced to the two characters we’ll be following throughout the camp: Wendy and Elliot. It starts with a family road trip through what I can only assume are the Rocky Mountains. Of course the overly competitive vibe of an all-sports camp run by hypnotized councilors working for a giant blob monster kind of makes the indoor plumbing a moot point.īut the The Horror at Camp Jellyjam doesn’t start with all that nonsense. The camp presented in The Horror at Camp Jellyjam does have plumbing, so that’s at least something. I mean, what if the camp didn’t even have plumbing? I shudder at the thought.

I was too shy to interact with just anyone and I hate sports and the great outdoors. One of my own worst fears as a child was that I was going to be sent to camp. And it’s definitely not a prize worth winning… The Story On the Pages Over the course of her stay at Camp Jellyjam, she will about to learn the origins of everyone’s obsessive competitive streak. Unable to fit in with the other kids at summer sports camp, Wendy, a non-athletic type, cannot understand what all the hype is over a little game of softball. Tagline : Tennis… Ping-pong… Monsters, anyone?ĭid I Read It as a Child? : No The Story On the Back

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