ooc: dont click the spoilers if you ever wish to see this movie. the ending IS this movie.
live from sleep away arawak
1.intro (a day at the lake).
2. enter Aunt Martha.
3. Welcome to sleep away camp.
4. Boiled pedo
5. Angela's rampage
6.
Peter is dead..... Angela lives.[/spoile
1.
Intro (a day at the lake)
Song synopsis: not a song per se. basically this is just a skit while some typical atomic war bride psychobilly is played over it. It tells the story of a dad and two kids at a lake. They are on a small sailboat that capsizes and dumps all three in the water. While the family is swimming,a speed boat runs over the trio. The propeller chops the dad and one child to bits. Leaving only one child alive. wounded,but alive.
Notable for appearances of Jody and Cole Summers as the voices of the screaming kids.
Erich sez: I like to think this movie took place on the same lake as the John candy movie, "the great outdoors" and at the same time. How wild would that be? A boat driven by Dan akroyd with John candy water skiing behind it kills 2 people? Fuck yes. Where's my TARDIS? I think I just made a great movie greater. In reality,the boat is piloted by a young girl and her boyfriend. In any case: fast speed boat + human bodies= death.
Karoliena sez: here we went with basic rockabilly rhythm. You know it,you love it. It's the same from pretty much any song from back then. The focus is on the story,not the music. So we didn't want to get too busy with things. We already had a boat engine mic'ed up. So it's terribly unpleasant to listen to as is. Also,my kids provided the screams of terror. It . Took. 39. takes. Which was about an hour straight of kids screaming. So basically a pared down version of every day of my life.
2.
Enter: aunt Martha.
With the death of the father ,angela is sent to live with their Aunt and cousin. Aunt Martha is an... eccentric,if seemingly loving woman. She sends the kids off with lunches and the physicals required for summer camp.
Erich sez: oh my fucking God. Aunt Martha is my FAVORITE part of this movie. She is like a ray of sunshine fucked a rainbow while snorting Prozac off Faye dunnaway as Joan Crawford's ass. She is way too chipper, horribly acted,and terrifying. (Not a dig at Faye dunnaway as Joan Crawford. " She fucking owned that role. She's utterly insane in that movie) so naturally,I made this song worthy of it's namesake. We don't get much backstory in the film. But in my song,I made her a perfectionist where no frowns are allowed in her house,even after the horrible accident at the lake. Every word must be spoken in an overly staged and stilted way. And an obsession with little girls acting like little girls.
Karoliena sez: aunt Martha immediately gives the impression that something is wrong with her. The more and more the movie shows of her,the more disturbing she gets. So we start off the song in tune. But as we play on,we get more and more out of tune until the guitar and bass are nearly unintelligible.other than that,the song is upbeat and manic. just like aunt martha!
3.
Welcome to sleep away camp.here we meet the camp,the staff,and the campers. nearly everyone is an asshole. its like earnest goes to camp...with the cast of jersey shore.
Erich sez: in this song,we go through some of the people that will be in this movie. my favorites are meg and judy. dont these two know they're in a slasher film?! they are pretty much begging to be killed from the first time we see them. oh its blatantly obvious that angela will be the killer. shell shocked ww1 soldiers dont have the thousand yard stare this girl does. we also meet some boys who...honestly i dont remember their names. they are all basically the same asshole. there is a gruff camp owner,mel. he seems to be ok with fucking a barely legal,if that, camp counselor.
theres a pedophile chef who lusts after the campers as they exit the bus. unlike mel,there is no question on if his objects of lust are of age. he says the line, "where i come from,we call them baldies." ugh. in this movie where like 15 people are killed,this is the grossest part of the movie.
Karoliena sez:if we werent lazy and threw this ep together at the last minute,each character would have had his or her own theme. like a psychobilly peter and the wolf. but...cmon, you know what to expect when it comes to atomic war bride. here the song really just meanders along as if you're a ghost and flitting among the characters we introduce.
4.
pedo al denteerich sez: out of all the deaths in the movie,this one gets its own song. not only because seriously,nobody will miss the pedophile chef,but its one of the more unique deaths (?) does he die? maybe he just ends up wishing he was dead. anyways. ronnie,one of the few decent people in this movie, sees angela in her normal catatonic state. since its lunch time,he assumes she doesnt like the food. so he wants to help by taking her into the kitchen and seeing if the cook cant whip her up something to eat. after ronnie leaves,the chef doesnt whip something up...he attempts to whip something out! but angela's cousin,ricky walks in before anything happens. a few minutes later, cut to the cook standing on a ladder over the biggest ass pot of boiling water the world has ever seen. if this was an amazon cannibal movie? a child could stand up in this pot. not being a fan of old dick,angela...well her hands at least,are seen tugging at the ladder much to the shock of the chef. he falls over,taking the pot of boiling water with him. he screams and screams and screams. he is later taken away by ambulance. i assume he dies later. the other kitchen workers arent too shaken up by it and are excited someone gets a promotion. oh and singing about pedophiles...i needed a shower after this song.
Karoliena_S: until recently,nearly everyone could agree that nazis and pedophiles were bad people. at least we can still all agree that pedophiles are bad. im pretty proud at how this song turned out. we start it off kinda whimsical. this is mainly due to the fact we had ronnie's theme already written,so we incorporated it into this song. hes a good guy who probably doesnt know about the chef and he is usually nice to angela. but that whimsy tune soon gives way to an ominous and threatening tone. much like angela's swings from neat catatonic to murderous,i wanted to give the impression of pressure building and building until its finally released.
5.
Angela's rampageerich sez:wouldnt be much of a slasher film if people didnt die. since this is an ep,we condensed all the deaths into one song. while i'd like to,i am not writing a musical based on the film. so now we get to why you're here. theres some guy who gets killed by drowning. to which ronnie replies (funny,i remember him being a damned good swimmer). multiple people get chopped up with an ax. meg gets sliced stem to stern while in the shower preparing for her date with mel. mel gets shot in the throat with an arrow. and my favorite because its pretty damned out there....judy gets raped with a curling iron before being smothered with a pillow. angela doesnt take any shit. oh and my recollection here is out of order,but i assure you the song has them in order. it was a pretty intense post recording party and im still feeling the effects.
karoliena sez: here we do what we do best. fast as fuck music with more bass slapping than should be in any song. this song clocks in at about...5 minutes? which is like an epic for us.
[SPOILER]6.
Peter is dead..... Angela lives.
without its twist ending,this movie would be ok at best. it really does seem like just another friday the 13th rip off. kids being killed at a summer camp. big deal. but it turns out there is more going on than that.
erich sez: holy fuck. who saw that coming the first time they saw this movie?! you see,when the boat runs over the kids at the start of the film,it never actually states which one is the survivor. it turns out that crazy aunt martha always wanted a girl. so when she takes peter in after the accident..SHE MAKES HIM BE A GIRL NAMED ANGELA! so like 10 years of being forced to be a girl, horny boys at a summer camp bothering her,pedo chef,bitchy girls who wont associate with her...needless to say,angela is one fucked up person! oh and for fun,the movie shows preteen dick when she turns around nude and holding some kid's head.
Karoliena sez: what a twist ending! so we also included a twist ending to our ep. the film was made in the 80's,so we switched up our sound to pure 80's hair metal. annoying pinch harmonics,3 guitar solos,a bass solo,and falsetto singing.
