★★★1/ 2 And yes, the teen-busting killer returns in the manner of horror movies where there is a teen-busting killer. Just like that, with the historical characters (the Campbell-Cox-Arquette trio) and a bunch of kids who will be put to the knife, while a secret from the past (quite awful, really) justifies the massacres. No, Wes Craven is dead, but it gives the impression – maybe it’s just that, an impression that the filmmakers really enjoyed and understood the original films and their deconstruction of the genre. However, there is also at certain moments a problem with the tone, no longer as sardonic as in the first film where everything got out of hand in an absurd way and that and no other was the final objective. The search for plausibility takes some of the fun out of it, but, as Galileo would say, Eppur si muove.
