Friday The 13th - Part 2 DVD

Advantages: I’ll get back to you on that
Disadvantages: Absolutely no story

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) To refresh your memories here’s a little recap of the previous films events. If you’ve yet to watch it skip this paragraph to avoid spoilers. At Camp Crystal Lake, in 1957, a young boy drowned because the camp counsellors were busy making love instead of watching him. In 1958 two counsellors (I expect the same two) were brutally murdered leading to the camp being shut down. 21 years later another spate of killings befell ...
...survivor Alice discovered the murderer to be the young boy Jason’s mother, Mrs Voorhees, who after a drawn out struggle was decapitated. The film starts with one of the longest introductions I’ve witnessed. On some versions up to fifteen minutes long. It essentially just plays the end of the original. Then it moves on five years, and a new camp is to be opened on Crystal Lake, just a short walk from ‘Camp Blood’ of the original. A noticeably larger ... Read review

Advantages: It's got Jason in it
Disadvantages: It's like Part 1

...to the original. Friday 13th Part 2, made one year after the original movie, takes place five years after the events at Camp Crystal Lake, or Camp Blood. For those with short attention spans we are 'treated' to a catch up of the finale of the first film. This is where it gets bad. You see the dream sequence is overlong and unnecessary for the most part and rally should have been cut down or, indeed, cut altogether. Before the film starts properly ...
...guesses who) in a typical Friday 13th Gore-O-Rama way. Friday 13th 2 has an all new set of budding camp counselors embarking on a sort of training scheme and they are somehow situated right near Camp Crystal Lake, coincidence of the decade. Two of them get the warning from the crazed man saying they are all doomed (again), like many scenes in Friday the 13th its pretty pointless, if only to raise a few sniggers. With a film like this there is very ... Read review

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...an incredible amount of sequels. Friday the 13th is the main culprit. It is a movie which blatantly rips off Halloween, literally offering nothing new but killer and location and never seems to stop churning out sequels. This is part 2 of...well 8 last time I looked but there are probably more. The plot is pretty much incidental here, its a slasher movie after all and a not very intelligent one at that. Basically its set 5 years after the original ...
...have to say that the Friday 13th series is not a collection of movies that I have ever been particularly impressed with. Apart from ripping off Halloween, they have seriously not stood the test of time very well. The gore looks really dated now, much more like red paint than anything else and there really isn't that much in the way of shocks. People have sex, run through the forest and get walked after by this killer who manages to keep pace with ... Read review

Advantages: Jason's debut on slasher scene
Disadvantages: Poor quality, bad acting

Friday the 13th is set five years after the original, and yet again sees a group of clueless American teenagers visit a lonely abandoned lake with a ominous reputation. The original Friday the 13th served as a prototype for the endless sequels, as Jason went on to take over the role of psychopathic serial killer from his mother. In true slasher style the youngsters irritate so much that you look forward to them dying. Of course you don't have to ...
...is that just stupid). The Friday films all pretty much follow the horror film rules, if you have sex you die, if you take drugs you die, and if you ever utter the words 'I'll be right back' yep you guessed it you will die. There isn't much to suggest that this movie would spawn so many more except for the key ingredients of gore and sex. Having said all that I enjoyed this film, when I was younger I saw the Friday films first and as an introduction ... Read review

Advantages: well it's a jason film! great atmosphere, silly acting, silly haircuts, nasty yet sadistically enjoyable deaths and the birth of a true cult figure
Disadvantages: well if you dont know by know..where have you been ?

Er..right, well apparantly after the death of his mother Jason wasn't best pleased, and has risen from the grave (praaiiise the lord) to wreak havok and nasty ends to loads of unsuspecting teenagers. Can't go wrong can it? Well it's still not the jason we know (and love in some extreme cases), as he's wearing a sack over his head, and looks like something out of a german porn film. But hey, don't let this fool you..he's certainly as nasty as his ...
...of the best of the series..thanks to the way it just oozes that legendary er..jason style?. Well all the traits of the series are here..loads of deaths, frantic running (and often falling over), the silly yet brilliant musical score..if that's what you can call it..all in all, the typical jason film. Great if that's what you like - but otherwise it's a direct translation of numero uno, with a bloke weilding a sack over his head and a very large machete. ... Read review