The move starts with the conclusion of what happened to Alice (Adrienne King), the thing that always got me about this is Jason’s magically gone from being a kid in the lake to now being a huge intimidating adult in the space of a few days, but hey that’s movies for you.
After the intro it goes forward 5 years and a new bunch of teenagers are at Camp Crystal Lake to re-open it, once again somebody doesn’t want this to happen and once again no-one listens to Crazy Ralph!
This film is were Jason finally steps in, there’s still no hockey mask, he wears a bag with a hole in it to cover his disfigured face. The teens have been told the legend of the Voorhees child and his mother and despite the the warnings of the tale and Crazy Ralph’s warning “It’s got a death curse!” they all just think its just a myth, a story told to scare people gathered round a campfire in the dark.
How little do they know that the tale’s are true and they’re in alot of trouble!
The film is a good sequel, It’s like the first film but with a bigger budget and Jason’s an adult. It may not be the best film but it’s the film that finally gave us Jason Voorhees and his brutal murders.
We’ve gone from the mother haunted by her son to get revenge to the son haunted by his mother to get revenge. but once you wrap your head around it, or just ignore them (Either way works) it’s a quality film to watch. Especially for Jason’s inventive, brutal murders!
It’s not the best performance of Jason, but it’s a good start of what was to come ;)
Miscellaneous facts about the film:
This film has one of the longest pre-credit sequences in cinematic history, nearly 15 minutes in some versions.
48 seconds were cut by the MPAA to avoid an X rating.
During the climactic fight between Jason and Ginny, Jason raises the mattock to block Ginny’s machete swing. Amy Steel said that during the first take, the timing was wrong and she accidentally hit ‘Steve Dash”s finger, causing him to have to go to the emergency room. Steve Dash has photos of him being treated in the ER in his costume, fake machete still stuck through his shoulder. After his finger was stitched up, he returned to set that night and insisted they complete the scene. She said they simply put a condom on his finger and applied make-up to make it look dirty.
Throughout the final scene, the mummified head of Mrs. Voorhees is noticeably an actress wearing makeup rather than a fake head. The final shot is a close-up of the head, ending in a freeze frame before the credits roll. Originally this shot ended with Mrs. Voorhees opening her eyes and smiling, but at the last minute Steve Miner decided this effect was hokey and cheapened the movie’s impact.
Although Warrington Gillette is credited as playing Jason, in most of the scenes the character was played by stuntman Steve Dash. Gillette only plays the unmasked Jason in the sequence where he bursts through a window. Dash was upset at being uncredited in the role, as he has most of Jason’s screen time. When archival footage from this film was used in the next sequel, only Dash is credited as playing Jason.
Following the release of the movie, Adrienne King had numerous encounters with an obsessive fan. The situation escalated into a stalker case, and she decided to avoid any further acting opportunities. She has not done any on-screen film work since, but has done voice over work on several films more than 15 years later.
When the filmmakers asked Adrienne King to reprise her role as Alice, she said that she wanted to be on screen for a short period of time because there was an obsessive fan who was stalking her, broke into her apartment, and she feared for her life.
The first Jason scene in the movie is a shot of Jason’s legs walking across the street toward Alice’s house. This is the only time in the series Jason was played by a woman. Jason’s legs belonged to Ellen Lutter, the film’s costume designer.
Amy Steel has stated that she found shooting the “window scene” to be tedious and mentally trying. The shot required three takes and her frightened reaction is genuine.
At a horror convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in 2003, Betsy Palmer said she never appeared in another Friday the 13th movie after the first one. Apparently she forgot about this one. Palmer was in Los Angeles at the time Part 2 was filming in Connecticut. She was hired for one day, filmed in front of a black screen.
The actors stayed in the cabins on-set. John Fury, Bill Randolph and Russell Todd came to Lauren-Marie Taylor’s cabin to play a prank on her. They scratched on her screen window and she hyperventilated until she fainted.
Alice and Crazy Ralph, the only two surviving characters from Friday the 13th (1980), who are eventually killed off by Jason, are not mentioned by name at all throughout this sequel.
The move starts with the conclusion of what happened to Alice (Adrienne King), the thing that always got me about this is Jason’s magically gone from being a kid in the lake to now being a huge intimidating adult in the space of a few days, but hey that’s movies for you.
This film is were Jason finally steps in, there’s still no hockey mask, he wears a bag with a hole in it to cover his disfigured face. The teens have been told the legend of the Voorhees child and his mother and despite the the warnings of the tale and Crazy Ralph’s warning “It’s got a death curse!” they all just think its just a myth, a story told to scare people gathered round a campfire in the dark.
The film is a good sequel, It’s like the first film but with a bigger budget and Jason’s an adult. It may not be the best film but it’s the film that finally gave us Jason Voorhees and his brutal murders.