Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)-Part 2.

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After the deaths of Italy's Mario Bava, and Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1980, they didn't foresee the rise of horror movies in the 1980's not only in cinemas, and drive-ins, but on VHS tapes: the beginning of the hiring movies in movie stores exploded long before 4k arrived. While movies like "The Shining", (1980), produced, directed, and co-written by the late Stanley Kubrick, (his only foray into the genre), based on the 1977 horror classic masterpiece by Stephen King, was the movie to battle the original "Friday the 13th", at the Box Office in America, the United Kingdom, and other countries like Australia, "Friday the 13th Part 2", continues the story from the original. By 1981, other movies like Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was the only other camp-themed sequel to be released that year.
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The horror of Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was released the same year as Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981), created a lot of controversy in the early 1980's, in the Age of the "Video Nasty", nearly forty year's ago.
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The new counsellor, twenty-five year old Paul Holt, (John Furey), is the camp counsellor. When Ginny Field, (Amy Steel), a psychology major, the twenty-one year old Assistant Camp Counsellor, arrives late, they meet the other campers including Bill and Sandra. The other campers are: Mark, (Tom McBride)-who is in a wheelchair; Terry, (Kirsten Baker); Vickie, (Lauren -Marie Taylor); and Scott, (Russell Todd). After Paul introduces everyone, one of the campers dog called Muffin, disappears leading to a comedic series of events before Jason Voorhees arrives at the camp.
Friday the 13th Part 2, like the original, has the mantra of have sex=death that stems from other movies like "A bay of blood", (Mario Bava, 1971); John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978); and other movies. When Sandra convinces Jeff to go to Camp Crystal Lake, they meet a cop, (Cliff Cudney), who warns them off. He tells Paul and Ginny, and they're punished. As some of the campers stay the night, Paul, Ginny, and Ted go into town, leaving them alone.

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Michael Myers, (Tony Moran), terrorizes Laurie Strode, (Jamie Lee Curtis), in John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978), which set the tone of the slasher horror movies in America in the late nineteen seventies, and into the nineteen eighties. The movie was independently made, and its success caused filmmakers and producers, to made similar films.
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