Friday the 13th, Part 2

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Summary: Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981)
Review: In 1980, Sean S. Cunningham's, "Friday The 13th" was a massive hit at box-office records. The film was widely praised for its horrifying make-up effects, created by the infamous Tom Savini. But fans craved for more, and they meant to have more.

In 1981, director Steve Miner gave the fans more with, "Friday The 13th Part 2". The film starts off in August of 1980, just two months after the massacre Mrs. Voorhees brought to Camp Crystal Lake that June of 1980. Alice (again played by Adrienne King) has been struggling with the horrifying memories of that brutal massacre that occurred two months ago. She awakes from the terrifying dreams and realizes that she is safe at home. Alice is living on her own, trying to piece her life back together. After a brief phone-conversation with her mother, Alice goes off to take a shower. She finishes her shower, only to hear a noise coming from her kitchen. She goes into the kitchen and grabs an ice pick from the counter. She heads over to the kitchen window, where a cat jumps in. She puts a teakettle on the stove and heads over to the fridge to get the cat some milk. Instead of grabbing the milk, Alice screams in horror when she finds Mrs. Voorhees' head in her fridge. Behind her, is a full-grown...Jason Voorhees (played by Warrington Gillette). He grabs Alice and stabs her in the temple with the ice pick.

Five years pass after Alice's demise. Paul Holt (played by John Fury) has opened a summer camp, just next to Camp Crystal Lake. He has hired a large batch of counselors, including Jeff (played by Bill Randolph), Sandra (played by Marta Kober), Ted (played by Stuart Charno), Mark (played by the late Tom McBride), Scott (played by Russell Todd), Vicky (played by Lauren-Marie Taylor), Terri (played by Kirsten Baker), and Ginny Fields (played by Amy Steel), Paul's girlfriend and assistant head counselor.

Everyone arrives safely, but Ginny arrives a little late, due to her car not being in the best of shape. That night, Paul has a little fun with everybody when he reveals the legend of Jason Voorhees, and reveals what happened at Camp Crystal Lake five years ago, where Ted comes out dressed like a dead Viking. That's when Paul informs everyone that Jason is supposedly dead, Mrs. Voorhees was killed by Alice, and Camp Crystal Lake is off limits. The next day, while jogging, Terri's little dog, Muffin, meets Jason, where later that day, Jeff and Sandra go off into Camp Crystal Lake and find a supposed mangled dog. Before they even have the chance to really figure out what it is they're looking at, they are snagged by a cop. The cop has a few words with Paul and then goes on his way, but only to find Jason running around Camp Crystal Lake. The cop chases him deep into the camp and finds a broken-down cabin. He enters the cabin and enters the far-back side of the cabin. What he sees is shocking, but before he can make more comments on what he is seeing, Jason kills him off.

That night, while Ginny, Paul, and the rest of the counselors go off to party, Scott, Terri, Vicky, Jeff, Sandra, & Mark stay behind to watch the camp. During their watch out, Terri goes for a little skinny dip. Scott jokes around by grabbing Terri's clothes, but he gets caught in a rope trap. As Terri goes to get a knife to cut the rope, Scott is then killed off, followed by Terri. Vicky and Mark make plans to sleep with each other, so Vicky goes off to grab a few things, where Mark is left by himself, where he is then killed. After Mark is killed, Jason kills both Jeff and Sandra through double impaling.
Vicky returns and searches the whole main cabin for Mark. She enters Jeff and Sandra's room and finds the two of them dead, where she finds Jason, wearing a burlap sac over his head. She does not have chance to run, for she is killed off.

Paul and Ginny return to find Jason waiting for them. Paul is knocked unconscious, while Ginny battles Jason by herself. She runs into the cabin where the cop was last seen and finds what the cop had found: Mrs. Voorhees' gray sweater and Mrs. Voorhees' rotting head. Ginny grabs the sweater, puts it on, and acts out as Mrs. Voorhees, but Jason knows better. Soon, Paul enters, where Ginny and Paul seemingly kill Jason. As they head back to Ginny's cabin, they find Muffin, Terri's dog, safe and sound. As Ginny goes to pick up Muffin, Jason comes busting through the window, grabbing Ginny. Ginny awakes the next morning, and finds that they paramedics are taking her to the hospital, where she'll be safe.

Now, I do remember telling you that camping is out of the question. So, put away your camping gear. But while you are waiting, watch Friday The 13th Part 2 if you enjoyed the first.

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Summary: Death By Misadventure...
Review: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 opens with the death of Alice (Adrienne King), the sole-survivor / slayer of psycho-mum from the original. She is trying to get over the trauma of two months earlier. Instead, Alice finds an old acquaintence (well, at least a part thereof) in her fridge, and is terminated via ice-pick! Yep, Jason lives on! It seems he didn't take too kindly to his mama's departure. Now, fast-forward 5 years and we have a whole new slew of numbskulls, getting ready to open their own new camp on Crystal Lake, right next door to the old one! Of course, Jason's all grown up now and gone feral, living on wildlife while waiting for his nitwit human prey to arrive. When they do show up, we find that Ginny (Amy Steel) is the only one among them with a brain in her skull. She seems to sense early on that she's being watched, and even believes the campfire tales of Jason and his mum. The others are just so much machete fodder! One by one (w/ the exception of the amorous pair who are shish-kabobbed together) these wacky kids are done away with in grizzly fashion. I love the ending of this movie and wish it had all ended there, but alas, the sequels keep coming! Enjoy this healthy dose of ghoulish goulash...

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Summary: Friday the 13th Part 2
Review: I think this is way better than the first! Seems that Jason did NOT drown, and he gets his revenge on Alice for killing his mom! After that, he returns to his woods. A new camp is built next to the old camp, and ol' Jason stalks any teenagers who DARE to enter his woods!

I like it better than Pt. 1 because it has less boring parts, more cool deaths[gotta love the "wheelchair" death], and Jason's rampage begins here! Oh, Jason isn't wearing his hockey mask, but instead a white pillow sack with an eyehole cut in it that makes him look KKK.

Anyway, I think FT13thP2 is a topnotch slasher flick. So rent it[along with other Friday films], grab some popcorn, have a soda, and prepare for some chills!

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Summary: Not THAT good, but still enjoyable...
Review: "Friday the 13th part 2", while not as well thought out as the first, is more enjoyable than its predecessor, despite its fluffiness. It actually takes place in 1985, tho it was made only a year after the original, at a camp *near* Camp Crystal Lake. There are AlOT more counslers this time, but most of them remain namless, and we don't really hear them say anything. Only about 9 of them, or something, get killed when left behind at camp, while the others go to a bar. The only two things that bothered me about this installment was that it felt too short. Actually, it IS the shortest 'Friday film in running time. The other problem being the death of Alice. I really liked her charector! And it wasn't even necessary to the rest of the film that she dies...Did anyone else feel sorry for her?!?!?! BUT, Ginny, the new heroine is also great. I DO reccomend this only if you don't tale slasher pics too seriously.

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Summary: All the hype for this...?
Review: "Friday the 13th, Part 2" is well known by horror/slasher fans to be considered the second best of the series. And I don't know why. I'd say part 6 is. But im not here to talk about part 6, so I guess I'll have to review this. Part 2 begins by killing off probably the nicest "last girl" of the series, Alice. On my first viewing, I was dissapointed already. However, Alice is replaced by yet another satisfying "last gir", the sassy and smart Ginny; but she still didn't save the rest of the film from being a dissapointment. The whole movie just seems to be missing something; I have no idea WHAT tho. The rather murky atmosphere also made it a tad depressing. And a poor little dog is killed!About the only thing I liked about the whole thing was Ginny. She, and the first appearence of Jason may have helped some in making this installment so popular...

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Summary: Jason's blood-thirsty rampage begins
Review: "Friday the 13th Part 2" is a great sequel to the original movie of my favorite horror movie series of all time. This time, it's Jason Voorhees that goes on a killing spree at the nearby lake. Some new counselors are told about the legend of Jason, but they don't let it get in their way of having a good time.

In many ways, this movie is better than the original movie was. It has more killing in it and it's a lot closer to being scary. The classic background chant of Jason along with his surprise appearances will keep you watching this movie without losing your interest. The special effects are also good, especially in the part when one of the girls finds Jason's mom's head and uses it to make Jason believe that it's his mom talking to him.

If you like good horror movies that don't ever get boring, I recommend getting "Friday the 13th Part 2."

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Summary: Almost seems like a remake
Review: "Friday the 13th, Part 2" is the first in a LONG line of sequels to the original that would end in 1993 (so far). It picks up approximately 2 months after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake with Alice (the lone survivor) having nightmares about that night. No sooner than she wakes up does Mrs. Voorhees' demented son, Jason, show up and slams an ice pick in her temple for what she did to his mommy. The film then flashes forward 5 years where new counselors are in training at a camp directly across from Crystal Lake. Now these counselors still don't listen to the warnings from Crazy Ralph (the prophet of doom) and they end of smoking some pot, having some sex, drinking some alcohol and roaming into Crystal Lake, a big no no on their part. Jason then stalks and murders several of them in gory fashion (although not as creatively gory as in the first film, most notably because Tom Savini did not do the effects). Although the film is virtually a remake, it does boast a very strong heroine, Ginny (Amy Steel), who delves into the mind of Jason in a terrific chase sequence at the end of the film. Betsy Palmer does make some small cameo appearances in clips from "Friday the 13th" and at the end. This is a good companion piece and introduces Jason nicely, pre-hockey mask of course. If you want to see Jason's first appearance, rent it!

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Summary: Tends to be a remake of the original film
Review: "Friday the 13th, Part 2" was rushed into the theatres a year after the original made it's success. Jason marks his first appearance in this film (although his hockey mask doesn't come until Part 3). The plot is relatively familiar to anyone who has seen the first film, or any of the other films. Five years after Mrs. Voorhees went on her murder spree, a counselor training center has opened up right across from the now shut-down Camp Crystal Lake. The new counselors have heard the legend of Jason, but they don't exactly believe it so he appears and hacks several of them to death just like his mommy a few years earlier. Hmmm, let's see, in this not-so-Oscar-worthy film, we get to see a machete in the face, a stabbing, a throat slashing, an offscreen murder, an icepick in the temple, a chewed up dog, a double impalement, a choking with barbed wire and some other sexual stuff that should be in a "Jason" movie. This is the best sequel to this never ending series. It starts the Jason legend and paved the way for the sequels to follow it.

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Summary: Fady Ghaly's reviews
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This gripping film, a follow-up to the original hit, is, in my opinion, just as compelling-packed with just as much shrills and suspense. To those who love watching the sequels that followed, it's likely that they may not like this one. But if that is so, it's also likely that they may have not liked the original, either, for in that particular point of the series a firm narrative still existed and you somehow still took it seriously, despite of how obtuse it frequently seemed, but those were the early eighties for you, and you had to keep that in mind, you had to keep in mind of the genre's techniques back then, a time when slashers were somewhat meretricious, in other words, enjoyable and yet clearly cheesy at the same time. In the decade that we are now in, when I think of this film, I think highly of it, yes, but I just can't picture a group of wild teenagers with earrings pierced all throughout their bodies and chains hanging out from their jeans, really taking it seriously, for it still had purpose, but that's precisely the way it is nowadays: the greater the shape and intellect, the less attraction for the younger ones.

Although there were a number of mistakes made, though such vacuous errors could've easily been prevented, they were still quite minor, and even if they were to draw someone's attention, are good for a laugh and yet not at all affective to the terror that fans of the original would come to expect in this one. It's great entertainment. It's all-good. (For instance, in Crazy Ralph's death scene, he's watching two lovers physically showing their affection to one another, from outside their window, when all of the sudden you observe of a wire going over the tree in which he was standing next to and around his neck; it must have been a pretty short tree, huh?) Ralph, mind you, was a local resident aware of the town's curse, and he really set the mood as one to warn vacationers of the consequences they'll undergo if choosing not to embark from it, which merely deteriorates his self-image to these vacationers who of course never really take him seriously, they may momentarily find themselves swooped into a world of wonder, but are bright enough (or stupid enough) to know better than to listen to some old loony, being the reason the old man's known as...well, "Crazy Ralph." I loved him. Why did he have to die? I guess he was the one distinctive factor that would thwart Jason's killing spree. ("I told the others. They didn't believe me. You're all doomed. You're all doomed," he tells them.)

Ron Kurz did a fanciful job with the dialogue, especially for one sequence of the film in particular. It's the one where the entire cast of characters (before most of whom did meet their doom) was gathered together around the fire (the rather weak one) in the middle of the night, doing what any other counselor into the spirit of camping would do in such circumstances: roasting goodies while telling long tales of those legendary people feared by many. What I really liked about this piece, what was so clever about it is that, sentient that this being the first film in the series to really introduce Jason as the next stalker more than ready to discharge of such obvious rage and fulfill his vengeance upon these naïve interlopers, they have them enlighten you upon such a madman's infamous chronicles before ultimately the characters...well, fell as victims to his bloody rampage themselves. They enlighten you and then get a little inventive as they begin to conjecture as to how his living conditions might be and as to the man that he may have grown to be, which makes matters all but more chilling as it then alters your initial perspective upon his semblance and persona in which he was given prior to this one when he was just a child, and braces you for a whole new one that, as they explicate, grew to be very unpleasant. You begin to get a sense of what you're in for.

Using the most mesmeric and beguiling words, the leading character of the group, the head counselor, Paul, cleverly sucked you right into his tale until ultimately some goofy counselor not yet seen in this scene leaped into the picture dressed in some ape-like Halloween costume, and you develop a sense of what the filmmakers were trying to do. Diminishing the mood, it then was all fun and games and Paul essentially assured the others that regardless of how deep they stroll into the woods, no peculiar-looking individual would wind up face-to-face with them, which of course, as the film deepened, wasn't true at all, as some peculiar-looking individual did, and we all know what happens next... Don't we?

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Summary: Better then part 1!
Review: A really creepy and suspensefull horrormovie with a lot of great suprisescenes! Better then the first one!Jason is a mutch scarier killer then miss voorhes. And the story is more developed in a POSITIVE way that ceaps the mysterius creapy feeling over the story. The little shed that jason lives in with the secret room that chocked the policemen really freaked me out. Good that they cept the scary classic ch-ch-ch-ha-ha-ha sound!Jason looks muth scaryer in the "mask" or what ever you wanna call it, that he has in this movie then the hockey-mask in the bad sequels. A classic horrormovie thats defenetly worth a look! I hope they will make a remake of this movie couse that would bee a masterpiece! Couse thats the only negative with this film:the fakt that its so low-budget.See it, and youll wish the same..! If you have any questions or comments about the film:Send me a e-mail!