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15 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
She's back to SLASH last years record!, 8 September 2002
Author: TheRedStripe (Garbeck @ webtv.net) from United States

THE PLOT: Angela is heading back to camp! This time she is returning as a troubled city kid to Camp New Horizons. With half the campers from the streets and the other half spoiled rich kids, there is plenty of immoral activity going on.

Angela has big plans for this summer that she just can't put aside. Camp fires, archery, swimming, hiking, and murder...

THE ACTING: Better than the first and just as good as the second. Pamela Springsteen is great as usual as everyones favorite transsexual killer.

THE BLOOD: Not as bloody as the second but just as satisfying.

THE BODY COUNT: 15+

THE RATING: This was a pretty good movie. Although it was lacking in some areas it was better than the first "Sleepaway Camp". However, the second is still my favorite of the trilogy. For some funny, bloody, and disturbing moments I will give this movie a 7/10

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12 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Angela is back!, 19 July 2000
Author: dx4lifexpac from new york

im gonna keep it short and simple Sleepaway Camp 3 Teenage Wasteland is a great horror movie. it's not scary at all nor his the whole trilogy. but Pamela Springsteen aka Angela is just so great, the kills are original and she is just too funny, once again you will find your self hoping she kills everyone. all i will say is if you can find the Sleepaway camp trilogy rent them. part 2 and 3 are the best. long live Angela i give Sleepaway Camp 3 8/10

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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
A great surprise!, 22 April 2002

Author: movie king (avangrac@muhlenberg.edu) from Allentown, PA

For my 12 year old sleepover party I rented this movie ( I am now 19) and me and my friends loved every moment of it. We still even talk about it today and some of the great parts it had. One of my friends even rented the first one of these movies. It has some very cool murder scenes and the ending is excellent. I definetly recommend this for those who enjoy the friday the 13 movies.

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8 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
This is what it's all about, 21 May 2001
Author: (billybrown41@hotmail.com) from Kimberling City, MO.

Having seen and loved the first two, I don't really know why it took me so long to finally watch this one. Man, I'm glad I did. Teenage Wasteland is every bit as good as it its predecessors and I laughed all the way through it. Here are a few of the film's highlights:

1.) Death by garbage truck 2.) Death by Lawnmower 3.) Death by flag-pole 4.) Arms ripped off, via Jeep.

The list goes on and on. Angela's one-liners are better than ever and it stays in the same vein as part two. Pamela Springsteen does another good job and they left room for a sequal, which, rumor has it, is in the works. Check it out.

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8 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
Angela is still up to her old ways, 11 August 2004
Author: ryannemetz from Orange, Ca.

We're no longer going by the name of Camp Rolling Hills. All respect is to Angela (Pamela Springsteen) Baker. The camp is now titled Camp New Horizons.

This time, Angela changes here identity to a New York under privilege female by the name of Maria Nicastro. Angela soon dispatches Nicastro by way of a garbage truck and takes her identity, so that she can be a camper at Camp Rolling Hills aka Camp New Horizons. It's the same location, but it is yet under another name. This is due to the "MURDERS," as Lily, the camp co-owner would put it.

Married couple Lily and Herman, who is played by Micheal J. Pollard, are the camp owners and they make a desperate move to try and bring some inner city under privilege teens together for an experience in sharing.

It probably would have worked, except for the fact that the real Maria Nicastro won't be showing up. Instead, Angela Baker returns for yet another bloodbath of slaying.

This one has the same campy humor, creative deaths and beautiful babes, one which would include Jill (Night of the Demons) Terashita. Again, I'm not sure whether I like this one more of SC2 more. Nonetheless, check out this sleeper of a slasher flick. 10/10

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Chores for a crazy person., 10 July 2007
Author: jaywriterXIII from USA

Fairly early in the film, our lovable murderess asks, "Why did I think this year would be any different?" And this unlocks why part 3 still works: gone is the chipper camp counselor and her hopes of making good clean friends. Now, returning incognito as a camper, she realizes the world is a terrible terrible place filled with terrible terrible people. Round 3 of the chaos, and she picks up her axe with the same sigh and groan you might hear from a daughter assigned to "wash the dishes, make your bed, clean the toilets, and take out the trash." Why can't she find people who deserve to live for once?

That's not to say Sleepaway Camp 3 has lost its sense of humor. Far from it. It delights in exploiting a silly trust building exercise: Angela gets to tie up and lead her blindfolded partner through the woods. "You do drugs?" Angela quizzes her buddy. To which the girl replies, "Doesn't everyone?" Like the good girl-scout she is, Angie leads this poor misguided soul to miraculous deliverance, and I say miraculous because of how far fetched the murder is (but it's still a treat to watch.) Angela, herself, still has her sly wisecracks and all-too-honest answers to questions (questions like "where'd you learn to chop wood like that?"), only the delivery has changed from cheerful optimism to "why me?" (although she does sing the Happy Camper song over one of the murders.)

And this time she gets to play with more colorful, over the top, (read: annoying) fodder! We have a perverted old man, lazy hypocrite, a rapper, a rich snob, a dufus, a—why I am even bothering? Never mind, them. Angie'll get to them sooner or later (hurry up on the rapper … please, God, hurry up.) The group of campers split up into 3 smaller groups, and our heroine dispatches each sub-group one at a time and then shows up to the next group like a lost puppy, "I was told to switch with someone from this group" and the fun starts again.

Unlike most slashers, the kills largely take place in broad daylight giving the whole scenario a matter-of-fact quality that I liked. This *is* Angela's day job, after all. She's not Jason or Freddy – the girl has to sleep sometime. Besides, I like the idea of her moonlighting as a jazz musician or a dance instructor or a cop with Stendhal Syndrome or something.

Once again the series misses a number of opportunities to really rip into the genre's shortcomings (like poking fun at the gore obsession.) But the film's unwillingness to do anything significant with Barney (father of Sean in the previous film) bothered me the most. Here was a chance to actually build up a sympathetic character – someone we'd actually root for to stop Angela. Or perhaps even build him up as a character we really despise who could actually threaten Angela (early in the film he's asked what he would do if he came across Angela Baker. Without hesitation he answers, "I'd kill her.") War of the killers? Who do we root for – the wickedly fun Angela, or a revenge-driven father? This would take Sleepaway Camp into entirely new territory, allowing it to stand apart from the existing entries. But, nope, Barney exists as another victim for Angela, and after a brief unsatisfactory confrontation it's a moot point.

Like it's predecessor, SC3: Teenage Wasteland never hits the grand slam it should. But, what the hell, I love it anyway.

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Fun finale to Pamela Springsteen as Angela, 17 November 2004
Author: btrocksyoursocks from New York

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

SLEEPAWAY CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND (1989)

WARNING: MORE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN PART 1

starring:

Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Cliff Brand, Mark Oliver, Michael J. Pollard, Sandra Dorsey and Kim Wall.

plot:

One year after the slaughter at Camp Rolling Hills, Angela (Pamela Springsteen) murders a city girl and attending Camp New Horizons, where there is an "experiment in sharing." Rich kids and poor kids are mixed up. When Angela arrives, she discovers that not only Officer Whitmore (Cliff Brand), Sean's (victim from part II) cop father is working as a councilor, but there are plenty of more naughty kids. Angela decides to once again clean house in creative ways.

the good:

This third entry follows in the vein of PART II with lots of nudity, gore and Pamela Springsteen's one liners. That does equal fun, just not as much.

One thing that I liked was the characters. Sweet innocent rich girl Marcia (Tracy Griffith) charmed the hell out of me, her boyfriend Sean (Mark Oliver) was one cool dude, Officer Whitmore (Cliff Brand) gave a strong, determined and emotional show that I highly enjoyed, and as much as I hate racism, rich southern bigot Cindy (Kim Wall) never failed to make me laugh.

That "Arab" character delivered some great lines as well.

And ooooh the scene where Angela walks into a cabin and remembers when she was singing the "Happy Campers" song along with her fantasy of everyone loving her and getting along was very emotional and even brought a tear to my eye!

The kills were also very fun to watch. Firecrackers, lawnmowers, rat poisoning, a plain old gun and more! The showdown between Angela and Marcia was badass as well. And Angela's murder rap is nothing short of amazing.

The ending was hella good too.

the bad:

Well after PART II, this offered less excitement because it was basically murder, one-liner, murder, one-liner ... and it goes on and on.

7/10

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Sleepaway Camp III RULES!!!!, 20 January 1999

Author: evildead-8 from Santa Cruz, California

I love this movie!! It's funny, gory, clever, and I love to watch it over and over again! Pamela Springsteen is the best!! If you like horror films, this movie is awesome! It's got all the classic elements of an eighties horror movie, including T&A, cheesy gore, quotable lines, and the ever popular heavy metal music. Kick ass! You should also check out Sleepaway Camp II. I'm telling you, these are some of the most entertaining horror films I've seen, and I've seen A LOT!!!

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Love Angela's Rap Song..., 20 August 2004
Author: (mdsmith101@hotmail.com) from Stockton, UK

The third in the series is still fun, maybe not as much as pt 2, but good unwholesome fun anyway. At an experimental camp (Camp New Horizons) good teens and bad teens are put together to try to relate or something by these useless counselors who don't do anything. Except that for unknown reasons one of the teens isn't who they claim to be - yep, Angela's come back to the same camp where she killed 19 people the year before.

This is one a little weak, the opening bit with the garbage truck doesn't really make any sense, neither did Angela's fake ID card. But who watches these movies for stuff like that anyway?

It doesn't take Angela long to find people who aren't camper material, and start doing away with them and generally having a blast at the same time. The scene were Angela stands in the mess hall and has flashbacks to pt 2 were great, I think it's the only scene in the film were we get some sense of the character (only wants to be a real camp counselor and be liked).

Anyway the deaths are fun (trimmed down though), and Pamela Springsteen is always fun to watch in these movies, she's pretty much let down this time by lame campers who deserve to get it, sorry, but Melanie Griffith's sister doesn't do much, it's like Angela said at the end of the film "try to be nice to some people..."

Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland: 3/5

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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
**** out of ****. Surprisingly original, 4 December 1998
Author: clay-8 from texas

I liked "Sleepaway camp" because the death scenes were original. There's also hardly any slasher flick out there where the woman is the killer. In the tradition of the "Friday the 13th" films, this one is right on top as one of the best slasher flicks in the genre. I even liked it more than "Scream" and "Scream 2". (I haven't seen this movie in a long, long time, but I do remember loving it)

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