Cult Classics, Slashers

Sleepaway Camp a.k.a Comatose Petra

Ok. So you can probably tell by the title of my post that this review is not going to be very favorable of the movie. I tried to maintain an open mind. I really did. After all, this movie has some weird unexplainable cult following that spawned 2 sequels. Surely there has to be something worthwhile of the movie, right?

WRONG!

I'll try to make this quick. I hear it's less painful when you just RIP the bandage off the wound versus pulling it ever so slowly.......

Cause & Effect

Angela and her cousin Ricky are sent to Sleepaway Camp, a summer camp for kids. Ricky feels the need to protect Angela as she is not quite right in the head. Apparently she witnessed her father and brother get killed in a freak boating accident a few years before.

So anyway, weird Angela gets picked on pretty regularly by the kids at camp resulting in Ricky getting into more than one fight as he tries to stick up for her.

Result

Soon, people begin to die. Ironically, it's people who seemed to have recently picked on Angela.

One counselor begins to suspect it's Ricky and attempts to stop him from his murderous spree. The only problem is that it's not Ricky who is doing the killing.

Conclusion

As more and more people are discovered dead, a path of bodies lead us to the killer who we find is not Ricky but rather his cousin Angela.

PSYCH! Only its not Angela! As it turns out, Angela is not really Angela, but rather she is none other than her brother Peter. The real Angela had died in the boating accident with her father all those years ago, and Peter was forced to assume her identity afterward because deranged Aunt Martha "always wanted a daughter" and began treating and dressing Peter as a girl, as if he were Angela.

Well hell!!

My thoughts on this Awful Film

As all of you know, I love cheese in movies. Usually, the cheesier the better - but when it reeks even I concede, and regret that this is 88 minutes of my life I can never get back.

The movie starts out strong enough, as we see "Angela's" pop get run over by a speed boat. Granted we don't see blood or decapitation (which really sucked) and there are barely any skid marks left on the body, but considering the B factor of this movie, I was ok with this.

The first murder was kinda cool, involving a vat of boiling water, but very unrealistic in that we see it was a kid that initiated the killing. S'ok though. I realize at this point that this movie is really a Z film and yet again, I am ok with this.

So - moving on to murder number two (or maybe it was the 3rd and I'm getting confused with the order of deaths. They were all so pitiful it really doesn't matter actually.)

The next murder takes place in an overturned boat. A kid shows up under the capsized boat (it is made known pretty quick that the killer is a kid) and proceeds to push down the head of the other kid already under the boat, so as to drown him. The only struggle that ensues is one hand waving gaily above the water.)

Huh? No struggle? He was that much of a wuss that this little kid can push him under water and drown him just like that??? HHmmm......Ok. We'll let that one slide. Let's move on to the next killing.

So next we have some guy taking a dump in a stall. Sorry to put it so bluntly but this movie has that effect. So anyway as he is in there taking care of business, you see the killer slide a broom stick through the door handles so it can't be easily pushed opened. Then we see the killer cut the screen of the window that leads into the bathroom stall and promptly insert a bees nest through the hole.

Well I don't have to tell you what happens next: said guy on toilet beings to get stung repeatedly. Now bear (bare?) in mind we do not see the attack, simply the door to the stall wiggling because he is too much of a panty-waste to break the broom handle blocking the door. AS WELL - and this is the best part - he does not have enough sense to crawl under the HUGE opening under the stall to get out of it! AS WELL - the bees of course, don't fly anywhere but onto his face and soon we see him lying on the ground with his head covered in bees and some puss like sores on his face.

Surely you can now understand why I say this movie was such a waste of time and energy. There were some more killings but they too were equally lame and lacking in bloodshed or suspense. I won't bore you with anymore details.