Summer Camp Double Feature

So, it's summer time and the living is easy...or so they say. Well, I thought that since it was summer, that time of year when some people send their kids to camp, it was a great time for a summer camp double feature, so I grabbed a large drink, some snacks and sat down to two great summer camp movies, Friday The 13th and Sleepaway Camp. Both are really great summer camp movies and both, although made in the 70s and 80s, hold up rather well. First up, the original Friday The 13th!



The story (in case you've never seen it) is simple. A group of counselors are cleaning up a summer camp, a camp that the locals believe to be cursed. When they begin dying off one at a time in horrible ways, we're sure that the curse is here and someone is killing them off. The best death of the group may be a young Kevin Bacon taking an arrow through the throat! Now, in case you haven't seen this classic movie you may want to skip the rest of the paragraph. The final reveal is so great, when we find out that this kindly looking older lady is behind all the heinous killings and the last battle between the final girl and the killer set the standard for all movies that followed it. Friday the 13th is the first and probably the best of the series...and there's no sign of Jason, or at least there's no sign of the giant guy in the hockey mask! I'm giving Friday The 13th three out of four cigars,

because it's still a pretty good horror film although it felt like it took quite a while to get to the horror, probably that 70s setup time...DAMN YOU PLOTLINES!!!

The second in our double feature is the classic Sleepaway Camp.



I was surprised to find out that a lot of people haven't seen this movie, it's a great one! Here's the story: Two kids are sent to summer camp by their very strange mother, one is a pretty normal boy (Ricky) and his female cousin (Angela), who was traumatized as a kid when her brother and father were killed in a boating accident, so she's a little strange. Well, we all know what happens at summer camp, cliques are formed and the weird kids get picked on, so poor little Angela is the subject of ridicule and disdain. When she finally comes out of her shell a little, it's because one of her brother's friends likes her...ah, puppy love. Well, when people begin to die around the camp in strange ways, the owner of the camp begins to suspect Ricky of the killings. As the audience begins to suspect that something might be seriously wrong with Angela, the movie ends with one of the best reveals in film history! If you've never seen Sleepaway Camp, I won't ruin it for you, let's just say, it's one of the best movie endings of all time...bar none!! I'm giving Sleepaway Camp four out of four cigars,

because it never felt like it was stretching or filling to the end, the plot still holds up and it's still a movie that you can sit down and watch without it feeling too dated. It's an overall great slasher movie. So, until next time, when I'll tell you about my one adventure in camp and how it smelled so bad that I went five days without going to the bathroom (true story!), remember that the best movies are bad movies.