best movie i've ever seen.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

'Sleepaway Camp' easily became one of the biggest cult horror classics back in 1983, mostly for it's truly shocking twist of an ending. That ending is still talked about today and might be responsible for some of the horror movie twists we see today. The first film played into the big foray of slasher teen horror films of the late 70s and early 80s. It did almost nothing to separate itself from the group of that particular horror genre with the exception of the ending and the high amount of unintentional comedy.That being said, the first 'Sleepaway Camp' movie was your basic straight-forward slasher picture, fake mustache and all. Five years down the road with the talk and somewhat success of the first film, the studio wanted to make a sequel. They left the original director and writer alone and instead got two newcomers, who really haven't done much since then, however they acquired the siblings of a few famous people to be in the sequel, which is called 'Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers'.The second installment works on a few levels, mostly in that it doesn't take itself seriously whatsoever and knows exactly what kind of movie it is. In fact, it parodies the first film, as well some of the horror movie monster classics, including, 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Friday the 13th', and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. Even the poster and front cover of this movie has the main star carrying around the Freddy Krueger glove and the Jason Vorhees hockey mask. Another reason this sequel is so much fun and not quite that scary is it really only shows one kill after the next. It's not necessarily a bad thing either when you have a collection of idiot characters that you hope meets their grisly demise the instant you meet them.That's where our famous and likable anti-heroine comes into play, Angela from the first film. We are at another camp a couple of years past the events of the first film where Angela (played by Bruce Springsteen's sister Pamela Springsteen) is an actual camp counselor. The campers this year are heard and seen telling the gruesome stories of the murders that happened at another camp a few years ago, which is when Angela starts to dispose of these teenage campers who always seem to be want to get frisky with one another.No matter if it's part of a tree, a fire, or a chainsaw, Angela can easily take out a camper or two without breaking a sweat. One of the main campers we follow is Molly (Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen's sister Renee Estevez), who actually likes Angela, but is trying to figure out why her fellow campers have gone missing or are being sent home, according to Angela for bad behavior. That's the basic plot for the sequel, which is actually quite fun. The deaths are hilarious and gruesome, and the one-liners are spot on.The big shocking reveal from the first film is touched up on here in more detail, but who really cares, right? Angela is Angela, the murdering and smiling beast she is no matter what, and that's what makes 'Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers' a solid sequel.

Michael Simpson's "Sleepaway Camp II" has an incredible modesty that I very much appreciate within a horror movie. It doesn't try to act any smarter than it actually is, it never tries to be anything it's not, it's just an incredibly entertaining little B-movie that gives the audience what it wants. It's basically from the "Evil Dead"-school, meaning that it mostly skips the introductions and gets straight to the stuff you watch it for. Who has time to find out about backgrounds when there are so many people around to kill? The movie's structure is pretty monotonous and the plot is so non-existent that you could probably put the scenes in a different order without anybody noticing, but who cares when the kills are so lovely? The original "Sleepaway Camp" was about a hundred times more shocking than this will ever be, but this sequel is just so much more fun.

I recommend avoiding Sleepaway Camp's initial sequels no matter how much you loved the original. Forget they were ever made because this and part three have no resemblance to the first one. They aren't even enjoyable movies in their own rights, they're just plain shallow. The basic premise is this: Angela saying sassy things whilst hacking off campers. I'm the biggest fan of sequels, but does anybody really want to see their slasher villain look into the camera to deliver a corny one-liner whenever they go to off somebody? Its the same formula that led horror icons such as Freddy Krueger and Chucky to become mere parodies of their themselves as their sequels went on. Thankfully, the series creator (who is also the writer/director of part one) had almost nothing to do with these trash sequels. Better still, he created his own direct sequel in 2008, Return to Sleepaway Camp, which is excellent. It ignores the two sequels from the late 80's altogether and you should do the same.

An few years has passed... Angela (Pamela Springsteen) has become an real girl, she changed her identity and she's now an consoler. But these young teenagers are practically the same way, they nearly treated Angela as a young teen. Now she can't take it anymore, she decides to kill these unhappy campers one by one.Directed by Michael A. Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 3:Teenage Wasteland, Funland) made an amusing slasher horror movie with few humorous moments of black comedy. It is made watchable, thanks to Springteen's winning performance as Angela. Renee Estevez (Her brothers are Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Ramon Estevez) is likable in the movie. There is some clever kills in this, although not as gory as you might imagine.DVD from Legacy Entertainment, DVD has an OK Pan & Scan (1.33:1) from the VHS source but the night-time sequences suffers on the DVD. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Sound is fine. Anchor Bay DVD is supposedly Uncut. "Sleepaway Camp 2:Unhappy Campers" is certainly entertaining for the die-hard slasher fans. Truly slow going at times but the short running time helps. (*** ½/*****).