Taglines: The day you count on for terror is not over.
Friday the 13th Part 2 movie storyline. After killing Mrs. Voorhees who was avenging her son Jason’s death, Alice Hardy can finally sigh with relief. But there is just one problem: Jason never drowned at Camp Crystal Lake and lived in the nearby woods as a hermit all this time. The day that Alice beheaded his mother, Jason saw everything and his heart was filled with a thirst for revenge.
Two months later, Alice gets stabbed by an ice pick in the temple and vanishes. Is Jason behind this? Five years later, a camp next to Camp Crystal Lake is built and the counselors start snooping around the old, abandoned camp ruins. This makes Jason very upset, since his shack is next to the remains of Camp Crystal Lake and what is inside the shack shall be kept secret forever – even if it means killing nine people.
Friday the 13th Part 2[a] is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut, written by Ron Kurz, and starring Amy Steel and John Furey. The film also features the return of Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer and Walt Gorney, who respectively portrayed Alice Hardy, Pamela Voorhees, and Crazy Ralph in the prior installment. It is the second installment in the Friday the 13th film series and a direct sequel to Friday the 13th (1980). It picks up five years later, where an unknown assailant begins killing the camp counselors at a nearby training camp on Crystal Lake.
Originally, Part 2 was intended to be part of an anthology series of films based on the Friday the 13th superstition. However, after the popularity of the original film’s surprise ending, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend which would be repeated in every film in the franchise.
Like the original film, Part 2 faced opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America, who noted its “accumulative violence” as problematic, resulting in numerous cuts being made to allow an R rating. The film was released theatrically in North America on May 1, 1981.
Although it did not gross as much as the original, Friday the 13th Part 2 grossed $21.7 million in the U.S. on a budget of $1.25 million and received negative reviews from critics. A direct sequel, Friday the 13th Part III, was released one year later.
About the Filming
Principal photography took place from October 3 and finished in November 1980, and primarily occurred in New Preston and Kent, Connecticut. Special effects artist Tom Savini was asked to work on the film but declined because he was already working on another project, Midnight (1982). In addition, he was not receptive to the concept of Jason as the killer in the film. Savini was then replaced by Stan Winston. Winston, however, had a scheduling conflict and had to drop out of the project.
The make-up effects were ultimately handled by Carl Fullerton. Fullerton designed the “look” for the adult Jason Voorhees and went with long red hair and a beard while following the facial deformities established in the original film in the make-up designed by Tom Savini for Jason as a child. Fullerton’s look for the adult Jason was abandoned in the sequel, Friday the 13th Part 3, despite the fact that the film took place the following day and was helmed by the same director, Steve Miner.
Some fans have theorized that the sequence showing Jason with a beard and long hair reflects a “dream” rather than a reality because the following sequel picks up with the events showing his face having not happened, and therefore what was represented was Ginny’s guess at what he looked like under the burlap sack rather than what he actually looked like, which would excuse the break in continuity.
Steve Daskawisz was rushed to the emergency room during filming after Amy Steel cut his hand with a machete. Steel explained, “The timing was wrong, and he didn’t turn his pickaxe properly, and the machete hit his finger.” Daskawisz received thirteen stitches on his middle finger. During the subsequent shoot, Daskawisz was forced to wear a piece of rubber over his finger, and both he and Steel insisted on reshooting this scene.[citation needed] During one take of Alice being killed by Jason, the ice pick prop didn’t retract, injuring King.
In one scene where Daskawisz was wearing the burlap flour sack, part of the flour sack was flapping at his eye, so the crew used tape inside the eye area to prevent it from flapping. Daskawisz received rug burns around his eye from the tape from wearing the rough flour sack material for hours. The use of the sack hood was similar to the 1976 film The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
The scene where Steel’s character gets grabbed from behind by an unmasked Jason in the climax took three takes to shoot it right. Steel was tense and frightened during filming of the scene. Rumors sparked that John Furey left before the film wrapped, as his character does not appear in the end. In truth, his character was not intended to have appeared.
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Directed by: Steve Miner
Starring: Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Steve Daskewisz, Warrington Gillette, Stu Charno, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Marta Kober, Kirsten Baker, Russell Todd, Betsy Palmer
Screenplay by: Ron Kurz
Production Design by: Virginia Field
Cinematography by: Peter Stein
Film Editing by: Susan E. Cunningham
Costume Design by: Ellen Lutter
Art Direction by: Robert Topol
Music by: Harry Manfredini
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: May 1, 1981
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