Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Pastore, Jackie Tohn, Isaac Hayes, Paul DeAngelo, Jonathan Tiersten
• Directors: Robert Hiltzik
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CT876C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,301 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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After enduring years of tongue-in-cheek sequels, fans of the absurd 1983 slasher film Sleepaway Camp get the follow-up they've been waiting for in Return to Sleepaway Camp, which features original director Robert Hitzig once again orchestrating the blood-soaked shenanigans. Little seems to have changed at good ol' Camp Manabe in the 25 years since the slaughter of the first Sleepaway Camp: the kids are still foul-mouthed little monsters, the counselors still nitwits (and with Vincent Pastore--Big Pussy from The Sopranos--in charge, who can blame them?), and of course, there's still a killer on the loose who's brutally dispatching campers and staff alike. In short, it's business as usual for the Sleepaway Camp series, which is good news for those who found the 1983 film a gory, lowbrow guilty pleasure. Others who might've found it one of the more atrocious entries in the '80s slasher scene--or one of the weirdest, based on its infamous gender-bending conclusion--won't be swayed by the Return, which offers a heaping second helping of the original's moronic dialogue, loathsome characters and subtle-as-a-brick suspense. The low-wattage star power on hand--Isaac Hayes in one of his final roles as the camp chef and Felissa Rose, the killer from the first Sleepaway--aren't onscreen enough to generate much excitement, so what's left is a goofball exercise in gore that's probably best enjoyed by those whose love for the original film transcends all limitations. The DVD includes interviews with the new batch of campers-turned-corpses, a behind-the-scenes tour guided by Rose and producer Jeff Hayes, and a disposable music video for the theme song by Goat and Company. -- Paul Gaita

Product Description
It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak, where he worked two decades earlier.

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Be Mislead, September 7, 2008

By	Camp Whacked (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

Be Careful! I just noticed a review on here stating that this movie was the full version of that craptacular "Sleepaway Camp: The Survivor" footage that was an extra in some of the Survival Kit Box Sets. This movie has absolutely NO relation to that. Return To Sleepaway Camp is a direct sequel to the unforgettable original Sleepaway Camp. Ronnie and Ricky are back and so are a bunch of gruesome murders at camp. This was directed by the writer/director of the original Sleepaway Camp and is a welcome return to fun who-done-it slasher movies!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great sequel, October 22, 2008

By	B. Amstrong (Redding, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been very excited about watching this, ever since I heard about it. I checked the IMDB almost daily for updates, and was constantly irritated that the release date kept getting pushed back. But I finally got to see it.

There's no cold open, straight to the credits. When I was watching the credits, they looked really good, and I was thinking to myself, "Wow, this is going to be a real movie. High production quality, etc." Then, the actual movie started, and it looked just like the last one.

I enjoyed this movie a lot. I thought they did a great job of making it a sequel, which is hard to do when the first one was made 25 years ago. It has the same feel, same style of writing, like it was made a year or two later.

Isaac Hayes is an awful actor, and Jonathan Tierston has only done one other thing aside from the first one, and that was in 1987. He is definitely not an actor. Vincent Pastore does a really good job. I was disappointed that Aunt Martha didn't make a cameo. She did something in 2006, but other than that, only the original.

If you were a fan of the first movie, I think you'll totally dig this one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gore-fest!! Loved it!, February 26, 2009

By	Chuck Mengel (Tyrone, Pa.) - See all my reviews

The best in the series. the way the kids died are totally disqusting, and the ending was amazingly shocking. LOVED IT! It was to much fun... not knowing who the killer was the whole time.