Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1988
Running Times: 82 mins 77 mins 31 sec
Format: colour
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Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Double Helix Films
Producer: Michael A. Simpson? Krishna Shah?
Line Producer: Robert F. Phillips

SCRIPT
Script: Fritz Gordon

DIRECTION
Director: Michael A. Simpson

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: John David Allen

SOUND
Dialogue Editor: Amy Carey

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Bill Johnson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Decorator: Frank Galline

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Lonnie R. Smith

CAST
Pamela Springsteen (Angela)
Renée Estevez (Molly)
Anthony Higgins (Sean)
Valerie Hartman (Ally)
Brian Patrick Clarke (T.C.)
Walter Gotell (Uncle John)
Susan Marie Snyder (Mare)
Terry Hobbs (Rob)
Kendall Bean (Demi)
Julie Murphy (Lea)
Carol Chambers (Brooke)
Amy Fields (Jodi)
Benji Wilhoite (Anthony)
Walter Franks III (Judd)
Justin Nowell (Charlie)
Heather Binion (Phoebe)
Jason Ehrlich (Emilio)
Carol Martin Vines (Diane)
Tricia Grant (girl sent home)
Jill Jane Clements (woman in truck)

Released from a psychiatric hospital, Angela, the mass murdering hermaphrodite from Sleepaway Camp, has had a sex change and become a woman. She now works as camp counselor at Camp Rolling Hills - where, inevitably, staff and gusts are soon dying. Angela claims to have been cured - but just how cured is she?

Not as bad as the original perhaps and with a few good jokes, but overall this is just another tired Friday the 13th (1980) clone with little to offer. The entirely new cast and crew give the film a rather more polished and professional look than its tawdry predecessor, but the script lets it down - it simply has nothing new to say.

Australia
Video Distributor: Virgin Vision

Europe
Video Distributor: Screen Power Home Entertainment

UK
Video Distributor: Futuristic Entertainment
Cut by 2 mins 16 sec

USA
Video Distributor: Nelson Entertainment

Australia
Rating: R

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

1988
October
6: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release, with 2 mins 16 sec of cuts)

Angela's back and she's bad.

Nightmare Vacation II - UK title

SEQUEL TO
Sleepaway Camp (1983)

SEQUELS
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1988)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (2002)

SEE ALSO
Friday the 13th (1980)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again p.353
credits, review (by John Stanley)

teenagers; slashers; strangulation; decapitation; acid; drills; power tools; campfires; summer camps; sequels; disembodied hands; spoofs; forests