{"id":1248,"date":"2024-07-23T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:11:19","slug":"sleepaway-camp-iv-the-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/07\/23\/sleepaway-camp-iv-the-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor<\/strong>\u00a0 (2012)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rainbow Films\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 70 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (graphic violence and gore, language, nudity, sex, drug and alcohol use- all involving teens)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jim Markovic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tommy Clohessy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Altyn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Peter Davis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 23, 2012 (US, DVD)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Carrie Chambers, John Lodico, Victor Campos.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor<\/strong> isn\u2019t a movie, it\u2019s a greatest hits compilation. It\u2019s a lot of footage from the first three movies sloppily cobbled together (with a few scenes shot twenty years earlier) to form what somebody thinks is a movie. In fact, the story behind this movie is infinitely more interesting than anything that happens in it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The makers started shooting a new Sleepaway Camp sequel in 1992, but had to shut down production indefinitely after Double Helix Films, the studio behind parts II & III, went bankrupt. The footage that was shot during this brief time was released on a bonus disc in the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit DVD box set in 2002. It was unwatchable. In 2012, the decision to complete the unfinished film was made. They mixed all the kill scenes from the first three movies with about ten minutes (if that) of the unused footage. The result is the biggest rip-off of a horror sequel since Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 which also consists mainly of scenes from the first movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s something resembling a plot in Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor<\/strong> and most of it you can only read about in the opening titles. A girl named Allison (Chambers) survived one of the massacres, but can\u2019t remember much about it due to a form of trauma-induced amnesia. Her psychiatrist suggests she return to the campground (now federal property) where the murders occurred and spend the day. Maybe it will jog her memory. He arranges for a park ranger (Lodico) to meet her there and act as a guide. Again, this is all related in the opening titles.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The \u201cnew\u201d scenes show the girl sitting by the water (in a bathing suit, of course), observing the trees, remembering all the murders. This goes on for nearly an hour. There are flashbacks. There are flashbacks within flashbacks. The scenes aren\u2019t in any particular order. There\u2019s voiceover narration that doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. After all the murders are shown, she encounters the ranger who tries to rape her. She runs away and encounters a hunter (Campos) in the woods. She kills both men and puts their bodies in an abandoned cabin. End of movie. It turns out the amnesiac is none other than Angela Baker herself. Duh, who didn\u2019t know that already? Think about it. Who\u2019s the only Sleepaway Camp character present at every killing? It\u2019s not rocket science, people. It\u2019s not any kind of science. It\u2019s BS is what it is.<\/p>\n

\u00a0You\u2019ll no doubt notice that I neglected to give Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor<\/strong> a star rating. That\u2019s on purpose. There\u2019s absolutely nothing to review. It\u2019s like asking a sports commentator to talk about a game based solely on the highlights reel. Yes, the kill scenes are cool IN CONTEXT. Here, there\u2019s no rhyme, reason or rhythm to them. They\u2019re just filler to help the \u201cmovie\u201d (I have such a difficult time calling it that) hit the minimum length to make it qualify as a feature film. The \u201cnew\u201d footage sucks. Because there\u2019s so little of it, I can\u2019t comment on things like acting, plot or character development. Not that any of those things matter in a Sleepaway Camp movie anyway. I didn\u2019t even know this movie existed until I spotted it on Wikipedia while researching the franchise. I was lucky (was I though?) to even find a copy as it appears to be out-of-print (and for good reason).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor<\/strong> is bad even by the low standards of DTV horror sequels. It\u2019s very poorly made. I\u2019ve seen amateur home movies of family camping trips that look better. It\u2019s nothing more than a ploy to get fans to spend their money on something that isn\u2019t even worth the plastic wrap on the DVD. \u2018Tis but a footnote in the Sleepaway Camp series. It\u2019s best dumped in the same landfill as Lily Miranda (the camp owner from the third movie) and forgotten. It need never see the light of day again. Angela Baker deserves much better than this.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor\u00a0 (2012)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rainbow Films\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 70 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (graphic violence and gore, language, nudity, sex, drug and alcohol use- all involving teens)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jim Markovic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tommy Clohessy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Altyn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Peter Davis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 23, 2012 (US, DVD)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Carrie Chambers, John Lodico, Victor Campos. Rating: \u00a0Sleepaway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes","category-this-sucks-so-bad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sleepaway-Camp-IV-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}