Movie Review: Sleepaway Camp II

Finally, something that puts the camp in summer camp movies. This movie is somewhat better than the original, IMO. That's not saying much, though. No creepy aunt/mom character. So that's a negative. Where there is a marked improvement is in the amount of nudity and sex portrayed in this version.

Premise is simple: One of the camp counselors has a certain way of dealing with the various miscreants on her campgound ... she kills em. The big shock at the end is that the camp counselor is the same Angela from the original (different actress, so its not readily apparent). The death scenes are far better in this movie, although there's a reprisal of a death-by-bees scene in here. Even though I've now given away the ending, it really doesn't matter because the nudity and gore will keep you enthralled. It helps that the really slutty camper doesn't get killed early on. She gets around.

I'm gonna keep this short ... I need to learn which chapters those are so I can watch them over and over and over again.

Oh yeah, one other note here ... the heavy metal music in this movie is far superior to anything other than Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warrior (which was a really cool song by Dokken). This one has one of my fave indie metal tunes by a band called Hurricane. Two of the band members were brothers of more famous musicians in Quiet Riot.

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Pete said:

Hmm. Sounds like ART.

Pete said:

But this doesn't: just caught hit-n-run.com's review of Airport '77 - The Concorde. Could not bear to read the whole thing. Would rather have entire William Burroughs books sung to me by 'Wild Man' Fischer, to the tune of "Young At Heart".

Which reminds me: did I mention "Where The Buffalo Roam" for the impending movie night?

Greg Wythe said:

Where The Buffalo Roam ... Bill Murray's best hidden treasure. It's worth the price of admission to hear the elctricified version of the song in the opening credits.

I will go out of my way to ensure that that one is on my to-buy list.

Pete said:

Cripes; I'd forgotten that instrumental number. And also forgot to mention elsewhere

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