Friday the 13th Part 2

Friday the 13th Part 2
Directed by	Steve Miner Sean S. Cunningham (additional scenes)
Produced by	Steve Miner
Written by	Ron Kurz Phil Scuderi
Based on	Characters by Victor Miller
Starring	Amy Steel John Furey Adrienne King
Music by	Harry Manfredini
Cinematography	Peter Stein
Edited by	Susan E. Cunningham
Production company	Georgetown Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 30, 1981 (1981-04-30) (US)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.25 million
Box office	$21.7 million

Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, and the second installment in the Friday the 13th film series. It is a direct sequel to Friday the 13th, picking up five years after that film's conclusion, where a new murderer stalks and begins murdering the camp counselors at a nearby training camp in Crystal Lake. The film marks the first time Jason Voorhees is the killer; his mother was the killer in the previous film. It also features the brief return of Alice Hardy, who is currently one of the only Friday the 13th heroines to return in a sequel.

Originally, Friday the 13th Part 2 was not intended to be a direct sequel but rather part of an anthology series of films based on the Friday the 13th superstition; however, after the popularity of the original film's surprise ending where Jason Voorhees attacks the heroine, the filmmakers opted to revive Jason and the mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend which would be repeated in the following films.

Like the original film, Friday the 13th Part 2 faced opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America, who noted its "accumulative violence" as problematic, resulting in numerous cuts being made to allow an R rating. The film was released theatrically in North America on April 30, 1981. Although it did not gross as much as the original, the sequel grossed over $21.7 million in the United States on a budget of $1.25 million.

Two months after the Camp Crystal Lake massacre, sole survivor Alice Hardy is recovering from her traumatic experience. In her apartment, she finds the decapitated head of Pamela Voorhees in her refrigerator and is murdered by an unseen adult Jason Voorhees with an ice pick to her temple.