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A good Low - Budget chessy Classic Salsher film every made. with some cool gore death by get reveage on evil campers (Basicly like Friday the 13th) with the most shocking ending in horror/Salsher movie history its totally fantisc defo 4 Hardcore Horror fans =)
Classic horror, love the 80's. This was a good movie in general,story,actors,atmospher,etc. No over the top gore but the ending really gets you with one of the best twists in horror history. The ending monents will stick in your mind for a long time.
Posted By: YoungHorror at 1:19am, September 16, 2009
Definitely a great 80's slasher, and has one the best wtf endings ever on film. I really liked it, it actually had a decent story and great characters that I fell in love with. Although there was zero nudity (except for... you know) and very limited blood, I still loved this movie.
Although this slasher film has some bad acting, writing, and gore to be desired, this film holds strong in my book as it is the only horror film I know to be revolved around extremely young teenagers at a summer camp, which I appreciate to show justice that even 13-16 year olds can be just as mean, evil, and horny as the hundreds of college kids that get dismembered in every other horror film. Also, what can top this films ending?!
i remember perving out on felissa rose when i was a kid whatching this, and never thinking about girls the weeks after i saw what she was packing under her dress...not as much gore as for what im custom to, but the low budget and fake mustach cop made this movie one of my fav's
I remember viewing this movie when it came out, me and my friends snuck into the theater when we were like 13 or 12, and we were dead afraid but we were defiantly given a huge slap to our sexuality when we saw the ending. We left the back entrance of the movie theater wondering what the heck just happened and if we should brag to our school chums about what we just viewed. Needless to say, we did and we got ridiculed. But I loved this movie anyway. A bit graphic and weird, but a great movie nonetheless.
This was another great cheesy, sleazy 80's slasher film that would forever strike me as one of the best horror movies with a great twist ending. Essentially this movie is about a girl who falls for a boy while she is at camp, then thing begin to go horribly wrong and people begin to die. Oddly enough, the romantic rivals of this girl are the ones being offed. The end when she is stroking the head of her lover and "she" is holding his head aloft just gets you. You aren't not expecting at any stretch of the imagination, and its just completely out there that it's haunting. As one critic once put it "Before Crying Game brought it to art houses, Sleepaway Camp brought it to Grindhouses," and boy was he ever true. It vaguely hints towards it near the beginning but even still it's a great twist. I also want to mention that the face that Angela makes at the end has left an imprint in my head forever.
As far as the technical details are concerned, the acting is pretty good, the screams were ear piercing and the scares were pretty good but it had the feel of Friday the 13th, but because of the ending, it was masterfully turned around into a great American cult classic with an unforgettable twist ending. This movie hit me hard and introduced me to a special kind of B-movie that I never knew existed and it ranked up there with The Rats, Scream, The Usual Suspects and Planet of the Apes. The flashbacks, especially near the end had a feel of a Broadway play or musical with a disturbing 1950's feel to it and the mother of "Angela" is so horribly creepy with her sweet talkative voice and her nicely dressed body. I think that some of the acting was a bit over the top (i.e. when the kids put shaving cream on some other kid and he poorly attempts to kill them with a knife). So thank you Sleepaway Camp for not letting me forget that classic ending. I Think it's one of those movies were you have to watch and be amazed at how cheesy this movie is but it all leads up to a fantastic ending. I think that it's just a great B-movie with some campy, no pun intended, humor and great yucks and chucks.
okay i dont completely agree with the guy below me(Slasher17). i completely see why this movie has gained cult classic status. this movie starts with a boat accident. we then fast forward a year or so later and this kid Ricky and his cousin Angela are going away to camp. the movie has a lot of character devolopment which i dont mind and the kills are very creative. but {SPOILER}the ending when you see Angela and you find out shes a guy is one of the if not the most disturbing things i have ever seen put on film.
When I saw this movie, only one question came to mind: HOW THE FUCK CAN THIS BE A CULT CLASSIC!? I'm a huge slasher fan, but this is ridiculous. Ok, the movie has good kills and a good concept. It starts off well until you reach the ending![SPOILER| Why did they have to make Angela a fucking guy!? And was it necessary to show her/his dick!? At first I thought Angela was just a crazy girl who kills people, but the ending was so fucking disappointing! Her face at the end is kinda creepy, but this is still the worst ending ever to a slasher film!
This is a very shocking cult horror movie. When I started watching this I thought it would be horrible, but it proved me wrong, I thought it was really good. The sexual undertones of the film is what made this movie different than other slashers. The ending was VERY weird and surprising.
the acting sucks. the effects suck not much to set it apart except till you get to the ending. it makes it worth it. one of the best horror movie endings.
Not at all by any means a great movie. Totally cheesy, horrible over the top acting, reeks of homoeroticism but that's part of what makes the movie great in it's own right.
Top it off with one of the most shocking endings in slasher history and you've got eighties horror gold.
The nostalgic feel of a 1980's horror movie is this movie Sleepaway Camp. It is ranked up there with The Burning and the ever so popular Friday The 13th. I enjoyed all three camp movies and always will. The Gore factor is very good, We had a man burned by boiling water and his skin melted off, the killer bee scnes, the fouled mouthed kid and the group of adolcent boys. I will never forget the end, it was a firecraker of all endings, maybe even an M-80. excellent 80's horror!
One of the creepiest endings I've ever seen in a horror film (facial expression), with the frozen stare with mouth agape. Who can forget the "curling iron" kill!!! This is actually one of my sister's favorite flicks. I caught it on t.v. late one night. It'll be remembered mostly for the ending, but hell, at least it's remembered!!!
I agree with scarymoviefan1982, this is one of the best horror films of the 80's. Without giving away any spoilers, the ending is classic. A great slasher film, that although in some ways is a copy of Friday the 13th, does have some great shocking moments of its own.
One of the best horror films of the 80's love the ending was shocking the first time I saw it I had to watch it again instantly to totally get what was going on.
A classic 80"s slasher movie. i did not know what to expect when i sat down to watch this but i was pleasantly surprised by the end. it reminded me a bit of friday the 13th but with a twist to it and what a twist it is. there is plenty of gory deaths to the happy campers and the ending, well watch and see.
Posted By: Protecious at 11:28pm, September 30, 2008
classic 80s style horror, with silly plot that has alot of flaws, an shocking ending that is both funny and morbid, overall a pretty average slasher film.
Posted By: dherna7704 at 1:27am, September 23, 2008
what makes this movie watchable is just to get to the crazy ending
Posted By: Clockwork2001 at 7:09pm, September 22, 2008
This is what all B movies or independant horror film makers should try to achieve, something creepy with a reasonable cast and one of the best twist endings ive ever seen. def, worth adding to your collection even if the series went downhill. this franchise covers the horror rule of three
1 serious. good.
2 alright, some extra jokes
3 campy and borderline painfull
not as good as the friday the 13th series no where near as bad as the slumber party massacre series, check it out
Posted By: thedescent08 at 10:26am, September 9, 2008
The majority of Sleepaway Camp is just an average slasher movie, as could probably be guessed. Kids and camp workers get killed off in creative ways—you’ve seen the plot in every slasher movie ever made. But as the movie tries to ask the clichéd question of who did it, I could only ask: who cares? It will just be the person the director thinks we’ll least expect, so why even bother trying to figure it out? And, seriously, why can’t the killer in slasher movies ever just be a random guy who used to sell soup but thought killing was cooler? Why do slasher movie killers always HAVE TO be someone who at least gets half the screen time?
In that aspect, Sleepaway Camp is a clone of every other slasher ever made. You can guess what scenes will end up kills and what scenes will end up wannabe Lifetime TV drama scenes. You can guess who the killer is by the end of the first 10 minutes. There is nothing new here, and what isn’t new isn’t any better than other slashers. I’d take Friday the 13th over this any day—it was better done, less cheesy, had more blood, and was less predictable.
Though the last few moments reveal one of the weirdest possible endings the movie could have had, it was yet again nothing new or original. The twist has been done in countless 50’s movies, along with some modern dramas. Just because the twist in the end was the first time it was done in the horror genre doesn’t mean it wasn’t done and done again in other genres. The lack of originality and the lack of quality make this just another slasher. But at least it tried.
The only reason I don’t give Sleepaway Camp the worst possible rating is because it was entertaining for the most part, and it tried. It tried to be different, and I like that. This movie tried and failed, but that’s better than not trying at all. (Sorry to sound like a cliché football coach.) Can you remember the last movie that tried to be different?
This is my all time favorite horror film where at Camp Arwak kids and camp counslers get killed by an unseen killer til the end when you finally see who the killer is in a shocking way.
I liked it, it was a little hard to watch during the curling iron scene...but it was a pretty good movie. The most insane ending I've ever seen.
Posted By: BillyDecay at 2:41am, February 15, 2008
Watching Sleepaway Camp for the first time was very interesting because I had heard about the ending and how shocking it was. I hate hearing anything about a movie before I see it because it ruins the surprise and fun. However this film kept me on my seat, despite its' many flaws. Lets be honest, without the ending this is just another 80's slasher clone. Between the horrible acting (not including Felissa Rose), the high shorts on men and the cheesy but entertaining killings, it didn't have a whole lot going for it at the time. The ending saved this movie, and trust me you'll see what I mean when you see the movie. Now even though I already had information about the movies' plot before seeing the movie, it still struck a chord. You spend a whole movie getting to know a character and becoming used to the way they act and think, and then in one scene your whole idea of that person is flipped. The image of that final scene will be forever burned into my brain as one of the creepiest things I've ever seen in a movie, easily. Worth a watch, without a doubt.
Sleepaway Camp can easily be dismissed as a Friday the 13th rip off by someone who has never seen the film before. When one finally views the film you realize that why there are similarities between the films they are very different. Sleepaway Camp is a nice little who-done-it style slasher flick that has extremely inventive kills. It also has a lot of humor to it also even though some of it is unintentional but it actually adds to the film. The main thing that people will remember this film for is the ending its quite a surprise. Looking back at the film i find it to be better than Friday the 13th in many ways. Sleepaway camp has the perfect levels of kills, cheese, and really tight shorts.
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