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Last year, the Corpse Club team beat the seasonal heat by discussing their favorite summer movie memories, but there were too many to include in just one episode, leaving plenty of summer scares for the ghoulish gang to discuss this second time around!

Gather around the campfire with Corpse Club co-hosts Scott Drebit, Derek Anderson, and Jonathan James as they reflect on their favorite summer horror memories on a new episode of Daily Dead's podcast! Listen as the trio of co-hosts discuss endless hours spent trying to beat the Friday the 13th Nes game, renting horror movies on VHS, playing their own versions of Halloween and Aliens with friends outside, rushing to the town bulletin board to see what summer movies were playing at the local theater, keeping an eye out for Jason Voorhees (or Angela Baker) in the shadows of camp cabins, going to their favorite conventions and immersive experiences,...

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers is actually the first movie in the Sleepaway Camp franchise that I’d ever seen. The VHS cover art lured me in as a kid by teasing possible appearances from iconic villains, with Freddy’s glove and Jason’s hockey mask poking out of a woman’s backpack. I was a bit too young to understand the concept of trademarks at that age, so you can imagine my disappointment when neither character made so much as a cameo. Since I hadn’t seen the first film and didn’t have any context for the franchise as a whole (or that twist), I just thought of the movie as low-budget trash.

As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve discovered that low-budget trash can be a lovely thing. And I think it’s important to distinguish trash from “so bad they’re good” movies like Troll 2...