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rder up the quarts of fake blood, because box-office dollars equal more dead bodies.
It's five years later (one in real life) and another batch of fools wants to open a camp near the infamous murder site, Camp Crystal Lake. Before the kids can arrive, someone shows up and starts disecting the counselors in the dead of night. While a bunch go into town, the ones who stay behind to hit on each other---or score---end up smeared. Two are speared while in post-coital bliss; a girl who finds their bodies is knifed; and in a nod to being non-discriminatory, a guy in a wheelchair has a machete plunged into his face. One of the more lasting images from the series is the victim careening down a stairway in the rain still seated in his wheelchair.
The cute heroine and her lusting-after-her friend return to camp to find a darkened cabin and bloody sheets. Attempting to leave, he's knocked out and she's chased for the next twenty minutes. It's pretty tense, with pitchforks through VW Bug rooves, chases into the woods, it all ending up back at the original camp from part 1.
The girl finding herself in a shack full of her dead friends, not to mention the killer's mother's disembodied head. The psycho is revealed as Jason, the son of the killer from the first film. He's apparently the one who avenged his mother's death in the opening of the film, dispatching the survivor of part 1.
...He then heads off to the new camp and starts his aforementioned fun.
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Friday the 13th Part II is just about as good as the original. The setting, the killings, and especially the music still hold a great, creepy quality like in part 1.
The opening is bit long with about ten mintues of footage from part 1, but once it gets rolling, it's not bad.
It drags a bit here and there, with not as many killings as in future installments. The ending really makes up for it, plus a really great campfire explanation of Jason and his quest to slaughter anyone who "enters his wilderness". So either camp counselors ---who let him drown some twenty years earlier--- or people who trek on his place of death deserve to die, I guess.
In later sequels he became less disriminatory, opening up his "skills" to just about anyone.
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This film has one of the longest pre-credit sequences in cinematic history, nearly 15 minutes in some versions. 
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Friday the 13th parts 2, 3, and 4 all go on in the span of 3 days. It's odd but true. Not to mention, Amy Steel, at the end of part 2, is one of the only ones that lives in any of the movies. Also, Tommy Jarvis is the only one to survive more than one movie. -Thanks to Devolution
The killer in this film is dressed to look exactly the same as the killer from The Town That Dreaded Sundown, (1976).
Amy Steel (Ginny) also played one of the lead roles in the horror movie 'April Fool's Day.' -Thanks to Steven Murray
Friday 2 underperformed it's predecessor, only bringing in $21 million dollars, as oppposed to part 1's $37 million.
The trailer for this movie continued part 1's trailer trend of counting up the victims, enticing the audience as to how many killings there would be.
The cabin used for the shooting of part 2 recently sold on eBay for $15,000 (November 2003).
Jason was actually played by Steve Daskawisz, not Warrington Gillete. Warrington was fired from the film and replaced. The only scene with Warrington in is when Jason bursts through the window at the end. The rest of the movie is Steve. -Thanks to David
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A shot of the infamous double-impalement was cut to avoid an "X" rating, yet a still of this censored shot appears on the back of the videocassette box.
The lead character Ginny Field was named after Virginia Field, who was the production designer on both the first two Friday the 13th films.
Steve (Stephen) Miner, a co-producer on part 1, was given the director's reigns for part 2 as Sean Cunningham (director of part 1) had no connection to this film. Though several Cunningham kin have production jobs on part 2.
Actress Amy Steel nicked a Jason stuntman's hand with a real machete, nearly cutting off his finger.
The production crew forgot to score a window to break on impact, and Jason actor Warrington Gilette slammed into it and bounced off it, slightly injured.
That story about John Furey quitting is 100 rong. I asked Stu Charno (Ted) about this and he confirmed it is not true.
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 Featured Movie Location: The Camp
Wanna see the real life filming location used for The Camp in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at Kent Falls State Park, located in Kent, Connecticut. [Show Google Map]
Though suggested to be set only a few miles from the original camp in New Jersey, the film was shot in Connecticut, as evidenced by some vehicle license plates.
The bar is in New Preston, Connecticut.
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The soundtrack was never orignally released until part 3 came out, when the first three pictures scores were released on one LP/CD.
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