Get ready for twice the terror with Friday the 13th Part 2! Five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the nerve-wracking legend of Jason Voorhees and his diabolical mother lives on. Despite ominous warnings from the locals to stay away from “Camp Blood,” a group of counselors at a nearby summer camp decide to explore the area where seven people were brutally slaughtered. All too soon, they encounter horrors of their own and the killing begins again. You’ll be at the edge of your seat for this gruesome thriller about 24 hours of bone-chilling fear!
What We Thought:
Friday the 13th: Part 2 is the movie most people think of when you say Friday the 13th. The first film introduced us to Camp Crystal Lake, but it’s Mrs. Voorhees who is the killer in that film. It’s not until that film’s ending that we are introduced to Jason Voorhees. Part 2 is what establishes Jason as one of horror’s greatest slashing icons.
Part 2 has a cold open with the lone survivor of the first film recovering from the attacks before being killed. It time jumps 5 years and Camp Crystal Lake is condemned and off-limits. Counselors for another camp near by are told about the killings and the legend that Jason survived and lives in the woods. Of course they want to explore it all for themselves and that kick starts the mayhem.
It has everything we’ve come to expect in a camping horror flick with campfire stories, counselors hooking up, drinking and lots of murdering. That’s what Part 2 did, set the rules for the camping slasher. Sleepaway Camp and all the others that followed relied on tropes established by the Friday the 13th films and this new 4K is a great reminder of what the genre was built on. It also reminds viewers that Jason originally didn’t have the hockey mask at this point either.
This 45th Anniversary 4K of Friday the 13th: Part 2 is pretty sweet. It came out weeks back, but I got a late copy. I hadn’t seen the film in a while so it was neat catching up with it. The 4K looks and sounds great and has some solid bonus features. If you are a fan of the franchise I’d add these 4K releases to your collection.
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