Sleepaway Camp w/ Zack Pearlman (HDTGM Matinee)

How Did This Get Made?

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, Paul, Jason, and June, welcome Zack Pearlman to discuss the 1983 film, Sleepaway Camp. The crew tries their hardest to figure out this movie, from the who's-who of it all to trying to make sense of the geography and economics of the camp, to Robert Earl Jones (father to James Earl Jones) appearance in this film. (Ep. #48 Originally Released 10/30/2012)

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0:00.0	Fake mustaches, short shorts, and underage sex.
0:03.9	It's not a porno.
0:05.2	We saw sleepaway camp, so you know what that means.
0:07.7	Now it's time for how did this campaign?
0:11.9	We're going to have a good time, celebrate some failure.
0:14.0	Not just be a hater because you know you wonder.
0:16.0	How did this campaign?
0:17.2	Let's walk win the mediocrity of subpar art.
1:11.9	Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question, how did this get made? Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to How Did This Get Made? I am joined as always by my two co-host, June, Diane Raphael. How are you, June? Good, how are you, Paul? Very good. And Jason Manzookas, how are you, Jason? I'm pretty good. How are you? Very good. It is Halloween week. This is our Halloween episode. A movie that you picked for us. We came to you. We asked you, what is their best Halloween movie? Everyone decidedly picked Sleepway Camp. And we have a very special guest today with us. Please welcome Zach Pearlman. Hey. Hey. Hey, Zach, you can see Zach on his MTV show. The Inbetweeners airs on Thursday nights. Monday nights. Monday nights. Monday night. The Thursday of the early week. Exactly. Should replay on Thursday nights. All right. I never heard of sleep waking. Same. Never heard of it. Yeah. I've never, I never knew it existed and and man now I am so happy this is crazy this is one of the most bizarre movies it
1:19.8	it kind of feels like the room at the top like you're kind of like oh it's bad acting
1:24.6	yeah not really well shot but this just so you know was a real deal film. It was? Yes, it was released. I just want to just send it up. I mean, I get that it's a real movie, but I mean, like, to me, I took it to be a real amateur production. Well, I will say this, that when it opened up, it was number one. it grossed a total of $433,000 on the opening weekend.
1:47.5	And it was, uh, it knocked out Amityville Horror and 3D.
1:51.1	Really?
1:51.5	Yeah.
1:51.7	So it made like $11 million at the end of the day before a movie that only cost $350,000
1:57.3	to make.
1:58.3	Okay, because that is shocking to me because this movie is horrible.
2:03.7	I mean, it is, that's why I thought.
2:05.9	I was like, oh, this is like a low budget movie that no one should ever see, like, you know, like Jack Frost.
2:11.0	He's killing and chilling.
2:12.3	No, no.
2:12.8	It looks like the camp itself had a class called Let's Make a Movie.
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