It's a
normal day at Camp Manabe, kids lighting their
farts in their bed at night, food fights in the
cafeteria and worst of all a group of bullies led
by their counsellor named Randy (Brye Cooper) to
pick on an autistic kid named Alan (Michael
Gibney) as he doesn't like the food there or most
of the other kids but however has a crush on one
of the popular girls named Karen (Erin Broderick)
but however he seems to make a fool out of
himself all the time with the other around him
and doesn't see eye to eye with the camp owner
named Frank (Vincent Pastore) who gives him an
even rougher time.
Well one
day a camp's cook named Mickey (Lenny Venito)
suddenly disappears after hucking eggs at Alan
which made him lose his temper and throw a
kitchen knife towards him just missing him.
Then suddenly one of the pot smoking kids named
Weed (Adam Wylie) pulls a pot smoking prank on
Alan and later on is burned to a crisp as Frank's
assiatant who happens to be Ronnie (Paul
DeAngelo) thinks that Angela could be back to
seek revenge on mean kids at this camp but Frank
tries to force Ronnie into not talking about what
happened at that nearby camp 20 years ago and to
continue on with the camp events.
However, Ronnie almost loses his mind when he
spots one of the counsellors named Petey (Kate
Simses) trying to protect Alan from these bullies
wondering if she could be Angela.
Angela's
cousin Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) happens to be
working nearby and has more of an attitude since
then, is requested to go to the camp as these
people starts to drop like flies for having
terrible attitudes to this poor kid and help
Ronnie out by solving the murders.
Is Alan really killing these people like the
others think? Or has Angela somehow escaped from
the asylum and wrecking havoc once again?
After 5 years of waiting for this
film to come out I was super happy that it
finally did and nearly lost all hope for it.
It's made on a bit of a lower budget than the
first one and looks like a made for cable TV
production but again I enjoy those types of shows
too so this film wasn't bad at all. We have a bit
more humoress dialogue and some corny one liners.
Some are good and some are bad but overall a good
mysterious storyline like in the first one. We
have a shocking ending too but nowehere as
effective like in the first one but still very
exciting which I can't wait for the next one Reunion
to happen.
The film is definetely suitable for this years
generation on slasher films and again a movie so
bad it's great like the first one with a bigger
cast of mean kids and counsellors as well as a
nasty camp owner too with some humoress one
liners on some of the case members whom were
famous with their other work too.
Alot of the scene's were almost a remake and
tribute to the first one with certain postures
like a kid eating a candy bar on a bleacher like
Angela was in the first one or when the put upon
kid was pushed into a lake off a pier and a
caring one trying to help him out like Ricky did
with Angela.
Best of all, we have a scumbag cook who gets a
similar incident happening to him for the first
attempted murder scene.
This one was out to celebrate the 25th
anniversary on the first one and had no
relationship to the previous sequels directed by Michael
A. Simpson which was a good thing but hey, Halloween:
H20 was a direct sequel to part 2 and
ignored the other sequels so why can't this one
too? In my words if Hiltzik isn't behind
a Sleepaway Camp flick it's not
the true film.
Most of the acting is quite good
for this film butr we have some stale
performances too. We have a decent performance by
Erin Broderick as the lead teen camp
actress who shows her frightening actions and
intensity quite well.
Michael Gibney who plays someone autistic
seems to pull off his part but by no means is he
an award winning actor but still seems to do okay
with the character he played. However, he could
have some limitations for future acting gigs.
Paul DeAngelo is back as the body builder
camp employer Ronnie and like before his acting
isn't very good and is a little too melodramatic
in this one but I guess this explains why he got
very little work in other shows.
Vincent Pastore seems to do a fine job as a
nasty camp owner since he's had numerous
experience in other acting jobs but sometimes
acts just a little too macho and gets carried
away. Still, he comes across well as a bully
owner.
Kate Simses plays a nice camp counsellor but
however isn't too convicning to be a character
actress as she seems too plain.
Brye Cooper seems to really pull his weight
well as a nasty camp counsellor for the boys as
he comes across as a typical egotistical asshole
tormenting the outsiders and encouraging the
bullies to continue doing their nasty deeds as he
reminds me of a male Meg from the first one. You
just feel like killing him he's so arrogant. Good
work Brye.
Jackie Tohn was another one who played a
good bitch counsellor in the film and had the
perfect looks for her role too.
I don't want to give away too much with Felissa
Rose's performance but she left an
impression in her part like she did in the
original film.
Christopher Shand wans't too shabby as the
head bully camper in the flick as he seems
natural as a typical teenage prankster.
Shahidah
McIntosh was great as a bad ass camper
showing a tough tomboy attitude since she reminds
me of those tough girls at school. She can go far
with her career.
Stage veteran actor Paul Iacono acts his
part out as a dweeb who wets his bed a little too
much as he didn't impress me at all and seemed
too slapstick.
Adam Wylie gets killed off halfway through
the film but played a great stoner in the film
and spoke his words greatly acting like a typical
pothead. Of course he's done tons of acting gigs
since he was little and is still going on strong.
A worthy character actor indeed.
We can't forget about Jonathan Tiersten
as the temperamental Ricky in the first one who
appears briefly in the middle of the film's run
and appears close to the end of the film so his
part wasn't too bog but he still has the knack as
an actor even if he chose to be a progressive
rock singer instead of acting. He certainly knew
his stuff as Ricky again having more of a bad ass
attitude too.
We have another descent brief performance by
supporting veteran actor Lenny Venito as
a douchebag bad ass cook as he almost reminded me
of Artie the cook in the first film and shows
some humoress aggression to his part in a good
way.
Last but not least, we have a good couple of
cameo scene's by the late Isaac Hayes playing
a Chef as he shows the same humor like he did in
South Park which was a real treat
watching his performance and it was sad that he
died shortly before the film's release.
Michael Gibney's character
moons some girls at a sportsfield.
A head is melted in a deep fryer.
A teen's body is fried and explodes.
A frog is sliced.
A girl is slaughtered by some nails on the top
bottom of a bunk bed.
A person's
eye is stabbed through his head by a pointy end
of what was once a broomstick
A camp owners stomach is eaten open by rats.
A counsellor is bloody wrapped in barbwire.
A teen is skinned alive lying on the ground
towards the end of the film.
Robert Hiltzik seems to do
okay with his direction in it updating it for
todays viewing in cheesy horror flicks.
He shows alot of good shots in a cafeteria of
rowdy kids which looked realistic on kids being
kids.
There's a good shot on Brye Cooper
grabbing Michael Gibney's neck in the
cafeteria and pushing his face towards his plate
and Gibney freaking out.
We have a good shot on Isaac hayes approaching in
the kitchen talking to Gibney as it
almost looked like a South Park
type of feel.
We also have a nice shot on supporting actor Lenny
Venito as a nasty chef being mean towards Gibney
and hucking eggs at him along with a good
menacing expression on Gibney and
hucking a kitchen knife towards him hitting the
side of the wall. Plus we have a perfect close up
shot on Venito with a freaked out
expression next to the knife stabbed in the wall.
We have a good shot of the killer in black coming
up from behind Venito next to a deep
fryer and lifting him up which looked impressive
and then forcing him in the deep fryer face first
as it looked truly intense along with a good shot
on the killer dragging the corpse in a garbage
bag and throwing it in the back of the garbage
truck which was almost like in Sleepaway
Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland but of course
they took Hiltzik's ideas when he
planned to make a sequel two over two decades
ago.
We have a
good reaction on Gibney acting dorky
waving towards Erin Broderick as she
does well acting embarrassed with the cast as her
friends teasing her.
We have a good scene that involved Adam Wylie
with Gibney by giving him what
looks like a joint as it's cow droppings and
teasing him as well as great reactions by
Gibney choking and coughing while smoking
it.
There's a good shot on Wylie lying in a
chair outside late at night acting stoned out of
his head which looked well directed and then a
goos shot on the killer sticking a tube in his
mouth and tying his arms by stuffing his mouth
with gasoline which looked totally suspenseful
along with a good shot on a joint stuck in his
mouth litten up and a great cheesy CGI effects
shot on an explosion.
There's terrific shots on a crowd watching and
ambulances and firetrucks around the camp at
night.
We have a cheesy moment with Paul DeAngelo talking
about Angela as well as Vincent Pastore
having an attitude about it and explaining about
what happened to an officer then being blunt with
DeAngelo not wanting to hear about it.
Supporting actor Jonathan Tiersten does
well in his first appearance of this film having
a bad ass attitude and smoking a cigarette at his
construction area while being questioned about
his cousin Angela and having been told that
there's an incident at a campground nearby.
We have a disturbing scene when Gibney is
at his hideout with the frogs and Christopher
Shand kicks one of them and Gibney
getting upset about it. Then there's a good shot
on Gibney holding a knife towards Shand
with a cold look along with a good close up
shot on him.
There are many great camera shots in the forest
with the supporting cast dressed in combat
training uniform all circling Gibney and
shooting at him.
There's a good close up shot on Gibney
in another scene looking at a dead frog on a log
with his devastating expressions as it was
directed disturbingly.
There's a good moment with Gibney
panicking at a pier and supporting actress Erin
Broderick telling him to get off along with Cooper
and Lauren Toub acting like a couple of
bullies and encouraging the kids to pick on him
which was directed believeably well.
Pastore looked a little witty after he
realises that his parrot says Your Ass Stinks
when he's supposed to look angry as it seemed a
little kooky.
Pastore does well freaking out at Gibney
at the canteen about what his parrot said and
Gibney is good spazzing out.
DeAngelo was rusty when he gets paranoid
towards Kate Simses trying to make out
that she's Angela with her getting nervous as it
looked too obviously directed out.
Gibney does well running out in the middle
of the campground while there's a chant of kids
name calling him blowjob and a good shot on Gibney
looking in the air and screaming.
We spot a good shot on Shand reading a
magazine and through a hole on the floor a sharp
broomstick points towards him as he does well by
jumping. Also there are good shots on both Shand
and supporting actor Jake O'Connor peeping
through the hole each time discussing the
broomstick as you know that something is going to
happen. Suddenly you'll almost jump when Shand
looks one more time and the sharo broomstick
stabs him in the eye which was blocked and shot
terrifically along with a terrific shot on
O'Connor staring and screaming his lungs
out.
Tiersten was directed comedically when he
approaches the camp telling people here he is and
a surprised look when he spots DeAngelo
there which was an impressive brief dialogue by
the two of them.
There's a good shot on a bottom bed of a bunk
with nails that slams on Shahidah McIntosh.
We have a good scene between Toub and Cooper
out in the dark woods acting kinky towards one
another along with a good shot on Cooper
being tied up next to a tree with some terrifying
incidents and Cooper then freaking out
trying to apologise thinking it's Alan along with
a good shot on Toub screaming and
running away to her jeep.
There's a good shot on Toub with a
backshot on her driving her jeep and a shot on
some barb wire in hung out on the middle of the
dirt road.
We have a perfect freaked out reaction on Broderick
after discovering in her cabin the murder with
the top bunk bed with the nails on them as she
screams well towards her bunkmates and then runs
away as it looked fairly intense.
We spot a nice shot on Broderick with
her neck tied to a rope to a basket ball hoop
being hung as she does well by trying to
struggle.
We have good shots with DeAngelo,
Jenny Coyle and Tiersten going in
the woods with flashlights to look for Alan.
Hiltzik also directs a bizarre ending in a
descent fashion but I won't give that one away.
The
music wasn't too bad as we had some descent
susepnseful piano playing like in the first movie
along with some dark synthesizer playing along
with some techno type music (Which I didn't care
for) along with some odd accoustic guitar playing
when it shows the cabin of the cafeteria first
thing next day that suits a teenage horror flick
which was all composed by Rodney Whittenberg.
We
have an annoying songtrack during the beginning
of the film performed by a band called Goat
and Friends performing the title song. Frankie
Vinci it was a shame the producers didn't
pick you to perform your songs again or even Jonathan
Tiersten with his band Ten Tiers.
[repeated line]
Alan: Your ass stinks!
Mickey:
Stay the fuck out of my freezer, or I'll cut your
tiny little balls off!
Charlie the
Chef: It's that damn fool, Mickey. Boy's
useless as tits on a bull!
Frank:
I don't wanna hear anymore of this Angela crap!
Ricky:
Ain't life a bitch?
Sheriff Jerry: So are you, Ricky.
Kids
chanting outside their cabin: Blowjob,
blowjob, blowjob....
Ronnie
(Staring in fright) It's
happening again!
Karen
(Screaming intensely): I
tried to warn you but you wouldn't believe
me!!!!!
Randy: [as
the killer lowers a tiny noose toward his crotch]
What, are we hanging mice tonight?
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