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Sleepaway Camp is a standard teen slasher elevated by occasional moments of John Waters-esque weirdness and a twisted ending.
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The big, infamous end reveal actually suggests the screenplay's focused on psychological damage inherent in enforcing gender roles on children. April 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The big, infamous end reveal actually suggests the screenplay's focused on psychological damage inherent in enforcing gender roles on children.
C.H. Newell
An atypical slasher movie that blurs the lines between high and low art, good and bad acting, male and female, proficiency and ineptitude, sophistication and primitivism. October 23, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An atypical slasher movie that blurs the lines between high and low art, good and bad acting, male and female, proficiency and ineptitude, sophistication and primitivism.
Daniel Barnes
even as the final sequence leaves first-time viewers reeling, those who rewind and rewatch the film can unzip all the hints and tells which Hiltzik has artfully concealed in the dialogue of his subversive screenplay. December 16, 2017 | Full Review…
even as the final sequence leaves first-time viewers reeling, those who rewind and rewatch the film can unzip all the hints and tells which Hiltzik has artfully concealed in the dialogue of his subversive screenplay.
Anton Bitel
A slog through teenage nightmares that has the gall to assume anyone is interested in social commentary, especially when it is all formulated by ideas carbon-copied from more talented filmmakers. October 30, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
A slog through teenage nightmares that has the gall to assume anyone is interested in social commentary, especially when it is all formulated by ideas carbon-copied from more talented filmmakers.
David Keyes
The story of Sleepaway Camp is pretty much everything you'd expect from a slasher movie and nothing you'd ever expect, which is what makes Hiltzik's campy and disturbing summer camp tale still one of the more memorable horror movies ever made. January 7, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The story of Sleepaway Camp is pretty much everything you'd expect from a slasher movie and nothing you'd ever expect, which is what makes Hiltzik's campy and disturbing summer camp tale still one of the more memorable horror movies ever made.
Heather Wixson
The justly-famous closing image is one of the most baffling and incongruous climaxes in a genre known and celebrated by devotees for its WTF factor. June 28, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The justly-famous closing image is one of the most baffling and incongruous climaxes in a genre known and celebrated by devotees for its WTF factor.
Bryant Frazer
The movie won't be everyone's cup of tea, but for those with a strong interest in cinematic scares, it is most definitely a gutsy picture that deserves to be seen and discussed. May 28, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The movie won't be everyone's cup of tea, but for those with a strong interest in cinematic scares, it is most definitely a gutsy picture that deserves to be seen and discussed.
Mike McGranaghan
There are great films and then there are magical films, glorious oddities that pop up sui generis out of nowhere. Sleepaway Camp falls squarely into the latter category. May 27, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There are great films and then there are magical films, glorious oddities that pop up sui generis out of nowhere. Sleepaway Camp falls squarely into the latter category.
Scott Tobias
Take out the twist, and the film could piggy-back off of her into a stilted and tasteless but nonetheless unique exploration of sexual awakening. May 23, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Take out the twist, and the film could piggy-back off of her into a stilted and tasteless but nonetheless unique exploration of sexual awakening.
Jake Cole
[Blu-ray Review] From the awesome newly commissioned cover artwork, to the terrific A/V elements, to a slew of new bonus content going above and beyond the call of duty, this is nothing less than a dream release. Buy it. Like, now. May 22, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[Blu-ray Review] From the awesome newly commissioned cover artwork, to the terrific A/V elements, to a slew of new bonus content going above and beyond the call of duty, this is nothing less than a dream release. Buy it. Like, now.
Dustin Putman
A definite eighties gem with a twisted mystery that really is rather brilliant in countering any resemblance toward "Friday the 13th." May 21, 2014 | Full Review…
A definite eighties gem with a twisted mystery that really is rather brilliant in countering any resemblance toward "Friday the 13th."
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Camp eighties slasher classic with a well disguised twist. June 18, 2013 | Full Review…
Camp eighties slasher classic with a well disguised twist.
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