william cooke and paul talbot share director or writer credit for this entertaining low budget film about three boy camp out in the wood with their horror magazine . foot prop up by the fire and schoolboy banter back and forth . and a scroungy town tramp name ralph ( gunnar hansen . of leatherface fame ) wanders over and trade four tale of gore in return for food and the warmth of the fire . one tale be the old retread of the hook and two teen on lover lane attack by a demented killer with a hook for a hand . another story have a couple of tokers need to score some weed . they stumble upon a guy that know a guy that have some great s # @ t. a they smoke a couple of bag full their skin begin to turn gray and green before it bubble up and fall off . one of the good story be about an unhappy man return home for christmas and who can not wait for his mother to drop dead and enjoy tell his nephew and niece about satan claus . the fourth campfire tale be of a greedy sailor that wash ashore upset about an empty treasure chest and end up be chase out to sea by zombie . without a big budget for special effect and campfire tale get the point across and really could have be a lot bad . a bit corny and but fun to watch except for maybe the sailor tale . the acting be understandably not award worthy . cast member include represent tres holton and courtney ballard and h. ray york and johnny tamblyn and walter kaufmann and kevin draine and david avin and paul kaufmann .