Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

1989 "Angela... the angel of death is back!"
5| 1h19m| R| en| More Info
Released: 04 August 1989 Released
Producted By: Double Helix Films
Country: United States of America
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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.

Genre

Horror, Comedy

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Director

Michael A. Simpson

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Double Helix Films

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
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.
happyendingrocks This third installment of the Sleepaway Camp series attempts to amp up the humor, nudity, and body count to make up for its lack of fresh ideas, but, oddly, the component most slasher movie fans will be eagerly expecting is dialed way down.By far the least splattery chapter of the franchise, Teenage Wasteland provides the teenagers and the wasteland, but doesn't deliver the gore goods nearly often enough, and despite a few novel methods of dispatch, most of the anticipated carnage occurs off-screen. That approach would work fine if this wasn't a sequel to a charmingly seedy snuff film about a series of brutal murders committed by a pubescent female psychopath with a penis. But, since the film-makers should have been keenly aware that the main reason genre devotees are even showing up for round three is to see what gruesome tidings are in store this time out, the dearth of high-impact gross-out gags seriously hinders the film."Tame" is probably the wrong word to describe a movie that features characters being crushed in the compactor of a trash truck, snorting cleaning products that have been passed off as cocaine, getting their heads run over by lawn mowers, having firecrackers explode inside their nostrils, and getting their arms torn off at the roots. However, stripped of the genre's version of a money shot, most of these sequences ultimately fall flat, and what we're left with is a shining example of impressively crappy cinema that's nowhere near as fun to watch as it should be.The film follows the continuing saga of Angela, who starts our journey off by killing an inner city teenager and stealing her identity so she can attend the rejuvenated Camp Rolling Hills in the dead girl's place. Once she's back in her element, our feisty murderess gets right down to business and racks up a roster of victims that handily matches if not exceeds the overachieving final tally of Sleepaway Camp II. Her adversaries for this installment include lecherous and lazy camp counselors, the police officer father of one of the previous film's casualties, and of course the usual bevy of pricelessly one-dimensional teenage archetypes.Despite the relatively restrained level of bloodshed, there's enough naked flesh on display to rival the amount showcased in the franchise up to this point, and the same brand of sophomoric humor prevalent in the first two Camps is peppered in throughout, so the sleazy tone is at least consistent with the rest of the series. Unfortunately, none of the jokes are particularly funny and some of Angela's one-liners are real groaners, so this aspect of the movie is ultimately pretty lame in comparison to its occasionally witty predecessors (unless of course you like the idea of Angela recording an a cappella rap song to inform a stereotypical urban youth that she's about to kill him).In fact, the most amusing moment in this film isn't even from the script; it's the visible displeasure displayed by the buxom lass called upon for a sex scene with Michael J. Pollard, who's easily thirty years her senior here and looks every bit like it. Though the dubbed-in sound effects suggest that she's in the throes of ecstasy, the poor actress actually appears to be repulsed by Pollard's kisses, and movements that are supposed to be writhing come-hither gestures look more like desperate attempts to have as little physical contact with the aged actor as possible.I'm not honestly trying to take this film more seriously than it warrants, and you can feel free to read my review of Unhappy Campers if you have any doubts about my sincere love for endearingly awful movies like this. But while Teenage Wasteland is assuredly cut from the same cloth as part II (judging by the recycled wardrobe, props, and sets all over the place, I'm guessing they were shot at the exact same time) this third act simply isn't quite as satisfying as the rest of the series that spawned it.Still, if you enjoyed your last visit to Camp Rolling Hills, you'll probably deem this trip a worthy enough use of 80 minutes too. It's just disappointing that the film-makers apparently used up all their stage blood before they got around to finishing the trilogy.
acidburn-10 Angela returns again to another stupid and pointless sequel, she returns yet again to the camp where she murdered everyone only this time under a new name Maria and a new look, but then her murderous instinct's kick in and she starts killing again.Pamela Springsteen returns once again in this silly and stupid sequel as Angela Baker (originally played by Felissa Rose). Well, Sleepaway Camp 3 is basically Sleepaway Camp 2 all over again but with less campers and a more good-looking Pamela Springsteen and once again the comedy seems to be more in focus than the horror. Don't you just hate when that happens to originally good horror flicks? Angela's one-liners are stupid and never deliver so much as a giggle.The acting is just as bad as the acting in the second movie and it almost feels as if they shot this directly after wrapping up production on the second movie since it's even the same director.Sleepaway Camp III is a dull and stupid slasher that I don't get why slasher fans like it, the killings this time round are quite dull, but the one Angela placing a rap tape in the tape player of her next victim was enjoyable and quite funny.All in all awful slasher that only gets a 3 because of the inventive rap sceme murder
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. (***/*****).