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Johnbobb posted...

What's frustrating is there WERE aspects of Sleepaway Camp that were very good. The performances and protective relationship between the siblings was really endearing. Eat shit and live is a great line!

But the good aspects were completely wasted in favor of the godawful everything else

This is the biggest problem, yeah. Sleepaway Camp has some other flaws, but at least it has some fun and interesting kills for a slasher film. Burning a pedophile with scalding water; drowning a kid some his body is all fucked up when it gets found; dropping a hornet's nest on a guy in the bathroom, multiple knife stabbings through a shower curtain; chopping a bunch of brats up with a hatchet; curling iron "insertion"; arrow to the neck; decapitation. And again, all the characters that get killed are KINDA assholes who deserve it. It really IS the horrible portrayal of LGBTQ+ issues that tanked it in my eyes more than it would have placed otherwise.

It's not even necessarily the trans serial killer trope that bugs me (because looking back on it, Angela being quiet and reserved basically implied that she wanted to be left alone and didn't want to "trick" anyone, as is usually the case with the trope in these sorts of movie situations). It really is the way the writers decided to really hammer that nail in by adding scenes where the source of all Angela's trauma was REALLY seeing her father (a gay man) kissing another gay man. That stands out to me as bizarrely and unnecessarily homophobic in an irredeemable way.