Product Details

• Actors: Kirsten Baker, Stuart Charno, Steve Daskawisz, Rex Everhart, Warrington Gillette
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0026KWT06
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,480 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Get ready for twice the terror with Friday the 13th Part 2: Deluxe Edition! Five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the nerve-wracking legend of Jason Vorhees and his diabolical mother lives on. Despite ominous warnings from the locals to stay away from “Camp Blood” a group of counselors at a nearby summer camp decide to explore there area where seven people were brutally slaughtered. All too soon, they encounter horrors of their own and the killing begins again. You’ll be at the edge of your seat for this gruesome thriller about 24 hours of bone-chilling fear!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Review for the Blu-ray, July 1, 2009

By	Dave. K (Staten Island, Ny) - See all my reviews

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART II BLU-RAY

*** Out of 5

The Blu-ray release for Friday the 13th Part II is the same release as the Deluxe Edition DVD; while I haven't seen the Deluxe Edition DVD if you have that odds are it won't be worth buying on Blu-ray since the features are the same and while it will probably look slightly better I don't think it will look that much better to warrant an upgrade, but if you only have the SD DVD the sound and picture quality alone is worth the upgrade.

This is the same R-rated cut as we've gotten in the past and the footage is nowhere to be found and Paramount may have cheated us in the past I think their claims are legit. With all the SE releases they have given the movies if they had the footage they would have included it as either a feature or in the movie. So if you're holding out hopes that Paramount releases an unrated version odds are you'll never see one; with that out of the way onto the release.

INSIDE CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES (HD) 11:14
This feature is an interview with Peter Bracke the writer of Crystal Lake Memories, which features interviews and all kinds of info on the franchise; this wasn't a bad feature and Bracke does talk about the making of part II, but it would be better to have members of the cast and crew involved also covered is his book. Again it was a good feature, but having people involved with the film would have been better, but for what it's worth Peter Bracke does a very good job explaining info on the movie.

FRIDAY'S LEGACY: HORROR CONVENTIONS (HD) 6:49
Really lame feature, which has nothing to do with the movie; all this feature provides is a brief look at the convention scene; I'm not really sure why this even made the disc. I suppose this would work as a filler feature, but due to the weakness of the other features it makes this even worse.

LOST TALES FROM CAMP BLOOD PART II (HD) 8:54
Directed by Andrew Ceperley I found this to be entertaining, but the daytime scenes take away from it. It was enjoyable for what it was worth though, but I'd rather have something about Friday the 13th Part 2.

JASON FOREVER (SD) 29:47
This was shot in 2004 for the Crystal Lake to Manhattan set, but it was only a Best Buy Exclusive; Peter Bracke moderates and Ari Lehman, Warrington Gillette, C.J. Graham and Kane Hodder appear; this was an entertaining feature, but nothing we haven't heard before; Steve Dash is the one who actually played Jason in part 2, Gillette was hired for the role and is credited in the movie, but only played him for the unmasking scene at the end hence why that is all he talks about. Overall I liked the feature, but again I would have rather seen more about Part 2.

THEATRICAL TRAILER (HD) 2:12
No need to explain this one.

TRANSFER
This is an upgrade over the SD DVD for sure and even though I haven't seen the Deluxe Edition DVD they are both from the same source and any upgrade probably won't be that noticeable in general. But overall the transfer was excellent; it's not as good as the transfer for the original, but light years ahead of the 2D HD transfer for part 3. Seeing as the film was released in 1981 you cannot expect perfection, but this transfer cleans up a lot of the grain and dirt and the colors are strong and sharp and it's not as dark looking as the SD DVD; like I said this transfer isn't as good as the original, but it comes really close at times. I was surprised at how clean the movie looked. The only scene where the grain was bad was when Ginny and Paul are driving to the bar, but it's not a big deal since it was only a shot of the sky, but besides that one scene grain and dirt are kept very low. I was hesitant on if I should pick this up, I loved the transfer for the original, but hated the 2D transfer for part 3, but no doubt this is a winner. It may not be the perfect Hi-Def experience, but it looks amazing. It's not as dark and murky as the SD DVD and is brighter and no worries the movie doesn't lose its low budget charm. Again I have to say I was quite surprised at how great the picture quality was.

AUDIO

The 5.1 Dolby TrueHD I just wasn't that impressed with; the music sounded good, but I felt the dialogue was a bit low. You can easily understand everything that is said, but I wasn't really into the audio. I felt the same for part 3 and like that one I watched the movie with the original Mono track. While the shrieks from the score might have more of a jolt with the TrueHD I felt the Mono track was the overall better of the two.

FINAL WORDS ON THE DISC
Friday the 13th Part II was a solid entry in the series and far better than most people will give it credit for, in a sense this is the original with a higher budget and a new villain. The characters are pretty much the same as those in the original and the pacing is mostly the same. Even though this is a rehash of the original it serves its purpose as an entertaining and creepy slasher flick, but the release was quite poor. While the picture and audio alone make this a major upgrade from the SD DVD the special features really aren't very special. It would be nice if some people involved with the movie took part in the release and due to that this disc is a failure; Peter Bracke does a good job at supplying info on the movie there was still far more that could have been done. So while the disc is a winner in picture and audio it's a total failure in terms of extras. But again the Blu-ray is more than worth it for the excellent transfer and that is why I give it 3-stars; I would rate it higher, but taking the overall product into account the features take away from it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A nice introduction for Jason Voorhees!, August 21, 2009

By	John Lindsey "John" (Socorro, New Mexico USA.) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

In 1979 four months later after the horrific killings in Camp Crystal Lake, it seems survivor Alice (Adrienne King) has moved on with life but gets murdered. Five years later has passed and now a new camp lead by Paul (John Fuery) and girlfriend Ginny (Amy Steel) have opened up the camp nearby Camp Crystal Lake. Rumors have it that Jason Voorhees (Warren Gillette) is still alive and wants revenge for his dead mother as more counselors are being killed one by bloody one.

A bloody sequel to a 1980 slasher box-office hit classic that is well paced and exciting all the way. This is the one that has Jason Voorhees as the killer rather then his mother as the studio decided to have Jason as the killer when the first movie was a box-office smash in the summer of 1980. Betsy Palmer from the original movie does an appearence as Jason's mother but in a memory and Jason here doesn't don his famous hockey mask until the next movie but here he wears an Elephant-Man burlap sack over his disfigured face, the body count is much higher then last time with some fine gore like icepick to the skull and machete to the face. This one offers good timely scares, violent kills and made Jason the icon of horror in the 80's next to Freddy Krueger.

This blu-ray offers decent quality picture and surround sound with nice extras such as a Inside Crystal Lake Memories featurette, Lost Tales of Camp Blood part 2 short film, Jason Forever featurette, Friday's Legacy: Convention featurette and Trailer.

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4.0 out of 5 stars looks great!!, July 4, 2009

By	T. Whyle "tRoK" (coraopolis, pa United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Alright i need to counteract some of the negative reviews on this. The picture quality is PHENOMENAL!!! Whereas the blu-ray of Part 1 is overzoomed-in, this actually shows more of the picture than the previous DVD releases. I think they did a great job on the transfer...the only grain I see is the original film grain from the low-budget cameras they used back then...it looks the way it is meant to look. I absolutely loved it, and found myself saying numerous times during the movie 'this looks SOO AWESOME!!!' And I am as critical as they come, I can assure you.

The special features are decent...aside from the Lost Tales from Camp Blood short film crap--those are all just pitiful and should be destroyed.

Otherwise my only complaint is we need a director's cut of this one...there is some really great footage missing here...I know we've been saying it for years, but man oh man, add that to the awesome quality of this BD, get rid of the Lost Tales crap, and I'll buy it again.

Or even something like what they did with 'Slashed Scenes' feature on the DVD of Part 4...they basically gave you every bit of film that wasn't used surrounding those death scenes as an extra...no audio or color correction or anything, but great quality and it's all there. I was actually able to splice in some extra gore, color correct it (the best I can with what I have), do some audio-looping & editing tricks, and make my own director's cut of it in Windows Movie Maker. I would love to do that with Part 2!!!!

However, I am appreciative for what we got this time...far better than any previous release, and the picture quality makes it worth every penny for me.