Sleepaway Camp
(1983)
[DVD Info]
A small group of friends are water skiing at a lake off an abandoned camp called Camp Arawak. When a girl gets in front of the wheel, she begins to goof around and she accidentally runs over a man and kills one of his two kids.
Eight years later, two cousins Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) and Angela (Flessia Rose) are going to Camp Arawak for the summer. Angela, the only survivor from the boating accident, is very quiet and hardly speaks to anyone and barely eats. All her camp mates are mean to he and give her a hard time. After some complaints that Angela hasn’t eaten for three days, a counselor takes her into the kitchen where the head chef tries to molest her. Ricky catches him and runs away with Angela. Soon, terrible accidents begin to happen. The chef has a vat of boiling water dropped on him, a boy drowns, and another boy is stung to death by bees. Who is behind these horrible murders?
Some camps don’t require background checks for child molesters.
Hot pants, tight muscle tees, and crop tops is the main uniform for male camp counselors.
The best way to woo a girl naked is yelling at them.
A little kid can easily drown a boy twice their size.
Girls who don’t speak much fill others with complete rage.
Water balloons can take a person’s eyes out.
Kids run frantically everywhere.
"Look at all that fresh meat. Where I come from they call ‘em baldies." ~Arty, the head chef.
The whole situation with the water skiing accident.
Murderous bees?
Are 13-year-olds THAT horny?
This movie really reminded me of a cheesy 70s sitcom. It had silly situations with the silly “wa, wa, waaaa” music. The only real difference is that all these children had mouths like sailors and were extremely horny…oh yeah and people were getting murdered left and right. The murders were pretty imaginative, but it didn’t really make up for the utter boringness that this movie had. There was so much space between the kills and all the characters were irritating and I couldn’t muster an ounce of sympathy for them.
The biggest problem I had with this movie was the beginning. While the two kids are driving the boat, they spend all their time looking backwards. Who drives a boat looking backwards? Also, when the girl on the water skis yells, “there’s a boat in front of you.” Obviously they won’t be able to hear you. The SMART thing to do would be fall off the skis, so that they’d be forced to stop the boat and turn it around. Yelling at them makes them pay more attention to you. But…if people were smart then a lot of horror movies would never be made. Hehe. Next are the murderous bees. Ah…I can’t explain it. It just didn’t make sense that the bees were murderous. They attack that boy and then crawl all over his face and give him open gaping wounds. Bees don’t eat people; they just make you swell up. The thing that irritated me the most about this movie was the fact that there were these thirteen year olds that were soooo horny. It was creepy. I’ve never met such a horny group of little kids in real life. Phew. I really hated Judy. That girl was such a horrible person. After she talked for about a minute I was hoping she’d be the first to die. She was one of the things that made this movie so bad. That and the worse acting ever. That mom? Wow. Just because she was crazy and tied strings to her fingers didn’t mean she had to sound like she was reading (very loudly) off of cue cards. By the way...what was up with the gay dads? That seemed kinda random to me.
So, the reason I saw this movie in the first place is because this is the movie that terrified my best friend so bad that she can’t watch horror movies to this day. If she does, it’s a very harrowing ordeal. While watching it, I couldn’t understand why she would be scared, even as a child. The movie was so boring. If I watched this as a kid I would’ve been bored enough to turn it off. The killer is pretty obvious (they practically tell you who it is on the back of the box), but I was hoping they weren’t going to be that terribly obvious. The end was coming and I was just glad that it was over. Then, there was a plot twist I couldn’t’ve seen coming in a million years. It just plain freaked me out. I was actually disturbed by the last minute of the movie. So, I must apologize to my friend for calling her a wuss, I can completely understand why a movie like this could traumatize a young girl. Geez! That last minute of the movie made me forget how boring and painful this movie truly was and made me give it a higher rating. With kids with long island accents, women who talk to themselves, extreme fat ass close up, kids with sailor mouths, third degree burns that pulsate, murderous nerds, death by bees, and curling iron related deaths…the jury gives this flick:
(Shocked)
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