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Friday the 13th Part 2 ~ Film Review
Friday the 13th Part 2 picks up the narrative shortly after the first film's end and was released only a year later. Alice Hardy, the only survivor from the first film, is living at home and reliving all the gory details of her encounter with the Voorhees family from Camp Crystal Lake. The film uses Alice’s nightmares to catch the audience up on how the first film ended, which was pretty helpful. [SPOILER ALERT!] Alice may have survived Camp Crystal Lake, but she doesn’t survive much longer. Given that she’s responsible for beheading Jason’s mom, he’s not too happy with this and breaks into her house and finishes her off. It’s a shame, really, it always makes me sad to see horror heroines survive the worst and then meet their demise while making tea and talking to the cat.
The opening credits roll, and the real story begins. Friday the 13th Part 2 features a crew of camp counselors who are staying at the neighboring camp next to Camp Crystal Lake to participate in counselor training. True to form, the cast is quite diverse — blondes, brunettes, a kid in a wheelchair, one African-American, and a dorky redhead. The film chronicles their “training,” which amounts to nothing more than a couple of lectures and some jogging. Still, it mainly focuses on their debauchery, which includes a lot of sex, skinny dipping, drinking, and sneaking over onto the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake…
