Review #299: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
October 2024 Horror Origins Review #16- Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (1989) Watch it here on Tubi! I know I already made a joke about Sleepaway Camp 2 being made without knowing what made Sleepaway Camp 1 good; the problem here is that Sleepaway Camp 3 makes Sleepaway Camp 2 look like Sleepaway Camp 1 by comparison. SC2 was horrible but at least there was ostensibly "a camp" and "a plot"- this time around, we don't even have those. Sleepaway Camp 3 begins with an inner-city girl named Maria getting dressed to go to summer camp, but as she walks down the street to wait for the bus, a garbage truck runs her over. Out steps Angela (with her hair made up to look like Maria's and somehow even wearing the exact same outfit) who hides the body and then takes her place. We are then introduced to the "summer camp"- a government-sponsored program has been set up for twelve kids (did I say kids? I meant grown adults) from across the country to get toge...