The start of this film (reminiscent of Friday The 13th Part 2) continues directly from Part 1- 1994 as the framing device and then throws us back to the Summer Camp massacre of 1978 for a lively and energetic love letter to the stalk-and-slash/masked killer genre films that originated at that time (in commercial terms). It is interesting to see how the 70s/80s tropes are used here alongside modern film-making sensibilities, but like the first film in this trilogy the 18-rated violence sits slightly uneasily with a seemingly younger teenage target audience (and here, victims within the film). The world-building and mythology is impressive as it links seamlessly with the first film through events and characters, and whilst the movie is hardly-earth-shattering, for horror fans it is a well-made and very lively contemporary entry into the cycle.
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