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Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak. As the paranoia worsens, Ronnie's list of possible killers starts growing just like the body count. Only one thing is for certain, something is carving a bloody new trail at Sleepaway Camp where kids can be so mean and surviving this summer is gonna be a real killer!
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, scary, tense, bloody, serious, slasher horror, retro, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, burned alive, murder, summer camp, psychopath, serial killer, investigation, who done it, gory, obsession, danger, mind game, psycho killer, bullying, prank, forest, camp, youth, amateur detective, teenager, murderer, blood, female villain, evil woman, marijuana ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, scary, bloody and suspenseful films with plots about murder, blood, serial killer, violence, deadly, psychopath and youth mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Return to Sleepaway Camp: Sleepaway Camp (1983), Cutting Class (1989), Student Bodies (1981), Idle Hands (1999), Madman (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
summer camp, serial killer, murder, bullying, psychopath, youth, teenage life, female villain, rivalry, psycho killer, danger, teenage girl ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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