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Overview

User Rating:
5.5/10   12,272 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Ron Kurz (writer)
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Release Date:
1 May 1981 (USA) more
Tagline:
The body count continues... more
Plot:
Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the imfamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhee's son Jason who didn't drown in the lake some 30 years before? full summary | full synopsis
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1 nomination more
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(39 articles)
User Comments:
Much Better Than the Original more (327 total)

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Also Known As:
Friday the 13th Part II (USA) (trailer title)
Jason (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
87 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:PG (heavily cut) | Netherlands:16 | UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) | Brazil:14 | UK:X (original rating) | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2009) | Australia:MA (Cable TV rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Canada:R | Finland:(Banned) | France:-16 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #26254) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Italy:VM14 | Mexico:C | Finland:K-18 (re-rating) (2002) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Norway:18 (1985) (cut version) | Norway:(Banned) (1981-2003) (cinema release)

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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. more
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Continuity: When Scott is dancing with Muffin, his shirt collar is up on the close-up shots, but changes to down in the shot through the window. more
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Ginny Field: [to Paul] There is someone in this room. more
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Referenced in Friday the 13th (2009) more

FAQ

What happened to the rest of the counselors at the bar? Did they stay out the entire night? Not one of them is seen at the camp in the morning.
Jason was still 11 at the end of the original when he emerged from the lake. If there were only five years in between the first and second films, how could Jason have become full grown - especially since he hadn't grown at all while in the lake?
What year does this film take place?
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11 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
Much Better Than the Original, 14 March 2006
5/10
Author: brocksilvey from United States

The sequel to the woefully remedial "Friday the 13th" improves on the original film, which is sort of like saying slightly curdled milk is an improvement on really curdled milk, but I digress.

Part 2 is better if only because Jason is the actual killer, not that weird androgynous mother lady. He wears a really creepy pillow case or something over his head instead of his hockey mask, and it's actually a scarier effect than the more iconic image--he should have stuck with it. There's a long prologue in which the only survivor from the first film eventually gets an ice pick in the forehead, but only after she's been repeatedly scared by the phone, a cat, etc. This opening is actually pretty nerve-racking, and it sets the tone for the rest of the movie, in which the kills are more original than the first (I'm a particular fan of the handicapped kid who gets a machete in the face and then is sent bouncing down some garden steps in his wheelchair) and the nudity is more bountiful and gratuitous. I'm not even going to try to justify my enjoyment of slasher movies---they speak to the basest instincts in all of us and are really morally repellent, but, hey, I like what I like.

One of the better episodes in the interminable series.

Grade: C+

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