Line #27 Film/FridayThe13thPart2


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[TagLine The body count continues...]]]]
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4	->''"I told the others, they didn't believe me. You're all doomed. You're all doomed."''
5	-->-- '''Crazy Ralph'''
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7	When the first ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film proved to be a hit in 1980, the studio naturally made plans for a new one, to be released the year after in 1981, dead main villain be damned.
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9	The movie starts shortly after the events of the first film, where Mrs. Voorhees got her head chopped off by her own machete, but not before stopping the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake by murdering the camp counselors, in revenge for her son, Jason, who 20 years ago drowned while his guardians were having sex.
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11	However, it turns out Jason ''didn't'' [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated drown after all.]] He survived (somehow), and has actually been living in seclusion for the past two decades. After avenging his mother's death by killing the last movie's FinalGirl, Alice, [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome in the first 15 minutes of the movie]], he resurfaces five years later, when another entrepreneur is preparing to open a new summer camp in the woods next to Crystal Lake...
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13	The film was a success, opening the way to a massive franchise and introducing a character that would ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness eventually]]'' become one of the most iconic in horror fiction.
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15	!!This film has examples of:
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17	* TheAllegedCar: Ginny's car, which works as a justification for the MyCarHatesMe moment later on.
18	* AllMenArePerverts: Scott, who hits on Terry by hitting her in the butt with a slingshot and later steals her clothes while she skinny-dips.
19	* AmbiguousEnding: The movie seemingly ends with a NotQuiteDead Jason smashing through a window to attack Ginny and Paul again, but just as Jason grabs Ginny, the scene cuts to the next morning with emergency workers carrying an injured Ginny into an ambulance, with no word on Paul's fate or Jason's whereabouts. It's not clear if the attack was a NightmareSequence (like Jason's appearance in the first film), and even if it wasn't, it's not clear how Ginny survived, what happened to Paul, or where Jason is. Even the opening of the next movie clears nothing up; it omits Jason's attack from the recap and doesn't reveal anything further about Ginny and Paul's fates.
20	* AmbiguousSituation: The dead dog Jeff and Sandra find in the woods; is it Muffin, who had previously been seen approaching Jason, or a different dog altogether? Muffin's appearance in the ending doesn't clear anything up, given the AmbiguousEnding above and the dog's absence from the closing scene.
21	* Anyone Can Die: Alas, poor Mark.
22	* AxeBeforeEntering: When Ginny barricades herself inside Jason's shrine, he starts attacking the door with a mining pick.
23	* BaitAndSwitch: Both parts to the ending of the movie: Ginny and Paul make it back to the cabin, trying to regain their bearing after their confrontation with Jason... when the door begins rattling. The two are on edge as Paul slowly moves to open it... only to find Terry's dog being the cause of it. The two are immediately relieved as Ginny gets up — and Jason bursts through the window behind Ginny. After a fade to white, we see Ginny being loaded into an ambulance alive... except Paul is nowhere to be found.
24	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Completely averted. Among the extra six counselors at the camp, one is a black man and another an Asian woman. Not only do they not die first, they don't die at all, as they're away from camp when Jason sets out to kill the counselors that stayed back at camp.
25	* BringMyBrownPants: Ginny wets herself while trying to hide from Jason, not because he might catch her though, [[EekAMouse but because she saw a rat.]] According to the director, though, it was [[UrineTrouble the rat who peed]] (which is a awful lot of urine for a rat).
26	%%* BuryYourDisabled: Mark's fate.
27	* CatScare: Random cat scares Alice before Jason "[[PowerfulPick picks]]" her.
28	* TheCavalryArrivesLate: As in the first film, police officers don't arrive at the campgrounds until well after Jason has slaughtered everyone except for the FinalGirl and been seen off himself.
29	* CaughtInASnare: Scott is caught in a snare and [[SlashedThroat his throat is slashed]] by Jason while he's hanging upside down.
30	* ChainsawGood: Ginny brandishes a chainsaw briefly to defend herself.
31	** Subverted when as soon as the chain makes contact it snags on Jason's sleeve and stalls.
32	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Ginny breaks a chair over Jason's head. [[OnceIsNotEnough Then she runs away.]]
33	* ChekhovsGun: The chainsaw is seen early on in the film being put into a closet, which Ginny uses to defend herself from Jason with later on.
34	* ChekhovsSkill: Ginny's child psychology studies, which she uses to get the better of Jason after finding his altar to his late mother.
35	* CopKiller: Jason kills Deputy Winslow by sticking a claw hammer in his head.
36	* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster and home video art show Jason's silhouette holding an axe. Jason doesn't use an axe in this movie.
37	* CrosscastRole: Jason's legs at the beginning of the movie are that of Ellen Lutter, the only time in the franchise Jason was played by a woman. It was a wardrobe test that ended up going so well they decided to use the footage instead of re-filming it.
38	* DangerousWindows: Ginny tries to escape by going through a window, but Jason is way ahead of her and tries to grab her through it.
39	* DeadPersonImpersonation: Ginny impersonates Jason's mother to distract him long enough to strike him with a machete.
40	* DecoyProtagonist: Alice bites it in the first scene.
41	** Jeff and Sandra also seem to be introduced as the protagonists until Ginny is introduced when the story follows her.
42	* DramaticIrony: When Ginny reaches a shack in the woods, she thinks she's found help. The audience, however, is aware that it's ''Jason's'' shack, and Ginny quickly finds this out for herself when a now even angrier Jason chases her inside.
43	* DramaticThunder: Used when we get the first good look on masked Jason.
44	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the first appearance of Jason Voorhees, and as such a lot of what's attributed to the character wasn't present yet. Besides the total lack of his signature hockey mask, this Jason is a far cry from the MadeOfIron ImplacableMan he will become famous for. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he's still a normal person instead of the later films' supernatural creature.
45	* FadeToWhite: A quick one follows Mark's death.
46	* FeetFirstIntroduction: The film starts with a closeup on some kid's feet, who's jumping in rain puddles. After the kid is called away by her mother, the camera starts following Jason's footsteps as he closes in on Alice's apartment.
47	* FinalGirl: Ginny for the first half seems like a subversion of the personality types associated with the Final Girl; she's introduced arriving late for work, has a sexual relationship with Paul (admittedly off-screen), goes out for a few beers with the gang and has a slightly snarky personality. But halfway through, she starts empathising with what Jason Voorhees may have gone through and is ultimately the only female survivor.
48	* FlashbackNightmare: The opening shows Alice having nightmares from the [[PreviouslyOn first film's events]].
49	* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:In Jason's shack, next to Terry's body and leaning against the shrine is Alice's decayed corpse. The giveaway is the ice pick still embedded in the skull. It only appears in a few brief shots.]]
50	%%* GenderBlenderName: Terry.
51	* GhostStory: The basic outline of Jason and certain elements from both the start of the film and the last film (namely, the death of Mrs. Voorhees and the mysterious disappearance of Alice) are recounted around a campfire as one of these.
52	* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Scott does this to Terry when she goes for a night swim.
53	* GuileHero: Ginny finally gets the better of Jason by posing as his dead mother to manipulate him into docility while she prepares to kill him with a machete. It works until Jason spies his mother's head on the altar behind Ginny.
54	* GroinAttack: Ginny kicks Jason in the balls.
55	* HandOfDeath: The close-up on the spear during the [[SexSignalsDeath sex scene]].
56	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: When Terry comes out of the water for the above-mentioned swim and realizes her clothes were missing, she crosses her arms over her chest. Apparently, the fact that her bare groin was [[BehindTheBlack out of frame]] was enough to cover that too.
57	* HostileWeather: It starts raining and thundering around the time when Jason starts killing those who stayed in the camp and didn't go to town.
58	* HotterAndSexier: In addition to being the first installment to feature Jason Voorhees as the killer, this was also the first entry in the franchise to feature explicit nudity ([[Film/FridayThe13th1980 the first film]] just had a single dimly lit sex scene and a "Strip Monopoly" game that abruptly ended before anybody removed their underwear), which would become a hallmark of later entries. Terry fully strips down to go skinny-dipping in one scene, and [[MaleGaze gets her backside ogled by the camera]] while wearing low-cut shorts in another; Sandra was also going to get a full-frontal nude scene, but it was cut when the producers discovered that her actress was underage.
59	%%* InstantThunder
60	* KickTheDog:
61	** Jeff and Sandra find a disemboweled dog in the woods, implicitly what became of Muffin after she approached Jason.
62	** Jason kills Mark, who, being disabled, is even ''less'' of a threat than most of Jason's victims.
63	** Before killing Vicky, Jason hides under a bedsheet just to scare her. This stands out, as almost none of Jason's previous victims even saw him coming.
64	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:We don’t see what happens to Terry.]]
65	* LivingProp: Many counselors have no lines or names.
66	* MaleGaze: We get a long camera shot centered on Terry's behind. And later one of Vickie's underwear-glad behind as she rummages through her car.
67	* MrFanservice: Mark is a {{Hunk}} who gets a ShirtlessScene at the lake, even when he isn't going swimming. All of his scenes involve showing off his muscles.
68	* MsFanservice:
69	** Terry. Revealing clothing? Check. No bra on cold nights? Check. Gratuitous skinny dipping scene? Ooh, yeah.
70	** Sandra to a lesser degree. She also wears no bra, but her breasts are larger, so we also get some nice shots of her chest bouncing. She also has a lengthy scene in just a bikini top and short shorts. She originally had a full frontal scene, just like Terry, but then the filmmakers found out Marta Kober was 16 and naturally cut the scene out.
71	** To an even lesser degree, Vickie gets this. She shows her underwear and then shows some lower frontal nudity for some extra {{Fanservice}}.
72	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Jason keeps his mother's severed head around and lays the remains of both Alice and Terry around it.
73	* Mundane Made Awesome: Two particular scenes stand out:
74	First, the shot where Ginny is being chased through the night. We see the full moon, followed by Ginny running in the night, cut back to the full moon followed by Jason chasing after Ginny into the night, followed by the full moon again. The ominous background music also helps.
75	Then, the shot where Ginny catches her breath in a cabin, while through the window we can see Jason racing toward her.
76	Both of those shots are simple yet effective moments. Yet, they stand out as two of the most awesome moments of the film without anyone being killed or any bloodshed having to happen.
77	* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Ginny goes after Jason with a chainsaw, but it runs out of gas and becomes useless.]]
78	* NextSundayAD: Released in 1981, it takes place five years after the original, placing it in 1984.
79	* {{Novelization}}: By Simon Hawke.
80	* OhCrap: Jason's widely exposed eye and retreating backwards when Ginny tries swinging a chainsaw at him, causing him to fall over to narrowly avoid it, display it in full.
81	* PeekABooCorpse: Ginny finds Crazy Ralph's corpse in a closet.
82	* ThePeepingTom: Crazy Ralph while watching Ginny and Paul.
83	* PowerfulPick: Jason's very first kill in the second movie is Alice, the Final Girl of the first movie, whom he kills with an ice pick. His third kill is with a mining pick when the nameless officer foolishly chases him all the way to his own cabin. Finally, as mentioned above, Jason tries to use a mining pick to break through to kill Ginny.
84	* PrecisionFStrike: "Paul there's someone in this fucking room!"
85	* PreviouslyOn: The film opens with Alice having a nightmare about the climax of the previous film. The flashback sequence lasts [[{{Padding}} six-and-a-half minutes.]]
86	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Alice's role is so small because Adrienne King was suffering trouble from a LoonyFan who was [[StalkerWithACrush stalking her]], prompting her to abandon her acting career.
87	* {{Revenge}}: Jason's motive for killing Alice, and especially notable as [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness one of the very few times]] Jason ''ever'' leaves Crystal Lake of his own volition, and one of his rare ''targeted'' killings, as he usually only kills people in Crystal Lake who encroach on his territory.
88	* SackheadSlasher: When Jason first took up the machete he wore a sack with a single eyehole tied around his neck with a bit of rope to hide his monstrous deformity. It wasn't until the next movie, ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'', that he would receive his iconic hockey mask.
89	* SexSignalsDeath[=/=]ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Jeff and Sandra get a spear shoved through the both of them during sex.]]
90	* SlashersPreferBlondes: [[spoiler: Inverted! While Alice from the first film is KilledOffForReal, the rest of the film's victims are dark-haired. Ginny is the only confirmed survivor, and she's blonde.]]
91	* StalkerShrine: Jason has one for his mother, which also doubles as his TrophyRoom.
92	* StockSlasher: This film is what firmly established Jason as one, as well as helping to [[TropeCodifier establish the trope itself]].
93	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The two surviving characters from the first movie (Alice and Crazy Ralph) are Jason's victims number one and two.
94	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Jason tries to ambush Ginny by standing on a small wooden chair, where she can't see him from her hiding place under the bed. As Jason is a very large man, the chair ends up breaking under his weight as soon as he moves.
95	* SummerCampy: The movie takes place at a training session for camp counselors. The trainees act as irresponsibly as the little children they'll be taking care of.
96	* SuperWindowJump: Jason performs it in the end. [[NightmareSequence Or does he?]]
97	* SurpriseCheckMate: Paul Holt and Ginny Field are playing chess. Paul takes one of her pieces, puts her in check and tells her that he thinks he's got her. She takes the piece that he just moved (cancelling the check) and checkmates him. How did he fail to notice not only that (a) she had a piece that could take his but (b) she could checkmate him by doing so?
98	* SympathyForTheDevil: Subverted; while hypothetically discussing Jason, Ginny shows some pity for him with her psychological analysis, but when she actually encounters him, she's justifiably terrified and uses her insight on his mental state to try and kill him.
99	* TakeOurWordForIt: Subverted; when Ginny unmasks the seemingly dead Jason, all the audience sees is her and Paul's horrified reaction to his appearance, which seems to be all we can expect... until the JumpScare at the end, which shows Jason's ugly mug in all it's glory.
100	* TokenMinority: One black dude and an Asian lady (who have no lines) can be seen among the counselors.
101	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Vicky gets "cornered" by Jason, the door is right next to her, then Jason starts walking really slow towards her. What does she do? Stare at him.]]
102	* {{Tuckerization}}: Ginny Field is named after the film's production designer Virginia Field, who also worked on the first film.
103	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The exact fate of Paul. It largely depends on whether or not the final JumpScare at the end was real, or a DreamSequence.

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