Friday the 13th Part 2 - Film Review
Friday the 13th Part 2 is directed by Steve Miner and stars Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, with Steve Daskewisz and Warrington Gillete as Jason.
Plot
Five years after the events of Friday the 13th, Camp Crystal Lake has shut down, but that doesn't stop Jason from killing off the counselors in training at the camp that's opening next to it.
Review
I want to say that I enjoy this film quite more than I enjoy the original Friday the 13th and would watch this over the first one.
This film gave us Jason as the killer in the series, but it's a little weird that Jason was a kid in the original Friday the 13th and five years have passed since then, but in this one he's a grown man. Hmm? Also, this is the first appearance of Jason as the killer, but not his iconic hockey mask, that one first appears in Part III. In this one, he wears a sack with one eye hole, which is also a playable option in Friday the 13th: The Game (is that game any good? I wanna play it).
This movie has some pretty cool death scenes in it, like Jason killing the cop with the hammer, killing that guy in the wheelchair, Jason trapping that guy with the rope and then killing him, that scene with the two teens having sex (wouldn't be a horror movie without a scene like that)and Jason kills them by kebabing them with a spear, etc.
But one of my favorite parts of the movie is when Ginny (Amy Steel) tricks Jason by putting on Pamela Voorhees' sweater and pretending to be Jason's mother, he falls for it at first but eventually sees through her tricks. Also, don't you thing it's a little weird that Jason keeps his mother's severed head in that shack he made?
One scene in the movie is Paul (John Furey) telling the other counselors the story of Jason and Camp Crystal Lake that skinny guy scares everyone with said spear from two paragraphs above and a mask. Part of that scene was reused in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, but we'll talk more about that movie in the review.
One of the funnier parts is when Ginny is hiding under a bed and then a mouse pees on the floor next to her and Jason somehow hears that despite facing the other way.
Let's talk about the characters, Ginny is probably one of the best final girls in the series in my opinion, up there with Alice from the first film and other awesome final girls like Laurie Strode from Halloween or Nancy Thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
They wanted Part III to be about Ginny in a hospital being hunted by Jason, kinda like the original Halloween II, but Amy Steel didn't want to reprise her role. That kinda sucks because that would've been a cool premise for a Friday the 13th film. But we'll talk about Friday the 13th in the review of that.
John Furey is good as Paul, who's pretty much the boss of these counselors and helps Ginny with defeating Jason near the end, although Jason does grab Ginny through the window when they think it's over. We don't know what happens to him, as what happens is left ambiguous.
Adrienne King is also back as Alice, although it's only for the first few minutes, as she's killed by Jason before the opening credits start.
Two people played Jason in this, Steve Daskewisz and Warrington Gillete, Steve was Jason throughout most of the movie, and Warrington Gillete was Jason at the end where he bursts through the window. Jason is pretty good in this movie, all Jasons are, but no one can beat Kane Hodder's Jason, but we'll get to him in a few days.
Betsy Palmer also returns as Pamela Voorhees in this movie, when Ginny puts her sweater on and pretends to be her to trick Jason. One thing I forgot to mention in my review of Friday the 13th is that Betsy Palmer hated the script for that one and just did the movie because she wanted a new car.
Overall, Friday the 13th Part 2 is a sequel that is better than the original, but there are a few sequels I find better that this one, but we'll get to those later.
Friday the 13th Part 2 gets a 8/10.
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