 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1989 film sleepaway camp 3 teenage wasteland and Oman First of all if you have not watched my reviews for the first sleepaway camp and sleepaway camp 2 unhappy campers You can check those out. They're on my channel right now. Also. It gives it kind of builds upon the whole story So it's kind of good to watch those Also, I give a lot of the background on kind of the whole franchise in the first one So check for that because I'm not gonna rehash it here now Know that much like those two reviews that this will be all spoilers because it's an older film The other thing is I have a correction actually if you watch my review for the second one Then you may pick up on the fact that I stated the wrong year for that film I said 1989 for that one. 1989 is for this one 1988 was for that one. So sorry for that and that's my correction So let's get into it. This one was directed once again by Michael a simpson the guy who directed the second one Who's done films such as impure thoughts and fun land? And it was also written by Fritz Gordon who also wrote the script for sleepaway camp 2 So yeah, Angela comes back to her reprise her role I'm sorry not Angela comes back Pamela comes back to reprise her role as Angela and that's Pamela Springsteen and like I said on the last one Yes, Bruce Springsteen's sister and like I said on the last one She is the most popular Springsteen in my world because I don't really listen to Bruce Springsteen's music So I know her a lot more than I know him which is kind of a funny thing to say, you know But anyway, she was also Pamela Springsteen was also in one of my favorite coming of age films fast times of Ridgemont High, which if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. It's funny. It's endearing. It's a great film and Do-do-do-do the budget for this film actually This is crazy to me. The budget for this was $15,000 more than the budget for sleepaway camp 2 unhappy campers That blows my mind because it seems like there's a lot less to this film than there is to that one Yes, it's a year later. So maybe there's a little bit of inflation there, but Mmm, I just can't believe they spent more on this one and it's way worse than the second one Now I feel like the second one's actually a pretty solid ish sequel to the first film this one It's just it's not so good I mean I feel like it's good to watch if you're into The first two films just to know where it goes next because there are some good ideas here There are some inspired kills, but I just feel like overall Fritz Gordon just he kind of phoned it in with writing the script and You know, there's not much else They could have done to to up the ante on the script or script or dress the script up Because as you would assume the acting is not very good. The directing is actually fine But it was fine throughout the other films Actually, I think the directing in the second film is probably the best directing period This might be the second best and then the directing in the first one's the worst in my opinion But the content's the best in the first one One of the biggest problems with sleepaway camp 3 teenage wasteland is that the kills man Like what happened to the kills now? It may be a situation where it's the MPAA's fault But I also find a hard time or I have a hard time thinking that that we can't get a uncut version of this film and Especially now like I feel like that would have happened because sleepaway camp has been become like a cult classic For I mean it's been a cult classic for quite some time now So I would think that in order to you know capitalize on that there would be an unrated version Now maybe when they had scenes cut because they had to cut some gory scenes for the MPAA in order to get an R rating I Don't know maybe what they cut just was destroyed and they don't have that I don't know that situation But I just feel like there should be an unrated cut or you know Maybe they didn't even shoot all that much gore to it But the MPAA was being super strict and what they had it really wasn't that much and they cut that But I find it hard to believe that the version I'm watching on shutter got an R rating and They couldn't have had more gore in it because the second film was also an R rating and it had way more gore to it It's just weird. It doesn't jive with me So I kind of feel like they that maybe the information about the MPAA forcing them to make all these cuts is Maybe a little bit false because of looking at the second movie and looking at the third movie There is so much gore in the second movie and there's not a whole lot of gore in the third movie and they're both rated R So, you know, it just doesn't make sense to me And that's one of the biggest problems with this film is that it's missing those scenes Where you in the first film you have a new concept an interesting story You don't know who the killer is initially that creates interest that keeps people engaged with the second film You already know who the killer is. She's returning But they do a good job with having inspired kills and having some good gore to it Not I mean one of the biggest problems is I they needed a lot more gore to that But they also tried to overcompensate with not having as much gore with having, you know More sexuality more sex scenes more nudity stuff like that They have a little bit of sex and nudity and actually I may May have like one sex scene in this but they have some nudity But it's way less than the second one way less sex than the second one and the gore is way less So they just went down in the things that they could have compensated with and when I say that I mean not for now like back for back in the end of the 80s Like that's kind of what you needed to get these slasher films To get people in front of these slasher films basically or to get this film in front of Viewers is what I mean. Sorry. So yeah, it's just It's a big time to mission returns on this one So they did shoot this film at the same camp that they used for the second one So it does, you know, some stuff looks a bit familiar And I do want to note that the film return to sleep away camp Which was the the next movie after this one Which I don't know if I'm gonna be able to review because I'm not finding it anywhere That actually came out in 2008 and ended up ignoring The two sequels and then full of sorrows was returning as Angela So I think that's kind of a good concept I would really like to get my hands on that and check that one out So going into the events of the actual film It feels weird that it doesn't actually start at camp because the first two films start actually at camp already Now this one starts with a student who's gonna be going to camp So I understand why they do that and that's fine like story wise. That's fine It's just it feels weird having watched the first two films and you're just assuming it's starting at camp So it's just this weird feeling How does Angela know by the way that that person is going to camp? That's one thing that doesn't make sense You know, she shows up with the the garbage truck and she runs her over which Should have been more gory obviously, but whatever It's just the beginning. That's fine You would work would ideally work your way up with the kills But um, it just doesn't make any sense that she comes out of nowhere And she just happens to know that this person's going to camp and then assumes her spot They could have written it somehow that she actually would know that information Just saying like here's a better concept for it She tries to hitchhike to the camp because she's one of the underprivileged kids going to the camp She tries to hitchhike Angela picks her up. She finds out. Oh, you're going to this camp Idea. Let me kill her and take her her place It's just the writing is just the It is a funny juxtaposition juxtaposition in this actually that Angela is trying to pass herself off as a bad kid Specifically a drug addict in the beginning and then when she ends up selling the bad drugs to the news anchor Yeah, I just found that kind of like a cool funny juxtaposition But you know in the end doesn't really matter because this movie's pretty much garbage Like I said really only worth seeing if you really wanted to know where the films go after the second one The death scenes in this actually are the worst too That's one of the other things not only is it that they they don't have enough gore And they don't have enough violence to them to be satisfying But it's also that they're not all that inspired for the most part. There's a kill here there That's pretty good probably the best one being the lawnmower one where the the female counselor like head counselor of the camp Where she kind of like buries her up to her neck and then she runs her head over and you see like a slight bit of like Something some sort of gore flying out. That's probably the best most inspired kill, but it's just If that's the best that's a little bit rough because all the other ones are just bad like the fake drug one not good Killing Herman with the stick Horrible that is so terrible plus whenever Angela's swinging a stick what she does it with Herman and she does it with one other person It looks unbelievably fake and stupid and like there's no impact with that stick It's just it's just bad. It's just so bad I Like how the music also on the boombox that the one bad kid the gang gang kid Is playing is is an actual music. It's just like sounds like someone kind of like beating on You know with like a bass track in the background and just like beating on some pots and pans. It's It's so laughable terrible The rich versus poor campers idea is actually not a bad idea and I assume that it was kind of used for a little bit of interest added to it and also to kind of create some more opportunities for some Some more comedic Moments like they had in the second one, but they really aren't there like those those comedic moments in the second one where it's kind of like These these moments of dialogue where they're talking about like someone dying in a veiled way like people making comments About someone getting knocked off but not knowing that that person's gonna get knocked off like those are funny little inside jokes for the audience and I feel like they Attempted it a few times in this film not nearly as much as they did in the second one But they just don't work like they're they're few and far between and they don't really work when they're attempted So it's just like overall the execution of this film is just like Not not up to snuff But you know, it's the third of sleepaway camp. So what do you really expect? So the cop as a counselor is another good idea for the script because it kind of creates from the get-go This kind of cat and mouse situation, but they don't use that They don't use it at all. They they introduced this concept of him being a a police officer and Of his son having been killed at that camp by Angela and they barely use it because they then like break up into those two Groups of campers and he's in the other group You needed to start with them in the same group and have a cat and mouse throughout the thing throughout the whole Movie like that's where the interest comes in with the film and they just totally they set it up And then they totally don't use it and then when they end up getting to it at the end as a cop he's too dumb to realize that when someone has both their hands behind their back and You know at that point that there are a killer a criminal that he does nothing about it Like he isn't suspicious at all that Angela is doing anything or up to anything. That's insane to me That's lazy terrible writing because if he's a police officer He would have been suspicious of Angela as soon as he got a whiff that she was involved in any of that stuff And at the time that she has her arms her hands behind her back He's established. She is Angela the killer the killer who killed his son Don't you think he'd be taking that seriously? It seems like he just lays down and takes it But you know going back I went down a bit of a ranting rabbit hole there But to go back to it they had a great setup for that cat and mouse thing and they just didn't use it And that's the thing like they have great opportunity to capitalize on a lot of these kills as well And they just don't do it. They just don't do it There's so much that actually could have gone right here Story-wise like they lay the groundwork to do something right with this and then they just fail at every turn Snowboys graffiti in this is awful. It's the worst graffiti. I've ever seen it's he's literally just just putting color on things garbage Herman is a creep and I actually really like Michael J. Pollard as Herman in this because he's such a weird creepy dude Whenever he plays a character. So I really like that. I thought he was great for the role He was fun. I kind of liked it if he lived a little bit longer make him Maybe one of the last kills because he was just fun to have on screen But the other thing is that Herman's scoring with one of the Uh campers especially the campers scores with is unbelievably unrealistic like a lot of things in this film It's just weird Another one of those moments where you're just like, okay Uh another great moment. Well another moment that could have been great great concept was the fire Firecracker kill where the firecracker was put in the one kid's mouth as he was sleeping That's a great idea But you have to show it you have to show it even if you're not going to show it when it happens Like with the first two films with a lot of the deaths, they don't show it when it happens But they show the gory nasty aftermath. You got to show the aftermath of it Not as much in the second one. They don't they don't do it, but this is even less so Um, Angela does kind of go back to killing only bad kids in this But one of the things that ends up happening that really doesn't make any sense is the fact that She's killing only bad kids that makes sense because she's back to her kind of code of ethics Which I talked about in the review for the second film like that makes sense She only kills bad kids for a while, but in the second one she ends up losing it and kind of Comes up with a reason why she has to kill someone who could rat her out For being a killer basically and then she just goes off the deep end and she kills anyone and everyone So it seems like she's got herself under control and she's just going by her old Code code of killing ethics and that's fine But then she breaks from it in the very end when she ends up killing those two Campers who actually weren't bad kids at all who were you know The all three of them were tied together and the one guy in the middle gets to live But the other two get killed. Well, they didn't do anything. So at that point she's kind of um Done she's thrown the ethics out the door So it would make sense that she would then just go off the rails and Try and kill everyone, but she leaves the couple That that what she says, oh you make a cute couple She leaves them alive and that makes no sense today, especially after the events of the second film She would have killed everybody. She definitely would have killed everybody just saying Another thing doesn't make sense You get another dumb happy camper song flashback in this I was not happy with that in the second film and they did it again in the third film It was terrible in the second one. It was actually even worse in this in this one. So yuck Um, so this this film actually does make me wonder if angela kills when she's not at a camp Uh, or is it a situation where she only kills when she's at camp because there's something that gets triggered And when she's not at a camp, she's just seems normal. I don't know But that it just made me wonder that and I think that it would be interesting If there was a film that would kind of address something like that Because if you notice we're only seeing her at camp and you know camp isn't year round You think bobby's a good guy until he gets kind of rapey I thought for sure he would in the beginning he would end up living in the end or getting close to living in the end Because he seemed like a really good guy and then he's tried kind of almost tried to rape angela. It's like, okay Once again, it does bear repeating the lawnmower kill was a really cool idea. It just needed to be done better Um, I like how Angela does kill everyone in her group and then tries to move over to the other group. That was a cool idea That was a cool concept, but then they don't do it You know, like if you're if you're gonna have that idea, they should have just gone with it They should have actually had her You know picking them off one by one like she did in her first group, but they don't really do it So what was the point? Um, yeah, like I already said if barney's a cop, how does he not suspect? How is he not suspicious of her behavior? It's ridiculous Um, and then uh, yeah That's pretty much all I have to say the the ending is not so great Um, I mean the the end portion of of angela being treated in the Ambulance and then she ends up killing people that's fine because it sets it up for another film It's you know, kind of gory-ish And yeah, I mean it's it that's a good ending But when I thought it was gonna end and uh the couple the nice-looking couple They uh, we're talking about he was saying like they should get married and then she was like well I have a boyfriend That was kind of funny and they should have ended it right there, but then they have him go Oh, yeah Well, um, he's like, huh, and then she's like, but you could come visit me. He's like, oh, oh, yeah, I guess I could Why why did you have that extra little bit? It's not funny. It doesn't make sense. It's just plain stupid I don't know Terrible so anyway in the end. This is a pretty bad film. I wouldn't really recommend watching it uh, and I will say though the intro and outro music is fun. That's good That's fun. Uh, but anyway, uh, I'm gonna have to rate this Just overall, I'm not even gonna do an overall of like I can't do a two ratings because for the first two I was rating it two ways, uh Just as an actual film like being serious about the rating and as like a so bad. It's good I can't even do a so bad. It's good because it's just bad so I'm just gonna give it one rating so out of five stars. I'm gonna give this one star rating um There's some Like I said, there's some good ideas here But they just don't execute those good ideas. So I'm giving them some credit for having the good ideas But they just don't execute the good ideas. So one star But anyway, uh, let me know your comments, uh, what do you have to say about this film? Put them down there. 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