Review #298: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
October 2024 Horror Origins Review #15- Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) Watch it here on Pluto.tv! When I wrote yesterday's review, my wife didn't react as positively as she usually does. When I pressed her further, she told me it wasn't as funny as my reviews usually are. So, I'm going to start this one off with a joke. Q: What do you call a sequel that completely forgot what made the previous entry good? A: Sleepaway Camp 2! [Cue laughter] Sleepaway Camp 2 picks up four (I think) years after Sleepaway Camp 1, with "campers" (played by 25-year-olds) telling campfire stories. One of them briefly summarizes the plot of the previous movie, and another adds on that after the previous movie ended, Angela was arrested, sent to a psychiatric facility, rehabilitated, and was forcibly given a gender reassignment surgery (adding on a complaint that "our tax dollars paid for it" which is both bizarre coming from what's ostensibly a minor, and also