Bad awful and awful bad...like the original, I can't even give this one my _"It's a bit dated by today's standards but still worth watching..."_ defense. Because it isn't. Horribly horribly terrible. Bad acting, bad EVERYTHING. At one time, I thought it was funny to watch the gravity-defying scene where "Mark" gets an axe buried in his forehead hard enough to send his wheelchair-bound dead body bouncing backward down the stairs... **_without once ever flipping over backward_** but now, it's just not even amusing anymore; it's just STUPID. It's completely awful acting, awful directing, awful storyline...awful EVERYTHING. This does not even belong in the _"So Bad It's Good"_ category. It's just atrocious. If there is anything good that CAN be said about this one, it's that it introduced Jason to us...and for all too short a season, Jason was the most terrifying killer to stalk the horror screens. He was the ultimate hunter/killer, wreaking nightmarish vengeance on those campers whom he had witnessed kill his beloved mother. Sadly, however, _Friday the 13th Part 2_ was the beginning - and ending - of Jason's reign of terror; after this, he becomes a parody, a laughingstock of the horror screen. A joke, and something that becomes almost laughable. I wouldn't recommend this to ANYONE; it doesn't fall into any category except "BORING"...so I guess if you're really into boring, uninteresting movies that will make you angry at yourself for wasting an hour and a half, then yeah, give this one a go. Okay, there is that one positive thing that can be said about this: At least it's only an hour and a half that you're wasting.