Friday the 13
th Part 2 arrived in theaters May 1, 1981.
Filmmakers faced a quandary from the outset, with almost the entirety of the original cast cinematically dead, including the main antagonist, Betsy Palmer’s aforementioned Mrs. Voorhees character. Director Sean S. Cunningham wasn’t keen on the idea of making her son, Jason, the new killer. Though he was used in the stinger ending of the first film, jumping out of Crystal Lake and pulling Alice (Adrienne King) from the canoe in which she was floating, Jason was meant to be a figment of her imagination.
Cunningham thought perhaps the next entry could be an entirely fresh story with no carryover roles or connection to the original other than in the title. Dissatisfied with the planned path of the story and his ideas for an anthology rebuffed, the filmmaker stepped away from the project, passing it on to friend and collaborator Steve Miner, who would make his directorial debut.
Friday the 13
th Part 2 arrived in theaters May 1, 1981.
Filmmakers faced a quandary from the outset, with almost the entirety of the original cast cinematically dead, including the main antagonist, Betsy Palmer’s aforementioned Mrs. Voorhees character. Director Sean S. Cunningham wasn’t keen on the idea of making her son, Jason, the new killer. Though he was used in the stinger ending of the first film, jumping out of Crystal Lake and pulling Alice (Adrienne King) from the canoe in which she was floating, Jason was meant to be a figment of her imagination.
Cunningham thought perhaps the next entry could be an entirely fresh story with no carryover roles or connection to the original other than in the title. Dissatisfied with the planned path of the story and his ideas for an anthology rebuffed, the filmmaker stepped away from the project, passing it on to friend and collaborator Steve Miner, who would make his directorial debut.
Horror History: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 Is Now 40 Years Old
Today in Horror History, Director Steve Miner Brought Jason Voorhees to the Forefront In His Classic Slasher Sequel FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 with Amy Steel Back in 1981.
On this day in horror history, director Steve Miner’s classic slasher sequel
Friday the 13th Part 2 with Amy Steel opened back in 1981. The film marks the debut of Jason Voorhees as the main antagonist, played by Steve Daskewisz and Warrington Gillette.
The second entry in the series. It focuses on a group of teenage would-be counselors converging on Camp Crystal Lake for training under head counselor Paul. Inevitably, Paul relates the story of Jason Voorhees, a boy who ostensibly drowned at the camp and whose mother murdered a group of counselors in revenge. No one takes the tale seriously until a very much alive Jason begins gruesomely eliminating people.
Friday the 13th Part 2 begins five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake. The 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 decides to explore the area where seven people were brutally slaughtered. All too soon, they encounter horrors of their own and the killing begins again.
Miner (
Halloween H20, Lake Placid) directs from a screenplay written by Ron Kurz (
Eyes of a Stranger). Amy Steel stars along with Adrienne King, John Furey, Stu Charno, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Steve Daskewisz, and Warrington Gillette as Jason.
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