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Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, and starring Mike Kellin (in his last on-screen appearance), Katherine Kamhi, and Paul DeAngelo alongside Jonathan Tiersten, Felissa Rose, Christopher Collet (in his film debut), and Karen Fields. The original entry in the Sleepaway Camp film series, it focuses on serial killings which occur at a summer camp for teenagers.
Filmed in upstate New York in the fall of 1982, Sleepaway Camp was released the following year by United Film Distributors. It earned approximately $11 million at the box office, but was met by largely unfavorable reviews from critics, many of whom deemed it exploitative and derivative of such films as Friday the 13th (1980).
In the years since its release, Sleepaway Camp has gone on to develop a cult following, as well as garnering notoriety for its twist ending.[5][6][7][8][9]
It was followed by four sequels: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988), Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989), Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008) and Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (2012).
In 1975, John Baker and his boyfriend, Lenny, take John’s children, Angela and Peter, on a boating trip. After the boat capsizes, John and the children attempt to swim ashore. However, they swim into the path of a reckless motorboat and are struck. John and one of the kids are killed.
8 years later, Angela, the surviving child, is now traumatized. She has lived with her eccentric aunt, Dr. Martha Thomas, and cousin Ricky Thomas. Angela and Ricky are sent to Camp Arawak. Due to her introverted nature, Angela is bullied, with fellow camper Judy and camp counselor Meg her primary tormentors. The head cook, Artie, attempts to molest Angela as well. Later, an unseen figure causes Artie to get severely scalded by the water he is boiling. He is rushed to the hospital, and the incident is deemed accidental by camp owner Mel Costic.
Campers Kenny and Mike also mock Angela, prompting Ricky and his friend Paul to get into a fight with them. Paul befriends Angela. Kenny is later drowned after capsizing his canoe; his death is also ruled accidental by Mel. Paul asks Angela to attend a movie with him and kisses her. Campers Billy and Jimmy throw a water balloon at Angela, and Billy is killed next, stung to death when someone traps him in a public toilet stall with a beehive, knowing that Billy is allergic to bee stings. Mel starts thinking there is a killer in the camp.
The relationship between Angela and Paul grows strained when Paul kisses her again, causing Angela to flashback to her youth when she and her sibling witnessed their father in bed with Lenny. Judy seduces Paul, and Angela finds the two kissing. Guilty, Paul attempts to explain himself but is shooed away by Judy and Meg, who throw Angela into the water. Small children fling sand at Angela; she is comforted by Ricky, who swears revenge on her aggressors. Meg is later stabbed to death in the shower.
A camp social is held. At the event, Paul apologizes to Angela again, and she tells him to meet her by the water. Mel finds Meg’s body. 4 of the 6 children who threw sand at Angela are found hacked to bits. Soon after, Judy is killed by being vaginally penetrated with a hot electric curling iron. The camp is thrown into a panic with all the deaths. Thinking Ricky is the killer, Mel beats him into unconsciousness, then runs into the woods and encounters the real killer. In shock as to who it is, he appears to recognize the assailant before being killed with an arrow to the throat. Police begin searching for the missing campers. Paul is at the beach with Angela, who suggests they go for a swim. Officer Frank Breton discovers Ricky, unconscious but alive.
Counselors Ronnie Angelo and Susie find a naked Angela humming and clutching a hunting knife and Paul’s severed head. They are shocked to discover that “Angela” is Peter, her thought-to-be-dead brother. It is revealed that the real Angela died in the accident and Peter survived. After Martha gains custody of him, she decides to raise Peter as the girl she has always wanted, as she already has a son. It is implied that Peter was mentally affected by seeing his father John sharing a homosexual embrace with Lenny. The nude and blood-covered “Angela” stands before the shocked Susie and Ronnie, hissing and growling at them.
Cast
Felissa Rose as Angela Baker / Peter Baker
Frank Sorrentino as young Peter Baker
Colette Lee Corcoran as young Angela Baker
Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky Thomas
Karen Fields as Judy
Christopher Collet as Paul
Mike Kellin as Mel Kostic
Katherine Kamhi as Meg
Paul DeAngelo as Ronnie Angelo
Susan Glaze as Susie
Loris Sallahian as Billy
Amy Baio as Brooke Warner
Tom Van Dell as Mike
John E. Dunn as Kenny
Ethan Larosa as Jimmy
Willy Kuskin as Mozart
Desiree Gould as Aunt Martha Thomas
Owen Hughes as Artie
Robert Earl Jones as Ben
Frank Trent Saladino as Gene
Rick Edrich as Jeff
Fred Greene as Eddie
Allen Breton as Officer Frank Breton
Lisa Buckler as Leslie
Michael Mahon as Hal
Dan Tursi as John Baker
James Paradise as Lenny
Paul Poland as Craig
Alyson Mord as Mary Ann
Carol Robinson as Dolores