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Timeline[]
1975[]
In the summer of 1975, divorcee John Baker sails on a lake with his twin children Angela and Peternear a summer camp in upstate New York. John's lover, Lenny, calls to the Bakers after their sailboat flips over. As the family tries to right the boat, a pair of teenagers, Craig and Maryanne, pull a water skier, Dolores, in a motorboat. Craig and Maryanne switch places so she can drive the boat and they fail to notice the family up ahead. The motorboat runs them over, seemingly killing both John and Angela, as evidence from the torn and bloodied life vest that surfaced just after John's dead body drifts away. The surviving Peter as Angela is sent to live with her eccentric Aunt Martha and cousin Ricky.
1983[]
8 years later in 1983 after the boating accident, 14-year-old Angela and 15-year-old Ricky are sent to Camp Arawak by Martha, who reminds them not to tell anyone how they got the signatures for their physical exams. The buses arrive at the camp, and Artie, the creepy camp cook, practically drools over the underage campers while his assistant, Ben, laughs. Ricky introduces Angela to his best friend, Paul and he shows Angela around the camp since he has spent the last few summers there. Angela doesn't respond to Paul and remains silent as Ricky finished the tour and shows her to her bunk. Ricky tries to talk to Judy, his former girlfriend from last summer, but she hardly acknowledges him, instead interested in the older boys, including Mike and BillAngela is bullied due to her introverted nature and shyness, mainly by Judy and camp counselor Meg. Only Meg's friend and fellow counselor, Susie, shows her any kindness. Meg asks head counselor Ronnie Angelo to help her deal with Angela three days later at breakfast, since she hasn't eaten anything. Ronnie takes Angela into the kitchen to see if there is anything in there she likes. Left with the greasy head cook Artie, Angela is taken into a back room, where he intends to molest her. Before any harm can come to Angela, Ricky storms in while Artie unfastens his pants. Artie threatens them not to say anything, and the two flee from the kitchen. After the incident in the pantry, Artie is seriously injured when he is knocked off a chair by an unseen figure while tending to a large pot of boiling water which spills on his face and hands. Artie's injuries are deemed accidental by camp owner Mel Kostic, who pays off Ben and the rest of his kitchen staff to keep the event quiet and tell anyone who asks that Artie left for another job. Some time later, Ricky and Paul pull a prank on geek Mozart and are rounded up their counselor, Gene, to play baseball with the older boys, including Kenny, Mike, and Billy. Ricky's cabin wins the heated game, leaving the older boys fuming. That night at a dance in the recreation cabin, Angela is accosted by Kenny and Mike. They mock her for being weird and silent, prompting Ricky and Paul to fight with the boys. Gene breaks up the brawl and sends Ricky and the rest of the boys involved in the fight back to their cabins. Paul stays behind and befriends Angela by telling her about misadventures he and Ricky got into previous years, prompting Angela to show a look of genuine interest and eventually smile. Angela doesn't respond however until Paul starts to leave, when she speaks for the first time, telling him "good night." The older boys and girls meet up at the lake after the social. Kenny convinces Leslie to row with him, and he overturns the boat. Leslie furiously swims away as Kenny, underneath the overturned boat, is attacked and pushed underwater by someone. In the morning, Hal the lifeguard finds Kenny's decomposing body. Mel deems this an accident, despite suspicion from Ronnie, and police officer Frank Breton. Later that day, Paul talks with Angela while she sits out of a volleyball game, much to the irritation of Judy. Meg tells Angela that she either must participate or do nothing, which includes talking with boys. That evening, Paul and Angela go to the rec. room to watch a movie. Afterwards, they leave hand in hand as a sign of their growing attraction. Paul attempts to kiss Angela when they're alone but she reacts badly and walks back to her cabin. The next day at the lake, Paul sits beside Angela but leaves when Meg arrives. Meg asks Angela if she is going to swim but Angela doesn't respond. Meg angrily shakes the silent girl until Ronnie pulls her away and tells her to leave Angela alone. In the girls' cabin, Judy approaches Angela and is angry thinking that she got Meg in trouble. Then Judy begins mocking Angela again and asks her why she will not shower or go swimming, or change clothes with the other girls. Angela refuses to answer Judy, who grows so out of control that Susie slaps her. Angela leaves the stunned girls to visit Ricky. On her way, she is hit with a water balloon by Billy and his friends from the roof of their cabin. Ricky screams at the boys and threatens them. Mel reprimands the boys on the roof and grounds Ricky for his foul mouth. Some time later, while his friends go off to play baseball, Billy stays behind in the cabin and goes into the restroom. Someone locks him in the toilet stall, then cuts the screen behind Billy and shakes a hive full of bees into the room. Billy breaks out of the stall, but is stung to death, with insects swarming his face. Mel learns about Billy's death and confers with Ronnie, who informs him that most of the parents have yanked their kids out of camp. Mel thinks his business is ruined and grows paranoid, suspecting that Ricky is the killer due to his threat and that the kids killed have bullied him. That night Paul tries to make out with Angela on the beach, which triggers a flashback to her youth when she and her twin witnessed their father in bed with Lenny. Confused and angered by Angela's rejection of his advances, Paul is easily seduced by Judy, who lures him away from a game of capture the flag the next day. The two are found kissing by Angela and Ricky. Guilty about what happened between him and Judy, Paul attempts to explain himself to Angela while on the beach, but this time she does not want to talk to him. As Paul tries talking to Angela, he is shooed away by Judy and Meg. The pair mock Angela and throw Angela into the water. Ricky, who has been detained by Mel, rushes to Angela's side as Hal the lifeguard pulls her out of the water. On the way back to the beach, several of the youngest children laugh and throw sand at Angela, adding insult to injury. That night Ronnie gives the counselors their duties for the evening. He sends Eddie out with the youngest campers for an overnight camping trip, and gives Meg the night off. Meg takes the opportunity to set up a date with Mel. There's a line for the shower in her cabin, so she goes to one of the empty ones to prepare. There, she is stabbed in the back in the shower. Meg's disappearance goes largely unnoticed and camp activities go on as usual with a social in the rec. hall and Eddie taking the kids out into the woods. Outside the rec. hall, Paul approaches Angela and again tries to apologize for kissing Judy. Angela tells Paul to meet her later at the waterfront after the social. Two of the young campers complain so much that Eddie takes them back, leaving four others sleeping. When Eddie comes back, he finds that they've been hatcheted to death. Meanwhile, Mike and Judy make out in her cabin while everyone else is as the social. Mel stops in looking for Meg, and Judy directs him to the empty cabin. After Mel leaves, Mike decides that he'd better leave so he won't get caught. Mel finds Meg's dead body in the shower stall and thinks that Ricky killed her to get back at her. The killer enters Judy's cabin and punches her out. The murderer shoves a pillow over her face and forces a curling iron inside her vagina, burning her while suffocating her to death. Ricky, who missed the social because of a stomachache, is attacked in the woods by Mel and is beaten savagely. After beating Ricky seemingly to death, Mel stumbles into the camp archery range, where he is shocked to discover the real killer (face not seen) and is shot in the throat with an arrow. The camp is thrown into a panic when Eddie calls Ronnie and informs him of the four murdered children. Ronnie calls the police and then tells Marie to gather the other counselors. As the counselors and the police scour the camp, Angela meets Paul on the beach, where she tells him to undress, which Paul enthusiastically agrees to do. Marie finds Judy's body while officer Frank and Gene find Ricky, who is still barely alive. Gene carries the badly beaten Ricky away to await an ambulance as Frank radios for backup. Ronnie and Susie search for the few teenagers who aren't accounted for. They find Angela nude on the beach, softly singing to herself and clutching a large knife and Paul's severed head in her hands. Angela is revealed to be both the killer and a boy: the thought-to-be-dead Peter. Through flashbacks it is shown that after Martha gained custody of him, and she decided to raise Peter as a girl, already having a son and coming to the conclusion that another boy "simply would not do." The film ends with the nude, blood-covered "Angela" stands up in front of a shocked Susie and Ronnie who discover that "Angela" is a killer, and lets out an animalistic hissing sound.
1988[]
One night at Camp Rolling Hills, head counselor TC., a group of boys and Phoebe enjoy a campfire and tell each other scary stories deep in the woods. Phoebe tells them the story about the killings at Camp Arawak five years before. Her counselor, Angela Johnson, finds her and orders her to go back to her cabin. After they leave, a boy named Sean reveals that it was his father who arrested her at Camp Arawak and Baker is now a female. As Phoebe and Angela argue about sneaking away from the cabin, Angela tells her to go home. Phoebe, distressed, runs off into the woods. Phoebe, now lost, calls back for Angela, who appears behind her and hits her in the head with a log. Angela then cuts out Phoebe's tongue for telling the group about Angela Baker, even though no one knows her true identity. The next day, Angela's group of girls wonder about Phoebe's whereabouts. Angela tells them that she sent her home. Meanwhile outside, Charlie and Emilio take pictures of the girls changing before everyone meets in the mess hall for breakfast, where Camp owner Uncle John gives Angela the counselor of the week award. She calls shy Molly Nagle and popular Ally Burgess up on stage to sing with her. Angela ignores T.C., who tries to talk to her about sending Phoebe home and finds the Schote sisters smoking weed and mocking the camp in the woods. Since it's her day off, Angela leaves them be but they are in her sights. The next morning after breakfast, Angela finds the Schote sisters again in the woods but this time they're having sex with one of the boys named Matt. Angela sends Matt off and burns the sisters alive. She claims that she sent them home for their bad behavior. That night, the boys throw a panty raid in the girls' cabin until Angela comes in, throwing them out. After Angela leaves for a counselor meeting, the girls get back at the boys by raiding their cabin. Angela walks in as Mare flashes her breasts, something she'd been warned about before. Angela drives Mare away from camp and gives her a choice to be good and stay but Mare is so upset that she'd rather just leave, so Angela murders her with a power drill. The next day, Angela finds Charlie and Emilio looking at naked pictures which gives themself trouble, including one of herself. She wants to send them home as well but T.C. overrides her. That night, Angela and her girls have a sleep out in the woods. Anthony and Judd dress up like Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees to scare her. However, the plan backfires when Angela, dressed as Leatherface, slashes Anthony's throat with his own "Freddy Krueger" razor knives fingers glove and chainsaws Judd through the skull. Ally fools around with Rob Darrinco in an outhouse, so Angela breaks up their fun and considers killing Ally but her chainsaw is out of gas. Ally continues to berate Molly the next day, which pushes Angela over the edge. She tricks Ally into meeting her out in the woods by an abandoned shack and Angela stabs Ally's back with a knife. Angela hits her with a log, shoves her into an outhouse and pushes her inside the hole, which is full of feces, urine and leeches, drowning her. At the recreation hall, Rob tells Molly and Sean that he's worried about Angela Baker and Sean tells Rob that he was supposed to go to Camp Arawak the year of the massacre but says that his dad couldn't afford it. Demi returns to her cabin and tells Angela that she's called the various houses of the girls supposedly sent home and none of the families no anything about it. Realizing how close Demi is to figuring it out, Angela garrotes Demi's neck to death with a part of guitar string. Suddenly, Angela is pranked by Charlie and Emilio with a bucket of water to make her wet, Lea comes in and Angela stabs her to death since she's a tattle-tale. Molly comes back to the cabin to find she's the only girl left. Later that night Angela has a nightmare. Uncle John and T.C. fire Angela the next day for sending so many campers home without going through them. Molly wants to cheer Angela up before she leaves the camp, so she and Sean go to the abandonded cabin to see her. When they find her hiding place, they discover the dead bodies of everyone she's murdered. Angela suddenly appears behind them, knocks Sean out and ties the duo up. Back at camp, Rob informs T.C. about Molly and Sean's disappearances. T.C. storms off to confront Angela. He finds the cabin and enters it and is greeted by Angela, who pours battery acid on his face, hideously mutilating and killing him. Sean then realizes that Angela is Peter Baker, the fourteen-year-old transsexual killer from Camp Arawak. Angela reveals that after two years of electroshock therapy and a sex change, she was released for such great behavior. Angela then cuts Sean's head off with Judd's machete. Angela leaves to take care of more campers. When she comes back with Matt's body, Molly, escapes from her bonds and attacks Angela with a log. Angela chases after her and after a struggle, Molly pulls the knife out of Angela's pocket and threatens to stab Angela if she tries to come near her. Molly is backed over a ledge and Angela sadly leaves her for dead. That night, counselor Diane finds Charlie and Emilio pinned up against a cabin wall with their necks slashed open and their eyes gouged out. Diane runs to Uncle John's office and she finds him with his throat slashed and his hand severed. Diane bumps into Rob, who is hanging from the wall with a gag in his mouth and a machete in his chest. Angela appears behind her and stabs her in the stomach. Meanwhile, Molly regains consciousness and limps out of the woods. Angela hitchhikes away from camp and is picked up by a foul-mouthed truck driver. Angela grows so irritated that she murders the trucker. Molly makes it to the main road and flags down the first vehicle she sees. Relieved to be rescued, Molly approaches the truck. She screams in terror as Angela merrily greets her from the driver's seat.
1989[]
Maria Nicastro wakes up in New York City and heads off to camp. She is chased into an alleyway on her way to the bus station and run over by a garbage truck driven by serial killer Angela Baker. Angela is dressed like Maria and has cut her hair to match. Equipped with a fake ID, Angela assumes Maria's identity and takes her place on a bus headed to Camp New Horizons, a camp where several youths from both upper and lower class areas are to live and work together in "an experiment in sharing."
Arriving at the camp, Angela and her companions meet camp owners Lilly and Herman Miranda and TV reporter Tawny Richards, who interviews the campers one by one for a local news segment. Tawny is sure to mention that Camp New Horizons was once Camp Rolling Hills, where Angela Baker massacred campers counselors, owner, and a citizen just one year before. Lilly tries to keep everything quiet and ushers the kids inside. Before she leaves, Tawny asks Angela if she can get her some cocaine. Angela sneaks into a storage closet in the main cabin and puts some Comet cleanser in some plastic wrap. She gives it to Tawny, who snorts it on her drive home and immediately dies from the poison.
Once the campers are seated, Lilly and Herman reveal they will be split up into three groups and will be camping in the woods for three days. Their third counselor, Officer Barney Whitmore, arrives and Angela realizes him as the man who arrested her at Camp Arawak and the father of Sean Whitmore, one of her Camp Rolling Hills victims. After Barney breaks up a fight between Riff and Tony DeHerrara, the campers change and are put into their groups. Angela heads out to camp with Herman, Peter Doyle, Jan Hernandez and Snowboy. While fishing, Angela grows irritated by Peter constantly setting off firecrackers and returns to Herman's campsite, where she finds the counselor and Jan having sex. Herman attempts to explain the situation, but Angela beats him with a log before impaling him through the mouth and bashing Jan's head in. Angela hides the bodies and tries to finish the night with Peter and Snowboy, but they continue to irritate her. During the night, Angela kills Peter by blowing his face off with one of his own firecrackers and beats Snowboy almost-unconsciousness with a log before burning him alive. She disposes of the bodies in a big campfire.
The next morning, Angela travels to Lilly's camp, telling her that Herman told her to switch with someone.She escorts Arab into the woods and decapitates her with an axe. During a trust exercise organized by Lilly, Angela kills Cindy Hammersmith by raising her up a flagpole and dropping her from the extreme height, having grown tired of the girl's whiny and bigoted behavior. Angela explains away Cindy's absence by saying she was sick and went back to the cabin to lay down. During another trust game, Angela is tied to Bobby Stark, who she tells to meet her at the main cabin later on, claiming she will take care of Lilly. Upon returning to the camp, Angela convinces Lilly to go to the main camp, where she knocks the woman into a hole filled with garbage and buries her up to her neck. She kills her by running over her head with a lawnmower. Later that night, Angela kills Bobby by tying him to a tree and tearing his arms off with the Miranda's jeep. Angela finishes this group by pinning Riff to the ground with tent spikes.
The next morning, Angela approaches Barney's camp and again claims that Herman told her to switch with another camper, in this case Marcia Holland. Barney insists on escorting the two to Herman's camp and Angela sprains her ankle on the trek. They take her to the main cabin to treat her wound and Barney surmises that she lied about having to exchange with another camper. As Angela tells them about how she hated being with Herman and Lilly, due to the former’s pervertedness and unfaithfullness and the latter's laziness, bossiness, and greed, she tells Marcia and Barney that Lilly is just outside. Marcia finds Lilly's decapitated body propped up in a chair and screams. Barney investigates as Angela tells Marcia she reminds her of her old friend Molly Nagle. Barney orders Marcia to flee and confronts Angela, who admits her true identity to him. They share a tense moment, then Angela shoots him with Riff's stolen gun. With Barney dead, Angela chases and captures Marcia in the Miranda's jeep.
That night, Angela meets Tony, Greg Nakashima and Anita Burcham at Barney's camp, telling them that Barney and Marcia told her to bring them to the main cabin. Upon reaching the main camp, Angela ties the three campers together under the pretense of playing a trust game, before revealing that she has murdered Barney and that they have two minutes to find Marcia, who is hidden in one of three cabins. After frantically searching the cabins, the group finds Marcia in the third, where Greg and Anita are killed when they spring a trap. Angela congratulates Tony on finding Marcia, wishes them well and tells them that there is a payphone three miles away that they can use to call for help.
As she enters the Miranda's jeep, Angela is attacked by an axe-wielding Marcia. They struggle on the ground and Marcia gains the upper hand, repeatedly stabbing Angela's stomach until Tony stops her. Later, while Angela is loaded into an ambulance, Tony shares with Marcia his idea to move to Ohio to be with her and she admits that she already had a boyfriend.
In the ambulance, an attending paramedic and police officer discover Angela is still alive and contemplate killing her for all she has done. Before the two men can act on their plan, Angela wakes up and stabs them both to death with a syringe. When the driver asks what's going on back there, Angela replies, "Just taking care of business."
1993[]
In 1993, four years after Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, Allison Kramer (Carrie Chambers), is plagued by gruesome nightmares that revisit a campsite. Unable to recall the actual occurrences due to a forced mental block, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist in overcoming her insomnia.
After numerous visits and hypnosis, Allison's psychiatrist tells her that she is seemingly a survivor of the original Sleepaway Camp. Her disbelief of the whole situation inclines the psychiatrist to advise her to return to the site for an afternoon, in hopes that if she were to see the scene of the crime, she would remember and overcome them.
Doubtful, Allison sets out for the camp she attended but never remembered. When she reaches her destination she finds the camp closed and abandoned, the land now Federal Property. She reminisces about the events that occurred in the original trilogy. Allison narrates over many of these scenes. Archive footage from the first three films are organized into themes, such as Angela being afraid of water. Allison looks for a ranger, Jack (John Lodicos), that her psychologist, Dr. Lewis, told her to meet up with. The ranger tries to have sex with her, but Allison decides things are going too far and runs away. The ranger chases her through the woods. Allison stops as she can run no longer. She is found by a hunter, Eugene (Victor Campos), who almost shoots her out of fear. Later on, she approaches the ranger with the hunter's gun and threatens to kill him if he doesn't stay away from her. She then returns to the hunter and shoots him. In the next scene, Allison is standing in the sun with a knife, which the sun is reflecting off of. The ranger approaches her, but she whirls around and the film freezes as she holds the knife near him. It then cuts to a cabin, where the hunter's and the ranger's decaying bodies can be seen. There is an error when the hunter's corpse looks like TC's but its not TC's. The credits then roll over the image.
It is then revealed (as implied in the opening crawl) that "Allison" is actually an amnesiac Angela Baker, the killer from the three previous films, being "a woman without identity," due to having been knocked out by an ambulance driver after the events of the third film, and asking "But who is Allison, really?", in addition to her having had flashbacks of certain scenes throughout the original trilogy that only Angela was present for or survived through, realising her identity upon rediscovering all of her memories at the film's climax, before returning to the psychiatric clinic.
2003[]
In 2003, one night at Camp Manabe, a cabin of boys amuse themselves by lighting farts. Alan emerges from the bathroom and takes the lighter. He stains his underpants and. Embarassed, he threatens Eddie, Mark, Billy and Pee Pee, but is stopped by their counselor, Randy.
The next day at dinner, Alan argues with Randy about the camp food. The head counselor, Ronnie Angelo, intervenes and allows Alan to go into the kitchen and find sometihng he'll like better. On the way, he argues with Bella. Camp owner Frank Kostik introduces the kids to Sheriff Jerry, an anti-smoking speaker. While in the kitchen, Alan has a noisy altercation with the assistant chef, Mickey that disrupts Frank and the sheriff. Frank, Ronnie, and the sheriff storm into the kitchen just as Alan throws a butcher knife at Mickey. Frank scolds the angry boy, and Alan runs away. Frank orders Alan's step-brother, Michael, to bring him back. Michael finds Alan at the secluded spot in the woods he often goes to. He claims the frogs are his only friends, and that they don't care that he was sick once, alluding to rheumatic fever that may have given him permanent brain damage. Michael tries to bring him back, but Alan refuses and threatens Michael with a knife. Michael washes his hands of his step-brother and returns to the camp alone.
Later that night, Mickey prepares dinner for himself alone in the kitchen. Someone clad in black bursts in and murders him by forcing his head inside the deep fryer. The killer disposes of his body in the trash compactor outside. Meanwhile, Ronnie and head chef Charlie complain to Frank about Mickey, who tells them to fire him if he shows up again. Frank ignores Ronnie's demands they take care of the rat situation, preoccupied with his prized bird, Matilda.
At the social that night, Alan manages to corner popular girl Karen alone when the leader of the older boys, T.C.abandons her. He gets in an alteration with Bella, and is sent home by Frank. On his way out, he is fooled by Weed and Stan into smoking dried cow manure. Mistaking it for marijuana, he tries to fit in and acts as if he's getting high. While he coughs, he falls to his knees and hugs Stan. T.C. remarks that it looks like he's giving Stan a blowjob, so the boys nickname Alan 'Blowjob.' Sympathetic counselor Petey breaks it up and escorts Alan back to his bunk, threatening to tell Ronnie what the boys were doing.
Late at night, Weed and Stan smoke pot with two girls by the lake. Stan and the girls head inside while Weed passes out. The black-clad killer ties Weed to his chair and squirts gas down his throat. The killer sticks a cigarette in his mouth and lights it, blowing him up.
The next morning, Frank and Ronnie meet with Sheriff Jerry to discuss Weed's death. It looks like it could be an accident, which Frank is hellbent on, but Ronnie suspects there is a connection to the Camp Arawak murders from twenty years ago. Frank ignores this to avoid bad publicity, but the sheriff decides to investigate further. Jerry travels nearby to a quarry, but Angela Baker's cousin, Ricky Thomas, works. He questions Ricky, who informs him Angela can't be the killer because she's locked in a mental institute.
The camp continues on with its normal activities. Alan interrupts the girls playing croquet and convinces Karen to meet him later at his secret spot. Alan tries to join in a group game of paintball in the woods, but it turns out to be a trick so Michael and his friends can all gang up on him. Karen and Marie eventually meet up with the distraught Alan at his secret spot, but the moment is ruined when they spot several skinned frogs. They believe Alan is a psycho and flee. Alan discovers Michael and his friend are behind it. Alan chases after Karen, but is intercepted by T.C. and his cronies. At Randy's urging, T.C. gives Alan a massive wedgie in front of everyone at the waterfront. Petey runs in and rescues him from the others when Ronnie comes on the scene.
At some point, Michael, T.C. and Marie peer pressure Karen into helping them prank Alan during a social. Frank discovers that Matilda has learned Alan's catchphrase, "Your ass stinks," and kicks him out of the social after another alteration with Bella. Karen meets Alan outside and lures him backstage. T.C. and his friends ambush Alan in the dark and take his clothes up. They bind his arms, blindfold him, and push him out in front of the entire camp in only his underwear. The kids laugh at him until Petey rushes on stage and comes to his aide. Ronnie is furious and orders Randy to get to the bottom of the situation, even though it's his night off.
Petey clothes Alan and brings him to Ronnie's shack. Growing more paranoid, Ronnie believes that Petey is Angela Baker because she's always there to save Alan. He confronts her in a rage, but is interrupted by Sheriff Jerry and Frank, who orders Petey to back to her bunk. A group of boys start chanting, "Blowjob" outside. Alan is driven mad and flees into the night. Ronnie tries finding him while Frank grounds the boys.
After returning to his office, Frank is knocked unconscious with a hammer and wakes up with his head stuck in his birdcage. The killer opens the birdcage, places two angry rats inside and locks it. The rats eat through Frank's head and exit via his intestines.
Randy and Linda go to the pump house to have sex. While Randy is urinating in the woods, the killer ties him to a tree and wraps a fishing line noose around his penis. Linda is frightened and drives the jeep away, unaware that the fishing line is tied to the vehicle. The line runs out and tears Randy's penis off. Linda drives through a string of barbed wire placed on the road, crashing the vehicle and wrapping her face in the dangerous material. Both are left to bleed to death.
T.C. looks at a porn magazine alone in his cabin since he was grounded. Spaz returns from a panty raid and witnesses a wooden spear coming through the floor and impaling T.C. in the eye. Soon afterward, Bella is crushed to death by a spiked bunkbed in her cabin.
Ronnie and Jenny find Frank's body in his office and realize there is a murderer on the loose. T.C.'s corpse is found as well, sending the kids in a chaotic frenzy. Karen finds Bella's crushed body and believes Alan is responsible and that she's next, so she flees into the woods.
Ronnie and Jenny round up the counselors to protect their charges. Sheriff Jerry arrives, as well as Ricky Thomas, claiming the sheriff called him, but Jerry denies it. Michael learns about the killings and runs from the counselors to find Karen.
Karen stumbles into the killer in the woods and faints. She wakes up at the Rec. Hall with a rope hanging from a basketball hoop tied around her neck. The killer flips a switch to raise the net, causing Karen to lift off the ground. Michael comes in before Karen hangs to death. The Sheriff arrives and lowers the net. Michael is enraged, grabs a mallet, and vows to take care of Alan once and for all. He finds his step-brother with the frogs and savagely beats him, until the killer appears behind Michael.
Ronnie, Ricky, and Jenny find the badly wounded Alan on the ground. As Ronnie tries to get information out of Alan, Sheriff Jerry comes up behind Ronnie and Ricky, explaining that he's been waiting a long time for this. They discover Michael nearby: he's been skinned alive. Jenny flees in fright. Jerry removes his hat, glasses, and stage make-up, revealing himself to be the escaped Angela Baker in disguise. She laughs maniacally until she stops and looks directly at the camera with a vicious blank expression before the screen blacks out.
A flashback shows Angela weeks earlier, after she's escaped from the mental institute upstate. She fakes car problems and flags down Sheriff Pete. She acts frantically and tricks him into looking under the car, enabling her to drop the vehicle down on his head, explaining how she became Sheriff Jerry.
Chronology[]
The following is a chronology of the events of the franchise.
Citation Key[]
- SC refers to the film Sleepaway Camp.
- UC refers to the film Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers.
- TW refers to the film Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland.
- RTSC refers to the film Return to Sleepaway Camp.
- TSOTNV refers to the story The Story of the Nightmare Vacation.
1960s[]
1968: Dr. Martha Thomas gives birth to Ricky Thomas. [SC: Ricky is a year older than Angela]
1969: John Baker’s twin children, Peter and Angela Baker born. [UC: Angela is stated to be fourteen during the Camp Arawak murder spree]
1970s[]
July 28, 1972: Maria Nicastro born. [TW: driver’s license]
July 2, 1975: Baker family accident on Lake Algonquin. John is dead by the time paramedics arrive, but the twins are taken to a hospital. Angela does not live; Peter survives with a head wound. [RTSC: date given in newspaper clippings]
Early July, 1975: Martha, John's divorced sister, takes Peter in. She dresses him as his dead twin sister and calls him Angela. [SC: Peter's head is still bandaged from the accident]
1978: Barney Whitmore’s wife divorces him and moves to San Diego to marry a foot doctor. [UC: Sean says he was 7 at the time, he is 17 in 1988]
1980s[]
Summer 1980: Martha sends Ricky to Camp Arawak, where he befriends Paul. [SC: dialogue indicates they’ve been friends for three years]
Summer 1981: Ricky and Paul spend another summer at Camp Arawak. [SC: dialogue]
Summer 1982: Ricky and Paul spend their third summer at Camp Arawak together and hang the girl’s panties on the flagpole, for which they were punished. Ricky has a summer fling with Judy. [SC: dialogue]
Early Summer 1983: Barney Whitmore can’t afford to send his son, Sean, to Camp Arawak. [UC: Sean mentions his close call with the first murder spree]
Mid August 16, 1983: Martha Thomas sends Ricky and Angela to Camp Arawak for the summer. Camp chef Artie lewdly watches the kids arrive while owner Mel Kostic and head counselor Ronnie Angelo keep order. Ricky introduces Angela to Paul, and is scorned by Judy, now interested in older boys. Angela is placed in a cabin run by Meg, who favors Judy and mocks Angela. Only counselor Susie shows her kindness. Angela refuses to eat or speak to anyone besides her cousin.
August 17, 1983: During breakfast three days later, Ronnie brings Angela into the kitchen to find something she will eat. He leaves her with Artie, who brings her into the pantry and starts to take his pants off. Ricky storms in and saves her from being molested. Shortly before dinner, Angela returns to the kitchen and boils Artie. Paramedics arrive and Mel bribes the cooking staff to lie about what happened to him.
Sometime later, Ricky and Paul’s cabin plays the older guys in baseball. The younger guys win the heated game, leaving Billy, Kenny, and Mike pissed off.
[SC: Kenny mentions watching Angela ‘all week’ during the mixer, meaning camp starts in the middle of the month. RTSC: newspaper clippings place finale]
August 20, 1983: Mixer in the rec hall. Kenny and Mike pick on Angela and fight with Ricky and Paul. Paul starts talking to Angela and she responds for the first time. After the mixer, Billy corals a group into skinny-dipping while Kenny and Mike get high. Kenny tricks Leslie into canoeing with him and he tips it over. Angela swims out and drowns Kenny. [SC: occurs four days before the climax]
August 21, 1983: Lifeguard Hal finds Kenny’s body. Officer Frank Breton arrives and questions Mel and Ronnie. Judy complains that Angela doesn’t play volleyball with the rest of them. After seeing a movie in the rec. hall, Paul kisses Angela goodnight. [SC: occurs three days before climax]
August 22, 1983: Paul and Angela continue flirting with each other, and Meg yells at her during a swim session. Judy goes on a tirade against Angela and is slapped for it by Suzie. Angela goes to visit Ricky, but Billy and his comrades throw water balloons at her on the way. After dinner, Angela traps Billy in a bathroom stall with bees; he is stung to death. Parents start to pull their kids from the camp. [SC: occurs two days before the climax]
August 23, 1983: Parents continue to pull their kids out of Camp Arawak, leaving only twenty-five remaining. That night Mel, growing increasingly paranoid, confers with Ronnie and they plan how to continue the rest of the summer. Angela meets Paul on the beach and she remembers spying on her father and his lover when she was younger. [SC: occurs a day before the climax]
August 24, 1983: Remaining campers play Capture the Flag; Paul kisses Judy. He apologizes on the beach to Angela, and she is thrown into the lake by Meg. When Ricky and Hal help Angela out, six of the youngest campers throw sand on her and Ricky. Meg is given the night off and asks Mel on a date at 9:30 pm. While she prepares for it, Angela stabs and slices her in the back in the shower and then returns to the social, where she makes plans to meet Paul later at the waterfront. She goes into the woods and murders four of the sleeping young campers who threw sand at her and Ricky. Next, Angela kills Judy in their cabin. Mel discovers Meg’s body and severely beats Ricky, believing him to be the murderer. Angela spots this and shoots an arrow through Mel’s neck. Ronnie gathers the counselors with the help of Officer Breton and search for the missing campers. Ronnie and Susie discover Angela holding Paul’s decapitated head on the beach, and learn that not only she is the killer, but really a boy (which is actually Peter, Angela's twin brother who survived in the boat accident, resulting in a head injury). Officer Whitmore arrests Angela. [SC: climax occurs the day before the camp is closed. UC: Sean mentions his dad arrested Angela. Presumably Officer Breton called for back-up once he established there was a murderer on the loose]
August 25, 1983: Camp Arawak closes. Martha Thomas refuses to speak with officers during the following investigation of the murder spree; she stares at them blankly when they question her. [RTSC: newspaper clippings]
August 28, 1983: Arawak victim to undergo life saving surgery. (This is most likely Ricky after his near death beating from Mel.) [RTSC: newspaper clippings]
Late 1983 to October 1984: A media frenzy surrounds Peter Baker. He justifies his actions by stating he only killed bad people. He is nicknamed “The Angel of Death.” [UC: Sean fills in details of interim years]
October 24, 1984: Glen Falls Gazette reports Peter Baker sentenced to maximum security mental facility after a tense trial. Note: several newspaper articles erroroneously refer to Peter’s surname as Thomas, even though the series clearly establishes that he kept his father’s last name while living with his aunt. This may be explained by the authorities keeping his identity a secret because he was a minor and it was leaking that the culprit was related to Martha and Ricky Thomas. [RTSC: newspaper clippings]
Late 1984 to 1985: Peter is given shock therapy and several different medications. [UC: dialogue]
1985: Peter undergoes a sex-change operation and legally becomes Angela Baker. [UC: dialogue]
1985 to 1989: Angela appears to be a success to her doctors and the clergy. [UC: dialogue]
August 9, 1988: Ricky brawls with a fat man outside of a bar. [RTSC: newspaper clipping]
August 14, 1988: Ricky is charged with the assault. [RTSC: newspaper clippings]
Early summer 1988: With great recommendations from clergy and psychiatrists, Angela gets a job as a counselor at Camp Rolling Hills, run by Uncle John. [UC: dialogue]
Summer 1988: At Camp Rolling Hills, Angela murders Phoebe for fraternizing with the boys and telling them the story about the Camp Arawak massacre.
The next day, Angela claims she sent Phoebe home and she is made Counselor of the Week. After breakfast, Angela spots the Shote Sisters drinking and drugging in the woods, but it is her day off.
The following morning, Angela finds the Shote Sisters fornicating in the woods. She burns them alive and claims she sent them home. One of the younger girls is homesick and demands to be sent home. Angela obliges, giving her credibility Uncle John. After lights out, Angela stops a panty raid. When the girls retaliate against the boys, Mare flashes her breasts. Angela sends her home, and on the drive out murders her with an electric drill.
The next night, Angela brings her remaining girls out camping. Judd and Anthony try scaring her, but she gets the jump on them and kills them both.
The next day, Angela tricks Ally Burgess deep into the woods and drowns her in an outhouse. Back in her cabin, Demi confides that she’s worried about the girls sent home, so Angela strangles her. Before the body can be disposed of, Lea returns to the bunk. Angela stabs her to avoid Lea telling what she saw, leaving only Molly Nagle left in Angela's cabin.
The next morning, Uncle John fires Angela. Molly and Sean follow her to the abandoned cabin where they find the bodies of their friends. Angela murders T.C. when he storms into the cabin to confront her. After Sean figures out who Angela really is, she beheads him. Molly escapes and Angela chases her over a ravine. Back at camp, Diane finds the bodies of Charlie, Emilio, Uncle John, and Rob Darrinco. Angela pops up and stabs her to death. Angela hitches a ride with a foul-mouthed trucker, whom she kills. Molly awakes, stumbles into the road, and flags down a truck, which turns out to be driven by Angela. [UC: occurs five years after Camp Arawak murder spree]
Summer 1988 to July 1989: Camp Rolling Hills closes. Angela escapes the authorities. Camp Rolling Hills is sold to Herman and Lilly Miranda, who work on turning it into Camp New Horizons, an experimental retreat for underprivileged and wealthy teenagers to share and learn together. [TW: dialogue]
1989: Alan born.
July 14, 1989: Angela murders Maria Nicastro and poses as the troubled teenager to attend Camp New Horizons, where Barney Whitmore is serves as the third counselor. Angela gives news reporter Tawny Richards cleaning supplies to snort, and then goes into the woods with Herman's group. She kills Herman, Jan Hernandez, Peter Doyle, and Snowboy. [TW: occurs one year after UC; precise date mentioned in dialogue - Saturday the fifteenth]
July 15, 1989: Angela infiltrates Lilly's group and murders Arab, Cindy Hammersmith, Lilly, Bobby Stark, and Riff. [TW: occures one day after the 15]
July 16, 1989: Angela tries to join Barney’s group, but he discovers who she really is. She kills him and forces the remaining campers to play a game in which Anita Burcham and Greg Nakashima are killed. Angela tries to leave, letting Marcia and Tony live, but Marcia is enraged and attacks Angela. Angela loses quite a bit of blood and is taken away in an ambulance, where she murders a paramedic and police officer who plot to kill her. Camp New Horizons closes. [TW: occurs two days after the 15]
1990s[]
Mid October 1993: Events of Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor. [TS: Dr. Lewis' notes]
May 9, 1995: Ronnie Angelo partners with Frank Kostik at Camp Manabe. [RTSC: newspaper clippings]
2000s[]
Summer 2003: Angela Baker murders Sheriff Pete. One night shortly after, Camp Manabe, troubled teenager Alan finds his bunkmates lighting farts and bosses them around, until he's bullied by his counselor, Randy.
The next evening at dinner, Alan has an alteration with Randy while Sheriff Jerry gives the kids an anti-drug speech. Ronnie chastises Randy and sends Alan into the kitchen to find something better to eat. Alone with Mickey in the kitchen, Alan gets into a loud fight, which is witnessed by Frank, Ronnie, and Sheriff Jerry. Alan's step-brother, Michael, tries to bring Alan back to camp when he runs off, and then washes his hands of him. After everyone leaves Mickey alone in the kitchen, he is murdered and disposed of in the trash compactor. At that night's social, Alan is tricked into smoking cow manure by Weed and his coughing fit looks like he's fellating Stan, so popular boy T.C. nicknames him Blowjob.
Shortly before sun up the next day, Weed is blown up by the docks by the blackclad killer. Ronnie and Frank confer with Sheriff Jerry, who learns that Ricky Thomas is coincidentally working a construction job nearby. The Sheriff drives out and questions him.
Sometime later, Alan is tricked by Karen and the popular boys blindfold him and shove him nearly naked in front of the entire camp. Alan is taken care of by the counselors, until the campers chant "Blowjob" at him, driving him mad and fleeing the camp. Ronnie grounds T.C. for this and searches for Alan. Frank is knocked out by the killer and tied up so rats can eat their way through his eye and his intestines. Randy and Linda go to the pump house to have sex, and Randy's penis is severed, leaving him to bleed to death. Linda drives away, straight into barbed wire, crashes into a tree and bleeds to death. T.C. is impaled by a spike in his cabin, and Bella is crushed to death in hers. The campers and counselors discover some of the dead bodies and panic erupts. Karen runs off and is captured by the killer, who tries to hang her. Michael saves her and runs off to beat Alan to death since all signs point to him being the killer. Ricky arrives at the camp and helps Ronnie search for the missing campers. They find Alan barely alive and "Sheriff Jerry" reveals himself to be Angela Baker in disguise. She tells them she's been killing bullies and that she skinned Michael alive for all the mean things he's done to Alan and his frogs. [RTSC: occurs twenty years after the original Camp Arawak murder spree]