Review of Sleepaway Camp (1983) by Mark D — 22 Nov 2010
Sleepaway Camp is the one low-budget Friday the 13th rip-off that had something the others didn't have: a genuinely shocking and memorable twist. The storytelling and acting are both mediocre to decent at best, with a lot of '80s cheese and a low-budget look.
However, some of the more abstract memory scenes that tie the story together are done reasonably well, building up towards the twist ending which offers one of the horror genre's all-time greatest final shots.
Sleepaway Camp as a film really only deserves 2 1/2 stars, but the final shot alone bumps it up to 3, simply because of how terrifying and haunting it is. Not since the '70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers has something gotten to me like that.
There are also a couple creative kills, a pretty high body-count, and some reasonably good special effects considering the budget.
This review of Sleepaway Camp (1983) was written by Mark D on 22 Nov 2010.
Sleepaway Camp has generally received positive reviews.
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