Return to Sleepaway Camp

Return to Sleepaway Camp
Official poster
Directed by	Robert Hiltzik
Produced by	Robert Hiltzik Michele Tatosian Thomas E. Van Dell
Written by	Robert Hiltzik
Starring	Vincent Pastore Jackie Tohn Jonathan Tiersten Paul DeAngelo Isaac Hayes Michael Gibney
Music by	Rodney Whittenberg
Cinematography	Ken Kelsch
Editing by	Ron Kalish
Distributed by	Magnet Releasing Magnolia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 4, 2008 (2008-11-04)
Running time	86 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4,000,000

Return to Sleepaway Camp is a 2008 American comedy-horror film starring Felissa Rose, Jackie Tohn, Paul DeAngelo, and Isaac Hayes; and was written and directed by Robert Hiltzik. It is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1983 horror film Sleepaway Camp (also written and directed by Hiltzik) and ignores the events from the last two installments in the series, Sleepaway Camp II and III, effectively retconning them.

Plot

Several boys are in their cabin lighting farts. After taking the lighter and attempting to light his own fart but falling short of the other boys' efforts, Alan (Michael Gibney) threatens Eddie (Miles Thompson), Mark (Tommy John Riccardo), Billy (Dino Roscigno) and Pee Pee (Paul Iacono), but is soon stopped by camp counselor, Randy (Brye Cooper), who is irritated with him. After a failed camp announcement by the owner in the dining hall, Alan gets into a violent confrontation with Randy after he complains about the food. Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo) allows Alan to go the kitchen to get something else to eat so as not to exaggerate the fight, but Alan ends up in trouble again, this time with cook Mickey (Lenny Venito), who throws eggs at him. Alan then throws a butcher knife at Mickey and the camp owner, Frank (Vincent Pastore), seeing what he did, argues with Alan after already being annoyed by his past misbehavior. Alan, suffering rheumatic fever, runs away feeling rejected, with his stepbrother Michael (Michael Werner) chasing after him. After being threatened, Michael goes back to the camp, telling Alan that he does not care what he does any more. In the kitchen, Mickey is killed after being held above and dumped into the deep fryer by an unseen character while cooking fries for dinner. His body is then dumped in the trash compactor.

During the social, Alan is fooled by Terry "Weed" (Adam Wylie) and Stan (Chaz Brewer) into smoking dried cow manure, mistaking it for marijuana which makes him cough and falls on Stan's crotch, earning him the nickname "Blowjob", which sticks and later plays a significant role in the film. After the social, a high Weed is tied to a chair and gas is squirted down his throat. The killer then sticks a lit-up cigarette in his mouth and his insides explode, killing him. Ronnie starts to suspect that the murders that happened twenty five years ago are happening again. Frank, in an attempt to ignore bad publicity, states that the murders were accidental and the camp continues to go on with its normal activities. A week later, Alan is bullied by being shot during a paintball game by all the players. In order to steal Karen (Erin Broderick) away from Alan (who has arranged to meet up with her), Michael makes Alan look like a psychopath by skinning the frogs Alan sits with in the forest. Karen and her friend Marie (Samantha Hahn) run away. Alan is again bulled by T.C. (Christopher Shand) and Chooch (Lucas Blondhelm), who give him a wedgie in front of everyone at the waterfront. That night, Michael, T.C. and Marie force Karen to lure Alan to the back of the stage, where they take his clothes off, tie him up, blindfold him and embarrass him in front of everyone at the social.

Ronnie suspects that counselor Petey (Kate Simses) is the killer for being everywhere when Alan is in trouble. Suddenly outside, T.C. and nine others start calling Alan "Blowjob", which causes him to become frustrated and run off into the night. After returning to his cabin, Frank is knocked unconscious with a hammer and wakes up with his head inserted in a birdcage. The killer opens up the birdcage, places two rats inside and locks it. The rats eat through his head and down into his intestines, killing him. Meanwhile, Randy and Linda (Jackie Tohn) go to the pump house to have sex. While Randy is urinating, the killer ties him to a tree, using fishing line as a noose to wrap around his penis. Suddenly, Linda becomes worried (upon returning from getting a sleeping bag and beer) after hearing Randy attempt to placate the killer (who he thinks to be Alan), and drives off in the jeep, but the fishing line is tied to the jeep and, while driving at 85 mph, tears Randy's penis off, goringly killing him.Linda continues to drive, but crashes after driving through a wrapped barbed wire line, which wraps around her face, killing her.

At the camp, T.C. has been grounded for the rest of the summer for bullying Alan. After Spaz (Jake O'Conner) visits him again, a wooden spear comes through a hole in the floor while T.C. is looking into it and impales him in the eye, gruesomely killing him meanwhile, Jenny (Jaime Radow) and Ronnie find Frank dead in his office. They begin rounding up everyone left in the camp, as Ronnie believes that Angela has returned and resumed her murders. Bella (Shahida McIntash) goes back to her cabin, where she finds that the bunk above her has been replaced with spikes. The killer, who is also in the cabin, jumps down from the rafters and lands on top of the top bunk, causing it to fall on Bella, piercing her with the spikes and killing her. Soon, T.C. and Bella are found dead and after the counselors leave, Ricky Thomas (Jonathan Tiersten) is called by Sheriff Jerry, while Karen, who discovered Bella with Marie and ran off in fright,believing Alan committed the murder and she will be his next victim and after finding Randy's and Linda's corpses, bumps into the killer and faints.

Karen wakes up at the rec hall with a rope hanging from a basketball hoop tied around her neck. The killer flips a switch to raise the net, causing Karen to be lifted off the ground. Michael comes in before Karen is killed, causing the killer to run off, and lowers the net. After Karen tells him that she thinks Alan is the killer, Michael grabs a mallet and goes after Alan, who he beats with the mallet. Suddenly, the killer appears behind Michael as the screen fades to black.

Ronnie, Ricky and Jenny find a badly-wounded, but still alive Alan on the ground. As Ronnie questions Alan who is responsible for his injuries, Sheriff Jerry walks into view of Ronnie and Ricky, explaining through his mechanical voice box that kids never learn and are always mean, and declaring, "I've been waiting a long time for this. A long time." Confirming Ronnie's suspicions, it is then revealed that Sheriff Jerry is Angela Baker (Felissa Rose). Nearby, Ricky, Jenny and Ronnie find a nearly-dead Michael skinned alive on the ground as Angela laughs maniacally. She suddenly stops laughing and looks at the audience with a vicious expression on her face. Michael dies as the scene cuts to the end credits.

After the ending credits are over, a clip is shown, which takes place three weeks prior to the events of the film. It shows that Angela had escaped from the psychiatric clinic she had been locked up in for twenty years. After somehow acquiring a car, Angela apparently disables it by causing a brake fluid leak and flags down Sheriff Pete (Carlo Vogel), the real sheriff. She murders him by dropping the car on his head and, presumably, steals his clothes to become the new sheriff.

Cast

• Vincent Pastore as Frank
• Jackie Tohn as Linda
• Erin Broderick as Karen
• Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky Baker
• Issac Hayes as Charlie the Chef
• Michael Gibney as Alan
• Paul DeAngelo as Ronnie
• Kate Simses as Petey
• Brye Cooper as Randy
• Christopher Shand as T.C
• Shahidah McIntosh as Bella
• Jamie Radow as Jenny
• Paul Iacono as Pee Pee
• Ashley Carin as Alex
• Samantha Hahn as Marie
• Lauren Toub as Joanie
• Miles Thompson as Eddie
• Stefani Milanese as Tammy
• Mary Elizabeth King as Sue Meyers
• Judy Unger as Ellen
• Jenny Cole as Jess Lanmer
• Felissa Rose as Angela Baker/Officer Jerry

Hiltzik's three daughters each played a small role in the film, and are also credited in the end credits. Samantha Hiltzik plays Carly, Emily Hiltzik plays Tracey, and Lindsay Hiltzik plays Toby, whose pigtails Alan pulls several times. Lindsay/Toby also has the greatest number of shots and lines out of Hiltzik's three daughters.

Production

Return to Sleepaway Camp wrapped filming in 2003 and was scheduled to be released in early 2006 but was rescheduled for 2008 due to unsatisfactory CGI effects. The executive producer of the film, Tom van Dell, claimed that the corrected CGI was completed as of December 2006, but the director, Robert Hiltzik confirmed that it needed more work to meet his expectations. By 2007, compositors and CGI personnel had been hired by Tom van Dell to correct the effects. All works were finished by 2008 and the producers had secured distribution through Magnolia Pictures. The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on November 4, 2008 and was released internationally before the end of 2008.

This is the last film released to feature actor Isaac Hayes, who died in August 2008 after suffering a stroke.

External links

• Return to Sleepaway Camp at the Internet Movie Database
• Return to Sleepaway Camp at AllRovi
• Sleepaway Camp Movies
• Sleepaway Camp Films
• Sleepaway Camp Series