There are great films and then there are magical films, glorious oddities that pop up sui generis out of nowhere. Sleepaway Camp falls squarely into the latter category.

Still the finest Sleepaway Camp, if only because of its memorable final shot.

Evokes a period in time before Ritalin and common sense.

Sometimes you can't judge a movie but its cinematic merits and instead judge it based on the pure amount of delight it delivers, in which case, Sleepaway Camp is a masterpiece of the summer-camp-slasher subgenre.