Long-lost Friday the 13th Part 2 deleted scenes emerge, featuring much more gruesome kills. Released in 1980, the original Friday the 13th helped kickstart the slasher craze of the ‘80s with its tale of over-sexed camp counselors being hunted down by a serial killer. Of course, the original film famously did not focus on the series’ inevitable true villain Jason Vorhees, who was only briefly introduced in the film’s shocking final scene.
After that memorable last-second introduction, Jason would become a proper horror villain in the movie’s 1981 follow-up, Friday the 13th Part 2 (without his now-famous hockey mask). Though the hastily-produced sequel indeed delivered plenty of gruesome slasher scares, the movie famously was trimmed after the MPAA objected to its high level of gore. For the last 39 years, fans have only heard about the extended versions of the trimmed scenes, but have been unable to see what the extra-gory moments were like (Paramount insists that there is no extended cut of the film in their vaults and that the excised footage was thrown away).
But now Friday the 13th fans’ dreams have come true as video has arrived showing many of the cut moments from the nearly four-decades-old slasher sequel. Included as an extra on Scream Factory's Friday the 13th box set, the excised footage was preserved at the time of shooting by special effects artist Carl Fullerton to be incorporated into his portfolio.
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Included in the newly revealed footage are several moments fans had known about for years but never been able to see. These include a more graphic version of the movie’s famous double-impalement scene, a version of Alice’s death that shows more of Jason adding to his kill count by shoving an icepick into her face, a few more seconds of Crazy Ralph being strangled to death against a tree, a slightly extended shot of Deputy Winslow dying after taking the claw end of a hammer to the skull, a version of Scott’s neck slashing that lasts several seconds longer and shows more blood pumping from the wound and a few extra seconds of Mark rolling backward in his wheelchair with a machete lodged in his face.
These cuts may all seem minor, but at the time of the film’s release they were all made at the behest of the MPAA in order to release the film with an R rating. Seeing them entirely out of context of course makes it hard to judge if the movie would’ve worked better without the cuts, but perhaps one day better quality footage will be found and the movie can be restored to its original form. For now though, it’s definitely a treat for Friday the 13th Part 2 fans to finally see the extra gore they were deprived of when the movie originally played on endless repeat on cable back in the slasher movie loving 1980s.
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