Friday the 13th Part 2

Friday the 13th Part II is a 1981 slasher film directed by Steve Miner, who also directed its sequel, Friday the 13th Part III and several other popular horror films. A sequel to Friday the 13th (1980), it is the second film in the Friday the 13th film series. It was a moderate box-office hit, opening on May 1, 1981 in first place. The film was the first to feature Jason Voorhees as the main antagonist, a trend which would be repeated for the many sequels that followed.

Plot

Alice (Adrienne King), the only survivor of a murder rampage at Crystal Lake, is brutally murdered when an adult Jason Voorhees stabs her in the head with an icepick after she discovers the severed head of Pamela Voorhees in her refrigerator. Jason didn't drown in the lake as Pamela believed, and had witnessed her death. The act drove Jason out of hiding in the nearby forest to kill his mother's killer and anyone who crosses his path.

Five years later in 1984, a group of teenagers come to Crystal Lake to reopen the site and set up a new camp. At a bonfire, one of the campers, a jokester named Paul (John Furey), tells the story of Jason before someone leaps out of the woods and attacks the campers. However, it is only one of Paul's friends and Paul claims that Jason is dead. However, Jason, whose face is shielded by a burlap sack, is stalking them. While standing by a tree, Crazy Ralph dies when Jason garrotes him a chunk of barbed wire. Officer Winslow is next to be victim, as he is killed with a set of...
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