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Movie Overview
Cast
Amy Steel
John Furey
Adrienne King
Director
Steve Miner
MPAA Rating
R
Friday the 13th - Part 2 (1981)
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2.5/4
"A solid first sequel and the truly chilling jump scare at the end gives the original's a run for its money."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
2/5
"A little better than its predecessor, but that's not saying much."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
"The quintessential 80s slasher, complete with promiscuous, plastered, post-Carter pueriles getting their reactionary deserts...maintains an anchoring sense of driving logic--something that can't be said for so many of the horror movies that would follow.."
The L Magazine
Henry Stewart
2.5/4
"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"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
2.5/4
"
Friday the 13th Part 2
never aspires to be termite art."
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
3/10
"The new camp counselors are interchangeable with the old ones. Different faces, same basic people."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
3/5
"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."
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
C
"Its general competence remains a surprising improvement, albeit not one strong enough to elevate it into the realm of recommendation."
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
6/10
"More of the same. It all depends on your taste for carnage."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
2/4
"a carbon copy sequel"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
"Even crude techniques, when properly employed, can be effective, in a lowest-common-denominator kind of way."
Cinefantastique
Steve Biodrowski
6/10
"All things considered, it probably should have been a whole lot worse."
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Tim Brayton
2.5/5
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Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
3/5
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Rumsey Taylor
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