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  Review by Cliff ★★★½ 7

  The most disturbing image in this movie isn't the final shot, it's the fact that Meg seems genuinely into the idea of shagging that rancid old camp owner.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 6

  angela is like that’s me 🙋🏻‍♀️ i don’t have shit to say to anyone lol

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  Review by claire 👁️ diane ★★★★ 42

  Hoop-Tober #20

  I tear up every time Angela speaks for the first time. I love this movie. For all the reasons I love my favorite slashers. I love that it's half summer camp movie. I love the camper melodrama. I love the baseball game and that kid's Asia shirt. As a former "quiet kid," I find myself empathizing with Angela as she's constantly harassed. If only I had a killer stare like that as a kid.

  More stuff I love:

  1. When characters hang out and do 'not plot stuff' like play baseball for a solid 5+ minutes. I don't why, but I find this vaguely rebellious. It makes me giddy.

  2. Vague, deeply problematic, but potentially subversive and radical…

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  Review by marcos ★★★½ 1

  looking camp right in the eye

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  Review by adambolt ★★½

  i cannot fathom how shorts can be that short

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  Review by esther ★★★★★ 8

  too real...........

  impossible to begrudge anyone who says this movie is transphobic, of course. but god. i feel it, you know? shrinking away from people's touch and freezing at confrontation and feeling monstrous, just like a shrieking hissing nightmarish creature whose gaping mouth can swallow anyone whole. i dunno folks. even knowing the "twist" i was deeply shaken by the ending. this is all time stuff for me i think.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  90

  That scream. Forever an imprint on slasher and exploitation history. A goof, a catharsis, and a harrowing pain, seemingly all at once, for both Angela and the viewer. What begins as a singular body count film concludes as a cry for help, and a shock for the sake of its own themes. Troubling and unforgettable.

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  Review by Liz ★★★★★

  This is:

  1. the queerest
  2. the meanest
  3. the most perverted
  4. the best

  slasher.

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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★★★ 11

  I recently watched Final Exam and mentioned how very gay all of the subtext was, but damn I had forgotten about this camp slasher that is dripping with homoeroticismness, right? Not many horror movies feature guys wearing less clothing than girls, male nudity with no female nudity, and unambiguously gay characters that aren’t caricatures, but here we were in 1983 and Robert Hiltzik couldn’t give a f*ck about your genre expectations and I say well done to that.

  The kills are also pretty fantastic and even though some are only implied, they are still brutal af. I’ll never not be a tiny bit afraid of a hot curling iron again. Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten are great as the main campers and…

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  Review by Freyr ★★★★

  I don't think any character has ever made me as uneasy as Aunt Martha.

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  Review by brianna👻 ★★★★★ 1

  the man in the crop top and short shorts changed my life for the better

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  Review by robyn ★★★★★ 1

  that ending never fails to make me wanna shit my pants