Friday the 13th Part 2

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Director: Steve Miner Year: 1981 Runtime: 87 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.1
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Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

Plot[edit | edit source] Two months after the murders at Camp Crystal Lake, sole survivor Alice Hardy is recovering from her traumatic experience. In her apartment, when Alice opens the refrigerator to get her cat some food, she finds the severed head of Pamela Voorhees and is murdered with an ice pick to her temple by an unknown intruder. In 1984, Paul Holt has opened a school for camp counselors on the shore of Crystal Lake. The camp is attended by Paul's assistant Ginny Field, Sandra, her boyfriend Jeff, Scott, Terry, the paraplegic Mark, Vickie, Ted, and many other trainees. Around the campfire that night, Paul tells the counselors the legend of Jason Voorhees, a boy who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957, sending his vengeful mother Pamela on two killing sprees in 1958 and 1980, until Alice eventually killed her in self-defense. According to the legend, Jason survived and is now living in the woods near Crystal Lake; enraged at Pamela's death, he will kill anyone he comes across. As Paul finishes the story, a man with a spear scares everyone, but it turns out to be Ted wearing a mask. Paul reassures everyone that Jason is dead and that Camp Crystal Lake is now condemned and off-limits. That night, Crazy Ralph wanders onto the property and watches Ginny and Paul make out before being garroted from behind a tree by an unseen killer. The following day, Jeff and Sandra sneak off to Camp Crystal Lake, where they find a dog carcass, but they are caught by Deputy Winslow and return to the camp. Later, Winslow spots a man wearing a burlap sack mask running across the road. Winslow chases him into the woods and finds a shack. The man kills Winslow with a hammer claw. Back at camp, Paul offers the others one last night in town before the training begins. Six of them stay behind, including Jeff and Sandra, who are forced to remain as punishment for sneaking off. At the bar, Ginny muses that if Jason were still alive and had witnessed Pamela's death, it may have left him with no distinction between life and death, or right and wrong. Paul dismisses the idea, proclaiming that Jason is nothing but an urban legend. Meanwhile, the assailant appears at the camp and kills the counselors, one by one. Scott has his throat slit with a machete while caught in a rope trap, and Terry is killed upon finding Scott's dead body. Mark has a machete slammed into his face and falls down a flight of stairs. The killer then moves upstairs and impales Jeff and Sandra with a spear as they have sex, then fatally stabs Vickie with a kitchen knife. Ted stays behind at the bar while Ginny and Paul return to find the place in disarray. In the dark, the killer ambushes Paul and chases Ginny throughout the camp and into the woods, where she comes across the shack. After barricading herself inside, she finds an altar with Pamela Voorhees' severed head on it, surrounded by a pile of bodies which include Alice, Terry, and Winslow. Realizing that Jason Voorhees is the killer, Ginny puts on Pamela's sweater and tries to convince Jason that she is his mother psychologically. The ruse briefly works until Jason sees Pamela's head on the altar and breaks out of the trance. Paul suddenly returns and tries to save Ginny, but Jason incapacitates him. Just as Jason is about to kill Paul with a pickaxe, Ginny picks up a machete and slams it down into Jason's shoulder, seemingly killing him. Paul and Ginny return to the cabin and hear someone outside. Thinking that Jason has followed them, they open the door, only to find Terry's dog, Muffin. Just as they sigh in relief, an unmasked Jason bursts through the window from behind and grabs Ginny. She then awakens to being loaded into an ambulance and calls out for Paul, who is nowhere to be seen, leaving his fate unknown. Back in the shack, Pamela's head remains on the altar, but Jason is nowhere to be found.

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a dog dies
spoiler A dead dog is seen. It is unclear whether the dead dog is Muffin (a dog seen earlier in the film) or another dog, because reappears later Muffin in a sequence that may or may not have been a dream.
someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler No one is raped- however if you consider clothes being stolen forcing a woman to chase a man around naked to get her top back assault then yes, there is assault. The same guy throws a rock at the same girl's butt earlier in the movie which comes off strongly as harassment
someone leaves without saying goodbye
spoiler People are murdered without the knowledge of their loved ones.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
someone is stalked
Yes
someone is called a "good boy" or "good girl"
Yes
someone uses drugs
spoiler Just weed
someone smokes or vapes
Yes
an animal dies
spoiler SPOILERS: A rat is seen while hiding, he scurries off unharmed.
a cat dies
spoiler Alice Hardy´s cat probably survives.
a pet dies
Yes
animals are abused
spoiler no
animals were harmed in the making
spoiler Muffin the dog was played by a very well cared for professional pup.
an animal is sad
spoiler at the start of the film a cat seems visibly distressed by a human dying
there are bugs
spoiler I think you hear flies buzzing at a few points but I don't think you see anything on screen.
there are snakes
spoiler The previous comment is referring to the first movie
there are rats or mice
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
spoiler Someone gets kicked in the genitals.
someone is held under water
spoiler At the begging of the film there's a flashback from the first movie where Alice's boat is flipped over and Jason tries to drown her but she survives
someone is restrained
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler it is never clearly stated if they are teens or young adults
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
a corpse is shown
Yes
the r-slur is used
spoiler A girl at the bar says that she thinks Jason was one
someone disabled played by able-bodied
spoiler Mark, who is wheelchair bound, is played by the late Tom McBride who was not.
a disabled person dies
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
a parent dies
spoiler Jason's mother is shown being beheaded in a flashback to the previous film
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
Yes
there are shower scenes
Yes
there's natural bodies of water
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
someone wets/soils themselves
spoiler When someone is hiding, you see yellow liquid come out from under the bed.
there's decapitation
Yes
needles/syringes are used
spoiler No needles or syringes, but Jason makes his first kill in the beginning of the movie with a thin ice pick that’s sort of pushed in like an injection.
there's a hospital scene
spoiler You see a quick flashback at the start of the film of the previous movie's protagonist waking in the hospital after the attacks.
there's menstruation
spoiler There is a joke about keeping yourself clean while menstruating in case of bears in the woods.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
spoiler The opening scene depicts the first film's protagonist suffering from nightmares due to her traumatic experience.
a mentally ill person is violent
spoiler Jason (and his mother) definitely is not in a sane state of mind…
someone has a mental illness
spoiler Depending on how you view Jason
there's body dysmorphia
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler Not in the way you think, someone gets their foot stuck ina trap and is hanging upside down. When someone goes to get a knife to cut him down, it is revealed that his throat was slit
someone's throat is mutilated
spoiler Several characters get their throats slit by Jason.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone is strangled
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
shaky cam is used
spoiler There are scenes of driving from the perspective of the car and wandering/watching through woods which is very shaky
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler There are several flashing scenes, particularly when it's raining and there's a storm. I don't know why people are voting "no".
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler Someone said r****d
an LGBT person dies
spoiler There are no LGBT characters.
the black guy dies first
spoiler Not only does the black guy not die first, he doesn't die at all.
there is sexual content
spoiler There are a lot of implied sex scenes as well as the climax/end of one that is shown. No noises or really long scenes though.
there are nude scenes
spoiler full frontal female nudity, and a guy steals her clothes while she is swimming :(
someone is sexually objectified
spoiler One of the primary female characters is introduced through a lingering close up of her butt.
someone loses their virginity
Yes
a minor is sexualized
Yes
the ending is sad
Yes
there's end credits scenes?
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
spoiler no, but a car backfires
there's blood/gore
Yes
someone drowns
spoiler Jason is shown drowning in a flashback, briefly.
there's body horror
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler A lot, especially throats are cut.
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone falls to their death
Yes
someone falls down stairs
spoiler Someone in a wheelchair falls backwards down the stairs
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes

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