Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Aug 23, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Return to camp with Michael A. Simpson's Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) which finds Angela killing according to Aunt Martha's conservative moral code.
We're talking about Pamela Springsteen's performance (and Felissa Rose's absence), our love of Ally, and the film's status as a self-referential horror comedy.
Plus: the lack of short shorts, poor editing, Molly's end, and debates if the laughs subvert the "trans killer" trope.
Reference:
> Cervantes, Reyna. "Finding Your Identity at Sleepaway Camp." Gayly Dreadful
> Noecker, Miles D. "Let the Monsters Out of the Closet: Overt Queer Depictions in Hollywood Horror Films" (2022). Media and Communication Studies Summer Fellows. 28.
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