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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
