Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

Credits
Title:	Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Director:	Michael A. Simpson
Writers:	Fritz Gordon
Producers:	Bob Phillips; Jerry Silva; Michael A. Simpson; Stan Wakefield
Composer:	James Oliverio
Cinematography:	Bill Mills
Editors:	John David Allen; Amy Carey
Production
Distributed by:	Double Helix Films
Released:	August 4th, 1989
Rating:	R
Running time:	80 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland is an American horror film of the slasher subgenre. It is the third installment in the Sleepaway Camp film series. It was directed by Michael A. Simpson with a script written by Fritz Gordon. It was produced by Double Helix Films and premiered in the United States on August 4th, 1989.

Plot[]

Angela Baker still nurses a deep obsession with campgrounds. To this end, she kills a young woman and then assumes her identity. She gets herself a job working as a counselor at Camp New Horizons. The camp is headed up by the husband and wife team of Lily and Herman Miranda. Herman is a notorious philanderer, and Lily is nothing but the epitome of sloth. The other campers represent the worst of society including gang members, racists, and all-around bad apples. One of the administrators however is Barney Whitmore, who is the father of Sean Whitmore, whom Angela beheaded the previous year. Feeling as though none of these reprobates are deserving of life, she takes to killing them off one by one. She finds that only two members of the group are worthy of life, Marcia Holland and Tony DeRaro. When Marcia and Tony find out what Angela's been up to however, they decide to fight back.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Pamela Springsteen	Angela Baker
Tracy Griffith	Marcia Holland
Michael J. Pollard	Herman Miranda
Mark Oliver	Tony DeHerrera
Haynes Brooke	Bobby Stark
Sandra Dorsey	Lilly Miranda
Daryl Wilcher	Riff
Kim Wall	Cindy Hammersmith
Kyle Holman	Snowboy
Cliff Brand	Barney Whitmore
Kashina Kessler	Maria Nicastro
Randi Layne	Tawny Richards
Chung Yen Tsay	Greg Nakashima
Jarrett Beal	Peter Doyle
Sonya Maddox	Anita Bircham
Jill Terashita	Arab
Stacie Lambert	Jan Hernandez
Charles Lawlor	Paramedic
Jerry Griffin	Policeman
Mike Nagel	Ambulance driver

Notes & Trivia[]

Sleepaway Camp III and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989) both redirect to this page.
The tagline to this film is "She's back to SLASH last year's record".
Production on Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland began on October 12th, 1987. Principal filming concluded on October 31st, 1987.
Production on this film began on the same day as production on Alien Nation.
Many of the cast members of this film are Atlanta, Georgia natives.
Parts of this film were shot in Waco, and Bremen, Georgia.
There are a total of twenty credited cast members in this film.
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland was first released on home video in VHS format on December 15th, 1989. This movie was shot back-to-back with Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Actress Pamela Springsteen reprises the role of Angela Baker in this film. She previously played the character in Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers. In the first Sleepaway Camp, the character of Angela was played by actress Felissa Rose.
Actress Pamela Springsteen is the younger sister of legendary rock and roll singer Bruce Springsteen.
Actor Jarrett Ellis Beal is credited as Jarrett Beal in this film.
This is the first, and to date, only known acting work for Kashina Kessler.
Richard Crabbe makes an uncredited appearance in the film as Bob, Tawny Richards' cameraman.
Camp New Horizons is the third campground featured in the series. In Sleepaway Camp, the campground was Camp Arawak. In Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, it was Camp Rolling Hills. All three campgrounds are located in New York. This film implies that Camp New Horizons is not far from Camp Rolling Hills.
Maria Nicastro is the first character to appear in the film. She is also the first female character, the first nude character, and the first murder victim.
Bobby, Cindy, Greg, Jan, Marcia and Peter are all named characters from the sitcom series The Brady Bunch.
Herman and Lilly Miranda are named after Herman and Lily Munster from the CBS comedy series The Munsters.
The news agency that Tawny Richards works for is called WXIA.
This film establishes that Angela Baker is 21-years-old.

Body Count[]

Maria Nicastro - Hit by a truck.
Tawny Richards - Tricked into snorting cleanser.
Herman Miranda - Stabbed in the face with a big stick.
Jan Hernandez - Beaten to death with a big stick.
Peter Doyle - Face exploded after having a lit firecracker in his nose.
Snowboy - Beaten across head with a stick then lit on fire in tent with flare.
Arab - Decapitated with an axe as she emerged from a tent.
Cindy Hammersmith - Fell to her death after being run up a flagpole. Head trauma.
Lilly Miranda - Buried up to her neck then run over with lawn mower.
Bobby Stark - Arms ripped off with a jeep hoist while tied to a tree.
Riff - Tent stake pounded into his head and hand.
Barney Whitmore - Shot twice in the chest with a handgun.
Greg Nakashima - Axe booby trap to the chest (simultaneous with Anita).
Anita Bircham - Axe booby trap to the chest (simultaneous with Greg).
Paramedic - Stabbed with a syringe.
Police officer - Stabbed in right eye with a syringe.

Survivors[]

Fate Unknown[]

Ambulance driver - It is possible that Angela took out the driver after killing the paramedic and the police officer.

Locations[]

The main events from this film take place in an undisclosed county in the state of New York. This is established by the registration sticker on Tawny Richards' convertible, which indicated NY '89. It is highly unlikely that Tawny would drive in from another state just to do a puff piece, so it is logical to assume that Camp New Horizons is located in New York.

Characters indicate that they hail from the following locales:

Anita Bircham - Sawtail Gap, Kentucky
Arab - San Francisco, California
Bobby Stark - Western Springs, Illinois (Home of the Western Springs Wildcats)
Cindy Hammersmith - Dunwoody, Georgia.
Greg Nakashima - Westwood, Los Angeles County, California.
Jan Hernandez - Palm View, Arizona.
Marcia Holland - Defiance, Ohio.
Maria Nicastro - New York City (indicated on her driver's license).
Peter Doyle - Houston Heights, Texas.
Riff - Detroit, Michigan.
Snowboy - Chicago, Illinois.
Tony DeHerrera - East L.A., California.

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