Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers

Starring:Pamela Springsteen, RenÃ©e Estevez, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman, Brian Patrick Clarke, Walter Gotell, Susan Marie Snyder, Terry Hobbs, Kendall Bean, Julie Murphy, Carol Chambers, Amy Fields, Benji Wilhoite, Walter Franks III, Justin Nowell, Heather Binion, Jason Ehrlich, Carol Martin Vines, Tricia Grant, Jill Jane Clements
Director: Michael A. Simpson
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Good Stuff
Just as good as the original!
Not half bad sequel
0.25 STARS: Unhappy Horrorman after watching this movie.
Why did it take me so long to find out about Sleepaway Camp?....

Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers
Starring: Pamela Springsteen , Renée Estevez , Tony Higgins , Valerie Hartman , and Brian Patrick Clarke
Director: Michael A. Simpson
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00006ADDE
Release Date: 2002-08-20

Customer Reviews:

Good Stuff.......2007-06-17

This is one of the better horror-comedies out there, IMO. It isn't exactly completely original, but it's different enough from other horror-comedies that it feels unique. The acting really isn't that bad, especially for a late-80's horror film. Angela in particular is a memorable character in the horror genre. And the comedy has some wonderfully offbeat humor. Oh yeah, and there are some interesting kills as well! The guys will especially like the performance of Valerie Hartman, I'm sure. If you like campy horror-comedy, definitely get this one.

Just as good as the original!.......2007-05-01

There's a new counselor at Camp Rolling Hills just near Camp Arawak named Angela (Pamela Springstein) as the happy campers seem to be dying mysteriously one by one by a psychotic killer.

A funny and entertaining sequel to the shocking and outrageous 1983 slasher shocker "Sleepaway Camp" is just as good as the original movie! the make-up effects and splatter effects by Bill Johnson are gruesome especially some of the imaginative death scenes like girl drowning in a outhouse and battery acid to the face. Before "Scream" parodied the slasher genre there was this movie with spoofs to "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Friday The 13th".

The DVD has a crisp transfer and good audio with some fine extras like audio commentary, behind the scenes footage and outtakes, trailer, teaser to "Sleepaway Camp III" and still galleries.

Not half bad sequel .......2006-12-20

The original Sleepaway Camp was an underrated slasher romp that had a great twist to it, and considering this was the 80's and slashers were everywhere, it was only natural that a sequel would be due. Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers finds demented Angela (Pamela "sister of Bruce" Springsteen) as a counselor at the re-opened camp, and wouldn't you know it, there's another batch of sexy, loose moraled teens that need to be dispatched. With much more blood and gore than in the original (and most of it is nicely done), wooden acting, mullets aplenty, and hilarious odes to superior slasher icons Freddy Kruger, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface; Sleepaway Camp 2 doesn't take itself too seriously, which is a good thing, and makes it all the more enjoyable. There would be another sequel to boot, but it was hardly any fun.

0.25 STARS: Unhappy Horrorman after watching this movie........2006-09-17

Horror movies used to be known as such because they were scary or instilled people with fear. Fear of a villain or evil was usually the source...classic horror movies like "The Shining", "Halloween", "Psycho", "The Omen", and "The Exorcist" are great examples of such films. Then, along came the advent of films like "Sleepaway Camp II", films that shall we say, did not take themselves very seriously. Frankly, I prefer the former to the latter. Perhaps, I'm in the minority though as I see that "Sleepaway Camp II- Unhappy Campers" gets high reviews from most reviewers.

The first "Sleepaway Camp" was not very good to begin with, but it did have a sense of darkness to it...a sense of creepiness about it that allowed the film to elicit some, albeit, rather pedestrian horror in the viewer. "Sleepaway Camp II- Unhappy Campers" does not have the same atmosphere or goals as its predecessor. In fact, what you really have in "Sleepaway Camp II" is a movie where Angela kills the "bad campers", e.g. the sex-crazed teens, drug users, tattle-tales, etc., etc. Of course, Angela takes things too far, and things catch up with her. Pamela Springsteen comes across as this cute girl who wouldn't hurt a fly, but she is so dangerous according to this movie as Angela. Frankly, I don't believe Angela is physically capable of hurting a fly as she is portrayed in this movie which makes this movie all the more ridiculous. Her actions and disposition do not fit the brutality of these crimes. For example, she swings about as hard a tee-baller when she chops off some guy's head with a machete. I mean do you really think a girl like that could get away with, much less conduct such vicious murders...it just doesn't fly in my book folks. In fact, it's ridiculous. Indeed, the movie is just laughable when you think about it, but maybe that's what the creators were after in this crap. "Sleepaway Camp II" really is more of a comedy than a horror movie no matter how you look at it. In fact, there is nothing horrifying about this movie.

Admittedly, I was mildly entertained while watching this joke of a flick. For all of its flaws, it is kind of funny in a pathetic kind of way. However, I love horror movies and that's what I want to watch, and you don't get that in this flick...period! What you do get is horrendous acting, incredulous plot, unrealistic kills, plenty of mullets (I like T.C.'s the best) and a whole helluva a lot of cheese. If you like this kind of thing, good for you as you will have a great time. As for me, I will continue to enjoy the likes of "The Shining" and "The Exorcist", and maybe one day, I will come upon another diamond in the rough like "Black Christmas". Then again, if any of the last few movies that I've watched for the first time are any indication of the selection of what's out there, I may be looking for an awfully long time. "Sleepaway Camp II- Unhappy Campers" does not instill me with a lot of confidence in the reviewers' taste for what constitutes a good horror movie.

Why did it take me so long to find out about Sleepaway Camp?...........2006-09-04

After seeing only parts 1 and 2 of this series, I honestly think that SLEEPAWAY CAMP is THE finest example of the slasher subgenre. First of all, its a franchise with at least 3 sequels, it spanned the 1980's, its fairly cheesy, and best of all, Angela, the series "Jason/Freddy" type killer is completely unique because she/he is a transvestitte who's story, while completely over the top and very unlikely to ever happen, is actually a really good reason for someone to go out and kill people. I mean, think about it, if you were a child with gay "parents" and you saw your father and sister killed by reckless teenagers and then, as a boy, were raised as a "girl" by a freaky aunt who behaves as if she's in a high school theatre production you'd be screwed up hardcore. To complicate matters, at fourteen, your crazy aunt sends you away to a trashy camp for kids populated by snotty bitches, perverts, and man bullies who pick on you at every chance. Then you fall in love with a nice boy, but WHAT CAN YOU DO? your a guy, you probabley think all of those mean girls are hot, but you don't want to screw up a chance at a nurturing, healthy relationship that you've needed all your life. So after the pressures of killing your enemies in a psychotic rage, you decide to see if the guy who likes you can really like the real you, and after his bad reaction to your secret, you snap completely, kill him and are arrested. To me that sounds like a better reason for a spree than being "pure evil" like Freddy or Michael Myers, or because your just a zombie like Jason, or because you want revenge over some petty misdeed that happened years ago like the guys in movies like "Prom Night" or "the Prowler". In SC 2, Angela has gotten a job as a camp counselor after a sex change and rehabilitation. Of course thats a stupid thing to do. The thing is, all Angela wants is to be normal and healthy. She also wants the campers to never take their normal and healthy lives for granted. When she goes on another spree, its because after all her years of "readjustment" and thinking positive and "opening up and not being so damn shy" she is still being pushed around by the same snotty, undeserving brats that tormented her at camp arawak. My favorite thing in this movie is when Angela is fired and Molly finds her at the cabin and tries to comfort her and Angela is all "There was a boy that I didn't get along with once, I fixed him...I drowned him". I wholeheartedly recommend this film to slasher fans because of the excessively human killer and the great montage of gorey deaths, nudity, humor, and fantastic one-liners, which all combined is usually absent in slasher movies.

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