Return to Sleepaway Camp

Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)

Kids can be so mean.

When campers and staff at Camp Manabe 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 two decades earlier.

Date of release
2008-11-04
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (347)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Director
Robert Hiltzik
Collection
Sleepaway Camp Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Return to Sleepaway Camp is a 2008 American slasher film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, and starring Vincent Pastore, Jackie Tohn, Jonathan Tiersten, Paul DeAngelo, Isaac Hayes, and Michael Gibney. The fourth installment in the Sleepaway Camp film series and first film released direct-to-video, it is a direct sequel to Sleepaway Camp (1983), while ignoring the events of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989).

Production

Development of Return to Sleepaway Camp dates back to 2000. The film had a troubled production process, partly due to several investors backing out of the project following a downturn in the U.S. economy after the September 11 attacks.

Auditions began in mid-2001 in New York City, with actress Felissa Rose, who portrayed Angela in the original film, working as a casting assistant. Rose reprised her role as Angela in the film, as did Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky.

Location scouting began in New York in the spring of 2003. Filming began on September 11, 2003, with the majority of the film being shot on location at Camp Starlight in Starlight, Pennsylvania.

The film was scheduled to be released theatrically between 2004 and 2006, but due to unsatisfactory CGI effects and a lack of distribution deals, it did not see release until November 2008. An executive producer of the film, Thomas E. Van Dell, claimed that most of the corrected CGI had been completed by December 2006, but director, Robert Hiltzik, felt that it needed more work to meet his expectations.

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