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''Sleepaway Camp'' (also marketed on VHS as ''Nightmare Vacation'') is an American 1983 exploitation slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik,〔(【引用サイトリンク】The New York Times">title=Sleepaway Camp )〕 who also served as executive producer. The film tells about a young girl and her cousin sent to a summer camp, where a group of killings begins shortly after their arrival. The film came at a time when slasher films were in their heyday, and is largely known for its twist ending, which is considered by some to be one of the most shocking endings among horror films. ''Sleepaway Camp'' is also notable as the last movie of Tony-nominee Mike Kellin, and as the film debut of Christopher Collet. ==Plot== In 1975, John Baker and his lover, Lenny, take John's children Angela and Peter on a boating trip. After the boat capsizes, John and the children attempt to swim ashore where Lenny is waiting for them, but they swim into the path of a reckless motorboat driver and are struck. We see that John and Peter are killed. Eight years later, the film reveals that Angela is now traumatized. She has been living with her eccentric aunt, Dr. Martha Thomas, and her cousin Ricky Thomas. Angela and Ricky are about to be sent to Camp Arawak. Martha first gives them documents stating their physicals and tells them not to let anyone know where they got them as she believes they would not approve at all. Due to her introverted nature, Angela is bullied, her main tormentors being fellow camper Judy and camp counselor Meg. The head cook, Artie attempts to molest Angela until Ricky interrupts, and the two children flee. While Artie is boiling water for corn, an unseen figure pulls the chair out from under him and he is severely scalded by the boiling water. Ben eventually enters the kitchen, to the sound of Artie's terror-filled screaming. He is shocked by the chaos created. Artie's incident is deemed accidental by camp owner Mel Costic, who pays Ben and other kitchen employees to keep the accident quiet. Campers Kenny and Mike begin to mock Angela, prompting Ricky and his friend Paul to get into a fight with them. After the brawl is broken up by Gene, Ricky and the rest of the boys involved in the fight leave, while Paul stays behind and befriends Angela. Later, Kenny is drowned by an unseen figure, his body found the next day and his death also ruled accidental by Mel. Paul asks Angela to attend the movie with him and kisses her afterwards outside her bunkhouse. Campers Billy and Jimmy also pick on Angela, pelting her with water balloons. Billy is then killed when a mysterious assailant locks him in a bathroom stall and drops a beehive inside it, leaving him to be stung to death. Mel expresses to Ronnie that he thinks there is a killer in the camp. The relationship between Angela and Paul grows strained when Paul kisses her on the beach, causing Angela to have a flashback to her youth when she and her brother witnessed their father in bed with Lenny. Paul is then seduced by Judy, who lures him into the woods, where the two are found kissing by Angela and Ricky. Guilty, Paul attempts to explain himself to Angela while on the beach. As Paul talks to Angela, he is shooed away by Judy and Meg, who throw Angela into the water. After being taken out of the lake by lifeguard Hal and having sand flung at her by several small children, a clearly disturbed Angela is comforted by Ricky, who swears revenge on her aggressors. After the affair at the beach, Meg prepares for a date with Mel. During her shower, she is killed by the unseen killer, who slices down her back through the shower stall. A camp social is held. At the event, Paul apologizes to Angela again and she tells him to meet her at the waterfront after the social. Mel goes looking for Meg and, finding her body in the cabin, vows that he will not let her killer escape. The six children who threw sand at Angela are taken out to go camping with counselor Eddie. When two of them ask to go back, Eddie takes them back to his car and drives back to the camp. The other four children are found hacked to bits with Eddie's axe when he returns. Soon after, Judy is killed by being raped with a lit curling iron. The camp is thrown into a panic when Ronnie hears of the children's deaths. Mel grabs Ricky and beats him mercilessly, before stumbling into the camp archery range, where Mel is shot in the throat with an arrow by the killer. Police arrive and begin searching the camp for missing campers (Angela, Judy, Ricky, and Paul). Paul is at the beach waiting for Angela, who arrives and suggests they go for a swim. The policeman and Gene discover Ricky, unconscious, beaten but alive. Ronnie and Susie find a naked Angela humming to herself and clutching both a hunting knife and Paul's severed head in her hands. They are shocked to discover that "Angela" is actually Peter, her thought-to-be-dead brother. It is revealed that the real Angela died in the accident and Peter survived. After Martha gained custody of him, she decided to raise Peter as the girl she always wanted, already having a son, and coming to the conclusion that another boy "simply would not do." It is also implied that Peter was mentally affected by seeing his father sharing a homosexual embrace with another man. The film suddenly ends with the nude and blood-covered "Angela" (male genitalia in full view), standing before the shocked Susie and Ronnie and letting out an animalistic hissing sound, before the screen freezes to green and the credits roll. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sleepaway Camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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