Sleepaway Camp (1983) Reviews & Ratings
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Sleepaway Camp reviews
Sleepaway Camp holds a 6.3/10 average from 821 TMDB ratings.
If there's a slasher flick that came out during the slasher fever that took place in the 80s, that succeeded in not becoming another carbon copy of "Friday the 13th", that would be "Sleepaway Camp". The movie offers all the elements featured in the average slasher formula... and then some. We have the campsite, the oblivious adults, the group of stereotyped kids, the mysterious killer lurking around the place, an op…
— tmdb17996075 (8/10)
***Adolescents at a summer camp in upstate New York… with a killer on the loose*** On the surface “Sleepaway Camp” (1983) is a clone of the first two “Friday the 13th” movies (1980/1981) mixed with elements of “Meatballs” (1979), but with more edge. Like the first “Friday the 13th,” the killer is a mystery until the end. Like “Meatballs,” the youths at the camp are adolescents, including pubescents. Kids of this ilk…
— Wuchak (6/10)
USA | November 18th, 1983 | ★★★½ Sleepaway Camp is an American independent horror movie from filmmaker, Robert Hiltzik. Who wrote, directed, and produced the film. It introduces a very young Felissa Rose as Angela Baker. Alongside local actors Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, and Christopher Collet. We even have a rare appearance from Robert Earl Jones, brother to James Earl Jones. And this movie marked the final fi…
— RottenPop (7/10)
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Movies like Sleepaway Camp
If you enjoyed Sleepaway Camp, these movies have a similar feel:
- Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- The Burning (1981)
- Wolf Creek (2005)
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
- Jeepers Creepers (2001)
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
- Strange Darling (2024)
- Eden Lake (2008)
- The Hunt (2020)
- The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
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