Sleepaway Camp (1983) 6/10

The early 80's were a time for slasher flicks in the horror world, in particular, the camp slasher flick. From the slew of Friday the 13ths to The Burning and others the time was over saturated with these films. Sleepaway camp spawned several sequels itself. Its high time I checked out this lesser Friday ripoff.

As with every other camp oriented slasher, a group of kids go to camp for the summer and they start dropping like flies. The twist in the story her is that one of the kids suffered a terrible tragedy early in life. It seems that this camper's father and brother were both killed in a terrible boating accident leaving her terribly withdrawn.

Here is a film that doesn't do much to break the mold. Kids acting like jerks to each other, counselors sleeping around, and people dying left and right. The gore isn't very graphic and the acting is so-so as well as the direction. The film is no different then any other slasher flick from the era, that is until the ending. I will say this, the ending is worth the price of admission on its own. I won't give it away here but it is quite a doozy. If the ending hadn't been so, lets just say, unique, it wouldn't have garnered a second glance and certainly wouldn't have spawned two sequels. Check it out if you dig the genre and watch till the end, its worth it!

Nudity-mild

Gore-mild

Overall- 6/10