BONUS REVIEW: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981)

THRILL SCALE 1-10

6

HAVE I SEEN IT BEFORE?

Yes, once, in January of 2017

BEST SEQUENCE

Ginny putting on Pamela's sweater to defeat Jason

BEST LINE

“Jason! It’s all done, Jason! You’ve done your job well and mommy is pleased”

ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE

33%

ROTTEN TOMATOES CRITICS CONSENSUS

"Friday the 13th Part 2 sets the template for the franchise to follow with more teen victims, more gruesome set pieces, and fewer reasons to keep following along."

IMDB SYNOPSIS

"Five years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings."

DIRECTOR

Steve Miner

MAIN CAST

Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Stu Charno, Warrington Gillette, Steve Daskewisz

THOUGHTS

• Very cutting, Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus, but keep following along we shall
• First movie with Jason as the killer, but not necessarily the most recognizable version of him. No hockey mask, that's in the next movie. Instead Jason wears a burlap sack with a very off-putting single eyehole. Jason's also a bit more agile in this one - running through the woods, pursuing his victims, not quite the lumbering menace that we'll come to know and love
• Everything else is pretty unremarkable and nondescript, though. Forgettable victims, zero plot, buy hey, that's slashers for ya
• The most memorable segment is probably when we see Jason's shrine to his mother, complete with Pamela's sweater and decomposing head, but even that is presented without much fanfare. It's kind of just there and then it's in the background
• Best kill: machete to the face, wheelchair rolling backwards down the stairs
• Second-best kill: spear through two people and also through the mattress, reminiscent of Kevin Bacon's death in the first one, which is appropriate because in this movie this happens to an actor called Bill Randolph, whom I would describe as Dollar Store Kevin Bacon. Kevin Spam
• Side note, since rewatching the first Friday the 13th, I watched a movie called In a Violent Nature, and I liked it a lot. I saw it as an elevated version of the Friday the 13th movies (even if some people cringe at that term), and man, some of the kills in In a Violent Nature you won't be forgetting anytime soon
• Lastly, I had the honour of rewatching Friday the 13th Part 2 with my wife, Ashley, and my friend, Analisa, and here are their one-line contributions to this review
  
• Ashley: "Muffin the Dog is the winner"
  
• Analisa: "Pamela Voorhees is an icon"
• Not long to wait for the next one! We'll be seeing that hockey mask in December