4/5 The Best of The Series.
  by josh (booneville, ms usa)
I'll keep this review pretty simple as you can find more detailed stuff in many places online.

F13 part 2 is probably the best of the series, belonging to the holy trinity with part 4 and part 6. If you're going to dive into the Friday the 13th series but don't want to watch all 9,000 entries, then those are the ones to go with.

Part 2 is an excellent slasher movie, having an excellent mood and some pretty good kills, not to mention some pretty good characterization.

The Blu Ray is probably the best this trashy old film can look, so for cinephiles, this is the best you can get. And if you don't already own the film then don't hesitate to pick this one up.

The extras aren't as great as some of the later deluxe editions, but are still pretty thorough.

The Friday the 13th Part 2 Deluxe Edition was an excellent purchase on my part, and can be one on yours as well.

3/5 Fun but painful!!!
  by A. Tye (U.K.)
Purchased the U.S. region free release as unlike in the U.K. it includes the 3-D version of the movie, and has a decent cover art. I also bought the U.S. release of Part 2 and the DVD of "His name was Jason. I have two regrets. Regret no.1 is that I was stung by customs and excise to the sum of £14. The 2nd is that I will never be able to sit through the whole 3-D version as it is just too painful. It feels like you are always trying to focus or see past something that is kind of obscuring your view. I got such a headache that I had to fast forward through the slower sections to get through it quicker. It was amusing to watch at first, but regretfully I could have saved a packet by getting the U.K. release. WHY DO WE GET SUCH AWFUL COVER ART?

5/5 One of my favorite installments that shines on Blu-Ray!
  by John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)


After part 2, Jason Voorhees (Richard Booker) is still on the loose as he has gotten some new clothes and murdered a couple of kind store owners. Rich girl Chris (Dana Kimmel) with friends like prankster Shelly (Larry Zerner), Debbie (Tracie Savage), Vera (Catherine Parks), Andy (Jeffery Rogers), Chili (Rachel Howard) and Chuck (David Katims) are off on a sexual holiday at a cottage resort called "Higgin's Haven". But unfortunately she had a bad experience there once even involving an encounter with Jason as she will face her fear since he kills her friends.

Very gory and entertaining entry of the very cool Friday The 13th saga! this is the movie that finally introduced audiences to his trademark goalie mask that re-established him. Steve Miner who directed part 2 did a fantastic job on bringing this installment in 3D with humor, shocks, gore, and decent acting making this one of the highest grossing movies of the series at the box-office in 1982, it's a winner.

This blu-ray offers excellent picture and sound with both 3D and 2D versions of the film with 3D glasses and cool extras like slasher film featurette, Lost Tales of Camp Blood part 3 short, legacy of the mask featurette, Fresh-Cuts: 3D terror featurette and trailer.

4/5 Blu-Ray Friday the 13th in 3D!!! But....
  by J. Thomas
.....the 3D sucks. Really. Bad. The MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D Blu-Ray is phenomenal when compared to this junk...but at least you get to see it in 3D the way it was meant. The 3D itself isn't that bad, it's the set-piece killings that fall flat. When a object gets forced into the foreground (3D's purpose!) the split image fails to coalesce properly with these glasses, but the 3D effect in "normal" situations is fine. The film was meant to be viewed in polarized fashion, not anaglyph. But MY BLOODY VALENTINE was also shown in polarized 3D and given the anaglyph treatment on DVD with no problems, so who knows..?

Ok, rant over. The film rates a 4/5 stars in the Friday the 13th canon. The first four films are the best, IMHO. The 2D version in Blu-Ray is probably the best we will ever get. I have compared every edition on DVD ever made for the US market through my 1080p HD projector onto a 100" screen (I know, I'm lucky!) and the Blu-Ray is tops. I would also like to point out that it seems the exact same print was used to make every DVD. All the artifacts, dust, hairs in the camera gate, etc. are exactly the same in every version. So, again, this is probably the best we can expect, sans some kind of digital clean up, which I'd be against. Although, as noted in other reviews, the "upgrade" to the Blu-Ray from the Deluxe Edition is a matter of personal choice, my advice: If you plan on watching the film on a screen over 40", then you might as well spend the extra $6 for the Blu-Ray.

Extras are nice, but not mind blowing and certainly nothing new is covered for the die-hard fan....I'd rate the extras 3/5 stars.

Overall, this is a welcome edition to my library. You may want to wait as the Blu-Ray will eventually fall in price, maybe even to the $12-$15 range by around November, as usual for these horror releases.

This Blu-Ray DVD is probably the best quality they can muster from the print, so I say 'job well done'. 4/5 stars. Recommended purchase.

1/5 Bad Rating for 3-D Portion ONLY
  by M. Nelson (Minneapolis, MN USA)
After seeing the imperfect, but decent 3-D treatment that My Bloody Valentine 3-D got on Blu-ray, I excitedly picked up Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3-D. I was in my teens when this series was being made, and I relished the idea of seeing it again in 3-D.

What a disappointment! Prior reviews mention a "ghosting problem," but that's putting it lightly. The ghosting problems are terrible and pervasive. The ghosting is so bad in some scenes that it gave me a headache. Daytime scenes are the worst -- sometimes the backgrounds are muddled blue-and-red chaos. More headaches.

Things that are supposed to "pop out" of the screen DO NOT. At all. The images ghost into chaos before that ever happens. So, if you were looking forward to seeing Jason fire a speargun at you, don't get your hopes up. It doesn't work.

Do not waste you money on this unless you're interested in the 2D copy on the disc. The 2D version is nicely cleaned up. Sad the extras on the disc are also pretty weak.