Sleepaway Camp 3 : Teenage Wasteland

Alternate titles : Nightmare Vacation 3.

Tagline : "She's back to slash last years records!"

Filmed back-to-back with Part 2, the third film in the Sleepaway Camp series plays more heavily on the jokey angle, in which Angela (Pamela Springsteen again) goes back to camp, which has since re-opened as an outdoor centre for underprivileged teens.

The fun begins as the teenage tearaways, who are all gang members from various inner-city slums, all start fighting and calling each other politically incorrect names.

But Angela, who's posing as one of the kids, wastes no time in carving her way through the immoral bunch, before starting on the staff members, which includes character actor Michael J Pollard (House of 1000 Corpses, American Gothic).

This definitely boasts some of the more interesting killer scenes of the series, which includes death by tent peg, death by camping stove and best of all death by lawnmower!!!!!

Though not overly gory (thanks to the US censors, making the film makers cut virtually everything) this is a worthy follow up, that fans of the series should enjoy.

Overall Marks : 5/10.

Terrifying Trivia

• Tracy Griffith, who plays Marcia, originally auditioned for the role of Angela in Part 2. She's also the half sister of Melanie Griffith.
• The films sub-title "Teenage Wasteland" comes from the song Baba O'Reilly by The Who .
• The film was made on the same set and at the same time as Part 2.
• The film's budget was $465,000.
• The hockey mask Angela drags from the water during the fishing scene, was the same one used by her in the previous film.
• Virtually every single death scene was shortened at the insistence of the US ratings board to avoid getting an NC17 rating. Most notably the lawnmower death scene. The original full length death scenes were included on the 2003 US and UK DVD's by Anchor Bay as extras, along with an alternate longer and gorier ending with Angela singing the "Angela rap" before the end titles cut in
• There were approximately 10 scenes, either shortened or removed, for pacing reasons from the final cut of the film that were not included in the extras on the 2003 Anchor Bay discs. A workprint version featuring these scenes was later released on the US Blu-Ray by Shout Factory.
• The original UK release as "Nightmare Vacation 3", was not cut by the BBFC, but was the same as the pre-cut US R rated version. The 2003 Anchor Bay DVD is this same version.

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