Fantastic!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Blistering performances.

Here are my reasons: why Friday the 13th Part 2 become my number 2 personal favorite Friday the 13th film and that is because of Amy Steel! I love the actress to death. In my opinion this sequel is my second favorite Friday the 13th film personal horror film in the franchise they don't make movies like this one today ! I have a blast watching this film and I enjoy it more than the first one. In my opinion the sequel is better than the original film. I am a big fan of the actress Amy Steel and I love her to death in Friday the 13th Part 2. This is my second favorite slasher Friday the 13th film in the series and I love Amy Steel so damn much as Ginny Field! I Love, Love, Love this film to death!! She was the best heroine in the slasher films in my opinion. From Friday the 13th Part 2 too April Fool's Day (1986) she was great heroine who fights, survives and wins. I love this film to death and I enjoy it and love it. I love the cast Kirsten Baker as Terry, I love Russell Todd as Scott. I love Marta Kober as Sandra Dier, I love Bill Randolph as Jeff, I love Tom McBride as Mark I love Lauren-Marie Taylor as Vickie and I love Jack Marks as Deputy Winslow. I love John Furey as Paul Holt he was great opposite lead from Ginny. I love the setting I love that the movie evolves around the camp like was in the first one. I love the filming locations in this movie. Seriously filming locations about this movie are classic in Connecticut, USA I wish I could see the film scenes. I cherish this movie with all my heart so much I love it. Like i said Amy Steel is the best heroine in this movie she is the greatest heroine in my opinion. I enjoy Jason with a potato sack over his head. Steve Daskawisz with his potato sack was great as Jason I love it so much. Warrington Gillette as Jason Voorhees unmasked was great. My favorite death scene is a couple been stabbed with a spear as they having sex and the scene in which a camper is hit in the face with a machete and falls down a flight of stairs is excellent scene great practical effect. Tom McBride R.I.P. I really miss you and you were great as Mark in this movie. This is my movie.I love the atmosphere in the film. It has the best kills in the series. Characters are fairly well-developed and likable, at least for this franchise, and there are plenty of thrills. One of the most memorable final shocks rounds everything outIt is Jason Voorhees first outing as the murderer and the image of him wearing the potato sack over his head is burned into my retinas as one of the most memorable in the franchise.Amy Steel is a brilliant addition to the cast, a great heroine I love her to death in "Friday The 13th part 2" and I also love her in April Fool's Day she was excellent in those two films. She is always my favorite lead and I really enjoy Friday the 13th Part 2 more then the first one.Friday the 13th Part 2 is a great sequel great horror slasher movie that made Jason Voorhees memorial cool horror icon.This time the film was directed and produced by Steve Miner who I thought did an excellent job directing the film. For the special makeup effects was Carl Fullerton who did the right job like Tom Savini did with the first one.I love how Amy Steel defend her self against Jason Voorhees. Amy Steel uses chain saw on Jason I love the chainsaw scene in the movie it is memorable and I love how Ginny uses her psychologically on Jason that she is his mother to distract him excellent a bad-ass scene. Ginny she swings with a machete towards Jason and Jason raises the mattock to block Ginny's machete swing this was an epic Climatic fight in the movie.Ginny Field with working tool fork in the hands is just memorial all over Amy Steel's picture we see her on IMDb and every where.Great horror slasher suspense entertaining 80's movie my all time personal favorite horror film I am still going to watch it. I watched this film 8 years ago when I was a big fan of Supernatural and I heard Jared Padalecki auditioned for his lead role in Friday the 13th reboot and I was curious so I went watching this film alongside with the first original film and Jason X before I watched reboot that was my fourth film I saw.I remember seeing this movie on DVD in the video store when I was in high school. I am glad I have this film on Blu-ray disc. This is one in my top 5 best favorite Friday the 13th films it is my second favorite slasher Friday the 13th movie and it is the best one. The movie it self's get's my Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval 10/10 Amy Steel is the queen of screamers.

"Friday the 13th Part 2" begins with the only survivor from the previous film, dreaming a brief overview of the most important moments of this cult horror. This introductory part will not mean much to those who did not watch the first film, while it will only bore those who did. Then follows the film so boring that I barely made myself to see it through. The film itself is not so bad and, if I did not watch the first part, I would probably rate it five out of ten. But since I watched the first movie recently, and this one does not bring anything new, but merely continues pouring sand in the desert, I was terribly bored. Almost identical story with almost identical characters, only with the new cast. This looks more like a remake than a sequel, and making a remake a year after the original does not make much sense.3,5/10

While the decision to retroactively resurrect the series' now iconic, somewhat supernatural serial-killer, who was entirely absent from the first picture and actually little more than a background plot device, was invariably a profitable one for the franchise as a whole and the reoccurring 'Jason' character has certainly been captured into the pop-culture zeitgeist, it makes for a questionable concept at best - even though consistency isn't something the series would become known for. Shoehorning in an entirely new mythology messes up the motivations of the prior title. It's a shame, then, that the filmmakers didn't use their newfound villain and his masked mug to their advantage in 'Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981)'. They didn't learn from perhaps the biggest mistake made in the first film, as the killer is still hidden for most of the run-time which restricts what is shown in the worst possible way because there's no reason for it. There's no mystery or suspense built from the omission, as was attempted previously, and the violence is also bizarrely restrained (in reality, due to pressure from the MPAA). This means that the flick can't even claim to have that real visceral edge that the original had, though. Another major problem is the distinct lack of plot. The feature essentially adds up to a bunch of teens going to a camp before a killer kills them all, which feels like it came from a half-written outline that was rushed into production far too early, likely the case considering it hit theatres only the year after the first, even though there are some decent sequences (like the ending) sprinkled throughout the brisk narrative. 5/10

Set 5 years after the (superior) original Jason makes his debut as Crystal Lake killer, taking over from his dead Mum, who's decapitated head sits in a sort of shrine in his woodland shack. Viewers will have to wait until part 3 for him to don his iconic hockey mask. Like the first movie part 2 benefits greatly from Harry Manfredini's soundtrack. The pace of the film & nudity have also been turned up a notch. However, 48 seconds of gore & violence were removed at the request of the MPAA, so sadly the gore is down from the original (Mrs Vorhee's beheading is thankfully repeated in all it's glory). The film does also have a few gaping plot holes - how did Jason survive all this time? How did he track down the Final Girl from the original? However, at the end of the day this is pretty much the perfect stalk-and-slash movie - if only we could get those 48 seconds back!!