Robert Hiltzik

Time to review the movie Sleepaway Camp.

Sleepaway Camp, directed by Robert Hiltzik, is a horror film from 1983 that has carved out a unique niche in the slasher genre.

The movie begins with a tragic boating accident that leaves young Angela, played by Phyllisa Rose, as the sole survivor of her family.

She's sent to live with her eccentric Aunt Martha, played by Desiree Gould, and cousin Ricky, played by Jonathan Tierston.

Yeah, y'all didn't miss much with this one.

Alright, so to bitch the pot, this is the first sequel to be written and directed and produced by Robert Hiltzik, who wrote and directed the original.

Challenging, that bit of information.

Yeah,

future have another Sleepaway Camp sequel that we get to watch.

If Robert Hiltzik is as much of a doer as he proclaims his mother to be, maybe he will forsake this ridiculous law career he's chosen and get back to where he belongs.

Yeah, instead of sitting behind the prosecution desk or table, What would you call what that thing is? Those are like

desks and tables.

Put his two greatest interests together, Sleepaway Camp and the law.

Absolutely.

Now, like, I would love to have seen, or what I was watching is, yeah, okay, so Robert Hiltzik, writer, director of the first Sleepaway Camp.

He's back.

Because just watching it, there's all these queer and gay undertones throughout the movie.

And the director for this, his name is Robert Hiltzik.

And in interviews, he has said that the kind of like the same gender fathers at the beginning of this that are Angela's real parents.

And there's like conversations of like people calling each other queer or it's like a slur and some other stuff.

I don't know if they knew what they were doing or if it is just.

a crazy coincidence and they stumbled upon making a queer classic i really do not know but this is one of them it just is and and i really really enjoy it it's something that really speaks to me

yeah and so the the writer director for this robert hiltzik um kind of really interesting scenario of like somebody just kind of making a classic and then not doing anything else.

Really?

Friday the 13th, Sean Cunningham was 38.

So Sleepaway Camp, we had Robert Hiltzik, was 26 when it was released.

And then we had Camp Nowhere.

We had adult filmmakers.

The Parent Trap, Nancy Meyers was 48.

Wet Hot American Summer, David Wayne and Michael Showalter were in their early 30s.

So in reviewing this list I just went over, where the majority of this list were filmmakers in their 30s and 40s, with the exception of Robert Hiltzik being 26 and doing Sleepaway Camp.

That right there really makes Hell of a Summer distinct from the other camp movies before it.

Let's...

I'm going to look at Robert Hiltzik's IMDb.

Robert Hiltzik, he is...

Okay, okay.

Let's see.

Is that the

first franchise to kind of do that?

oh my god if it had its yeah we're in 2008 it was the first one to kind of be like you know what let's go back to yeah david gordon green um got the idea to go back to the original halloween based on robert hiltzik's choice um yeah the um so that's the next one um Oh, I did like that they mentioned Camp Arawak in part three.

We should leave camp and go back to camp and talk about Sleepaway Camp from 1983.

This one, of course, written and directed by Robert Hiltzik.

It stars Phyllisa Rose, Jonathan Tierston and Karen Fields.

The synopsis from IMDb reads bunks and showers are a mad stabbers beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.