Alice Hardy was the lone survivor of the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake and she's trying to put her life back together in her botanical garden apartment. After taking the shortest shower in cinematic history, she discovers the decomposed head of Mrs. Voorhees next to the Lender's Bagels in her fridge before getting an ice pick to the temple. It turns out Jason didn't drown after all. He's now fully grown, mindful of a boiling kettle and has raided The Phantom from The Town That Dreaded Sundown's closet. Donning a potato sack and some overalls, he heads for The Packanack Counselor Training Center, a kissing cousin to Camp Crystal Lake, where upstanding citizen Paul Holt is grooming a new brood. But pretty soon counselors begin to get killed off in all too familiar fashion. Conveniently, final girl Ginny Field has studied psychology and almost fools Jason in a somewhat confusing ending (which would not be the last for the franchise). Friday the 13th Part 2 is a pretty decent sequel for being released less than a year from
it’s predecessor, delivering some good scares and a Jason
that runs, which is always a good thing in my book.
Friday the 13th Part 2 was filmed in New Preston,
Waterbury, Torrington and Kent, CT
Location: Alice Hardy's Apartment (Exterior)
Address: 47 Central Ave, Waterbury, CT2015
2021
2015
2021
Alice's house was torn down in 2018...
Location: Alice Hardy's Apartment (Interior)Address: 58 High Street, Torrington, CT
McCall Center for Behavioral Health
The door to the bathroom is now sealed off and the entrance is on the other side of the wall...
Location: Jeff & Sandra Roll Into Town
Address: 9 East Shore Rd, New Preston, CT
Location: Welcome To God's Country
Address: 27 Church Street, New Preston, CT
Location: Alice Hardy's Apartment (Interior)
The door to the bathroom is now sealed off and the entrance is on the other side of the wall...
Location: Welcome To God's Country
Address: 27 Church Street, New Preston, CT
Location: Driving to Packanack Counselor Training Center
Address: Woodville Road & Lake Road, New Preston, CT
Thanks to MotoCheez for info on this location...
Thanks to MotoCheez for info on this location...
Location: Packanack Counselor Training Center
Address: 65 Kenmont Rd, Kent, CT
Unfortunately the cabins were torn down a few years ago but here is the entrance to the camp and the lake...
Location: Packanack Counselor Training Center
Location: The Bar & Casino
Address: 47 West Shore Road, New Preston, CT
Unfortunately, it burned down not long after filming...
Locations Visited: November 2015, December 2018, March 2021, December 2021Unfortunately, it burned down not long after filming...
Related Locations:
Friday the 13th (1980), Friday the 13th Part III (1982), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Friday the 13th (2009)
These are pretty cool! Shots I haven't seen before! Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kat! Glad you liked them!
DeleteI know the area well . I work for a food delivery company and have been on the camp grounds many times . Always intrigued by where the movie was filmed
DeleteDrove on that camp road over the summer in a school bus. Interesting experience, that. Beautiful place though.
DeleteI love your work man. Grettings from Argentina
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sebastian! I really appreciate it! More to come!
DeleteI just came from new Preston ct. Wish I would have seen this blog first. I drove around looking for the movie's location. Guess I'm going to have to try again
ReplyDeleteOh bummer. Well, next trip will be more successful.
DeleteMr. Koppel, did you ever find Jason's shack? Is it just outside of Kent, Connecticut? There was a youtube video posted several years ago with pictures of a shack but the video has since been taken down due to a copyright claim by you actually. I'm extremely curious.
ReplyDeleteThe video was using my photos without permission. Even though it showed some structure, the shack was torn down after filming according to a crew member. Even if it wasn't, I can't imagine it could withstand Superstorm Sandy and all the hurricanes and nor'easters the tri-state area has endured over the years.
DeleteOh alright. Then the shack seen in that taken-down youtube video was not Jason's shack then.
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