{"id":4652,"date":"2023-10-31T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:15:46","slug":"oct-31st-sleepaway-camp-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 31st: Sleepaway Camp (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sleepaway Camp (1983)<\/div>
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How have I done 310 posts, reviewing movies, many of them slasher movies, and I haven\u2019t talked about Sleepaway Camp?!\u00a0 It is one of my favorite slashers, and a movie with a lot to talk about haha.\u00a0 This is a movie, that I tell everyone to watch, BECAUSE of the ending.\u00a0 I will give fair warning before I discuss the ending, no worries.\u00a0 I love seeing people\u2019s faces, getting their reactions and thoughts on the bat shit crazy ending.\u00a0 It floored me the first time I watched it on VHS back in probably 2007ish.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u00a0Sleepaway Camp is about a summer camp, full of preteens and young kids, that is being tormented by a mysterious killer seemingly exacting revenge on anyone that does wrong to the main character of Angela. Is Angela the killer? Is it her cousin Ricky? Is it crazy Mel the fish faced owner of the camp?! GASP! Who knows?! The genius of this movie, or accidental genius if you will, of it is that mystery is easy to solve, but not the full twist that blindsides you.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0At the beginning of the movie we see a father and his son and daughter on a sailboat, the kids push him off and he tips the boat over. Soon they\u2019re ran over by a speed boat and presumably killed. Flash foward to \u201ccurrent\u201d day where Ricky and Angela are preparing for camp and goofy Aunt Martha is either the best actor in the movie or the worst, you decide! The two kids go to camp and crazy shit starts happening. It is obvious from the get go that one of two things is going on. Either Angela is killing everyone OR Ricky is killing everyone to protect Angela. What we get is something you\u2019d never guess.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0The acting isn\u2019t anything amazing, but the characters are decent! Angela is the quiet shy girl that doesn\u2019t say much so it is hard to gauge Felissa Rose\u2019s performance. Felissa is awesome as a person, a real peach. She did a shout out for us for the podcast a couple years back and went above and beyond what we asked. We love you Felissa! Ricky is the hot headed cousin of Angela that is always down for a fight and never short of curse words. Judy, oh man Judy she is the bitch of the camp, just trying to stir the shit pot and start drama. Ronnie is the big buff guido that helps run the camp with the owner Mel, a frumpy old man with a fish face. I could go on and on with these characters so I\u2019ll draw the line there.\u00a0 Well, maybe one last one!\u00a0 James Earl Jones\u2019s dad is in this.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Robert Earl Jones plays one of the camp chefs, the one that isn\u2019t a pedo.\u00a0 Imagine this, it is 1983 and James Earl Jones just did The Empire Strikes back and his dad did Sleepaway Camp for probably $500 and a sandwich lol.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Kills wise? This movie has a nice variety. For being so low budget, $350K apparently, it has decent effects! The pedophile cook gets boiled by a large pot of water dumped on him, Kenny drowns, Meg gets stabbed in the back and slit down her spine. The boy taking a shit who\u2019s name escapes me gets stung by tons of bees, Judy gets a curling iron jammed into her\u2026.ummm clown hole\u2026yikes. Young kids get hacked up with a hatchet, bleak! Mel gets shot with an arrow, in a simple yet effective shot. Then there\u2019s good old Paul, Ricky\u2019s best friend, well Paul get\u2019s more than he bargained for, again I\u2019ll save that one.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Dialogue and inadvertent comedy. This movie has some pretty awkward scenes and dialogue in it. One that always makes me laugh, and no one really ever mentions much is a scene at a party at the camp. The boys want to go skinny dipping and Kenny asks Angela, of course she doesn\u2019t respond and he drops a funny line of \u201cHey Angela, how come ya so fucked up!?\u201d with a thick Jersey accent. There is an amazing scene where the cop shows up talking to Mel about Kenny\u2019s death and he has a respectable mustache, later in the movie before the climax the cop returns and has a laughably fake stache. Apparently the actor who played the cop had a mustache, then when he thought his scenes were done he shaved it off, Hiltzik needed him to come back for another scene, and they had to put a fake stache on him for continuity haha.\u00a0 A random scene of the meathead with a heart of gold Ronnie, is lifting weights in the background of a conversation fish face Mel has with Ricky. Also bitch #2, Meg gets excited about having a date with Mel, the gross old man that owns the camp. Very odd because Meg is a looker and Mel, which we have covered already has a frumpy fish face!\u00a0 Just take a look to the right and see the odd pairing of Mad Mel and M-E-G Meg!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0The ending. SPOILER ALERT! Do not read the rest of this blog if you haven\u2019t seen this movie. The ending is truly astounding and should be seen with a clear mind. I have never met one person that has seen this movie for the first time, without researching it, that could guess what happens at the end.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Here we go. Angela invites Paul to \u201cmeet me at the waterfront after the social\u201d he happy accepts. Once he arrives she tells him to take his clothes off and go for a swim. Quick cut back to the rest of the camp and the carnage that has happened. Young kids probably 8 or younger hacked up in their sleeping bags, Judy\u2019s corpse, Meg\u2019s corpse, Ricky beaten to a pulp by friggin Mel going apeshit lol. The counselors are looking for Angela, she\u2019s the only one, along with Paul, that they can\u2019t find. Ronnie happens across Angela, sitting naked on the beach cuddling Paul and humming. Angela stands up, Paul\u2019s head rolls away, she whips around and standing there in her full glory is Angela, covered in blood with a knife and a dick between her legs. Cut to Aunt Martha talking to \u201cAngela\u201d about how excited she is to have a girl, they already have a boy (Ricky) and another will not do. Martha has forced the boy from the beginning to look, act and dress like a girl, now named Angela. Ronnie drops the obvious line of \u201cshe\u2019s a boy?\u201d and boom, cut to a weird green wash of the screen and music.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"She's a boy?!\"
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\u00a0This movie to me, is a comfort movie.\u00a0 Any time I watch this, I feel cozy and comfortable.\u00a0 It is almost cathartic in a way.\u00a0 The genuine interactions between the characters, the funny things you notice with repeat viewings and the inadvertant humor just makes me happy.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure Robert Hiltzik really knew fully what he was doing, and it made for a really entertaining movie.\u00a0 The fact that he dedicated a camp slasher movie with a transgender preteen killer whom kills kids to his mom, is interesting in itself.\u00a0 To mom, a doer.\u00a0 Indeed Mr. Hiltzik!\u00a0 Think about that, this is a slasher movie where the majority of the kills are preteen kids not truly full on teenagers.\u00a0 This movie has balls, pun intended.\u00a0 I can\u2019t give this anything less than an A+\u00a0 check it out!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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