next up: a trip to camp

Next on my slasher summer journey through 2013 (to culminate in August with a Slumber Party Massacre double feature of 1 & 2) is the sequel to Sleepaway Camp, Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers, with Pamela Springsteen taking the young adult part of Felicia Rose’s character of Angela, now a totally psychotic camp counselor who, when provoked by those obnoxious and annoying to her, kills off teens (I use the term “teens” loosely here) in a number of ways. The poster for the film always fascinated me; I had always wondered if perhaps it was done up prior to filming due to the fact that the woman on the cover is uninvolved with the film, although the slasher genre iconography on display is catchy. I think there was a lot of emphasis on getting the box art just right so that people would rent the product, regardless of how quality the films themselves are. I still lament this lost art. I have noticed that low budget filmmakers are attempting to return to it, though, so there’s a hope here by me for a resurgence in returning to those good old days when we, as horror fans, are manipulated all nice and proper like into viewing films even if they suck.