Oct 13 2009
31 Days - 31 Films of the Macabre - Day 13
How more appropriate than to have this as the 13th movie of the 31?
Friday the 13th Part 2 - 1981
Hot off the heals of the new slasher craze monster, Friday the 13th, Part 2 offers more slashing fun, but this time it’s really with Jason Voorhees rather than his pissed off, revenge-seeking mother, Pamela. This installment has Jason prior to the iconic hockey mask and instead donning a potato sack with a hole cut out for his eye. Far more creepy, yet not as intimidating as the hockey mask further down the line of films (6 and 7 to be sure are my favorite costumes).
Why this one and not the one that has the Voorhees descendant that has ESP? Well, rather than the obvious reasons, this was before the series turned into more of a joke and just tried to kill of teens in new and exciting ways. In this, they were still trying to make something visceral. I liked.
