Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)

Camp Manabe is where kids torment each other but people soon start turning up dead.

Director:

Robert Hiltzik

Writer:

Robert Hiltzik

Stars:

Vincent Pastore, Michael Gibney, Paul DeAngelo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vincent Pastore	...	Frank
Michael Gibney	...	Alan
Paul DeAngelo	...	Ronnie
Jonathan Tiersten	...	Ricky Thomas
Isaac Hayes	...	Charlie the Chef
Lenny Venito	...	Mickey
Erin Broderick	...	Karen
Adam Wylie	...	Weed
Kate Simses	...	Petey
Brye Cooper	...	Randy
Michael Werner	...	Michael
Christopher Shand	...	T.C.
Jaime Radow	...	Jenny
Shahidah McIntosh	...	Bella (as Shahida McIntosh)
Jackie Tohn	...	Linda

Storyline

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. Has a ghost from the past come back to haunt him? As the paranoia worsens, Ronnie's list of possible killers starts growing just like the body count. Everyone becomes a suspect from vicious kids to shady members of the camp staff, and even former Camp Arawak camper Ricky who mysteriously works nearby. Who is knocking off these victims and why? Only one thing is for certain, something is carving a bloody new trail at Sleepaway Camp where kids can be so mean ...

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Plot Keywords:

swimsuit | panties on head | adolescent girl | teenage girl | brunette | 

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Taglines:

Kids can be so mean.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for horror violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexual content and teen drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 October 2010 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Sleepaway Camp V: The Return

Filming Locations:

Hancock, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

GO2SHO

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Direct sequel to the first movie

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Goofs

In the newspaper ad for Camp Arawak in the opening credits, the word volleyball is misspelled "vollyball".

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Quotes

Charlie the Chef: It's that damn fool, Mickey. Boy's useless as tits on a bull!

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Crazy Credits

Once the credits at the end are over, another short scene starts up. A female motorist's car breaks down on a deserted road. Sheriff Jerry stops to help. With the car jacked up, he crawls under it to check it out and it suddenly falls, crushing his head. The woman turns around, revealing herself to be Angela.

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Connections

Featured in Angela: The Official Sleepaway Camp Documentary

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Soundtracks

Croquet
Performed by Rodney Whittenberg

User Reviews

Let Sleeping 80's Franchises Lie …

The horror industry lately suffers, as I'm sure you're very much aware, from an incredibly annoying trend called remakes. Numerous classics from the 1970's and 1980's – perfectly fine films that absolutely don't require any form of updating – are being remade in order to appeal to nowadays horror loving audiences. That sucks! It also sucks that this trend involuntarily causes you to be milder and a lot less skeptical towards other movies that are nevertheless inferior. "Return to Sleepaway Camp", for example, is a totally redundant and stupidly incoherent sequel that is a quarter of a century overdue, but hey … at least it's not a remake so let's be a little more generous!

I didn't like the original "Sleepaway Camp" very much. The film contained some really ingenious plot ideas and several very grisly images but, regretfully, NONE of these promising elements were processed the way they should have and the shocking climax wasn't shocking enough to compensate for all the defaults. Many old-school slasher fans did count the original among their favorites, and thus the film spawned a handful of sequels. "Return to Sleepaway Camp" is considered to be somewhat unique because it was once again scripted and directed by Robert Hiltzik; the creator of the infamous original. Fair enough, but it isn't because this guy crawled back from underneath a rock after 25 years that the film suddenly becomes an instant must-see cult classic. As to be expected, "Return to Sleepaway Camp" is a routine and hugely derivative slasher picture with uninspired murder sequences and immature attempts at sleazy humor. The atmosphere is light-headed and the production luckily never takes itself too seriously, but generally speaking it's still a waste of time. Strangely enough the film stars a couple of respectable actors, like Vincent Pastore and Isaac Hayes in a flesh & blood portrayal of his South Park character Chef, but most of the cast is a gathering of annoying teenagers (the chubby kid is truly insufferable) and untalented scream queens. Felissa Rose, the one and only Angela from the original, returns to camp as well after 25 years. If you, like me, promptly recognize her amidst the other cast members, it means you've seen way too many stupid 80's slashers.