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4.0 out of 5 stars
Angela totally owns Jason Voorhees., March 9, 2006
This review is from: Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers (DVD)
When I put this DVD in, I wasn't really expect much. All I expected was a crappy sequel to a really great film, since alot of slasher sequels aren't that good. Well, I was pleasantly suprised because what I got was a highly enjoyable late 80's horror cheesefest that all fans of corny slasher flicks can appreciate.
Basically, the plot revolves around a group of kids at a camp called Rolling Hills, which is apparently 60 miles from Arawak. Well, it turnes out that Angela did her time at the mental hospital and has had a sex change operation (She used to be a boy) and is apparently "cured". Haha. Boy, were the counselors that hired her wrong. Pretty soon, kids begin to start missing. Angela claims that she's sent them home for behaving badly, when really, she's been brutally murdering them in painful, gruesome ways. No one knows this, and of course, they believe her when she tells them she sent 'em home. Well, when more and more kids keep getting "sent home", the camp counselors get suspicious and fire Angela. Of course, Angela runs off into the forest and to the abandoned cabin where she likes to hang out. One of the remaining teenagers decides that she wants to try and cheer her up, and grabs her boyfriend and has him help her. Well, when they reach Angela's hangout spot, they soon find out her disgustingly horrible secret and now both of their lives are in danger. Will they make it out alive? Watch the movie and find out, damn it!
Well, there's a run-down of the main premise of this short, but incredibly entertaining bloodfest. Now, the story is really quite absurd. Wouldn't they check Angela's records or something before hiring her as a staff member? In real life, yes, they would have and they would have NEVER have hired her...unless they were total and complete idiots, of course. But, luckily, these counselors are idiots and we get to have a fun time watching Angela "weed out the bad kids"! The gore scenes in here weren't very graphic, but then again, the gore scenes weren't too graphic in the first one, either. You see, they didn't NEED to be gorey! And neither do the deaths in here!
Oh, and if you're looking for some T&A, there's plenty of it in here. Right after the beginning credits, we see one of the young teenage girls topless because she says she likes to sleep in the nude. And there's one that just likes to act like a complete [hooker]to impress her friends and the guys, and one of the best sex scenes ever filmed happens to be in here. Yes, the sexual stuff is pretty pointless, but this is a SLASHER FILM. Most slasher films have a little bit of nudity or sex in them, to attract their younger male target audience. And of course, the girls are treated to a couple of muscular guys without any shirts on a couple of times.
The acting is pretty average in here, but it's better than the performances in the first film. Pam Springsteen is amazing as Angela, and I personally think she's much much better than Felissa Rose. I love the way she portrays our favorite transvestite serial killer. When she murders, she doesn't think twice about it. She just acts like it's some every day thing, and just...does it. There's no other way to explain it, she just kills 'em. Only a couple of the murders have build up to them, and yeah, I do wish there had been more build-up in this one like in the first, but oh well. I still had a great time watching this, so that doesn't matter.
Overall, this isn't as good as the first one, but for some reason, it's far more entertaining.
Reccomended for a Saturday night rental. Or you can just buy it if it's really really cheap, like I did. Don't forget to pop a ton of popcorn to go with it!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
No fornicating!, June 22, 2004
This review is from: Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers (DVD)
Angela from the first Sleepaway Camp is back, this time as the counselor for a new camp, Camp Rolling Hills. With time at the mental hospital and a sex-change operation under her belt, she's back to school some campers on the ways of the world.
Alcohol? Pot? Sex? Flashing? Peeping? No, these things don't belong at Camp Rolling Hills, so Angela has to punish the bad campers in the only way she knows how. When too many campers are "sent home," her boss gets suspicious and fires Angela...and then she snaps.
This is a really fun movie. I didn't expect much, but I really enjoyed it. Pamela Springsteen is just great as Angela (yes, she is the Boss's sister), and the rest of the cast does what they can - I mean, they're hired to doff their tops not perform Shakespeare. There's gore, there's nudity, there's laughs...what's not to like, really?
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Oh..I'm a happy camper!, March 8, 2005
This review is from: Sleepaway Camp II - Unhappy Campers (DVD)
This is a fantastic sequel! It has everything a great horror movie should have- a likeable killer (played magnificently by Pamela Springstein), unlikeable victims, nudity, drugs, great death scenes (LOVE the toilet scene) and funny one-liners. I definately believe they topped the first one with this movie. This movie doesn't try to be scary (like the first one did unsuccessfully)--it tries to be funny, yet it doesn't lack on gore or great killings. I really enjoyed what they did with Angela on this sequel. She was so annoying in the first--you almost wanted to smack her! Props to this great little movie and to Pamela Springstein- our first female transexual physcho killer!!!
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