dgonzalez-40797 This movie starts off as a campy regular flick, but wow what a twist!

mymangodfrey ...but who are we kidding: Sleepaway Camp is the best summer-camp slasher movie ever made.I compare this movie (and the original, underrated Friday the 13th) to getting on a sketchy-looking carnival ride. The ride looks old, it seems to have been carelessly assembled, and the ride operator is drunk; you never feel that your life is in the hands of capable, trustworthy people, and that's half of the fun.The weird appeal of Sleepaway Camp starts pre-credits, with its bizarre dedication, and continues all the way to the closing credits, with its freeze-frame and its magnificently horrible would-be pop hit, "Angela's Theme."I don't know, man. This is obviously an irresponsible movie, with some very outdated ideas about gender and sexuality, but I think we just have to love it like the weird cousin we see at Thanksgiving.As is true with the best cult genre movies: sometimes Sleepaway Camp is so bad it's good, and other times it's just good. (Rarely is it in the boring middle.) Sometimes you're laughing with the movie, and sometimes you're laughing at the movie. Some of the performers are entertaining because they're pretty good actors, and some are entertaining because they're so terrible (but we sense that they don't really care; this production isn't Shakespeare, or a first-step towards stardom).Crazy Aunt Martha, what have you started here?PS: the orchestral musical score is one of the things that's good-good. Effectively scary!

Samuel-Shovel I'd previously heard of this movie and it's disturbing twist of an ending so I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to toss this one on. With the ending already ruined for me, I was expecting it to not be that enjoyable (since I'd heard that the rest of the movie was kind of a snore); but this movie actually exceeded my expectations!This movie has some really fun horror elements and climatic death sequences. The scene with the hornets nest in the bathroom I will always remember. And even though I was prepared for the big finale, it was still a shocking, grotesque, disturbing image that greeted me.There are some parts of this that were fairly boring. I definitely could have done with out that entire baseball game, but all in all it's hard to complain about a movie that's under 90 minutes. The acting isn't spectacular but I think it tells a twisted psychological story that people might "sleep on" just because it's a cheaply made 80's horror movie. It's actually decently done.

mcgowanjm-65288 Wow, I read about this movie in a best of horror movie guide, so I got it from Netflix. It's terrible! The acting is awful (the mom is unbelievably bad), the story is nothing special. Yeah, everybody says the ending is such a shocker, meh. The only reason I didn't give it a 1 is that the makeup for the victims was very good. Do yourself a favor, if you want to see this, don't suffer through the whole thing, fast forward to the kill scenes and the "shocking" ending and just get it over with.