Nostalgia for Sleepaway Camp, Through the Lens of Slasher Films
By
Sarah Borus
Summary
A nostalgic, humorous first-person essay exploring the author's deep connection to summer sleepaway camp and their annual tradition of watching slasher films (like Friday the 13th) set at summer camps. The author reflects on the unique freedom and coming-of-age experiences of camp life, and how horror movies set in that environment serve as a cathartic, entertaining way to revisit those memories — blending camp nostalgia with the thrill of watching teens get murdered in the woods.
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· 3 pulledI have found only one solution to assuage my yearning for the blue skies and green hills of the Finger Lakes: watching movies where a bunch of teens living in cabins get absolutely slaughtered.
Every year around this time, I get nostalgic for the days that moved along to the soundtrack of 2000s pop and Dean Friedman songs, and the freedom of a world where the greatest authority is some guy in his early 30s named Neil whom everyone ignored.
From Friday the 13th to watching the trailer for Teenage
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