Return to Sleepaway Camp

Plot synopsis:
Alan (Michael Gibney) is a boy at summer camp. Unfortunately Alan is a bully, who is bullied by other kids in turn. Among his abusers are his stepbrother Michael (Michael Werner), his "friends" Vinny (Christian Hess) and T.C. (Christopher Shand), and a chubby girl, Bella (Shahidah McIntosh). The film opens with several boys lighting farts one night. Alan tries to light his own farts and after failing, threatens the other boys. He is stopped by camp counselor Randy (Brye Cooper). The next day in the dining hall, Alan gets into a violent confrontation with Randy after he complains about the food. Ronnie, the head counselor from the first movie and head counselor here, allows Alan to get something else to eat after the confrontation is stopped by Sheriff Jerry, a smaller man who uses a mechanical voice box in order to speak. Meanwhile, Alan gets in trouble with cook Mickey (Lenny Venito). Alan throws a butcher knife at Mickey and the camp owner, Frank (Vincent Pastore), argues with Alan. Alan runs away, with Michael chasing him. In the kitchen Mickey is suddenly killed, tossed into the deep fryer by an unseen person. His body is dumped in the trash compactor.
During the social, Alan is fooled by campers Terry (Adam Wylie), nicknamed "Weed," and Stan (Chas Brewer) into smoking dried cow manure, which makes him cough and stumble, falling on Stan's crotch. This earns him the nickname "Blowjob." After the social, Weed is relaxing outside when he is attacked and tied to his chair, with the unseen person squirting gasoline down his throat. The killer sticks a lit cigarette in his mouth and he explodes. Ronnie starts to worry that the murders that happened twenty years ago are happening again, but Frank believes the deaths were accidental. A week later, Alan manages to convince two girls, Karen (Erin Broderick) and Marie (Samantha Hahn), to go to his "secret hideout." Michael plays a prank and makes Alan look like he skinned some frogs, and Karen and Marie run away. Michael, T.C. and Marie make Karen lure Alan to the back of the stage, where they strip him, tie up and blindfold him and embarrass him at the social by pushing him out onto the stage in front of the entire camp.
Ronnie turns paranoid and suspects counselor Petey (Kate Simses) as the killer for always being nearby when Alan is in trouble. Coincidentally Ricky Thomas, (Jonathan Tiersten), Angela's cousin, works at a nearby construction site and is questioned about the new deaths. He refuses to talk about Angela or the killings and angrily walks away. After returning to his cabin that night, Frank is knocked unconscious with a hammer and wakes up with his head locked in a birdcage. The killer opens the birdcage and places two rats inside. The rats eat through Frank's head and down into his intestines, killing him. That same evening Randy and his girlfriend Linda (Jackie Tohn) go to the pump house to have sex. As Randy urinates in the woods, the killer attacks and ties him to a tree, using fishing line that wraps around his penis. Linda looks for him and panics after hearing Randy try to placate the killer and drives off in the Jeep. But the fishing line is tied to the Jeep and tears off Randy's penis, killing him. Linda drives through a wrapped barbed wire line, which wraps around her face, causing her to crash into a tree.
Meanwhile, Vinny visits T.C. in his cabin and then leaves. Suddenly a wooden spear comes through a hole in the floor and disappears. As T.C. is looking into the hole to find it the spear pops back up and impales him through the eye. Ronnie and another camper, Jenny (Jaime Radow), find Frank dead and begin rounding up everyone with the help of Sheriff Jerry. Bella goes to her cabin to hide, where she sees that the bunk above her has been replaced with a board of spikes. The killer suddenly jumps down from the rafters and lands on the top bunk, causing the spikes to impale and kill Bella. T.C. and Bella are found dead and Ricky is called in to help as Ronnie insists that Angela has returned to kill again. Karen runs through the camp and finds Randy and Linda dead before bumping into the killer and fainting.
Karen wakes up with a rope around her neck, hanging from a basketball hoop. The killer flips a switch to raise the net, causing Karen to be lifted off the ground and slowly strangle. As she screams for help Sheriff Jerry arrives and lowers the net. After Karen announces to the rest of camp that she thinks Alan is the killer, Michael grabs a croquet mallet and runs to Alan's secret hideout. He finds Alan and starts beating him with the mallet, Alan screaming that he is innocent. As Michael steps back to deliver a killing blow, the real killer appears behind him and the screen goes black.
Ronnie, Ricky and Jenny run to the hideout and find a badly wounded but alive Alan. Sheriff Jerry appears and slowly walks up to them, explaining through his mechanical voice box that the victims never learned, were always so mean all the time, could do whatever they want and get away with it, and they got what they deserved. As he speaks the Sheriff throws off his clothes and fake mustache, revealing himself as Angela Baker, the real killer. As Ronnie says "I knew it was you!" Jenny sees something writhing on the ground and runs away screaming. Ronnie and Ricky investigate and find Michael skinned alive on the ground. Angela begins to laugh maniacally, staring creepily into the camera as the screen snaps to black.
Following the credits, a text crawl states that three weeks prior to the film's events, Angela escaped from the psychiatric clinic where she was kept after the first movie. A short scene shows her causing a brake fluid leak in a stolen car and flagging down Sheriff Pete (Carlo Vogel), the real sheriff. She murders him by dropping the car on his head and steals his clothes to become Sheriff Jerry.

Tags: dark, cruelty, murder, violence

Review:
I was truly looking forward to this being a HUGE fan of the original and was devastated once the DVD had reached the five minute mark.I kept checking the box to make sure I had been sent the right movie.
- ços the money sure isn't up there on the screen.Cheaply shot, badly graded, sloppily edited, appallingly scored, a script that sounds like it was scratched down quickly on the back of a piece of toilet paper and the piece de resistance is the DIABOLICALLY BAD performances by a truly inept cast of nobodies.What was Robert Hiltzik thinking?
The best thing about this movie is Isaac Hayes playing the chef, just like he did on South Park before he got all the wacky Scientology crap in his head.
Fans of the original know the backstory of Angela so I won't go into that, but if you don't; it's probably a good idea to familiarize yourself with the 1983 film.
There is Alan who is supposed to be a mix of Angela and Ricky, a character named Pee-Pee (I know right?) acts a lot like a shy Angela, there is even a nasty chef who gets scalded by boiling water.
Some of the things the teens say and do is supposed to be funny but just leaves a bad taste in the viewers mouth, especially when the same joke is repeated over and over again.I've been down on Return to Sleepaway Camp so far, and rightfully so; it isn't very good.
And I loved seeing some of the original cast and characters return like Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten), Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo) and a "cameo" by Felicia Rose who played the original Angela Baker.Overall, this movie is all over the place.
This is the worst sleepaway movie I have ever seen.What a travesty and even the killer was lame and overacted.The cast if you can even call them that couldn't act for nothing.Especially the so called victim who was too much of a jerk to care about to begin with .His acting was absolutely horrid as was pretty much everyone else's in the cast and the ending WTH was that made no sense whatsoever and just ended abruptly for no reason.It was hilarious how most people reacted when they were killed talk about BAD acting totally horrid.I mean I've seen some doozy of some bad movies but this one takes the cake and not in a good way lol Granted some of the violence was like the rest of the sleepaway camp movies which was cool.But they edited it like crap because half the deaths you didn't even see just an aftermath which absolutely sucked I expected this sucker to be pack full of gore but I didn't see much of that which was also a disappointment for a Sleepaway movie especially.The movie was unintentionally hilarious literally I was laughing my ass off throughout most of this movie it was as if all the actors were reading DIRECTLY off their cue cards it was hilarious lol For instance 2 actors I can remember off the bat because they were BARELY ON lol Girl: stiff lifeless and wooden delivery: Stop it Allen you retard.
Ahhh the good ol' days :) So I recommend putting on some acid wash jeans, and feathering you hair to settle in for a new version of an old classic.The chubby character of course gets picked on, the counselors are jerks, this is all stuff we know, but the big question is where is Angela?!?
Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008) ** (out of 4) The fourth film in the series is a direct sequel to the first one as this here, ala the Halloween series, leaves out parts two and three.
Whereas it was Angela in the first film being picked on, this time out it's a fat kid named Alan (Michael Gibney) who feels that everyone is after him.
Pretty soon dead kids start turning up everywhere and the counselor Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo) thinks Angela (Felissa Rose) has returned or perhaps it's Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) seeking vengeance.
This iteration not only undermines the silly B-movie cheese that fans have come to expect from the series but it also manages to create an incredibly unlikable cast of losers that you can't cheer for or care about.Fan's of eighties slasher films should note that the gore here is weak at best.
"Return To Sleepaway Camp" isn't as much a real movie as it is a joke that got a bit out of hand.
I am a huge fan of the original "Sleepaway Camp" film and its two original sequels.Like most fans of the series, I was ultra-excited when I heard that the original director was going to make his own sequel to his film.
Well, it was, and while I appreciate the nostalgic feel to the film, and the fact that is a slasher film through and through and knows its origins, the film, for me, was a huge let down for ONE reason alone: the character that we are suppose to sympathize with the most and who is by all accounts the main character of the film (Alan) has to be one of the most annoying characters in film history.
Having a unlikable main character can ruin any film, and this is a prime example.If you can get past the annoying Alan, "Return to Sleepaway Camp" follows virtually the same plot as the original, but with less originality and more clichés.
The "Angela" aspect of the film is also played down quite a bit, so much so that this really could have been any typical camp slasher unrelated to the "Sleepaway Camp" series.
Yes, Angela is mentioned, but she is hardly a crucial component to the plot, and even the ending is abrupt and explains very little and certainly isn't the return to glory that one of the most interesting slasher film killers in history deserved.There are some creative kills, but I honestly thing the original sequels are better and more brutal in this department.
Unfortunately, he didn't and the film pales in comparison to the original and even to the original sequels.I only hope that if "Sleepaway Camp: Reunion" DOES happen, it is much better than this.
After over 6 years of waiting for this film to finally get released after many delays and financing issues, I finally sat down and watched "Return to Sleepaway camp" tonight.
Note: this is a direct sequel to the original 1983 film, as part 2 and 3 are not "officially" part of the series(I liked those parts as well).
While watching the original Sleepaway Camp as a kid, all it really seemed like was an average 80's slasher, that is, until the end.
Now that the real sequel is out, we can finally get that 25 year old image out of our heads.I don't care how many years it took for this to be made, Return To Sleepaway Camp is the most entertaining, and all around best horror sequel I believe I've ever seen.
Return To Sleepaway Camp is it's own movie, with its own story, taking our minds off Angela for a while, with this outlandish kid who's performance had me in absolute tears.
Even though I laughed until I cried, Return To Sleepaway Camp doesn't come off as a spoof in the least, it's just good old fashion horror, that turns out to be a whole lot of fun.
Above all else, Return To Sleepaway Camp is a reward to all the loyal fans who loved the original, and sat through the pseudo-sequels, and waited patiently, and waited patiently some more, for the real sequel.
(The scene with the Jeep and tree goes on far too long, extinguishing any tension or morbid humour the scene might have had otherwise.) There is an amusing bit, involving a hole in a floor; that scene, with the wonderful stupidity of the characters involved, is the closest the film ever gets to matching the original in terms of gore and humor.Isaac Hayes seems to be cast only for the joke of being billed as "The Chef," and then disappears after three short scenes.
As far as horror movies go, Sleepaway Camp is definitely one of my favorites.
What we ended up with was a fun slasher with inventive kills that I was really into by the time the time the climax hit.Don't expect much in the way of characters from the original.
I am a huge fan of the original Sleepaway Camp, NOT the Michael Simpson sequels.
I tried to watch part 2 several years back and actually shut it off because the original Sleepaway Camp is almost sacred to me and I didn't like the direction it was going.This being said, as soon as I heard about a new direct sequel to the original by writer/director Robert Hiltzik I was excited.
I hope someday I have the opportunity to meet Robert Hiltzik and let him know how much I appreciate the fact that he did what seemed impossible: create a unique, fun, worthy sequel to the one and only Sleepaway Camp..
I was so happy to have come across this film, being that there hasn't been a sleepaway camp movie since the late 80's and I remember that those flicks use to scare me as a kid, but they rocked.
I read negative reviews on this flick and I was like let me be the judge of that, i mean really, i have seen some horrible films in my time, but this one wasn't really that bad.
Come on, the cuts between the scenes are timed so wrong, it looks like an amateur cut this movie.
From the opening you definitely got that Sleepaway Camp feel, whether it's the totally awesome original or the funny cheesy sequels!
"Return to Sleepaway Camp" is considered to be somewhat unique because it was once again scripted and directed by Robert Hiltzik; the creator of the infamous original.
Strangely enough the film stars a couple of respectable actors, like Vincent Pastore and Isaac Hayes in a flesh & blood portrayal of his South Park character Chef, but most of the cast is a gathering of annoying teenagers (the chubby kid is truly insufferable) and untalented scream queens.
Felissa Rose, the one and only Angela from the original, returns to camp as well after 25 years.
Camp Councillor Ronnie, who worked at Camp Arawak, comes to believe that Angela Baker may be back.The best thing about this film is definitely the atmosphere; it's light and the film never takes itself seriously, which ensures that watching it is a lot of fun.
It takes a good actor to play a bad one, and that's really the point of Return To Sleepaway Camp.
Return To Sleepaway has bad acting and terrible effects, not because they had no budget, but rather to pay homage to the B-Movies of the past.
It looked like my high school TV broadcasting class could have shot this one out in the woods.I am a big fan of the original Sleepaway Camp.
It's a late sequel within the Sleepaway Camp-series (at least when you're not counting the unfinished fourth movie) and it's a pretty worthy one.
The Sleepaway Camp movies always have been filled with some original and often disgusting killings and this movie really forms no exception to this.But above all the movie remains a fun one to watch.
It's pretty silly and childish all at times but it suits the movie and makes this movie an enjoyable one.It's characters are all quite stereotypical, just like was the case in any of the other previous Sleepaway Camp entries.
But the movie is fun to watch, especially when you have seen the previous Sleepaway Camp movie entries.
Frank (Vincent Pastore) has re-opened the ill-fated campsite, and now a new batch of children fall victim to the legend of Angela, our favorite transgender serial killer.I enjoyed the "Sleepaway Camp" series just because it mixed horror with humor in a way that was hardly heard of.
Not only do we know who the disguised Angela is all along, but we WANT for all the kids to die because there are few likable characters in this movie.
One of the most original things Hiltzik does with this film is take absolutely nothing seriously except for the Legend of Sleepaway Camp.That means the head counselor, played by NY vet Vincent Pastore, can cut in bits and pieces of Sorpranos shtick when he's not winking at the camera (yo, can you believe I'm IN this s***?).
Nothing like the Sleepaway Camp sequels.
It was just funReturn to Sleepaway camp (2008) It dose have the 80's feel to whole the movie, Acting is very cheesy and funny!, The movie starts of were the boys are messing around in the bed room as Alan come in trying to be a big shot but fails.Later all the campers are in the canteen having lunch ,while Frank tells them to shut the hell up,So the security man can tell them something but he can't speak normal because he used to smoke a lot!
But the RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP box had the look of a better than average sequel.
Pointless, juvenile, absolutely worthless(..unless you just have an urge to see stars from the original returning to reprise their roles)sequel to the original Sleepaway Camp(..the second and third films featuring Pamela Springsteen in the "prominant" role of Angela are completely disregarded, which is probably a good thing, I guess)has a psycho-killer, in black hoody, targeting those who victimize and mistreat extremely repellent frog-devoted Allan(Michael Gibney), always the center of negative attention in regards to practically everyone, in constant disagreements, arguments, and skirmishes with the teenagers/adults in camp.
Downloaded this on accident looking for the original sleepaway camp, but somehow ended up watching this one last after the other 3 movies, well 4th, but we wont talk about the 4th one.
Ill say this right now, ill probubly give this a 10, because sleepaway camp ended up being one of my favorite movies of all time.
IF YOU DID NOT LIKE THE ORIGINAL SLEEP AWAY CAMP, YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE!
The characters were laughably cheesy and generic, which just added to the original sleepaway camp atmosphere.
This entry however was a lot of fun, the deaths were inventive especially the final skinning victim which was nasty, but what got on my nerves about this entry is that despite the return of the former cast members, they just don't seem to be in it very often and instead the main focus seems to be on Alan (Michael Gibney) whose getting bullied by various campers and frankly I found him annoying and felt absolutely no sympathy whatsoever, he was just awful, I don't just mean the acting that was bad all by itself, but his character was written horribly with terrible dialogue, why didn't they just send him home.All of the acting in this movie is pretty awful, but I found some of the characters somewhat interesting firstly it's nice to see Isacc Hayes again even if it's just a cameo and Erin Broderick (Karen) was pretty cute and likable and the sassy black girl was a lot of fun as well.The first half of the movie pretty much drags as we only get 2 deaths but when we reach the third act this movie really gets going and I found that copper with the robotic voice really grating and annoying and the new twist ending I found pretty surprising and fun and as for the return of Felicia Rose there just wasn't enough of her, but when she did return she really chewed the scenery and was hilarious especially when she dresses up like a cheerleader for the end credits which was quite funny, but Jonathan's part was rather disappointing, it was just pointless, he only popped up in two scenes and his acting hasn't improved with time and needs to lay off the fake tan.All in all "Return To Sleepaway Camp" was partly enjoyable, but could have been better if they had better actors and more capable production values, this is nowhere near as good as the first one, but it's slightly better than the awful sequels which doesn't say much..
"Sleepaway Camp" might have the same setting as the "Friday The 13th" franchise, but it also jumps over it and takes a bit of its cue from "Psycho," the grandfather of all splatter and gore movies with a killer no one knows or expects and whose identity is revealed late.
You see, "Sleepaway Camp" has something all the other serial killer/body count movies don't have; it has a plot.
Picking up several years late since the third installment, we see two of the first movie's stars (Did I say two?) returning to action at another camp with another camper who gets just a bit too much abuse and terror.
The only failing part of this story is it runs too close to the original script; the incidents, locales and characters run just too parallel with the first movie, and like Cassandra before the Trojan War, no one listens to Ronnie when he warns them Angela could be back.
Unfortunately, like a good haunted house ride, the movie does come to an end, and Alan doesn't get the satisfaction of seeing his tormenters picked off around him.
After watching the original sleepaway camp, I tough i ll give this movie a try.
The only ones that I like were Ricky and Angela since they were in the original movie.
A dirty-looking fat kid, Allen, comes out of nowhere, and right away he's a pretty hard character to like.
Really this isn't a film worth watching unless you're a fan of the Sleepaway Camp series..
Camped Out. I don't know why I, or anyone would bother to waste time in writing a review (or even seeing the film in the first place, that is) for Return to Sleepaway Camp.