Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
R | 04 August 1989 (USA)
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Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.

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jacobjohntaylor1

5.3 is overrating this movie. This movie has an awful story line. It not scary at all. The ending is awful. This movie is pooh pooh. Good actor wasted there talent being in this awful movie. Do not wast your time. Do not wast your money. d.Do not see this awful movie. I give 4 out of 10 because it is a stinky pile of pooh. This about some kid going to camp and a murder is kill them off one by one. It could have been a scary movie. If the story line had not been so awful. This movie is very stinky pooh pooh. Do not see it. The people who wrote this movie have no talent. This is a bad movie. Bad movie bad movie bad movie do not see it.

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Dom Nickson

Spoiler Alert!!! This sequel actually isn't as bad as people make it out to be. It still has the same early 90's feeling as it did in the second one. It has almost no likable characters at all except for Barney. Here though it's more of a minority type of cast. I noticed this film has some racism to show how in the city it really can be like this. It also refers to the kids of the cities as brats, so there should be no surprise you hate all of the characters, unlike the 2nd movie where they are all the Christian kids that do what teenagers typically do. Some act stuck up, most are nice, some just want to get laid, and some try to act mysterious. Anyway this movie is some pretty decent looking gore I must say like when Angela decapitates the Asian girl with the axe. I saw the extended version of Angela kicking her head afterwards and it looked awesome! I liked this sequel but I thought the ending was kind of weak. I gave it a 6 out of 10.

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Bonehead-XL

"Sleepaway Camp III" was shot back to back with "Sleepaway Camp II" and released straight to video a year later. As a money saving measure, both movies were shot on the same sets. The movie barely attempts to disguise this and, instead, thinks of a clever way to write around it. A pair of greedy, would-be entrepreneurs have bought Camp Rolling Hills, two years after Angela's massacre. They have rebuilt the camp into Camp New Horizon, where teens of rich families can mingle with poor, troubled youths. Angela returns to the scene of the crime, assuming a new identity, before the badly behaved tenants force her to kill again. "Sleepaway Camp III" is cheap but at least it's creatively cheap."Sleepaway Camp II" was a fairly subtle satire of eighties pop culture, eviscerating the icons of the day while gently poking fun at the rules of the slasher subgenre. Part three, meanwhile, attempts a muddled sociological message. The rich kids at Camp Rolling Hill are rotten to the core, displaying greedy, selfish behavior. The kids from the ghetto, meanwhile, are violent and unintelligent. Even the owners of the camp, winkingly named Herman and Lily, are corrupt. Herman attempts to screw his teenage tenants while Lily is a lay-about that uses the campers as a private workforce. Angela is a force of weird justice, slicing through both social stratas, deeming all unworthy.Instead of naming the victims after the Brat Pack, Michael Simpson and Fritz Gordon name the fodder after "Brady Bunch" and "West Side Story" characters. The flick intentionally recalls "West Side" with its two survivors. Marcia is from the nice side of the tracks. She strikes up a romance with Tony, a Hispanic kid from such a town that he considers being a gang member no big deal. Their attraction isn't love. Both characters admit they're just horny. Yet their relationship is the film's best implication that there is hope for the future, that different social groups can find a peaceful middle ground.Which brings us to the increasingly peculiar character of Angela. In part two, an incongruent perkiness separated Angela from the slasher pack while a barely glimpsed inner-sadness made her a deeper character. In part three, Angela is more low-key. She pretends to be a nasty kid in order to make it into the camp. Amusingly, Angela is as bad at pretending to be a street kid as you'd expect, especially when she enthusiastically proclaims her love for the Happy Campers song. In the last flick, Angela at killed those that violated her personal moral code. There's elements of that here too. However, Angela seems to be killing this time mostly because her victims aren't nice. When dropping a rich brat from a flagpole, she calls her a "fornicator." But only after criticizing her for being a cheerleader and racist first. Angela has become bitter. As the film makes obvious, it's from heartbreak. While exploring the room that used to be the main cabin, Angela flashes back to the previous film. In an extended scene, she expresses how important camp is, how it's about being accepted for who she is. No wonder she's sad and angry. The world has continuously disappointed her.While it tries, "Sleepaway Camp III" ultimately feels like the quickie sequel it is. While the cast is about the same size, the characters are nowhere near as developed. The bad kids are designated a stereotypic behavior. Riff blares his ghetto blaster. Cindy is an entitled rich witch. Snowboy spray-paints. Peter likes firecrackers. Ahab is a tough girl. Jan sleeps around. George is the football star that is secretly into kinky sex, probably the funniest of the lot, especially when he tries to put the moves on Angela. Some of the kids don't even get that much, as Greg and Anita are without any defining features. That the movie was written quickly is evident in its plot construction. After a somewhat sluggish first hour, where Angela separates teens from the group as to kill them, she spends the last half-hour cleaving through the remaining cast. Fritz Gordon's previous script transcended the time limit but it's clear the deadline got to him on this one.Part II also featured some creative, graphic kills. Unfortunately, the MPAA came down hard on "Teenage Wasteland." What Angela does to her victims can't compare to what the censors did to the death scenes. Before a head smashes on impact or a face is chopped up in a mower, the camera abruptly cuts away. A decapitation is neutered when the punch line, Angela kicking the head, is cut out. A Jeep tears arms off which is awkwardly cropped out of frame. Far too many of the death scenes are Angela hitting her victim with sticks, which is not the most cinematic violence. At least the movie doesn't skimp on the T&A, as the audience is greeted to nine spectacular breasts. (Even if the sole sex scenes features Michael J. Pollard. Did I mention Michael J. Pollard? He's in this.) The third film ends on an ambiguous note, one that ultimately defines the film. As Marcia tries to escape, Angela is fatally wounded. While driven off in an ambulance, she raises long enough to kill the paramedic and cop. When the driver asks what's going on, Angela says she's "taking care of business," a slight reservation in her voice. Killing bad people in a world destined to disappoint her is Angeal's job now. She doesn't take much joy in it. Though I love Pamela Springsteen, her delivery here is tired, especially the hilarious sleepy rap she performs. The whole movie is tired. It's not as funny or satisfying as the previous sequel. However, I'll enjoy any movie that has Pam stirring up trouble. Given more time, this probably would have been a classic on the level of part two. As it is, it's still entertaining.

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Lucien Lessard

Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen) is back returning to the infamous camp, where she murdered many of the counselors at the camp from the year before. Now this camp has been re-named as Camp New Horizons. Which it's supposed to make Rich Kids learn with the poor ones as well to work together. But the new owners (Michael J. Pollard and Sandra Dorsey) are trying to save money for not using the camp as its full potential. The new camp counselors are careless, horny, disrespecting and extremely rude. Now Angela wants to teach these Camp Owners and Camp Counselors a lesson.Directed by Michael A. Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 2:Unhappy Campers) made an uninspired but watchable dumb slasher horror movie with an enjoyable performance by Springsteen. Which she makes fun to watch with her funny dialogue and her odd if unusual kills but she seems tired at times. This movie seems to be really cut for time, especially the violent if ordinary murder sequences. Amateurish cast do their best but Tracy Griffith as one of the counselors is likable and cute as well. Die-hard fans of the series will enjoy it, others beware. (***/*****).

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