Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
Directed By: Michael A. Simpson
Starring: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard
Rated: R/Region: 1/Widescreen/Number of disc: 1
Available from Anchor Bay
Angela is back, in the form of an angry inner-city camper on the hunt for blood. Camp New Horizons, on the recycled grounds of the former murders, intends to pair high class teens with underclass counterparts. Angela, however, has a different plan.
Being filmed back-to-back with part two seems to indicate that the budget was running out along with the creativity by the time we reached Sleepaway Camp 3. Pamela Springsteen in the role of Angela is still showing campers who the boss is, all the while dropping witty lines left and right. This time it just doesn’t seem to have the same feel behind it that we got before in the very fun Sleepaway Camp 2. While packing a nice body count, this movie just doesn’t contain the amount of cool deaths we’d want. And, outside of a flagpole and a lawnmower, it seems like Angela is just beating people with sticks.
It seems that here we just have a movie for the sake of having a movie. A nice try at just getting some money from the extreme horror fans out there. “Teenage Wasteland” is perhaps the very worst of the Sleepaway Camp movies. That covers some ground with the other two releases to come later, but you can somewhat look passed them for various reasons. I can’t see much of an excuse for this one. Pamela Springsteen still does a fine job, even with her awful hair style, but that’s about it.
– Behind the scenes footage and outtakes
– Deleted scenes from the Director’s cut featuring additional “Gore” footage
– Still galleries
– Commentary
