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Sleepaway Camp (1983) feat. Ten Backe

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Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

For the last entry in our Camp series, we're finally tackling Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp (1983). Along for the short shorts and Judy of it all is returning guest - and big fan of the film - Ten Backe. The big question is whether this film is homophobic and transphobic. Hiltzik doesn't have a lot of thoughts on the matter, but we, and many trans film critics, do. Is Sleepaway Camp worthy of praise and (re)appropriation by the queer community? Plus: comparisons to Friday the 13th, thoughts on Judy's curling iron death, Art the pedophile cook, and the need for short shorts and male nudity! References: -Ten Backe. "Is Sleepaway Camp Transphobic?" Phasr -BJ Colangelo. "Going Back to Sleepaway Camp: Revisiting The Problematic Classic." Dread Central -Harmony Colangelo. “The Transgender Defense of Angela Baker and ‘Sleepaway Camp.’” Medium -Alice Collins. “‘Sleepaway Camp’: The Elephant in the Room.” Bloody Disgusting Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote > Ten: @BlueIris04 / Linktr.ee Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.

0:10.6

The following show is just horrifying.

0:15.9

Beware. Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.

0:33.4

Your lemon squares taste like ass.

0:46.0

And welcome back to horror queers.

0:49.2

We're talking short shorts and crop tops for days.

0:51.8

We're talking more pedophilia.

0:58.0

And we're talking eat shit and live, Bill. And Ie and i'm trace and we're talking flat as a board and needs a screw oh boy judy judy judy judy judy judy i um oh man i i

1:08.0

quote unquote love judy but uh welcome everyone we are discussing sleepaway camp an episode

1:15.0

that has well been requested more times than i care to admit and um the the final entry in our camp

1:22.3

series both uh figuratively and literally there we go yes we're finally headed to camp for the final week of Cam.

1:30.2

And I'm excited.

1:31.4

You know, I feel like we've held this off for a number of years in part just because

1:35.0

every time we kind of consider doing it, somebody else was covered again.

1:38.4

And we thought, eh, we'll just wait a little while longer.

1:41.3

And I think also because we just didn't feel super passionately about it.

1:45.7

But yeah, I feel like there's been a turning of the tides in even just the last couple of years

1:50.6

around the dreaded discourse, Trace. And I think there's enough interesting things on the

1:57.9

playing field to now have a really good conversation about it.

2:01.6

I agree.

2:06.4

I mean, you know, whenever we hit one of these, like, seminal, you know, like a classic horror films, it's always kind of like, well, so many things have been said about said film.

2:10.8

What else can we say?

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