Friday the 13th - Part 2 (1981)

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

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

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.

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.

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

Even crude techniques, when properly employed, can be effective, in a lowest-common-denominator kind of way.

Friday the 13th Part 2 never aspires to be termite art.

A solid first sequel and the truly chilling jump scare at the end gives the original's a run for its money.

a carbon copy sequel