Friday the 13th/Friday the 13th: Part Two (DVD, 2007, 2-Disc Set; Widescreen)

Friday the 13th-
This movie is great. All you people that didn't see this one until after you saw some of the later
films can stop bad mouthing this movie. You know for a fact that you loved it until you saw who
the killer was. So stop complaining. This was a revolutionary movie that brought gore and over
the top violence to the fore-front of Horror films and forever changed the genre. The story, in a
nutshell is a young handicapped boy drowns in the lake of his summer camp. Some years later
the camp is reopened after some murders happened, resulting in the camp closing. The acting
is good, the effects are great even with today's standards and the story proves to be horrifying.
Now that it's open again, councelors for Camp Crystal Lake are getting killed. Brutal, vicious
murders, traps, stalking and tons of scares, often times with misdirection make this a very scary
movie. That was the nutshell of the story. I can't say too much more or I might give away the ending.
I really like this movie. It really is scary, no joke. Especially if you watch it at night, alone on Friday
the 13th. I grew up on these movies and this one will always be specal to me. Oh and on a side note,
this was the first movie ever for Kevin Bacon, who later became... somewhat famous.

Part 2-
This is obviously, the sequal to "Friday the 13th" and is the first time that Jason is in the series other
than the gag at the end of part 1. The story is relatively the same, councelors at Camp Crystal Lake
are there, for some reason without kids... again, and they're getting killed for no reason other than the
fact that they are in Jason's territory. Right off the bat you're going to be scared. Tons of suspense and
then BAM, this is already a scary movie. The death scenes are more innovative this time around, and
are also more brutal and bloody. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. This movie has even more
scares than the original, even more blood and even more gore. The story is better, and scarier, the villain,
Jason is more frightening and more menacing because you can actually see who's doing all these horrible
things. Now, if it seems like I trailed off from giving you the story, I did. I don't want to tell you too much
because the more I tell you, the more I give away. So the nutshell is all I'm going to give. The acting is better,
especially from the lovely Amy Steel. I recommend this movie to any fan of Jason and old school gore!!

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One of the longest-running horror film series began with this gory shocker from director Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously produced Wes Craven's classic Last House on the Left. Entrepreneur Steve Christie (Peter Brouwer) re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been cursed by murders and bad luck. The young and nubile counselors all begin to die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer during a rainstorm which isolates the camp. A woman is chopped in the face with an axe, another has her throat sliced in amazingly gruesome fashion, a male counselor (Harry Crosby) is pinned to a door with arrows, and a young Kevin Bacon has an arrow shoved through his throat from below a bed. Victor Miller's script is not particularly impressive, but Cunningham's tense direction, and some remarkable special-effects by acclaimed makeup artist Tom Savini are enough to make it worthwhile. 1950s quiz show regular Betsy Palmer appears as the cook whose son, Jason (Ari Lehman), drowned 25 years earlier while neglected by romancing counselors. Palmer was reportedly cast because she was willing to drive her own car to and from the set. Trivia buffs should note the decapitation scene near the end, in which the female killer exhibits rather hirsute hands clutching at the air. The hands belong to Savini's assistant, Taso N. Stavrakis. Friday the 13th made over 20 million dollars at the box office and spawned numerous sequels.

Friday the 13th: Part Two
Two months after the events of the original Friday the 13th, Alice (Adrienne King), the lone survivor or Mrs. Vorhees' killing spree, meets a grisly end in her city apartment. Five years later, a new group of co-eds converges near Camp Crystal Lake, scene of the original massacre and the drowning of Jason Vorhees that preceded it. This time around, the horny collegians attend a nearby training school for camp counselors. As half the group parties in town, an unseen assailant picks off the other half one by one. Only when camp leader Paul (John Furey) and his girlfriend, Ginny (Amy Steel), return to camp do they uncover the identity of their stalker -- none other than Jason (Warrington Gillette) himself, alive but grotesquely deformed as a result of his childhood drowning. Flashbacks chronicle Jason's behind-the-scenes activities in the first film (perhaps explaining how his mother was able to throw the dead bodies of muscular youths through windows with such apparent ease). The young couple's only hope to defeat the fiend lies in psych major Ginny's insights in Jason's mental state.

Two great movies I still sat originals are the best why make a remake and mess it up like Last House On the Left 1970's version better.....
{Mrs puman}

This is a got to have set if you are a fan or just looking for a good scary movie! 5/5 Stars! A+++
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I love old classic horror films and I've always loved Jason. I only like the first 3 so that's why I bought 1 thru 3. They are a great part of my collection and I do plan on adding to it.

I am a life long fan of the Friday the 13th movies. However, I think Parts III - VII are the best ones. You don't really see Jason in the first 2, which is the only reason I didn't give it a good/excellent.

I like the way this fim was made. It is horror film making at it best. Often copied never duplicated.

I'm sure "Friday the 13th" has to be one of the first movies Kevin Bacon ever played in. These are the movies which set slasher flicks into motion. Every slasher movie made after the first Friday the 13th, should pay tribute! They should make a memorial for Jason 'The King of Cut'!

Friday the 13th/Friday the 13th: Part Two (2007, DVD)
This dubble-disc, I belive dosen´t need to tell so much aboute! Everyone have seen today, I could guess! But So much do you want to see two of the worlds best horror-movis, see this one! (twice). The two parts in the fridat the 13th- series is the best, that, I belive all horror fan think! Have you see this two have you the ground why and how things get like it done. I will really recommended this double disc and offcourse all the later comming parts. But like I say in this two you beginning to learn to knew mrs Voorhees and jason Voorhees from the start. I will give this movis a 5 of 5 possible Stars!
Jan Bergstrand/Sweden

I bought it, because they're classic teen horror flicks. Being that the movies are still around after 20+ years speaks for itself. And if you like a little blood and gore these movies are for you too! Pop some popcorn grabe a hold of your sweetie and sit back and be prepared to be scared!!!!!!!!! ENJOY!