4/5 Not Bad I suppose
  by Ted (SC, USA)
This is my favorite entry in the series. The bluray looks maybe a hair better than the HD rental I viewed off of Comcast, HD being about 720 lines of resolution. Its not up to the standard that Blu Ray can give--the pic looks nowhere near as good as, say, the "No Country For Old Men" bluray--but I'll take it cause I'm a huge fan. Friday fans are used to this type of treatment. The extras are nothing special. And the audio for several of the scenes has been changed but not to an alarming degree. The original Part 2 pressing and the one from the Boxed set look identical to me, and look quite good on a recent machine upconverted to 1080. Unless you are a BIG fan of this I would just stick to the DVD versions.

4/5 Classic 80's Slasher
  by A. Tye (U.K.)
I remember this as being one of the first horror movies I ever saw. I also remember thinking that it was very similar to the Burning which I saw around the same time. This is the U.S. Region free release with the original cover art unlike the awful U.K. release. The movie itself is really of it's time. You couldn't get away with it now, but I prefer this by far to modern horror fodder. The picture is probably the best it has been. It is not spectacular so don't expect it to be up to today's standards, but it doesn't have to be, it is grainy in places and clean in others. The extras are pretty good as well, however if you're expecting notorious deleted scenes, an explanation as to why you will never see them is as much as you'll get

4/5 A nice introduction for Jason Voorhees!
  by John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)

In 1979 four months later after the horrific killings in Camp Crystal Lake, it seems survivor Alice (Adrienne King) has moved on with life but gets murdered. Five years later has passed and now a new camp lead by Paul (John Fuery) and girlfriend Ginny (Amy Steel) have opened up the camp nearby Camp Crystal Lake. Rumors have it that Jason Voorhees (Warren Gillette) is still alive and wants revenge for his dead mother as more counselors are being killed one by bloody one.

A bloody sequel to a 1980 slasher box-office hit classic that is well paced and exciting all the way. This is the one that has Jason Voorhees as the killer rather then his mother as the studio decided to have Jason as the killer when the first movie was a box-office smash in the summer of 1980. Betsy Palmer from the original movie does an appearence as Jason's mother but in a memory and Jason here doesn't don his famous hockey mask until the next movie but here he wears an Elephant-Man burlap sack over his disfigured face, the body count is much higher then last time with some fine gore like icepick to the skull and machete to the face. This one offers good timely scares, violent kills and made Jason the icon of horror in the 80's next to Freddy Krueger.

This blu-ray offers decent quality picture and surround sound with nice extras such as a Inside Crystal Lake Memories featurette, Lost Tales of Camp Blood part 2 short film, Jason Forever featurette, Friday's Legacy: Convention featurette and Trailer.

4/5 Fridays on Blu ray!
  by Ashi Toledano (USA)
It's definitely interesting seeing these films hit blu ray. They definitely look better, and it's nice for fans to be able to upgrade. I was going to buy the DVD boxset, but now that they're all coming to blu ray, why not upgrade?
Each film has special features and a clean new master, it's a worthy purchase for any fan. This blu ray of part 2 has great extras, I watched them all, and the movie looks much cleaner then i remember when I saw it on my old 1999 released DVD of the film.

4/5 looks great!!
  by T. Whyle (coraopolis, pa United States)
Alright i need to counteract some of the negative reviews on this. The picture quality is PHENOMENAL!!! Whereas the blu-ray of Part 1 is overzoomed-in, this actually shows more of the picture than the previous DVD releases. I think they did a great job on the transfer...the only grain I see is the original film grain from the low-budget cameras they used back then...it looks the way it is meant to look. I absolutely loved it, and found myself saying numerous times during the movie 'this looks SOO AWESOME!!!' And I am as critical as they come, I can assure you.

The special features are decent...aside from the Lost Tales from Camp Blood short film crap--those are all just pitiful and should be destroyed.

Otherwise my only complaint is we need a director's cut of this one...there is some really great footage missing here...I know we've been saying it for years, but man oh man, add that to the awesome quality of this BD, get rid of the Lost Tales crap, and I'll buy it again.

Or even something like what they did with 'Slashed Scenes' feature on the DVD of Part 4...they basically gave you every bit of film that wasn't used surrounding those death scenes as an extra...no audio or color correction or anything, but great quality and it's all there. I was actually able to splice in some extra gore, color correct it (the best I can with what I have), do some audio-looping & editing tricks, and make my own director's cut of it in Windows Movie Maker. I would love to do that with Part 2!!!!

However, I am appreciative for what we got this time...far better than any previous release, and the picture quality makes it worth every penny for me.