Seven years have gone by since it was announced that Robert Hiltzik, writer/director of the classic 1983 slasher movie Sleepaway Camp (watch it HERE), was teaming with producers Jeff Katz and Michele Tatosian, along with the original film's star Felissa Rose, to "reboot the Sleepaway Camp mythos in a modern setting with a new film series that echoes the original's legacy and psychosexual elements". Aside from Katz giving details on the script he wrote back in 2016, we haven't heard much about the project in that time… but Rose sounds pretty certain we're going to be seeing a new Sleepaway Camp sometime soon.
Speaking with Bloody-Disgusting, the genre icon said,
there’s been so much looming around the Sleepaway Camp universe for so long. Will they remake it? Will there be another sequel? I know that something’s in the works. I don’t even really know exactly how it will be, but I can tell you that definitely like — we just had our 37th anniversary — I would love to say that, mark my words, by the 40th, something will be out."
Sleepaway Camp was originally released on November 18, 1983, so that gives them just under three years to get a new movie made and released to the world.
Rose has her own ideas about the story a new Sleepaway Camp should tell:
Now, if they ever consulted with me, I would love to see a prequel to the Sleepaway Camp world. Because this is one of those movies that is driven by the circumstances that happens in the beginning of the film. And I would love to understand who is Aunt Martha? What happened to her in creating all that she did with Angela and Ricky? Why didn’t Angela go to camp with Ricky the other summer? With all of this, I would love to see a prequel. I would love to make the prequel. So, definitely we haven’t seen the end of Sleepaway Camp."
I don't know how interesting a prequel about Aunt Martha would be, and I wouldn't like to find out Angela had been in the vicinity of any murders before she went to camp in the first movie, so I'm not sure about that whole idea, but I would be very interested in seeing a new Sleepaway Camp film that's along the lines of the first movie.
We'll keep you updated if/when we hear anything more about the revival of the Sleepaway Camp franchise.