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Summary: Jason's first kills!
Review: Jason's cameo appearence in the original film is extended to his debut killing spree, that would go on to an incredible record!
The first sequel to the box-office smash original, is even more fun! Jason appears here with a sack over his head, later on, first with Part 3, he would don the hockey mask. Two teenagers are off to start up a camp, very near to Crystal Lake. Yes, for us horror buffs, we know very well old Camp Blood wasn't the dead-on setting for this sequel, and wouldn't be used until Part VI (renamed Camp Forrest Green). Jason still owns the entire wilderness ofcourse, and hacks off teen after teen, vowing never to let anyone enter his woods! The acting here is regular for slasher films, Amy Steel is the lead heroine here! Adrienne King (Part 1's Alice) is hacked off at the great prolouge and leads way for this new beauty, that catches Jason's eye! Speaking furthor about the film's opening,
I just love the credits sequence with the exploding FRIDAY THE 13TH, revealing PART 2, and the great Harry Manfredini music. I just love entertaining credits sequences, and horror films just deliver great stuff in that department aswell. We've got more blood, more nudity and more Harry Manfredini music in this classic sequel!
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Summary: The Unlucky nightmare continues...
Review: F13th part 2 isn't the greatest sequel in the series (Frankly, I think "Jason takes Manhattan" is the best), but it des set up plot for the following number of sequels...err, excluding the dumb "Jason goes to Hell" (A.K.A. The "black sheep" in the Friday series). The film takes place 5 years after Mrs. Voorhees terrorized camp counselers at Camp Crystal Lake. The only survivor (sorry, but I can't remember her name) is relaxing to the fact the nightmare is over. She goes to her fridge to eat something...only to find Mrs. Voorhees' decapitated head!!! Before she a can scream, a ice pick goes through her temple (ouch!). It's obivious who the killer is, none other than Jason Voorhees, Mrs. Voorhees' imfamous son. Meanwhile, at Camp Crystal Lake, new management re-opens the park, despite all the warnings and curses told about the place. Little do the dim witted, sexually active teens know is that Jason has return to finish some business. Jason wears a white sheet/bag over his head, despite his ugly, deformed head (which, for some reason, remind's me of "ork" from the film "The Goonies"), rather than his imfamous Hockey mask, which he picks up in Part 3. Friday the 13th pt. 2 is really, in a way, a "remake"/"semi-sequel" (if any horror fans have seen "Evil Dead II: Dead before Dawn", they know what I'm talking about) in my opinion. While it was released only a year after the first film, it lacked box office success the first film gained. It wasn't till Jason picked up his Hockey Mask at a local Sports Mart (and started his long despute with Corey Feldman) till the series picked up it's popularity.
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Summary: Cool
Review: Surprisingly good sequel to the camp slasher movie has Jason Voorhees the killer and killed the sole survivor of the first then kills many more teens! Bad acting but good chills!
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Summary: I'm the burlap sack... of DOOM
Review: Friday the 13th Part II, although not like any of the others, is pretty damn good. The story is pretty simple. A bunch of councellors are training for the fateful day when they'll be watching children. And basically that's what goes on for the entire movie, only as it progresses you get more perversion and kills. There's plenty of horror in this, with Jason running around, you don't know where he'll turn up or when he'll strike. The final chase can get pretty intense as well. The characters, well, they're all pretty horny and that's pretty much what you could say for all of them except the main heroine, who worries about Jason, Jason, who kills, and the cop, who tries to keep people out of the Crystal Lake campground (these councellors are actually a mile or so away). The kills are all done with various sharp implements, but they're done at just about the right time. Knives, barbed wire, machetes, pick things, its a buffet of stabbity stabs. As for acting, it seems decent enough. The main characters do their job pretty good, and Jason was really awesome. Too bad we don't see him act this way ever again. The woods were also a particularly scary place to have this film, even in the daylight it had a creepy tone to it.
Horror 9/10
Pretty erie, and can make you jump
Story 7/10
There's not much too it, but the way the movie plays itself out is done well
Characters 4/10
All are about the same, but it makes you enjoy the kills all the better
Kills 8/10
It might just be stabbity stab, but its tasteful stabbity stab
Grab Bag (Acting, technical stuff, etc) 9/10
Yep, acting was good enough, and had a freaky tone to it, what more could you ask for? Overall 10/10
One of the best Friday the 13th films you could find. Bags are all the rage
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Summary: An good sequel with a few flaws.
Review: Director Steve Miner(Foverer Young, House, Halloween H20) did a fine job as his directorial debut. The film start a couple of months later after the first film ended. Adrienne King as Alice, who survive the first film. She having problems forgeting the pass been thought. One night, a unknown person enter her apartment and then he kills her stabbing with a ice pick. Then five years later, they decided to open the camp, near crystal lake. Within a couple of days later, trouble is going to happen at some unlucky campers. Almost liked the first film in some way. Actors are better than the first film but they can`t beat the first movie death scenes and a scary classic ending. Still it has a fun, last twenty minutes of terror between the Killer and Heroine played by Amy Steel(April`s Fools Day). The problem is the last three minutes, is a bit of a letdown. (...) DVD it`s has a good anamorphic widescreen(1.78:1) transer and a well recorded 2 channel mono sound is a little better than Friday The 13th DVD. For die hard fans of Friday films is a must buy of the series. Trivia:Steve Miner also directed Friday the 13th Part 3, after the second left off. In the third film was filmed in 3-D! and was most successful series box office hit in the friday sequels. Grade:B+.
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Summary: "The body count continues."
Review: After a pre-credit sequence that nicely severs itself from the previous film's storyline, Friday the 13th Part 2 jumps forward five years to focus on a new group of victims to be opening a "Counselor Boot Camp" on the accursed Crystal Lake. The raw wounds of the previous debacle are still sore points with the locals, who are leery of a possible new 'Camp Blood', and with good reason. Turns out that Jason Voorhees (whose burlap sack of a mask had 1981 theater audiences giggling and making joking references to David Lynch's then current hit The Elephant Man) did not drown in Crystal Lake like his mother believed, but has been living like an animal in the surrounding woods while waiting for the opportunity to continue enacting his revenge for his mother's murder. As the advertisements promised, 'the body count continues'! First time director Steve Miner (Lake Placid, Halloween H20) keeps screenwriter Ron Kurz's ultra-flimsy 'story' moving at a gallop. Clocking in at an economical 87 minutes, Friday the 13th Part 2 is the shortest film of the series and a fairly entertaining one. Amy Steel (April Fool's Day, The Powers of Matthew Starr) makes an engaging herione and Stu Charno (Christine) provides, for a change, non-irritating and plot natural comic relief as the camp's merry prankster. Harry Manfredini's now famous score remains a rollicking rollercoaster ride of a horror movie composition. Fans may love it, but non-fans will only find it run-of-the-kill.
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Summary: jason in a burlap sack
Review: why is everyone complaining about jason's outfit? you cant tell me that if you saw some creepy guy walking around with a bag with a hole in it for one eye walking around, that you wouldn't be freaked out. personally i think this look is scarier than the hockey mask, but for 9 (and soon 10)movies in the franchise i do prefer the hockey mask. the movie itself is great. its once again a story about councelers who come accross a killer and one by one have sex and die. im glad crazy ralph died, but it might have been alittle early to say goodbye to the best one-liner in any friday movie ("camp blood...its got a death curse", that makes me laugh every time). theres plenty of creative deaths and good looking ladies in this film. but the true scare doesnt come until the very end when we see the unmasked jason jump through the window. man he looks messed up in this movie. hes never looked more frightening. i would leave my review at that but...i gotta ask whats up with that other review where the guy keeps calling jason and pamela's last name "vorells"? i think we know who the true friday fans are "not" around here huh. it's voorhees man!
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Summary: Great Sequel
Review: This film is much better and more entertaining than the original.It"s an instant classic in my book,mainly because this is Jason"s debut as the killer.He"s a lot more deadly,evil and more frightening than the killer from the first film. The special FX are pretty darn cool,such as when Jason"s unmasked and the kid gets his throat slit.Amy Steel is an excellent scream queen and is the best F13th heroine to date.Shame she didn"t return to do the other sequels.I also love the soundtrack and "Chh,chh,chh,Ha,ha,ha" stalking sound,which blends in perfectly with the atmosphere.I just love this film.I would"ve given it five stars had it been longer,gorier,scarier and had Jason gotten his hockey mask ( he looks pretty silly with a pillow case.) Overall,this is a great film that"s fairly scary,despite that it lacks a bit in the gore department.It also boasts some good humor ( Stu Charno is a very funny actor that steals the show at times.) I highly recommend it to big horror fans who want a great teen scream flik and want to see a cute heroine.Rated R-contains "gory" violence,some strong sexuality and mild profanity.
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Summary: Friday the 13th, Part 2
Review: The movie was overall fairly good ; it depends in your taste of horror movies.The mask was not very creative, but a few of the characters were well developed.I personally liked it besides those few mistakes.Jason was very scary looking without his mask.(SPOILERS)I really liked the part when the girl was trying to make Jason think that she was Mrs.Voorhees.Overall it was it was worth the money.If your not a fan or like horror I might not see this one.A fresh batch of teenage camp counselors return to the ill-fated Camp Crystal Lake five years after its most recent atrocities. Since the apparent perpetrator of those crimes was decapitated by the only survivor, the plucky teens ignorantly go about the business of reviving the camp, unaware that they are being stalked by an unseen figure who lives in the woods, waiting for the right opportunity to take bloody revenge.(6/10)
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Summary: A step down from an already mediocre horror film
Review: Without suspense, without real scares, and without any of the tense atmosphere that gave at least something of value to FRIDAY THE 13TH, this sequel---the first in which Jason appears, and without his trademark hockey mask---is pretty inferior to an already mediocre horror film. Without even any hint of the mystery element that the original at least tried for, what's left? Just a worthless slash-o-rama---even more worthless since a lot of the original gore effects had to be cut in order to avoid an X rating. A FRIDAY THE 13TH without a whole lotta gore? Who'd wanna see that anyway? Only gets two stars b/c I've seen worse slasher films.
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