Its a slow motion window crash that always catches out the first time viewer, a more effective and cinematic scare than the initial plan which was to have Jason leap out from behind a piece of furniture.
This technique, which has become a budget horror film staple is known as the Lewton Bus, because it was first employed by Val Lewton in the 1942 CAT PEOPLE where a loud bus hissing was used to add an forceful jolt.
Here towards the final few minutes of Friday The 13th part2 the flow slows to a idyllic calm, theres even a cute puppy padding into the room to help lower your guard, the background music eases into a quieter tone, the stress levels drop the waters are calm...then SMASH! Jason in all his snarly ugly glory, shattered glass showering everywhere, intrudes with such the impact of a killer hissing bus.
I don't know if it was intentional but Jason's look in this movie was strongly reminiscent of the burlap hooded sack killer from the TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, unmasked when he launched himself through the glass it was the only time in any of the movies he had hair (except that is until the 2009 Michael Bay produced remake which gave his look a respecting nod to the many different Jason visages from the original Fridays)
I haven't posted any Jason art up yet, so I thought I'd start by throwing in up an old drawing of mine of the above mentioned Friday part 2 sequence.
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| Jason should buy a Mac , he's terrible with windows. |
This also seems as good a spot as any to jump in with a photograph of my FRIDAY THE 13th double bill poster.
I'm not that struck by the look of this double presentation, and thats the reason that this poster never dressed my wall for long. Compared to my other posters the artwork and design lacks lustre and action plus the overall colour palette I find a little too restricted. But in fairness the iconic hockey mask hadn't been endorsed by the killer yet so that staple item to sell the movie isn't in the poster designers toolbox. Most wasteful indeed for some reason the design has a useless blank white band across the top section, all the space of a movie poster surface area is prime real estate to brag about your movie so a white strip amounts to nothing less than a criminal waste of good space.
I must point out that the segment on the left hand side does give a hint to the identity of the killer in the first Friday the 13th as the hand holding the bowie knife does look rather ladylike! (The knife in the movie used by Mrs Vorhees was a Sabre Monarch 171 Bowie Knife) again the weapon most associate with Jason nowadays , his machete, hadn't stuck as his calling card in these first two movies.
I must point out that the segment on the left hand side does give a hint to the identity of the killer in the first Friday the 13th as the hand holding the bowie knife does look rather ladylike! (The knife in the movie used by Mrs Vorhees was a Sabre Monarch 171 Bowie Knife) again the weapon most associate with Jason nowadays , his machete, hadn't stuck as his calling card in these first two movies.
I could also argue that the other half of the poster is even more ladylike in that its just an outline filled with words, giving me the impression of some kind of medical drug advertisement and judging by the fact that the bottom words are dripping with blood it might well be for some kind of menstrual product!
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| Friday the 13th x 2 = Friday the 26th |
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