Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SLEEPAWAY CAMP!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: 1983 american slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik . it stars Felissa rose, Katherine Kamhi, Paul DeAngelo, and Mike Kellin . since its release, sequel follows Angela and Peter pranking their father by capsizing their boat . camp counselor Mary Anna recklessly strikes John and one of the children with her speedboat . eight years later in 1983, Angela lives with aunt angela’s introverted nature makes her a target for ridicule and bullying . the cook, Artie, attempts to molest Angela, but Ricky catches him, and Ricky and Angela run out campers Kenny and Mike mock Angela, but Ricky and his friend Paul fight them . Paul befriends Angela . when kenny drowns, his death is ruled accidental at Mel’s in angela recoils from Paul’s advances and runs away . Judy seduces Paul, and Angela finds them kissing . Mel suspects a killer is in the camp . Paul tries to explain himself to Angela at the lake but Judy and Meg shoo him away and throw Angela into the water . Ricky comforts Angela and swears revenge on her aggressors . Me children who threw sand at angela and Ricky camp in the woods with counselor Eddie . two of them ask him to take them back to the camp . the killer enters Judy’s cabin and murders the camp is thrown into a panic. thinking Ricky is the killer, Mel beats him mercilessly, only to be shot in the throat with an arrow by the real killer . Frank is called and searches with the counselor angela jumps to her feet holding a hunting knife, dropping Paul’s severed head . they discover that not only is she the killer, she is also a male . it is revealed in a flashback that in interviews, screenwriter and director, Robert Hiltzik, has said that he attended that camp as a child . the movie was filmed in 5 weeks starting in September 1982 and ending in October of that year . the cast of Sleepaway Camp was primarily made up of adolescent actors . it had its premiere in los angeles the following spring on may 25, 1984 . the first week box-office gross at fifteen theater “sleepaway camp is a standard teen slasher elevated by occasional moments of John Waters-esque weirdness” the website Bloody Disgusting gave the film a positive review, praising Feli film scholar calls the film “an exceptionally bad movie but a very good slasher” film scholar: “[the film] feels odd due to its contrasting acting styles” “the epiphanous ending brings Sleepaway Camp further “the film was featured on episode 48 of how did this get made? ” boxed set discontinued in late 2002 after the red cross filed a complaint . in 2005, the Canadian-based Legacy Entertainment released region-free budget DVD the film was released in a collector’s edition Blu-ray set on may 27, 2014 . it contains edits to either shorten violence or certain moments like dialogue . in 2012 the film was completed using archival footage from the first three films . a fifth film, Return to Sleepaway Camp, was completed in 2003 and initially struggled to have its visual effects completed . the digital effects were the purportedly final film in the Sleepaway camp series, titled Sleepaway Camp Reunion, was also announced to be in the works . as of Summer 2014, Hiltzik was reportedly tweaking the script . Michael Simpson wrote a script for a further film called Sleepaway Camp: Berserk . a documentary film on the series, entitled Angela, is currently in pre-production . Felissa Rose as executive OCLC 475680187.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Paszylk, Bartomiej (2009). The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Horror Film Aesthetics: Creating the Visual Language of Fear. Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 978-0-786-45834-9. OCLC 607320273.CS1 maint: ref=harv ISBN 978-1-476-61132-7. OCLC 606990002.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Sumner, Don (2010). Horror Movie Freak. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause ISBN 978-1-440-21563-6.