Sleepaway Camp
Horror • R • 1983 • 1 hr 25 min
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Incredibly campy but a lot of fun. The twist is insane, there’s some ingenuity behind the kills, and the kid actors sell it well.
Riding the coattails of Friday the 13th camp movies. However, this one finds a way to stand out. That ending, I’ll never forget my reaction!
Cult classic known for its shock ending. But it’s a very clear cut definition of what a b-movie slasher is, and you get what you expect!
A cult classic slasher movie that delivers on gore, suspense, and campy humor. The movie features a memorable cast of characters.
Almost gave up bc of the crunchy acting in the beginning, but glad I stuck it out! Definitely insane & v 80s but a memorable classic slasher
You’ll probably hate it. If you can hang in there, you’ll understand why it’s eked out a place in peoples’ memories. And maybe you love it.
From 8 to 12 years old I was a white boy who spent 4 or 8 weeks (age dependent) at a camp called kooch-i-ching, real place in Minnesota
I thought it was a great movie that was a mix of Friday 13th and scream with the mystery of who the killer obvious but a unpredictable twist
Decent camp horror movie. End was shocking. Cheesy typical 80s horror movie. 7/10
This is pure 80s slasher nostalgia for me. The ending messed me up as a kid. Definitely not for everyone.
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Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.
When campers and staff at Camp Manabe mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak two decades earlier.
Allison Kramer suffers recurring nightmares and selective amnesia. She returns to camp to discover the truth only to find dark memories coming to life before her very eyes. In her exploration she encounters a sleazy ranger and kindly hunter. Death awaits them, as the secrets of infamous killer Angela Baker are revealed.
