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User Reviews for: Sleepaway Camp

iVcente
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  4 years ago
>Eat shit and die, Ricky!
>Eat shit and live, Bill.

This movie is wrong in so many ways, one of those films that is so bad that it's good. Super low-budget, a look of a B movie. You'll have some of the worst and best dialogues of all time mixed up, it's really amazing. The killing scenes are inventive to a certain point, although some doesn't make much sense. There's some great special effects job after some kills. And what the hell are those clothes the characters wear?

The acting is pretty bad for most actors (wtf is Aunt Martha's actress doing!?). James Earl Jones's father plays a role in this movie, curiously. Beyond bad acting and illogical actions, like that kid that starts talking to himself under the canoe (why, dude?)[spoiler], the killing scenes show Ricky's arms and hands, and at some point you have Ricky wearing a wig (it does get some laughs, at least). I guess it was supposed to just appear his silhouette (imitating Angela) but the image is too bright, so you can clearly see that is Ricky. From what I looked up, Felissa Rose's parents didn't want her to perform murders, even fake ones, so they put Jonathan Tiersten to do the scenes. I love the "I'm going to murder your soul" stare by Angela.[/spoiler] There's even a very noticeable fake mustache worn by an officer, great!

The score is really good, I didn't expect this would be an aspect that this film would excel.

Now, let's talk about the ending, wow, one of the most astonishing and mind-blowing endings ever. There's no way to see it coming, especially the way and how it happens, this is one aspect that made this movie stood out from the rest of the slasher genre. [spoiler]Man, that face and expressions of Angela (aka Peter) are terrifying, the grotesque and animalistic sounds she makes, that insane look and the alternation between body and face shots is disturbing. I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life, so as my girlfriend — she watched it too and now wishes she had not seen it. Then, "Oh my god, she's a boy!", yep, that's the reaction from the bodybuilder character seeing Angela with a head chopped off in her arms and it rolling into ground. Amazing reaction, I'd probably have the same. The movie ends with the frozen frame of Angela's insane look. Brrr, creepy. The whole abuse and torment "Angela" suffered is shocking too, before and during the events of the film, all of that may not have been the one great cause to her going mad but it certainly took big part and led her/him to this extreme point. [/spoiler]

I feel like the whole movie was just an excuse so that the director could reach this specific scene he had in mind, that ending. Which if this is really what happened, I cannot complain, well done!
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