Review of Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989) by Dario H — 16 May 2009

The third instalment in the Sleepaway Camp series again features the brilliant-terrible Pamela Springsteen and retains the camp comedy horror from the second film rather than the genuine spookiness of the first film.

It's all quite awful to be honest, but deliberately and knowingly so (at one point Angela fishes out a hockey mask from the lake). What's surprising is the gore is much tamer even though some of the deaths are quite inventive (I personally love the hooked to a flag pole, hoisted up and then dropped-down-fast death).

Angela's 'selection' process is more bizarre than ever and none of the other characters have half a brain cell between them - and Lily is quiet obviously a sandwich short of a picnic herself - making it a relief when they start to die.

A largely pointless but fun way to spend 80 minutes.