After returning from the fabulous trip on Sunday afternoon (and now only a few days away from April), Jeff knew it was time to get in touch with Anchor Bay! The DVD's release date was JULY, which was only 4 months away!! So he wrote them another letter, this time explaining that he had been in contact with Robert Hiltzik as well! A surprise came the next day when Jeff and John got an e-mail from RJ Gallentine at Anchor Bay who had been searching for SLEEPAWAY CAMP stuff on the internet to use on the DVD!

RJ had found the website and wanted to know if Anchor Bay could use pictures from our Sleepaway photo gallery to put on the DVD's possible Still Gallery!! Jeff immediately called RJ bearing some exciting news! Jeff explained that he had been in contact with Felissa, Jonathan, and Robert Hiltzik...and that he could almost guarantee that he could get them to do interviews or a commentary for the DVD!! Overwhelmed by the news, RJ immediately spoke with his boss, Bill Lustig about it. Bill is the man responsible for a lot of the work done on ANCHOR BAY's incredible Halloween: Restored Limited Edition DVD that came out in late '99, Not to mention that he is also the director of such genre films as the MANIAC COP movies and UNCLE SAM. The next day, Jeff got a call from Bill himself inquiring about the news Jeff had given RJ. Jeff explained that he had contact with the 3 SLEEPAWAY alumni and that he would love to get them on the DVD! Bill was quite interested BUT there was a small problem... The DVD was so far into production that if they were going to get anything else on it, It had to be done within 1 week!!! Now would be a good time to mention that Jeff had asked why Anchor Bay hadn't gotten in touch with him sooner!!

Jonathan Tiersten has some fun re-living Sleepaway with Jeff Hayes and Jeff's sister Susan last May.

Here is a look at the time-coded video of SLEEPAWAY CAMP that Anchor Bay sent to use when recording the commentary!

He had written them way back in October regarding this and other times as well! Bill explained that unfortunately there must have been some sort of lack of communication between Anchor Bay in Michigan (where Jeff had been writing to) and the corporate offices in California! So thank god for RJ writing to us when he did!! On a sad note, Bill said that since they only had 1 week, it would be impossible to make the flight and hotel arrangements with Jonathan (who was on the west coast) since this would be recorded in NY. So Bill asked Jeff if he could make this happen within 1 week. There was no way Jeff was gonna let down the fans! Jeff immediately called Felissa and Robert and arranged for the commentary to be recorded on Monday, April 3rd, 2000! So Jeff trekked back to NY On Sunday, April 2nd. He had made arrangements to meet up with Anchor Bay's sound recordist, Armand Petri, in the lobby of the hotel late Monday morning. Armand is the man who recorded the audio commentary with director SAM RAIMI and producer ROBERT TAPERT on the Elite Special Edition of the horror classic: EVIL DEAD. After meeting with Armand, Jeff took him over to Felissa's where the commentary was about to be recorded!!

While Armand went to work setting up all the equipment, Jeff and Felissa anxiously awaited the arrival of the man who created the masterpiece himself, Robert Hiltzik. Felissa hadn't seen him since SLEEPAWAY CAMP came out and Jeff had not yet met him in person! The Doorbell rang. The director of SLEEPAWAY CAMP had arrived!!! Jeff grabbed his video camera to record this legendary moment in History: The reunion of Felissa Rose & Robert Hiltzik!!!!!!!!! Below are the exclusive reunion photos straight from Jeff's video camera!

Sound recordist Armand Petri.		Sets up to record the SLEEPAWAY CAMP DVD Commentary.
Robert Arrives!! Well hello there Angela!		Angela embraces her creator!