Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Tags: revenge, comedy, murder

Plot synopsis:
In 1989, one year after the events of second film, the film opens with Maria (Kashina Kessler) heading to camp. Suddenly, she is chased into an alleyway by a large truck, driven by serial killer Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen), before being run over. Angela disposes of the body in a trash compactor and poses as Maria in order to board the bus to Camp New Horizons, which was once Camp Rolling Hills where Angela massacred campers the year before. After arriving, news reporter Tawny Richards (Randi Layne) interviews the many campers who are taking part in "an experiment in sharing," seeing different social classes living together. Tawny asks Angela to get her some cocaine, however Angela gives her Ajax cleaner instead, which kills Tawny when she snorts it.
After the campers have settled in, camp councilors Herman (Michael J. Pollard), Lily (Sandra Dorsey) and Officer Barney Whitmore (Cliff Brand), who Angela realizes is the father of a previous victim, split the campers into three groups, who they will be camping with over the next few days. Angela is placed in a group with Herman, Snowboy (Kyle Holman), Peter (Jarret Beal) and Jan (Stacie Lambert). Angela goes fishing with Snowboy and Peter, but soon gets annoyed by them setting off firecrackers and returns to camp, only to find Herman and Jan having sex. Angela impales Herman through the mouth with a log, before bashing Jan's head in. Angela hides the bodies from Snowboy and Peter, who continue to annoy her throughout the day. At night, Angela sets off a firecracker in Peter's nose, killing him, before hitting Snowboy with a log and burning him alive, along with the other bodies.
The next morning, Angela travels to Lily's campsite, where Bobby (Haynes Brooke), Cindy (Kim Wall), Riff (Daryl Wilcher) and Arab (Jill Terashita) are camping. Angela tells Lily that Herman told her she was to switch places with Arab. As Angela escorts Arab to the other camp, she decapitates her with an axe. When Angela returns to camp, an argument breaks out between Cindy and Riff, before Lily sets the campers out on a trust building exercise. Blindfolded, Cindy doesn't realize that Angela, having grown tired of the girl's whiny and bigoted behavior, has attached her to the flag pole. Angela raises Cindy into the air, before letting her drop from a high height, killing her. Angela covers up her death by telling Lily she returned to the main camp. In another game, Angela is tied to obnoxious Young Republican Bobby, but while fishing he attempts to kiss her, annoying Angela who tells him to later meet her at the main cabin. Returning to camp, Angela convinces Lily to go check on Cindy with her, however Angela buries Lily, up to her neck, in a trash hole, before running over her head with a lawnmower. Angela then waits for Bobby to arrive, who she ties to a tree and proceeds to rip his arms off by attaching the rope to a Jeep and driving away. Angela then murders Riff by stabbing him with tent spikes.
The following morning Angela travels to the remaining camp, where Barney, Marcia (Tracy Griffith), Tony (Mark Oliver), Anita (Sonya Maddox) and Greg (Chung Yen Tsay) are camping. Angela tells Barney she is to switch with Marcia, but Marcia objects. As Barney accompanies Angela and Marcia to the other camp, Angela is forced to fake a leg injury. Barney tends to Angela at the main camp, but Marcia discovers Lily's body and flees, while Barney discovers Angela's identity. After a tense stand-off she shoots him dead. Angela catches up with Marcia in the Jeep and captures her. Angela returns to Tony, Anita and Greg that night and ties them together, telling them they are playing a trust game. Instead, Angela shows them the body of Barney and forces them to find Marcia in one of the cabins. But Angela had set up a booby trap in one of the cabins and it kills Greg and Anita. Angela decides to let Marcia and Tony live, as they had struck up a romance. But as she leaves, Angela is attacked by Marcia who stabs her numerous times, leaving her for dead in the grass.
Marcia and Tony summon the police to camp, and Tony is sad to discover Marcia already has a boyfriend. Meanwhile Angela, barely alive, is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, where a cop and paramedic plot to kill her after discovering who she is. But Angela wakes and stabs them to death with a syringe. When the ambulance driver asks what is going on, Angela weakly replies "Just taking care of business," and falls unconscious.

Review: 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.
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!
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.
im gonna keep it short and simple Sleepaway Camp 3 Teenage Wasteland is a great horror movie.
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!.
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).
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.
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.
Angela (Pamela Springsteen) kills a seventeen year-old teenager and travels to the Camp New Horizons assuming her identity.
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" is a lame slasher with no story and only a brainless stupidity with senseless killing.
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.
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.
stupid Cheesy but entertaining A lot gorier than THE last 2 the funniest things are the bad lines like when Angela is chopping wood the camp counselor says where you learn to chop wood like that she says i never have but I've chopped other things when she kills one victim with a bat she says batter up then after mowing off a counselor's head she tells a cop and one of the characters shes so lazy go out and look at her then at the end she kills a cop and a doctor with a needle and a guy asks whats going on back there she says just tacking care of business i bought the films films there fun to watch when bored there so dumb and campy there fun to watch so i suggest get them soon there trashy dumb fun you can enjoy especially part three it's the best out of the three in my opinion.
Sleep Away Camp III is a pretty decent horror movie, I bought it, I watched it, and I enjoyed it.
From the opening scene when Angela runs down Maria in the Alley I knew I was in for a good time.Others have said this film is the least gory, and I dont deny that, but the sheer inventiveness of the killings, and Angela's wisecracks more then make up for the lack of gore.
Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 2:Unhappy Campers) made an uninspired but watchable dumb slasher horror movie with an enjoyable performance by Springsteen.
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..
It's a great shame that Springsteen decided to follow a career in photography as I would have welcomed further movies from this actress."Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" is comic horror; the bloodshed is played for laughs but there are some effective scenes.
You have to look at this way,I think,in that the SC movies are spoofing the Friday the 13th flicks.For instance Kelly Hu played an ill fated Asian valedictorian in Friday The 13th Part 8,while Jill Terashita played a delinquent with a nice rack in SC3.I think that if you don't take it as serious cinema you will enjoy it.Some of kills are pretty funny too,like a girl being hoisted then dropped from a flagpole.Just sit back,turn off your brain,and enjoy.As a post script of sorts,since I'm being told there aren't enough lines,one of the reasons I liked this film so much is that I went to a camp like this.But unlike the film,we really got along with under privileged kids.They weren't really tough or mean,they all just had a knack for getting into trouble,like breaking into the dining hall for a midnight snack:-)..
"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland" is a great follow-up to the second one.**SPOILERS**Angela Baker, (Pamela Springsteen) arrives at Camp New Horizons for a new start, but the counselors make her feel unwelcome.
It kind of seems like after wrapping "Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers" they had some time and film left over, so they got another celebrity's sister (Tracy Griffith this time, not as cool as the previous film's Renee Estevez) and squeezed out this fun, if inconsequential slasher movie.
sleepaway camp II,and III has all you need in 80's horror movies sex,nudity,and plenty of gore.
Angela in the original had little to no personality, but with Pamela Springsteen taking over for Felissa Rose, she gives the movies more personality and cheesy one-liners, the way 80's horror does best.
(Perfect for Halloween) This one is filled with extra cheese, drugs, nudity, dumb teenagers, sleaziness and great over the top kills.A year after the events of Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers, Angela is back and ready to kill again.
If you love cheesy, sleazy fun slashers from the 80's, I highly recommend SLEEPAWAY CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND.
Awful But (Of Course) Adds A Nice Campy Charm To It. I was up the other night and I couldn't get to sleep so I decided to waste 90 minutes of my precious life watching this, Sleepaway Camp 3.I knew right away (judging from the titles and that it's from the late 80's) that I was in for a campy, awful, cheap, makes-no-sense horror flick.
I loved the Chinese chick and also the black guy, who played rap loudly on his stereo and (somehow) got his knives and a gun into the camp.There was nothing scary about this (yet another key ingredient to make sure your horror film is very campy) there were a few shots of T&A here and there and (of course) the killings.The killings, the acting, and the dialogue are hilariously bad (though, of course that's one of the main-key ingredients for making a campy slasher flick.) For the casual viewer just looking for a good horror flick to watch, I would say don't waste your time on this but for the hardcore horror fans who thrive on finding films like this I'd say go right ahead.
Simpson, Writer Fritz Gordon and Moderator John Klyza; Behind-the-Scenes featurette; Deleted Scenes; Behind-the-Scenes footage and Outtakes; 3 Still Galleries; and Theatrical Trailer Easter Eggs: In the Extras menu highlight the logo on Angela's T-shirt for a clip of a news story footage on the film; In the commentary menu highlight the logo for a poster for the never completed Sleepaway Camp 4.
Filmed back to back with Sleepaway Camp II (1987), this movie takes place a year later as Angela has returned and infiltrated a new camp that is operating on the same grounds as the former Camp Rolling Hills (i.e. they use the same sets, etc.
Sex-change nut-job Angela (Pamela Springsteen), the loony with a big problem with 'bad' campers, returns for more slice 'n' dice fun in Teenage Wasteland, the third film in the Sleepaway Camp series.The action in this one takes place exactly one year after Angela's last rampage, at the recently opened Camp New Horizons (previously known as Camp Rolling Hills and Camp Arawak), where the aim is to integrate rich kids with their underprivileged counterparts from the ghettos.After killing one of the prospective campers, and taking her place, Angela once again sets about sorting out the 'good' kids from the 'bad', offing those who do not live up to her high standards; of course, most of the campers turn out to be degenerates, and pretty much everyone meets a sticky end.Like Part 2, Teenage Wasteland is nothing more than a series of silly death scenes (and the occasional spot of nudity from well endowed bimbos): the bunch of annoying characters are bludgeoned with logs, attacked by rotary lawnmower, pulled apart by Jeep, and set on fire.
Angela manages to secure the identity of one of the kids due at camp; and doesn't waste any time upon her arrival as she immediately gets to work dispatching her fellow campers.Undoubtedly the main reason why the two Sleepaway Camp sequels work so well is due to the lead performance from Pamela Springsteen.
The most important thing for a lot of people going into slashers will be the kill scenes; and this one isn't a let down in that respect; as Angela utilises a variety of weapons to dispatch her victims - the best of which include a flag pole, a lawnmower and a rap tape!
Angela murders some New York City girl and steals her identity in order to attend Camp New Horizons where spoiled rich kids are mixed up with some of the underprivileged for some bizarre 'experiment in sharing'.It's a perfect ground for Angela to kill as many teenagers as she can."Sleepaway Camp III:Teenage Wasteland" is extremely fun slasher comedy with some very entertaining characters and pretty high body count.The killings including the lawnmower and the flagpole deaths are violent and creative.Several characters for example Michael J.Pollard are truly weird and memorable.If you enjoyed "Sleepaway Camp" and "Sleepaway Camp II:Unhappy Campers" you can't go wrong with this silly but enjoyable kill fest.8 slashed teens out of 10..
I found this a bit more fun then second movie, as it way to funny for it own good and jokes were really good in this movie, I kept laughing at some parts of the Dark humour.Both sequels to sleepaway camp have some good part in movies, they don't have the same feel anything like first .I found the death scene build up were really good but had some tension i hated the fact there was not one death scene was on screen, which was huge letdown as they could of be done really well.The acting this movie from everyone in cast was cheesy as you can get and ending was nothing boring dull and predicable.
You have to hand it to the Sleepaway Camp movies that they often managed to come up with some original and gruesome killings.
Sleepaway Camp 3 (1989) ** (out of 4)The third film in the series has Angela (Pamela Springsteen) killing a girl and taking her identity, which gets her back into a camp being ran by a goofy old couple who want to take rich kids and mix with poor kids so that they can learn to live together.
It doesn't take too long for Angela to go back on a killing rampage.SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3 was shot at the same time as the second film but sadly it's the weakest of the series, which is a real shame when you consider how good the first two were.
It also doesn't help that even Angela doesn't have the same flare as in the previous movie.Springsteen gives a good performance in the lead role and there's no question that it's funny seeing someone like Michael J.
The third and looks like final movie " Sleepaway Camp " is not so good like the second !
Here, Angela, after one year, come back to the last movie camp ( Who was change the name for New Horizons to hide the murders fact ) discase like another woman named Maria Nicastro ( Nicascro, or something ) and is gonna punish again who don't fell her words.
Sleepaway Camp 3 is a pretty good slasher movie.
The black humor combined with the slasher rules formula that Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Evil Dead II, and Jason Lives created influenced and worked for Sleepaway Camp III.I recognize Felissa Rose's performance in the original Sleepaway Camp movie as a solid, believable performance but I enjoyed Pamela Springsteen's performance, Angela got a cool and cold attitude this time.
The real dimwit is Snowboy(Kyle Holman); and you know that Miss Baker really wants her hands on him.If you like camp movies and crave horror as a relaxation; you'll probably find this actually may be the best escape of the trilogy.
It must be twenty years since i saw Sleepaway Camp 3 AKA Nightmare Vacation 3 and my following review will contain several spoilers throughout.The survivor and killer of the previous film Angela Baker returns after murdering a teenage girl in the opening scene and uses her I.D to enter a newly named and revamped camp called Camp New Horizons.
I do like Pamela Springsteen's performance of Angela Baker and the more creative death scenes.
Pamela Springsteen is back from the second Sleepaway Camp film and is just as funny and disturbing in her role, playing the mass killer Angela Baker as she ends up in yet another adventure, pretending to be one of her murder victims at Camp New Horizons.Camp New Horizons, "an experiment in sharing" as the elderly pair of camp counselors like to call it, is a summer camp where snobby suburb teens are residing in groups with tough city kids.
Filmed almost simultaneosly with the first sequel, the script is missing some plot points: How did Angela know that that character in the beginning was going to that camp?
Tongue-in-cheek slasher spoof, made back-to-back with the previous installment, Unhappy Campers, from director Michael A Simpson and writer Fritz Gordon, has serial killing transsexual Angela Baker(Pamela Springsteen)assuming the identity of Maria, a street kid she plows through with a garbage truck, so she can infiltrate a new Summer Camp near where she was once counselor.