- Actors: Pamela Springsteen, Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Brian Patrick Clarke
- Directors: Robert Hiltzik, Michael A. Simpson
- Format: Box set, PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 3
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 31 May 2004
- Run Time: 243 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0001Z5YWI
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- #96 in Film & TV > Horror > Slasher Movies
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sleepaway Camp is absolutely brilliant, it is positively one of the best movies ever made and has the most shocking ending in cinematic history.
Angela Baker and her cousin, Ricky, go to Camp Arakwak for the summer. Ricky has lots of friends there and is happy but Angela is very shy and hardly ever speaks. A lot of the other kids tease her because she is so quite and doesn't participate in sports etc. But soon the kids at at Camp Arriwak start dying in horrible accidents as somebody is determined to turn this summer into a vacation to dismember...
This movie is very very good and although the gore is a little edited it still manages to be scary. There is a lot of suspence and Sleepaway Camp features lots of realistic and likeable (somethimes hateable) charactors. I can't really say too much without giving away any spoilers or plot twist but this movie is very good and it has a HUGE twist in the end. Ignore bad reviews, this movie is fantastic and deffinatly a must-see.
I would reccomend this movie to fans of horror movies, in particular slasher, or even if you are just looking for a great movie. Watch for yourself and see why this is no ordinary slasher movie...
Angela Baker and her cousin, Ricky, go to Camp Arakwak for the summer. Ricky has lots of friends there and is happy but Angela is very shy and hardly ever speaks. A lot of the other kids tease her because she is so quite and doesn't participate in sports etc. But soon the kids at at Camp Arriwak start dying in horrible accidents as somebody is determined to turn this summer into a vacation to dismember...
This movie is very very good and although the gore is a little edited it still manages to be scary. There is a lot of suspence and Sleepaway Camp features lots of realistic and likeable (somethimes hateable) charactors. I can't really say too much without giving away any spoilers or plot twist but this movie is very good and it has a HUGE twist in the end. Ignore bad reviews, this movie is fantastic and deffinatly a must-see.
I would reccomend this movie to fans of horror movies, in particular slasher, or even if you are just looking for a great movie. Watch for yourself and see why this is no ordinary slasher movie...
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an average slasher movie right up until the end of the movie due to a cracking twist. Everything you've seen before fades away and you feel like you just watched a classic, because you had no idea 'that' would happen. Very original. I do highly recommend this film not just to horror movie fans.
The DVD comes with a couple of good extras including a commentary. Just don't buy the sequels they are absolute rubbish. Also, and this is VERY important, don't read the back of the case before you watch the film it gives away the ending and will ruin your enjoyment.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An almost definitive example of a 'cult' film. A really strange kind of a Friday the 13th homoerotic hybrid for teens, middle-aged gay men and fans of quirky, quite bad, low budget horrors.
The main thrust of the film involves a number of slayings at an adolescent camp where 'Angela' a disturbed young girl is staying with her far more socially adjusted cousin 'Ricky' All the individuals killed, staff and residents have in some way crossed or slighted the strange 'Angela' and the increasing body count by all accounts is not enough to warrant the closure of or withdrawal of most of the kids staying at the camp.
The killings are very tamely handled and much of the murder act is not seen, with close ups of legs or in shadow etc. The special effects are inconsistent with the act perpetrated so that the fellow attacked by a handful of bees in the toilet who couldn't break a thin stick locking the toilet door looked as if he had the bubonic plague as he lay dead on the bathroom floor; in comparison they could have gone to town a little more on the paedophilic chef who was scalded all over but just had slight blistering. Anyway these incidents were put down to accidents and high jinks and didn't impact upon the daily camp activities.
The acting is bound to be slated, in fact the young actress playing Angela was cast due to impressing at her auction with her ability to eat a chocolate bar whilst gazing into space, but I didn't think it was that bad at all and complimented the film anyway.
The ending was hmmmm. I did laugh a little once it occurred to me what was actually going on. It's a bit of cult cinematic viewing that may well have disappeared out of sight but maybe deserves to have established itself within the niche circle of admirers it has obtained, in the US particularly where summer camps are a cultural norm.
The main thrust of the film involves a number of slayings at an adolescent camp where 'Angela' a disturbed young girl is staying with her far more socially adjusted cousin 'Ricky' All the individuals killed, staff and residents have in some way crossed or slighted the strange 'Angela' and the increasing body count by all accounts is not enough to warrant the closure of or withdrawal of most of the kids staying at the camp.
The killings are very tamely handled and much of the murder act is not seen, with close ups of legs or in shadow etc. The special effects are inconsistent with the act perpetrated so that the fellow attacked by a handful of bees in the toilet who couldn't break a thin stick locking the toilet door looked as if he had the bubonic plague as he lay dead on the bathroom floor; in comparison they could have gone to town a little more on the paedophilic chef who was scalded all over but just had slight blistering. Anyway these incidents were put down to accidents and high jinks and didn't impact upon the daily camp activities.
The acting is bound to be slated, in fact the young actress playing Angela was cast due to impressing at her auction with her ability to eat a chocolate bar whilst gazing into space, but I didn't think it was that bad at all and complimented the film anyway.
The ending was hmmmm. I did laugh a little once it occurred to me what was actually going on. It's a bit of cult cinematic viewing that may well have disappeared out of sight but maybe deserves to have established itself within the niche circle of admirers it has obtained, in the US particularly where summer camps are a cultural norm.
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sleepaway camp,
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Published 20 months ago by Ernie
rubbish film but great ending
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Published 21 months ago by Twelve
Great boxset
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Published on 26 May 2010 by L. Cross
pleasantly surprising
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Published on 13 Sep 2009 by zombie head banger
DVD Special Features
Anchor Bay's Sleepaway Camp 3 Disc Box Set comprises...
SLEEPAWAY CAMP:-
Audio Commentary with Director Robert Hiltzik, Star Felissa Rose and Moderator Jeff... Read more
SLEEPAWAY CAMP:-
Audio Commentary with Director Robert Hiltzik, Star Felissa Rose and Moderator Jeff... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by DavrosDigital
ANGELA!
First film has no gore, different actress, but a shock and quite a scary ending. Not to mention that the people who do get killed really do deserve it. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2009 by Anonymous
a must
this based on the first film
wow! they don't make films like this anymore
bad shorts bad language bad haircuts
it has it all
then the ending.. Read more
wow! they don't make films like this anymore
bad shorts bad language bad haircuts
it has it all
then the ending.. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2009 by rigby
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