Summercamp Slashers: Simple Setting or Stealthy Accomplice?
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Summer camp slasher movies might be keeping you company these days as us indoor cats avoid the heat. And if you're sitting there in your sweaty tank, wondering why summer camps and camp killers are so popular in horror, this episode entertains a couple theories.  By way of Friday the 13th, The Burning and Sleepaway Camp (mostly) we look at the summer camp as a setting, a character itself and a metaphor for the liminality between adolescence and adulthood (#ahhhdulting!) *Spoilers of Friday the 13th (1980) and Sleepaway Camp (1983) 
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