Oct 091988
 
one reel

Angela (Pamela Springsteen) is a happy but puritanical councilor at Camp Rolling Hills, a summer camp with a lot of overage attendees. She likes nice girls, and when girls aren’t nice, she kills them.

Realizing that the quirky Sleepaway Camp could not be repeated, the filmmakers took a different rout, using the standard camp Slasher story and piling on comedy.  Outside of the name, there is no connection to the earlier film. Young Angela has grown up to become a completely different character, played by a different actress (Pamela Springsteen, Bruce’s sister, putting in as good a performance as the material allows). Now she is outgoing and bouncy.

Unfortunately, none of it quite works. Yes, it’s more fun than a Friday the 13th flick, but that isn’t a recommendation. There’s lots of blood, plenty of breasts, and no thought behind how it fits together. Anyone with female friends willing to go topless could have made this flick. Fritz Gordon is given a writing credit, but Sleepaway Camp II shows no sign of a script. Everything here could have been made up while shooting.

The general idea of a parody Slasher with a bubbly psycho could have worked, but only if the jokes were funny (they’re not), the murders had some shock value (or humor or something), and the nudity was something other than repeated, brief “tit flashes.”

If you are looking for nudity and gore, there are plenty of more exciting choices.

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