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“Friday the 13th Part 2” was rushed into production before the blood could dry after the massacre and Camp Crystal Lake. With little to no returning cast, can this possibly live up to the original? Or maybe it’ll begin something else, something no one expected. Cory and Nathan find out more about the making of the film and break it down, blow by blow, kill by kill, and find out what made Jason a name to be feared.
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981):
After the Camp Crystal Lake massacre, sole survivor Alice Hardy is recovering from her traumatic experience. In her apartment, she is prepared for another murderer and gets a jump scare when her cat jumps through the window. As Alice opens the refrigerator to get her cat some food, she finds the decapitated head of Pamela Voorhees in her refrigerator and is murdered by an unseen adult Jason Voorhees with an ice pick to her temple.
Five years later, camp counselor Paul Holt hosts a counselor training camp near Crystal Lake. The camp is attended by Sandra Dier, her boyfriend Jeff, troublemaker Scott, tomboy Terry, wheelchair-bound Mark, sweet-natured Vickie, jokester Ted, and Paul’s assistant Ginny, as well as other trainees. Around the campfire that night, Paul tells the counselors about the legend of Jason to scare people from entering Camp Crystal Lake. As Ted appears with a mask and a spear, Paul reassures everyone that Jason is dead and that Camp Crystal Lake is off limits. That night, Crazy Ralph wanders onto the property to warn the group but is garroted from behind by Jason.
The following day, Jeff and Sandra sneak off to Camp Crystal Lake upon finding a dog corpse, before getting caught by the sheriff and return to the camp. Later, the sheriff spots Jason (revealed to be wearing a burlap sack over his face) and chases him into the woods. When he finds a rundown shack, he enters before getting killed by Jason with a hammer.
Back at camp, Paul offers the others one last night on the town before the training begins, but out of the named counselors, only Ginny and Ted accept his offer. Jeff and Sandra are forced to stay behind as punishment for sneaking off to the campsite. At the bar, Ginny muses that if Jason were still alive and witnessed his mother’s death, it may have left him with no distinction between life and death, right or wrong. Paul dismisses the idea, proclaiming that Jason is nothing but an urban legend. At the camp, Jason begins to murder the remaining camp counselors. Scott has his throat slit with a machete while caught in a rope trap. Terry returns to cut him down and is killed off-screen. Mark is killed with a machete slammed into his face and falls down a flight of stairs. Jason then moves upstairs and impales Jeff and Sandra with a spear as they have sex and stabs Vickie with a kitchen knife.
Later, Ginny and Paul return to find the place in disarray. In the dark, Jason ambushes Paul and he then chases Ginny throughout the camp and into the woods, where she comes across his shack. After barricading herself inside, she finds an altar with Pamela Voorhees’ head on it, surrounded by a pile of Jason’s victims (the sheriff, Terry, and a decomposing Alice) with his mother’s machete placed on the altar. Ginny puts on Pamela’s sweater and tries to psychologically convince Jason that she is his mother. The ruse fails when he spots his mother’s head on the altar and he attacks Ginny. Paul appears and attacks Jason, but is quickly overwhelmed. Just as Jason is about to kill Paul with a pickaxe, Ginny picks up the machete and slams it down into his shoulder, seemingly killing him.
Paul and Ginny return to the cabin. They think that Jason has followed them, but when they open the door, they are greeted by Terry’s dog Muffin. Suddenly, an unmasked Jason bursts through the window from behind and grabs Ginny. She then awakens to her being loaded into an ambulance and calls out for Paul, who is nowhere to be seen (his fate is left ambiguous). Back in the shack, Pamela Voorhees’ head remains on the altar.
Summary:
Mrs. Voorhees was a terrific killer and it’s a real shame that she was killed off in part 1. The filmmakers had a hit on their hands and they had to do something, so Jason is a logical choice (obviously he’s going to become a phenomenon). Yes, it makes little sense that Jason is alive but I’m sure there’s wackier resurrections to come. Jason is genuinely menacing in this film and portrayed differently than any other Friday the 13th film I’ve (Cory) seen. They play the same kind of shots and mystery as they did in part one, in order to keep you guessing who the killer is. The lack of Jason’s well known mask in part 2 is always refreshing to see; the filmmakers aren’t weighed down by this gimmick and they can just let the killings happen in all their splatter glory. A solid intro for Jason the killer, and it’s obvious to see why horror hounds wanted more!
We really thank the fan sites out there for everything they do. They really help us with our research! Check out the Friday the 13th Wiki which have pieced together the timeline and the Horror Wiki for the list of kills! Fun for everyone!
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