- (eerie music playing) - (whimpering)
(screams)
Following the sign to Camp Crystal Lake
can only mean one thing... bad luck.
For her, not for us.
You see in 1980 when producer/director Sean Cunningham
released a little film into the world called "Friday the 13th,"
not even he could have imagined the success
or the fame or the carnage that would ensue.
With 12 movies to date,
an endless body count
and over a half billion in worldwide box-office dollars,
"Friday the 13th" gave birth
to one of the greatest cinematic villains of our time.
She doesn't know what she's in for.
So lock up your cabin doors, zip up your tents
and make sure that your car does indeed start,
because tonight he could be anywhere.
So you wondering who I'm talking about?
His name was Jason.
(blood splattering)
(screaming)
For some of us,
the problems we have as adults go back to our mothers.
In the case of Jason,
truer words were never spoken.
(man softly) Kill kill kill...
In the late '70s, Steve Miner and I had made a couple
of children's movies
and neither one of them was very successful.
And we had to do something to keep the lights on.
And so we came up with this notion of doing "Friday the 13th."
We had a title and a need
- to make some money. - (shatters)
The thing about the story is that it's so profoundly simple.
The longest part of the process of creating the first "Friday the 13th"
was figuring out the venue,
so I had to find some territory that was adult-free
so that these kids would be on their own
and we could pick them off one by one.
My character was sort of like
the Janet Leigh in "Psycho."
I'm the setup character to follow,
but I didn't last too long.
We ran into the woods where it was safe.
Cunningham: We had this notion that these kids
would be out at a summer camp and would be threatened
by some kind of serial killer.
We would then be surprised to discover
who the serial killer was at the end.
Mrs. Voorhees, who is mighty pissed off
that her son Jason
drowned while a couple of counselors
were off boning somewhere.
The counselors weren't paying any attention.
They were making love while that young boy drowned.
The scariest moment in the original movie
is when Alice realizes
that Pamela is the killer.
Kill her, Mommy!
Kill her!
And that's the beginning of the chase at the end of the movie.
(screaming)
And when we think all is quiet
and she survived that horrible Friday the 13th...
The boy, is he dead too?
POLICEMAN: Who?
The one who attacked me, the one who pulled me underneath the water!
Ma'am, we didn't find any boy.
Then he's still there.
And he certainly was.
Lauren-Marie Taylor: Before we started filming "Part 2,"
they had us watch the original "Friday the 13th,"
which almost scared me off to not doing the project,
'cause it really freaked me out.
After the first one
Jason had been created,
so the notion of having a surprise
as to who it is or what it is changed completely.
So what the stories became
was sort of a ritualized telling
of a group of young people who go someplace
- where they shouldn't go. - (gasps)
What are you kids doing out here?
We come back to Crystal Lake to open up this camp again.
The ghost of the past,
Jason comes to haunt them.
Todd: And one by one,
Jason Voorhees kills us
and continues to do what he does best.
"Part 2" was basically his journey
of seeking revenge over the death of his mother.
And he's got her decapitated head
on his mantelpiece.
He just keeps killing and killing.
And that's the journey that's taken us for 30 years.
It's remarkable.
CUNNINGHAM: I really thought it wasn't gonna work the way it did,
and I'm delighted to have been so wrong.
"Friday the 13th Part III"... we get the gimmick movie.
"Friday the 13th III" in 3D, and that is also the movie
where Jason will choose his infamous mask.
The day after the events in "Part 2"...
so it's technically Saturday the 14th,
but don't tell anyone... a group of teenagers
all go up to the cabin to visit Chris Higgins,
little knowing that Jason
is still out there killing everyone.
Ugh!
Through all the 3D movies I've ever done,
nobody talks about any of them.
All they ever wanna talk about is when can we see
"Friday the 13th" in 3D.
RYAN ROTTEN: Four is where things start getting interesting.
It starts to introduce a protagonist Tommy Jarvis,
who we'll start seeing in other sequels.
I was told that this was gonna be the last of the series.
And this again would be about death at the end,
because Jason was going to die.
BARNEY COHEN: Jason had been hit in the head with an axe.
He had been carted off in an ambulance. We pick him up almost in real time
arriving dead at a hospital.
And then Jason breaks out of the morgue.
Leave me alone! (screaming)
And then the kids in the car arrive at the lake
and bump into us. There's skinny-dipping
- and all kinds of things. - Partying... we're partying on down
and then we all got killed.
In very quick succession.
My character Rob had a sister named Sandra,
who was a counselor at Crystal Lake in "Part 2."
This dude looks like he's been hunting Jason for years.
The one time I saw the movie... going to the opening night screening
on Hollywood Boulevard...
during the whole entire movie just people screaming,
it was like this cathartic experience for everybody.
It's a thrill ride.
I remember that we're supposed to think Corey Feldman's
gonna pick up the torch and be the next Jason.
"Part 5" was truly a departure
because they went in a totally different direction.
They decide they're gonna set it in a halfway house
for weird fucked-up kids.
And there's this dude and he's killing the kids off
and he's using Jason's mask.
We don't see Jason in that movie, except for hallucinations,
flashbacks... that's it.
When the film opened it was opening, I think,
in 2,000 theaters across the country.
In 1984, that was a lot.
Frank Mancuso called me late that night...
2:00, 3:00 in the morning,
so excited, saying these numbers
are like the golden times. This is unheard of.
Shavar Ross: When the supposed Jason fell,
I love the part where he just goes right through those spikes.
Because you can just see the dummy
just going right on the spike.
Another piece of advice,
don't allow the overweight mentally-handicapped son
of the local ambulance driver to get hacked to shit over a candy bar.
Because chances are that driver's gonna turn
into a Jason clone and try to take people out.
ADAM GREEN: They brought him back again in "VI," and he killed Horshack
at the beginning, which was awesome.
And he was kind of like Frankenstein because a lightning bolt
that came out of nowhere brought him back to life,
and there was maggots on his face, which was really cool.
I think it was extremely violent.
I mean, you look at it and you go,
"Wow, there's tongue-in-cheek in this. There's rock music in this."
But Jason, in fact, in this movie, bends people in half,
twists their heads off, does a triple beheading.
I really didn't want it to be just about you have sex and die,
'cause that had been done. It's sort of like you're in the wrong place
at the wrong time kind of thing,
and also try to have the characters have a sense of humor.
When Nancy's killed and the American Express card floats
out of her hand, inevitably there was always some clown
that would go, "Don't leave home without it!"
Kevin Spirtas: In "Part VII," the girl whose got these
extraordinary telekinetic powers
resurrects him by throwing her anger and her energy
into the lake where he's already been killed
from a previous movie.
She musters all of her telekinetic ability to raise him
and thus begins the story.
That's what really made it different. She had the psychic abilities
which he had not fought before, but realistically,
the psychic stuff would have had to have been in there anyway,
because this monster kept coming back.
He's a surreal monster.
Jason, played by Kane Hodder, I believe, for the first time.
"VII" starts the Kane Hodder era.
Everything about the way Kane Hodder played him
makes him menacing and yet he's human.
ELIZABETH KAITAN: I remember thinking, "Wow, this is Jason!"
I grew up watching this, and here he is chasing me.
(chokes)
Since I was doing it for the first time, there seems to be some anger there,
some differences that you didn't see in Jason before.
The kids love Kane Hodder's Jason.
ROB GALLUZZO: The coolest teaser trailer to a movie ever
was " Friday the 13th 8: Jason Takes Manhattan."
You get this trailer where you don't know what is it
and then they reveal that it's Jason in the middle of the city.
I live in New York. I was stoked. I was like,
"Oh my God. He's coming to New York. He's coming to where I know."
When they first brought me in to do the movie,
the first question I asked them was does it have to be in Crystal Lake?
Can I take Jason out of Crystal Lake?
The general plot of "Friday the 13th Part 8"
is a young woman and her graduating class
of Crystal Lake High going on a big cruise to New York.
One by one, the classmates are killed off.
The single most amazing thing that I've ever done
as the character was shooting the scenes in Times Square
in "Jason Takes Manhattan."
I felt like a rock star.
(raspy breathing)
"Part 9"...they went from not having blood
to not having Jason.
There was something about Jason transferring from body to body to body.
Joe Lynch: Then Jason comes back to life
and to Crystal Lake and is exploded
and becomes a bunch of demon-hearted baby things
and decides to possess a couple of people.
And then gets thwarted again by " 21 Jump Street" himself Steven Williams.
Adam Green: He really wasn't in the movie.
It was kind of other people. Then if he was in a mirror, you could see him.
And he could transport into bodies.
But the best part was when he was this little worm thing
and he went... was it the girl from "Buck Rogers"?
Is that who she was? He went in her pussy and that was awesome.
They basically tried to create a mythology for Jason.
There are a lot of Jason fans who to this day
are pissed off at me
for blowing up Jason.
JAMES ISAAK: "Jason X" takes place 400 years in the future.
And a group of science students,
kids go on a field trip.
These students go on. They're on the planet.
They're digging things up, and of course they find Jason.
Anyway, Jason wakes up and of course does what Jason does.
We set it up that Kay-Em actually did kill him.
This time he got killed, right?
Then the nanobots bring him together
and now he's part machine,
and so he's more unstoppable than ever.
To this day, still, when people mention that movie,
they're like, "I love that fake boob scene!"
All right, the story of "Freddy vs. Jason" is a hybrid story.
You're bringing these two great characters together finally.
Tony Timpone: It took them literally decades
before they came up with a story that was strong enough
to support these two characters.
The premise of this movie was for Freddy to use Jason
to get his powers back.
There came a point where you had to choose a side.
And I was a Jason guy, always.
So for "Jason vs. Freddy," I didn't wanna see anything
but Jason kick Freddy's ass.
LYNCH: If it wasn't for Alice killing Mrs. Voorhees in that one film,
none of this would happen.
I like Jason Voorhees. He has a backstory,
and he has a reason for being the way he is.
What a messed up kid.
I think that just in the overall energy
of trying to do it simple and scary
was the thing that drove the whole process forward.
After all that, who could imagine that Jason,
the bloodthirsty indestructible force of nature,
was at one time an innocent kid
just like the rest of us?
Well, most of us.
Jason not only witnessed his mother's beheading.
But he was shot and stabbed
and burned and sent to hell
and shot into outer space.
I think to really understand Jason
you gotta go back to the beginning...
who he is, where he came from,
why he can't resist a good kill.
(man softly) Kill kill kill...
Does Jason have a soul? I don't think so.
He is not mindless. I think actually that's something
that the fans would like to learn more about...
what's going on in his head.
Jason started as a drowning victim.
That's as simple as you can make it.
He's just a little boy who was ignored
by his camp counselors and couldn't swim very well
and drowned. And no matter what movie you're talking about,
he's still a victim.
For any good villain, there's always that sadness to them,
and that thing where you can almost feel bad for them.
He didn't do anything wrong. He didn't deserve to die.
Jason was the outcast. Jason was the little kid who got picked on.
And now Jason's the one who's getting the last laugh in a way,
or the last slash.
Who did it start with? His mother.
I'm Mrs. Voorhees, an old friend of the Christies.
The fact that she's a loon, totally out of her mind
and also channeling her son and going...
Kill her, Mommy. Kill her!
The idea for the character came out
of my own past.
Mrs. Voorhees is the mother I never had.
She is the mother who will kill people
to avenge her son's death. But, hey,
if you're gonna have a mother defend you,
she might as well be crazy.
Palmer: They love Mrs. Voorhees.
And I've said to people, I say, " Why do you love her
as much as you do when she's supposed
to be this dreadful human being?"
And they say because we understand why you did it.
Mrs. Voorhees was really not a murderess.
All she was trying to do was to protect other children
from being drowned.
One of the things that really works for "Part 2"
is that you do have this kind of passing of the baton
going from Mrs. Voorhees to Jason.
Basically, he is fueled by vengeance
for the death of his mother.
See, it's this seeking righteous vengeance
that defines the Jason character
and also separates Jason Voorhees
from all the other horror icons.
(screams)
King: Jason's misunderstood.
What happens is
when he watches Alice kill his mother,
I believe Alice unleashes the monster in Jason.
You feel bad for anybody who has to see
their mom get their head cut off on a beach. I know I do.
Barton: So he finds this potato sack,
throws it over his head, cuts out his little eyehole
and does his thing. He starts plying his craft for the first time
that he learned from his mom.
(screams)
I think he observed the camp after many years,
kids coming and going.
I think at one point that's when he decided to do what he did.
I think what he's doing is protecting his home.
And anybody that walks into his territory is kind of doomed.
Honestly, I don't think he's angry. I think he's sad.
Poor Jason was brought into this world
and he really had a tough start.
Kaitan: If your mother killed a bunch of people,
you would be a very tragic child, I would say.
It's like kind of a Ted Bundy upbringing.
Here was this tortured soul
who lived for years
just on probably the revenge.
I think Ginny kind of understood
there's more to it than just this demon guy.
Jason, Mother is talking to you.
By putting on his mother's sweater and trying to speak like her,
it almost confused him for a second.
KING: You see him questioning, is that my mother?
He wanted to believe his mother was still alive.
I guess Jason was a unique character.
He wasn't just somebody
who put on a facemask.
He was a whole creature.
LYNCH: It's almost like Jason is a personification
of the dark side of all of us.
I find in this character elements of myself.
And there are monstrous elements of myself
that are bent on self-destruction and destroying others.
And there are parts of myself that feel wronged
and I'm unjustly treated and I'm the victim.
He just hated everything about people.
His reason for killing is just because he does.
Don't reason with him. He doesn't reason with you.
It's all in his own head.
He just does it.
He's definitely a tortured tragic soul,
but the truth is you can't go around life with this badge
that you've been tortured and kill and slash.
At some point, it's gotta stop.
The main aspect
that enhances the otherworldly character
of Jason is that he's silent and faceless...
like death... the death mask.
It's plenty scary, the mystery of the unknown.
What is behind that potato sack?
In "Friday the 13th Part III,"
Jason wears, for the very first time, a hockey mask,
which he has taken from Shelly
when Shelly made the bad mistake of walking into the barn
carrying the hockey mask.
And the moment when he puts on the hockey mask
and realizes it, it's a great moment for the franchise,
'cause it's like, "What was I thinking?
I should have been wearing this all along. This is awesome."
This dock behind me,
this is where the legend of Jason was born.
This is the first time we saw him step out
in the hockey mask.
The birth of Jason.
There's something to be said about
putting a mask on
and doing things that you wouldn't normally do
with that mask off.
Katz: Jason in "Part III" runs.
That's the one where he runs. Jason's a bit of a manic hillbilly
in "III" still. Got a little of that left over.
After that he becomes the slow methodical stalker.
TODD FARMER: If he sees you, he's not gonna stop.
It's like a beacon. Once he's popped in on you,
he's gonna stay there until he kills you.
And it doesn't matter what he has to use.
He's terribly creative. And he's got lots of weapons.
He really had a thing for knives,
and he really had a thing for machetes.
He likes to puncture through the body...
He really likes spears.
...sawing off heads, twisting heads, crushing heads...
Taylor: He was really into anything
that would splash blood.
...punching heads off, eyes popping out.
I mean, he's a showman.
It was really about watching Jason do his thing.
He was the protagonist in these films.
He has become an anti-superhero.
So we just gotta come up with a cape
for the Big J.
If we can just get him to do some good stuff, though,
you know? He's got the killing down.
Jason's always been the underdog,
and everybody roots for the underdog.
Roday: It's every nerd's dream to get killed
and them come back as a bad-ass
and start taking out all the stereotypes
that pick on nerds.
- Why do you do these stupid things? - I have to.
CAREY MORE: I think he's a little bit of a madman, perhaps.
Well, he seems a little superhuman also
because he seems to be able to revive
and take almighty blows with hatchets and stuff.
Jason is a kid who's just too stupid
to know that he's dead.
I think it's always kind of inventive
how we would bring Jason back. I always loved that.
It was almost like the cliffhangers in the old serials.
How does he live to see another day?
Something's gotta bring him back. Why not lightning, right?
We can blow him up. We can cut him up.
We can shoot him up. We can dice him up, and he comes back for more.
It's great that as times change, audiences change.
The creature, the monster, the villain, I think is allowed to evolve.
Jason is the 21st-century killer.
He's good old blood and guts.
Shepherd: I think that Jason is both a monster
and a victim. This is a very deep character
that survived this many episodes in killings and destructions
because he's larger than life.
He's still that little troubled
mentally-ill boy
trapped in the large body of a killing machine.
He's become iconic in our lives.
Jason has no expiration date.
(whimpering)
(screams)
12 movies in three decades?
That's enough sequels to rival box-office legends
like James Bond or Godzilla.
"Friday the 13th" defined
what is considered the modern-day slasher.
Looking at this guy, it's no wonder why.
But you know what? It takes more than a body count
to make a "Friday the 13th" movie.
The formula is pretty specific with a "Friday the 13th" movie.
The first thing you need in a "Friday the 13th" film
is nubile young flesh.
You have a bunch of teenagers and they cannot be accessible
by adult power authorities.
They can't come in and save them.
You have to have a reason for the kids to be out in the woods.
It's the " Let's run out into the woods,"
and, " Ooh! There's a killer loose."
- The crazy old bastard. - (screams)
I'm the messenger of God.
You're doomed if you stay here.
These movies are made for teenagers.
And so the point of view is that anyone who is over a certain age
or in a position of authority cannot be trusted,
because that's how teenagers feel.
Steel: They have almost, like, one
of each type of personality.
So that no matter who you are
looking at the movie, you can relate to one of those characters.
CUNNINGHAM: We want to have these sort of beautiful teenagers
but which include all the stereotypes.
You know, the fat guy and the high school jock
and the pretty cheerleader
and then the girl with brown hair
who is sort of soulful.
The obnoxious teenager who you just want to die so bad,
and when he dies, you all cheer.
(laughs)
(gasps)
I think every "Friday the 13th" has to have the "promiscuous" girl
who is caught doing something naughty
and she pays.
She's usually the first one to go.
And then they are picked off one by one
and you have to figure out as many different ways
of making the teenagers dumb
without being really stupid.
Because the great thing about "Friday the 13th" and other horror films
is it gives a lot of people in the audience a chance
to be way smarter than the characters.
There has to be teenagers having sex
and getting killed while they're having sex.
Barton: Jason likes to get you
when you're that much aroused.
It's like he takes your sexual energy,
then he fucks you with his machete.
For the most part, the less sex you have,
the higher chance you have of living.
Also has to be in the film: a pair of breasts
every 15 minutes.
It's show time.
We were kind of short on the breast thing, I think.
I can only count about three.
Three breasts? We need more.
I needed the T&A for me. To hell with the audience.
And then of course, the important ingredient
- is Jason. - (girl screaming)
Jason is an unstoppable force of nature.
It's interesting how he could just walk
and nobody could ever get away from him.
It also kind of seems like he's everywhere at once... at one time.
He notices everybody all of a sudden
when they're just gonna have a great time...
(imitates blade cutting)
And if you go back and remember what it was
that caused Jason's drowning,
it was teenagers canoodling and not watching.
If you're screwing, you get killed.
We weren't doing anything. We were just messing ar... ugh!
You have sex, die. That's the premise.
That's the underlying theme
going through the "Friday the 13th" movies.
I didn't have sex until I was 30 because of Jason.
That motherfucker was the best contraceptive a guy like me could have.
Slasher movies particularly are like Broadway musicals.
You can't go too long without a song.
You can't go more than 10 minutes without a kill.
Kids went to see these movies to see kids get killed.
The kills have to be interesting and unique.
And even the cast,
the kids would come up to us, "How am I gonna die?"
I think that's what audiences came to see.
How is the next guy gonna get it?
(screaming)
Help, somebody help me!
CHARLES: It's pure fantasy and we know it's fantasy.
These films are better
than the gory
modern killing films
that are made to look so realistic.
Usually at the end of the movie there's some sort of
a jump scare.
The famous ending scene was not in the original script.
They really didn't have an ending so I said to Sean,
"Why don't we have Jason jump out of the lake
and attack her?"
Lehman: Alice has this look of hope
and she's just trailing her fingers in the water.
And at the moment when the strings just swell...
(shrieking)
(screams)
Bam! That's where the trick is played.
The reason I think this has gone is it transcends
a lot of different ages.
And the music is important
because you're sort of heightened and scared
just with the music and the visual all at the same time.
Music and score is another character.
It's every bit as important as Jason.
Harry Manfredini took the minimalist approach
and it works to a perfect effect.
Music in a horror movie is crucial.
It can make or break a film, and his score in that movie
was just untouchable.
(softly) Kill kill kill kill...
(imitating soundtrack)
(nonsense noises)
- No no, that doesn't sound right. - That's not good. Let's start again.
And if you go to the end of the film, you'll see a very close-up
of Betsy Palmer's
Mrs. Voorhees' mouth,
where she's saying
to herself, " Kill her, Mommy. Kill her, Mommy."
And it goes back and forth between her voice
and supposedly Jason's voice.
And I said, "Bingo, that's it."
So then I just went
and I took the consonant sound
of the K, "ki" from killer
and "ma" from mommy.
I went up to a microphone and just went
"ki... ma."
And we ran it through something called an echoplex,
and it ended up coming... (imitates soundtrack)
When you hear that... (imitates soundtrack)
you know you've got a"Friday the 13th" movie.
It created all the conventions of the slasher films that followed,
pretty much using the template that was established
on that first film in 1980.
Obviously, Jason Voorhees is a true
worldwide icon.
One could say that he's as famous as the Beatles
or Madonna, a veritable rock-star slasher
if there ever was one. And what rock star
would be complete without a greatest-hits compilation?
Does Jason have one, you ask?
Let's ask this guy.
- (bones crack) - (screams)
What are you doing, douchebag?
So Jason will kill with anything he could get his hands on.
LYNCH: It was another one that you sit in the audience
and watch it with a crowd and everyone just goes, "Oh, dude!"
(gasps)
The obvious most memorable moment is with Kevin Bacon.
He's like on his knees under the bed.
Me and my buddy Taso are under there
and I'm pushing the arrow through
and Taso was pumping the blood,
but an accident occurred. The tubes separated
from Taso's pump, so he grabbed it and blew in it.
That's what made the blood shoot out and gurgle.
My favorite kill of all: Mrs. Voorhees slo-mo.
It doesn't get better than that.
- The ultimate kill by Alice. - (screaming)
(mimics knife thrust)
We actually made a cast of Betsy Palmer's head.
I attached it with toothpicks.
So the toothpicks were just kind of holding it in place,
knowing that when I whacked it with that machete,
it would go through the toothpicks.
But if you watch the movie when Betsy Palmer is decapitated,
her hands come up into frame and kind of like a grabbing there.
They're Taso's hands with hairy knuckles.
I don't have hair on the back of my hands like he did.
I thought that was a little weird in one shot.
One of the things that turned out wildly effective
was the back-cracking of the sheriff character.
- (screaming) - (bones crack)
They dug a hole
and those weren't my legs. They had a guy head down
in the hole with his legs behind me.
But just that whole idea of bending somebody all the way back
and hearing all this... (knuckles crack) sound
drove them crazy.
A little sound design, a little screaming, it all turned out great.
Wheelchair death in "Part 2,"
that was just fucked up.
He already gets your sympathy
'cause you're like, "Oh, he's in a wheelchair."
But then he's gonna get laid.
And then Jason just goes, "You're screwed!"
And not only does he get hit in the face,
but he gets pushed backwards down the stairs,
and the camera does this great thing where it goes, "Weeee!"
- (screams, gagging) - (grunts)
Bonnie Hellman: I had a track around my neck
with a flexible steel blade that pushed from the back
and then a false neck over it, which took hours to put on.
Of course, I was eating a banana
at the time, so they had my mouth full of banana and blood.
It was such a messy little death.
Now cut that out right now. That's not funny!
There was a cable that was actually set up on the post
that ran across to where she was standing.
The gun was rigged in such a way that I actually hooked the gun
onto the cable and shot it
so it went straight down the cable.
And in 3D with the glasses, it's incredible.
We had to do it in one take
because the minute I hit the water,
the little prosthetic would absorb the water
and just kind of slide off.
The hedge clippers to the eyes...
that girl had the best rack, the best death
and her last name really had Voorhees in it.
That was a pretty horrific way to go.
That shish-kebab scene
is so original.
(gasps, grunts)
They attached this back to me
and then put the spear through the latex
and had the blood pumping out.
And they had a bed
which had a hole in it
and then she just kind of came in, sat
and then put her head back.
It looked like I was lying on top of her.
Before it got butchered by the ratings board,
there was this amazing shot where you saw the real girl
doing the last moment that she could have
trying to push the guy off of her.
It was such an effective disturbing sequence.
You imagine Jason down there like, "I can't wait."
What about the dude who goes into a handstand
and gets the axe right down the middle?
(gasps)
(screams)
(muffled scream)
He took my head by force
and slammed it through the wall of the Winnebago.
And how they actually did that is they filmed it underwater.
They shot it in slo-mo,
pushing through this piece of plastic.
You start asking yourself is there something wrong with you
when you're spending your day thinking up ways to murder people,
- but I got over it. - They used a real spear.
And it missed me by a speck.
(screams)
(water gurgling)
- I like it when he crushes heads. - (grunts)
We had a string go straight to the eye
so we could just pull the string
and the eye would pop out of the socket,
come straight down the line toward camera.
That is horrifically gory,
but it's classic Jason.
Ryder: My favorite kill in "Jason X"
is where he dunks that chick's head in the ice.
We spent a lot of time on that... prepping it.
And we not only just storyboarded it out,
but we had to have a false sink with the camera underneath
and a glass for the water because I wanted to be able to see
the face come toward the camera, not frozen.
- And then... - Bam! Face salad.
(shatters)
That was technically our most difficult kill.
I think his favorite thing is smashing heads together.
My favorite Jason kill that I've ever done
is the sleeping bag.
He bashed her against the tree, I think, at least five times,
but we minimized it to once.
And that was actually more impactful.
SAVINI: I cut his brain in half in "Part 4." I created the monster.
Thank you for letting me kill the monster.
- And this is... - Joseph Zito.
- The... - Director of " Friday the 13th
- Final Chapter." - I'm Erich Anderson and I played Rob.
And we're at the house where we shot the movie.
This is really the site of the death of Jason.
Right there.
ZITO: We have a big special-effects makeup group.
And they're all around.
They're all around and they're pumping blood
and moving the tongue
and working all of the parts.
The mask hits the ground, and the machete is picked up here,
and Tommy ends up taking the machete
and killing Jason to die die die.
GIRL: Tommy!
You maybe were expecting something quick.
Tommy hits him in the head with the blade, the end?
No, he slides down the blade.
(gagging, screaming)
(screaming)
Not too shabby.
But creating Jason's handiwork is never an easy task.
Neither was creating Jason Voorhees.
I should know.
So what does it take to create an unforgettable movie villain?
I came up with the idea for Jason's name
'cause originally it was gonna be Josh,
but the more I worked on the film and the creepier
the whole subject of that got,
I stuck with the "J" and went to Jason.
Tommy Savini, who of course
did all those fabulous special effects,
gave me some Polaroids to look at.
And he said, "That's your son,
Jason. He's a mongoloid."
I said, "He's what?"
His features were really a guy I used to see in my neighborhood,
a homeless drunk guy, one ear was lower than the other.
He was almost a Quasimodo kind of guy.
Lehman: The first thing they do is they take
a cast of your head.
There was fake teeth. There was a glass eye.
One thing people often ask is,
"Was it specially made to go underwater?"
and stuff like that.
No, it was just...
it was a latex prosthetic.
Daskawisz: Once I put the bag over my head
and I ran in the woods, I couldn't see anything
'cause the bag flopped back and forth.
And he came up with this idea... we'll put double-faced tape here
and here, and we'll hold it right close to your eye.
This way you'll see where you're going, and it worked great.
But from taking the tape on and off,
I had started to develop burns on my face.
Gillette: First they cut off all your hair,
and then they started to build the face with little rubber forms
they would glue on. And they sent me to a dentist
that created dental plates that would go in
that were sort of the worst dental problems
anyone could ever have.
And they built the beard and the hair,
and they taped off the eye.
It's sort of painful to have all this stuff put on.
The scene of "Friday the 13th: 2" where Jason
comes careening through the window...
they built a platform outside the house.
The platform was probably four feet long.
So we coordinated how many steps it takes.
So one, two, three... aggh!
(screaming)
At the time when this was created, there was a serial killer
running around in Texas.
And he was killing people
with a potato sack on his head.
This could have been the inspiration,
which I believe the potato sack is a little scarier
than the hockey mask,
which of course is now iconic.
BROOKER: I didn't get any direction from Steve Miner at all.
He actually came to me and said, "You're just a mindless killer.
You're like the living version of 'Jaws." '
I used to have to go in and do about six,
sometimes seven hours of makeup.
And it was 11 different appliances
that they glued to my face.
The bad part about it was that as soon as they'd finished,
it was usually lunchtime and I couldn't eat.
So they used to give me Tiger's Milk through a straw.
JUDIE ARONSON: Jason in our film was played by Ted White.
And his way of keeping the character
was kind of separating himself from everybody else.
I don't remember really him having a conversation with anybody.
I actually turned it down to begin with,
and later on I did accept it.
After I accepted it, I did go down and rent two of the "Jasons,"
and I watched Jason itself,
how he moved and so forth.
And I felt I'd like to play him a little bit different.
I'd like for him to move a little bit different.
Another way of doing it would be the fast move,
to move faster, and that's how I portrayed him.
That's what I wanted to do with him.
Even when I was in full costume, makeup, everything,
I stayed away from the cast completely.
I'd sit by myself on the set.
I just stayed away from everybody.
And I tried to keep in character as much as possible.
I liked the mystique
of being by myself,
not being close to anybody.
The scene upstairs where they hit me over the head
with a television set,
little did I know that that TV set was gonna stay on my head.
I had no idea where I was. I couldn't see out of that thing.
It was just a hand feeling for the stairway.
You know, I was offered the fifth one and sixth one.
I could have done either one of them and I turned 'em down.
I'm sorry now that I did turn them down.
MORGA: In "5," I actually played an impostor of Jason,
and I did have a couple moments where I did
play the apparition
of Jason himself,
where those were supposedly different Jason characters.
I just played Jason through the whole movie.
In the film, obviously, they had to distinguish in some way
so they used the blue for the marks on the mask
for the impostor Jason, where when I did the actual Jason
I was wearing the real mask
with the red marks on it.
The makeup with this particular character wasn't too intense.
The Jason character, though,
was a pullover mask with the face cut out.
All they had to do was darken my eyes
and then put the hockey mask over it.
We never talked about this. It's really not in the script.
Any motivation... there isn't any.
So I felt Roy was a little disturbed to begin with.
The first time I put on the green jumpsuit
and the boots
and I zipped them up, I looked at myself in the mirror
and I thought, "Is this me?"
Bartalos: One of the exciting things for me
was the creation of Jason's mask.
So we took a hockey mask
and kind of customized it.
We basically redesigned
some of the ventilation holes.
We created basically a new positive.
From the positive, we made a big block rubber mold
and from that, created what's called a buck,
a heavy-duty cement wedge that
on the top of it has the veneer
of the hockey mask
At that point, using a real heavy duty plastic,
we did what's called vacuforming.
The vacuforming draws apart
and we pull it out and bang,
we get Jason's mask.
C.J. GRAHAM: When we portrayed it, he got stronger.
Every opportunity of a fight scene or a kill
enhanced his knowledge of killing or his strength.
Every time he was shot and put down, he came back stronger the next time.
You know, Tom was very adamant. He did not want a machine on stage.
When you were on set, he wanted to make sure
there was some human contact
and people could relate to it.
Jason just is indestructible. When you put the costume on,
you really project it, and the projection had to be through the body...
100% through the body. Just a simplistic little movement
would create fear.
As soon as the mask comes down,
it's very simple to get into the character.
Nice thing about it is you get to kill 17, 18 people,
you don't go to prison.
Buechler: Every scar, every rip, every tear
that Jason ever had was
in the Jason that we created for "Part VII."
As far as playing the character, I wanted to just do what felt natural.
My goal was to just add some more life
to the character, even though he is kind of a zombie.
People ask me, " Why does the makeup change so much
from movie to movie? The hockey mask changes and everything else."
Basically, it's because it's a different makeup-effects person
who designs it.
The first movie I did, "Part VII,"
the makeup was real extensive, many pieces.
It took about three and a half hours a day.
It was hard to work in, but fantastic makeup.
Über Jason... it was an entire
one-piece suit
that did have a zipper in the back, but very well concealed.
On the suit, it limited my motion a lot
with the arm and the leg
that had the metallic pieces.
I still love the design of that Über Jason mask.
He brought a lot to the role.
No matter who directed him, no matter what movie he was in,
you could tell Kane's Jason from other people's Jason.
Having Kane Hodder play Jason four times
really established him as Jason.
I think stepping into it, I was a little leery,
because a lot of the feedback the fans were putting out there
was negative, I think, in the beginning.
But then when the movie came out,
it became very very positive.
They were big shoes, but I'm a big guy.
I remember the first day he showed up on the set,
the first night we shot him, and I turned around,
and there he was in full glory.
I mean, his boots were like this thick,
and then you put on everything else that he's wearing
and he was 6'8 ".
I'm not kidding you, he scared the hell out of me.
My portrayal of Jason
showed another side that you don't normally get to see.
In "Freddy vs. Jason," you see him actually interact
with his mother, and you see him confronted by fears.
I just went back to my childhood,
and I think I thought a lot about Frankenstein...
not really alive, but not really dead.
Even if you look at the movements, the walk and stuff like that,
I think I used a little bit of Frankenstein.
Even though people think he just kind of stands there
and lumbers along with his machete,
you have to feel that there's a physical force
that could actually be as evil and as powerful as he is.
Ew! Sorry, buddy.
I hope it was over quickly.
The truth is, like this guy,
most people don't survive their encounter
with our murderous mongoloid.
Still, there have been a few that gave Jason quite a headache.
You know, the people that insist on not going down without a fight.
It's a small group,
but they certainly gave Jason a big run for his money.
Or his machete.
So whether it's Alice or it's Ginny or it's Chris or any of these girls
who make it to the end, they usually have some common characteristics.
The most important is their chastity,
their purity.
They're generally not there to just party.
And as a result, they get rewarded
by being able to live through it.
It was usually the outcast. It was usually the good girl,
the one who didn't smoke pot, who didn't have premarital sex.
She was always the one who was able to take him on.
And I think that goes back to the most primitive storytelling
of just good versus evil.
The archetypes for them are the innocent girl next door.
I never felt like a victim.
As a matter of fact, I felt very empowered by the role.
The women were stronger in this film than the guys were.
She's a typical, regular gal.
She's like any teenager
or young adult trying
to figure out what they wanna do with their life.
She didn't run with the pack
and she was different.
But that didn't mean she was virtuous.
It just meant she thought things through differently.
I would love the opportunity to come back.
It's so much more satisfying
to watch a woman
destroy this tremendous evil.
Amy Steel, she was just so adorable. She was so girl-next-doorish.
She would probably be my all-time favorite "Friday" girl.
To know that I did one of these films
where they get all these women in that are so vulnerable
and to be the one that people think was strong
and intelligent is just... it feels good.
Ginny was written
in a more multidimensional kind of way.
And there was something a little bit separate about her than everybody.
She didn't need a group of people around her.
She was strong enough to stand on her own.
She wanted to figure it out.
Well, what would it be like today?
Some kind of out-of-control psychopath?
A frightened retard?
A child trapped in a man's body?
I think my favorite personally was Lar Park-Lincoln in "Part VII."
Just the ability to come in with the mind
and to manipulate Jason like she did... I mean, she was equal.
RODAY: The genius convention of adding a character
with telekinesis
to give Jason a new sort of foil
in the final battle was pretty fantastic.
One thing that I didn't want to do is I didn't want
to play a psychic, or someone who felt they had telekinetic abilities,
like they were someone going into a stroke
and doing some cartoonish version
of what she was dealing with.
Lar Park-Lincoln as Tina, she's classic.
It was a different take on the story.
That character gave it a great brawl.
PARK-LINCOLN: She didn't back down. She never really ran from him.
She chased him. And we had that great street scene
where she goes right up to him... I love the twigs
coming around his legs
and taking him down that way.
The most worthy opponents of Jason
from the movies that I did... certainly Tina has to be there,
because she created the most damage
to Jason and survived.
They also started a trend where like the surviving girl's "love interest"
started making it through as well.
I'm honored that I was a survivor.
If Jason wanted to bring it on again,
I'd come back.
I would love to tackle her again.
Although I think I would do it with better hair serum.
So my hair wouldn't be as frizzy
as it was throughout the entire shooting of that film.
I think of the whole series, I think Tommy Jarvis is probably one
of Jason's biggest adversaries.
Jason, don't you remember?
Remember, Jason?
Zito: Tommy's an outsider, like Jason.
Tommy's a kid that doesn't fit in.
So there is a relationship between Tommy and Jason
when Tommy takes on the persona and impersonates him
as a weapon to undo him.
I would love to have gone up against Corey Feldman
just 'cause I'd like to squeeze his head until it pops.
Tommy had a very unique relationship to Jason
because at least at the end of "Part 5," he actually
looks like he will become the next Jason.
In "Part 4," which Corey Feldman played so beautifully,
he ends up in an insane asylum.
Is he monster or victim? Well, he's a little bit of both.
He just wants to kill everybody.
He didn't get me though. I ran him over with a tractor...
one of the very few brothers that survived
the "Friday the 13th" series, by the way.
They wanted to kill me off in "Part VI,"
but we said, "Nope, not doing that to us."
(screams)
John LeMay's character... another good one
because we had a hell of a fight.
I did put up a pretty good fight.
The electricity's going off everywhere,
and I'm just breathing heavy and sweating a lot
and smacking the hell out of him. It was fun,
but surviving Jason is an honor.
In my obituary, it'll say " John survived Jason,
but could not survive life."
DAGGETT: Rennie had a special connection to Jason
because I think her evil uncle
was trying to teach her how to swim when she was a little girl.
Peter Mark Richman: I tossed her in the water,
which was a not-very-nice thing to do for an uncle.
And she had an inordinate fear
of drowning.
And she saw Jason under the water.
(screaming)
I felt very empowered playing the part, especially at the end
when I was the only one surviving and there we were in the sewers.
And I felt like,
"All right, this is a nice, tough,
accurate portrayal of a girl's strength."
You didn't get me in the lake,
and you're not gonna get me now!
I would probably go back and do another "Friday the 13th."
If nothing else, then just to make my boys happy.
Women in "Friday the 13th" movies
are always strong. You know, they're strong characters.
And we wanted to be true to that.
So Todd and I came up with this idea of this robot
and making the robot female.
One of the most delightful things about her
is like just unstoppable, unflappable.
I feel very privileged in that I got to survive that movie.
Even though he knocked my block off and I was a head...
I was a talking head
for, I think, the last third of the movie...
I feel like one of the lucky ones.
I think most of the people that have survived
have been women because all of us directors
have a tremendous amount of guilt
for what we've done to all of these poor girls
in the movies.
I do think that the heroines have a strength that's there,
but a real vulnerability
that attracts people.
People wanna love you and they wanna cheer for you.
Steel: If they were to ask me
to do sort of the "Friday the 13th" survivors...
gonna take on Jason... would I do it?
Hell yeah!
Wouldn't it be great
if the strong women of the series came back
and took him on?
It would be great... so maybe Adrienne and Lar and myself.
I think that it would be very interesting if you had a triad
of the girls, where you would have the powers,
an extremely strong one and just a ballsy character.
It would be a dream movie for the fans. And I think we could still pull it off.
We still have a couple of good years in us.
Jason? Where's Jason?!
We took care of him.
(siren wails)
(whimpers)
Please please please, help me.
(girl screaming)
Yeah, bad luck sure can be bloody.
It's not just the victims on the screen that run into problems.
Over the past 30 years there have been troublesome times
for the "Friday the 13th" filmmakers as well.
Many had nothing whatsoever to do
with our hockey-masked friend.
Paul? (screaming)
Shooting my death scene was a bit of a challenge.
That's where the horror part came
into the filming with me.
From here down, I was in the water.
There were points where I just felt
like I couldn't go on anymore.
It was either 22 or 23º. It was very very cold
and she had a bikini on and she was freezing.
She was so cold her teeth were chattering,
and this girl was actually turning blue.
Aronson: Ted White stood up for me
and demanded that we
get the shot now or else.
And it turns out that I had gotten hypothermia,
and I was quite sick
for several days after that.
LEMAY: A whole day spent filming the end of the movie
where Jason's getting sucked into the earth
and trying to drag me down with him.
On the soundstage, they'd pretty much created this large sandbox
with a hole in it, which Jason would pop up,
grab me by the leg and keep pulling me down.
And for some reason that sequence took a half a day
with me screaming at the top of my lungs
and just wearing my body out.
I thought every shot was gonna be the last dang one, you know?
I thought it was it. "We got this one, baby."
I don't think I've ever been so exhausted in my life.
MAN: Now, dirt demons, everything up, moving.
Al Magliochetti: The visual-effects climax,
all these demons came up from below the ground
and started grabbing Jason and trying to pull him down into hell.
And KNB had a very elaborate sequence designed for that,
with all kinds of puppets. And we had a very elaborate miniature...
which wound up not being used because of technical problems...
that actually grabbed Jason
and started dragging him under.
Isn't that cool? How many people get this going on?
On the final day of production
I got my action figure...
made by the hair and makeup guys.
So this is my one-of-a-kind action figure.
We shot the ending twice.
We actually did another ending,
which most people have never seen,
in which Dana Kimmell comes up to the door
of the house in a dream,
and Jason comes through the front door
and decapitates her.
This is the actual mask that was done on my skin.
It's a little...
oh, here's a worm.
It's a little crumbly, but it's split up the back
because as it was on my face all the way around my neck...
I had a bald cap on...
they did the whole thing right on my head.
And so to get me out of it, they split it right up the back.
So it used to be something like this, but...
Monoson: My parents are away in the movie...
I had to be stoned.
And so I thought, "Hmm, wouldn't that be interesting
to actually be stoned on camera?"
So I go to my trailer and I get stoned.
I'm a very paranoid stoned person.
So it was the worst worst idea I could have ever done.
And they knocked on my door to go to the set.
I'm like, "What?!" And they're like, "We're ready for you,"
and I'm like, "Okay." (laughs)
So they take me and I'm on the set,
and, actors, don't get stoned and act.
It's absolutely the worst thing.
I was out of my mind.
Richman: I do remember a scene
in my bedroom where this girl comes on to me,
and I was getting very keyed up,
turned on.
In the editing they didn't show any of that.
And I was pissed off.
I was really...
having it affect me.
The MPAA really went after the "Friday the 13th" films,
'cause they were asleep when the first film was rated.
They kind of let it pass. When the sequels came out,
and after all the criticism, they had to be more stringent.
Probably the most heavily edited was "Part VII."
The MPAA was just vicious toward that film for some reason.
Ratings board raped my movie.
I equate horror
to telling a joke.
Everything's in the setup and then the payoff
has gotta be, "Whoa, that's great!"
We were telling the joke and we weren't allowed
to give them the punchline.
So what you see
in the final cut of "Friday VII,"
which is not really my cut, is a very watered-down version
of what we hoped it would be.
Rotten: The MPAA was just responding
to a lot of parent advocate groups that were coming out of the woodwork.
I mean, you had parents picketing out in front of theaters
for certain films sometimes.
I think the MPAA gets crazy when you combine sex and violence
at the same time, so I think that's something you have to be careful about.
All the sequels really went through the wringer
to secure R ratings.
Steinmann: The MPAA,
after a lot heavy-duty fights,
insisted that we omit 47 seconds.
Almost every kill
was either off-screen
or minimized.
ROSS: Tiffany Helm, there was a scene that nobody knows about,
where she had her death scene. I think they had to change it
because it would have been rated X if they kept it.
Jason was gonna go in for the kill.
Tiffany was gonna have her legs up like this,
and he was just gonna go like... couldn't show that.
Couldn't show that back then. That was cut. Rated X.
X. Shoot it.
KING: "Friday the 13th" was the greatest experience for me,
and then slowly I realized
I had a stalker.
I had an ordeal with him up close at one point,
which in itself is a horror movie.
It's all okay now. It's all good now.
And having the three generations
of fans from around the world that fly in
to wherever I am at a city or a convention
that really talk to me and care and tell me how much
it affected them when they found out...
it's just a gift.
It's a beautiful thing and I don't care how sappy it sounds.
I thank them.
Steel: One of the scary moments on the set
was in Jason's lair
when I put the sweater on
and I talked to him about Mother.
And he's supposed
to bring up this pickaxe.
So I got really anxious
and I brought the machete down.
She missed the pickaxe,
and she came down on my finger.
Steel: And he goes to the hospital...
I think he had the machete through his chest or something
and walks into the emergency room
and they're like, "Oh my God!"
Then he said, " No no, it's just right here on my finger."
And I have 13 stitches in this finger.
It's right here. This right here, it's 13 stitches.
And then he came back
and we started all over again.
We stayed at the camp. At one of our first nights in the cabins...
I think it was John Furey and Bill Randolph
and Russell Todd...
knew where I was staying.
And they went to the screen windows
when it was really dark out
and they started scratching on the screen windows.
I fainted. I actually fainted
flat on the floor
'cause I just went... (gasps) Boom!
(rock music playing)
Though the counselors at Crystal Lake
worked very hard to keep the rules of the camp clear,
the same can't be said for the "Friday the 13th" films,
which have had more than their share of ambiguities
and inconsistencies,
leaving the fans longing for more.
Oh, no way, Becca.
- You so owe me a Wonderbra. - (giggles)
Well, okay.
Strip Monopoly's so much fun.
Oooh!
Camp Crystal Lake rocks.
One of the things that the "Friday" series
never really took pride in was continuity.
How could it be Friday the 13th if "2," "III" and "4"
are within three or four days?
I don't think Monday the 16th
has quite the same ring to it.
Cohen: People send me Jason timelines
and show me categorically where I'm wrong about certain things,
and where the writer of "VI" was wrong, or the writer of "III" was wrong.
And you know what, so what? I just don't know.
King: The fans have told me
at convention after convention
that they felt "ripped off"
about the way Alice died in "Part 2."
She didn't even see him. It's like it could have been anyone.
As far as I'm concerned, it was somebody else.
If Jason is who I believe he is
and who I think the fans think he is,
it's not like he can look her number up in the phonebook.
It's not like she would be listed in the phonebook.
She got away. But in the second one
he comes to her apartment and kills her?
Now what I want to know is how did Jason get a plane ticket?
There was a "Friday the 13th" TV series.
LeMay: The only thing that the series
and the movies
had in common was the title.
It turns out it was about people trying
to retrieve cursed artifacts
from a pawnshop.
I think a lot of people who were really big fans of the series
didn't like the fact that they stole the name
and tried to sneak a fast one past everybody.
So beginning with "Part III,"
when Jason finds the mask
that everyone identifies with him,
there's been some debate over the years about
how that happened.
And the one thing that everybody likes to take credit for
is who put the hockey mask on Jason.
One day we were doing makeup tests
on "Friday the 13th Part III."
So just for the 3D concept,
I must admit, in modesty,
that I put the hockey mask on Jason.
I don't care what anybody says.
They weren't gonna use that bag again based on what happened
to me with the burns. They had to come up with another idea.
That's why they came up with the hockey mask.
I believe it was Peter Schindler
and Marty Becker were Detroit hockey fans.
And it was their idea to come up with a hockey mask
to cover the face up.
Every time kids come to my door
wearing the Jason hockey mask,
I figure, " Wow, this is another 50¢ I didn't get."
They're all still bickering about it, but you heard it here...
mine.
KATZ: The end of "Friday the 13th Part 2" is still
one of the most confusing endings of that series.
Probably easily the most, other than the toxic-waste
version of teenaged Jason.
Paul! Where's Paul?
For me, it wasn't a dream.
Maybe that's one of the good parts of the movie
is that you get to decide that for yourself.
On "Freddy vs. Jason," they went a different direction
with casting Jason
and didn't cast Kane Hodder.
And I was really surprised.
I really wanted to use Kane and then Ronnie Yu decided
that he really kind of liked this other guy.
And he was directing the movie and I said, "Fine."
It was a shame at some level that Kane didn't get to do it.
About our clothes, I mean...
that's slightly the weirdest thing about our roles,
which were supposed to be these sexy girls
and we're dressed in these ghastly clothes.
Camilla More: What about our hair as well?
Our hair put up in sort of little librarian buns.
I mean, hello.
And the pink puffy shirts with the shoulder pads.
LYNCH: It's kind of like Springfield for " The Simpsons."
It's like, where is Crystal Lake? It would be nice to find out someday
where is this Crystal Lake, 'cause I'd like to go there and swim.
I can definitively answer the question of where is Crystal Lake.
Crystal Lake is in Green Valley, New Jersey.
And the reason we know that is because in "Part III,"
Shelly and Vera go to a country store
and in the store, you can see in the back,
it says " Welcome to Green Valley, New Jersey." Case closed.
KATZ: "Jason Takes Manhattan"... outside of having one of the great
teaser posters of all time, which of course was then discontinued,
ultimately, the "I Heart New York,"
that's actually something that's trademarked
by probably, I'm guessing, the tourism bureau, if memory serves,
and that's actually a very valuable license to them, ultimately.
Crystal Lake has changed sizes. Somehow the boat gets
from this tiny little lake to the Atlantic Ocean
to New York.
The cruise ship wasn't really in the lake.
The cruise ship was on the ocean. In my mind, I had it justified,
because I've seen places where you can go from a lake to the ocean.
And we ultimately just said, "No, let's forget it.
People may get mad at us for that, but let's go for it."
Body switching in "Jason Goes to Hell,"
I think that was a terrible terrible decision.
Roday: The fact that Jason turned into a slug
in "Part 9"...unacceptable.
Gordon.
The most rational character in the entire
"Friday the 13th" series is the dog in "Part 4."
You don't know whether Jason grabbed the dog and threw him out the window.
The dog sees Jason and the next shot is the dog
apparently jumping through the window.
There was a big fight over whether we could kill the dog.
I think he jumped, but I was hoping
some people will think Jason did it.
Maybe Tina from "VII" telekinetically yanked the dog out the window.
Well, he was bound to catch up with her... sooner or later.
If there's one thing that we've learned
it's escaping Jason is a rarity.
Over the last three decades, his reign of terror
has gone beyond the silver screen.
In fact, it's clear that Jason
has done more than take Manhattan.
In fact, I'd say he's conquered the world.
(gears grind)
Oh! That had to hurt.
Interestingly enough,
Jason did manage to infiltrate the pop culture
in a big big way. And I think that all started
with "Part III" in 3D.
I have the home-theater glass set,
so you can see it and watch it and people would walk into my house
and I have them on, and be like, " Hey, what's up?
I'm watching 'Friday the 13th Part III." '
GRAHAM: From a merchandising perspective, it's huge.
I cannot believe the branding of Jason.
He is no less marketable than Ronald McDonald
or Mickey Mouse at this point.
Jason is making money.
I mean, does he get a percentage of the sales?
I'm very curious.
Jason Voorhees has been mass marketed over the years,
starting with this Nintendo game back in the early '80s.
Adam Green: That was the worst game ever.
All you did is run around the cabins. And there'd be like nothing, nothing,
Jason's in here! I'm dead.
My name's James Rolfe. I have an internet show...
"The Angry Video Game Nerd."
The "Friday the 13th" episode made its debut
on Friday the 13th, October 2006.
Uh-oh, he's coming. Whoa!
Well, he scared the shit out of me and now he's fighting me
like in " Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!"
They've created a hero image
of an individual that's unstoppable.
He's this super slasher hero.
There's no rhyme or reason, you know?
He's been on lunchboxes and thermoses,
and I think he was in a Nike commercial.
- (screams) - (pants)
Those I believe were banned or pulled from the market.
There's been countless TV shows that have parodied "Friday the 13th,"
- from "MADtv." - MAN: Jason Takes NASA.
Yeah, we've done a bunch of "Friday the 13th" parodies.
The first thing we did was a"Horror Movie Big Brother."
(chainsaw whirring)
We did a Scooby gang investigates the mystery
- of Camp Crystal Lake. - Zoinks!
When it gets referenced on "The Simpsons"
or "South Park," that's like your proudest moment.
(screams) Run!
I love the fact that "The Simpsons" have Jason and Freddy.
- They should be here by now. - Ah, what are you gonna do?
- (switches channel) - When he got that MTV Movie Award,
it was absolutely invigorating for all the fans
and also it was like, " Where have we landed exactly as a society?"
We're giving a Lifetime Achievement Award
to a masked predator.
Shortly after we did "Jason Takes Manhattan,"
I was asked to do "The Arsenio Hall Show"
in costume as a guest.
He pulled the whole interview off by talking to someone who doesn't speak.
How are you?
- That's good. - One of the rare things I've ever done
in full costume besides the movie.
Miska: Snow globes,
there's dolls,
there's even a haunted house at Universal Studios in Florida
and in Hollywood.
One of the greatest thrills that I've had as a Jason fan
was going to the Universal Horror Nights last year.
Jason Voorhees is running after you. It's a real guy
in the whole costume. I kind of pooped my pants a little bit.
Hi, I'm John Murdy, creative director of Universal Studios'
Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights and right now we are standing
in front of the Crystal Lake cabin from "Friday the 13th: Camp Blood."
When you're designing a haunted attraction like this,
there's basically three things you look for.
One is that the property has legs.
Second is that the characters are something
that you can achieve with actors, and the third is that the environments
are strong and easily recognizable. And "Friday the 13th" has all three.
So we were very lucky when we worked with New Line,
we were able to get all three of those properties
and basically turn our theme park into a living horror movie.
In this case, he's got a poor victim stuck in this vise.
His head's in the vise. Jason comes in and gives the vise a crank.
We have a triggered audio effect that sounds like his bones
in his skull are crushing,
and we tied this into water spritz effect
so that the guests think "eye goo"
is shooting out of the victim onto them.
This is for the wheelchair victim that has the machete in his head.
Again, there's a secret door for Jason back here
so he can make a dramatic entrance,
and this poor guy that you think is dead leaps to life.
When you're designing an attraction like "Friday the 13th: Camp Blood,"
for us, what we really want to do is we wanna deliver
to the fans all their favorite kills
from the "Friday the 13th" series.
So this is a kill from "Freddy vs. Jason."
This is the guy who gets his back broken in half.
There's a performer that's laying here with his head against the bed.
Jason comes storming into the room.
He grabs hold of the bed, and he gives it a good... (makes squashing sound)
With Jason, they made countless toys.
Every year there's new editions coming out.
The McFarlane stuff and the Mezco stuff,
they all look great. They're really well-sculpted,
articulated, awesome looking. They're well-painted.
Who would have thought there would be Jason dolls?
There was a great book that came out a couple of years ago:
"Crystal Lake Memories" about "Friday the 13th."
Peter Bracke did a great job.
He interviewed a lot of us in the series,
from producers, directors to actors, of course.
And it covers the series from A to Z.
It was so fun to have come to the book signing
and to see all the people
that are now a part of
this whole "Friday the 13th" phenomenon.
It was a party for the launch
of the "Crystal Lake Memories" book,
and we signed all of the books.
And then of course Jason showed up
and cut the cake with a machete,
and that was awfully fun.
An iconic brand has been built.
Everybody knows Jason.
Everybody, all ages.
It's all over the world.
At Halloween, there's always gonna be some kid
down the hall wearing a hockey mask.
There's at least one kid who comes down your street
who is Jason Voorhees,
and the funny thing is he's up there with Santa Claus
in the sense that everybody knows who it is.
Jason is a big icon.
I had a trick-or-treater come to my house...
a little kid dressed as Jason.
And I went, "I worked with him."
And the kid kind of looked at me like he didn't understand.
And I asked my nephew, 'cause he's 13,
I said, "What is that?" He goes, "That's the Jason mask."
And I said, " You know I'm in one of those movies?"
And he said, " Oh, I've never seen any of those movies,
but I know all about Jason."
In hindsight, it seems silly there wouldn't be a backlash.
The critics were outraged.
Gene Siskel launched a letter-writing campaign to Paramount.
"Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,"
an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash...
When Roger Ebert said that "Friday the 13th" was
"an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash,"
I thought, " Two thumbs up. Gotta see it." (laughs)
Kratka: There's just so much in our culture
that gets labeled things unnecessarily
or just unjustifiably.
And I think "Friday the 13th" s were just...
they're scary movies.
As film critics, shame on them for not appreciating
the fact that they are artistic entertainment vehicles
for a very defined demographic.
We have fun reading reviews. We know what they're gonna be like,
and especially if someone gets particularly bitchy and clever,
it's great. In a way it's sort of like the "Friday the 13th" movie itself:
if they're clever in the way they're trying to kill you, you cheer.
What's more appealing than forbidden fruit?
That's the oldest story that there is.
So when you say to a young 13-year-old,
"You can't go see that movie, young man. It's a piece of immoral trash,"
I'm pretty confident that's the first thing the 13-year-old's gonna go do.
As long as nobody's going out and doing nothing crazy...
they never had to put "Don't try this at home"
on the screen... so it's all fun.
It's not attracting psychos to it.
It really does attract
a very respectful group of people.
Jason can survive anything, even bad reviews.
If you're taking these films too seriously,
you should probably go have a Valium
or do something else.
I started the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in 2001
as a platform to give independent filmmakers a way
to further their careers and have their work be shown to the industry.
I think some of the films that we've screened in Screamfest
definitely have been influenced by "Friday the 13th."
Most recently I would say Adam Green's "Hatchet."
I think almost any slasher movie
post-"Friday the 13th"
kind of tipped their hat to it.
It's a great independent film. And it's great to look back
and... what? 20-some-odd years later
to look back and see young filmmakers, like an Adam, up and coming,
to have a film that's reminiscent of "Friday the 13th."
So it's kind of cool.
I've been to a million conventions
and I see people with Jason tattoos.
It's a lot of fun.
Come on, it's beautiful.
We bleed for this shit.
The fans are open to creating their own mythology
about them too.
MAN: He had just received a surprise postcard from Jason,
inviting him to take part in a slayathon.
Jason doesn't have a star on the walk of fame.
This is terrible. He's been around for 30 years
and he can't get a star?
Jason is a star!
(silent)
Oh, sorry. I didn't know anybody
was using this room.
(girl screaming)
Okay, I admit it. I love this stuff.
But as we've seen, so do millions of others.
I mean, after all a good killer is never out of style, right?
Which is exactly why the original terrifying legend
of Jason Voorhees is being reimagined
and repackaged for a whole new generation of fans.
It's exciting to see Jason up to his old tricks.
(girl screaming)
So now after all of this time,
playing around with Jason
for all these years,
there comes a new look, a new feel hopefully
in this new reimagining
or reboot of the franchise.
I hope the fans will enjoy it from the same point of view
I enjoyed it from, which is
to see Jason
for the first time again.
To be able to work with Jason Voorhees
and to see that mask... I can tell you the first day
that he wore that mask on set, we all got chills.
It was amazing, and it was amazing to think
that here's this thing that we've grown up with,
and it's right here and we can touch it and feel it,
because when we watched it as kids, it felt so far away.
It's made by people who love the franchise,
but who are going at it with many more resources
than we ever had or ever dreamed of.
This remake centers around this brother-sister story
between the Whitney character and the Clay character,
which is played by Jared Padalecki. It doesn't go so well.
There's enough characters in there to actually bring some comedy into it,
so there's gonna be obviously the crazy deaths.
They've already said there's 13.
They've already said that, so I'm not giving away anything,
but along with the deaths, you might have some other lighter moments,
and it's gonna be a good contrast.
What I think makes this one unique
is Jason being more humanistic
and not sort of that supernatural zombie.
He's a person. We are coming into a time now
where everyone is becoming more emotional
and in touch with their feelings. So we give Jason this backstory,
and I feel like people can relate to him more,
which almost makes the killings and the deaths seem justified.
I think there's more heart involved.
That I think is exciting, 'cause it's a new face of Jason.
And you have to figure out how to recreate
and keep renewing this franchise.
And they've taken sort of the best elements
of the first four and wrapped it into one.
What the fans can expect to see from the new "Friday the 13th"
is the best aspects of the films they loved in the past
taken out and mixed up
and put into a brand-new film for everybody.
I think they're gonna see the intensity.
They're gonna see over-the-top brutal kills.
We really strived to give audiences kills that they hadn't seen before,
or, and maybe better,
kills they had seen but we added something else to the kill.
And something else that was in the original
that really hasn't been in any horror movies lately,
our movie has a ton of nudity in it.
They're gonna see over-the-top
unique sex scenes.
It's gonna be an entertaining
wild roller-coaster of a ride.
We've gone to great lengths
to make the movie feel very authentic,
to be very respectful to the character.
I think this film is gonna greatly satisfy all the genre fans,
not just the hardcore "Friday the 13th" fans.
It's not only remarkably scary,
but very very funny.
The mythology will stay intact.
Jason is still Jason.
Our hope is that the true fans
love the film as much as people who've never seen the movie before.
We're hopeful that all of our attempts
at authenticity will have paid off for them,
and we suspect that they will, but you never know.
I think, regardless, they're gonna be pulled in,
and that's that.
I'm excited to be a part of this...
colossal franchise.
To just be a part of the name "Friday the 13th" is
a little exhilarating I have to say.
We all love Jason Voorhees. I mean, who doesn't?
Reggie will kick his butt. Reggie the reckless will kick Jason's butt now.
I will put the red suit on, and I will whip Jason's behind.
- I ain't playing. - We can only hope that the people
who loved "Friday the 13th" in the first place will be satisfied
with this newer, slicker, kind of cooler version
of the story. On the other hand,
I think that you're gonna have people that are gonna see this new version
as the first "Friday the 13th" they ever saw.
And this will hopefully
set a new level of quality
so that the franchise can continue forward.
- (insects chirping) - (owl hooting)
Excuse me, miss, is this yours?
I think you dropped...
she won't be needing this.
Over the years, it's been the unstoppable Jason
that's kept moviegoers flocking to theaters for a bloody good time,
but it's not just the fans who appreciate
Jason's never-ending reign of terror.
"Friday the 13th" has had a life of its own.
It's quite amazing.
There are people who just love this genre.
The "Friday the 13th" films are an E ticket ride.
And I think people are constantly ready to pay up for that ride.
On the night of its opening, my wife said, "Let's go out to see it."
We went to six theaters that night,
and we couldn't get in.
We couldn't get in anywhere. And I said to my wife,
"Holy cow, I think we really did something here."
When I tell them that I was in "Friday the 13th,"
it's so fun for me.
Thanks to "Friday the 13th,"
my 15 minutes keeps going.
Playing a character that's known around the world
is an amazing feeling
and something I'm really proud of.
There's really no putting your finger on it,
but there seems to be a loyalty
and a fascination with it that just drives it forward.
It's really the audience
that brings Jason back to life every time.
The legend grows from picture to picture to picture.
People like getting scared. They don't know what's gonna happen.
They're just gonna wait... oh!
It surprises me from time to time
just about how
the "Friday the 13th" movies continue
and just go on and on. The characters die, but the movie doesn't.
When you do "The Final Chapter," you expect for it
to be the final chapter.
This was the last one. We were doing the very last one.
"The Final Friday,"
and I remember people saying it's not gonna be the final "Friday."
That was 1992.
I get three, four, five requests a week
for autographs and pictures and so on from all over the world.
People still contact me. They contact me about things
from the film that I forgot about.
People send me things to sign... big long posters.
I'm like, "How did they get this?"
"Friday the 13th" has given me a gift that
is just bigger than life itself.
I get the most beautiful stories
about how Alice's strength has inspired
so many people around the world.
I was 27 years old and I was the lead in a movie.
Number-one-box-office movie at Paramount for two weekends.
This was the best first acting gig I could have gotten.
Because when you have a knife coming at you,
you really learn how to hit your mark.
I hope the audience is having as much fun watching this
- as we are making it. - Personally, it was an honor...
still is an honor to be associated with it.
And it's really great entertainment,
so I think that's why he's still around.
I think the audience wants to see more Jason
the same way that they want to see more Bond.
The same way they want to see more Batman.
I've found that a movie that I really
didn't give 2¢ for
in the beginning has brought me
into the world, into the lives of people
who have viewed it in a very special way.
Did you know that a young boy drowned?
The counselors weren't paying any attention.
His name was Jason.
Well, there you have it... "Friday the 13th,"
a movie that was made to keep filmmakers' lights on,
but made America afraid to turn them off.
And one that singlehandedly gave birth
to modern slasher cinema,
generating box office success beyond anybody's wildest dreams.
You know, "Friday the 13th" continues to inspire
and influence emerging filmmakers
who try to capture their own lightning in a bottle.
And on top of that, I can probably proclaim
that Jason Voorhees is a pop-culture icon
recognized the world over.
So here we are. It's three decades later,
and "Friday the 13th" lives on.
And it's because of you that Jason Voorhees
keeps coming back to terrify audiences.
So let me return the favor. I'll give you some advice.
If somebody invites you to Camp Crystal Lake,
just don't go. (grunts)
(gasps)
(sighs) You see what I mean?
My bad. Sorry.
(imitating soundtrack)
It's supposed to be... "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma."
- Not everybody knows that. - True, but that's the way it sounds.
I showed them how I can fart "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma,"
but the camera wasn't rolling,
so yeah.
(rock music playing)
- I think if Vera had... - (screams)
(screaming)
(screams) Excuse me.
I thought it was Jason.
Kill her, Mommy! Kill her!
And he's still there.
There's somebody in this fucking room!
Why do you do these stupid things?
I just want you to like me.
I got a date with a soap on a rope.
Ted, Ted, where's the corkscrew?
Come on, Sara, strip and dip?
Bad news crews.
It's okay, guys. He just wants his machete back.
Axel, you are the Super Bowl of self-abuse.
This feels good!
Nobody's gonna touch that fucking ray of sunshine.
I have seen enough horror movies to know
any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
That's what's known as screwing the pooch.
Ben, are you coming back or not? And then...
You didn't get me in the lake, Jason, and you're not gonna get me now.
My earring.
You could use a little touch-up work first.
MAN: And cut.
Melissa's a bitch. I know... (laughing)
I can't even do it.
It's a real pain in the ass.
And you're gonna use that for sure, I know.
I said, "It's a real pain in the ass." You are gonna use that. I know that.
Finally he gets hacked to death by Corey fucking Feldman?
Yo, Feld-dawg, what the fuck?
(smacks)
I'm getting Haim on your ass. Sorry.
- (growls) - (screams)
I found it.
I didn't have a clue as to what the plot was
in "Jason Goes to Hell."
A lot of shaving.
It's creepy. It's so creepy.
Homoerotic... shaven.
(speaks gibberish)
Never show your breasts... (laughing)
Here comes first Jason!
We're gonna go up to Crystal Lake even though we've heard
that there's horrible things... oh my God!
There's bananas everywhere.
It is a lot easier to go watch Jason
than it is to watch Dick Cheney.
You give up?
MAN: Never!
I don't know what my lines are.
There's only one thing
that Jason knows, and he knows it well.
(man softly) Kill!
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