Sleepaway Camp (1983) KILL COUNT

Welcome to Guild Cow, where we chronicle the victims of all our favorite horror movies. I'm Agent James East and I'm very happy because today we're watching Sleepaway Camp, one of my favorite horror movies of all time released in

1983

, the title and premise of Sleepaway Camp suggest that it will be a clone of Friday the 13th and if While two of the three sequels in the Sleepaway Camp series are more like the slasher prototype, the original film is much more written and directed by a film. The student Robert Hill SiC, his only film before making his fourth, twenty years later.

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is a cult classic known mostly for its infamous ending, but it actually bothers me that the ending overshadows the rest of the movie because it's so blunt. even fucking strange to the fucking bones. I'm going to have a hard time not commenting on every weird ass scene and including every hilarious line like this one, I think, or this one, okay, one more, okay, now, one nicer one, this is definitely it. one of those movies that you should see for yourself before watching Killer Cow, you should experience this masterpiece as intact as possible. Lee boy

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works really well for me because it feels so authentic that the kids are real kids played by 12-17 year olds.

The grown-ups talk like real kids and swear almost as much as I do, and in random little things like a rooftop water balloon fight or Counselor Ronnie's lack of shorts, and you get a truly unique movie that feels like if it had been filmed with a home. video camera and a real summer camp, plus it has some respectable practical effects when it comes to the gory goodness, how many deaths will we find in Camp Arawak? Let's sit around the campfire and

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them. The film begins in loving memory of mom. she has something to do with this dramatic card, I know, so congratulations to mom.

I really enjoyed it, in fact I'm a big fan of Edward Phyllis' entire overly dramatic score for this epic shit movie. At the nearby Arawak camp, a man named John Baker has tanned chest hair while the children, Peter and Angela, argue about some nonsense, such a relaxing day on the water for Dad, as long as those kids of his aren't scheming little ones. Oh, wait a minute, Oh. No ruin, okay, this Lenny guy is here saying it's time for them to go anyway, you'll get more Lenny later, but there's some dispute over his exact relationship with the other characters, as hilariously explored when Camp to sleep was covered by the podcast, how was this done?

Oh, guys, that was his wife, that was his way. No Yes. I highly recommend listening to that episode and watching the fun little animated clip I'm linking to here. Sharing the lake with the bakers is an Arawak camp. The lifeguard and his friend Marianne, who are currently busy yelling at each other over the engine of their boat. I'm sorry, what was that? You know, it doesn't matter. I won't be able to hear you. They're towing a teary-eyed water skier. Who wants to end this shit, especially when he sees them heading towards John Baker's capsized boat? However, it's too late for them to get out of the way, so we start with two deaths for the John Baker cow and one. of her children, the other child is left paddling in his life jacket while witnesses scream and/or gasp eight years later, a brightly dressed woman named Martha sends her cheeky son Ricky and her demure niece Angela, the only survivor of that boat accident. to Camp Arawa Angela is played by then-thirteen-year-old Felisa Rose, who has been nothing but an absolute sweetheart every time I've met her.

If you ever get the chance to meet her at a convention, I can't recommend it enough. She is really fantastic. Actress Desiree Ghul's portrayal of Aunt Martha is also fantastic. Her strange performance, she says, makes her feel like she's not only in a different movie but on a completely different planet. We wouldn't want them to leave without us now. No? I'm afraid that wouldn't help. Yes, it's no wonder Ricky is eager to get away from his mother on the space case, but not before she gives both boys their camp physicals. Just be careful not to tell anyone how you got them.

No no. I'm afraid they wouldn't approve of that at all even though they know I'm a doctor, you're scaring us. A group of school buses unleash hordes of hyperactive children on the camp, where the councilman yells at them. Ronny et of the muscles and shorts and the camp owner Mel, who seems to finance adult films during the off-season, disgustingly enough, these real kids are also humble, so head chef Artie watches all the Fresh young chicken, oh, fuck, dude, and what the fuck, dude. kitchen bag that shit isn't funny although I do have a fun fact to lighten the mood: the boy Ben is played by Robert Earl Jones and his voice is quite similar to that of a son, James Earl Jones, you know, damn Darth Vader, cuts to Mufasa, talks about the The dark side of Ricky meets Paul, his friend from camp, whom he introduces to his quiet cousin Angela, as it is his first time away from home since the boat accident.

Paul says yeah, that's great before telling Ricky that another girl named Judy has recently developed and now has boobs. bigger than Annette, Ricky goes and tries to yell at him only to have his back turned, you know, that must hurt, especially since they had been constant the summer before, oh, those summer nights, although Ricky loves it here, to Angela has a much harder time adjusting. Camp life, he stares at Judy and the girls' cabin, refuses to eat anything in the cafeteria, and three days later still hasn't said a word to anyone, leading Ronnie and his HD bundle to carry Angela to the kitchen to look for her. something he maybe she wants to eat to this day.

I can't tell if Ronnie is just a clueless good guy or if he's feeding Angela for the purpose of feeding the camp pedophile, but the end result is the same: Angela is left alone in the kitchen with Artie, who immediately becomes The most disgusting human being you have ever seen. He's about to rape this poor girl in the pantry when Cousin Ricky walks in and interrupts them. What are you doing? She is the first one who already tries to sexually assault and now she is intimidating witnesses and hitting boxes. There's nothing this monster won't do and apparently there was no stunt coordinator for this movie, so Ricky's actor, Jonathan Kirsten, then 17, got pretty banged up doing multiple takes for the scene and Rose in my back with redness and, you know, just Remember Robert keeps saying again, it's just a laugh and I think it's strange, it seems like everyone else has very good memories of making this movie, but something about Jonathan's interviews Kirsten seemed a little sad to me.

I hope they are doing well. Later that day, a man is trying to boil corn in the biggest pot I've ever seen when a first-person assassin sneaks in and pulls the chair out from under his feet, the resulting fall leaving Artie covered in twisted-looking burns on the fingers. On his face, those burns are almost as unpleasant as all the fly-infested contact paper hanging in the kitchen. The practical effects in this film were done by Edward French, which was a pleasure for me to learn about because I previously covered his work on another strange Mine Blood Rage favorite, he even had a small role in that film as the Sugar Daddy date that ended decapitated French used liquid gelatin to make the sculpted skin effects here and put a little air into them to create bubbly blisters, very cool and very gross, but not quite. a carnage since we last saw Artie being taken to a medical facility for it.

I don't think the guy died. I guess he lived on the outside of him and now matches the nasty inside of him after Mel pays off Ben and the rest of the kitchen. Staff must remain silent so that campers or their parents do not worry. First we get a good amount of weird and random camp stuff. It's nerd-inappropriate hazing, complete with actual bare ass and a pretty funny slap sound effect. Hazing is never okay, kids, but that noise. it's pretty fucking funny, see you, we also have another camp counselor in a questionable outfit, this is what he does to Gino and his short crop top to George, that's some pretty weird stuff and we finally get one of the highlights of this movie when Ricky's friends have a baseball game against a cabin of older children, this sequence is one of my favorites mainly because, over the unnecessary Longinus, it has two separate fades that show us how long so quickly we don't need to see all the plays in this sleep camp game, this is absurd, luckily our patience is rewarded with the biggest exchange of insults I've ever heard in a movie, shit and die, Riki, eat shit, live, warm up, shit and live, eat shit and live that night there is a dance in the rec room where these guys make fun of Angela.

Kenny and Mike after she doesn't respond to her pick-up lines Angela, how could this be so fucked up? Hello, MF Alyssa Rose cites this as one of her favorite scenes that she had to fill. They made me laugh, Angela, what's wrong with you? Yes, why are you so? Fucking lucky for Angela, a cowboy cousin Ricky and his friend Paul are here to interfere on her behalf and Ricky instigates the first of the many boy piles in this movie which, as the name implies, is just the big boy pile when the boys are

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ed. Piled together, we have some of the most Ricky rage and smarmy little finger I've ever seen.

Shit. I love this guy's face when he says screw you, that's my favorite post, he checks on Angela and gives her a nice guy monologue where he says he's sorry for what happened. To her family, her conversation bothers Judy, but Angela is in a trance and when she has to leave, she even gets a goodnight word from her. Chop top, you are not allowed to camp in marowak, get out of here by the lake, older camper Billy the guy. who was told that everyone should not live gets very angry when he can't convince girls to go skinny dipping, it's okay Billy, there's nothing stopping you and your friends from having a bear, but the water boy Pyle, I know that's his name. podcast that I recommended, but seriously, how did this get that guy Kenny who was bothering Angela and dancing to take a canoe with a girl but of course he's a jerk about it and ends up flipping her over after she walks away swimming and he decides to go under the boat alone where he really likes the acoustics hey get off my cloud a head appears and the invisible figure pushes Kenny's head under the water and the next morning after the camp lifeguard has an aneurysm from the mess left in his lake, you realize.

Something under that overturned boat is the body of Kenny, whose work is obviously fake, even French can admit that effect was a little cursed when he came for the life cast that day. I think I was a little nervous because the life cast was a compromised Little French did what he could to fix it and honestly it doesn't bother me too much since the life cast allowed them to have that snake coming out of his mouth and I think it's a great touch that Kenny has taken in a body bag. and Mel insists that his death was just an accident: a mustachioed cop named Frank remembers Frank's mustache well, specifically how real it is, you'll miss that reality, although Ronnie is unsettled by the second accident, life at the camp continues. , which means Judy is free. continue playing volleyball in a shirt that has her own name on it too, if you'll allow me a proud Internet Supervisor moment, one of my mods, Jordan, did the best Judy cosplay and actually took a photo with Felisa Rose in Texas Frightmare. great job Jordan, I love Angeles, she's out of the volleyball game, but opens up like a chatterbox when Paul sits down and starts flirting with her again, which makes Judy jealous and also upsets the girls' counselor, Meg, who tells Paul to move on and even though she is the counselor in charge of the younger campers, Meg is a bad girl who has teamed up with Judy because she is definitely not a fan of Angela that night after a movie in the living room. recreation, Angela and Paul moved forward to holding hands, but when Paul tries. to move on to kissing Angela goes off again, yeah, when she responds like that, dude, maybe don't go ahead and try to steal another little lesson if you can hear me under all those pillows and that boy piles up.

Now guys, the next day, Angela leaves him behind and Paul goes back to being cute and giggly, but that only gets her in trouble with Meg, who shakes her like a rag doll and yells at Judy, who is jealous that Paul seems to like it. Judy scoffs. Angela for being underdeveloped with a line that has stuck with me since I heard it whenI was a girl. In fact, I have She's a Real Carpenters Dream signed by Judy actress Karen Fields on this curling iron back here, courtesy of Karen's daughter Izzy. I met Karen and Izzy filmed my first event video and the Palooza monster in 2017.

Karen was one of my first interviews. She is very nice in person and had a lot of fun playing such a bad character. I felt at ease, like she could be as nasty as she wanted. be, you know, don't think that was a bad thing, because it's okay to be nasty, thank you so much for the curling iron Karen and Izzy, oh, and if you're wondering why it's a curling iron, you'll find out later, Angela leaves. her cabin and walks outside past some kids having a water balloon fight on the rooftop like that's a normal thing, Chief Billy and the other kids she's with spin their balloons at Angela, but don't worry because everyone the adidas shit comes as Paul tends to.

Angela's cousin Ricky runs out and launches another profane tirade at the bullies, although an impromptu rant like that brought actor Jonathan to tears. Tune into the role during the audition. Here, Ricky gets into as much trouble with Mel as Billy did with the balloon boys, later Billy hangs up. Returning from a baseball game for personal reasons reading. With the material in hand, he begins his perverse dumping without knowing that an invisible figure has locked him inside the cubicle with a broomstick, so Billy is trapped behind a locked door when they put a beehive inside the bathroom and he's not sure why he didn't do it. just sneak out under the door because if he had, maybe he wouldn't have caught Nicolas Cage with a bunch of bees, oh man, more disgusting skin effects, courtesy of Edward French Judas,

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ing him with these nasty puns from Shit, if you will, after this third accident, she almost murdered. all the campers left Camp Arawa, in fact, Ronnie says there are only 25 kids left, prompting Mel to deliver an indignant monologue about her number one suspect, Ricky seemed to have hate in his eyes, but I never did anything for what he did to her. to the house, although there may be a murderer out there.

Paul and Angela still meet after dark and kiss on the beach. Watch out Paul, she is a schemer, haha, you have many, little schemer, but Paul once again presses her past. Angelus, comfort women, clearly our friend, she said no. Enough is enough, Angela apparently triggered a flashback of her and her brother as kids laughing at their dad in bed with that guy Lenny from the scene at the beginning, this comes out of nowhere almost an hour into the movie, but yeah, now this is one thing. Is he homophobic? Are they just kids laughing at something they don't understand?

Don't know. I also don't really know the full meaning of this strange shot that ends the flashback. Why are you pointing so hard? Little Angel screams no and runs away from Paul, the date rapist, and the next day the camp's remaining campers participate in a group game of butt grab or capture the flag. I guess it's a lot of butt grabbing for me. Paul continues to press his luck with width and body against a clearly uncomfortable Angela and after she rejects him Judy swoops in for that rebound. II Angela discovers their make out session and if that wasn't bad enough for our quiet protagonist, Ben is approached at the lake by Meg, who picks up Angela so she can throw her into the water.

Ricky tries to intervene, but is stopped by Mel, who accuses him of killing the other children. It shows those moments there, so with Ricky, a worried Angela is thrown into the lake and even after Ricky and the lifeguard help her out of it, she laughs. Judy and Meg attack him and some little kids throw Sam at him, damn stupid kids, they'll pay for that. Ricky will make sure that in another of these films, the owner of the sexual predation camp, Mel, has a date with his surely underage counselor. Meg stops later that night grout thanks to a long line in the girls' cabin bathroom Meg ends up showering in an empty neighboring cabin which is the perfect place for a murderer to walk in and finish Meg's insufferable shower by humming that's not even a real song meg Meg is stabbed in the back with a knife through the aluminum shower wall and dies when the unseen assailant slashes her and slashes her back, oh man, but hey, at least this mysterious killer knows that You should always keep your tools clean and conserve water, it's not necessary.

Put Mother Earth in the killer cow, right? Paul tries to talk to Angela after that late-night social event in the rec room and when he refuses to leave her alone again, she finally capitulates to her complaints. Meet me on the seafront after such a sure good job, Paul, you did it. worn out I hope you're happy one person who is not happy is Mel since his childhood date has not shown up to the dinner they are planning, he ends up looking in the empty booth where his body inexplicably falls towards him sporting a simple wound. made of wax, courtesy of Ed French, the trajectory of the body makes no sense as it suddenly falls against the shower curtain, but leads to an absolutely incredible monologue, now I have to stop it, fuck, yeah, give me that, no , mag one more. time I love Judy ends up alone in her cabin curling her hair before bed when she is invaded by a silhouetted figure oh shit, that's clearly a tear-stained Jonathan, who plays Ricky.

I don't think this movie was meant to be seen in HD because a tear-stained Jonathan is just standing here as a red herring. It's not supposed to be so clear to us that it's just Ricky in a wig. Yeah, we're supposed to be more like Judy and not know who she is, quote-unquote. An unknown figure approaches Judy and knocks her out with the punch and the bad girl is murdered in a gruesome manner, but thankfully off-screen, after the killer grabs her curling iron and puts a pillow over her face. The shadows on the wall tell us everything we know.

I need to know and so does the resulting scream, but in case you need me to explain it to you, Felisa Rose is here to explain what happened when she stuck that curling iron in that bitch's vagina, damn, that's brutal and manages to be a memorable and gruesome death even though it was done off screen while all this other stuff was happening, there was also a small side plot with a counselor named Eddie as he led a group of younger children on a camping trip after a A couple of them will complain about how cold it is and he accepts. to take them back to the cabins, reluctantly leaving the others alone, if only he had known that the killers were native to this area, maybe he wouldn't have had to return later to find four little dismembered bodies in their sacks about sleeping.

The deaths are a little confusing, but they're meant to be four of the little shits who threw sand and Angela when she was thrown into the lake, regardless of whether it's effective enough to make Eddie throw up. He's a guy, it's safe to say your camp counseling days. They're over Ricky is kidnapped by Mel, who yells at him for killing Meg and even slaps the boy on the ground. He hits Ricky a bunch before going into another monologue like a promise. He now picks it up and decides that he needs to do it. escape, but during the escape he is stopped at the archery range by another invisible figure who quickly kills him with a simple arrow to the neck.

This effect has always impressed me and I finally learned from some Blu-ray special features how they did it that way. it works is there is a rope the rope sets the mechanism the cups the second half of the arrow upwards on his back people are very smart when it comes to killing Ronnie finds out about the little children who were murdered camping so he calls the police and They sent the same guy from before only this time with a much faker mustache. I guess the actor got another roll and shaved before doing some new takes. They need it.

That happens all the time. Believe me. I know, but couldn't they at least have gotten it? the correct color for their fakes, as the counselors return to their cabins always on the boardwalk to see Angela, who appears and suggests that they bathe naked like their dear old fake officers, she finds Ricky badly beaten but still alive, while other counselors find Meg, who you know isn't alive yet, that nearly rips Officer Frank's mustache off his face. Ronnie and another counselor here are humming and head to the boardwalk where they find Angela sitting naked with her back to them cradling Paul's head in her lap. and this is when we get the big reveal, a flashback shows Aunt Martha, who, oh yeah, was in this movie excited to welcome a new member to her family, at the beginning is taking care of two surviving children from the accident. ship, but although Martha calls the girl Angela.

Because she always wanted a daughter, it turns out that she was the son who survived the accident. I know you're going to like that name, right? With that everything falls into place, including Paul's severed head because Angela decapitated him, you know, beaches. As summer camps are apparently a great place to lose your mind, as for Angela, who has been the killer this whole time, the infamous big ending here reveals that she was born as Peter but was raised by Martha as Angela again so that be clear on that ship. Accident we saw the real Angela Baker die and the surviving son, her brother Peter Baker was raised as the new Angela Baker by their Aunt Martha, obviously this ending is very loaded in hindsight and since I am in no way qualified to comment on I suggest you watch the podcast episode we did about transgender representation and sluts.

Here are some interesting thoughts about this ending and Angela Baker's character. I can comment on the effects here, although the filmmakers briefly considered the idea of ​​Felisa Rose wearing a strap. -on, but her mom wasn't about to let that fly, Felissa was never going to be allowed to wear it, instead they ended up making a mold of her face and creating a thin mask made of dental acrylic with glass eyeballs , an unknown male actor. he wore the mask while he was there he knew it and unfortunately it seems like when the time came he didn't really want to do it so this guy sat down and started having a few beers and when it came time to shoot he was crying. horribly yeah it was really super weird and it was so cold because we were by the water and being naked and wearing a little girl mask has to be weird oh man I hate hearing that I hope that guy is okay and alive.

With the anonymity he desires, he has never come out publicly, but has never been seen or heard from again. Now clearly, this big twist ending is played here for shock, but for me, the scariest part of all of this is the intense music playing over Angela's intense face. which then turns into an intense green photographic negative as the credits begin to roll what and ending how many people did Angela Baker attack with arrows at the summer camp, let's find out and get to the numbers 12 people died at the camp to sleeping and the ages of the victims were all At the location we ended up with nine male victims and three female victims, giving us a ratio of types of three to one and with a duration of 85 minutes that left us with an average death shortly More than every seven minutes, I will get the golden chainsaw. for the coolest death: Judy, it's absolutely horrendous, but I like that it's left to the imagination.

You have respect. A death that manages to be so memorable despite not being on screen at all. Dole machete for the silliest death. We will go to the four hacked campers. in their sleeping bags, since even writer-director Robert Hiltzik has said that these deaths don't make much sense. If there's one thing I regret about the movie, it's the scene with the little kids. If I had the chance to do it again, I would do it. I'll probably do something different, it's the only part of the movie I'm a little uncomfortable with and that's because Sleepaway Camp was released in

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and as a movie I can watch it several times a year and never get bored.

I'm less interested. about the sequels we'll start watching next week, but until then I'm James Agee, nice, this has been the killer cow at one point, in a little bubble we filmed this little horror movie together and it was like one of the best. Moments in my life, I mean, they gave me like, I know it's like this cheesy little horror movie, but it was like you know it was my little dream that came true and gave me a lot of things in life.