1983 · slasher · summer-camp · twist
Sleepaway Camp
Directed by Robert Hiltzik1h 25m1983
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Our read: Sleepaway Camp (1983) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive slasher · summer-camp · twist entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured slasher / summer-camp, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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