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: A changed yet wonderfully accepted sequel
Review: Starting 2 months after the events of the original Friday the 13th, the day when Mrs. Voorhees went on her killing spree, Jason finds Alice, the only survivor of the murders, and kills her. That completes one of two things for Jason: now that he's killed the beheader of his mama, he can move on to killing all of the other camp counselors he comes across. So, he returns to Camp Crystal Lake, where the teens (and the crazy yet smart hermit Ralph) are all killed until the head of the camp and the second survivor girl are left. The ending is a lot better, so I won't spoil it.

Before I started watching the Friday the 13th films, I thought that they all had some hockey masked killing machine in them, until I saw this one. Because Jason actually kills an idiot teen who he takes the hockey mask from (in Part 3) he has to put a pillow cover, or whatever the director created, over his head. It actually makes him look like the hillbilly/killed mama avenger that he should be. I would highly recommend this one if you want more action than the first. Enjoy, to whatever extent you can handle!

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Summary: Friday The 13th Part 2
Review: This movie is the only good sequel in the Friday The 13th Series!I think it's a very good movie and I would have liked it better if the main character Alice played by Adrienne King would have survived the film!She is way too good of actress to just die during the first 15 minutes!This film and Halloween 2 were released around the same time and I like the Halloween series better than the Friday The 13th series.I think this is a good one you should buy it.

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Summary: Nostalgia:5 stars. Realism:2 stars
Review: You don't have to watch these films in order, but I suppose it helps.
The story so far: little Jason, the deformed child supposedly drowned many years ago, came back from the dead to avenge the killing of his psychopathic mother, who was bumping off the kinds of dozy teens who made love whilst her son, entrusted into their care, was drowning.
So now, several years later, Camp Crystal Lake is open once again, and a load of teenaged councillors are moving in to take drugs, have sex and do all the other kinds of things that'd make you delighted to entrust your kids into their care. The survivor from the first film has been murdered, so a new heroine must outwit Jason.
Quite frankly, a good opening sequence and a spooky climax involving Jason's shrine to his mother can't excuse the eighty minutes of tedium in between. The special effects are worse than in the first film, the teenagers are irritating, and the occasional musings about the mysterious Jason are ruined by pathetic attempts at humour.
Worth watching if you're a fan of the series, if only to see the film which introduced the grown-up Jason.

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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!