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I like this one better than the original.
Amy Steel is right up there with Jamie Lee Curtis as all time scream queen.
This is the last Friday I'm giving five stars.
The idea of Jason running around the woods as some crazed, hillbilly is brilliant.
In later Fridays he bacame more cartoonish.
The direction is great, the acting is good considering it's a slasher movie.
All in all I'd say this is the best of the series hands down.
And the ending???
They show Jason's face, it gave me nightmares as a kid and still does.
The music is some of the best in horror, Friday 2 is, like part 1, a classic and a must see.
Highly recommended!!!

After seeing his beloved mom beheaded at Crystal Lake, a demented Jason Voorhees goes on a killing spree that continues to this day. As common a household name as the machete he wields, Jason proves that you can't keep a good serial killer down for long.

I watched "Friday the 13th Part 2" in a "Friday the 13th" marathon that began on Friday, June 13, 2008, Jason's birthday! "Friday the 13th Part 2," I learned, is an excellent sequel, far better than most other sequels in the horror genre. As in the original film, we don't see the killer's face until the end, though we strongly suspect who the killer is. The death scenes, once again, are very gruesome and imaginative. The director, Steve Miner, must've been highly influenced by the Italian Master of Horror, Mario Bava, who directed "Bay of Blood" (a.k.a. "Twitch of the Death Nerve"). Some of the scenes from "Friday the 13th Part 2" closely resemble those from "Bay of Blood." For example, the machete buried in the crippled man's face and the spear thrown into the couple making love on the bed can also be found in "Bay of Blood." I strongly recommend that you buy the "Mario Bava Collection Volume 2" which has "Bay of Blood" along with some other Bava classics from the last years of his career.

In "Friday the 13th Part 2," we learn more about the serial killer's identity than in all the proceeding ones. He is made to appear as an actual person and not a horrifying creature. We learn that he is a mentally deficient mongoloid who didn't drown, but ran into the woods to live as a hermit or to be raised by a hermit. Mistrusting all humans, including his mom, he stayed clear of them; but when he saw his mom die, his fear turned to rage and he had to kill anyone who trespassed in his woods. Knowing he looks different from the beautiful camp counselors that he so loves to stalk and kill, Jason uses torn bed sheets to hide his face in shame. We also learn that he pays homage to his mom by surrounding her decapitated head with burning candles.

"Friday the 13th Part 2" is a must have for fans of the series and fans of the slasher frenzy that gripped our country between the mid seventies and the mid eighties.