If you ignore the fact that the busiest serial killer in the world has no problem putting on a pair of sunglasses and going back to the camp where she killed dozens of people, you will enjoy this movie. The premise isn't any sillier than the Friday The 13th movies and people seem to love those. At one point Angela fishes a hockey mask out of the lake and then asks what day it is. Wouldn't you know it's Saturday the 14th! I almost laughed. Once again, Angela manages to kill everyone at camp without arousing anyone's suspicion. It's the same plot as the first two movies but it still works. If you saw the first two, you have to see this.

It must be twenty years since i saw Sleepaway Camp 3 AKA Nightmare Vacation 3 and my following review will contain several spoilers throughout.The survivor and killer of the previous film Angela Baker returns after murdering a teenage girl in the opening scene and uses her I.D to enter a newly named and revamped camp called Camp New Horizons. The idea of this new camp says the owner Lily is to promote caring and sharing between campers from both rich and poor backgrounds. Reporter Tawny and her camera man are present to promote this new scheme and highlight the controversy surrounding the previous year when at the same camp under the name Camp Rolling Hills many of the campers had been murdered.Angela knows that she must be more strategic if she plans on getting away with her sinister intentions this time especially when there is a few people at the camp who are suspicious of her due to her appearance being older than the other campers.Whilst at camp befriends two campers Bobby and Marcia whom she uses to her advantage although she has a challenge to overcome with one of the counselors who is a parent of one of the campers she murdered the previous year.Like many other films of the 1980's there are the typical characters who stand out like Cindy the judgemental and racist camper, Arab the camper who has attitude although seems to be one step ahead of some of the others, Tony who appears to have had a tough life and wants to change it for the better, Riff the camper with little or no respect for others and Marcia the most likable and friendly camper.Towards the end of the film i found a quite disturbing game that Angela plays on a few of the campers interesting which could have prevented a rather shocking cat fight between herself and another female camper if she had behaved differently.I personally preferred Part 2 over this one however Sleep Away Camp 3:Teenage Wasteland does have it's benefits and it provides a worthwhile continuation from its previous effort which was filmed back to back with this part. I do like Pamela Springsteen's performance of Angela Baker and the more creative death scenes. IT is also a pleasant touch for another horror film of the late 1980's to have a female killer who whilst not scary actually has a personality and some depth to her character. I am still disappointed that even up to this day many of the violent and bloody scenes have not been fully restored and included in this film and can only be viewed as bonus extra scenes on the Survival Kit Box set! This scenario reminds me of the one with Friday The 13th Part 7:The New Blood.I would give this film 7 out of 10.

"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.

Production of the second sequel to 1983's surprisingly good slasher Sleepaway Camp began immediately after production finished on the first sequel, and sees director Michael A. Simpson, writer Fritz Gordon and star Pamela Springsteen reunited. Sleepaway Camp 2 took me by surprise; not being a fan of the slasher genre in general, I didn't go into it with high hopes; but found it to be a very fun and worthwhile entry into the overpopulated slasher genre. This sequel is at least as good as the second part; if not slightly better! The plot is somewhat more unbelievable...but who cares? We once again focus on homicidal transsexual Angela Baker. She's not given up on her life mission of murdering kids that go to camp, and thus the opening of Camp New Horizons; on the same site where she murdered a bunch of kids a year earlier, does not escape her attention. Angela manages to secure the identity of one of the kids due at camp; and doesn't waste any time upon her arrival as she immediately gets to work dispatching her fellow campers.Undoubtedly the main reason why the two Sleepaway Camp sequels work so well is due to the lead performance from Pamela Springsteen. Obviously, it's not exactly a heavyweight role; but Springsteen takes to it with relish and actually manages to be somewhat believable in the role. She's very entertaining too - her voice and demeanour are often captivating. The most important thing for a lot of people going into slashers will be the kill scenes; and this one isn't a let down in that respect; as Angela utilises a variety of weapons to dispatch her victims - the best of which include a flag pole, a lawnmower and a rap tape! The body count is nothing to sniff at, either. The film puts together a good support cast too; the idea of the camp bringing together rich kids and poor kids is put to good use with an assortment of interesting and amusing characters. It all boils down to a suitably amusing ending and while this film is not exactly life changing; it does represent a good fun time and I'm sure it will be enjoyed by anyone that liked the earlier films in the series.