Sleepaway Camp
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- This page is about Sleepaway Camp, the movie. For the summer activity, see Summer camp.
Sleepaway Camp was a 1983 horror movie directed and written by Robert Hiltzik about murders at a summer camp and is considered by many viewers to have the most disturbing ending of all horror films.
Plot
The main character, Angela Baker (Felissa Rose), and her cousin Ricky, are sent to camp. Angela Baker, a painfully shy 14 year old, is bullied severely by most of the other campgoers and counselors at Camp Arawak. Her main nemesis is Judy (Karen Fields), a vain girl once friendly with Ricky, but now snubbing him in favor of the older boys.
Soon people are being killed in bizarre ways, e.g., a youth is stung to death by bees from a hive thrown into a bathroom. In a nod to Psycho, a counselor is stabbed in a shower stall. The murderer is Angela; however, it is later revealed that "Angela" was actually her brother Peter, who was thought to have died 8 years earlier in a boating accident. Instead, the real Angela was killed, with Peter taking her place.
Sequels
Over the years, Sleepaway Camp has gained a loyal following. In the late 1980s, Michael A. Simpson directed two sequels, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989). Another sequel, Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor, directed by Jim Markovic, was released directly to video in 2002. Robert Hiltzik returned with Return To Sleepaway Camp in 2004. Many of the original's cast resumed their roles. Robert Hiltzik has decided that RTSC ignores the storylines of SC2 and SC3 stating that he wants to pick back up where the original left off.
External links
- Official website (http://www.sleepawaycampmovies.com)
- [http://www.sleepawaycampseries.tk The Website of the Series
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