Friday the 13th Part 2
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Directed by	Steve Miner
Produced by	Steve Miner
Written by	Ron Kurz Phil Scuderi (uncredited)
Starring	Amy Steel John Furey Adrienne King Kirsten Baker Stuart Charno Steve Dash Warrington Gillette
Music by	Harry Manfredini
Cinematography	Peter Stein
Editing by	Susan E. Cunningham
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	April 30, 1981
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,250,000 (estimated)
Preceded by	Friday the 13th
Followed by	Friday the 13th Part 3
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Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner, the first sequel to the Friday the 13th (1980) movie. This is the first film in the series in which the famed slasher Jason Voorhees kills, whereas the killer in the first movie was in fact Jason's mother Pamela Voorhees. It was a box-office hit, opening on April 30, 1981, in first place. It went on to gross $21,772,776. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Steve Miner (born June 18, 1951 in Westport, Connecticut) is best known as a film and television director. ... Amy Steel (b. ... John Furey is an actor who has starred in film and on television,he is best known for his roll in the 1981 horror film Friday the 13th Part 2 as Paul Holt,his most recent film is in the 2005 movie The Galindez File. ... Adrienne King was born in and raised Oyster Bay, Long Island, on 4 February 1960, and did her first commercial when she was six months old, and has stayed at it with a brief hiatus or two ever since. ... Stuart Charno (b. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937) is a critically acclaimed German director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company he arguably brought to the forefront of German theatre. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D is the second sequel to Friday the 13th. ... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... Steve Miner (born June 18, 1951 in Westport, Connecticut) is best known as a film and television director. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Friday the 13th is a 1980 independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... DVD cover for Friday the 13th (1980) Friday the 13th is a popular series of American slasher films. ... Jason Voorhees is the main fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

Box Office

The film opened in 1,350 theaters grossing $6.4 million it's opening weekend.

Domestically, the film grossed $21.7 million.

Plot

Jason's mask in Friday the 13th Part 2

The film begins with the only survivor from the first movie, Alice (played again by Adrienne King), being slain by a mysterious prowler two months after the conclusion of the original film. Image File history File links Friday2jasonmask. ... Image File history File links Friday2jasonmask. ... Adrienne King was born in and raised Oyster Bay, Long Island, on 4 February 1960, and did her first commercial when she was six months old, and has stayed at it with a brief hiatus or two ever since. ...

Five years later, a group of young adults have come to Crystal Lake to attend a counselor training center that has been set up near the now-condemned Camp Crystal Lake. While some counselors are in town on their way to the facility, Crazy Ralph appears and tells the counselors to turn back, as the young counselors five years ago did not heed his warning. Paul, the leader of the group, explains how camp counseling is a serious job, and that the main danger in this area is bears. One night, around a campfire, Paul tells the people about how Jason Voorhees drowned in the same lake which their training area also bounds; how his mother was found to be the infamous murderer of "Camp Blood"; and that Alice survived only to disappear shortly thereafter, and that some of the local residents believe Jason is still alive and viciously protects the area around Crystal Lake. When the counselors seem into the story, they are shocked by a man with a spear, but it only turns out to be Ted in a monster mask and Paul claims that Jason is dead. While some of the counselors are seen making out, Crazy Ralph is standing by a window, and is suddenly killed by a prowler using a garotte. Two of the counselors sneak away to Camp Crystal Lake, which is now in disrepair. As they are about to go into one of the cabins, they are stalked by an unseen man who then approaches them; but it is revealed that is a local policeman who has caught them trespassing. The policeman returns the two counselors to camp, where Paul only recommends a light punishment. However, when driving, the policeman sees a masked man dart out in front of his squad car, and is running in the direction of the off limits Camp Crystal Lake. The policeman chases after the masked man to arrest him as well, only to lose him and go into a cabin. The policeman then sees a horrifying sight. It is not shown to the viewer as the prowler who killed Crazy Ralph also murders the policeman from behind. After getting to know one another and participating in some training exercises (which consist of dancing, jogging through the woods, swimming and a cookout), the majority of the trainees leave the campsite to party in town. Soon after, the remaining young adults are stalked and killed by a mostly-unseen killer. Upon their return to camp, Ginny and Paul discover the lights are not working in the main cabin and sheets on an upstairs bed appear to be covered in blood. Ginny screams in horror when she sees the dead bodies of two of the counselors, and then opens the freezer and sees the corpse of Crazy Ralph fall out. Paul is attacked by a figure whose head is covered with a pillow case as Ginny screams and runs out into the dark woods. After a lengthy chase, Ginny stumbles upon a run-down cabin and enters. In the back room, she discovers a table holding the severed head of Pamela Voorhees. Littered around the table are several bodies of the slain trainees as well as the rotten corpse of Alice and the newly murdered policeman. The killer is identified as Jason Voorhees, who seems to have survived his drowning. Ginny dons Mrs. Voorhees' sweater and deceives Jason into believing that she is his mother (although Jason wises up when he sees his mother's severed head). After Paul wrestles with Jason, she slams a machete through his shoulder. Paul and Ginny retreat back to their cabin believing Jason is dead and find Muffin, Terri's pet dog. As Ginny calls to Muffin to come, an unmasked Jason leaps through the window and begins to pull Ginny out. Ginny wakes up while being placed in an ambulance with no recollection of what happened to Paul. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A garrote (alternative spellings include garotte and garrotte) is a handheld weapon, most often referring to a ligature of chain, rope, or wire used to strangle someone to death. ... In law, trespass can be: the criminal act of going into somebody else’s land or property without permission; it is also a civil law tort that may be a valid cause of action to seek judicial relief and possibly damages through a lawsuit. ... Jason Voorhees is the main fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. ...

Cast

• Adrienne King as Alice
• Amy Steel as Ginny
• John Furey as Paul
• Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees
• Kirsten Baker as Terry
• Stuart Charno as Ted
• Steve Daskawisz as Jason Stunt Double (all scenes with mask on)
• Warrington Gillette as Jason (unmasked scene)
• Walt Gorney as Crazy Ralph
• Marta Kober as Sandra
• Tom McBride as Mark
• Bill Randolph as Jeff
• Lauren-Marie Taylor as Vickie
• Russell Todd as Scott
• Cliff Cudney as Maxwell
• Jack Marks as The Cop
• Jerry Wallace as The Prowler

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Notes

• Although credited for the part of Jason, Warrington Gillette plays only the unmasked Jason. In all of the scenes where Jason appears with the mask on, he is actually played by stuntman Steve Dash.
• Steve Dash received a few major injuries when filming. According to Amy Steel, when she was in Jason's shack where Mrs. Voorhees severed head was, she was supposed to raise the machete and attack Jason. Jason was then supposed to block it with an ax/mattock/pickax. Amy Steel revealed that she did the scene at the wrong time and ended up hitting the actor's finger, which resulted in him going to the hospital for stitches. Later, the filming continued, and the actor still wanted to do the act.
• Rumors have circulated that the reason that Paul mysteriously vanishes at the end of the film is because actor John Furey and Director Steve Miner had a falling out. This is not true. Both Furey and Miner have stated that this is not true in the book "Camp Crystal Lake Memories". Miner explains that the script was originally written such that Ginny repeatedly asks "What happened to Paul?" (as she does in the finished film), then they would cut to the scene showing Jason's mother's head where it would slowly smile, telling the audience that Jason killed him. When the ending was changed to not have the head smile, this left for a confusing ending. Furey and Miner said that although they did raise their voices to each other a few times, they got along fine.
• The mask that Jason wears in this film is based on the Zodiac Killer's mask during his lake Berryesa attack in 1969.
• Jason is meant to look like the killer in The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. ... The Town that Dreaded Sundown is a movie released in 1970, rated R, and is about a true story, in which a man killed five people in the 1940s. ...

Other media

• A novelization based on the screenplay of Ron Kurz was published in 1988: Hawke, Simon, Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel, New American Library, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-451-15337-5

A novelization (or novelisation in British English) is a work of fiction that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. ...

External links

• Friday the 13th Part 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Friday the 13th Part 2 at Rotten Tomatoes
• Friday the 13th Part 2 at Box Office Mojo
• Detailed synopsis for Friday the 13th Part 2 at moviecheat.com
• Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site

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