Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers


What do you get when you take a relative of Bruce Springsteen and a relative of the Sheen/Estevez brothers, and toss them into a movie together?  You get Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers.  Yeah.  People are getting killed at a summer camp and they are unhappy.  Who knew that would happen when people started dying?

I’ve already given the plot description of this movie.  Let me take you through a step by step plot of the movie.  I’m going deep.  Sleepaway Camp 2 is a movie that has two plot devices and only two plot devices.  They set up a kill, they follow through with a kill.  Rinse, repeat.  That is all that happens in the whole movie.  Set up, kill.  That’s it.  There is no other plot.  There is no mysterious killer.  There is no tension or suspense.  It’s just set up and kill.

Do you know what that plot means for the movie?  All of the characters do not matter.  They aren’t characters.  They are killing fodder.  They all like things like drugs, alcohol, and sex.  That is the most that you look into any of the characters.  Then they die one by one until nobody is left.  Or some people are left.  Very few people perhaps.  Or none.  Or a few.

There is one memorable kill in this movie for me.  It happens with a cordless drill.  That’s all I’m saying about it.  It’s the only kill I remembered after having seen Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 a few years ago.  I remembered none of the other kills in the movies at all.

I have to say that this was more entertaining than the first Sleepaway Camp movie.  The first had a storyline about people picking on the younger kids, but it was drawn out, the acting was stiff and wooden, and the look of the film was dull.  What changed was that the acting was no longer stiff and wooden in the sequel.  It was by no means good acting, but it had some sort of feeling to it.  The look of the movie was a little bit better.  There was a little more colour which helped a little bit.  The only problem was that there wasn’t a story to actually follow.

The last thing for me to point out is that about two thirds of the way through the movie, the killer has a dream that sums up all of what has happened in the movie up to that point.  Nothing new is added.  It’s all stuff you had just watched.  It was a three minute sequence or something recapping the movie so far.  I don’t know why.  It didn’t help anything, it only took me out of the movie.

There is one more movie left in this run.  Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland is the title and that’s what I’ll be watching next.  I’m already getting a little bit tired of this series.  Good thing it’s the last one.

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