10 Most Paused Slasher Movie Moments
1. Angela's Frozen Face - Sleepaway Camp
It's impossible to talk about moments that made you instantly sit up and take notice, and not talk about Sleepaway Camp, for better or worse.
On the surface, this 1983 slasher was every inch as generic and formulaic as its title would suggest. This was at a time when Friday the 13th had become the go-to film to copy, and so a slew of various camp-set offerings followed for the horror genre and for, in particular, the slasher subgenre.
With an impressive body count amassed by an unknown killer, the big, utterly problematic twist of Sleepaway Camp is that sweet and innocent victim Angela was instead the vicious and demented killer Peter - Angela's believed-dead brother.
That final act reveal in itself was a shocker - complete with the shot of a naked Angela - but what was truly jarring was how the frame actually looked. As in, Angela actress Felissa Rose (who was only a teenager at the time) had her head superimposed on an adult male body.
These days, this would all look seamless thanks to the joys of modern technology. But back in 1983? Not so much, so. That meant that there was an extreme awkwardness in how the crude, frozen, snarling head of Rose and the torso of someone else meshed together.
It's made worse by the long shot of this superimposition (which only lasts a few seconds) being placed between close ups that were clearly the original actress as she had been throughout the whole film, only confusing viewers about what they'd just seen even more.
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