Sleepaway Camp

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Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, and starring Mike Kellin (in his final film role), Katherine Kamhi, and Paul DeAngelo, alongside Jonathan Tiersten, Felissa Rose, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet, Desiree Gould, Owen Hughes, and Robert Earl Jones. The original entry in the Sleepaway Camp film series, it focuses on serial killings which occur at a summer camp for teenagers. Filmed during the fall of 1982 in upstate New York, Sleepaway Camp was released on November 18, 1983, and grossed $11 million on an estimated production budget of $335,000–350,000. The film received negative reviews from critics, many of whom deemed it exploitative and derivative of such films as Friday the 13th (1980). In the years since its release, Sleepaway Camp has gone on to develop a cult following, a more positive reappraisal from critics, as well as garnering notoriety for its surprise ending, which has been named as one of the most shocking and unforgettable...

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