HFB: Round 1: Sleepaway Camp (16) VS Final Destination (19)

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Sleepaway Camp (16)

Sleepaway Camp is an American slasher film franchise consisting of six films, one of which was not fully completed. The franchise primarily focuses on transgendered serial killer Angela Baker and the murders she commits, largely at summer camps.

The series has developed into two apparent continuities: Robert Hiltzik's, including the original 1983 film and Return to Sleepaway Camp; and the other, which introduced comedic elements into the franchise, overseen by Michael A. Simpson and comprising Sleepaway Camp II and III. Sleepaway Camp IV is the only film not directed and/or written by either. Despite this, Angela is still the focal character of the films. Both Hiltzik and Simpson planned sequels to their own entries (Reunion and Berserk, respectively), but neither were made; a reboot of the series is now planned.

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Final Destination (19)

Final Destination is an American horror franchise based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for the X-Files television series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, all five films are centered on the themes of fatalism, predestination, and precognition, in relation to death (i.e. how to foresee, avoid, or control it). In a less abstract sense, each film features a protagonist having a premonition of a terrible accident that would kill numerous people, including the protagonist themself. The protagonist and several other people then escape from the scene of the accident, before it happens just like in the protagonist's vision. The group of people then start dying in a series of bizarre accidents that frequently resemble Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity.

The series is noteworthy amongst others in the horror genre in that the "villain" of the movies is not the stereotypical slashers, monsters, creatures, beasts, or demons. It is the entity Death itself (very occasionally seen as a fleeting shadow), which manipulates the environment in deadly ways with the intent of "recapturing" those who somehow manage (usually through premonitions) to escape their fates the first time.

In addition to the films, a novel series (which includes the novelizations of the first three films) was published throughout 2005 and 2006 by Black Flame. A one-shot comic book titled Final Destination: Sacrifice was released alongside select DVDs of Final Destination 3 in 2006, and a comic series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007.

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[Fuji Vice]

Never cared much for the FD movies, while Sleepaway Camp's are mostly awesome. Sure Return is pretty crap, but the crap heaped on in the FD series far outweighs it.

On a side note, I just got Sleepaway Camp on Blu Ray and it's the goddamn tits.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Just you watch Sleepaway Camp is going to be the sleeper hit of this tournament. It's probably my favorite outside of the original mainstream franchises.

Never cared much for the FD movies, while Sleepaway Camp's are mostly awesome. Sure Return is pretty crap, but the crap heaped on in the FD series far outweighs it.

On a side note, I just got Sleepaway Camp on Blu Ray and it's the goddamn tits.

Two and three make me forget Return ever happened.

I bet it's the goddamn tits. I need to pick that up. I hope they release the Simpson sequels.