i originally saw this film back in 1989 when i was 14,i recently purchased it on video over the internet purely for nostalgia reasons!watching this film now,i can see how badly acted it really is ,the script is awfull!the gore score is pretty non existent thanks to censorship on both sides of the atlantic!BUT on the plus side it's trashy campy atmosphere does make the film watchable!pamela springsteen is perfect as serial killer angela(although you can see her losing interest in the character in this one)however if you like cheesy 80's slashers you can do a lot worse than this!check out part 2 first,it's much better!part 1 is due on dvd in july!maybe these will follow!
119 Reviews
Surprisingly good.
13Funbags28 September 2017
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.
Mediocre, but fun, rehash of the previous film
Wuchakk25 July 2019
Angela (Pamela Springsteen) returns to the same camp where she slaughtered the inhabitants the year before under an assumed identity. Renamed Camp New Horizons, the coordinators seek to bring together privileged kids from the suburbs & small towns with underprivileged kids from the big cities. Michael J. Pollard appears as one of the camp counselors. The other counselor is reminiscent of Paula Dean.
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" (1989) is a rehash of the previous film (1988) with the same director/writer team and star (Springsteen), but of course a whole new cast of victims. The film even features cuts by the same semi-obscure 80's bands: Anvil ("Wild Eyes"), Obsession ("Methods of Madness" & "Killer Elite") and John Altyn ("Sleepaway"). The main difference is a focus on tent camping and the mixing of "rich" kids with "poor."
The movie's fun, but it lacks the mojo of the previous film. There's less depth as far as human interest goes: The characters and their relations are so exaggerated it's campy, which kills any realism. Yes, I realize it's an amusing 80's slasher flick set at a youth camp, but the two preceding movie's included gems in the coming-of-age context, which is largely lacking here. Still, "Sleepaway Camp III" has its entertaining moments. Tracy Griffith as redhead Marcia and Stacie Lambert as Jan are highlights.
The film runs 1 hour, 20 minutes, and was shot in Bremen, Georgia, about an hour's drive west of Atlanta (the same as Part II); with the opening scenes shot in Atlanta.
GRADE: C
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" (1989) is a rehash of the previous film (1988) with the same director/writer team and star (Springsteen), but of course a whole new cast of victims. The film even features cuts by the same semi-obscure 80's bands: Anvil ("Wild Eyes"), Obsession ("Methods of Madness" & "Killer Elite") and John Altyn ("Sleepaway"). The main difference is a focus on tent camping and the mixing of "rich" kids with "poor."
The movie's fun, but it lacks the mojo of the previous film. There's less depth as far as human interest goes: The characters and their relations are so exaggerated it's campy, which kills any realism. Yes, I realize it's an amusing 80's slasher flick set at a youth camp, but the two preceding movie's included gems in the coming-of-age context, which is largely lacking here. Still, "Sleepaway Camp III" has its entertaining moments. Tracy Griffith as redhead Marcia and Stacie Lambert as Jan are highlights.
The film runs 1 hour, 20 minutes, and was shot in Bremen, Georgia, about an hour's drive west of Atlanta (the same as Part II); with the opening scenes shot in Atlanta.
GRADE: C
Chores for a crazy person.
jaywolfenstien10 July 2007
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, awhy 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.
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, awhy 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.
Just keeps getting worse although I did enjoy Angelas rap tape
acidburn-1020 March 2009
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
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
Generic 80's slasher
funtasticfour27 August 2019
The first movie in this series is the one with the twist, that made it a cult hit. I thought I watched the second one recently but must have skipped it so I'll have to watch it soon. This one is ok, but still filled with bad acting and nothing to set it aside from any other slasher.
Teenage crapfest...
Anonymous_Maxine22 February 2008
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....
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....
Angela is back
rivertam2624 May 2020
As a kid I remember being so utterly excited to see sleepaway camp 2 and 3. I remember making my dad take me to the video store the day they were released. Now at 41 it's nice to see these guilty pleasures finally getting the attention they deserve. Although I've grown to love the original campfest the best. The sequels hold a special place in my black heart 3 is the less good of the 2 but still registers Angela Baker played by the awesome Pamela Springsteen as one of the forgotten movie maniacs. This time around she's infiltrated a group of teens on their way to the camp she wreaked havoc on before. They are doing an outreach program pairing inner city kids with rich ones. Melanie's sister Tracy Griffith stars as our heroine of sorts. The movie is fun with some great kills and leaves an opening for a continued franchise that sadly never continued. They did however do a fourth film decades later with the original Angela the amazing Felissa Rose.
7/10
7/10
What the hell was this?????
skidizzle822 August 2006
OK first off Sleepaway Camp was an awesome movie. It was creepy and innovative. I have no complaints with the first movie. Now the trilogy as a whole did not follow trilogy rules. Its suppose to be the first one is the best, then the third one the second best, and the second one the worst. This trilogy however just got progressively worse as they went on. Angela starts out as this vigalante in the first one. Killing only people who are mean and cruel. Then as the sequels progress she changes her character profile and kills basically anyone who has sinned and who isn't a perfect Christian. The second movie was awful, but at least had creative deaths. The third one however was the biggest piece of garbage i've ever seen. I don't even know how they could make a third movie after what an abomination the 2nd one was. I mean I honestly didn't think the third one could be any worse then the second one. It says on the cover of the third movie "A calm and cool performance by Springsteen as a slasher Angela makes this the best of the three films..." ~Movies A to Z. Who wrote that comment cause seriously they have the worst taste and wouldn't know a good horror movie if it bit them in the ass. Not to mention Springsteen can't act to save her life which is probably why her acting career died with these movies.They should have stuck with the actress from the original. This is one trilogy I can say should have remained a solo movie. See it if you want but it is the biggest waste of time that you can never get back.
Another reasonably good sequel
mattymatt4ever23 January 2003
Not as good as the past two movies, but still above average and worth watching. I think the problems mainly lied in the editing and pacing, which were both especially sloppy (except for the neat zipper-to-zipper transition). One of the reasons the editing was sloppy was because a good deal of frames had to be taken out to please the MPAA and receive the R-rating. Damn MPAA! Those slimy punks. But the character of Angela was a lot less upbeat, though still a big smart-aleck. It makes sense, being that she lost her job as camp counselor and has less power over the other campers and new counselors, but I still enjoyed the maniacally happy Angela better. Then again, it was a novel idea having her disguise as one of the campers to go back on her killing spree. The acting is pretty good, and that I believe is the biggest asset the third installment has over the others in the series. The death scenes are creative, the film reaches its quota of blood and naked breasts. Yet it didn't leave much of a lasting impact on me. I still liked it and recommend it to horror fans everywhere, but I feel it's the most forgettable of the series. Of course, the girl on the DVD cover with the cleavage popping out (who's probably not even a character in the movie and pretty much serves no purpose) will probably lure many men like me into renting or buying the film.
My score: 6 (out of 10)
My score: 6 (out of 10)
The weakest of the four films.
theromanempire-122 October 2020
The first film was the best. the second was good enough still while the latest reunion film was decent although not as good as the first two were....but part 3 was really bad. the acting was horrible and it felt like we got angela back for cash in reasons.
anyhow.....u can skip this one but if u must to check this out if u love bad slashers then this is for you.
Grade // D
Grade // D
A great surprise!
movie king22 April 2002
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.
Not As Good As Unhappy Campers
jeanlevy6 April 2019
There's something a bit sleepy about Sleepaway Camp III. All the elements are in place, but everyone involved seems so tired and just ready to go home. Perhaps this is because Sleepaway Camp II and III were shot back to back with only a few days in between them. This isn't to say that Sleepaway Camp III is a bad film - far from it. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but it has its charms.
Angela is back and Pamela Springsteen returns with admirable gusto, delivering punchlines as she kills morally bankrupt teens as a weekend getaway to promote sharing and healing and all kinds of touchy feely junk. The camp is run by a hilariously daffy husband and wife (he's sleeping around with the nubile teen campers and she seems a few fries short of a Happy Meal). Meanwhile, Angela has killed a teen on her way to the camp (it's never explained how she knew she was headed to the camp or why she chose her) and she's headed up there in disguise (complete with a ridiculous wig). Pretty soon, she's slicing, dicing, and shooting all the campers who manage to fall short of her fairly high standards.
Sleepaway Camp III is blessedly short and to the point without a lot of extra fat to get in the way. Still, it's pretty much more of the same where Unhappy Campers came from, which makes it feel a bit "been there, done that." The MPAA cuts to the violence and gore don't help much either. By the end, you've had a good time, but you do feel like it wouldn't have hurt to leave the party an hour and half before you did. You don't completely regret staying, but you could have also gone home and used the extra 90 minutes of sleep.
Angela is back and Pamela Springsteen returns with admirable gusto, delivering punchlines as she kills morally bankrupt teens as a weekend getaway to promote sharing and healing and all kinds of touchy feely junk. The camp is run by a hilariously daffy husband and wife (he's sleeping around with the nubile teen campers and she seems a few fries short of a Happy Meal). Meanwhile, Angela has killed a teen on her way to the camp (it's never explained how she knew she was headed to the camp or why she chose her) and she's headed up there in disguise (complete with a ridiculous wig). Pretty soon, she's slicing, dicing, and shooting all the campers who manage to fall short of her fairly high standards.
Sleepaway Camp III is blessedly short and to the point without a lot of extra fat to get in the way. Still, it's pretty much more of the same where Unhappy Campers came from, which makes it feel a bit "been there, done that." The MPAA cuts to the violence and gore don't help much either. By the end, you've had a good time, but you do feel like it wouldn't have hurt to leave the party an hour and half before you did. You don't completely regret staying, but you could have also gone home and used the extra 90 minutes of sleep.
Brainless Stupidity
claudio_carvalho23 October 2016
Angela (Pamela Springsteen) kills a seventeen year-old teenager and travels to the Camp New Horizons assuming her identity. Lilly (Sandra Dorsey) and her husband Herman (Michael J. Pollard) are receiving six teenagers from the outskirts and another six from wealthy families for interaction in the camp. Lilly, Herman and Sheriff Barney (Cliff Brand) split the group of teenagers in three and they go to different places in the beginning of Angela's massacre.
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" is a lame slasher with no story and only a brainless stupidity with senseless killing. The direction is awful; the performances are terrible; and the edition is amateurish. My vote is two.
Title (Brazil) "Acampamento Sinistro 3" ("Sinister Camp 3")
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" is a lame slasher with no story and only a brainless stupidity with senseless killing. The direction is awful; the performances are terrible; and the edition is amateurish. My vote is two.
Title (Brazil) "Acampamento Sinistro 3" ("Sinister Camp 3")
Angela is still up to her old ways
ryannemetz11 August 2004
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
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
More Like "Waste of Time"!
geminiredblue24 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
*Sigh* The SLEEPAWAY CAMP series might very well be the worst in the slasher genre. The first one set the standard by having a (spoiler alert) little boy dressed as a girl who kills people... including other kids. The camp counselors were all sex offenders of one degree or another. And the ending was shocking beyond all belief, but not in a good way. It left one feeling grossed out and in need of a shower. PART 2 featured a wise cracking Pamela Springsteen dispatching 18 or so teens. Ho-hum. But of the original three, it was closest to being the best. PART 3: TEENAGE WASTELAND. The camp from the original has changed names twice now, but Angela keeps coming back to kill... and maim... and kill again. This time, they didn't even bother with a plot. Angela just goes around and kills again... and again... and AGAIN... AND AGAIN!!! It's mind-boggling when even the deaths feel like run-of-the-mill. Halfway through, you're guaranteed to lose interest... and possibly brain cells, consciousness, and any semblance of dignity. Do I make myself clear? STAY. CLEAR. OF. SLEEPAWAY. CAMP!!!
Not a patch on the second one
Tampon25 December 1998
Full of noisy, despicable teens. The third sequel seemed a bit rushed & came as a major disappointment after the second one. Sure there's plenty of original deaths & that's what we want to see, let's be honest. But it's pretty much goreless (well the UK version anyway). Even Angela looked bored throughout this.
Revenge of the 80's: The Franchise!
Captain_Couth7 August 2005
Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (1989) was made back-to-back with the first sequel. But this time around the movie is even worse than the last movie and it tries twice as hard. I have expressed my feelings in the past about movies that try too hard. Ones that try to hard to be funny, witty and over the top. When that happens it never works. You can't force stuff like that. It always comes naturally. But when you force things to happen it'll always come out looking like garbage. Sadly, I have yet to be proved wrong.
Will I recommend this movie? No, not unless you're a die-hard fans of the Sleepaway Camp series. Maybe if they released this movie directly to video uncut then maybe the gory set pieces would be enough to carry movie. They couldn't even do us that favor. I dislike this movie very much.
Will I recommend this movie? No, not unless you're a die-hard fans of the Sleepaway Camp series. Maybe if they released this movie directly to video uncut then maybe the gory set pieces would be enough to carry movie. They couldn't even do us that favor. I dislike this movie very much.
The Return of Angela
arthurconnor23 November 2019
This sequel is likable enough and does the best it can, but you can tell everyone was a little tired after shooting Unhappy Campers immediately before this. It's not a bad movie, but it does beg the question of if this movie was necessary or not. It might as well be a remake of the last sequel with Angela returning (after killing a hapless camper-to-be and assuming her identity) to camp. This time, the camp is some sort of touchy feely social experiment that brings inner city kids and rich kids together to share and care for one another. Just like the last time, very few of these kids end up rising to Angela's impossibly high moral standards and she starts punishing them by beating them with stick, dropping them from flag poles, chopping their heads off with axes and lawnmowers, and even blowing their faces off with firecrackers.
Pamela Spingsteen still seems to be having fun inhabiting the homicidal Angela and there does seem to be a satirical edge throughout (especially with the characters of Herman and Lily - the husband and wife in charge of the camp), but there's a strong feeling of "been there, done that" which lingers over the entire film. There are some good death scenes and set pieces sprinkled throughout, but it's not as bouncy and vibrant as Unhappy Campers.
Pamela Spingsteen still seems to be having fun inhabiting the homicidal Angela and there does seem to be a satirical edge throughout (especially with the characters of Herman and Lily - the husband and wife in charge of the camp), but there's a strong feeling of "been there, done that" which lingers over the entire film. There are some good death scenes and set pieces sprinkled throughout, but it's not as bouncy and vibrant as Unhappy Campers.
Good fun but sadly heavily censored
Stevieboy66618 September 2021
Camp psycho counsellor Angela (Pam Springsteen, sister of Bruce) is back, slicing and dicing teens and camp counsellors at summer camp. Only this time she is a camper, not a counsellor (she calls herself Maria and claims to be 17 but drugs have made her look much older!). Like part 2 Teenage Wasteland does not hang about when it comes to boobs and gore, it's 76 minute run time is peppered with both throughout. Sadly the MPAA insisted on several minutes of cuts for a R rating and this is the version that I have (uncut in German apparently). Most of the kills have been cut which is a real shame and is the reason why I am scoring this 6 instead of a 7, which is what I would have had it been uncut. My DVD does have the cut scenes as an extra, pity they were not incorporated into the full feature. The comedy aspect is very funny, more so then part 2 in my opinion, here are a couple of examples of the dialogue - Counsellor "How many have you killed this time?", Angela "Lots!"; Angela to a topless female victim "Good thing you're dead cos in a couple of years your breasts would've been sagging something terrible!" And so on. The camp is run by an eccentric couple and the kids are made up of two groups, half from a well to do background, the others from deprived areas. Most of these characters are engaging, "Party all night, teenage wasteland!" declares one. I really did enjoy this movie but at the same time felt somewhat cheated by the cuts inflicted upon it. Good fun none the less! AKA Nightmare Vacation 3.
L'Avventuraesqe yet bold enough to capture one's imagination and refuse to let go.
Jusgure10 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
a bag of tainted cocaine, a stick, a lawnmower, a giant nail, a flagpole, a rope attached to a car...what do all of these seemingly inanimate objects have in common? well, they can be used to kill people you hate for little or no reason in very creative and interesting ways. In this 3rd installment of the famous series, Angela Baker is seemingly recovered from her past troubles (like that time she killed 40 kids and then showed everybody her ding-dong) and prepared to enjoy a fun relaxing summer with a group of accepting kids who genuinely enjoy her company. But no, it doesn't quite happen that way. To our surprise, and to Angela's great horror, the former Camp Arawak, and Camp Rolling Hills is now called Camp New Horizons, which is not only a sh*tty name but also a shitty idea for a camp. In fact its so sh*tty, the people in charge of it had to recruit messed up kids from all across America just to fill its bunks, which, by the way, have housed dead kids on numerous occasions. And by messed up kids I mean every single ethnic stereotype you can think of. Well, things don't exactly go well since, you know, every culture hates each other for the little, petty differences. Like how the black kid takes out a knife on the varsity white kid who asks him if a seat at his table is taken. Or, how the black kid carries around a boom-box all the time and continuously listens to this weird blend of hip-hop and horse manure. Or also, how the black kid has a gun. But besides their ethnic differences, surprisingly the kids appear like they are starting to get along, until they start being killed one by one by the one person at the camp who isn't a huge stereotype; unless you count murderous, lonely, hermaphrodite as a stereotype. I guess the underlying theme of this movie is that stereotypes are bad and should be eliminated from society. That still doesn't explain why she killed the junkie news reporter though. Sleepaway Camp 3 could also be a subliminal attack at ratings-hungry news journalism, and how they all deserve to die painfully awkward deaths falling out of their car, limb by limb. So, in the end I would definitely recommend this film, if not for its reliable death scenes, then for its almost utter lack of any kind of police presence. Unless you consider the cop/counselor who gets killed by Angela a real cop. And by cop I mean like a single cop, such as the lone officer who we see at the end of Sleepaway Camp 1 who is sent by his obviously competent precinct to check on a camp that claims to have suffered casualties similar to those of a French military battalion. In closing, it was a film that stirred all sorts of emotions in me, and made me realize that not all people deserve to live. I'm actually just kidding, but seriously in the famous words: "Angela why are you so F****d up?"
Sleepaway Camp III RULES!!!!
evildead-820 January 1999
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!!!
Warning: No gore included
bowmanblue1 September 2020
Brief history of the 'Sleepaway Camp' franchise - the first one was a low budget classic with a shock twist-ending. The second lent more towards black comedy/horror and so became more 'tongue in cheek' that the original. 'Part III' is definitely more like 'Part II,' but then it was filmed back-to-back, so I guess that was to be expected.
It's - yet another - teen-slasher film set in a Summer camp. The second one gave you the killer straight away, so there's no need to guess who's chopping up the kids. Once again, this one makes no secret who's wielding the knife - it's Bruce Springsteen's real life younger sister Pamela. And she seems to be enjoying herself playing the clearly bonkers 'Angela' who delights in indulging in fatal and brutal revenge on any pesky kids caught in compromising positions (and some who just happen to get in the way).
There's very little to say about 'Part III.' It certainly is you 'basic' film in the slasher genre. It doesn't try to make you ask questions as to who or why the killings are taking place. Plus everyone Angela murders are completely unlikable, so you're hardly going to feel much sympathy with anyone she dices. The gore has now been completely removed and every kill that is potentially explicit is cut away or heavily censored right before the final moments.
'Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland' is quite an average film, but that doesn't mean it won't find an audience, but whether you enjoy it or not will depend on your mood. I'd definitely recommend watching them in order and, if you like the tonal shift in 'Part II' then 'Part III' is a nice little follow up. It doesn't take itself seriously and if you don't take it seriously either and enjoy some cheesy eighties horror/slasher films, then this one will certainly fill an hour and a half and make you a very happy camper.
It's - yet another - teen-slasher film set in a Summer camp. The second one gave you the killer straight away, so there's no need to guess who's chopping up the kids. Once again, this one makes no secret who's wielding the knife - it's Bruce Springsteen's real life younger sister Pamela. And she seems to be enjoying herself playing the clearly bonkers 'Angela' who delights in indulging in fatal and brutal revenge on any pesky kids caught in compromising positions (and some who just happen to get in the way).
There's very little to say about 'Part III.' It certainly is you 'basic' film in the slasher genre. It doesn't try to make you ask questions as to who or why the killings are taking place. Plus everyone Angela murders are completely unlikable, so you're hardly going to feel much sympathy with anyone she dices. The gore has now been completely removed and every kill that is potentially explicit is cut away or heavily censored right before the final moments.
'Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland' is quite an average film, but that doesn't mean it won't find an audience, but whether you enjoy it or not will depend on your mood. I'd definitely recommend watching them in order and, if you like the tonal shift in 'Part II' then 'Part III' is a nice little follow up. It doesn't take itself seriously and if you don't take it seriously either and enjoy some cheesy eighties horror/slasher films, then this one will certainly fill an hour and a half and make you a very happy camper.
this is the cut version.for the uncut version Check out the Anchor Bay edition
disdressed1221 October 2007
well,this installment of the Sleepaway Camp series is actually better than part two by far.it's also better than part one.this one starts off pretty good.it's also even a bit amusing at times with some decent one liners there,and there are a few inventive kills this time around.if you a gore hound though,this movie won't likely satisfy you.it isn't very graphic.there is some nudity,which never hurts.plus,this movie actually goes by a lot quicker.it's still not great by any means,but i think it's the best of the first three movies.the acting is nothing spectacular,for the most part.the lone exception is Pamela Springsteen as the psycho.she really nails the deadpan delivery of those one liners.when you add it all up,i guess this version of Sleepaway Camp III:teenage Wasteland is about a 5/10.by the way,this version of the movie is the cut version.for the uncut version,checkout the Anchor Bay edition,which is gorier and also has special features.and if you're a real fan,check out the three disc collection called Sleepaway Camp(with survival kit)which contains all three movie uncut and with special features.
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