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Summary: Very Shocking, Not so scary, Confusing, Good though
Review: I saw the movie knowing that Angela was a boy so it was to surprising, but they way it was pulled off really freaked me out. I thought the flashbacks were good, but I didn't understand some of them. Why was the little boy pointing at Angela. I didn't understand that. And what was the point of killing the father(or uncle) in the begining. Were the wo young kids Angela and Ricky. All in all it was pulled off okay with a great ending, yet a little confusing.
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Summary: Super Sordid Classic!
Review: "Sleepaway Camp" qualifies as one of those oddball entries in the horror genre, a movie so offbeat and sleazy in its implications that it isn't any wonder that it found its way to DVD quite rapidly. Fully deserving of its cult status, this low budget film about, surprise, a summer camp and the bloody shenanigans wreaked within its confines by a deranged killer ranks as one of the movies you simply must watch (after you have seen it) with someone unfamiliar with its sordid secrets. Regrettably, at some point a few years ago I accidentally stumbled over a major spoiler on one of those Internet review sites and ruined my experience when I finally sat down to watch the film. Don't worry, I won't spoil this gem for you, but you may want to take note of my experience and become very selective about the various synopses you may read about this picture. "Sleepaway Camp" is well worth watching, although your initial impressions about Angela and the gang might give you a certain initial degree of pause. I can't speak for the sequels based on the original film as I haven't seen any of them, but I cannot imagine they are better in any significant way than this one."Sleepaway Camp" opens with a tragedy as a family-two small children and their two dads (!)-sail around a lake on a little boat. When a careless gang of people with a speedboat runs over this family's vessel, only one of the children survives the catastrophe. Flash forward a few years to a new family getting ready to send the youngsters away to summer camp. Aunt Martha, a character played so over the top that her voice would melt steel, coos over her son Ricky and his cousin Angela. She wishes them the best and prepares to send them to a camp that very quickly resembles the type of place the Marquis De Sade might run if he was still alive. Called Camp Arawak, the place simmers with teenage intrigues, seething jealousies, and homoerotic situations. The hormones flow like water throughout the camp as various individuals jockey for power over other people. At the bottom of the social totem pole sits the wretched Angela, a rail thin, mousy haired young lady with eyes the size of saucers. Angela rarely talks to anyone, provoking outraged responses to her presence among her counselors and fellow campers. She finally does meet a nice boy with whom she willingly talks, but for the most part, she bears silent witness to the increasingly bizarre behavior occurring in camp. Ricky, about the only normal guy at Arawak, takes Angela under his wing at camp, sticking up for her when needed and introducing her around to the various psychotics masquerading as counselors and fellow campers. Of course, Ricky has his own problems: his camp girlfriend from last year underwent a significant growth spurt during the intervening months and now only has eyes for older, better developed guys. Then there are the obnoxious older campers and sadistic counselors, several of whom decide to launch a vendetta against Ricky and his cousin. The quarrels between Ricky and several specific individuals become so well known around camp that when the murders start happening, and the sauce begins to flow, the head counselor seriously considers Ricky as the primary suspect in the crimes. The various killings aren't all that impressive to serious gore fans, with the exception of the cook who takes a dip in a huge pot of boiling hot water, but at least these moderately disturbing crimes lead up to a conclusion that explodes across your consciousness with the force of a nuclear bomb. The last scenes of "Sleepaway Camp" provide the most important reason you should watch this movie, but not the only one. This picture often surprises with its daring portrayals of the darker side of human nature. Controversial issues such as child molestation appear regularly as plot points, making this movie one of the seedier slasher films around. The DVD of "Sleepaway Camp" rises above your average schlock horror film release by including a commentary track with director Robert Hiltzik, Felissa Rose (the actress who played the Angela character), and moderator Jeff Hayes. Obviously, those involved with the making of the movie realized how memorable of an experience they created. If the commentary isn't enough for you, you also get a trailer and picture quality that is quite good for a film of this age and budget. Anyway, give this morbid little piece of trash cinema a whirl in your DVD player; it may not rank as the best film ever made, but it will sure throw you for a loop once or twice. Boy, I am I glad I never went to summer camp!
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Summary: Great Movie....
Review: kinda campy, not your typical slasher flick. Pretty good twist of an ending.. very 'Sixth Sense-esque' PS.. I'm an extra.. look for me in the cafeteria and running of the bus.
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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: I cant even begin to describe how unbeilavably bad and horrible this film is. WARNING TO ALL HORROR FANS: do not buy or rent this sorry excuse of a movie - you will be wasting 84 minutes of your life. This film makes friday the 13th and nightmare series look like masterpieces. - i just bought this from amazon.com and i couldnt wait to watch it considering the good reviews but these people must be crazy to think this is a good film - this is probably the worst (( horror)) film of all time , if u can even call it that. - i will be reselling this horrible movie as soon as possible. - this is a plotless stupid movie. i knew (( angela )) was a boy from the minute i saw her in the begining- she had a boys face and the way she stood and her upper body you can easily tell right from begining and anyone who couldnt must not have any brains. - everyone on this site is saying (( YOU HAVE TO SEE THE ENDING!!)) - oh please the ending sucked as much as rest of the movie - it wasnt shocking at all , how the hec can it be shocking if u know the whole time it was a guy and anyone who didnt know must be incredibly stupid. - THE ACTING WAS HORRIBLE AND the most unlikeable most stupid ridiculous actors and characters i have ever seen on film.- and to all u people interesting in purchasing this - let me warn u - its not scary AT ALL. i cant beleive they are selling this movie used for 10 dollars- thats a little high for such a horrendous movie. - if u insist of watching this movie or buying it - go ahead - but just remember i warned you.
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Summary: A MUST SEE!!!!
Review: This is one of those movies that stick with you for years. You know the kind that you can see once, several years ago and as soon as soon someone happens to mention the name, BAM! you remember every detail of the movie. Especially the surprise at the end. There was only one scene that I did not like with some younger campers. Though it wasn't really shown, you kinda get the idea. Other than that, the movie is excellent! Rent or buy this movie right now! :)
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Summary: time for camp
Review: What better way to spend a lazy summer day than with THE definitive camp movie.I must say that the acting/dialog is wonderfully bad.Pitch perfect with the tone of the film.This film should be required viewing for any and all horror fan.
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Summary: there's a difference between homoerotic and homophobic
Review: Some reviewers have indicated that this movie has homoerotic content. They are confusing homoeroticism with anti-gay hatred. Certainly there is some eye candy -- a junior high camp for both boys and girls seems to have only men as counselors, mostly male models who strut around semi nude. But the heart of the story is a boy-girl romance, and besides, every single one of the male characters ogles girls and throws anti-gay epithets about, except for a single flashback to a gay couple played for laughs or shock (I can't tell which). This is called homophobia, not homoeroticism! The plot is a rehash of the very old, very tired equation of gender blurring with homicide; director Robert Hiltzik says it's about "who is the man". His insistence that every relationship must necessarily contain "a man" and "a woman" indicates that he's living in the Dark Ages, but just to be sure, listen to his nauseating commentary (along with Felissa Rose, who played Angela). How could someone so irretrievably sexist and homophobic have the wits to make a movie (and a year after Victor/Victoria told us that transvestites are not necessarily all murderers)? Surely cave men don't even know what movie cameras are!
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Summary: 3.5 Stars
Review: Yes there was one good part, the ending. The rest is a huge cheezefest. This is one of those cheesy killer in the woods and characters to stupid to live movies. Friday the 13th is lumped together with these films, but even the worst Friday the 13th had more intelligent people in it than these. I've always had a soft spot for the more mindless slasher flicks. Since I was forbidden to watch them as a kid, I logically found them as addicting as crack, and I spent many joyful weekends appreciating the gore-soaked forbidden fruit that my parents were so worried about. Their concern was that the graphic violence and gore of the rougher slasher flicks would somehow warp my mind, and that I'd eventually grow up to be a stalker, a psychopath, or a politician. Mom and Dad needn't have worried; it was their 'no nasty horror movies' edict that inadvertently turned me into a film critic (well here anyway). As the movie opens, we see a young Dad and one of his children killed in a horrible boating accident. (These prologues always matter later on.) Flash forward to eight years later, and young Angela is about to embark on her first trip to overnight camp. Angela is basically a freak; she rarely speaks, opting instead to stare right through whoever happens to be nearby. The other campers forge an immediate dislike for young Angela, which proves to be their undoing as each one ends up murdered in rather graphic style, but don't worry it's hysterical and will have your buds laughing at it. Though it seems plainly clear that Angela is indeed the slasher in question, writer/director Michael Hiltzik cleverly plays up a mild 'whodunnit' scenario. Since the camp is packed to the gills with dirtballs and malcontents (plus we never really SEE Angela kill anyone), this direction lends a low-rent mystery attitude to the proceedings. Such distractions are welcome indeed, because when Sleepaway Camp focuses on something other than the rapidly growing pile of corpses, the movie nearly grinds to a halt. There are a few limp portions of comedy material, and those early 80's summer fashions are nothing short of criminally hilarious, but Sleepaway Camp is at its most entertaining during the garish murders. The acting is uniformly awful, but I don't think it's entirely fair to judge amateur actors by the same standard you'd use for a Robert De Niro. A few of the actors seem well aware of the stupidity in which they're taking part, while only a few emote with that overbaked earnestness that comes from trying really hard. Yet as bad as most of the acting is, there's nothing more horrifying than those sickening short-shorts that all the BOY campers are forced to wear. Heck, I lived through 1983 and I don't remember ever seeing anyone wear pants like that! So off-putting are these wardrobe choices that it makes an extended softball sequence look like gay porn. Low-rent, low-budget, and often unintentionally hilarious, Sleepaway Camp holds a somewhat higher standing in the pantheon of 1980's slasher flicks, partially because of its copious body count and nasty gore scenes, but mainly because of that stunner of a finale. You mad be hard pressed to remember anything about this movie two weeks after watching it, but that final shot will most likely remain permanently etched in your movie memory bank. The ending earned this movie a 3.5 star rating. Buy it, but don't expect anything like THe Exorcist.
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Summary: Sleepaway Camp
Review: Sleepaway Camp is a great slasher film for anyone who loves the 80's camp murder movies. This movie makes you feel involved in the characters and makes you like them and want them to live or you hate them and you can't wait until they die.
We begin with a tragic accident killing a father and son but the daughter, Angela, lives. Years later in her early teens she is living with her freaky aunt and her cool cousin Ricky. Obviously, they get shipped off to camp and before you know it people start getting murdered. They police and camp owners have there suspects but nothing seems to make since. As i'm sure you've heard this film has a great and twisted ending that you definately don't want to miss!
The only reason I give this movie 4 stars instead of five is the deaths aren't that great... i mean they're gory but they're a little boring.
Go rent Sleepaway Camp today!
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Summary: 2/5 RATING=WORST CAMP MOVIE AROUND
Review: This has been called a Friday The 13th [imitation] by many for apparent reasons,it takes place at camp and the movie has a similar outcome. With that aside Sleepaway Camp still is pretty decent to watch,it uses some interesting twists and has nostagic feeling to it. Also the [end of life] scenes are far-fetched(flesh-eating bees)but clever at the same time. Many people talk about the ending,I thought it was ok but had similarities to Pyscho and Friday The 13th. It was unpredictable though...,plus with to many ... undertones ...
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