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DVD
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Publisher: Paramount
Steve Miner
Format: Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Actors: Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Kirsten Baker
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time: 86 minutes Rating: R
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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| Friday the 13th Part 2- the sequl with even more of the same killing as scene in Bay of Blood (1971) |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I admit it, i am a sucker for these movies, but this by far is a follow up to a bloody classic!
Plot- a year ago a girl survived a nightmare where 7 people and 1 murderer were killed within the night (Not counting the two deaths in 1958), but now she has disappeared, camp blood has turned back to camp crystal lake again and they are about to re-open, but there's a new killer in town, who could it be!
Acting- slightly better than part 1
Gore- a spear impales a couple making out on a bed (A double impalement, as seen in Bay of Blood), a slit throat, a hammer to the back of the head, a dude strangled with barbed wire, a severed head, an ice pick to the temple, some stabbings, a machete to the shoulder, some gory wounds, a machete to the face (as seen as in Bay of Blood) and some more
Bottom Line- 4 out 5
Rated R/ Time 86min/ 1981/ Color
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| Slasher film similar to the first Friday The 13th movie |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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I've always felt that the Friday The 13th movies, especially the early ones, are imitations of Halloween. There are so many similarities between this movie and the original Halloween by John Carpenter. I view it as just Halloween done all over again, except the setting is a campground by a lake and there is lots of blood and gore, unlike in Halloween. If you watch this movie, you'll notice striking similarities to Halloween, everything from what the teenagers are doing throughout the movie to the methods of shooting certain scenes (such as from the perception of the killer using a Panaglide camera and not showing the killer's face for the first half of the movie). And look at what Jason is wearing over his head. It's white, and it's a mask, bottom line. I could go on and on, but I don't want to give away too much and go into specific detail.
Now, how is the movie itself? Well, I saw this movie for the first time in 1982 on cable TV. I thought the movie was terrifying and it really stuck with me and I've never forgotten it. I saw this movie for the second time last night - 27 years later. My experience was entirely different - I view this film differently now. The acting in this movie is fair to poor and kind of campy. I couldn't help but do a comparison with the movie that this movie imitates, Halloween. The acting in Halloween is so much better. Why am I comparing this movie to Halloween? It's because there's absolutely no question that the Friday The 13th movies are Halloween knock-offs. Anybody with half a brain will tell you that. Michael Myers paved the way for Jason and Freddie Krueger and other villains. It's the truth, it's not my opinion.
The storyline basically is that a group of teenagers want to spend a few days at Camp Crystal Lake. There is a legend around the area that a kid named Jason Voorhees drowned in the lake five years earlier and his mother had her head chopped off by one of the teenage campers (in the first movie). Jason comes back to terrorize the teenagers on the campground. The characters seem to be installed in this movie just to be killed off by Jason. You never really get to know the characters. Blood is plentiful. There is quite a bit of nervous suspense, much like in Halloween, but less effective. The score to the movie is much less effective than Halloween, though I do think it's unique and does work somewhat. You won't see Jason in his famous hockey mask in this film. That comes in later films (I believe Part III was the first to have Jason wearing the hockey mask). I've only seen two Friday The 13th movies - this and the first one.
If you like slasher films with blood and suspense, then see this movie. I think it's mediocre to pretty good. Not bad. Could have been better. Grade: C+
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| Good Ole Camp Crystal Lake! |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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The Friday the 13th franchise is probably the beginning of the 80s camp horror film movement. I think the director/producers deserve an E for effort crafting this utterly cheesy & predictable yet entertaining horror film. Jason Vorhees makes his debut in Part 2 and the mayhem ensues. I liked the special edition DVD with commentary. I hope to buy the rest of the movies eventually. Have fun.
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| Part 2! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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in some ways this is better than the original, I have just bought the friday box set and this film was on it, i rate this as the second best in the series. It is not as shocking as the original and there is very little suspence but it has the same atmosphere and plenty of thrills to give you an enjoyable 90 minutes.
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| On Par With the First Film |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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When the first Friday the 13th film made over $30 million at the box office on a less-than-$1 million budget, Paramount instantly began production on a sequel. Released a year later in 1981, Friday the 13th: Part 2 isn't much different from it's predecessor. In fact, it follows the formula of the first film so closely it's hardly a different movie. This is good and bad. Bad, if you like variety. Good, if you just want an effective slasher film.
A description of the plot isn't entirely necessary but...Five years after the events of the first movie, camp counselors arrive at a summer camp that is located on Camp Crystal Lake. Everyone knows the story about the young boy Jason, whose body was never recovered after he supposedly drowned. They also know about his demented mother. They think that the nightmare is over, but someone is lurking around the campgrounds and it's not long before the bodies begin to pile up.
This is, as you likely know, the movie that introduced the film world to Jason Voorhees, sans the ski mask. Writer Ron Kurz had to be frustrated when he was hired to pen this script. He really had nothing to work with from the first movie to work with. By making Jason a villain instead of a victim he created a horror icon. Too bad the ski mask doesn't appear until the next film.
Jason wears what basically looks like a pillowcase to mask his facial deformities. When he actually appears like this, it's not frightening or intimidating. It's actually almost funny.
I bring this up only because Friday the 13th: Part Two actually has some genuine scares and suspense, even. It actually has less "cheap scares" than the first film and the scene of Jason without the pillow-case in the last few minutes of the movie is actually rather effective. More so when I was younger, but still memorable.
I'm not a huge fan of slasher films generally. I believe if you've seen one you've basically seen them all. However, if one can make you jump a little bit and not completely insult your intelligence with horrible acting and low production values, than I will favor it. With a brisk 85-minute running time and some good moments, I think this does deserve to stand alongside the first film. It's not perfect nor is it a masterpiece...But if you're a fan of the slasher genre than you can certainly pass the time with this.
GRADE: B-
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