Review: Return to Sleepaway Camp

It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provide as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank (Vincent Pastore) and junior partner Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo) do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak where he worked 2 decades ago. Has a "ghost" from the past come back to haunt him? As the paranoia worsens, Ronnie's list of possible killers starts growing just like the body count. Everyone becomes a suspect from vicious kids to shady members of the camp staff, and even former Camp Arawak camper Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) who mysteriously works nearby. Who is knocking off these victims and why? Only one thing is for certain, something is carving a bloody new trail at Sleepaway Camp where kids can be so mean and surviving this summer is gonna be a real killer!


The movie starts out with three boys in their cabin lighting farts, Alan the protagonist in the film shows up and wants to try he craps himself trying to light the fart and the kids make fun of him and he becomes enraged and threatens them with the lighter by spraying bug spray onto the flame, counselor Randy shows up and Alan freak and runs out. Later at the social Alan starts a fight with Randy resulting in him getting ice cream, as he is in the kitchen Mickey the cook begins to bully Alan throwing eggs at him and then Alan mad again throws a knife at Mikey narrowly missing his head, Mickey is killed later that night. Later during the social Alan his tricked into smoking cow crap that he think is marijuana, by a kid named Weed, again later that night Weed is killed. The bullying of Alan continues on and becomes work as the week goes on, first being shot during a paintball war, then Michael makes Alan look like a sick twisted freak in order to steal Karen away from Alan, and Alan is given a wedgie by T.C. and Chooch in front of everyone at the waterfront. That very evening, Michael, T.C., and Marie force Karen to lure Alan to the back of the stage, where they rip his clothes off, tie him up, blindfold him and embarrass him in front of everyone at the social.

Ronny who was counselor at Camp Arawak when the murders happened their by a camper named Angela is now becoming even more paranoid starting to believe that a counselor named Petey is the killer because she is for some reason always around when Alan is getting bullied, he accuses her and then she runs out and you for some reason never see her again even though she wasn't killed, Ronny then becomes more and more paranoid as the movie goes on starting to accuse most of everyone even Angela's(the killer in the first sleepaway camp) cousin Ricky who works rather close to the camp. As the killing ensues everyone starts to believe that it is Alan who his killing everyone as he is the one who is always picked on and also has threatened people. Now the kills continue on from this point until the end of the movie, which has a twist ending but not that much of a twist, nothing compared to the ending to the original Sleepaway Camp, Michael finally finds Alan after he ran off from the last prank hiding at is spot int he woods, which is where you find out that Alan is not the killer, he doesn't even know that people have been killed, Michael though beats the crap out of Michael almost killing when the real killer shows up and knock him, later everyone finds them both out in the woods and then the killer reveal themselves.


Spoiler Alert:

The Killer turns out to be Sheriff Jerry the cop that has been at the camp most of the movie and is always their when the murders happen, who is actually Angela dressed in drag as the Sheriff at the end of the movie she says that kids are still mean, cruel and deserve all that they got.

End Spoiler

The Kills:

1. Mickey: head first into the deep fryer

2. Weed: filled with gas and explodes when he has a lit cigarette place in to his mouth

3. Frank(camp owner) Has a bird cage place onto his head and filled with rats that inevitably eat him

4. Randy: tied to a tree and has twine tied around his penis and attached to his jeep which Linda drives away in thinking that Alan is their to kill them which results in him getting his penis yanked off

5. Linda: drives into barb-wire that the killer has set up between two trees stretching it across the road, the bard wire wraps round her face and she then drives into a tree.

6. T.C.: he gets spike through the eye, it doesn't kill him at first,, so he freak out running around and then runs into a wall and it drives the spike all through his head.

7. Bella: she is laying in her bed the bottom bunk, when she notices that the bunk above is covered in nails pointing in her direction, then the killer jumps from the rafter on the top bunk falling onto Bella and impaling her with bunches of nails.

8. Michael: he was skinned alive.

This was really good movie for a sequel that was made over 20 years later, it really delivers the goods, great gore some pretty good kill scenes. The movie also has good pacing not a whole lot of crap going before, the movie pretty much picks up a week or so after camp starts, so everyone know everybody and you come into the middle of it all. Acting though is a bit mediocre, but that makes a good low-budget horror film, it does get a little repetitive on the Alan getting bullied scenes but I can see why they did that, they really want to set Alan as being the killer which of course he is not, and also when it comes Alan don't expect to like him he is whiny, annoying as says stupid things to people like your ass stinks, for the lead this isn't really what you want to go for but you do feel a bit sorry for him not much but a bit , enough so that it makes the movie bearable. Actually everyone in this movie were real jerks except for Ronny and Petey, everyone bullied Alan and were extremely disrespectful to any authority figure, but that does show how a lot of kids are these days. It was awesome that they brought Ronny back from the first to be in this one, Ronny is just cool that's all you can say. It does has a different feel from the original sleepaway camp, but I find that to be a good thing, cause if I want that I would just watch the original, it may not have the same feel but it has the same spirit of the first Sleepaway Camp. I found it extremely entertaining and fun, I do recommend buying this film as I will be doing the same here soon.


My Rating:

3 out 5