This is, without a doubt, up there with the worst horror sequels I've seen, below the likes of Howling 7, The Omen 4, and even Lake Placid 2.
First off, the characters, save for four (two of which barely have any roles) are borderline sociopathic. Now, there are horror films out there with a cast mainly full of unlikable, horrible people. Rob Zombie's Halloween remakes and Sorority Row are examples of this where it's bothered a lot of people. This film makes the characters in those look like Mr. Rogers. Even the adults act like a mix between crazed criminals and violent five year olds that can't get fired for assaulting kids, giving them wedgies, and basically having them go through the kind of hazing that most colleges even frown upon. Even the main character is a screwed up, annoying, whiny, overly-aggressive, crazy, creepy, disgusting bully that would normally be the opening kill in a by-the-books 80s slasher flick.
Next off we've got some of the dumbest writing I've seen in awhile, and this is coming from someone that watches crap like Birdemic, Jack Frost 2, etc. Lemme give you two examples, both of them spoilers. Skip this chunk of text if you don't want to be spoiled. First we've got a scene in which a man has the following done to him: He's tied to a tree, his pants are undone and dropped to the ground along with his boxers, another rope is brought around his neck, and another smaller plastic thing is tied around his dick. He's not blind, he can see, and he thinks the person doing it is a woman who walked off away from him, within his vision. He watches her walk off, and seconds. SECONDS. later this happens, as he's still watching in that direction. He somehow. Somehow. Can't see who is doing this, and the way this is handled, the only way it could even be plausible is if the killer was revealed to be telekinetic. Alex Mack, they ain't. Secondly we've got the big twist ending, which... actually might be the single dumbest twist I've seen in a horror movie. I've seen so many, and this... just... I need to explain, and I know many of you won't believe me and will end up, sadly, watching this just to verify because it just sounds too stupid. One of the few likable characters is this like, 60 year old cop...guy that dresses more like a mix between a 1950 southern sheriff and a WW1 soldier, and he has to talk with one of those electronic devices you attach to your throat, only the people behind this film have never heard what those sound like and instead just altered the actor's voice in post with a cheap robot effect that makes him sound less like a throat cancer survivor and more like a fracking cylon. This guy? Is the killer. We barely see him at all... and also it's Angela. Angela apparently is the next Tom Savini and was able to make super convincing makeup so she could... pretend to be... a 60 year old man? ...Beyond how ludicrous that sounds, I just... ...why? Why do that? How did she do that? What about her gender identity issues? Why does the film keep trying to retcon 2 and 3 (far better sequels, despite not being hilariously bad but still enjoyable in the same way one can enjoy the later Nightmare on Elm Street movies) by implying she never got a sex change, and then we see her and she's obviously a woman in makeup to pretend to be a 60 year old man and... my brain hurts just writing this.
In short... pass on this. It's like trying to watch the first film, only you have a hangover and there's a screaming child in the room with you. The writing is moronic, the effects are awful (though the fake blood looks delicious. It's... it's this pink kool aid stuff. Pink. PINK), the acting is terrible, the script is flimsy, the plot twist is absolutely ridiculous. Just pretend Sleepaway Camp is just a trilogy, or if you want to count the unfinished fourth film, a "quadrilogy"(sic, because damn it Fox that isn't a word, no matter how much I love Alien.)
First off, the characters, save for four (two of which barely have any roles) are borderline sociopathic. Now, there are horror films out there with a cast mainly full of unlikable, horrible people. Rob Zombie's Halloween remakes and Sorority Row are examples of this where it's bothered a lot of people. This film makes the characters in those look like Mr. Rogers. Even the adults act like a mix between crazed criminals and violent five year olds that can't get fired for assaulting kids, giving them wedgies, and basically having them go through the kind of hazing that most colleges even frown upon. Even the main character is a screwed up, annoying, whiny, overly-aggressive, crazy, creepy, disgusting bully that would normally be the opening kill in a by-the-books 80s slasher flick.
Next off we've got some of the dumbest writing I've seen in awhile, and this is coming from someone that watches crap like Birdemic, Jack Frost 2, etc. Lemme give you two examples, both of them spoilers. Skip this chunk of text if you don't want to be spoiled. First we've got a scene in which a man has the following done to him: He's tied to a tree, his pants are undone and dropped to the ground along with his boxers, another rope is brought around his neck, and another smaller plastic thing is tied around his dick. He's not blind, he can see, and he thinks the person doing it is a woman who walked off away from him, within his vision. He watches her walk off, and seconds. SECONDS. later this happens, as he's still watching in that direction. He somehow. Somehow. Can't see who is doing this, and the way this is handled, the only way it could even be plausible is if the killer was revealed to be telekinetic. Alex Mack, they ain't. Secondly we've got the big twist ending, which... actually might be the single dumbest twist I've seen in a horror movie. I've seen so many, and this... just... I need to explain, and I know many of you won't believe me and will end up, sadly, watching this just to verify because it just sounds too stupid. One of the few likable characters is this like, 60 year old cop...guy that dresses more like a mix between a 1950 southern sheriff and a WW1 soldier, and he has to talk with one of those electronic devices you attach to your throat, only the people behind this film have never heard what those sound like and instead just altered the actor's voice in post with a cheap robot effect that makes him sound less like a throat cancer survivor and more like a fracking cylon. This guy? Is the killer. We barely see him at all... and also it's Angela. Angela apparently is the next Tom Savini and was able to make super convincing makeup so she could... pretend to be... a 60 year old man? ...Beyond how ludicrous that sounds, I just... ...why? Why do that? How did she do that? What about her gender identity issues? Why does the film keep trying to retcon 2 and 3 (far better sequels, despite not being hilariously bad but still enjoyable in the same way one can enjoy the later Nightmare on Elm Street movies) by implying she never got a sex change, and then we see her and she's obviously a woman in makeup to pretend to be a 60 year old man and... my brain hurts just writing this.
In short... pass on this. It's like trying to watch the first film, only you have a hangover and there's a screaming child in the room with you. The writing is moronic, the effects are awful (though the fake blood looks delicious. It's... it's this pink kool aid stuff. Pink. PINK), the acting is terrible, the script is flimsy, the plot twist is absolutely ridiculous. Just pretend Sleepaway Camp is just a trilogy, or if you want to count the unfinished fourth film, a "quadrilogy"(sic, because damn it Fox that isn't a word, no matter how much I love Alien.)
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