The second episode of Friday the 13th, The Series surrounds a pen that can make predictions of evil come true. The pen is in the hands of a member of a monastery who uses it to do away with all opposition to selling the monastery and making off with millions of dollars. Micki, Ryan and Jack go under cover as monks to solve the riddle and retrieve the poison pen.

Thoughts:

So, I'm noticing that although this is just the second episode everyone is acting like they've gone after cursed artifacts for months and months. Clearly the intention is that, aside from the first episode, each episode can be viewed in any order and there is no on-going storyline development at all to make anything seem out of place. I actually remember this episode vividly from years ago, primarily because there is a monastery in the middle of some large city that has a fully stocked and functional torture and execution chamber... not very likely.

The effects in this one are just as bad as in the first when the blade from a guillotine comes off of its frame and chases some dude around the room. Silly. Some of the others, however, are very cool concepts. The strength of this series is not in the effects but in the creativity of the scenarios and the evil way in which the artifacts give some benefit to the owner in exchange for the owner committing some dastardly deed to "charge" it for the next use. The EP is very well done, if not plausible. Good episode.