History Trivia / FridayThe13thPart2

** Creator/TomSavini was offered to return to do the effects, but he chose to do ''Film/TheBurning'' instead.

** Laura Marie Taylor (Vicki) had a legitimate crush on Tom [=McBride=] (Mark), lending realism to Vicki flirting with Mark. Unfortunately for her, he was gay in real life.
** As noted above, Adrienne King was dealing with a stalker at the time. Knowing this makes Alice's death scene, in which she's killed in her own home by Jason, that much more disturbing.

* TroubledProduction: The film ran into most of its problems before a single frame was shot. Sean S. Cunningham, the director of [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 the first film]], disagreed with Creator/{{Paramount}}'s plan to build the sequel around Pamela Voorhees' son Jason taking up his mother's murderous legacy, on the grounds that it would be [[ContinuitySnarl a massive, unexplained retcon]] of the first film's backstory; instead, he wanted to make ''Friday'' an anthology series. Victor Miller, the writer of the first film, supported Cunningham and followed him out the door, as did special effects artist Creator/TomSavini. Ultimately, however, things went fairly smoothly once Steve Miner, a producer on the first film, stepped in to direct. The only problems during production came when the producers discovered that Marta Kober, the actress who played Sandra, was actually [[JailbaitTaboo underage]], forcing them to cut a full-frontal nude scene they'd shot with the actress, and when stuntman Steve Daskawicz got hurt during the climax. Amy Steel accidentally cut his finger with a machete, causing him to need thirteen stitches.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** During the development it was planned that, much like the original plans for the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films before the backlash against ''[[Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch Season of the Witch]]'', the sequels following the original one [[GenreAnthology would have their own stories, and wouldn't have continuity with each other]].
** Sanda's nude scenes had to be cut down when it was discovered Marta Kober was actually underage.
** In the originally planned ending, [[spoiler: Mrs. Voorhees' head was supposed to open her eyes]] before the credits start to roll. Sharp-eyed viewers can even tell that [[spoiler: it's an actress in makeup rather than a prop.]] The sequence was scrapped because the producers felt the effect would be too cheesy.

* DawsonCasting: Averted with Marta Kober, who played Sanda. Her nude scenes had to be cut down when it was discovered she was actually underage.

* TheOtherMarty: Good luck figuring out who played Jason during most of the film. Not even the cast is sure. The fact that multiple people filled in and for the longest time sole credit for the performance went to Warrington Gillete due to contract stipulations doesn't help either.
** We know for sure it was [[CrosscastRole Ellen Lutter's]] legs in the beginning, Steve Daskawicz in the climactic fight, production assistant Jerry Wallace for many kill scenes and shots of Jason's limbs, head makeup artist Carl Fullerton for Jeff and Sandra's death and it was Warrington Gillete who [[spoiler: jumped trough the window unmasked]]. The rest is anybody's guess.

* ShrugOfGod: How is Jason still alive? Did he actually drown? Why did he spend all this time living in the woods? How could his mother who spent decades stalking the camp never notice he was nearby? Half the crew asked these exact questions, and the other half said not to think too hard about it.
** ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'' would later try to fix this via the ''Pamela Tapes''. It still doesn't make a lot of sense, and its canonity is unknown. [[spoiler: Jason didn't drown, but Pamela thought he did after several failed police searches and had a mental breakdown.]]

* TheOtherMarty: Good luck figuring out who played Jason during most of the film. Not even the cast is sure. The fact it was played by '''three''' stuntmen and that for the longest time sole credit for the performance went to Warrington Gillete due to contract stipulations doesn't help either.
** We know for sure it was [[CrosscastRole Ellen Lutter's]] legs in the beginning, Steve Daskawicz in the climactic fight, and it was Warrington Gillete who [[spoiler: jumped trough the window unmasked]]. The rest is anybody's guess.

* LifeImitatesArt: Ginny is an aspiring psychologist; according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki (as shown [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Steel here]]), Amy Steel is a practicing psychologist (albeit in a different field than Ginny).

* McLeaned: Adrienne King was pursued by an obsessed fan after the success of the first film and purportedly wished her role to be small as possible, though in the documentary ''Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th'', it was stated that King's agent had asked for a higher salary, which the studio could not afford.

* ImageSource: PowerfulPick, SackheadSlasher.

** We know for sure it was [[CrosscastRole Ellen Lutter's]] legs in the beginning, Steve Daskawicz in the climatic fight, and it was Warrington Gillete who [[spoiler: jumped trough the window unmasked]]. The rest is anybody's guess.

* LifeImitatesArt: Ginny is an aspiring psychologist; according to TheOtherWiki (as shown [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Steel here]]), Amy Steel is a practicing psychologist (albeit in a different field than Ginny).

** During the development it was planned that, much like the original plans for the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films, the sequels following the original one [[GenreAnthology would have their own stories, and wouldn't have continuity with each other]].

** During the development it was planned that, much like the original plans for the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films, the sequels following the original one [[AnthologySeries would have their own stories, and wouldn't have continuity with each other]].

** During the development it was planned that the sequels following the original one would have their own stories, and wouldn't have continuity with each other.

** Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, stepped in to direct this film and the next one after Sean S. Cunningham refused to direct, because he did not like the Jason-comes-back-from-the-dead storyline that the studio was pushing on him. He said that was too stupid, and wouldn't work. He now admits how wrong he was, as the series flourished afterward, with Jason as the villain.

* TroubledProduction: The film ran into most of its problems before a single frame was shot. Sean S. Cunningham, the director of [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 the first film]], disagreed with Creator/{{Paramount}}'s plan to build the sequel around Pamela Voorhees' son Jason taking up his mother's murderous legacy, on the grounds that it would be [[ContinuitySnarl a massive, unexplained retcon]] of the first film's backstory; instead, he wanted to make ''Friday'' an anthology series. Victor Miller, the writer of the first film, supported Cunningham and followed him out the door, as did special effects artist Creator/TomSavini. Ultimately, however, things went fairly smoothly once Steve Miner, a producer on the first film, stepped in to direct. The only problems during production came when the producers discovered that Marta Kober, the actress who played Sandra, was actually [[JailBait underage]], forcing them to cut a full-frontal nude scene they'd shot with the actress, and when stuntman Steve Daskawicz got hurt during the climax. Amy Steel accidentally cut his finger with a machete, causing him to need thirteen stitches.

* MissingEpisode: The film suffered several cuts by MPAA and for almost ''forty years'', many thought that the deleted footage was lost forever. Finally, in 2020, Scream Factory revealed that the material was found (on the VHS tape of Carl Fullerton who did the makeup effects) and will be released as a Blu-Ray extra. Among the main revelations of these deleted scenes, the deaths of Alice, Scott, Mark, Jeff and Sandra are much longer and graphic.

* MissingEpisode: The film suffered several cuts by MPAA and for almost ''forty years'', many thought that the deleted footage was lost forever. Finally, in 2020, Scream Factory revealed that the material was found (on the VHS tape of a person who worked on the film) and will be released as a Blu-Ray extra. Among the main revelations of these deleted scenes, the deaths of Alice, Scott, Mark, Jeff and Sandra are much longer and graphic.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/WesCraven shot the footage of [spoiler: Betsy Palmer that Jason hallucinates in his shack.]]

* WordOfGod: Director Steve Miner has confirmed that the scene where Jason searches for Ginny in the cabin with the rat that it was the rat that peed and tipped Jason off, not Ginny.

* BTeamSequel: Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, stepped in to direct this film and the next one after Sean S. Cunningham refused to direct, because he did not like the Jason-comes-back-from-the-dead storyline that the studio was pushing on him. He said that was too stupid, and wouldn't work. He now admits how wrong he was, as the series flourished afterward, with Jason as the villain.

* TheOtherMarty: Good luck figuring out who played Jason during most of the film. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Not even the cast is sure]]. The fact it was played by '''three''' stuntmen and that for the longest time sole credit for the performance went to Warrington Gillete due to contract stipulations doesn't help either.

* BTeamSequel: Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, stepped in to direct this film and the next one after Sean S. Cunningham opted not to return to the director's chair.