Directed by:
Robert HiltzikScreenplay:
Robert HiltzikComposer:
Rodney WhittenbergCast:
Michael Gibney, Vincent Pastore, Paul DeAngelo, Jonathan Tiersten, Isaac Hayes, Adam Wylie, Christopher Shand, Jackie Tohn, Paul Iacono, Miles Thompson (more)Plots(1)
It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak, where he worked two decades earlier. (official distributor synopsis)
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A renaissance of the summer camp slasher is probably the last thing modern horror needed. I took Return to Sleepaway Camp as a warm-up for the remake of Friday the 13th, and even though I wished both films to be good (and of course I still do with Friday), the thought of dozens of films like this horrified me (just remember the evil that followed after the success of The Ring). So I’m not crying much over the poor quality of RtSC. Actually, poor quality is quite relative, if Robert Hitzik’s intention was to pay homage to the first Sleepaway Camp (and therefore the 1980s), he did a very good job. This film really looks like from that era, whether we are talking about the atmosphere, the characters, the script, the dialogues or even the murders. The problem is that this can never work today as regular horror. The only thing that is at least a little interesting are the murders, you can have quite some fun over the amateurish way they are directed or try to remember in which other slasher you saw something similar (I wasn’t very successful with this, I get all the slashers mixed together, but I have the impression that at least two murders are variations from the first SC). On a final note, I’d like to mention that this film’s (tragic) hero is the worst movie individual I have ever seen and the chances of sympathising with him are minimal.
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