Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)

the audience applauded

Excellent but underrated film

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Alright, I was kind of freaked out in Sleepaway Camp One.SC2 is just hilarious. Our dear Angela has returned to camp after a couple years of mental hospital living, sexual reassignment, and a cheerful disposition. She really wanted to be a good camp counselor.Well, maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all. Once she gets annoyed with the campers, it's just all over. The slightest offense would annoy her principled belief system and offend her moral code and she'd just have to do something to rectify the situation.This movie is all very tongue in cheek humor. It's not scary at all. Pamela Springsteen is awesome and plays the character with a subtle belief system, and she doesn't act psycho in the least. She just got in a bad mood, and heaven help a camper who smokes dope or has sex, or even just wants to go home. Angela just took her job very seriously is all, lol.Some of the deaths are hilarious and the dialogue is even better. These actors obviously were not trained at RADA and that made it even better.I would recommend seeing SC1 first so you'd understand the set up to SC2. But SC2 was pure comedy/horror with a decidedly different tone.10 out of 10 for me. It's not a great film per se, I mean it's not trying to be Citizen Kane or GWTW, but for what it is it's great. Highly recommended.

Since I just got done reviewing Sleepaway Camp, I figured it was appropriate to take a look at the sequels starting with the 1988 film Sleepaway Camp II Unhappy Campers, a film that manages to be even worse than its' predecessor. That is quite an accomplishment.First Off, I don't Understand why we need a sequel to a film that ended conclusively. But the word money brings a couple of reasons why. The film does follow Angela again except this time she is played by Bruce Springsteen's Sister Pamela Springsteen, and she makes the character even worse. Remember when I complained that Angela barley spoke in the first film, well that's all changed because now SHE WON'T SHUT UP! This time she travels to a new camp to wreak havoc on more teens.They explain that after some extensive therapy and a sex-change Angela is now okay to be a camp counselor at Camp Rolling Hills. And this brings me to my next problem: If you knew this character was mentally unstable to begin with, being that she killed kids at a camp years before, then why would you hire her as a camp counselor? I think that the camp directors were smoking a little something to let her back in.They tried making the film a comedy now, but I did not laugh at a single joke in here. Also the film not only rips-off Friday The 13th but references The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare On Elm Street. Thanks, Three good movies ruined in your crappy movie.Finally the movie wraps up with, Guess what, Angela being the killer. Oh My God That is the biggest twist ending since Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers Father(Notice the sarcasm).The Final Verdict For the film Sleepaway Camp II Unhappy Campers is a BOMB/ 0 stars out of 4, and earns my seal of disapproval meaning this is a film to stay away from. The film is held back by bad acting, Slow and Boring pace and terrible, Terrible jokes. The worst part is I have 3 more of these to watch. Goody.Rated R For Horror Violence And Gore, Sexual Content, Nudity And Language.1hr 20min/80min.10 uses of the F-word.BOMB/****

Michael Simpson's "Sleepaway Camp II" has an incredible modesty that I very much appreciate within a horror movie. It doesn't try to act any smarter than it actually is, it never tries to be anything it's not, it's just an incredibly entertaining little B-movie that gives the audience what it wants. It's basically from the "Evil Dead"-school, meaning that it mostly skips the introductions and gets straight to the stuff you watch it for. Who has time to find out about backgrounds when there are so many people around to kill? The movie's structure is pretty monotonous and the plot is so non-existent that you could probably put the scenes in a different order without anybody noticing, but who cares when the kills are so lovely? The original "Sleepaway Camp" was about a hundred times more shocking than this will ever be, but this sequel is just so much more fun.

Not exactly a classic of the genre, SC 2 is a so-so followup to SC, in which a sexually confused character slaughters a bunch of people at a summer camp. If you haven't seen the original, this sequel may make no sense. Angela -- the demented he-she from the first movie -- is back, and just as murderous as she was in the first movie. Maybe more so. The body count seems higher, for one thing. Since we know Angela is a psycho from the outset, all suspense is removed. Taking its place are several pleasantly nasty deaths and the occasional laugh, as the movie is strictly tongue in cheek. The acting is appropriately cheesy, and the effects are from hunger. But as my brother-in-law used to say, who goes to the drive-in to watch the movie? And this is most definitely old-school drive-in fare.