Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

Plot synopsis:
At Camp Rolling Hills, the head counselor T.C., and a camper named Phoebe are telling each other scary stories around a campfire. Phoebe tells them the story about the killings of the previous film at Camp Arawak. Suddenly, counselor Angela finds her and orders her to go back to her cabin. As Phoebe and Angela start arguing about sneaking away from the cabin, Angela tells her to go home. Phoebe, distressed, runs off into the woods. Phoebe, now lost, calls back for Angela, who appears behind her and hits her in the head with a log. Angela then cuts out her tongue, proclaiming: "And here's what you get for using horrible language and having a filthy mouth!". The next day, Angela's group is wondering about Phoebe's whereabouts. Angela tells them that she sent her home for "doing things with the boys that she had no business doing".Meanwhile outside, Charlie and Emilio are taking pictures of the girls who are topless. The head of the camp, Uncle John, gives Angela the "counselor of the week award" during breakfast. Afterward, when Angela is walking in the woods, she finds the Schoute sisters smoking some marijuana and fornicating with one of the boys. After sending the boy off, Angela looks over at Brooke, who's completely out of it and looks back at the still active Jodi. Brooke then suddenly wakes up on what appears to be a grill somewhere deep in the woods, with Angela pouring some alcohol on her to wake up. Brooke rises up and is shown face to face with the charred skeleton of her already immolated sister, Jodi. Angela then pours gasoline all over her body and says "Let this be a lesson to you: say no to drugs," and burns her alive.That night, the boys throw a panty raid in the girls' cabin until Angela comes in, throwing them out. After Angela leaves for a counselor meeting, the girls get back at the boys by raiding their cabin for their clothes. Angela walks in, finding Mare showing off her breasts. Mare then decides to go home. On the way back, Angela stops the car and offers Mare one last chance to go back and aplogize, and Mare declines. Angela then pulls out a drill and drills Mare to death.The next day, Angela finds Charlie and Emilio looking at naked pictures, one of them showing a side-view of Angela. Later that night, some of the teenage boys go out to scare Angela by dressing up like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Leatherface. However, the plan backfires when Angela slashes one of the boy's throat with his own razor knives fingers glove and chainsaws the other boy through the skull.The next day, Angela sets up a trap for Ally Burgess, by giving her a fake note saying that Molly's boyfriend, Sean, would like to meet her in the woods. Ally arrives and Angela stabs her in the back and shoves her into an outhouse, then pushes her inside the hole, which is full of feces, urine and leeches, drowning her.That night, Demi starts telling Angela about how Mare's parents told her that she was still at camp. Realizing that she could be caught, Angela starts searching the room for something to kill her with while Demi talks non-stop, finally ending up with her guitar string saying "Demi, you talk too much" and garrotes Demi to death. Suddenly, Lea comes in and Angela stabs her to death, merely stating "You're gonna tell". With no one but Angela and Molly left in the cabin, and with not telling Uncle John about her sending home campers, Uncle John fires her.Feeling sad for Angela, Molly and Sean go to cheer her up. When they find her hiding place, they discover the dead bodies of everyone that has been killed. Angela suddenly appears behind them, knocks Sean out and ties the duo up.Back at camp, Rob Darrinco, Sean's best friend and Ally's 'sex friend', reveals to T.C. about Molly and Sean's disappearances. T.C. goes off to find Angela. He finds the cabin and enters it, and is greeted by Angela, who throws battery acid on his face, hideously mutilating and killing him. Sean then realizes that Angela is Peter Baker, the fourteen-year-old transsexual killer from the previous film. Angela reveals that after two years of electroshock therapy and a sex change, she was released for having good records from doctors. Angela then proceeds to cut Sean's head off with Judd's machete.Angela then leaves because she has already set a trap for Matt, the boy who was fornicating with Jodi and Brooke. When she comes back with his body, Molly, who has escaped from being held hostage, attacks her with a log and proceeds to run off. Angela chases after her and after a struggle, Molly pulls out Angela's pocket knife and stabs Angela in her hand and left leg. Angela continues approaching her. Molly, who is standing near a ledge, falls over and is apparently dead. Angela tells her "If it's any consolation, you almost made it," and leaves.Later that night, Diane, another camp counselor, finds Charlie and Emilio pinned up against a cabin wall with their necks slashed open and their eyes gouged out. Diane runs to go find Uncle John. Diane finds him in his office, with his throat slashed and a machete on his desk, next to his cut off hand. Diane then prepares to run but bumps into Rob, who is hanging from the wall with a gag in his mouth. Angela appears behind her and stabs her. Angela leaves the office, but then walks back in and proclaims "Goodnight, campers."Meanwhile, Molly, who has just regained consciousness, limps out of the woods. Angela hitchhikes with a truck driver and is about to leave the campsite. Angela, however, is now getting annoyed by the driver because of her smoking and her annoying Texan voice. Angela then pulls out her knife and starts attacking the woman just as they stop at a railroad crossing.Molly finally makes it to the main road and starts walking away when the pickup truck stops behind her. Molly, relieved, walks over to the truck. The driver is revealed to be Angela who says "Howdee partner!" Molly screams as Angela apparently kills her as well.

Tags: comedy, murder

Review:
This time around, quirky Angela Baker (now being played by Pamela Springsteen) daringly returns to camp once again with a completely different persona; that of an overly blithesome camp counselor with good intentions for her naughty little campers.
But in Unhappy Campers, we're given a much needed satirical take as we find ourselves rooting for the crazed killer instead of the victims, which is quite a welcomed departure.As the campers quickly begin dropping like flies, Angela smoothly covers up her tracks by disguising all the disappearances as nothing more than kids who were sent home for unacceptable behavior.
While most horror movie sequels tend to be nothing more than boring and unneeded retreads, writer Fritz Gordon thankfully brought us into new territory with his cheesy yet utterly lovable sense of cruel humor.
After seeing some spectacular masterpieces you start to realize that there aren't many good ones, and you'll spend most of your valuable movie-watching time on lame tripe that contains no originality or jollity, desperately searching for another classic.
Sleepaway Camp II is a great horror sequel, not only does it manage to equal the demented original, but in many areas, it actually improves upon the 1983 masterpiece.
For fans of the genre that have managed to miss this one, definately check it out, its got enough nudity, blood and overall fun for 10 summer camp slashers!
Sleepaway Camp 2 is definitely one of the best slasher movies out there!
I consider "Sleepaway Camp" to be one of the best, most original B-horror films I've seen so far.
But a few step over the line and Angela kills them--cracking bad jokes all the way.The original "Sleepaway Camp" was a vicious and nasty splatter film but had some good points to it.
Sleepaway Camp 2 (1988) was another in a line of unwarranted and lousy sequels to good horror films.
The gore scenes are great, Pamela Springstein as Angela is very funny and the cast of unknowns is very good.
Of course "sending people home" in Angela's book means slaughtering them brutally Talking in terms of 80's slashers, the original "Sleepaway Camp" (released in 1983) is a classic.
Angela uses drills, strings of a guitar, car battery-acid, campfires and there even is an entire act in which campers battle dressed up like horror icons Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger and Leatherface!
this movie is not good.the first one almost sucked,but had that unreal ending to make it worth watching.this one has nothing.there's zero scare,zero tension or suspense.this isn't really a horror movie.most of the kills don't show anything.there's no gore to speak of.this could almost be a TV,except for a bit of nudity and a bit of violence.the acting is not very good,either.and don't get me started on the dialogue.as for the surprise ending,surprise,there isn't one.i suppose it could have been worse,although i don't see how.but then again,it is less than 80 minutes long,so i guess that's a good thing.although it felt a lot longer.
apparently this is the cut version of the film.i found it for a very cheap price,but it still not worth it.if you want the uncut more graphic version,check out the Anchor Bay edition.anyway,this version of Sleepaway Camp II:Unhappy Campers gets a big fat 1/10 from me.
p.s.if you watch this movie,you will probably be a bored and unhappy camper.if you are a real fan,you might want to pick up Anchor Bay's Sleepaway Camp(with survival kit) three disc collection containing the first three movies uncut and with special features.
It just makes me sad, just thinking that some people are going to stumble upon Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) on video or DVD, and waste their time with this sad, cynical, depressing movie.Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen) is a camp counselor at Camp Rolling Hills, who hopes that the other campers are as nice as she is, and that they stay out of trouble.
The film does follow Angela again except this time she is played by Bruce Springsteen's Sister Pamela Springsteen, and she makes the character even worse.
Anyway, the first sequel to the Sleepaway Camp franchise obeys all the rules of horror sequels - more blood, more imaginative killings (which aren't imaginative, but still more so than the original), more nudity, a more elaborate plot, and generally worse than the original.
I don't have a phone!" and then he sniffs his armpits, wondering what turned her off (it's the hair, dude!!).It is a well-known fact that in 80s slasher movies, the murdered teenagers were more often than not being punished by their killer for some kind of bad behavior, usually for being too promiscuous.
Angela (who, by the way, went through all that therapy and those operations and all that trouble to clean up her past and reinvent herself as a normal and well-developed person and then changed her name from Angela to, umm, Angela), says at one point, "I don't like being the wicked witch of the west, but I know what happens when things get out of control." (People start getting killed...by me!
Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 3:Teenage Wasteland, Funland) made an amusing slasher horror movie with few humorous moments of black comedy.
"Sleepaway Camp 2:Unhappy Campers" is certainly entertaining for the die-hard slasher fans.
I went into Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers expecting another run-of-the-mil 80s slasher (or if you prefer "dead-teenager movie").
Thank you, oh thank you, thank you director Michael Simpson and writer Fritz Gordon.Angela Baker returns, this time played by Pamela Springsteen, as an overly chipper (dare I say "dorky") camp counselor who looks on the verge of spraining something with that wide smile.
Massacre away!A few of the campers decided they'd scare Angela by dressing up as horror movie icons which made me giggle with glee.
Sleepaway Camp 2 calls attention to the over-indulgence of boobs by indulging in boobs, but it never offers its own comments on the low standards of DTMs. The violence blindly mirrors the violence of its parent films, but never evolves beyond it  nothing like the geyser of blood from the wall (of all things) that made Evil Dead 2 so pointed.
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers spots a machine gun, which is fun  but better movies, like Evil Dead II, notices someone left the keys to a frickin' tank just lying around and goes for a joyride..
Yes believe it.Now seriously, "Sleepaway Camp II" is a fun, entertaining, somehow gory Slasher flick.
Angela is an insane teacher at the camp, but long before she got a job there she killed kids before when she was a child at another summer camp.It's all far-fetched hokum, but fun.The murders are grisly and graphic, but there's no doubt the tongue is firmly in the mouth of the director.Give it a go, it's not a bad horror movie!!.
I watched this as part of the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit which was purchased for a mere $25.This movie has all the typical nudity and gore you'd expect from a slasher flick.
This movie is by some part the same as every other slasher movie that the world has been gifted with (or cursed with - you decide).But Sleepaway camp 2 shows us how entertaining these movies can be when almost everything goes as it should.Pamela Springsteen fits the role of Angela Baker perfectly, and she's one big reason that this flick rules.
I give Sleepaway camp 2 an 8 out of 10 for it's great entertaining value.If you like this kind of film, be sure to look for the DVD-box "Survival kit" which includes all 3 Sleepaway camp movies.Sleepaway camp 2 /Grade: 8/10/Evil_kid.
Like any other movie out there with sequels, this one is good but the original first one is the best and will always be the best because it's creative and unique and just overall better.
The acting was horrid and the "story" looks like it was thrown together over lunch but, the way the movie poked fun at the horror genre is something rarely seen.
Most slasher flicks are funny but, that's cause they try to make a good movie.
After seeing the whole set, they made this movie clearly to laugh at and have a good time watching it.I did enjoy Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and would recommend it to friends.
This movie is about summer-camp, cheap gore, heavy metal, and guys like T.C. By that standard it's pretty good.
I have seen all three of the Sleepaway Camp movies,and part 2 is my favorate.Here we have sister of Bruce Springsteen Pamela starring as grown up Angela(who looks nothing like the kid from the first one)that works as a camp councelor for only one reason,to KILL!Alot of horror movies have good death scenes,I mean,the death scenes are part of making the movie good.If you have people getting murdered slowly,and different ways of getting killed,well,that's what counts.If movies use ideas that have been done many times before that will mess it up.You have to see things that have'nt been done before,and alot of horror movies seem to use the same ideas from other films,not good.In the sequel Angela talks,she did hardly say a word in the first one.What I like about this movie is it's entertaining,and it has a good story line.Molly,played by Renee Estevez,sister of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen is the nice girl in the movie.Everyone else just wants to get laid.She thinks Angela is her friend,untill at the end she turns out to be the last on her list.Pamela Springsteen has'nt made a movie in twelve years.I know she is a photogopher now.She's a great actress.Sleepaway Camp 3 was good,too,and the first one was good,but 2 is the best to my opinion.I read in one of Felissa Rose's interviews that she has never met Pamela but would like to.This is one of the best horror movies of '88.Jacob Young.
25 bucks for 3 movies, and production footage for the unfinished 4th...I'd seen the first Sleepaway Camp like last year, rented it at Blockbuster...
A very great and unique slasher movie, plus a good topic of horror..
I was both shocked and eager to see that there was a sequel to the classic horror movie: SLEEPAWAY CAMP  (a movie with one of the most shocking endings in film history).
The characters were a blast, the camp atmosphere was TREEmendous  (you gotta love a horror movie that takes place at camp), the special make-up effects were fantastic, and the film left an impact on me just like the first one did!
This movie has all the good elements of a slasher pic, plenty of gory deaths, nudity, darkness but unlike mindless slasher films the story actually made sense.
This is the absolute best of the sleepaway series (So far), and also one of the best 80's teen slasher movies of all time!
I didn´t watch Sleepaway Camp ( The first ) yet, but if the actress who play Angela in the first is good like Angela Springsteen, alright !!!
Sleepaway Camp was an interesting, and fun horror film with quite a few memorable moments.
I would personally put this movie along side such gems as Pieces, Slumber Party Murders, Happy Birthday To Me, because Sleepaway Camp 2, like those films, is enjoyable because of the fact that it is so cheesy.As usual of 80's slasher flicks, the teens are played by twenty-somethings and have really bad hair cuts (some of the mullets are outstanding).
It's funny...at the end the one surviving girl appears as though she will be killed as well...leaving the door open for the next sequel which i did not see unfortunately.I liked watching this movie.
The first sequel to the utterly bizarre and truly camp "Sleepaway" is a much better movie, in my opinion.A strong performance by Bruce Springsteen's sister, Pamela, as the psychotic Angela, combined with a fun script and able direction results in a fun filled 80 minutes.The film's played for laughs but the atmosphere and set-pieces work well.
It has everything a great horror movie should have- a likable killer (played magnificently by Pamela Springstein), unlikeable victims, nudity, drugs, great death scenes (LOVE the toilet scene) and funny one-liners.
This movie doesn't try to be scary (like the first one did unsuccessfully)--it tries to be funny, yet it doesn't lack on gore or great killings.
**SPOILERS** Extremely gruesome black comedy that has a summer camp consoler, the counselor of the week no less, Angela Baker, Pamela Springsteen, putting her sick and misguided moralistic ideas into action by slaughtering almost the entire troop of camper.
Pamela Springsteen as the crazed Angela is more funny then scary and her victims, for the most part, are the typical horny teenagers who always end up dead in slasher films just for the "crime" of exposing themselves and engaging in sex.
Like in most slasher movies Angela's victims are murdered for no other reason then her sense of outrage and indignation at their actions.
The actor who played Angela did a good job, a very cheesy slasher flick, but a worth while watch..
I think what made sleepaway camp 2 so good was Pamela Springsteen.
Great Makeup artists for scenes such as the slit throat scenes, and the blood splattering parts good effect on the viewer it makes you cringe just watching the blood splatter on Pamela Springsteens and then the camera looks away !!good effects!!Still though it overexagerates as far as the killing theme goes because i really don't think that she could kill nearly everyone in that camp, even T.C. the best actor in the film, but she does show towards the end a real good psychopathic nature that we don't see throughout the whole film.
Now the one thing that makes this movie so excellent is the awesome Pamela Springsteen who maybe isn't a great actress but she has some kind of vibe that makes her shine as the 'part-time' psychotic Angela.Angela is very different from Jason, Freddy or Michael Myers because unlike them part of her is normal, caring and can have a laugh just like anyone else but man if you get on her wrong side through going against the morals and principals Angela has set for herself then you are in a whole load of trouble.
The rest of the cast is passable but are totally forgettable.Sleepaway Camp 2 is a brilliant slasher which has quite a bit of black comedy and gore in it but like i said, it's Pamela Springsteen that makes this fantastic.
An almost unlikely sequel to 1984's horror hit "Sleepaway Camp," Part 2 tries a different approach and tone than the original, and the result is a film that becomes a non-stop piece of entertainment.
Pamela Springsteen tackles the role of Angela Baker (if only they gave acting Oscars for horror flicks!) with an energy and craziness that makes this movie that much more fun.
The acting is bad it has the feel of a Vice Academy Movie and there is absolutely no suspense in this film at all, since you know from the very beginning that Pamela Springsteen is the killer.
1. I liked "Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers".
Filmed back to back with Sleepaway Camp III (1988), this movie takes place a number of years after the original with Angela (now really a girl) as the head counselor at Camp Rolling Hills.
Angela, the murderous happy camp, returns killing off all the naughty campers.
The original Sleepaway Camp was highly derivative of many other slasher films that came before it - most notably the campsite-set Friday the 13th, but it distanced itself from the rest of the genre with it's willingness for the victims to be somewhat younger than usual - as well as the fact that the central killer wasn't just the usual 'man with a knife'; and those two things make me rate it higher than the average eighties slasher.
Overall, I would say that this film is about as good as the original and the two together help to secure Sleepaway Camp its status as one of the more interesting slasher series'..
Humorous slasher way ahead of its time, this sequel to SLEEPAWAY CAMP has Angela Baker (now played by Springsteen, Bruce's sister) returning as a camp counselor to wreak havoc on naughty campers.
So overall this is a very fun slasher film, i love this movie its awesome!.
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..
This movie isn't a very effective horror flick, due to its approach but nevertheless the movie is good enough to consider this simply a watchable one, especially for the fans of '80's slashers of course.The biggest difference between "Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers" and its predecessor "Sleepaway Camp", that got released 5 years earlier, is that in this movie the killer is known from the first moment basically.
Whatever the case may be, I actually enjoyed quite a bit of Unhappy Campers but still thought it was a very average B flick that should probably only be seen once.Acting apparently isn't the Sleepaway Camp films' strong point because it's always poor as hell.
Unfortunately, Angela still ain't right in the head, and is soon dispatching those she considers to be 'bad people' (fornicators and drug users) in a variety of gruesome ways.A tongue-in-cheek sequel to Sleepaway Campthe slasher with 'that ending'Unhappy Campers is a trashy B-movie mess that delivers neither laughs nor scares (in fact, the most frightening thing about this film is the incredible amount of really bad mullets on display).
This time Angela is a counselor at Camp Rolling Hills where she kills everbody that p****s her off.
Sleepaway Camp 2 is a great slasher film.
Sleepaway Camp 2, or Nightmare Vacation 2 as i know it, came out in 1988, during a time when horror films were a dying breed.