{"id":15562,"date":"2015-06-09T01:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T05:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15562"},"modified":"2015-06-09T02:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:46:50","slug":"sleepaway-camp-iii-teenage-wasteland-1989-collectors-edition-bluraydvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/09\/sleepaway-camp-iii-teenage-wasteland-1989-collectors-edition-bluraydvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989): Collector’s Edition [Bluray\/DVD]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI like movies that make America look great. Like \u201cRambo III\u201d!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTeenage Wasteland\u201d is about as inept a slasher movie as you can get, and yet it\u2019s oddly compelling. Once again campers begin disappearing at the hands of Angela, and no one really knows why or wants to know where they went. All Angela has to say is \u201cThey went somewhere\u201d and that\u2019s fine for the cannon fodder that appear throughout \u201cSleepaway Camp III.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though I\u2019m not going to bring too much logic in to this movie series, by now the fact that Angela isn\u2019t exactly who she appears to be is a moot point. The fact she seems so intent on continuing to go back to camps is the baffling character element. She is so insistent she makes Jason Voorhees look lazy. There is a shocking amount of characters introduced only for them to be killed off minutes later; the writer doesn\u2019t even try to get us to like the people that become Angela\u2019s prey. Which is sad because some of them I quite liked, including Snow boy. You have to love how he spray paints a camping tent and screams \u201cParty all night! Teenage Wasteland!\u201d Of course, Angela doesn\u2019t like this camp filled with ne \u2018er do wells and wayward youths, so she begins murdering them one by one.<\/p>\n

Some of them she murders with a branch, some with an axe, and another with a garbage truck. Angela takes up the identity of a wayward youth, and decides to attend camp in her place, meanwhile establishing her identity among her ranks of criminals and young thugs. While at Camp New Horizons, Angela takes it upon herself to murder anyone that slightly annoys her or skews her moral code, and that\u2019s just about everyone. The murders are creative if poorly staged, and the movie counts more toward horror comedy than slasher fodder. Surely it garners enough kills to be considered a slasher, but it edges more toward horror satire most often. Pamela Springsteen is back as Angela and pulls off the role as Angela Baker well, hiding among the ranks of teens and killing them off with about as creative a manner as possible. \u201cTeenage Wasteland\u201d is a fitting end to a wacky trilogy of slasher films.<\/p>\n

Scream Factory features \u201cA Tale of Two Sequels – Part Two\u201d the documentary that started with \u201cUnhappy Campers\u201d which now continues in to \u201cTeenage Wasteland.\u201d There\u2019s eight minutes of \u201cBehind the Scenes Footage,\u201d and the work print of the longer cut from VHS that features a ton of gore that the official cut skimped out on. It\u2019s poor quality, but that\u2019s the point. There is are eight minutes of deleted scenes, the Home Video Trailer, the short film \u201cTony Lives!\u201d a still gallery, and finally an audio commentary with Director Michael A. Simpson and Writer Fritz Gordon.<\/p>\n