FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART 2 (1981)
After Friday The 13th made an
absolute crap load of money compared to the miniscule budget it had, Paramount
jumped right on to making a sequel. It was decided that Friday The 13th
part 2 would use Jason Voorhees as its antagonist- even if his character was
never intended to be used for a sequel- and fresh young faces that he could
swing his machete into. Like most sequels, this movie is practically a carbon
copy of the first with a few differences that help remind the audience that it
is a different movie. While Part 2 is a relatively good sequel compared to
others (lets be honest; it didn’t really have much to live up to), a few things
hindered it from being as ‘good’ as Friday The 13th.
It has been five years since the events of
the first film. A new camp has been built adjacent to the one of Friday The 13th,
and new camp counsellors are brought in to help revitalise the area as a campsite.
What happened to Pamella Voorhees and the counsellors in Friday The 13th
has managed to achieve legendary status (don’t you think it would have been all
over the news?) and the new batch simply brush it off as fiction. Well, turns
out Jason saw his mum ‘loose her head’ in more ways than one, and he never
actually drowned. He has been scraping out a living in a wooden shack deep in
the forests surrounding Crystal Lake, and these new kids on the block are
unwelcome visitors.
The new camp councillors sitting around a fire while they chuckle at the story from the first film. Idiots. |
Ok I think even people who say 'Im up for anything' in terms of sex would agree that this is a tad extreme. Well except Jason, because he is into all kinds of weird shit apparently. |
This is the heroin of Part 2, Ginny. More like Ginnysquisha, am I right? You can just tell this bitch is from the ghetto, and she is ready to cut Jason UP. |
Hmmm, yeh I'm not sure how scary the 'pillowcase killer' sounds or looks. |
Jason doesn’t get his iconic hockey mask
until part 3, so he is stuck with a not-so-scary pillowcase for a mask in
Friday the 13th part 2. Not that we see it much, most of the time he
is just a pair of shoes. It’s pretty funny when some of these teenagers just
stand there while Jason walks very slowly towards them for a stab, but its just
part of the fun and charm of these movies; we are meant to think “bitch, what
the hell are you doing?! RUN!” The ending is a little confusing, even if the
jump scare (again similar to the one from Friday The 13th) is good.
It was all just a bit sudden and unexplained. However the movies main negative
is a big one: how is Jason still alive? That scene right at the end of Part 1
was meant to be a dream sequence, not actually Jason (if it was, the police
would have seen; they where standing on the shore), and so him still being
alive is a huge plot hole. Oh well, if they hadn’t brought him back for this
one, we wouldn’t have the next ten movies! Although the dialogue is bad there
isn’t’ much of it, so that made quotes limited, but I did find it funny when
Amy steel (the heroin) theorises that Jason is a ‘boy beast’ in the woods and
he could be a ‘frightened retard’ in a very serious tone (it took many takes
because she couldn’t say it with a straight face).
Pamella Vorhees's rather shrivelled decapitated head. Well, I suppose that's one way to create a memorial for a loved one... |
Friday the 13th Part 2 is an ok
sequel for a good movie. If I went on a rant about how big my expectations
where for this after I watched the first I would be lying. These are simple
movies, and they are hard to stuff up (although some of the sequels managed to
stuff themselves up). If you watched the first film and liked it, think of Part
2 as going on the same roller coaster a second time; it's not quite as thrilling
but you should still have a good time.
3.5/5
Recommended classification: 15+ for strong
horror violence, nudity, brief sex scene and infrequent coarse language