Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 cult classic horror movie written and directed by Robert Hiltzik—who also served as executive producer. The film is about teen campers getting killed at a summer camp. The film came at a time when slasher films were in their heyday. The film is widely known for having one of the most shocking endings in cinematic history.
The film opens in the summer of 1975, with a family consisting of John Baker (Dan Tursi) and his two...
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Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 cult classic horror movie written and directed by Robert Hiltzik—who also served as executive producer. The film is about teen campers getting killed at a summer camp. The film came at a time when slasher films were in their heyday. The film is widely known for having one of the most shocking endings in cinematic history.
The film opens in the summer of 1975, with a family consisting of John Baker (Dan Tursi) and his two children Angela and Peter Baker out on a lake near a summer camp. After their small boat accidentally flips, John and the children begin to head ashore, where John's lover, Lenny (James Paradise) is calling to him. As the family swims, a pair of teenagers pulling a water skier in a motorboat fail to notice them in time and hit them, killing both John and Peter. The surviving Angela is sent to live with her eccentric aunt Dr. Martha Thomas (Desiree Gould) and Martha's son Richard "Ricky" Thomas (Jonathan Tiersten).
Eight years after John and...
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