Sleepaway Camp Plot Summary
The main character of Sleepaway Camp, Angela Baker (Felissa Rose), and her cousin Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten), are sent to summer camp one summer. Angela had come to live with Ricky and her Aunt Martha eight years earlier, after her father and her brother Peter were killed in a boating accident. Angela, a painfully shy 14-year-old, is bullied severely by most of the other campgoers and counselors at Camp Arawak. Her main foil is Judy (Karen Fields), a vain girl once friendly with Ricky but now snubbing him in favor of the older boys.
Soon people from Sleepaway Camp begin to die in bizarre ways, such as a youth being stung to death by bees from a hive thrown into a bathroom. A female counselor is stabbed in a shower stall. The murderer turns out to be Angela; however, it is later revealed that Angela was actually her brother Peter. The real Angela had died in the boating accident eight years ago, and Peter was forced to assume her identity afterward because deranged Aunt Martha chose to raise Peter as a girl, treating him as if he were Angela. The film also implies that Angela/Peter's confused sexual identity occurred because she/he found out her/his father was in a homosexual relationship; a young Angela and Peter witnessed this behaviour and were seen giggling surruptitiously at them, then were later shown sitting on a bed in an experiment of their own, presumably "transferring" sexual identities to each other. Angela-Peter is last seen standing on the beach naked (male genitalia in full view) with the decapitated head of Paul (Christopher Collet) in her/his one hand while holding a knife in the other, the rest of his body at his/her feet.
In the commentary on the DVD, Hiltzik and Rose tease that perhaps Angela isn't the sole killer in the movie. In fact, the only real continuity error in the film involves the killing of campers at a tent site far enough away from the main camp that they took a car to get there in the same night that four other people were murdered.
Soon people from Sleepaway Camp begin to die in bizarre ways, such as a youth being stung to death by bees from a hive thrown into a bathroom. A female counselor is stabbed in a shower stall. The murderer turns out to be Angela; however, it is later revealed that Angela was actually her brother Peter. The real Angela had died in the boating accident eight years ago, and Peter was forced to assume her identity afterward because deranged Aunt Martha chose to raise Peter as a girl, treating him as if he were Angela. The film also implies that Angela/Peter's confused sexual identity occurred because she/he found out her/his father was in a homosexual relationship; a young Angela and Peter witnessed this behaviour and were seen giggling surruptitiously at them, then were later shown sitting on a bed in an experiment of their own, presumably "transferring" sexual identities to each other. Angela-Peter is last seen standing on the beach naked (male genitalia in full view) with the decapitated head of Paul (Christopher Collet) in her/his one hand while holding a knife in the other, the rest of his body at his/her feet.
In the commentary on the DVD, Hiltzik and Rose tease that perhaps Angela isn't the sole killer in the movie. In fact, the only real continuity error in the film involves the killing of campers at a tent site far enough away from the main camp that they took a car to get there in the same night that four other people were murdered.
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