the ending is one of the greatest moments. just chilling

Rewatching this movie is fun. I have no idea how it received a R eating. The gore is absurd and the nudity is non-existent which makes sense given the age of the campers. This movie is one of the defining "campy" movies. Makes sense, right? By today's standards, this movie is very tame. I would have LOVED to see this in the theater and be 13 when it came out.

Yes, the movie is pretty bad and some of the actors, especially the adults, give terrible performances. However it is quite disturbing, perverse even, and while you might guess the twist, you probably won’t guess the final reveal.

So bad it's good.

>*"She's a real carpenter's dream: flat as a board and needs a screw."*

As weird and campy as they come. Everything about this screams bad; acting, story, characters, dialogue... it's all terrible. Even the kills aren't very impressive, there's maybe two or three that are memorable but they're not bloody enough and too distanced apart. An arguement could be made that it makes up for the kills with uncomfortable weirdness? What I like most about it is the summer camp stuff, all the activities, the mean kids, it does an excellent job at portraying that. There's a whodunit mystery but it's so predictable. The ending however; unhinged! Very memorable and unpredictable. Makes the movie worth seeing for the twist alone.

A much more unsettling movie than it appears to be for the first 80 minutes. Great gore effects for a small budget: terrifying but not indulgent.

Most know Sleepaway Camp for the reveal at the end, but it has more going for it than that. There's something about the mood and how it's told that sets it apart from other slasher from the early 80s. Sure...all the slasher ingredients are there, but still...it's different. Even though that makes it an interesting watch no matter how many times I watch it, it's also what makes me think it lacks a bit of direction to be truly great. Well worth a watch, though. Especially if you haven't watched it.

- Terrible acting
- Terrible dialogs
- Terrible plot
- Unbelievable characters (90% of them complete psychopaths)

+ Good effects

Unless your mind is clouded by nostalgia, this is not worth your time. There are worlds between this and Friday 13th or Halloween.

Thats the worst 80s horror movie i ever saw i mean the corpses are great but acting and story is so bad
And the ending was f stupid...

Was it me or did that police guy wear a fake mustache?

Anyway this was my first time rewatching Sleepaway Camp and it is still enjoyable, even without the shock at the end. This time I watched it with the Joe Bob Briggs bits and Angela (Felissa Rose) was there too. Love all those little tidbits about the film. Like how the director payed a random dude 250 to show his penis and wear a little girl mask. I don't think stuff like that will happen these days.

I also forgot that most kills are off-screen and we only see the results, the only one I truly remembered was the first one with that creepy cook. Some of the lines were still pretty great like when Meg says: "Why do you kiss so wet?" or when Judy says to Angela: "She's a real carpenter's dream: flat as a board and needs a screw!" So awesome.

So yeah, this was quite the enjoyable rewatch and still a film I think everyone with a tiny bit of love for horror should watch!

This starts out as a _Friday the 13th_ knockoff, and not a very good one at that. The murders are unoriginal and little boring. The movie plods along, and right when you're thinking, "Well this was a waste of time", it springs it's ending on you, an ending that I didn't see coming and makes the viewer reexamine everything up to this point. It's fantastic, and turns what would have been a run-of-the-mill slasher film into something demented and special.

Me before the movie: Another Friday the 13th-like slasher? Oh, give me a break.

After the movie: WHAT THE FUCK!? Damn that was...disgusting and took me by surprise.

Also, this is the worst summer camp ever. The camp is like Lord of the Files but with the grown-ups around. I find it funny how kids keep dying on this camp but rather than evacuate the area, everyone passes it off as an unfortunate accident and move on with their lives. Nobody cares lol. Like, what the hell? Some people have just died and there might be a murderer in the area, but the campers are like "Well, better tell their parents the kid is dead, I guess, I don't know anymore".

Guarantee that this wouldn't be made in today's overly sensitive USA.

While some of the performances are actually painful to watch in my opinion, I suppose this is worth a watch simply for the infamous ending.