I never expected the month of October to be a theme of the slasher genre but, when you do a double feature of two sequels for iconic 80's slasher films franchise. Well, then you might as well continue one with the next two Friday the 13th movies since the first three are all on Peacock. The interesting thing and I didn't realize this at first but the central character from the previous movie may have broken Janet Leigh's record of the main character getting killed off early in the movie. Now Leigh in Psycho gets killed off in a good thirty minutes into Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie and Adrienne King may have been killed off at least five minutes considering I wasn't expecting that.
The second entry in the long running series focuses on a new group of teenagers rebuilding camp Crystal Lake. While everyone hears the story of Jason Voorhees (Warrington Gillette), a boy who drowned at Crystal Lake while his mother took revenge on the teens. Despite everyone not taking it seriously, until Jason goes on a kill crazy rampage then it becomes a kill or be killed for all the teenagers.
What really makes the films interesting in a fair sense is that we as an audience member are finally introduced to the infamous machete wielding killer in Jason Voorhees only this time, he's more human in sense compared to him being a walking corpse we all know in later movies. Now I'm a grown man who can admit in being an a**hole who doesn't care a whole lot about the human races especially when it comes to watching slasher movies but I'm a normal man who loves dogs and cats more than I love humans and with this movie I've actually never been more concerned about a cute puppy dogs life when the pup comes across Jason then the rest of the other characters combined and in fact when I saw the dog survived I felt a good sigh of relief when the cute puppy dog came into frame, than the others dumb teens. For which you can tell this is a human Jason and a respectful Jason because he wouldn't dare kill an innocent dog for which I respect a lot from the fictional Jason despite this was my first time viewing the movie. Like the first movie, this is of course a typical sequel repeating the same things from the last film but in all fairness when Jason finally appears that's when the Friday the 13th movies finally gets more interesting especially when you see more characteristics of Jason as a character who kills to avenge his mother but you do get to see some good conflicts to his personality and with this movie you get to see some new and interesting things. At least with this movie you do see a sort of love interest with one of the girls and a guy in a wheelchair where the woman is in love with the guy whose crippled, for which I actually feel a little on the jealous side because I wish I can tell a woman I have epilepsy and takes anti-depressants and she's erotically turned on by me, but I guess I'll have to get her drunk for which there's no point for good reasons why it wouldn't work is simply too much work. Like, the previous film, it's only 90 minutes and there's not a whole lot to expect but with this movie you finally get to see Jason in action so, to me that's always worth the watch because when watching the first movie I, at times find disbelieving in knowing Betsy Palmer at her age in 1980 can hid well especially when hiding all the bodies. And so, with Jason making the killings it makes a whole lot of sense personally. So, look all three Friday the 13th films are on Peacock and so, if you have a subscription I would highly recommend watching a triple feature, while the month of October is still in our grasp hell, now I'm actually wanting to know if he grabs the hockey mask in Part 3 as well as his infamous machete, till then I guess it will be a "to be continued".
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