Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Directed by

Robert Hiltzik

Genre

horror film, slasher film, teen film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 801 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager goes to summer camp and people start getting killed one by one. The movie follows the campers and counselors as they try to survive.

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What happens

Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, and starring Mike Kellin (in his last on-screen appearance), Katherine Kamhi, and Paul DeAngelo alongside Jonathan Tiersten, Felissa Rose, Christopher Collet, and Karen Fields. The original entry in the Sleepaway Camp film series, it focuses on serial killings which occur at a summer camp for teenagers. Filmed in upstate New York in the fall of 1982, Sleepaway Camp was released the following year by United Film Distributors. It earned approximately $11 million at the box office, but was met by largely unfavorable reviews from critics, many of whom deemed it exploitative and derivative of such films as Friday the 13th (1980). In the years since its release, Sleepaway Camp has gone on to develop a cult following, a more positive reappraisal from critics, as well as garnering notoriety for its twist ending, which has been named as one of the most shocking and unforgettable in cinematic history. It was followed by four sequels: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988), Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989), Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (1992), and Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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