13 summer camp movies to take you back to your childhood
In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd
go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and
you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.
Some of these memories and leave you experiencing some
serious nostalgia, we compiled a list of some of the greatest summer camp
movies to get you in the Summer of Streaming Spirit!
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1. Meatballs (1979)
Summer Camp
high jinks centered around a camp counselor with a wacky sense of humor. He
tries to help the campers have a good time at a less-than-average summer camp.
Available to stream on Amazon Video, VUDU, FandangoNOW, Google Play, and Comic-Con
HQ
2.
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
(1977)
The Peanuts gang goes to summer camp, and they participate in a
river-raft race. Battling treacherous rapids, wild animals, and bullies from a
rival camp, the teams make their way downriver to the finish line.
Available to stream on Amazon Video, VUDU, Hulu, EPIX, and
Popcornflix(free)
3. Wet Hot American Summer
(2001)
Set on the
last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to
complete their unfinished business before the day ends.
Available to
stream on Netflix, Amazon Video, VUDU,
FandangoNOW, and Google Play
4. The Parent Trap (1961)
Identical
twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their
biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp
and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
Available to
stream on Netflix, Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, VUDU, and Google Play
5. Indian Summer (1993)
Seven
friends reunite for a week-long reunion at a summer camp in Ontario they used
to attend as children which is now threatened with being closed down.
Available to
stream on Amazon Video, VUDU, and Google Play
6. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Angela
Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her
cousin. Soon after her arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent
accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers.
Available to
stream on Amazon Video, VUDU, Google Play, CinemaNow, Tubi TV (free), Shudder, Shout Factory TV (free),
OVGuide (free)
7. Moonrise Kingdom
(2012)
Set on an
island off the coast of New England in the storming days of the summer of 1965,
a young boy and girl fall in love and are moved to run away together. Various
factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside
down- which might not be such a bad thing.
Available to
stream on Netflix, Amazon Video, and VUDU
8. Heavyweights (1995)
Plump kids
are lured into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss
and good times, only to find that the facility is a woodland hellhole run by a
psycho ex-fitness instructor.
Available to
stream on Amazon Video, VUDU, and Google Play
9. Camp Rock (2008)
At a music
camp for gifted teens, a popular teen idol overhears a girl singing and sets
out to find who the talented voice belongs to. What he doesn’t know is that the
girl is actually a camp kitchen worker with a fear of being heard.
Available to
stream on Netflix and Amazon Video
10. Addams Family Values (1993)
A comical
Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his
gold-digging new love, who takes the Addams children off to a horrid parody of
summer camp.
Available to
stream on Amazon Video (free with Prime), Google Play, Hulu, VUDU, FandangoNOW,
CinemaNow, and EPIX
11. Friday the 13th (1980)
A group of
camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying
to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child’s
drowning.
Available on
Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, VUDU, Google Play, STARZ
12. Camp Nowhere (1994)
This
light-hearted comedy depicts a typical summer camp, but with a special twist:
this camp was designed by the campers themselves. “Mud” Himmel and his friends
are less than thrilled with their camp prospects and it is rebellious Mud who
suggest that they create their own, secret camp.
Available on
Amazon Video, VUDU, Google Play, and HBO
NOW
13. It Takes Two (1995)
When
9-year-old orphan Amanda and genteel Alyssa run into each other at a summer
camp, they discover that they look exactly alike and decide to switch places.
Noticing how Amanda’s social-worker friend Diane and Alyssa’s millionaire
father hit it off, the girls begin conspiring to get them together.
Available to
stream on Tubi TV (free) and Fullscreen
Happy summer
streaming!

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