“Sleepaway Slasher” (*1/2 out of four) was a substandard horror pic about a group of fledgling horror filmmakers (Shawn Thomas Diefenbach, Steven Anderson, and others) who are invited to a horror-movie competition at the site of an unfinished ’80’s cult movie when the bodies start piling up and they realize someone has taken their love of horror films to a bit of an extreme. Throwback to ’80’s horror movies makes you think that maybe the ’80’s weren’t really that great; this one is low-rent pretty much all the way through. James Franco (!) was film’s executive producer but had the good sense to have his name removed.

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