Friday the 13th Part 2

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Friday the 13th Part 2

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Directed by Steve Miner
Produced by Steve Miner
Written by Ron Kurz
Phil Scuderi (uncredited)
Starring Amy Steel
John Furey
Adrienne King
Kirsten Baker
Stuart Charno
Warrington Gillette
Music by Harry Manfredini
Cinematography Peter Stein
Editing by Susan E. Cunningham
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) May 1, 1981
Running time 87 min.
Language English
Budget $1,000,000 (estimated)
Preceded by Friday the 13th
Followed by Friday the 13th Part 3
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Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner, the first sequel to the Friday the 13th (1980) movie. This is the first film in the series in which the famed slasher Jason Voorhees kills, whereas the killer in the first movie was in fact Jason's mother Pamela Voorhees. It was a box-office hit, grossing 21.7 million dollars in USA, compared with the estimated budget of 1 million dollars; however, the original film has generated an almost double revenue based on a similar budget.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Jason's mask in Friday the 13th Part 2
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Jason's mask in Friday the 13th Part 2

The film begins with the only survivor of the first movie, Alice (played again by Adrienne King from Friday the 13th), being slain. Five years later, a group of teenagers come to Crystal Lake to set up a new camp, only to get murdered one by one by a masked killer. One of the teenagers, Ginny (Amy Steel), in running away from the killer, finds a cabin in the woods with a shrine built around the severed head of Pamela Voorhees, surrounded by mutilated corpses. Thus the killer is identified as Jason Voorhees, who never drowned in the lake but survived to see his mother murdered and then lived in the woods near Camp Crystal Lake seeking revenge. After a last attack, Ginny, the final girl of the movie, wakes up in an ambulance with no recollection of the way she escaped the killer. Thus Jason is never caught in this film, remaining in the woods near Camp Crystal Lake to wait for other unsuspecting victims.

Jason manages to kill ten people throughout the movie. However, the last victim, Paul (John Furey), is only presumed dead, as we never see the conclusion of the final attack which Ginny escapes without any memories of the events.

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[edit] Notes

Warrington Gillette as Jason unmasked
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Warrington Gillette as Jason unmasked
  • Argument continues to prevail as to whether or not the sequence in which Jason bursts through Ginny's cabin window is a dream or hallucination; in the book Crystal Lake Memories, director Steve Miner states that the scene does in fact actually occur, and is not a dream/hallucination.
  • Jason's famous goalie mask is not worn until the third film. Here he uses a pillowcase as a mask (Remniscent of the killer in The Town That Dreaded Sundown and of John Merrick in The Elephant Man) though it is commonly misidentified as a burlap sack.
  • Although credited for the part of Jason, Warrington Gillette plays only the unmasked Jason. In most of the scenes, where Jason appears with the mask on, he is actually played by stunt double Steve Dash.
  • The series of murders started in Part 2 continue through part three and part four, each of these sequels picking up directly where the previous one finished, until Jason is finally killed at the end of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
  • The actor who plays Jason when wearing the pillowcase had gotten a few major injuries when filming. According to Amy Steel, when she was in Jason's shack where Mrs. Voorhees severed head was, she was supposed to raise the machete and attack Jason. Jason was then supposed to block it with an ax/mattock/pickax. Amy Steel revealed that she did the scene at the wrong time and ended up hitting the actor's finger, which resulted in him going to the hospital for stitches. Later, the filming continued, and the actor still wanted to do the act.
  • The following scenes were cut from the film in order to avoid an "X" rating from the MPAA:
    • A close-up shot Jeff and Sandra being double-impaled while having sex on the bed.
    • A close up shot of Crazy Ralph and the wire cutting.
    • A scene at the very end where we are shown the inside Jason's shack and see Pamela's face. While there, her eyes open. It was cut by Paramount for looking too fake.
    • A facing shot of Mark's face being split by the machete.
    • Blood was trimmed from the shot of Jason driving the hammer in the cop's head.
    • The flashback footage showing Mrs. Voorhees decapitation was trimmed.
    • Bloodflow was cut from the shot of Jason driving an icepick into Alice's head.
    • Additional bloodflow was cut from the shot of Jason slicing Scott's throat.

[edit] Other media

A novelization based on the screen play of Ron Kurz was published in 1988: Hawke, Simon, Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel, New American Library, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-451-15337-5

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The Friday the 13th Series
Films: Friday the 13th • Friday the 13th Part 2 • Friday the 13th Part 3 • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan • Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday • Jason X • Freddy vs. Jason
Major characters: Jason Voorhees • Pamela Voorhees • Tommy Jarvis • Roy Burns
Other topics: Comics • List of Deaths • Timeline • Video Game
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