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Robert Hiltzik Interview
If you ask Robert how he feels about SLEEPAWAY today, he finds it to be very "Entertaining" which is what he intended for it to be! He also calls it "a good date movie!" So what does the future hold for the MYSTERIOUS MR. HILTZIK??? Well, a RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP for one thing! But here are some more interesting tidbits...

JH: What about a follow up to RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP?
RH: Well, I've already got the beginning and the end. (Robert considers this to be SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3)
JH: Would you ever do it in 3-D? SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3-D?
RH: I'd love to do it in 3-D! If I knew it would generate enough profit, I'd love to do it.
JH: If you could remake any movie, what would it be?
RH: The Stepford Wives. It's time for a remake. (*note- interestingly enough, I read the other day that TIM BURTON was going to do a remake of THE STEPFORD WIVES)
JH: What other movies would you like to make?
RH: I'd like to do a live action version of the FANTASTIC FOUR and I also have an apocalyptic SCI-FI movie that I want to do as well as SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3.
JH: Have you ever considered a comedy?

The SLEEPAWAY CAMP REUNION crew (from FANGORIA MAGAZINE- issue #208)
RH: I actually wrote a comedy a long time ago called FAST FOOD.!
JH: (That's pretty interesting! I guess SLEEPAWAY Directors think alike). Was it slapstick?
RH: Yeah, pretty much.
JH: How about something in the genre with a supernatural twist like a ghost story?
RH: I would do one but it would have to be something different.
JH: What are you willing to share with the fans about RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP?
RH: Well, there will definitely be cursing children and kids being kids, that's one thing we can say and it will be 'Old school', not many computer generated effects

Robert is certainly a man of mystery. He likes to keep people guessing as you can see with SLEEPAWAY CAMP and will see again in RETURN. When fans asked to give away a few "Secrets" of SLEEPAWAY CAMP, Robert said, "The blood was a mix of Hershey's syrup and something else. The bees were shot through a glass box. The arrow, I'm not telling... But the penis, that was real!"

In a nutshell, Robert is a man with a unique sense of humor and an intriguing aura of mystery. Everybody has their questions about SLEEPAWAY CAMP, and to many of them Robert's answer is the same, "It's whatever you want it to be." Robert likes to keep things a mystery...after all, that makes for even more speculation. He accomplished what he set out to do, make an Entertaining movie that stays with you after you leave the theater. 20 years later, people are still thinking about it!


Robert holds the decomposing remains of Paul's severed head! FX creator Ed French's gelatin head has held up remarkably well despite being severed 2 decades ago!!

The MYSTERIOUS Mr. Hiltzik playing a MYSTERIOUS neighbor in my 30-minute film:
GRANDMA'S SECRET RECIPE!