Friday, January 19, 2024

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

 A father, his young son and daughter are involved in a horrible boat accident, eight years later the surviving child and her cousin are sent by an evidently disturbed aunt to summer at Camp Arawak. Shortly after arrival a pedophile cook is severely burned, then a camper drowns, then more disturbing things happen, the emotionally distant Angela (Felissa Rose) and the protective Ricky (Johnathan Tiersten) seem to be at the center of things. An imaginative and effective varation on camp/slasher troops, this cult classic has a deceptively well thought out construction and is famous for its ending, which if you don't already know it, best to see it unaware if you can. ***

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