It’s been a while since we’ve had a decent entry in the slasher genre, but producer Jeff Katz is looking to inject some new blood into the sub genre by heading back to the 80s slasher well for a reboot of the cult classic Sleepaway Camp. According to Deadline, Katz “aims to reboot the Sleepaway Camp mythos in a modern setting with a new film series that echoes its legacy and the psychosexual elements that made the first pic such a memorable cult favorite.”
Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, Sleepaway Camp was released in 1983 and is mostly remembered for its twist ending, which we shan’t give away here. The film spawned three sequels – 1988’s Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, 1989’s Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland and 1992’s Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor – before Hiltzik returned to reboot the series with Return to Sleepaway Camp, which was shot in 2003 and eventually saw a direct-to-video release in 2008. Hiltzik also planned to complete his own trilogy with Sleepaway Camp Reunion but that now looks to have been abandoned in favour of this latest incarnation.
Originally published November 1, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
