Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (also known as Nightmare Vacation II ) is the 1988 American slasher movie and movie sequel Sleepaway Camp , written by Fritz Gordon and directed by Michael A. Simpson. It stars Pamela Springsteen, Renà ©  © e Estevez, and Tony Higgins. The film takes place several years after the original film, and features a former transgender camper and an Angela killer who targets naughty teens in summer camps.
Unlike the original Sleepaway Camp , which features a serious tone, Sleepaway Camp II blends elements of black comedy, and quips horror films.
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Plot
In 1988, 5 years after the first film event, T.C., head counselor at Camp Rolling Hills, was at a campfire with Sean's men's campers Rob, Anthony, Judd, Charlie, and Emilio. A girl, Phoebe, was there too, after slipping out of her cabin to be with the boys. When Phoebe told him about the previous movie murder at Camp Arawak, his head counselor, Angela, showed up and forced him to return to the cabin.
After the couple goes into an argument, Phoebe becomes lost, only to be attacked by Angela who strikes her head with a log before cutting her tongue out. The next day, the participants camped in Phoebe's cabin, Molly, Ally, Mare, Demi, Lea, and the twins Brooke and Jodi, asking Angela about Phoebe's whereabouts, but she told them that she had to be discharged for bad behavior.
At breakfast, the camp director, Uncle John, gave Angela "Advisor of the Week Award." Afterwards, Angela finds Brooke and Jodi sucking marijuana and drinking, and making them faint. Later, Brooke woke up on a hot grill just to see the framework of his cremated sister. Angela then pours gasoline over Brooke and burns her to death. Meanwhile, Molly and Sean start a relationship, despite Ally's attempts to seduce Sean. That night, the children start a panty attack on the girl's cabin until Angela comes in, throwing it away.
Then, the girls attacked the boys' cabin. T.C. allowing pleasure but Angela shows up and witnesses Mare showing off her breasts. Mare decides she wants to leave the camp, so she tells Angela to drive her. While traveling, Angela gives Mare one last chance to apologize, when she refuses to do so, Angela kills her with electric practice. The next day, Angela finds Charlie and Emilio looking at the naked pictures of the various campers they take in secret.
That night the girls went camping, giving Anthony and Judd a chance to frighten Angela, dressed as Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. The plan backfired when Angela, dressed as Leatherface, slashed Anthony's throat with a clawed glove and killed Judd with a saw. After learning that Ally had sneaked out to have sex with Rob, Angela planned to kill the couple but failed. The next day, Angela makes a trap for Ally by leaving a fake letter from Sean. Ally goes to see Sean but instead meets Angela, who stabs Ally in the back before forcing her down to the house's toilet bowl, drowning it in dirt and leeches. That night, Demi reveals to Angela that she is calling the families of the girls who have been "sent home" by Angela, only to find the girls are not home. Realizing he could be caught, Angela strangled Demi with a guitar string, before stabbing Lea when she found Demi's body.
The next day, Uncle John and T.C. fired Angela for not telling Uncle John about sending many campers to the house. Feeling uneasy at how angry Angela, Molly and Sean went into the forest to comfort her but the couple found the bodies of others in the abandoned cabin, before Angela found them and tied them up and silenced them. Back at the camp, Rob tells T.C about the whereabouts of Molly and Sean, who drive T.C. go to pick them up. She enters the cabin, only for Angela to throw the battery acid on her face, killing her.
Sean realizes Angela is Peter Baker/Angela Baker, the killer of the previous movie. Angela revealed that after 2 years of electrical shock therapy and sex changes, she was released after doctors gave her report on her 'cure'. He then proceeds to chop off Sean's head. Angela leaves the cabin, allowing Molly to free herself and after Angela returns, drops her and runs away. Angela chases Molly through the forest, which suddenly falls from stone to a short drop and is considered dead.
That night, the Diane camp counselor found the bodies of Charlie, Emilio, Uncle John and Rob, before he was stabbed to death by Angela. Meanwhile, Molly wakes up and starts walking out of the woods. Angela rides with the truck driver, who quickly irritates her, angering her to death. When Molly gets out of the woods, she finds the truck but is horrified to learn that Angela is her driver. The movie ends with Molly screaming and her fate unknown.
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Cast
- Pamela Springsteen as Angela Johnson/Angela Baker
- Renà ©  © e Estevez as Molly Nagle
- Tony Higgins as Sean Whitmore (credited as Anthony Higgins)
- Valerie Hartman as Ally Burgess
- Brian Patrick Clarke as T.C.
- Walter Gotell as Uncle John
- Susan Marie Snyder as Mare
- Terry Hobbs as Rob Darrinco
- Kendall Bean as Demi
- Julie Murphy as Lea
- Carol Chambers as Brooke Shote
- Amy Fields as Jodi Shote
- Benji Wilhoite as Anthony
- Walter Franks III as Judd
- Justin Nowell as Charlie
- Heather Binion as Phoebe
- Jason Ehrlich as Emilio
- Carol Martin Vines as Diane
- Tricia Grant as Girl Sent Home
- Jill Jane Clements as a Woman on a Truck
Production
A YMCA youth camp in Waco, Georgia is used for a fictitious Rolling Hills Camp. Filming started and wrapped up in 1987.
Release
Like Sleepaway Camp, Sleepaway Camp II was released theatrically on a limited scale. It was released in theaters on August 26, 1988 before being released on VHS in the United States by Nelson Entertainment two months later.
The film has been released twice on DVD in the United States by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The first release was in 2002 with one DVD edition, as well as at the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit . Both of these releases are currently not printed.
Anchor Bay Entertainment also released the film on DVD in the UK on May 31, 2004, while Futuristic Entertainment released it on VHS in the nineties titled "Nightmare Vacation 2"; also releases on DVD through 23th Century Home Entertainment.
Scream Factory, under license from MGM, released Sleepaway Camp II and its sequel, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, for the first time on a Blu-ray disc on June 9, 2015.
References
External links
- Website Official Homepage Sleepaway Camp
- Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers on IMDb
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