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into the prosthetics. The movie also (the eamp from the second movie, later announced on the Sleepaway Camp saw the return of Ronnie (Paul renamed New Horizons for ehe third), a sequels site when Klyza was given an Dehgelo) from the original movie, - bus-bad of teenage dcEnqnent8 are exclusive read of the script. in a plot that echoed The Sunivor, bought in for some Knm Ba Yah-style with the now aduit Ronnie being rekabllitation. Amongst these is t!he GZ: Being the first person to read plagued by nightmares of the Camp disturbed self-harmer Amanda, who is Michael Sipson's screenplay for Amwak slasghtered twenty years set up as the probably fmal girl as her Sleepaway Camp Berserk, what can earlier. cbarac* b written in a moresympathetic yon reveal about it and do you think way than her fellow teens. this one will ever see the Light of day GZ: Accordimg to after the troubled productions of the sleepawaycampfhs.com and My Described by Klyza Ss more survival last two movies? What new aspects Space you are to direct the next harror than mere slashekthe protagonists would yon say it brings to the scrkes- installment, Sleepaway Camp mnst battle not only with the lriller (it is (Cunnuad~49) Subsu8beiUht@N@-A eas ask :O Order us from theil Issue #29 will give you first news on Rob Zombies all new feature film venture. That's right the musician turned director will turn his short Grindhouse (Werewolf Women of the SS) trailer into a

feature length movie. Lord knows there are tons of films out there Simpsou on the okcid site.' Yet ij ~ . Zombie has assembled quite a cast that could use some major tweaks and .# seems an obvions choice that i for his mini-movie, including Udo adjustments here and there to make things Berserk would follow ou.from his . ... z, Kier(B1ade) and Sybil Danning work a bit better but haw much ehange ktoa own movies, as Teenage Wasteland r' (Howling 2), B-movie character much change? Who is today's slick, ultra- was the last Sleepaway Camp movie - : actors Bill Moseley (TCM 2) and bloody genre einema really being aimed at? that was aetually finished and . . Tom Towles(Fire!ly), plus his wife, The fans or the average bystander with an released. As for Berserk, KIyzays Sberi Moon Zombie (Devils Rejects). hour or two to blow between tineir kid's enthusiasm for the project went as. . 1 Best of all, however, is an soccer match and a meeting with the washing far as him designing storyboards appearance by Nicolas Cage (The machine repairman? , based OU the ScriDt and ~05th~them-~ .; Whickerman) as Fu Manchu. on his site. His script rekew, which Changing afilm based solely on the @pinions can &o been fonnd online, has How exactly one gets from Nazi of people that wouldn't normally even watch caused a stir among the fans online, scientists to topless leather clad "tkat type of movie" is a defhite cause for eager to once again see Angela up women and machine-gunning concern and something aU upstart to her old tricks. werewolves to Fu Manchu remains flbnmakers should he aware of. The fans will delightfully obscure in the trailer, blame you. In an industry that has begun to rely and that confusion is not only heavily on remakes, its reassuring intentional but, as Zombie explains, Harsh. I bow. to note that Sleepaway Camp may a tip of the hat to the exploitation have one, of not two, new movies convention which soon will become It's the truth though. You will be blamed for lined up fw the future, yet no . ? one of celluloid's most bizarre that cop out ending ...those missed talk of a pointless 'reworking' (stay horror movies of all time...if all opportanities to build characters and the away, Michael Bay!).. m e ae , . dreadedd'cut away" kiU se~uence.While runs smoothly. . ,poss~~~~of~erserkever going ' , . Also next issue we have part 2 of Pig YOU may find ~odmIf~@therpleased with a into production Iies on fan interest, . Hunt and a piece on Christa positive test screeningfor your horror fh, there,s no denying *t this codd he Campbell. ask yourself tm, "Were there any real the best SleepawayCamp movk .. horror fans in this screening?: - .,,.,.. - .: since the original. Amd what fw .. wouldn't get excited at BRUARY