Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]

Horror Quote Of The Moment


Welcome to Under The Morgue.

We have sections for each decade of film, from the 1910s onward, as well as sections for 10+ major franchises, close to 50 'smaller' franchises (containing five entries or less), creative writing, independent filmmaking, photography, music, Non-Horror films and TV shows, forum games, and boredom busters, and to top it all off there's an IM shoutbox at the bottom of the page for random chat. From the tame and 'kid sister friendly' to the psychological and mindbending to cheesy splatter flicks to hardcore torture-oriented horror, there's something here for everyone, so why not dive in?

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Sleepaway Camp (201?)
Topic Started: Oct 31 2013, 09:04 PM (1,618 Views)
Dead Sorority
Member Avatar
Sole Survivor
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Now this is interesting! A remake – and new franchise – of Sleepaway Camp might be around the corner! It’s also encouraging that Jeff Katz (the former New Line exec who helped bring Freddy Vs. Jason into focus) is involved, that guy seems to be passionate about horror and doing things the right way.

Per Deadline he’s “optioned remake rights from the original movie’s trio of makers and rights holders: Writer/director-turned-lawyer Robert Hiltzik, producer Michele Tatosian, and actress Felissa Rose, who starred in the 1983 pic as Angela, the bullied teen protagonist whose summer turns into a bloodbath when a killer begins offing campers.”

Hiltzik, Tatosian and Rose will produce alongside Katz, who apparently “aims to reboot the Sleepaway Camp mythos in a modern setting with a new film series that echoes its legacy and the psychosexual elements that made the first pic such a memorable cult favorite.”

That last sentence is the most encouraging of all! Let’s hope they can find a studio (or independent financier) that will let them keep it that way! More as this develops.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3262521/a-potential-sleepaway-camp-remake-is-waiting-to-reveal-itself/
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Replies:
Dead Sorority
Member Avatar
Sole Survivor
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Toyland Chairman
Mar 1 2014, 10:56 PM
\I don’t think a remake is necessary. All this series needs is just a really good sequel. All the sequels have their charm, but I do admit they aren’t all that spectacular. RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP has some nice ideas, but I think it could’ve benefited from a second writer. No offense to Robert Hiltzik.

I’ve never written any Fan Scripts for this series, despite a couple ideas, however my intentions of one sequel would’ve been of a copycat killer, with only a cameo by Angela Baker at the film’s conclusion. This of course would set up a second film dealing with Angela and Ricky’s relationship, since I feel RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP wasted Ricky. It would’ve been interesting had he known of Angela and confronted her, and maybe even killed her, but of course to most fans Angela made this series.

A SLEEPAWAY CAMP remake might garner some new interest in the series, but it doesn’t guarantee revival of the franchise.

If I wrote a remake, I wouldn’t want it to be too similar, and because of how famous the ending is, that would probably have to be changed. One idea I considered is that Angela really does survive, and it’s Peter who dies in the boat accident. However Angela would not be raised as a transsexual, but suffers a split personallity in which she tends to believe she is Peter, and that he is the murderer. Think PSYCHO or the original FRIDAY THE 13TH. One disturbing idea I thought of was that Angela as a killer would wear a suit made of actual human skin to appear as a male.
Interesting ideas. I don't know about the human skin suit idea but interesting never the less.
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Cherry Darling
Member Avatar
Killer's Accomplice
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I like the skin idea, actually. That could be the shocking end reveal, it would be better than just copying the original atleast.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Toyland Chairman
Member Avatar
Sheriff
[ *  *  * ]
Platinum.Prince
Mar 2 2014, 04:45 AM
I like the skin idea, actually. That could be the shocking end reveal, it would be better than just copying the original atleast.
It might also be the best idea, since in these modern times the film would probably be under fire for depicting a transexual as a psychotic serial killer. People bitched like crazy over THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

Unless this remake is actually going to be direct-to-video. For some reason I don't picture this getting a world wide theatrical release.
Edited by Toyland Chairman, Mar 2 2014, 08:02 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Baby Firefly
Member Avatar
The Devil Himself
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Chances are it'll just be limited release. I'm not too fond of the skin idea. Keeps making me think of Angela's Leatherface homage in Sleepaway Camp II...and not in a good way. I'd prefer a different kind of ending.
And who gives a damn about controversy? (lol)
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Toyland Chairman
Member Avatar
Sheriff
[ *  *  * ]
Baby Firefly
Mar 2 2014, 08:23 PM
Chances are it'll just be limited release. I'm not too fond of the skin idea. Keeps making me think of Angela's Leatherface homage in Sleepaway Camp II...and not in a good way. I'd prefer a different kind of ending.
And who gives a damn about controversy? (lol)
It's all about leaving the audience disturbed. The was the whole point of the ending in the original film.
Edited by Toyland Chairman, Mar 2 2014, 08:29 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Baby Firefly
Member Avatar
The Devil Himself
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Well the human skin suit/skin mask thing has been done many, many times already and is no longer disturbing for most horror fans. House Of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (entire series), Silence Of The Lambs, and many others, I'm sure, have done it already. :P

I don't HATE the idea, but it just doesn't feel all that right for Sleepaway Camp and could fail on so many levels unless they're super clever with it.
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Toyland Chairman
Member Avatar
Sheriff
[ *  *  * ]
Baby Firefly
Mar 2 2014, 08:29 PM
Well the human skin suit/skin mask thing has been done many, many times already and is no longer disturbing for most horror fans. House Of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (entire series), Silence Of The Lambs, and many others, I'm sure, have done it already. :P

I don't HATE the idea, but it just doesn't feel all that right for Sleepaway Camp and could fail on so many levels unless they're super clever with it.
If the skin suit looks too good it will fail.

Plus what else could they do that isn't just the same thing as before?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Baby Firefly
Member Avatar
The Devil Himself
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I really don't know. I don't want a skin suit that is too tight and perfectly made (unrealistic) but making it sloppy and falling apart (realistic) would make it obvious that its...someone (probably Angela) wearing a skinsuit, so itd be VERY hard for them to make that work. :P
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dead Sorority
Member Avatar
Sole Survivor
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I just keep picturing Nutty Professor
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Toyland Chairman
Member Avatar
Sheriff
[ *  *  * ]
Baby Firefly
Mar 2 2014, 08:35 PM
I really don't know. I don't want a skin suit that is too tight and perfectly made (unrealistic) but making it sloppy and falling apart (realistic) would make it obvious that its...someone (probably Angela) wearing a skinsuit, so itd be VERY hard for them to make that work. :P
The killer should be kept in the dark like in the original. Only reveal the loose, rotting skin suit at the very end. Sometimes less is more.

Or Angela can not be the killer at all. Make it someone else, or not include Angela, and make this an entirely different film with new characters. It's possible this remake could come out more like a sequel. Like my copycat killer idea, and Angela doesn't appear until the end. Maybe the killer of this film is sent to a mental asylum, and Angela is there? And she escapes, setting up the sequel. This is also an option.

But I'm sure fans will want Angela as the killer, though.
Edited by Toyland Chairman, Mar 2 2014, 09:34 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
DooDaDerek
Best Friend Character
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Baby Firefly
Mar 2 2014, 08:23 PM
Chances are it'll just be limited release. I'm not too fond of the skin idea. Keeps making me think of Angela's Leatherface homage in Sleepaway Camp II...and not in a good way. I'd prefer a different kind of ending.
And who gives a damn about controversy? (lol)
I'm expecting direct to DVD with like a 20-ish theater release.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Baby Firefly
Member Avatar
The Devil Himself
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Chances are you're right, sadly. I'll try as hard as I can to see it in theaters though. (thumbsup)
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
DooDaDerek
Best Friend Character
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Baby Firefly
Mar 2 2014, 11:27 PM
Chances are you're right, sadly. I'll try as hard as I can to see it in theaters though. (thumbsup)
Same. But DTV is most likely.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Toyland Chairman
Member Avatar
Sheriff
[ *  *  * ]
I suspect a direct-to-video release as well. I don't think this series has enough theatrical appeal.

If this is about cashing in on franchises, I don't know why some remakes are made if they're just gonna be direct-to-video. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, IT'S ALIVE. They might-as-well make direct-to-video sequels. The CHILDREN OF THE CORN remake didn't have any sequels.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dead Sorority
Member Avatar
Sole Survivor
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I think DTV. Only way I could see it getting a wide release is if like a big studio like Lionsgate was behind it.

I doubt this will even be good. I don't trust Robert Hilzick after Return so him being involved doesn't make me happy.
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mandersdawn
Random Redneck
[ * ]
I really don't how to feel about this... I agree that Return was pretty bad (the worst of the series, although I literally just found out Survivor exists from this thread lol so it doesn't count... bad fan!) but I am excited for a new generation to possibly discover this franchise... And of course I always hope for the best with remakes.

Personally, I feel like they have to change the twist even though a lot of people probably won't have seen the original. I first watched Sleepaway Camp when I was twenty. I'd been watching horror movies my whole life and can count on one hand how many had truly shocked me at that point... but that movie definitely shocked me and creeped me out a lot. So I hope they have another twist that can maybe shock us at least a little!

Also, I'm one fan who would love the copycat killer idea... Make it more like an Evil Dead thing (which I loved), with new characters and ideas that could possibly be very loosely interpreted as a sequel instead of a remake. And of course... I really hope that Felissa would have a cameo! (I really like the idea of the killer ending up in the same mental hospital with her at the end.)

Overall though, it'll be interesting to see if anything comes of this and if it's any good... I can only hope!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dead Sorority
Member Avatar
Sole Survivor
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Very good points and I agree
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Cherry Darling
Member Avatar
Killer's Accomplice
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Finally a bit of news. I thought this was dead.
Quote:
 
Back in 2013 it was announced that former New Line exec Jeff Katz was intent on remaking slasher classic Sleepaway Camp, with plans to produce alongside star Felissa Rose and Robert Hiltzik, writer/director of the original film. What’s the latest on that project? We’ve got an exciting update today!

Speaking with The Movie Crypt, Katz just revealed that his take on Sleepaway Camp is actually a sequel to the original, rather than a remake of it. The film will pick up in the present day and find Angela locked away in Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Of course, she eventually escapes, seeking refuge at Camp Arawak.

The plan is for Felissa Rose to reprise the iconic role.

“You resolve her character while setting up the events of the new movie, which are tied directly to her and in a way which allows you to honor the original but spin off in an entirely new direction,” described Katz, suggesting that the film would serve as both a direct sequel and a fresh new reboot.

Katz says that production will begin as soon as a deal is made.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/183847/jeff-katz-talks-planned-sleepaway-camp-reboot/
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
DealsFor.me - The best sales, coupons, and discounts for you
« Previous Topic · Sleepaway Camp · Next Topic »
Add Reply