‘Friday the 13th Part 2’ – When Jason Voorhees Made Horror History

The great drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs once joked that the “Friday the 13th” filmmakers essentially “made the same movie nine times.”

He’s not entirely wrong.

Each installment, despite being touted as a new “part” or “chapter,” always felt like a stand-alone entry.

The constant changing of filmmaker, screenwriter and cast with each new sequel, as well as a studio that failed to keep any sort of continuity (so much for the Jason Voorhees Cinematic Universe, or JVCU), made for a lousy narrative timeline.

As the sequels began to pile as high as the body count, the consistency of the plotlines became tenuous at best. This is why Steve Miner’s “Friday the 13th, Part 2” (1981) stands out from the rest. It aims to be, like “Halloween II” of the same year,...

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