first thing's first... this film (from the view point of oscars) is pretty lame...

but as a film to actually WATCH.. IT IS INCREDIBLE!

one night my friend and i were bored so we decided to watch a "low budget" horror film... and these (sleepaway camp's 2 and 3) were on. and what a triumph they turned out to be!

as much as i like normal slashers i don't think they're quite as good as this.
i just LOVE a reason behind the killings, kids misbehaving.. it's great..

why does jason have to kill everyone he sees? (obviously this is a rethorical question) angela's punishing kids.. and let's be frank... those kids would seem like the most irritating people we'd ever meet ( i'm about the age those kids are... so when i say that... you know i'm telling the truth)

the only problem i have with these films.. is..

why was the first one so different?
completely different plot and character behaviour... mind you i'm not complaining... i disliked the first one anyway. but if it had been made like the other two then things would have been different

There's a mishmash of film genres in this boxset.
Most people expect a Friday the 13th ripoff, but are surprised to find that the first movie has a more psychological thriller slant to it.

My personal favourite is no.2, which combines gore, sociopathy and dark humour all into one. A great killer (icon) was born!

No.3 has a more melancholic feel to it and ends up as a typical slasher film; a real cash cow but still better than the first imo.

Included are plenty of extras & some Cuts that were deemed too violent for the mass public to view, which I'll be looking forward to.

these films are similar to the early friday the 13th films but more humerous , to be honest my niece picked the dvds and i was expecting an abysmal offering but to my suprise we watched the 3 films the same day and to be honest i have seen far worst films and the triology cost ??6.anybody who likes slightly wacky horrer films should get these pronto , there are plenty of slayings in many different ways and nothings too graphic it sort of makes you visualise what happened next.

What with Halloween and Friday the 13th sequals making money, slasher films threatened to saturate the screen in the eighties. This one concerns a shy young girl who is sent to a camp where a series of brutal murders begin. It's pretty standard stuff really. Though the film has its moments, it mostly just relies on tried-and-trusted slasher material. It's not up to the standard of Halloween or Friday the 13th films either. The killings are unrealistic, some of the acting leaves a lot to be desired and the humour is pretty pathetic (ooh, he's going for a poo! Please stop, my aching sides!) The ending, with its 'twist', loses the whole film any kind of credibility it had. Ignore this mess and watch the two far superior sequals instead.

The Sleepaway Camp trilogy is one of the most overlooked horror franchises in the history of cinema. The first film stars Felissa Rose as a troubled young girl with a mysterious past named Angela Baker, who arrives at summer camp with her cousin. However, things strange things begin to happen at camp and it becomes clear that Angela could be responsible. The truly shocking ending will have you gawping for hours afterwards. The second and third installments in the trilogy are much more tongue-in-cheek and star Pamela Springsteen - you guessed it, Bruce's sister - as the older Angela, freshly released from the mental hosptial where she has been incarcerated for years. Soon Angela is up to her old tricks again, this time directing her anger towards teenagers that she thinks deserve to be "punished". Springsteen plays the role for laughs and the effects are tremendous. A must have for any horror fan, this boxset from Anchor Bay is well worth the money and extremely entertaining!