a child trapped in a man's body
Back into my comfort zone. Friday the 13th Part 2 was, I think, the first Friday the 13th I bought for my VHS collection of the entire series in my 20s, so I’ve seen this one a lot. I really should buy a DVD set of these things—assuming a boxset exists. I haven’t even checked. How sad is that? Jason is a very nice killer, taking the kettle off the burner like that. I mean, sure, he stuck a screwdriver into Alice’s face first, but does that really make him a bad guy? She did kill his mother, after all. Crazy Ralph is back. They really should have had that same guy stick around for every one of these films. Even though he dies in this one. I suppose, since this sequel comes before Halloween ‘s or Texas Chain Saw Massacre ‘s, not to mention before the first Nightmare on Elm Street , this is where the slasher subgenre really gets going. Leatherface may have survived outright, Michael Myers may have survived his wound swell enough to get up and leave, but Jason is the first real ...