Friday the 13th Part 2 is a perfectly simple slasher that, thanks to Steve Miner's outstanding direction, achieves something most other entries don't: it's actually scary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2023

Easily one of (if not THE) best Friday the 13th film, Part 2 introduces iconic Final Girl Ginny, features mean kills (RIP Mark) and has one of the best chases in slasher history. Plus: those jump scares and Manfredini's go-for-broke score!

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 13, 2023

It may be tacky, cheaply made and unoriginal but the basic formula, established in the first film by Sean Cunningham, is fool- proof.

| Jul 27, 2022

Basically a lazy retread of the first film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 21, 2021

Violence, gore, sex, drinking/drugs in slasher sequel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2019

One monster's company, II's a crowd.

| Mar 11, 2019

Gory with a hint of humour, this pretty much does what it says on the tin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2019

The plot is an excuse for joining together horrors, all of the sado-masochist kind, and the acting is rudimentary at best. It probably will make a fortune.

| Feb 9, 2019

Director Steve Miner and writer Ron Kurz introduce more potential victims than they have time or invention to knock off.

| Feb 9, 2019

There are no real surprises, just plenty of methodical murders, with graphic impaling being the favourite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2019

It still is a sad commentary that so much creative energy should have gone into such a sordid, kinky and ultimately demoralizing look at such bizarre facets of human nature both on the screen and in the audience.

| Feb 8, 2019

Somehow, this one's even worse than the first.

| Feb 8, 2019

Yes, it's a cheesy slasher film, but you know that going in, and this is a well-done example of the genre.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 9, 2017

...ultimately right in line with its passable yet far-from-memorable predecessor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2015

Basically only for completists looking to see Jason take center stage for the first time. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 25, 2009

The new camp counselors are interchangeable with the old ones. Different faces, same basic people.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 12, 2009

Producer-director Steve Miner doesn't move in and out of scenes with the flair of original producer-director Sean Cunningham nor is he able to create the same nauseatingly realistic murder situations.

| Mar 26, 2009

Not as good as the original, but still pretty fun, it serves up more of the same and continued to be fresh enough before its many other sequels got too silly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2009

Perhaps the least interesting of all the Friday the 13th films, since it tries to be a "sequel" to the first film, referencing themes and storylines.

| Feb 20, 2009

cannot be defended intellectually, yet, the film's very simplicity and directness gives it a kind of folkloric power, albeit power that works only if you give yourself over to it

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2009