Wordiezett So much average

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

LasKeepsItReal 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.

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.

Michael_Elliott Sleepaway Camp 3 (1989) ** (out of 4)The third film in the series has Angela (Pamela Springsteen) killing a girl and taking her identity, which gets her back into a camp being ran by a goofy old couple who want to take rich kids and mix with poor kids so that they can learn to live together. It doesn't take too long for Angela to go back on a killing rampage.SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3 was shot at the same time as the second film but sadly it's the weakest of the series, which is a real shame when you consider how good the first two were. What was so disappointing is that the second film was so fast, original and catchy that you went into this one hoping for more of the same but that just didn't happen. Instead we're given a rather routine sequel that doesn't really offer up anything new and everything fresh in the second film just comes across as tired and watered down.Everything here is rather lame to be honest. The death scenes in the movie were all trimmed to get a R-rating so even these don't really stand out but you don't need gore in order for a death scene to be entertaining. I say that because the second film wasn't gory but it was clever. Another problem with this film is that the characters just aren't all that likable. The "bad" campers are all rather annoying and none of them are really developed as anything other than the next victim. It also doesn't help that even Angela doesn't have the same flare as in the previous movie.Springsteen gives a good performance in the lead role and there's no question that it's funny seeing someone like Michael J. Pollard (BONNIE AND CLYDE) playing a pervert. If you're a fan of the series then I'm sure you'll be slightly entertained by this third film but there's no question that it doesn't live up to the first two.

Michael DeZubiria I think I'm starting to lose my taste for horror movies. For about the last ten years, horror has been a favorite genre for me, especially the old 80s slasher movies. I even enjoyed watching the bad ones, because it is so entertaining to see what kinds of new and interesting ways they come up with for killing promiscuous teenagers. But the whole Sleepaway Camp series struck me as so witless and boring that my only conclusion is that it must either be a prodigious disaster six movies long or I am just not into this crap anymore.The second sequel is not even as good as the first sequel, which in its entirety is not even as good as the last shot of the original film. Once again, the acting is astonishingly bad from beginning to end, and they knew this too. Notice, after all, that there is a teenage girl wearing nothing but panties less than a minute after the film starts (with "Milk Shake" tattooed across her breasts, if you can believe that), then another one 15 minutes later, and rarely do you have to wait that long for the rest of the movie to see some bare breasted girl trying to act like it's perfectly normal for her to be hanging around half naked at camp.Maybe it's because I worked at a summer camp a couple years ago and so I know how ridiculous the idea of Camp New Horizons is. The big idea this time is to take a lot of poor kids and put them in camp with a bunch of rich kids for an "experience in sharing." The result is a lot of ridiculous caricatures the likes of which would never survive in the real world, rich or poor (Snowboy???). As far as the motives behind the killings, one of the things that I first appreciated about good slasher movies (even the good 'bad' slasher movies) was that there was always a reason the people were killed. It almost always had something to do with promiscuity or drugs or alcohol or something, but the audience was allowed some opportunity to figure it out. Not here. All subtlety is removed and replaced with a completely mechanical removal of undesirables ("Are you a cheerleader?" "Yes." "Are you a virgin?" "No." "Have you ever done drugs?" "Yes." "Strike three..."). Admittedly, some of the death scenes are certainly original, like the kid who gets his arms pulled off by the jeep and the girl who gets pulled up the flagpole and then dropped. I hadn't seen that before. But then you have ones that are creative but that just don't work, like the kid who doesn't wake up as a lit firecracker is pushed up his nose. All in all, the first film is worth watching just for that ending, which is thematically disturbing but highly effective. Part 2 and 3, however, both have yawn-inducing endings, and personally I have no interest in finding out about parts 4, 5, or 6....