Five years
on from the events of part 1 and Camp Crystal Lake stands
derelict and abandoned once more. Since its closure there have
been no more problems, no more murders, but the appearance of a
new camp next to the lake is about to change all that.
Ignoring the warnings about the infamous area, a counsellor training centre has opened up on the lakes shoreline. But the owner and the trainee counsellors seem unconcerned about the history of the area, believing the legend of Jason Vorhees to be a myth and that there's no more danger now that his demented mother, who carried out the killings in part 1, is dead.
Unfortunately somebody sinister is still roaming the area and Camp Crystal Lake isn't so empty and abandoned as we were lead to believe. Enter Jason, who made a breif appearance at the end of part 1, and another bloodbath ensues.
There's plenty of shocks and scares, not to mention plenty of blood, as Jason (played by Warrington Gillette) picks up where his mother Pamela left off and dispatches the counsellors in the same gruesome fashion as was seen in the first film.
This was most definately a worthy sequel, equally chilling and scary, with gore aplenty! Jason's character seems somewhat differant in this film, coming accross as a demented hillbilly character, complete with bib-n-brace jumpsuit and lumberjack shirt, rather than the psychopathic zombie that he appears as in later sequels.
Jason had yet to aquire his now legendary Ice Hockey Mask and so spends the film running around with a bag over his head.
Overall Marks 8/10
Other Information. Part 2 was directed and produced by Steve Miner, who also worked on the first film, and co-produced by Dennis Murphy. The story was by Ron Kurz. and Harry Manfredini once again returned to score the soundtrack. Apparently Jason's character was dressed to look exactly like the killer from the 1979 film "The Town that Dreaded Sundown". The Films pre-credit Intro is apparently the longest in cinematic history, with it being 15 minutes long in some versions. Actor Warrington Gillette left acting to become a stock broker. Beleieve it or not, he became envolved with some dodgy dealings on the stock exchange and is apparently now being hidden by the FBI's witness protection programme after testifying against several organised crime bosses who were involoved in the scam. Oh dear! |
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