"Campers who don't smile nor sing will be punished..."

To this day, the campers still tell Amanda’s story, Camp Arawak’s killer. The time passed since her last appearance hasn’t washed away her thirst for violence and revenge. She is now an educator in a camp where a generation of disobedient children escape to have sex, do drugs, drink and play tricks.

Her vision of the perfect camper is of a child who sings ballads, climbs in trees and takes the necessary precautions when going for a swim. This is not the image projected by this year’s campers. She quickly manages to get rid of the most superficial children and has the camp owner believe they were sent back home.

Let us kiss goodbye everything that made this movie’s predecessor original: no more « real » teens, no more shocking scenes, no more mystery and no more seriousness. Still, the movie remains good!

First of all, there is the general atmosphere. From the first moments, we know who the murderer is and, consequently, there are no more guessing games as in the first film. Compared to her childhood, Angela has undergone deep changes. In the past, the children hated her because she rarely talked. Now, she is hated even more because she never shuts up. She talks when she is happy, frustrated, worried and when she kills people. This quickly because annoying. If we forget these minor details, it remains that Sleepaway Camp 2 is an amusing copy of Friday the 13th.

Oddly enough, the camp monitors are as old as those they watch over. It is probably for this reason that they have absolutely no authority. These adolescents seem to have gone through puberty ten years ago. The result is amusing while being hard to take seriously. Angela is small, doesn’t really look evil and this makes her more fun than scary to watch.