Friday the 13th, Part 2

Starring:Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Kirsten Baker, Stuart Charno, Warrington Gillette, Walt Gorney, Marta Kober, Tom McBride, Bill Randolph, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Russell Todd, Betsy Palmer, Cliff Cudney, Jack Marks, Jerry Wallace, David Brand, China Chen, Carolyn Louden, Jaime Perry
Director: Steve Miner
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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As bad as Friday the 13th, Part 2 is, it's a work of art in comparison to the rest of the Friday the 13th flicks that came afterward. This installment officially introduced us to Jason Voorhees as the killer (if you remember Drew Barrymore's fatal phone quiz in Scream, you know that the killer in the first Friday the 13th was actually Jason's mother), and made the slicing and dicing even more generic. Survivor Alice is dispatched within the first 10 minutes, and we're left with plucky Ginny (Amy Steel, doing a fairly decent Jamie Lee Curtis impression) to do battle with the monstrous Jason. Ginny's part of a another group of horny teenagers (less intelligent as well as less attractive than their predecessors) who try to resurrect Camp Crystal Lake five years after the initial murders--a pretty mean feat, considering this movie was made only a year after the first one. Being a smarty-pants child-psychology major, Ginny tries to outwit the dim Jason, and at one point dons the bloody and moldy sweater of Jason's late mother (which is more disgusting than any of the killings beforehand) in an attempt to confuse the masked killer. Jason may not be the brightest bulb on the tree, but the only one who's going to pull the wool--or in this case, the burlap--over his eyes is Jason himself, who wears a sack with one eyehole throughout the movie to hide his deformed features (he finally found his way to a sporting-goods store and his trademark hockey mask appears in the third installment of the series). Directed by Steve Miner, who also helmed the next Friday the 13th film (in 3-D no less) as well as the more reputable House, Forever Young, and Halloween: H20. --Mark Englehart

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JASON VOORHEESE IS EXCELLENT!.......2007-04-24

JASON'S THE MAN,AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!OUT OF ALL THE SERIAL KILLERS FROM THE PAST AND UP TIL TODAY-JASON'S THE BEST!HE'S THE NUMBER 1 SERIAL KILLER OF ALL TIMES!THIS IS ANOTHER EXCELLENT MOVIE!JASON KILLS WITH STYLE AND CLASS.THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT JASON-YOU JUST HAVE TO LIKE HIM!THIS MOVIE'S SUSPENSFUL,SCARY,AND INTERESTING.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT JASON WILL DO NEXT.I BOUGHT THE WHOLE SERIES. I'M GLAD I DID.

Great Series Entry.......2007-01-12

Friday the 13th Part 2 is definitely a worthy sequel and a very good debut of the modern monster Jason Voorhees. Even though Jason has yet to wear his infamous hockey mask, he still comes off as very creepy, kind of like a crazy hillbilly. In reality, his look was based on the killer on the movie "The Town that Dreaded Sundown", which is another really cool movie if you haven't seen it.

The acting in the movie is about what you would expect from the genre, which isn't that bad actually. The acting isn't important; it is all about the gore and how the kids are killed. The story itself is really cool and explains that in fact, Jason didn't drown, but actually survived and has been living in the forests for all of the years he has been presumed dead. You can see a difference in this Jason later in the series, in this movie, Jason actually is afraid of Jenny with the chainsaw coming after him. In later movies, he wouldn't even bother to move. Overall, this is a really cool movie for fans and a great introduction to the Jason we have come to know and love-without the mask.

Jason , mother is talking to you........2006-12-17

This is my 2nd favorite movie of all time next to "from dusk till dawn". I dont know why but the cop who gets the claw hammer in the head sticks with me. The scene where the cripple takes the machete in the face is friggin' harsh. Jason is the best killer ever.

Scariest Jason.......2006-12-12

"As bad as Friday the 13th, Part 2 is, it's a work of art in comparison to the rest of the Friday the 13th flicks that came afterward." - Mark Englehart (Amazon Editorial Review)

You know, I've got a crazy thought. I thought that a store like Amazon would actually want to SELL THEIR PRODUCTS. Having some dork say "as bad as this movie is" is not the best way to sell a product.

Onto Friday 2, this movie tells a very good story in the context of an urban legend while developing key characters and building suspense. The deaths are creepy and violent, the music is awesome, and Jason is at his scariest. This film also has the best atmosphere of the series.

This movie could have been the original, despite the original being very good as well.

Less attractive actors this time round.......2006-11-07

I hated the actors in this. They were either in dire need of a haircut (the guys), or in need of a bra (the girls). I don't think any of the actresses in this wore a bra at all.

OK rant over.

The second Friday the 13th movie brings us straight into the movie by removing the original surviving member. Then bring in a whole bunch of pretty people, who will get killed off in new & inventive ways.

Nothing new there eh?

But this time, Jason is the killer - much like Drew Barrymore's phone call in Scream, he wasn't the killer in the first one, it was his mother, trying to get revenge on the camp counsellors who let her son die.

Only, her son didn't drown. (Otherwise he would still be a 12-year-old boy.) He grew into a deformed man (never thinking of giving his mum a quick call to let her know he was alright - but then there would have never been a film franchise, would there?) hell bent on getting revenge, now even moreso, after seeing his mother get beheaded at the end of the last movie.

The infamous hockey mask hasn't appeared yet, instead in its place, is a sack with one eyehole in it. We also get a brief glimpse into the future, when one of the characters wields a chainsaw. But I actually feel sorry for Jason. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but he saw his mother beheaded in front of him, and he was mentally capable of understanding this, and he keeps her decapitated head. All he wants is to be loved, and his mother was the only one who ever really cared for him. So the scene where the actress wears his mother's disgusting jumper was particularly moving, with one eye showing more emotion than a botoxed actress ever could.

We get a brief glimpse of what Jason really looks like at the end of the film, where we see everything that was under the sack, and I mean everything. Prepare to avert your eyes.

The deaths in this include lots of naked girls screaming, a dog, a guy in a wheelchair, and a couple who can't get enough of each other. The latter provides a scene that was actually cut, the double impalement. Not something you want to see when you look over your boyfriend's shoulder when he's on top of you.

The film has one of the longest pre-credit sequences in history, and it almost seems pointless when the credits come on and actually interrupt the film. Just show them over the film!

Although it's good, already by the second movie, I'm feeling it a bit repetitive, and repeating too much of the same stuff that has already featured, or been done better. Fingers crossed it gets better.

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Starring: Betsy Palmer , Adrienne King , Harry Crosby (II) , Laurie Bartram , and Jeannine Taylor
Director: Sean S. Cunningham , and Steve Miner
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
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JASON VOORHEESE IS EXCELLENT!
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Jason , mother is talking to you.
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Starring: Amy Steel , John Furey , Adrienne King , Kirsten Baker , and Stuart Charno
Director: Steve Miner
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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