The Good, the Bad and the Weird
Jul 22, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
Sumer may be coming to an end but children murder is still full of surprises in Sleepaway Camp! Join Nicho and Chris as they go to summer camp in this cult classic horror flick to see if it is still…
And if you haven't guessed it, we are s- partially wrapping up our end of children murder summer horror-
It, it was meant to just be-
... arc [laughs]
... summer horror and we accidentally picked all children death.
Yeah.
It's starring Felicia Rose as Angela, Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky, and Karen Fields as Judy, and follows an awkward girl's stay at a summer camp as her bullies be- begin to mysteriously die.
Oh, no.
How tragic.
[laughs]
Yeah, how tragic the bullies are the actual targets for once.
I mean, 1983, it's kind of the r- root of a lot of these sort of themes for a lot of people.
Sla- yeah, for...
Well, we'll get into some of the spoilers later on, but also, like, there's a bit where part of this got a little panned because by this point-
[laughs]
...
the slasher in the camp had been kind of played out with Friday the 13th.
And-
Yeah
... to, to be fair, initially there was a lot that feels very similar to it, but it r- quickly, it quickly deviates from that initial thought of like, "Okay, well, it's Friday the 13th, but with children."
Yeah.
No, there's, there's definitely enough that I think once you really watch the movie, it has elements of Friday the 13th, but in the same way that all movies in the same genre end up having elements, right? Like, it's a sleepaway camp, it's a camp horror.
And if you haven't guessed it, we are s- partially wrapping up our end of children murder summer horror-
It, it was meant to just be-
... arc [laughs]
... summer horror and we accidentally picked all children death.
Yeah.
It's starring Felicia Rose as Angela, Jonathan Tiersten as Ricky, and Karen Fields as Judy, and follows an awkward girl's stay at a summer camp as her bullies be- begin to mysteriously die.
Oh, no.
How tragic.
[laughs]
Yeah, how tragic the bullies are the actual targets for once.
I mean, 1983, it's kind of the r- root of a lot of these sort of themes for a lot of people.
Sla- yeah, for...
Well, we'll get into some of the spoilers later on, but also, like, there's a bit where part of this got a little panned because by this point-
[laughs]
...
the slasher in the camp had been kind of played out with Friday the 13th.
And-
Yeah
... to, to be fair, initially there was a lot that feels very similar to it, but it r- quickly, it quickly deviates from that initial thought of like, "Okay, well, it's Friday the 13th, but with children."
Yeah.
No, there's, there's definitely enough that I think once you really watch the movie, it has elements of Friday the 13th, but in the same way that all movies in the same genre end up having elements, right? Like, it's a sleepaway camp, it's a camp horror.
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