![]() ![]() He even develops a fear of water in later films, something that is exploited by the dream-walking villain Freddy Krueger ( Robert Englund) in Freddy vs Jason (2003).īut speaking strictly from the perspective of Friday the 13th Part 2, the character development doesn’t seem to make a ton of sense. Despite all of his violent behavior, Jason Voorhees was still at his core a little boy who loved his mother and wanted to abide by her wishes. This singular moment would carry on throughout the Friday the 13th series, presenting Jason with a human side. Though he eventually snaps out of his confusion when he sees his mother’s severed head upon the altar he had crafted for her, Jason showed a short moment of vulnerability. She attempts to tell Jason that she is pleased with his rampage and has a reward for him. Presumably using her child psychology education as a justifiable plot device, Ginny dons Pamela’s sweater and attempts to trick Jason into believing that she is his mother. Ginny, who had inadvertently contemplated Jason’s motivations earlier in the film, noticed an opportunity in her attacker’s home: The sweater of Pamela Voorhees. Jason has already racked up a considerable body count and is pursuing the protagonist Ginny ( Amy Steel) into his residence, a shack in the forest located near Crystal Lake. What may have been equally puzzling occurs during the film’s climax. Friday the 13th would evolve into a media franchise spanning twelve films, novels, comic books, video games, and a documentary centered on the series’ meteoric rise to fame.įriday the 13th Part 2 included its fair share of inconsistencies with the first film, including Jason’s survival and his apparently massive growth spurt between the first and second films. This proved to be the right move commercially, as Jason Voorhees became an undisputed horror icon and the face of slasher cinema. The filmmakers had originally envisioned the sequel as an anthology film analyzing the myth of Friday the 13th as a superstitious holiday, but the first film’s success encouraged director Steve Miner and writer Ron Kurz to change course and continue the story of the Voorhees family. The move was made off-the-cuff, and Friday the 13th cast and crew members such as Tom Savini and Palmer herself decried it as making little sense. It was highly unusual when audiences learned that Jason ( Warrington Gillette) had apparently survived his presumed drowning and was a full-grown man as opposed to a post-mortem young boy. Her son Jason appeared as a severely decomposed creature in the film’s conclusion, but his state was hardly one that could allow him to carry on his mother’s vendetta against the counselors of Camp Crystal Lake. Pamela Voorhees ( Betsy Palmer), the first film’s antagonist, was dead and gone. When audiences crowded into theaters in 1981 to catch the sequel of the box office hit Friday the 13th, they likely didn’t know what all to expect. ![]()
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