Friday 13th Part 2 (1981)

My rating - 7/10

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5 years after the slaughter of the camp counselors at Crystal Lake a new group arrive to try again at a camp nearby. Someone doesn't want it to happen though and one by one they are killed off.

We get our first sighting of the adult Jason here, although his trademark hockey mask doesn't appear until part 3. Here he's wearing a cloth sack and is enjoying slaughtering wholesale in various different ways. I prefer this one to the first even if we're likely to never see a full uncut version of it as most of the cut footage was thought to be lost now, although some small clips have been discovered in the ensuing years. That said we still get some good kills and fun characters. Amy Steel makes for a great final girl and I find the action here to be more exciting.

As with the first movie this is low budget but the acting, script and effects are still good. By now you'll already know what to expect from one of these and this one doesn't disappoint.

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