Sleepaway Camp Review - Off The Shelf Reviews 

The mother is the Tommy Wiseau of female actors/actresses, love it

I love this movie. The absurdity and homemade-ness is a huge part of the charm for me.

Felissa Rose has one of the sweetest personalities ever. I wish she would have gotten more roles after this film!

"Ricky's unconscious corpse" lol

This review was my introduction to OTSR two or three years ago. I then viewed all their videos, which offered insightful and often hilarious analysis of films. Gary and Iain’s channel is the first and only channel (so far) that I am a Patreon of. Their love of horror and science fiction in particular and films in general has provided much entertainment for me and many other fans. Cheers Gary and Iain. Thanks for the reviews. 😊😊😊

After watching this review again, I've come to the conclusion that one of the things that make your reviews so enjoyable is that you have that same quality that Siskel and Ebert had of being even more entertaining when you completely disagree about a film.

SLEEP AWAY CAMP answers the question: What if John Waters directed a slasher film?

When your 14, the ending is a huge surprise! Return to Sleepaway Camp actually had the original actors for Ricky and Angela in it.

32:32 Ian's face is priceless "yeah, male bare asses" :D

I'm literally crying.. That F'N Tape Mustache!

This review is only 10 minutes less than the actual movie.

This review was absolutely hilarious, Great job guys!

how comes yur not at million your content is extraordinary your time will come guys keep up the good work

Angela looks like a young Sarah Silverman.

I think this movie could benefit form a remake actually. Still, the ending is probably one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Yes, I know I'm lame but fuck it. It really got under my skin :P

Meg was actually 18/19 at the time of filming this movie, so she is an adult. Well in the UK anyway lol

I was NOT ready for “Dude Looks Like a Lady” at the end of the video, made me burst out laughing alone at work like a psycho. Thanks Iain!

Still a great movie lol...She's a real carpenter's dream: flat as a board and needs a screw! LOL (clearly she has some nuts with her screws )

RU-vid likes to recommend guys doing makeup no matter how many downvotes I give it yet they waited frickin years to recommend this channel? We need to fix this algorithm.

Thanks for doing my request! Loved it.

I watch your reviews every morning as I start my work day - always helps pass the time. Great review guys - I've seen that still of Anglia and never knew what movie it was from.

I saw this on Cinemax with my older brothers around 1990-- I was 10ish at the time; the ending absolutely terrified me. I remember I had to sleep with a Bible and the lights on! LOL I think it was a combo of the sound she's making, her face, and the shock of seeing a hairy cock-- but I was traumatized. Re-watching later on as I got older, I could barely get past the dialogue and the cop with the fake mustache. Still a good 80's "midnight movie;" or at least one you can recommend to other Horrorphiles. Thanks for doing these!

And when the winds cry Angela, Angela I'll be there for ya. And when the storms scream Angela, Angela I'll be there.

I love the ending, and that final shot is absolutely INSANE and works every time.

Now that I think about the ending. The aunt being a doctor and doing the physicals herself makes sense.

Just to correct a little mistake you made, Meg was actually stabbed through the side wall, not the back wall of the shower, when she falls through the curtain, look to the right hand wall, you can see the knife marks and blood on there

I enjoyed part 2 and 3 far more than the original. We need to kickstart a new movie in the spirit of the 80's with the same quality and equipment , I don't want it looking all shiny and modern. Mostly practical effects. Check out "The House Of the Devil" It's a *perfect example* of how to do an 80's style movie with that classic atmosphere in modern day. It wouldn't be too hard to reach a good enough financial goal for a movie of that style , that's the beauty of it we don't want a bunch of CGI just smartly done old school.

in all fairness, the actress playing the aunt was forced to talk in the way that she did....she knew it sounded off.

100% best movie review show on RU-vid. Huge fan. Great synopsis. I tell everyone i know about it

Wait is the guy with the "Undertaker shirt" like Kevin Smith's long lost British brother? This is my first time watching their channel

Holy hell I've been watching you for 4 years

Gary's reaction at 10:57 is comedy gold!

Angela's got the "DEVIL'S EYES" 😂😂😂

you guys rock. I hear no interest in Horror movies, but when I am working in my garage on paintings, listening to you you guys talking so passionately about movies is awesome. Thank you so much for making these videos! you should do fan meet ups! :)

Ok...I am enjoying the reviews and perspective of the guy on the left. You should do your own reviews!! The movie is so bad it's good and has that memorable scene in the end. I'll never get over the look of the killer at the end of the movie.

That orchestral sting, man. Never gets old.

it would be great for a nightmare on elm street series review or F13 series review or maybe a jeepers creepers review. love the work as always guys

I am a Undertaker fan too

The Killer kept missing Angela, just very unfortunate, Great Review

Funniest review so far. The absolute highlights are: 4:13, 4:52, 5:47, 6:20, 9:42, 11:00 (G’s face), 27:57 ‘beehive in a bog’, 38:49 Wetting myself watching this one 😂

man I was just binge watching your stuff and this pops up. Sorry sleep. Some other time.

Why didn't the dad move out of the way?! He just stood there and watched the boat coming towards him!

I watched this movie after this review.. I love this film,, already watched it 3 times..I reminded me of the movies I grew up watching in my teens...I love when Angela would stare at someone with the look of a predator.

I've heard people say how horrible this movie is so my expectations were really low which I think made me enjoy this movie more! It's definitely worth watching at least once....it's not for everyone but there'll be people who LOVE this movie. 👍

I just love how dumbfounded Ian looks at the very beginning of this review. His facial expression is basically saying, 'WTF did I just sit down to watch here?' And obviously plenty of others have thought the exact same thing right after viewing this totally whacked out little horror movie!

angela being the killer wasn't the shocking surprise though Iain. lololol.

Unpopular opinion (especially for Iain, LOL!): I actually PREFER this movie to Friday the 13th.

Nice one guys, could you guys do the scream series next.

Lol. 3rd one, she was impersonating a camper, not counselor. And its really funny because they keep telling her she is so old looking and looks like she had an awfully rough life for being 17. Turns out she's only 21. Also, they werent there for drug rehab. Long story short to minimize spoilers: Owners wanted to "experiment" and have rich kids and poor kids come together in one place and hang out? Understand eachother?

Listen once i saw Iain wearing a undertaker T-shirt, it was a automatic like for me #thankyoutaker

I LOVE Sleepaway Camp! One of my favorite horror films of all time!! But I don't care for the sequels.

Sleeps way camp is awesome and a cult classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I was just thinking, I remember Kenny being a pretty damn good swimmer" classic jobber

Dreadful films, hysterical review! I always thought it was Ricky AND Angela as the killers as you say, both driven mad by their Norma Bates style mother. The most horrific things in this movie are frankly the fashions, couldn't be more 80s if you had ET playing Pacman. The twist isn't that original, Deadly Blessing did the same 2 years before. I'm amazed you didn't review the F13th/NOES movies as you did Hellraiser and Halloween?.

The mother figure is like a character that's escaped from a John Waters movie....

Sleepaway camp is an amazing movie. The sequels are also great.

"There is no nudity in this film" Waits for infamous ending

It’s like the aunty is recording a commercial during her scenes 😂😂 like in Wayne’s World 2 or The Truman Show 😂😂

thanks for keeping it real and having you're own different opinions and disagreeing with each other when you have to, its what makes this show great, i do too recomend this movie to every horror fan,i did enjoy it when i first saw it cause it was with a big fat joint and i was shocked at everything that was happening and that last scene definitely caught me off guard, not Angela cause it was clear that she was the killer but that fucked up face and penis its definitely a shock ending not really great but shocking and worth watching

Absolutely love your reviews. Just a request but if possible could you two review the original Carrie please??

Great review! My theory on the crazy aunt is that Peter's dad was her brother, and maybe she caught him with another man and that's what made her clearly unhinged. So when she took Peter in after the accident, the aunt was determined to 'protect' Ricky and not have Peter grow up to be like his dad, she thought that raising him as a girl with the angelic name Angela would 'snuff the gayness' out of Peter and he therefore wouldn't corrupt Ricky.

This is almost like British Half In The Bag. Just missing your own "Rich Evan's".

I love sleepaway camp nothing like it and never will

This movie is a work of art

The "camp" was real in this movie...

The mother in this movie is both deranged and animatronic. It's like watching a f**ked up Disneyland attraction.

You guys should review Slumber Party Massacre!!

I went to this camp, and they made us watch this movie 3 times in 2 weeks.

I never saw the end of this movie. I lasted about half an hour before I thought, 'WTF am I watching this shit for?' It really is one of the most awfully written, performed and executed films I have ever seen. The 'twist' is the only thing that makes this film stick in people's minds. And frankly, it isn't even very well executed from what I've seen.

This has nothing to do with the review but that Undertaker shirt is phenominal! Glad to see a fellow fan! Well since I'm here....Excellent review guys. I've always had a love for the Sleepaway Camp films. I love the cheesy, gory, sleezy vibes haha.

I love this movie. I miss the 80's.

I’m crying at this review. That tape tash 🤣. Tears rolling down my face 😭

This is the movie that found me this channel. Still one of my favorites

Maybe......its just maybaleen

The most unique horror movie ever. It's my 4th favorite slasher movie behind Halloween, Black Christmas, and Friday the 13th Part 6. Speaking of which, please review Black Christmas and its remake and the original Friday the 13th.

I gotta say, I saw this when I was nine years old in 1990. My family would not let me watch horror movies, so I had never seen Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm St etc. I never saw one of them until The Dream Child and Jason Takes Manhattan (awful!). This was actually my first horror movie. I saw it while sleeping over at a friend's house, and we did a marathon of all three. To this day I will always jokingly recommend these movies to anyone just to spread the joy that is the transsexual psychopath Angela Baker. The two sequels are just pure camp, and need to be watched as comedy. When Angela tells Molly that her boyfriend is on TV, that was pure gold. Snow Boy calling his counselor a "Dildo" was the first time I had ever heard the word - it became my insult of choice to an age group that also was unfamiliar with it. It wasn't until years later that I actually learned what a dildo was. Pamela Springsteen whipping out a guitar and singing the I'm a happy camper song. My brother and I still know it word for word.The Sleepaway Camp trilogy will always hold a special place in my heart When I turned 11 and graduated grammar school, upon graduation we had to vote on our favorite things; music, actors, food etc. Basic Instinct had just come out, so Sharon Stone won as the class' favorite actress. I voted for Pamela Springsteen

If you want a film bad enough to make you forget the Sleepaway Camp sequels, check out John Travolta's homage to the cult of Scientology, Battlefield Earth. Of course, all the Dutch angles might give you a nasty headache. Go on, I dare you.

Thank God Henry Cavill kept his mustache for Mission Impossible: Fallout, or else God forbid he would've had to don a black tape or CGI mustache.

And you guys, if you haven't already, need to check out 2 films, both of which can be found here on youtube: 1. The Last Slumber Party (1987). 2. Gore-met Zombie Chef From Hell. (1986?) Hahahahaha.

Gary’s facial reactions are hilarious. Iain is cool but I gotta disagree with him on this one. This movie is a classic! Barely found this channel a few days ago but I’m going through everything that sticks out to me!

I tried watching this a while ago, but at one point, about 45 minutes in, I had to choose between smashing my head through the nearest wall, throwing my tv out the window or just stop the damn thing. I still have a wall without a hole and my tv is still in it's place🙂 Twist ending or not, this movie can go f*ck itself👍

YES!!!!!!!! You guys should review 'MARTYRS'

The Angela character has that same vacant look in her eyes like Eleven in Stranger Things!

LOL I'm hysterical. here guys.. You both are too funny! I've never seen this film, but the ending was spoiled for me, because of a Horror/Slasher documentary I just had to watch. The mom looks quite manly, doesn't she? I'm still watching, and I haven't gotten to your spoil alerts, yet. I have to see this film. I know it's a bit cheesy. I believe, it's good kind of cheesy, though. Thanks, Guys! ; D

14:56 did the director say "Do your best Scooby-Doo impression"?

Aunt Martha is AWESOME!!!!

I loved this iconic movie for all it's cheesy scenes! I liked it better than Friday the 13th actually. It was an iconic movie for the 80's, come on! ❤😂

Any chance of you guys reviewing Slither (2006) please?

I love sleepaway camp. Then again I love campy horror which most slashers are. I know it's bad and badly acted. Something about it stays with me... it's not the twist. Is it because it's a camp film? It's not the daisydukes. Is this the case of so bad it's good because I hate Seed of Chucky and Freddys Dead. I think it is a legit guilty pleasure.

40:15 that is Ricky wearing a wig in the doorway there's a documentary on RU-vid that talks about it

I knew you were going to show the Robot Chicken clip.

Wait. So the actress mother forbade her to participate in any killing sequence, but she allowed her to be shown and forever be remembered as that crazy shouting youngling with genitalia on display?? Anyway, you need to have more reviews of rancid movies. So many reaction bits.

ooof ,if i were the cinama snob, i'd be peed off with you guys

I so agree with both of you, which makes me really feel like a split personality! 😂😂😂

Sleep away camp 2 the girl being murderd in a out side toilet was brutal

It was a B movie 🍿 but a cult classic in my house!

Lots of comments about the ending, and rightfully so! Now here's another: I used to think that eerie facial expression combined with that growling and hissing meant Angela was now possessed. Yes I've since learned the consensus is she's now completely out of her mind. Demonic-looking face... nightmare fuel indeed!

I believe that they tried to gear it to where both of them were The Killers because Ricky does have anger issues and like Ian said anyone who interacted with Angela ends up dead but at the same time anybody who ended up getting into an argument with Ricky with him snapping and cursing like a sailor, they also ended up dead. I've seen this movie a few times and each time I keep thinking to myself Ricky is so over protective of Angela why wouldn't he fall in line knowing she was a killer Keep in mind he was raised by the same whack job aunt/mom. Angela was thrown into a lifestyle that could have made her snap but Ricky could have been absolutely out of his fucking mind way before Angela ever showed up at his house. His cursing seemed inappropriate even for an eighties movie even though when I saw the movie I laughed a lot at a kid cursing because prior to this the movie the Bad News Bears came out and there was one kid who didn't stop cursing throughout the whole film. Although they kept pointing the finger at Ricky I don't think it was a red herring because he had so much rage within him that he could have been her partner in crime and he knew she couldn't control herself so he would try to protect her during the day because she would have killed someone in front if everyone, proven by the sequels, but at night when he wouldn't be there or couldn't be there for whatever the reason, Mel beating him up comes to mind, Angela was set loose. Unfortunately this movie has severe chronological problems so we don't know exactly what time the hair curler was used and that's the nicest way I can say that, it could have been well before Mel beat up Ricky.

Reacting only to Sleepaway Camp (not the sequels): A lot of the bad acting can be blamed on poor writing. Fucking Lawrence Oliver couldn't make that dialogue work. Despite having seen this film only once in 1986, I can still remember most of it vividly. Not saying that makes it good or bad, but certainly a memorable film. I owe that to some very interesting concepts (albeit, poorly executed). Gender ambiguity and sexual confusion causing the psychic break of the killer is a novel approach, IMO, especially because the seeds are sown so early and regularly in the movie. Intellectually, I was engaged in that element of the story, but obviously not enough to warrant watching again. lol

The first time I watched this movie was during the summer of 2002, on VHS. When the movie ended I took the tape and broke it with my bare hands.