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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 (Jonathan Tiersten), are sent to camp. Angela had come to live with Ricky and her Aunt Martha 8 years earlier, after her father and her brother, Peter, were killed in a boating accident. Angela, 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. The real Angela had died in the boating accident 8 years ago, with Peter assuming her identity afterward. This was because Aunt Martha wanted a girl and chose to raise Peter as a girl, treating him as if he were Angela. Peter is last seen standing on the beach naked with the decapitated head of another camper at his feet.

Sequels

Over the years, the Sleepaway Camp films have gained a loyal cult following. In the late 1980s, Michael A. Simpson directed two sequels, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989). In them, Angela (now played by Bruce Springsteen's baby sister, Pamela Springsteen) resurfaces at a nearby summer camp, but this time masquerading as a counselor. Much like at the previous camp, she gleefully tortures and kills everyone she can get her hands on. Since then, Angela has yet to make another Sleepaway Camp appearance.

Another unsanctioned sequel, Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor, directed by Jim Markovic, was partially filmed, but never completed. In 2002 the unfinished footage was released in Anchor Bay Entertainment's Sleepaway Camp DVD box set.

A new film, Return to Sleepaway Camp
is now in production. It is being directed by the original's Robert Hiltzik. He has decided that this newest chapter would ignore the storylines of the other sequels, stating that he wants to pick up where the original film had left off. Actress Felissa Rose has stated online that the film's editing has been completed and it is tentatively scheduled to be released in early 2006.

Resurrection of the legacy

In the late 1990's, Jeff Hayes and Australian webmaster John Klyza brought the fanbase of Sleepaway Camp into the open, with first Official Sleepaway Camp website. Today, both Klyza and Hayes have their own SC sites with Hayes having a site Official for SC1 and RTSC and Klyza having the Official Sequels site,. Jeff Hayes did audio commentary for the first Sleepaway Camp on DVD, while John Klyza provided his commentary for Sleepaway Camp 2 and Sleepaway Camp 3. Hayes is expected to do commentary for the upcoming Return to Sleepaway Camp.

Other information

In 2005 the animated variety show Robot Chicken had a Movie plot twist sketch where the twist to Sleepaway Camp was mentioned. "Oh my god, somebody actually remembered this movie and wrote a comedy sketch about it"

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Movies - Sleepaway Camp

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