The first of many sequels in the “Friday The 13th” franchise, “Part 2” is a total bore. This is the last film before Jason would get his famous hockey mask. This one doesn’t add anything new, it’s just pretty much more of the same.

More counsellors arrive in the area where all the murders in the last film took place. Now, Jason Voorhees himself is out to kill anybody and everybody that is dumb enough to get in his way. Unfortunately, there are a lot of dumb teens around so that’s a lot of people for him to murder. Will any of them show enough sense to survive?

The campers are even less memorable than the ones in the first film. Jason wears a bag over his head in this one. This means if it didn’t have “Friday The 13th” in the title, you wouldn’t be able to tell this one apart from the countless random slasher movies out there. The hockey mask was at least something that lets people know that it’s Jason Voorhees doing all the killing. We get a few brief glimpses at Jason’s face and he looks like Sloth from “The Goonies”. Actually, that film came later so maybe Sloth is based on Jason.

If you liked the first one then you’ll probably like this one too. I just found it such a dull experience because there is just nothing here that you can’t see in a ton of other films. All the “Friday The 13th” sequels (particularly the ones set primarily at the camp) as well as all the “Sleepaway Camp” films are very hard to tell apart. There is virtually no originality or imagination going into any of these movies and that’s because those things require effort. Why put in effort when you can make your money from suckers? There we have the problem with the entire industry.