Review of Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) by Dylan D — 21 Jul 2015

A copycat of its predecessor, Friday the 13th Part 2 is likely to lull viewers to sleep with an agonizingly long and familiar set-up before the film starts to take off. Even then, the kills are well-staged but rather meaningless outside the actual act of murder, because this film tosses in a bunch of expendable, one-dimensional nobodies into the mix that do nothing but run around half-dressed in tight-fitting clothes waiting to be killed.

Introducing Jason, but not as audiences have come to know and love him, Friday the 13th Part 2 is one of the better entries into the series thanks to its classic, no-nonsense, straight-out-of-the-book approach that might be repetitive, but it repeats a proven, marketable, and even entertaining-to-a-degree formula.