# Sleepaway Camp (1983)

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**Runtime**: 85 min
**Genres**: Horror
**Directed by**: Robert Hiltzik
**Written by**: Robert Hiltzik
**Starring**: Mike Kellin, Katherine Kamhi, Paul DeAngelo, Jonathan Tiersten, Felissa Rose, Karen Fields

> *…you won't be coming home!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Twilight at Camp Arawak. Crickets cut out. A cabin door creaks left ajar.

Angela arrives under permanent adult scrutiny. One camper’s floatie drifts empty downstream.

Distilled slasher mythos, 1983, shoestring dread.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread, unhinged

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