Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

Before tackling Sleepaway Camp II: The Sleepening, I was worried that, not having seen Sleepaway Camp I, I would be more lost than a kid in the woods at Sleepaway Camp. Luckily, Sleepaway Camp II had my back, and in the very first scene, a bunch of horny campers fill me in on Sleepaway lore in the form of a spooky fireside story. Hooray! My final rating (which also happens to be the camper-to-counselor ratio at Sleepaway Camp): 2/10.

Background check? That's too much work, ehhhh I trust her face

Good god almighty. There's no way this could have ever lived up to the movie I made in my own mind after seeing the boss VHS cover with Freddy's glove and Jason's mask in the counselor's backpack for the first time way back in the late '80s or early 90s. I finally saw this dog vomit last week for the first time -- Complete Garbage -- That said, it WAS sort of refreshing to relive all the trappings of stupid 80s horror (cheesy pop metal soundtrack, nudity, general film-making incompetence).

The only thing that might be worth your attention in this otherwise tame and yawn-inducing clusterfuck of a sequel is the nudity which Valerie Hartman provides at regular intervals.

While it brings back the killer from the first film, this is a totally different experience. This one is much more tongue in cheek and gleefully exploitative, and for the most part works very well as a self-conscius slasher film with some creative deaths and effective black humor.

A serviceable slasher that has the grossest death in any film I have ever seen. If y'know, y'know. This is the best thing a Springsteen has ever been associated with.

As good as the first, that is to say very bad, except this one doesn't pack the same surprising ending. You pretty much know what's going to happy from the first 5 minutes on when it's revealed that Angela is back and she's going to kill some campers. Generic garbage horror movie.

Worthless sequel that has very little in common with the original. There's almost no tension since we're well aware of who the teen-slaughterer is from the very first kill. There's lots of T&A, but little else.

Barely feels like the same series of films as the first - not that that film wasn't already microbudget schlock, but it was microbudget schlock with a bit of an authorial voice and unique tone behind it. But this one is more just pure lazy and generic.

The sisters of Bruce Springsteen and Emilio Estevez duke it out in this black comedy sequel to the '83 _Friday the 13th_ wannabe. Probably the best of the Sleepaways (which ain't sayin' much), this film has an interesting cast and gory deaths -- although its attitude of praising its "moral" maniac while condemning her looser-living, mostly female victims to ignominious fates is faintly offensive.

It's littered with plot holes, it shamelessly retcons the story of the first movie, & it goes for a totally different tone- but I think I enjoyed it more. On top of Pamela Springsteen's fantastically unhinged performance, this is shockingly more clever than it has any right to be. The kills are mostly inventive, there's actual character development, & the plot is interesting the whole way through. It's definitely imperfect, & the acting isn't hot, but it's pretty damn fun for what it is

In a general sense the movie works as a typical '80s slasher - a bunch of teens at summer camp are picked off by a maniacal killer. But every detail is just... off. Death scenes are clumsy, interactions between characters are awkward, important plot developments come at the wrong times, the killer is horribly miscast. It's like the filmmakers had never actually seen a horror movie. What a mess. It makes the first one seem like a masterpiece.

I love this film! Even though it's different from the original, I still enjoy it. Pamela Springsteen brings lots of energy and charm, the other characters are interesting, the kills are pretty good, and the tone makes this a fun movie for me. Oh, I'm a happy camper...

Goes the comedy route, which is probably a wise decision since they were never going to top the original in sheer weirdness. Trouble is, it's just not all that funny... or even as funny as the original. But still, it's entertaining, likable trash in a way that's just not done anymore.

49.2.

Sleepaway Camp as a movie concept is not truly as much horror as it is comedy. I felt like the second movie wasn't that bad. It's not quite there with the original one, but it embraces the stupid jokes and all the kids being goddamn idiots. Some are just more horny than the others and we know who hates that! Angela just might drown you in the shitter over it. A solid little slasher with loads of campy humor and idiotic kids.

A horrible trashy sequel that completely misses the point of the original movie.

This film brings back memories. Campfire stories, eating in the cabin mess halls, pulling pranks... seeing people get killed... oh wait, scratch that last part. I didn't have the honor of watching the first installment of this series (Thanks a lot Hulu) but I did manage to watch this interesting gem. I was surprised that they showed the killer so early in the film, I guess it wasn't supposed to be a secret like the killer in the Scream movies. I did like this cheery killer though...

I was hoping that the sequel had something to hold up to the completely out of left field plot twist at the end of the first. Lo and behold they gave Angela a sex change, one of the worst directorial decisions ever made.

The second and third installments of the Sleepaway Camp series take a sharp turn away from the precedent set by the original, taking us into the realm of generic teen slasher cliche. I will say this: If you like slasher films, this movie is damn funny, with funny an dpaper thin characters, and some fnny situations.

Horrible acting and not scary but if you are into slasher films, it has a big body count.

A completely different movie than the first, and really only a sequel in the title and the name of the killer. That said, Pamela Springsteen is interesting as the worlds chirpiest serial killer and I kind of wish they should have given her a new franchise instead of trying to profit of association with a far superior movie. Where the prior movie was original and "realistic" this one follows the 80's slasher conventions so close it mostly feels like a parody.

Angela goes from being Jason/Michael Myers to Freddy in this fun sequel.

The original was cheap and bizzare, but played it completely seriously. This one is basically a parody, though not really of the first movie, but more generally of late 80s slashers. Angela is no longer reserved and quiet, and is instead aggressively chipper as she murders counselors for flashing their boobs, which happens every. single. scene. for the first 3/4 of the movie. T.C. really looks like young Mel Gibson, mullet and all.

Pretty lame and unfunny.

70.000

Generic 80's slasher film. Lots of funny parts, lots of cool deaths, and lots of boobs! Gotta love it!

Out of the four movies this is the one i remember the least. Because this is when the series starts to go from serious to hilariously cheesy.

I wish this film's occasional original ideas got put into something not boring as hell.

One of the greatest killing sprees I have ever seen

68.000

Having the sequel be a send-up of the slasher movies that the first one tried so hard to be like is amazing.

I have always avoided Sleepaway Camp because I assumed it was a knock off  version of Friday the 13th. The sequel is my first exposure to the franchise, and was glad to have my assumption proven wrong. I am excited to explore the remaining movies. Margaret Booth from American Horror Story 1984 was so similar to Angela in this film.  I am surprised there is not more being written to compare the two projects.

Tonally very different from the 1st. Horror comedies are rarely any good. I liked the balance of pleasing slasher fans while keeping the tongue in cheek. That's largely thanks to the character of Angela who is following her own twisted code and Pamela Springsteen who fits the part very well. Plot is not that strong and the film starts to get repetitive as it's just killing the teens one by one. They don't really know where to take the story. Better than expected, but could have been a real gem.

- "she's alive." - "uh, it's a guy." - "not anymore. he went into a psycho ward a couple of years ago, and, while he was there, doctors gave him a sex change, and OUR PARENTS' TAXES PAY FOR IT. well he… or she… or whatever, got out a couple of years ago." ...so, you would most probably think that the villain is saying all this, but nope: it's the Good Guy™; yep. Following on the steps of its predecessor (which was quite homophobic), this film is transphobic as fuck. FUCK THIS.

The tone of this film is what sets its apart from other 80s slashers. Ranging from tongue-and-cheek humor to full blown silliness is sometimes confusing among the countless boobs and gore. I'd probably like this a lot more if it wasn't so different from its masterful predecessor.