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SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983)
Director: Robert Hiltzik
The beginning of this movie showed promise. Once the set up death scene happens, we are introduced to Summer Camp. The way the kids exit the buses and 2 counselors are yelling different things at them continuously, I thought the direction of the movie might be a bit on the creative side since early signs of running and voice overlapping seemed indicative.
I was damn wrong. The whole experience of Sleepaway Camp is hard to take. There are no creative kills, and I don't even like seeing murder, but I got nothing just the same. The acting is mostly atrocious aside from Chris Collette and the other 2 central characters, Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten. The story moves along like a made for TV movie of the week as a lot of scenes have the swelling music and black fade out. What the hell is going on here?
I felt funny even watching this movie because it's a murder movie for kids. I'm a grown man, and since this flick had no problem throwing in dirty old man dialog and other pre pubescent taboos, I couldn't wait until it was over.
Finally it ended. And it ended in a shockingly strange way. Very creepy. The entire movie sucked up until the ending. Boy, what an ending!
I'll never need to see this again except for maybe the last clip of the film which is so disturbing and creepy, it warrants repeat viewings.
My first time seeing this was in 1987. My last time was in 2017. That'll do it for me.
- and only for that ending!
Director: Robert Hiltzik
The beginning of this movie showed promise. Once the set up death scene happens, we are introduced to Summer Camp. The way the kids exit the buses and 2 counselors are yelling different things at them continuously, I thought the direction of the movie might be a bit on the creative side since early signs of running and voice overlapping seemed indicative.
I was damn wrong. The whole experience of Sleepaway Camp is hard to take. There are no creative kills, and I don't even like seeing murder, but I got nothing just the same. The acting is mostly atrocious aside from Chris Collette and the other 2 central characters, Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten. The story moves along like a made for TV movie of the week as a lot of scenes have the swelling music and black fade out. What the hell is going on here?
I felt funny even watching this movie because it's a murder movie for kids. I'm a grown man, and since this flick had no problem throwing in dirty old man dialog and other pre pubescent taboos, I couldn't wait until it was over.
Finally it ended. And it ended in a shockingly strange way. Very creepy. The entire movie sucked up until the ending. Boy, what an ending!
I'll never need to see this again except for maybe the last clip of the film which is so disturbing and creepy, it warrants repeat viewings.
My first time seeing this was in 1987. My last time was in 2017. That'll do it for me.
- and only for that ending!