Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), opens up about two months after the events in the first film. We are treated to a prologue before the beginning credits. Then the film jumps five years into the future. A new group of good-looking, sometimes idiotic, camp counselors are at good, old Camp Crystal Lake. They are at a camping area in another part of the lake area. The old camping area is closed off. Although they had shot some of the footage for this film at the same old town seen in the first film, most of this film was shot in Connecticut, in the towns of New Preston and Kent. The shooting location moved from New Jersey to Connecticut. The change isn't too dramatic. Both locations look about the same.
Friday the 13th (1980), ignited a subgenre, by strengthening what the film, Halloween (1978), started. This film begins the legend of Jason Vorhees, in the fact that, Jason actually makes his first appearance in this film. So, if we take Jason out of the equation in the first film and go with the idea, that the boy in the lake was part of a dream sequence Alice dreamed up, then Jason wasn't actually there in the boat scene. Also, the police officers confirmed, that none of the things in the boat, Alice claims, happened that night. Also, we all saw Jason's mother do all the killings in the first film, which is all covered in the prologue in this film. When the killings start to happen in this film, we still do not know who the killer really is. We all know its going to be Jason from pop-culture history, but that is still not totally clear, until the end of the film. We do know, that the legend says, as told to us by one of the counselors, that Jason saw his mother die that night and that sets him off in this film.
Amy Steel plays Ginny, who is the character, that gets the information, for the audience, about the events that happened at the end of the last film. She is the one who brings out the answer, that we all know now in the 21st century, but didn't in 1981, who the actual killer is. What makes things even more interesting is, we still haven't gotten to the famous hockey mask yet after two movies. There are no big Kevin Bacon moments in this film. There are no big stars in this film or no future stars either. The film was directed by Steve Miner. He would go on to direct the next film, Friday the 13th Part III (1982), because this film wasn't too bad, so give him another one to do. Minor is also known for directing House (1985) and Lake Placid (1999).
6.6 (C- MyGrade) = 7 IMDB.
Friday the 13th (1980), ignited a subgenre, by strengthening what the film, Halloween (1978), started. This film begins the legend of Jason Vorhees, in the fact that, Jason actually makes his first appearance in this film. So, if we take Jason out of the equation in the first film and go with the idea, that the boy in the lake was part of a dream sequence Alice dreamed up, then Jason wasn't actually there in the boat scene. Also, the police officers confirmed, that none of the things in the boat, Alice claims, happened that night. Also, we all saw Jason's mother do all the killings in the first film, which is all covered in the prologue in this film. When the killings start to happen in this film, we still do not know who the killer really is. We all know its going to be Jason from pop-culture history, but that is still not totally clear, until the end of the film. We do know, that the legend says, as told to us by one of the counselors, that Jason saw his mother die that night and that sets him off in this film.
Amy Steel plays Ginny, who is the character, that gets the information, for the audience, about the events that happened at the end of the last film. She is the one who brings out the answer, that we all know now in the 21st century, but didn't in 1981, who the actual killer is. What makes things even more interesting is, we still haven't gotten to the famous hockey mask yet after two movies. There are no big Kevin Bacon moments in this film. There are no big stars in this film or no future stars either. The film was directed by Steve Miner. He would go on to direct the next film, Friday the 13th Part III (1982), because this film wasn't too bad, so give him another one to do. Minor is also known for directing House (1985) and Lake Placid (1999).
6.6 (C- MyGrade) = 7 IMDB.