Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Sam Panico Of course, there was going to be a sequel. Sean S. Cunningham refused to direct it because he was against the studio plan to bring Jason back from the dead. He said that it was too stupid and would never work. Hmm.Beyond a plan to be an anthology of stories on Friday the 13th (which sounds a lot like the plans for Halloween), another thought was that Alice would be a reoccurring hero in this series, continually facing off against Jason again and again in sequel after sequel (again, think Halloween and Laurie Strode). Sadly, after was stalked by a fan, she said she wanted out (she even stayed out of acting for a long time).That's why this movie starts with her death. I always wondered why this happens, because it invalidates all of the emotional investment that you put into the last film!So of course, everyone decides that re-opening Crystal Lake would be a great idea.We've got Ginny (Amy Steel, April Fool's Day), Sandra, Jeff, Scott, Terry, Mark, Vickie and Ted, who sit around a campfire and listen to the legend of Jason. Even Crazy Ralph from the last movie shows up to warn everyone before getting killed.Here's my problem with this sequel: it rips a lot off. Jason doesn't have his trademark hockey mask, so he steals the look of the Phantom of The Town that Dreaded Sundown. And then there's the issue of taking two murders shot for shot from Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood. A machete to the face and a couple stabbed together by a spear? Attention director Steve Miner: Bava did it first and better. Miner would go on to direct Halloween H20, so his sins are many.Just like Shakespeare, everyone dies. Except Ginny. She discovers Jason's altar to his dead mother and ends up stabbing him in the should with a machete. And then the movie does another shock ending, making you think Jason survived. He, of course, did not. Or he did. You know how these things go.My question is: Did Jason rise from the dead? Or was he alive in the forest all these years? And how did he learn how to use a telephone? Let's just stop asking questions.

simonconnolly72-467-863881 The film suffers from 2 major flaws. 1. complete lack of logic and coherency. 2. A plodding plot which just re-hashes the first movie but with less pace and tensionThere's no point going into detail but ending scene makes no sense at all and what Jason is and how he came to be makes no sense at all. Terrible storytelling with a complete disregard to plot, story or characters.

Platypuschow I'm currently binge watching the Friday 13th franchise as up until now I'd only ever seen the last two films. I was astounded how generic and lifeless the first movie was and this sequel isn't far off.Here in Jason Voorhees's debut before he finds his iconic mask he is remarkably bad. What I mean by that is he's a bumbling incompetent fool and a shell of what he is destined to become. A couple of scenes near the end of the film are almost comical because of how bad he is at being a killer.With mostly cutaway deaths, very thin storyline and little to set it apart from every other camp slasher film I'm starting to wonder how this franchise reached the pinnacle it did as I'm 2 films in and not impressed in the slightest.The Good: Follows directly on from the original Well cast The Bad:Jason really used to suck! Highly generic stuff Things I Learnt From This Movie: A person cannot say "Hey you guys" without me thinking of the Goonies Jason Voorhees weakness is his balls, who knew!?

barrosjared Visual: The cinematography in this movie is very well shot, unlike the first film were the scenes sometimes go on for too long. The lake is beautifully shot, the darkness in the chase scene is lighten enough where you know what is going on.Acting: The main characters are Paul Holt(John Furey)and Ginny Field(Amy Steel), the two are much better than Adrienne King and Kevin Bacon, you can feel a relationship between the two. Ginny manages to hold off against Jason, Paul also helps her defeat him. When Paul tells the story of Jason, it has a campy feel to it.Kills: The kills are not as advanced as Tom Savini, but they do their job, the spear through the back and the machete through the head are very well executed and suspenseful. Some are cut off do to an X rating they originally had.The Killer: The little boy from the first movie is fully grown and back for the sequel, he is very scary with the burlap sack and pitchfork. Unlike the next movie onward, Jason actually is more human and that is what makes it more of a scenario that you could be in. When he is finally unmasked at the very end, Jason's face isn't taken too far and it fits just right being there.Overall: Suspenseful, Viscerally Thrilling, Better Characters, and less pointless scenes. I give it the rare for a low-budget film a 10/10