Sleepaway Camp (1983)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepaway_Camp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086320/

What I Knew:
Literally nothing besides it is supposed to have the most unexpected ending to a horror movie ever apparently.
What I Expected:
Very little. Thinking a watered down Friday the 13th.
What I Got:
Holy God.
Its got a fairly normal slasher set up. Kid's father and sibling are killed by a motorboat driven by reckless children. Kid gets sent to live with Crazy Aunt Who Can't Act And Is Constantly Breaking The Fourth Wall. Eight years later, Crazy Aunt sends the kids to the same summer camp where the killings took place. Angela, the protagonist and only survivor of that horrific crash, is entirely mute and gets picked on a lot because of it. Her cousin, Ricky, is a dick but in a good way. He sticks up for her when the bad dicks, including pothead Kenny and older ringleader Billy, are mean. The baddest dicks of them all are Angela's counselor, Meg, and her bunkmate, Judy. Also at the camp are head counselor Ronnie, owner Mel, and head chef Artie. Ronnie is enthusiastic about camping, Mel is enthusiastic about money, and Artie is enthusiastic about raping children.
Soon into the summer Artie corners Angela with intent to rape, only to be stopped at the last minute by Ricky. A few minutes later Artie is maimed very, very badly when a child-sized pot of water is dumped on him by an unknown camper. Mel covers it up. Later, Billy goads Kenny and one of his dope bros into trying to pick up poor, mute, and assumed handicapped Angela. Kenny quickly gives up and just brutally makes fun of her to her face. This prompts a brawl between Billy and his gang and Ricky and his best friend Paul. After the fight gets broken up, Ricky and Billy's gang are hauled off to their cabins while Paul is left to console Angela. He is nice to her, unlike literally everyone except Ricky and Ronnie, and tells her some zany stories about previous years at camp. As Paul leaves for bed Angela utters her first words: "Good night."
Later that night Ricky smokes a bunch of weed while a bunch of Billy's Boys try to unsuccessfully talk some ugly girls into skinny dipping. Ricky gets the bright idea of convincing a girl to take a canoe ride with him so he can make a series of really lame dick jokes.  It works and Ricky basks in his victory while hiding in a flipped canoe singing songs to himself. He then gets drowned by a Mysterious Camper. A little while later, Paul and Angela are making out on the beach. Paul tries to undo her top and she flips out and runs away. Immediately before running away however, she has a flashback of her father having sex with another dude. Yeah.
Billy throws a water balloon at Angela and he is the next to go. He is locked in the bathroom while taking a poo and bees are set loose on him.  Mel is convinced that Ricky is the murderer now and stops Ricky from intervening when Meg and Judy throw a very traumatized Angela into the water. The lifeguard calls Meg a "peckerhead."
Its the night of the big social. Ricky is grounded because he is suspected of murder so he can't go. Meanwhile a counselor I don't think we have ever seen before is in charge of taking a bunch of lil campers out to the woods to camp. Meg has a big date with Mel and has to use an abandon cabin's shower to clean herself up. She is basically just asking to be murdered and she is. Angela tells Paul to meet her at the waterside after social. Judy is then murdered by being stabbed to death with a curling iron. Then three of the lil campers are hatcheted to death.
Mel goes on a frantic search for Meg, discovers her corpse and vows revenge. He tracks Ricky down and beats him to near death. At this point it gets Amazing. It transcends the genre and puts Sleepaway Camp into a league of its own.
How I Felt:
Amazed. The last 20 seconds of that movie are out of this world. Something that needs to be experienced. I want to talk about it but I. like, don't want to spoil it. It is so good. The entire movie really is an above average slash flick. Thrills, chills, et cetera. But man that end.
My Viewing Recommendation:
Anytime. All the time. Never stop watching Sleepaway Camp.
Would I Watch A Sequel?
Absolutely. I would watch all the sequels. There are apparently four, with two more on the way in the next year. I'm very excited to Return to Sleepaway Camp.