Vincent Pastore, Jonathan Tiersten, Paul DeAngelo

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...( read more  read more... ) 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 and surviving this summer is gonna be a real killer!

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R, 98 min

Directed by: Robert Hiltzik

Release Date: November 4, 2008

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  • August 12, 2009
    It's been over 20 years now since we saw the first Sleep away camp movie and with its shocking twist! Well that movie was Cheesy and Fun to watch just like Return to Sleepaway camp (2008) It dose have the 80's feel to whole the movie, Acting is very cheesy and funny! The movie st...( read more)arts of were the boys are messing around in the bed room as Alan come in trying to be a big shot but fails.

    Later all the campers are in the canteen having lunch while Frank tells them to shut the hell up so the security man can tell them something but he can't speak normal because he used to smoke a lot! And use some kind of tool to talk, of course everyone make fun of him.

    Meanwhile Alan is being pain as he won't eat the food that everyone is eating so he throws it on the floor and then Randy grabs him and tells him to eat it of the floor! The fight is broken by Ricky (who I think was in the 1st Sleep away camp movie) As Alan goes to see the cook and then the cook tell him not to eat the ICE CREAM but again Alan dose not listen and then The cook start to throw eggs at him, which make Alan fight back then throws knife at the cook at the same moment Frank see this and tells Alan to go to his room.

    Later a person in black coat and hood of the person head come in a kills the cook by pushing him into the deep fryer and gets rid of he body.

    The next day Frank thinks that the cook did a runner, so no one knows he was killed.

    Again Alan is get in being bullied by everyone boys and girls most of the movie.

    While everyone doing these pranks on Alan, more bodies end up dead! Then the girl that Alan likes traps him into the worst prank of all time! That makes him mad, screaming mad! And then runs into the woods.

    Ricky has a very weird feeling that Angela is back but no one believes him (I don't believe he can act lol) (All deaths scenes were so bloody awesome, 10/10 for every deaths scene!) When the bodies are found dead, everyone says it's Alan who killed everyone! Is it Alan? Or is Ricky right that Angela is back? Or is a new copy cat killer on campus? Overall I was not disappointed in this movie, I didn't expect to like at all. Also really like the twist., I didn't see it coming!

    The acting wasn't great at all but it was perfect for B- movie. I love the deaths scenes just made this movie great for me.
  • February 13, 2009
    A huge step down from previous entries and THAT is an accomplishment. Dumb deaths, no surprises and a whiny main character that after 12 minutes I wanted to kill.
    And way too little of this:

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  • November 20, 2008
    Disappointment. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood. I couldn't even finish it.
  • November 6, 2008
    This movie was really poorly made and the acting was horrible, though it was on par with Saw for ideas to kill people (or in Saw's case - for people to kill themselves) however the special effects were too bad to be cool.
  • October 18, 2008
    its summer again and this time its at a new camp called manabe where all the kids pretty much pick on each other all summer longer while the owner gets fat off there parents cash and the consulers could careless about watching anyone but there is one kid that gets picked on alitt...( read more)le to much and snaps thats when people start dieing all the kids think its him one of the staff members thinks its Angela from the other camp back for more revenge but who really is the killer? Well to be honest i didnt care either way cause this movie was sloppy all the way threw and looks rushed together with no budget there was a small amount of cool kills which gave it a extra star but other then that people can avoid this one.
  • November 20, 2009
    if you're a fan of the series, you'll def. enjoy this one. hands down the 2nd best flick in the series
  • October 12, 2009
    I was really hoping that this was gonna be a good movie but it was REALLY BAD!!!
  • August 1, 2009
    Man was I looking forward to this. The original was very good. Just watch the intro where they set up the camp. The isolated grounds and cabins surrounded by tall grass was very eerie which set up the finale very well. The camp setting even blew the Friday The 13th set to pieces....( read more) In this we are introduced to camp with a bunch of little punk wankers setting their farts alight inside a cabin. I wanted to like this, but the characters who were whiney and overly annoying made that a difficult task. The kill scenes were great and had a splash of humor thrown into them much like the sequels, but that was all I really liked. The killer was predictable too and I don't normally see those things coming.
    It was good to have Robert Hiltzik back to direct his creation, but he only made this half work.

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    It was obvious the cop was the killer. His/her face was obviously fake and it was the only character that felt out of place. Though I liked the fact that it was Angela dressed up as the cop since I disliked Pamela Springsteen as Angela.
  • June 23, 2009
    Yikes - to bring everyone back for this reunion and have it go this badly is pretty disheartening.
    Felissa Rose grew up to quite a stunner - um - I think that's all the good news I have.
    When you have a whiny annoying lead character who serves to just act as a "red herring" -...( read more) the movie probably could have done without him.
    Ugh, and they got to use the phrase "Big Pussy" with Vincent Pastore. Whatever.
  • March 29, 2009
    20 odd years later the killer returns to camp to kill unsuspected campers and counslers.

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