Camping Movies
Camping movies cover a wide range, from summer-camp comedies to wilderness dramas and horror films set at a lakeside camp. This list groups well-known titles by mood, listed by year.
Camping Movies: the list
Meatballs (1979)
Ivan Reitman directs a summer-camp comedy about counsellors and campers, and one of the most popular camp comedies of its time.
Friday the 13th (1980)
Sean S. Cunningham directs the horror film set at Camp Crystal Lake. It is the film that started the franchise.
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
David Wain directs a parody of summer-camp comedies, following one day at a camp in 1981.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Wes Anderson directs a story of two twelve-year-olds who run away together from a New England island.
Into the Wild (2007)
Sean Penn directs the true story of a young man who leaves society and travels into the Alaskan wilderness.