Product Details

• Actors: Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman, Brian Patrick Clarke
• Directors: Michael A. Simpson, Robert Hiltzik
• Writers: Robert Hiltzik, Fritz Gordon
• Producers: Michael A. Simpson, Jerry Silva, Michele Tatosian, Robert F. Phillips
• Format: Box set, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002
• Run Time: 243 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006ADDG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,243 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Sleepaway Camp: Survival Kit (Sleepaway Camp / Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers / Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland)" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Well... Anchor Bay has done it again! This very cool box set of the cult classics - The Sleepaway Camp Trilogy has a cute "first aid" motif with bloody handprints on the slipcover. The red paint used on the slipcover for the blood actually FEELS STICKY, like real blood! Open the slipcover up and you have pictures of first aid items like band-aids, first aid cream, gauze, antiseptic wipes and the like with the DVD's right inside. Utter PACKAGING GENIUS! Also included is a "Sleepaway Camp Diary" that gives the history of all three films and includes addresses for cool Sleepaway Camp fan websites. All three of the features are presented in widescreen with audio commentaries, still galleries, theatrical trailers, outtakes, behind the scenes, deleted scenes and MUCH, MUCH GORE!!!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautifully Disgusting Box Set-Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit May 20, 2004

By Sheila Chilcote-Collins VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

Well... Anchor Bay has done it again! This very cool box set of the cult classics - The Sleepaway Camp Trilogy has a cute "first aid" motif with bloody handprints on the slipcover. The red paint used on the slipcover for the blood actually FEELS STICKY, like real blood! Open the slipcover up and you have pictures of first aid items like band-aids, first aid cream, gauze, antiseptic wipes and the like with the DVD's right inside. Utter PACKAGING GENIUS!

Also included is a "Sleepaway Camp Diary" that gives the history of all three films and includes addresses for cool Sleepaway Camp fan websites.

All three of the features are presented in widescreen with audio commentaries, still galleries, theatrical trailers, outtakes, behind the scenes, deleted scenes and MUCH, MUCH GORE!!!

You won't believe the odd cast list in these fun movies! The first installment has a group of total unknowns with Felissa Rose as the shy, teenaged Angela. In the second and third installments Pam Springsteen (Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen's little sis) takes over the challenging, over the top role of Angela. Also in the cast are Tracy Griffith (Melanie Griffith's sister)who plays "Marcia", Renee Estevez (sister of Emilio Estevez & Charlie Sheen)as "Molly" and even an Academy Award Nominee in Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie & Clyde, 1967)as a lusty "Herman"!!!

The names of the characters are references to the pop culture for the times, with names purposefully taken from "The Brady Bunch", "The Munsters" and "West Side Story".

The real star in these three pics, however, is the special effects! Great stuff, even compared to present day F/X. The soundtrack to Sleepaway Camp II, "Unhappy Campers" has the likes of Anvil, Obsession, and even the Dead Milkmen!

Sleepaway Camp III, "Teenage Wasteland" is a very bold and different teen slasher movie as most of the "slashing, hacking, stabbing and the like" is done in the middle of the afternoon with the bright sunshine of Camp Sleepaway making the blood run "redder than ever"!

If you enjoy The Friday The 13th series, "Slumber Party Massacre" films, "Halloween" movies, or other slasher movies in this genre, you will ABSOLUTELY LOVE Sleepaway Camp as it is really in a genre of it's OWN (don't wanna give away Angela's REALLY BIG SECRET, you know)!

Happy Watching and KEEP ON CAMPIN'!!!

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't read the back of the box!!! August 7, 2003

By A Customer

Format:DVD

For goodness sake, don't read the back of the box when you get this... it gives away the big secret of the first movie. I have no idea why they would do this. There ARE people who are interested in this, but never saw it, ya know?? I heard so many good things about this movie, especially about how there was a surprise ending, so I got the box set. Well, the first thing I did was read the back of the box... you wouldn't think they would give away the MAIN secret on the back of the freaking box, but they did. This was a really good, cheesy, 80's slasher film... with a surprise twist at the end... oh, did I mention though, that it is ruined by reading the back of the box??? I still really enjoyed the movie, even with the end being ruined for me, by the damn box it comes in. Soooo... take it from me... DO NOT read the back of this box before you watch the first movie. REALLY!!! It ruined what could have been such a freaking cool ending. In fact, during the whole movie, I felt I knew what was going on, but I thought, naaaa... surely that can't be it... they wouldn't say it on the back of the box... but yep... they sure did!! DON'T READ THE BACK OF THE BOX BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!! I really can't stress that enough.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Sleepaway Camp! June 28, 2008

By John Lindsey VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

The first movie "Sleepaway Camp" deals with two relatives Angela Baker(Fellisa Rose) and cousin Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) are spending time at camp Arawak. It may seem like paradise for fun and sex for the other kids, as strange accidents and murders occur as a maniac is on the loose for everyone especially the owner (Mike Kellin) including a few campers must find out who is this killer. Next "Sleepaway II and III" deals with the mysterious maniac from the first movie has been released from an institute to be counselor of Camp Rolling Hills and the killer doesn't like it when they get into trouble as the killer uses anything like firecrackers, lawnmowers, guns etc.

Three fun and entertaining horror flicks for any horror and slasher fanatic! the first movie is a disturbing and shocking slasher pic that was considered a "Friday The 13th" and "Halloween" rip-0ff became a box-office sleeper in november of 1983 because of it's shocking scenes of violence like a memorable scene where a pedophile chef gets boiled by hot water literally and the movie packed one hell of an ending that haunts people to this day. The sequels on the other hand are meant to be dark comedies with a little bit of satire like the second one for example makes fun of other horror movies of that time like "Scream" did in the 90's and the third one was weak but good especially for that sexy Asian babe with some good death sequences with Pamela Springstein in both 2 and 3.

This DVD boxset contains all three movies all nicely transfered with good picture and nice sound even though the first movie isn't completely uncut, but you can find that in a cheap 4 buck DVD to see the uncut version of the original. The extras are terrific like trailers, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage and outtakes, a booklet with info on the movies, and a 4th disc which contains 45 minutes of unreleaed bootleg footage of the 4th "Sleepaway Camp" which was never made but luckily for fans of the series, the REAL 4th movie comes out later this year.