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Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers

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Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen), a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly (Renee Estevez) begins to piece together the truth.
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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness You'll never look at an outhouse the same way again. Rated: C+ Jul 21, 2005 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast A very in-on-the-joke low budget horror comedy with a delightful turn from Pamela Springsteen. Rated: 3/5 Aug 29, 2023 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast While the film needs more short shorts, the switch to outright comedy/horror suits the material. Pamela Springsteen's performance is pitch perfect, though the film does have too many characters and lacks the practical FX of the first film. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Cody Leach Cody Leach (YouTube) Sleepaway Camp 2 pushes fully into horror comedy that is guided by Pamela Springsteen's jovial take on the franchise villain. There isn't near as much taboo or shock value as the original, but this sequel has fun with it's sizable bodycount. Rated: 3/5 Aug 27, 2022 Full Review Anthony Arrigo Dread Central It's absurd, trashy, violent, nasty, disgusting... and entirely entertaining. May 29, 2020 Full Review C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore Unhappy Campers is all about Angela's awkwardly hilarious and horrific journey as a person during a decade she didn't understand and one unable to understand her. Rated: 3/5 May 1, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tyler B Compared to the first one, it's only purpose of existence is to spawn unwanted sequels. Rinse, lather, and repeat. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Allan C SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t seen the first film. The gender-swap slasher Angela returns as a camp counselor and is now played by Bruce Springsteen’s little sister. The first film had a fantastic zinger reveal at the end, long before THE CRYING GAME, where the killer, Angela, turned out to be the boy from the flashback earlier in the film. This sequel can’t repeat that same surprise ending, so the filmmakers wisely acknowledge the truth about “Angela” from the start and, this time, lean much more into comedy. The main plot line is that Angela is enforcing her Puritanical expectations on all the other counselors, so anyone smoking dope or having sex is going to get violently killed. The slasher film kills are creative and mostly done for laughs. The promiscuous Ally has the grosses kill involving an outhouse, and I loved it! The actress who played Ally, Valeria Harman, gives the standout performance of the film, but when I looked her up, she only ever did this film, an episode of CHEERS episode, and a small part in some erotic thriller I’d never heard of, so that was kind of disappointing. The film’s light tone is really its strength. Also, all of the gratuitous nudity (and I mean gratuitous with a capital G!) certainly helped hold my interest as well. The film also has a funny nod to other teen films of this era by naming all the campers after 80s Brat Pack actors (Molly, Ally, Rob, Demi, Lea, Brooke, Charlie, Emilio, etc.). Overall, SLEEPAWAY CAMP II has no pretensions that it’s a serious horror film and delivers solid kills and comedy.  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/30/24 Full Review Cluedo Was a good sequel to the first one but it didnt have the same feeling to the end. It was fun to watch but that was it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/29/23 Full Review KerryWhite's S 6/10. 65/100. | I have a feeling this will be a sort of guilty pleasure of mine now 🤔 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/29/23 Full Review Ariana C So ridiculous, what was the cherry on top of a bad movie was the slowed down clips of her singing. They definitely thought this would blow up like the first movie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/21/23 Full Review Raiodesol S The expectation following the first movie can be very decisive to a viewers opinion on this movie. If you watched the first movie and you're expecting something similar, this movie can be a complete let down. But if you're watching just to know what a sequel to the original Sleepaway Camp would look like, then you're probably in for a fun (and filled with nudity) movie. The only thing you have to know is: no, there's no impactful and horrifying scene in this one. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen), a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly (Renee Estevez) begins to piece together the truth.
Director
Michael A. Simpson
Producer
Michael A. Simpson, Jerry Silva
Screenwriter
Fritz Gordon
Distributor
Nelson Entertainment [us]
Production Co
Double Helix Films
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 28, 1988, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 13, 2016
Runtime
1h 20m
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