Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, and starring Felissa Rose, Katherine Kamhi, Paul DeAngelo, Mike Kellin (in his last screen appearance), and Christopher Collet (in his first). It is the first film in the Sleepaway Camp film series, and focuses on a series of murders occurring in a youth summer camp.
Plot
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 Peter are killed.
More details
author | Robert Hiltzik |
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contentLocation | New York |
director | Robert Hiltzik |
editor | Ralph Rosenblum Ron Kalish Sharyn L. Ross |
events | serial killer summer camp |
genre | horror mystery thriller |
keywords | boating trip bully camp counselor curl drown extraversion and introversion genitalia hunt introvert kill kiss molest search severed head sexual abuse think traumatize want |
musicBy | Edward Bilous |
productionCompany | American Eagle Films |
publisher | United Film Distribution Company |
theme | independent lgbt-related serial killer slasher social teen horror |