Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

 




Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers was released into theaters on February 28th, 1988. Filming locations include Waco, Ga. Filming took place from September 20th, 1987 to October 9th, 1987. It was directed by Michael A. Simpson. Simpson also directed the third installment of the trilogy, Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland. Pamela Springsteen, younger sister of musician Bruce Springsteen, played the lead of Angela. The score was composed by James Oliverio. The films first DVD release was on August 20th, 2002. Anchor Bay released it as a single edition as well as part of the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit, which featured all three films of the trilogy in a package meant to resemble a first aid kit. The first 20,000 copies featured a large red cross on the cover. Shortly after it was released, the Red Cross contacted Anchor Bay to inform them that the use of the red cross insignia was restricted by the Geneva Convention. All copies from that point on did not bear the red cross insignia, instead they had the words "Survival Kit" in dripping blood font. 


Camp Rolling Hills - In between* Five Points Rd. and Bremen Mount Zion Rd. Waco, Ga. 30182

It was filmed almost entirely at an actual former YMCA summer camp, named Camp Waco. In September of 2020, myself and fellow movie location visitor, Brian Koppel of Reel to Real Movie and TV Filming Locations visited the location for ourselves. Access to the former camp wasn't easy. There's no way to park close to it, since it's in the middle of the woods, so a fairly long walk to the location is required. The area is also extremely overgrown, as the following comparison pictures will show. It's also frequently used for hunting, so that's another hazard. We spotted multiple tree stands in the area. Most of the structures seen in the film have either been razed, or just fallen down over the years. However, a few are still standing. Among them are some of the campers cabins and bathroom structures. The swimming pool is still there, however, heavy growth from the leaves of kudzu vines surround it. The upper floor of the main structure, seen in the film, are all gone. However, most of the two stone chimney's remain, as do small sections of the stone walls. The lower level of the main structure is also partly still intact.


All "Now" pictures taken in 2020.













12 comments:

  1. Wow love this movie.. it's sad to see how it looks now.

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  2. I wonder if the doors are still on the boys/girls cabins

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    1. I went there last year. Anything you see is open that is still around most buildings by now are already completely falling apart. The bathrooms you can still walk into

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  3. Hi movie lovers my name is Jeff. I just wanted to let you all be aware that my father owns the land that the former camp is on and he is trespassing people from now on who go to explore the area because of an incident that happened last month with some teenagers where emergency services had to be called. A group of teens went exploring and somehow fell in the old pool and had to be rescued because they couldn't climb out. Luckily for them they were able to call and get a crew out there. Anyways, I'm just letting people know because the area is no longer open for exploration. You will be trespassed. Not my decision. Thank you.

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    1. Hey Jeff, any chance we get pay your father to give us a tour of the place. Thanks.

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  4. I just came across this site. In September of 1969 the YMCA camp was used to train Peace Corps Volunteers going to Brasil! I lived there for a month. We had a large group of Brasillians there with us and we were not allowed to speak English. It was a very effective way to teach Portuguese in a short period of time. I have mixed memories of that experience, but I still speak fluent Portuguese after 63 years! I will try to find copies of the movie.

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    1. Is it possible to get permission to visit this area? I don't live far from it and I know a couple of the cast members from part 3 that reside in the Atlanta area as well, they asked me about it but I told them there wasn't much left from what I've seen posted on this site. Not trying to get into any trouble at all but it doesn't hurt to ask, it would be cool to see and snap a few pics.

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  5. Hey Jeff is there anyway that I can buy or are y’all selling the property where is the movie was filmed I’ll be interested in buying

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  6. Is that for realll? So no campsite anymore?

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  7. I went to summer camp there when I was about 8 to 10 years old (? - it's hard to remember exactly when), way back around 1960 or so. I remember eating and attending various activities at that building near the swimming pool, and canoeing in the lake in back of it. As well as walking across the top of the dam to hike in the woods on the other side. The cabins where we slept were at the top of a steep hill, to the right of the pool. I recall having a great time at camp, despite a little homesickness.

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  8. The wooden cabin where Angela sits on the stairs (and keeps the corpses) has been described as being some distance away from the main camp. Looking on Google Earth reveals some structures about 200 metres north of the camp and the pool, which would seem to match. I wonder if anyone who was there and saw the structures could mark their actual locations on the map... I found most of them on Google Earth, from the molo to the disintegrating cement floor, but I'm not sure of the exact placement of Angela's cabin, and of the two wooden boys' and girls' cabins/bathrooms (I think those two are about 100 metres south of the pool).

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  9. I attended YMCA Camp there in 1969..spent two weeks there. The camp counselors should have been arrested for child abuse....some days you had no food. Coach "Coke" Clarke, Jimmy King were the adult leaders. What a lot of people don't know is that it was a WW1 or WW2 Army training camp....there are canyons a half mile away where bobcats would jump out at you....plus a haunted gravesite.....not sure if the Georgia government even knows that its there...

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