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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
(Camp/Campground/Slasher) 8********skulls
* Blood * Extremely Violent * Very Strong Language * Sexual Situations * Nudity * Gory *
1988/Color/81 Minutes/Nelson Entertainment/Double Helix Films Inc./Rated R
Director.........Michael A. Simpson
Screenplay.......Fritz Gordon
Music............James Oliverio
Producer.........Jerry Silva & Michael A. Simpson
Executive Producer.....Stan Wakefield
Special Makeup Effects by Bill Johnson
Based on an original Idea by Robert Hiltzik
Dramatis Personae
Molly.......Rene'e Estevez
Mare........Susan Marie Snyder
Ally........Valerie Hartman
Sean........Tony Higgins
T.C.........Brian Patrick Clarke
Uncle John..Walter Gotell
Rob.........Terry Hobbs
Demi........Kendall Dean
Lea.........Julie Murphy
Brooke......Carol Chambers
Jodi........Amy Fields
Anthony.....Benji Wilhoite
Judd........Walter Franks II
Charlie.....Justin Howell
Critique: Watch Angela as her justifications for sending people home are for slighter and slighter infractions. Whining and talking back being heinous examples. This is surely the best camp-campground slasher ever made.
Plot Summary: A story is told around a campfire at camp Rolling Hills. Fried rats and murders in mausoleums. Then there's the story of camp Arrowak. the killer was a shy fourteen year old who was no girl. But what happened to the killer? One story is that he was taken to a mental institution where he was changed to a girl as therapy. He escaped two years ago. Angela confronts one of the girls, and seems pretty hard on her. When she gets separated from Angela and doesn't know the way back, Angela shows her what happens to girls with a dirty mouth. Angela's uncle John runs the camp. In spite of Molly's attempts to defend her, it's agreed that Angela is no prize. The ever cheerful Angela leads them in the happy camper song, hoping with the grace of God she'll camp until she dies. Angela has observed that the moral state of these campers needs work. Fornicators! Drug users! She teaches them some lifelong lessons which don't stay with them long at all. One wonders how the panty raid will set with her. When Angela asks Mary that she'd rather die first than say she's sorry for exposing her breasts to the boys, we fear the worst. The kids get together dressed as Freddy Krueger and Jason to scare Angela. But the joke's on them as Angela comes in as Leatherface. The way Angela cheerfully goes about her business is an outrage. Her moral high ground is an inspiration. Ally gets a message from Sean to meet her, but she may be in for a surprise. As the mayhem abates, Angela, singing kumbaya by herself, reports to the morally upright Molly that she has sent all the others home. Finally, uncle John is forced to give Angela her walking papers. Sean and Molly head out to Angela's hideaway to console her. What Sean finds in that cabin. Now there's a chambre de corps mord. When T.C. hears about Molly and Sean's out?, he hurries out to be sure there's nothing wrong, but Angela, with her usual acid wit, faces him with more than he had bargained for. Angela allows that she had had problems, but explains to Molly that due to pills, electroshock and the operation, she is completely cured. And what would a horror movie be without a monster intermezzo? Angela makes her way out of the now empty camp by hitchhiking. The picker-upper had better behave herself, because Angela deals sternly with the morally astray.
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