Best Of: Best Twist in a Horror Movie

Whorticulture.com Presents: The Best Twist in a Horror Movie

Caution: This post is going to contain a major spoiler.  I recommend you not read the ending if you haven't seen the film.  DON'T RUIN THIS FOR YOURSELF.

This one is just too easy.  Of course it's the 1983 thriller Sleepaway Camp, starring Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten. 

One of these things isn't like the other...or is it?

So let's get into the plot.  What you have here is a poor girl named Angela who loses her father & brother in a boating accident, and goes to live with her dear Aunt Martha and cousin Ricky.  Ricky and Angela head off to Camp Arawak, where the campers keep dying off.  It's hard for Angela to make friends because she's quiet and would rather hang out by herself than participate.  This really pisses off the camp slut, Judy.

Go curl your hair, Judy.

But Angela does make one very special friend, a boy named Paul.

Young love has never been so creepy.

So, yeah.  One by one people start dropping like flies.  Here we see what happens to Judy's buddy, the bitchy counselor (who is fucking the damn-near elderly camp owner Mel, wtf is up with that!?)

She's gonna be late for your date, Mel.

And then Mel eats it, too.

What?  That totally looks real.

And yeah, Judy gets it too.  But that part is so awesome I almost don't want to ruin it for you.  Of course I will, but only after the cut.  So who's the killer?  Think you know?

Angela says DON'T READ PAST THE CUT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!

Okay, let's go.
First off, Judy gets raped to death with a curling iron.  No, you don't get to see it.  You just get to see her shadow puppet hands reacting.

Sizzle.

And so who is the killer?  Yeah, you probably figured out it's Angela.  Or you already knew, since she's the killer in the 2 awesome sequels (and the kind of crappy sequel, too).  The movie tries to make you pin it on Ricky because he cusses a lot.  No, seriously.  But they do a piss-poor job of it.

Are you ready for the twist?  BRACE YOURSELVES OH MY GOD.

So it turns out that it wasn't the little girl who survived the boating accident, it was the little boy Peter!  Aunt Martha decided he should be a girl named Angela!  NO WONDER THAT KID KILLS EVERYBODY.  Seriously.

Want to see it?  You know you do!

I hope you read past the cut.  You rebels.  Now GO CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE.  And the first sequel, entitled Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, which is one of my favorites ever because of the copious amounts of tits and blood.

Trivia: Ben, the camp cook who is unintentionally and VERY stereotypically racist, is played by James Earl Jones's dad Robert Earl Jones, who spent part of his life as a sharecropper.