Movie Cosmos - Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

Description:

Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.

Top Cast >

Pamela Springsteen

As Angela Baker

Tracy Griffith

As Marcia Holland

Michael J. Pollard

As Herman Miranda

Kyle Holman

As Snowboy

Sandra Dorsey

As Lilly

Kim Wall

As Cindy

Haynes Brooke

As Bobby Stark

Daryl Wilcher

As Riff

Mark Oliver

As Tony

Cliff Brand

As Officer Barney Whitmore

Kashina Kessler

As Maria

Randi Layne

As Tawny

Chung Yen Tsay

As Greg

Jarrett Ellis Beal

As Peter

Sonya Maddox

As Anita

Stacie Lambert

As Jan

Jill Terashita

As Arab

Charles Lawlor

As Paramedic

Jerry Griffin

As Policeman

Mike Nagel

As Ambulance Driver

Richard Crabbe

As TV News Cameraman (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Michael A. Simpson

Director, Producer

Kristen McGary

Script Supervisor

John David Allen

Editor

Amy Carey

Editor, Music Editor, Dialogue Editor

Bill Mills

Director of Photography

James Oliverio

Original Music Composer, Post Production Supervisor

Shay Bentley Griffin

Casting

Frank Galline

Art Direction

Randal Patrick

Thanks

Jerry Pece

First Assistant Director

Bob Phillips

Unit Production Manager

Catherine Murphy

Second Assistant Director

Mary Ellis

Location Sound Mixer

Bill Fibben

Boom Operator

Keith Sherer

Gaffer

Jeff Becker

Best Boy Electric

Dave Elliot

Electrician

Bill Phillips

Swing

Roger Sherer

Key Grip

Eddie Evans

Best Boy Grip

Vincent Nappo

Grip

Jim Kelly

Grip

Shad Leach

Set Designer

Lonnie Smith

Stunt Coordinator

Laura Paris

Wardrobe Supervisor

Tracy Thornton

Wardrobe Assistant

Alison Deen

Production Secretary

Jim Clark

Still Photographer

Suzanne Colley

Still Photographer

Rick Stallard

Still Photographer

Mark Jamieson

Driver

Leslie Peterson

Driver

Rene Mitchell

Production Assistant

Danny Robinson

Production Assistant

George Spires

Catering

Ethelyn Spires

Catering

Deborah Drust

Extras Casting

Greg Poulos

Dialogue Coach

Lance Alford

Security Coordinator

Jim Schulte

Assistant Editor

Robert Gillespie

Sound Effects Editor

Patrick Kilpatrick

Title Designer

Linda Frascino

Thanks

Bill Megdal

Thanks

Jim Langwell

Thanks

Floyd Statham

Thanks

Hoyt Bilbo

Thanks

Linda Brenick

Thanks

Tim Bennett

Thanks

Bill Anderson

Thanks

Jim Basille

Thanks

Dave Straub

Thanks

Simeon Smith

Thanks

Richard Crabbe

Thanks

Mathis Dairy

Thanks

Harold Marks

Thanks

Donald Harden

Thanks

John Capron

Thanks

Tony Sicari

Thanks

Tommy Chastain

Thanks

Curtis Beck

Thanks

Norman Bielowicz

Thanks

Michael Hitchcock

Writer

Robert F. Phillips

Associate Producer

Jerry Silva

Producer

Stan Wakefield

Executive Producer

Reviews:

Wuchak (5/10)

Mediocre, but fun, rehash of the previous film

Angela (Pamela Springsteen) returns to the same camp where she slaughtered the inhabitants the year before under an assumed identity. Renamed Camp New Horizons, the coordinators seek to bring together privileged kids from the suburbs & small towns with underprivileged kids from the big cities. Michael J. Pollard appears as one of the camp counselors. The other counselor is reminiscent of Paula Dean.

“Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland” (1989) is a rehash of the previous film (1988) with the same director/writer team and star (Springsteen), but of course a whole new cast of victims. The film even features cuts by the same semi-obscure 80’s bands: Anvil (“Wild Eyes”), Obsession (“Methods of Madness” & “Killer Elite”) and John Altyn (“Sleepaway”). The main difference is a focus on tent camping and the mixing of “rich” kids with “poor.”

The movie’s fun, but it lacks the mojo of the previous film. There’s less depth as far as human interest goes: The characters and their relations are so exaggerated it’s campy, which kills any realism. Yes, I realize it’s an amusing 80’s slasher flick set at a youth camp, but the two preceding movie’s included gems in the coming-of-age context, which is largely lacking here. Still, “Sleepaway Camp III” has its entertaining moments. Tracy Griffith as redhead Marcia and Stacie Lambert as Jan are highlights.

The film runs 1 hour, 20 minutes, and was shot in Bremen, Georgia, about an hour’s drive west of Atlanta (the same as Part II); with the opening scenes shot in Atlanta.

GRADE: C

2019-07-25