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Return to Sleepaway Camp

2008 · 86 min

A gleefully nasty camp slasher that mixes crude jokes with inventive, mean-spirited kills and a knowing wink.

Directed by
Robert Hiltzik
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Tagline
Kids can be so mean.
Overview
When campers and staff at Camp Manabe 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 two decades earlier.

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Directed by
Robert Hiltzik
Genres
Horror, Comedy
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Tone
  • campystrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • violence
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • trauma
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror7
Humour5
Realism4
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

In this series

Sleepaway Camp Collection

  1. Sleepaway CampMovie · 1983
  2. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy CampersMovie · 1988
  3. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage WastelandMovie · 1989
  4. Return to Sleepaway CampMovie · 2008 This title
  5. Sleepaway Camp IV: The SurvivorMovie · 2012

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Genres
horror, comedy
Directed by
Robert Hiltzik
Written by
Robert Hiltzik
Starring
Vincent Pastore, Jackie Tohn, Jonathan Tiersten, Paul DeAngelo, Isaac Hayes, Michael Gibney, Felissa Rose, Lenny Venito
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
86 min
Country
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Languages
English

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