Sleeping camp

A yacht with a man and two children is drowning on the lake near the Arawak camp. Teens riding on a boat accidentally fly into them, because of which the father and one of his children die. A girl named Angela escaped. After the death of her relatives, she goes to live with Aunt Martha and Ricky's cousin. The girl grows silent, suffering a severe shock. Eight years later, Angela and Ricky go to the Arawak camp, where her father and brother once died. Unsociable, she becomes the subject of attacks from adolescents. Angela is not satisfied with the behavior of even adults. And soon all the people who hurt her begin to die at the hands of a mysterious killer.

The killer’s hands and his other parts of the body in all the kill scenes belonged to Jonathan Thirsten, who played Ricky. Similarly, if you carefully watch the scene when the killer first frontally shows the viewer (in the form of a silhouette in the doorway before the murder of Judy), you can see that this is Tirsten in a wig (he also wore it in the scene of Kenny's murder). All this was done specifically in order to confuse the audience as much as possible regarding the identity of the killer - Tirsten's arms were muscular with protruding veins, which makes the viewers have the strong impression that the killer is a guy. Not the last role in this was played by the storyline, where camp director Mel suspects Ricky of the killings.

Felissa Rose did not participate in the scene of the final climax. Initially, however, it was planned to remove Rose herself, who was supposed to wear a prosthetic penis, but in the end this idea was rejected. Instead of Rose, a certain college student, who was wearing a mask made from Rose’s face, was shot completely naked in this scene (he thoroughly got drunk before playing the scene).

• Director - Robert Hilzik
• Screenplay - Robert Hilzik
• Producers - Jerry Silva, Michel Tatosyan, Robert Hiltsik (executive)
• Operator - Benjamin Davis
• Composer - Edward Belous
• Artists - William Bilovit (director), Joan Brokschmidt, Ellen Hopkins, Jorge Louis Toro, Aileen Sieff Stroup (for costumes)
• Editing - Ron Kalish, Sharin L. Ross

• The slogans of the picture: "Carrie meets Friday the 13th." And "You Won't Get Home"
• Director Robert Hilzik dedicated a picture of his mother.

In 2008, director Robert Hiltsik directed the sequel to this film called Return to Sleeping Camp .

• Official Sleepaway Camp Site (Jeff Hayes)
• Official Sleepaway Camp Sequels Site (John Klyza)
• Sleepaway Camp on the Internet Movie Database
• Sleepaway Camp on allmovie
• The Unofficial Sleepaway Camp Fan Site