1. So you guys all know the story
of Camp Crystal Lake, right?
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have to know about the legend.
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4. I don't want to scare anyone...
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5. but I'm gonna give it to you
straight about Jason.
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at Camp Crystal Lake...
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a little boy at the time.
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at the camp...
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each and every one of them.
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that Jason didn't drown.
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get beheaded that night.
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coming back.
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still out there,
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is alive and well.
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is his domain.
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25. That cost $500,000,
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just under a billion dollars.
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and surprised and pleased,
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finished the film.
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all over the world,
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what the wonderful,
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about this particular film.
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I was doing the film then
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on so many people.
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of thought
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that goes into these pictures.
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was one of the innovators,
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of this slasher movie
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all represented people
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movies find a way
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that's truly human.
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compelling about the genre
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come back to it.
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scaring the audience
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it's something in us
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in the audience,
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of their heart attack.
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It's fun. It's exciting.
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this character.
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than they like the survivors.
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brought a life to it,
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without 'em.
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is Jason never dies
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brings him back to life,
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and see what he'll do next.
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come to a complete end.
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because Jason is the outcast.
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too tall, you're too short,
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you have buck teeth,
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we all tie in somehow,
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I was the different kid.'
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of the human struggle.
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you're going to come up against.
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that person
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you know, stop evil
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that we love.
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these monsters, these bogeymen,
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all evil
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with the real evil
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in our day to day lives.
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out and look at it,
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you can defeat it,
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Sean S. Cunningham
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a name for himself,
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and commercials
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soft-core porn.
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a big change was happening
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with documentary forms
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anything was possible.
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grab your equipment,
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wagon and go shoot it.
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with the big guys.
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called "Together,"
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high school.
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strengthen their marital bond,
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His name was Bud Talbot,
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on a film.
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some of the money,
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Full Moon Murders,"
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It was very soft.
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We were shown to a bedroom.
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with an enormous erection
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were immediately aroused.
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everybody said we need
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wholesome films.
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zero dollars.
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another job.
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something going.
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1972's "Last House On the Left."
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Only a movie..."
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"A Nightmare On Elm Street,"
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in small-town America.
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of "Last House on the Left,"
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a very important horror film.
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all over the world.
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Sean Cunningham's early efforts
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with a considerable debt
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screen shocker "Halloween,"
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sub-genre of horror.
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some time ago
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And I said to myself,
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Friday the 13th,
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money at the box office,
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"Here's what we're gonna do.
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in Variety,
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people who brought you
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film ever made.
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were going to make.
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would be interested
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to secure financing
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through the same trio
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Minasian, and Philip Scuderi,
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the Esquire Theaters chain,
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Productions banner,
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on motion picture history.
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one thing: a script.
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"Friday the 13th"
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more-or-less.
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Sean said, "let's go with it,"
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in "Friday the 13th,"
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profoundly simple.
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had to do with the fact
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to waste
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like character and plot.
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that these kids
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kind of serial killer,
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to discover
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at the end.
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what I had done
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mom and apple pie,
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have a ball Pepsi generation,
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having fun
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by adult restrictions,
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one-by-one.
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with a script in hand
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approximately $550,000,
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Steve Miner
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for the ideal location
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hamlet of Crystal Lake.
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little Boy Scout camp
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the kids had gone home,
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to take it over.
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working camp.
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log cabins and all that stuff.
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a lake, it was everything.
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in the summer.
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summer camp,
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a campfire.
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Claudette and Barry
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interrupted
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on-screen victims
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one of the biggest body counts
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if we planned to shoot
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for the character of Claudette.
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her throat being sliced open
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in the makeup room,
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to shoot
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character of the killer,
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the killer was,
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you saw a missing finger.
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this hand without a finger,
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that this was the killer.
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and budgetary constraints,
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to present day,
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of fresh faces
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thriving theater scene.
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all future Fridays,
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had to be likable,
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Julie Hughes and I,
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casting people on Broadway.
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to doing this,
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finding all sorts of new talent
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know, you're not right for this,
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and they need camp counselors,
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to meet Sean
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"Friday the 13th."
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to Camp Crystal Lake.
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many different ways
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without being really stupid.
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has got to be saying
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this roller coaster ride,
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Don't go in there!
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the filmmakers required
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young actress
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killer,
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against the amorous advances
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Steve Christy.
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she was an art student,
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through a friend of a friend
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for her.
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you know?
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She had to think things out.
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the end of the summer
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have to be patient.
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the patient type.
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people around here!
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prankster Ned was Mark Nelson,
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on Broadway
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co-star Jeannine Taylor,
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Marcie
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posthumous surname.
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Marcie Cunningham.
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a last name at first,
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I guess, to adopt me,
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with his last name.
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the proverbial 'good guy'
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for Alice's affections
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the filmmakers cast the son
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most beloved legends.
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legendary singer, Bing Crosby,
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in the 30's, 40's, and 50's.
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about his dad,
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emotional for him
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It looks like dead animals!
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and animal loving Brenda,
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and deadly
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was the late Laurie Bartram,
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with cancer in 2007.
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we miss her so dearly.
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on that production.
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she was who you saw.
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worried about everyone.
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to hear she'd died so young.
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inside and out.
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six degrees of Friday the 13th
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a struggling New York actor
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1978 comedy, "Animal House."
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by terrific young talent,
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and so professional.
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when I called his agent
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"Friday the 13th."
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he do in the film?'
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you know,
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'Well, Kevin loves to do that.'
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breakout moment.
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characters in "Friday the 13th"
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'prophet of doom, '
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Walt Gorney,
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of "Friday the 13th"
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but it's the truth.
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really was crazy.
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been a little eccentric,
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fine character actor.
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over "Friday the 13th."
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loved it
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on September 4, 1979,
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experienced their share
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misfortunes.
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Phil Scuderi
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with certain elements
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some rewrites and basically
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I had a problem with
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of the motorcycle policeman,
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the concept
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for the police.
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on a motorcycle before,
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my ass.
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come running to help me,
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off me I says, 'I'm fine.
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who met their on-screen demise
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in fact, very real.
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playing the scene,
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it was a real snake.
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on behalf of myself
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who's ever harmed a snake,
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Halloween's minimalist shocks,
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needed to find someone
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larger-than-life death sequences
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special effects,
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"Friday the 13th,"
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for very little money
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production value.
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Friday the 13th came out
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was sort of the first film
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really in the forefront.
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the Dead" and said,
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"Friday the 13th,"
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make-up artists, you know,
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And that could be
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photographer in Vietnam.
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give me the same feeling I got
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enough, it wasn't real enough.
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for my effects.
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and it's Tom Savini.
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script all marked up,
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Okay now, let's see.
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here on page 40.
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and a fake axe,
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and real axe?'
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was to surprise the audience
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screwing around!'
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that my character was sort of
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in "Psycho,"
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character to follow.
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Camp Crystal Lake from here?
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the first person killed
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"Friday the 13th."
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jumping out of the jeep
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and that was really,
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for a second.
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and you're thinking,
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that was on my neck.
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in the piece.
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just ran down my sleeve,
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working the blood.
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It really did look great.
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genre ultimately is,
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to go see people get killed
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and compelling ways,
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a little bit of nudity,
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get that as well.
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that's what I wanted.
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swimming, and it's all just
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with each other.
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my clothes off!
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with Kevin Bacon.
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see him killed,
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was so brilliant.
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It's like AHHH.
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satiated and smoking dope,
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through his neck.
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and so brilliant.
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George Romero's Martin,
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a stick in his neck.
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on the fake body.
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under the bed
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and here's the fake body.
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under there and you know,
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and Taso was pumping the blood.
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from Taso's pump,
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shoot out and gurgle.
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it made the effect,
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comes up.
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with the light.
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Tom's idea,
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that this axe is a real axe.
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and it's heavy.
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what showed up on film,
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was a lot longer
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the final cut. No pun intended.
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the driving thing.
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sex and violence that goes on.
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You know, have sex, die.
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the underlying thing, you know,
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the "Friday the 13th" movies.
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like a devout,
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or something?
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13th" was a morality play.
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what I called the clique,
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who didn't make love survived
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than the others,
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make it with
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is in the kitchen.
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where she just goes,
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through the window.
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Laurie Bartram die,
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through the window.
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going through the window.
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give the audience any clues
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real identity
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penultimate surprise.
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Who is the killer?
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feeling for Mrs. Voorhees,
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warm and comforting.
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it's this nice mother type.
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An old friend of the Christies.
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and be predisposed
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a nice person,
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I think probably from Sean,
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offered the role first.
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and all
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production schedule
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she could no longer do it.
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it, or they didn't like her.
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read this script,
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'This will come. It will go.
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or ever see it'.
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who is going to save me
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about all this disastrous stuff
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They're all dead.
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that she had this kid
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that a young boy drowned?
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were killed?
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She lost her son, Jason,
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were fooling around.
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and today is his birthday.
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'Oh boy, look out now.
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You never paid any attention!
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I think "Psycho" got in
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conscious of at all.
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is his mother.
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Tony Perkins and his mother.
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and the kid dead.
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poor Jason's death.
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that it's our fault.
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voice in my head saying
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where Betsy,
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an incredible actress,
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to her one day,
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for Jason's name
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him, it was going to be Josh.
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on the film,
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subject of that got,
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and went to Jason.
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when I was, oh,
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little bastards,
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telling on people.
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liked his name.
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demented villainesses
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has amassed a large,
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cult following.
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signing, conventions,
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holds the little child.
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come up and all.
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'Why? Why do you love her
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this dreadful human being?'
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"Because we understand
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to my thinking,
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to keep a camp closed
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somebody else's son would drown
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never happened to another mother
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she was anything
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to care for a poor,
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I'd just go crazy, myself,
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who I'm raising as my son,
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with Betsy Palmer's character.
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ignored, neglected.
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here's one for all those kids
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because they were different.
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a very fine psychologist,
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is the mother I never had.
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who will kill people
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most memorable characters
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sound effect
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Harry Manfredini.
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of "Friday the 13th"
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came from the sound effects
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and point out the fact
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just the camera shooting.
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signature piece,
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of the film,
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of Betsy Palmer's,
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Kill her.
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consonant sound of the 'K',
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and 'MA' from 'Mommy.'
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640. I went up to a microphone
and just went 'k-k-k-' 'ma'.
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called an Echoplex,
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642. which was a gizmo back
in the late 70's, early 80's.
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643. And it ended up becoming
'k-k-k-ma-ma-ma',
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became the instant sound
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to bring the killer
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and throughout the picture.
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Harry's music,
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the success
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were stronger in this film
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it came down to.
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Mrs. Voorhees and Alice.
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that I was to,
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to really lose it.
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a hit alongside of her chops.
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on stage,
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660. So I hauled off,
and I gave her a smack.
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to the ground crying,
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She hit me.'
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'No, no, no, Betsy.
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665. I said, 'Well, what are we
supposed to do?'
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in the sound afterwards."
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And she fights back.
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incredible beach ballet.
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pounding away at one another,
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with some sort of a boat oar.
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Mrs. Voorhees slow-mo.
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The ultimate kill by Alice.
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came up, and said,
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cut your head off.'
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677. He said, 'Don't ya wanna see
how we're gonna do it?'
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'You've got to be kidding.
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going to chop my head off'.
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assistant on that movie.
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of Betsy Palmer's head,
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it severed you would see
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gore in there.
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in some way.
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is the one that cut it off.
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with toothpicks.
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kind of holding it in place,
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it with that machete,
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the toothpicks.
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so the head would spin,
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in the first take.
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on the back of my hands,
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a little weird in one shot.
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Betsy Palmer is decapitated,
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into the frame,
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with hairy knuckles.
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that he's got as hands.
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death of Mrs. Voorhees,
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Cunningham's master stroke,
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to anyone at the time,
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about the ending,
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have an ending so,
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they did a beautiful job.
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the movie is over.
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in the graveyard,
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who ever saw it.
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jump out of the lake, you know,
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you know, if it's a dream,
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You know, grand theft cinema.
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the special effects man
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who typed up the memos,
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who went out for lunch,
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written this scene.
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Sean's son, do it.
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would have none of that.
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'You're out of your mind
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spend four hours in a lake
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in New Jersey
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738. Were it not for her,
I would have been Jason.
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the first Jason.
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in "Manny's Orphans,"
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742. and I played this kid Roger,
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743. who was like a slightly
sex-obsessed little kid.
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744. So Steve Miner
just kind of said,
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745. 'Hey, let's get Ari to do it.'
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extreme and seaweed,
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748. and maybe he could be deformed
a little bit,
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749. and Tom Savini said,
'Oh, I've got a great idea.'
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lopsided
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more and more extreme.
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used real swamp muck for that.
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in this group of Polaroids
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757. And he said,
'Oh, that's your son.'
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758. And I said, 'Well, why does he
look so strange?'
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759. And he said, 'Well, he said,
he's a mongoloid.
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761. I said, that wasn't
in the script!'
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that comes out of the water.
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an almost ordinary child.
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is a total dream,
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idyllic setting.
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in the canoe.
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to tell the audience
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You can relax. It's over.
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Harry Manfredini's soundtrack.
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time in the film
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the music for the killer
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manipulate you.
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The cavalry's here.
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that even the people
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was going to happen
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something was going to happen.
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fingers in the water.
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that Sean's idea is right.
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until that.
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things that we could do
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the people jump at the end,
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786. because for whatever reasons,
this ending got 'em.
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787. I'm telling you, people just
flew out of the seats
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788. and ran out of the theater
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789. and Sean was just like
a little kid going,
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that single moment,
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been half as successful
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strangely enough,
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and they loved it.
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Alice wakes up,
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no one else was found.
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Everyone else is dead.
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in the hospital vividly
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about the boy and I go,
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at a Part 2 here.
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in the water at the end.
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810. It's like, well, was it a dream,
wasn't it at dream?
Copy !req
811. Were those raindrops,
or were those air bubbles?
Copy !req
812. And I think now
we know the answer.
Copy !req
813. In early 1980,
the film was picked up
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814. for domestic distribution
by Frank Mancuso, Sr.
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815. VP of Paramount Pictures,
who planned a national release
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816. and a multi-million dollar
marketing campaign.
Copy !req
817. The risk paid off,
and for Paramount,
Copy !req
818. Sean Cunningham
and Georgetown Productions,
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819. "Friday the 13th"
was about to become
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820. their lucky day.
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821. Frank Mancuso was head
of distribution at Paramount.
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822. And he had the idea
of treating this little movie
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823. as if it were a real movie.
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824. And had no stars,
and nothing recognizable
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825. except this sort of strange,
superstitious title.
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826. And went out
and sold it like crazy.
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828. 2
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829. 3
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830. Friday the 13th.
You may only see it once.
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831. But that will be enough.
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832. "Friday the 13th"
opened on May 9, 1980,
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833. eventually taking in $39.7
million at the U.S. box office.
Copy !req
834. If the reason behind the film's
immense popularity
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835. was lost on mainstream critics,
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836. who not only hated the film,
but eviscerated it.
Copy !req
837. No one was more stunned by its
success than its creators.
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838. For better or worse,
"Friday the 13th"
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839. would change their lives.
Copy !req
840. And the horror genre... forever.
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841. When it first started,
it was repeat business
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842. that made it successful.
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843. It was teenage girls
going to see it
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844. and then bringing
their girlfriends,
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845. and then dragging
their boyfriend to see it.
Copy !req
846. It was all this repeat business.
Copy !req
847. Before "Friday the 13th,"
maybe the most successful
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848. quote-unquote horror movies
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849. were handled on a very
limited basis,
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850. like "Halloween"
or even "Carrie."
Copy !req
851. They weren't treated
as major motion pictures.
Copy !req
852. The fact that that one
became so wildly successful,
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853. the producers jumped on it
as this is an opportunity
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854. for us to sell this off
and make more and more films.
Copy !req
855. You also have to remember
this was back in 1980.
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856. This was before cable TV.
Before the internet.
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857. Before VHS really. Before DVD.
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858. So if you wanted to get anything
that was really titillating,
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859. horror was the only place
you could go.
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860. There was something,
um, exciting about it
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861. 'cause it was breaking
new ground.
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862. And of course your parents
didn't want you to see it,
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863. which only made you want to
see it that much more,
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864. and made it that much
better when you did see it.
Copy !req
865. The modern horror movie
was kind of born,
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866. because it now became
a possible player
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867. in the mainstream distribution
of movies.
Copy !req
868. It's like "Night of the
Living Dead" with Romero.
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869. Those guys involved in that
all had careers after that.
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870. I thought it was
a piece of crap.
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871. And I, truthfully, didn't care
if my name got on it or not.
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872. At that time.
And then when it opened,
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873. My god!
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874. The critical reaction
to "Friday the 13th,"
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875. was so abysmal that I knew
we were going to be a success.
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876. I mean, there was one critic
who wanted us all arrested
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877. and tried for horrible crimes
against humanity.
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878. I'm convinced it has
something to do
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879. with the growth of the women's
movement in America
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880. in the last decade.
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881. I think that these films are
some sort of primordial response
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882. by some very sick people, of men
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883. saying 'get back
in your place, women.'
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884. And I was upset by all of
the terrible publicity,
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885. and the scorn and the ridicule.
Copy !req
886. Gene Siskel gave us
this scathing review.
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887. I think he even may have
published Betsy Palmer's address
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888. saying, 'write to her
nasty things
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889. because she's a terrible person.
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890. How dare Betsy Palmer
play a role like this
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891. in "Friday the 13th,"
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892. when she has made herself
so lovable,
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893. on "I've Got a Secret
all these years,
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894. and all the television shows
she's done.
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895. How dare she play a role
like that,
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896. and insult her viewing audience?
Copy !req
897. And I thought, 'Well,
those who can, do,
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898. and those who can't, criticize.'
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899. The first of the slashers
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900. were to reflect the changing
attitudes and ideas
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901. about women
and what they could do.
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902. I think we go back to Jamie Lee
Curtis in "Halloween,"
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903. Sissy Spacek in "Carrie."
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904. Sigourney Weaver.
Copy !req
905. Alice, all of a sudden,
is the sole survivor.
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906. And I believe it was
a direct reflection
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907. of what was going on
in the world.
Copy !req
908. And I think "Friday the 13th"
really empowered women.
Copy !req
909. So after "Friday the 13th"
was released,
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910. there spawned
a whole new industry
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911. of teenage horror films
based on holidays,
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912. or based on a serial killer,
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913. based on very low budgets
and low writing.
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914. Strangely enough, I think that
people often sort of imitated
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915. my mistakes rather than
the stuff that I got right.
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916. Well, "Friday the 13th" was
the greatest experience for me
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917. up until the point
of after it opening.
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918. It was huge. It was fabulous.
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919. It was an actor's dream
come true.
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920. It certainly was for me.
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921. And then, slowly I realized
I had a stalker.
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922. Stalking was not taken seriously
back in 1980.
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923. And it wasn't,
it wasn't something
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924. that everyone was aware of.
Copy !req
925. I was starting to get
phone calls back then,
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926. it was so easy
to get phone numbers.
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927. He, he got into my apartment.
Copy !req
928. For over a year, I didn't know
who my stalker was
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929. and what happened was,
he befriended me,
Copy !req
930. he actually worked his way
into my life
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931. so I was actually
giving him information
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932. about my stalker.
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933. I had an ordeal with
him up close at one point,
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934. which in itself,
is a horror movie.
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935. Eventually, I had a gun
to my head.
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936. And I was able to talk
the fan down.
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937. It really took its toll
for a while.
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938. But, it's all okay now.
It's all good now.
Copy !req
939. And having three generations
of fans
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940. from around the world
that fly in to wherever I am,
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941. at a city or a convention,
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942. that really talk to me and care,
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943. and tell me how much
it affected them
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944. when they found out.
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945. It's just a gift.
It's a beautiful thing.
Copy !req
946. And, I thank them.
Copy !req
947. I've turned around
my thinking about it.
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948. I think it worked out just
the way it was supposed to.
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949. And I have never felt
that I damaged my career.
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950. If anything, there are people
that would never know I existed.
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951. We had this tiny little movie
that cost $500,000,
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952. made in a boy scout camp
in New Jersey.
Copy !req
953. I just cannot imagine
how we got here from there.
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954. It kind of launched
the whole mythology.
Copy !req
955. And it wasn't by accident,
but it was kind of good fortune.
Copy !req
956. By the end of 1980,
Friday the 13th
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957. had already unleashed
a slew of imitators,
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958. throwing open the floodgates
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959. for fledgling independent
distributors
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960. and major Hollywood studios
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961. looking to cash in on
the new slasher film craze.
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962. With each film seemingly
made faster,
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963. cheaper and gorier
than the last.
Copy !req
964. With Paramount Pictures
pushing for a sequel,
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965. Sean S. Cunningham grappled
with the question
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966. of what to do when
virtually the entire cast
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967. of your film
and its villain - are dead.
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968. So, now this phenomenon
takes place,
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969. and “Friday the 13th”
opens around the world,
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970. and it's a big hit.
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971. And the powers that be said,
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972. We have to make a sequel.
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973. And I'm saying,
Why would you make a sequel?
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974. I didn't think there was
going to be any others
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975. after the first one.
Copy !req
976. We were never led
to believe that.
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977. Mrs. Voorhees is dead,
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978. and the image of Jason
in the lake
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979. is completely a fabrication
of the mind.
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980. I don't know what in the world
we could do for a sequel.
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981. Let me make one thing
totally clear:
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982. at the beginning of my movie
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983. Jason is dead.
There's no two ways about it.
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984. Jason is totally,
unalterably dead.
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985. They offer me Part 2,
and then I got the script,
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986. and Jason is running around.
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987. I thought, What are you doing?
There is no Jason?
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988. You know,
the mother is the killer.
Copy !req
989. Jason was the kid that
drowned in the lake.
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990. Oh oh, we're going
to change all that.
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991. Well, they never did.
So I chose something else.
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992. I chose "The Burning,
which is sort of a rip off
Copy !req
993. of “Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
994. I understand that it would
be very expensive
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995. to bring Mrs. Voorhees
back to life,
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996. especially after we cut off
her head.
Copy !req
997. So, we had to go somewhere,
and of course
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998. Jason was the most
logical place to go.
Copy !req
999. Part 2 was basically his journey
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1000. of seeking revenge
of the death of his mother.
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1001. And that's a very basic
foundation of storytelling.
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1002. Legend has it that Jason saw
his mother beheaded that night.
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1003. If you try to track that
on any kind of a timeline,
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1004. it makes no sense whatsoever.
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1005. He just shows up some X number
of years later.
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1006. And I don't know
if I'd want to try
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1007. to fill in the blanks
of what happened
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1008. in between all those years.
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1009. If you listen to the
old-timers in town,
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1010. they'll tell you
he's still out there.
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1011. He didn't drown in the lake.
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1012. The mother thought
he drowned in the lake.
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1013. So what happened to this child?
He was young.
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1014. He kind of found
a way to survive,
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1015. and he grew up in the woods.
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1016. Surviving any way he can.
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1017. So what is he?
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1018. Is he living off crayfish
by the pond for 35 years
Copy !req
1019. and nobody saw this weird kid
out there, you know?
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1020. The first film
was obviously a thriller.
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1021. It was, you know,
almost a murder mystery.
Copy !req
1022. Who's doing all this
killing and why?
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1023. Oh, my sweet, innocent Jason
Copy !req
1024. So the notion of having
a surprise
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1025. as to who it is, or what it is,
changed completely.
Copy !req
1026. So, what the stories became
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1027. was sort of a ritualized telling
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1028. of a group of young people
who go someplace
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1029. where they shouldn't go.
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1030. You change the characters
a little bit,
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1031. but it stayed inside
of a very deliberate form.
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1032. While Cunningham
ultimately went on
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1033. to pursue other projects,
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1034. including "A Stranger
is Watching,"
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1035. "Spring Break"
and "Deep Star Six,"
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1036. his 29-year-old protege,
Steve Miner,
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1037. was given his first feature
directing assignment
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1038. on “Friday the 13th, Part 2."
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1039. Steve Miner
was definitely up for
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1040. “Friday the 13th” Part 2,
for directing it.
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1041. He and probably
with Sean's help, cast it.
Copy !req
1042. They found the location.
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1043. They did all the preliminary
work on the show.
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1044. And I know that he was involved
with some of the writing of it.
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1045. Steve had been around all
of us for many years
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1046. so that he actually was so
young at the time,
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1047. they called him 'The Kid'.
Copy !req
1048. That was his nickname.
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1049. By the end of September 1980,
a mere four months
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1050. after the release
of the original film,
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1051. Steve Miner and his crew
were already back in production
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1052. with “Friday the 13th Part 2.
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1053. Code-named Jason.
Copy !req
1054. New to the team
was 22-year-old
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1055. Frank Mancuso Jr.,
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1056. who would become
the driving force
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1057. behind the “Friday the 13th”
franchise
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1058. Frank Mancuso, Jr. called me up
before the show,
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1059. and said that he was going
to come down
Copy !req
1060. and be a P.A. on the movie.
Copy !req
1061. I knew, of course, by this time
Copy !req
1062. his father was the president
of Paramount Pictures.
Copy !req
1063. I got involved in "Part 2" when
I was just graduating college.
Copy !req
1064. And my dad knew
the guys from Boston,
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1065. Phil Scuderi and Bob Barsamian,
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1066. who sort of initiated
the first movie.
Copy !req
1067. He, you know,
went to work with us
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1068. and was treated like a member
of the crew,
Copy !req
1069. became a member of the crew.
Copy !req
1070. Those kinds of experiences
I really feel helped, you know,
Copy !req
1071. kind of form what I became
as far as having, you know,
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1072. a keen understanding
of what everybody does,
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1073. how they do it.
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1074. And he was really just there
to learn, I think.
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1075. And that's how it started.
He quickly caught on.
Copy !req
1076. And a couple of the people
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1077. that were above the line
weren't working out
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1078. so they were getting rid
of some of those people,
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1079. so I kept on, like moving up
the food chain
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1080. kind of strangely.
Copy !req
1081. And I think that that can only
happen on that kind of a movie.
Copy !req
1082. "Part 2" picks up two months
after the events of "Part 1,"
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1083. with an extended prologue that
would see the return
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1084. and the demise of the original
film's traumatized final girl.
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1085. The fans have told me
at convention after convention
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1086. that they felt, quote-unquote,
ripped off
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1087. about the way Alice died
in "Part 2."
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1088. I do, too.
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1089. I mean she was such a tough
cookie in "Part 1,"
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1090. and then.
Copy !req
1091. That was pretty much
a necessity.
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1092. I think originally she had been
approached to star in "Part 2,"
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1093. but her agent,
as I understand it,
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1094. just wanted too much money.
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1095. So, she was basically
written out.
Copy !req
1096. Honestly, when I got
on the set that weekend,
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1097. I didn't know it was over
for Alice until I got there.
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1098. So, surprise!
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1099. They never gave me a script
for "Part 2."
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1100. They said, 'Oh, it's just
gonna be improv.'
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1101. I'm not kidding you.
This is how it happened.
Copy !req
1102. They, 'Slam-bam-thank you,
ma'am? '
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1103. Roll around
on the bed for a while.
Copy !req
1104. Intercut. Okay, go to the door,
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1105. that whole phone conversation...
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1106. I just have to put my life
back together,
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1107. and this is the only way
I know how!
Copy !req
1108. Not scripted. All improv.
All improv.
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1110. of Mrs. Voorhees' decomposing
head in her refrigerator,
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1111. she is confronted by the
vengeful, and fully-grown,
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1114. And it was a prop man I met,
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1115. one who didn't check his props.
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1116. And so the first time the
ice pick went into my temple,
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1117. it did not retract.
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1118. Yikes!
Copy !req
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main title sequence,
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1120. the story jumps ahead
five years in time
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of unwary counselors
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a new summer camp
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1123. headed by the enterprising
Paul Holt.
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1124. I'm also sure there's one thing
I don't have to tell any of you.
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1125. Being a counselor
isn't the gravy summer job
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1126. everybody thinks it is.
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1127. And I was a little older
than everybody
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1128. because I was the head
camp counselor.
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1129. He, you know, thought he was
somewhat older,
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1130. and knew more than these people,
Copy !req
1131. he was a little prissy
and stuffy or something.
Copy !req
1132. You know I thought that would
be kind of a funny thing to do
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1133. with the character.
Copy !req
1134. Assisting Paul is the spunky
and intelligent Ginny.
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1135. Who would become one of the most
memorable
Copy !req
1136. and well-regarded characters in
the “Friday the 13th” series.
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1137. To know that I did
one of these films
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1138. where they get all these
women in that are so vulnerable,
Copy !req
1139. and to be the one that people
think was strong
Copy !req
1140. and intelligent,
it just, it feels good.
Copy !req
1141. There's always the last damsel
in distress
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1142. who, you know,
summons up the courage
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1143. to fight back.
Copy !req
1144. And then I guess with
my character,
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1145. it was pretty great because
somebody who was strong enough
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1146. to fight back and kind of
stay present
Copy !req
1147. in the face of danger.
Copy !req
1148. And I was so young
that I didn't create
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1149. a whole other life
Copy !req
1150. 'cause I think that
what was really called for
Copy !req
1151. was exactly who you were
as a person,
Copy !req
1152. to bring that to screen.
Copy !req
1153. Her character was
written for her,
Copy !req
1154. and it was written well.
Copy !req
1155. She was very, very well liked
on the crew as well.
Copy !req
1156. Amy slept with everybody
in the entire crew,
Copy !req
1157. the actors and most
of the people in Kent.
Copy !req
1158. I'm just kidding.
Copy !req
1159. Well, there's something
about the chemistry
Copy !req
1160. that we both have a very similar
sense of humor.
Copy !req
1161. It's a little bit sarcastic.
Copy !req
1162. So we could look
at each other and kind of laugh.
Copy !req
1163. I think that's why
it might have worked.
Copy !req
1164. Ginny, I was starting
to worry about you.
Copy !req
1165. Bullshit, Paul.'
Copy !req
1166. We actually stayed in a camp
Copy !req
1167. that was no longer in use
because the season had passed.
Copy !req
1168. So we were in these
big barracks.
Copy !req
1169. I mean, it was insane.
Copy !req
1170. Basically, it was
a children's camp,
Copy !req
1171. and we wanted
to keep it that way.
Copy !req
1172. We didn't want anything
to stand between
Copy !req
1173. the good feelings that people
had about the children
Copy !req
1174. and a healthy environment,
which was a little bit different
Copy !req
1175. than the Jason environment.
Copy !req
1176. It was cold.
Everybody had heaters and stuff.
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1177. And it was pretty basic.
Copy !req
1178. It was like living at night
for two months.
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1179. You just start getting
kind of creeped out.
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1180. You know, everything looks
so calm down here.
Copy !req
1181. I'm looking pretty closely,
I don't know,
Copy !req
1182. it would be amazing if all of a
sudden Jason just popped out.
Copy !req
1183. They weren't sure which role
they wanted me to play,
Copy !req
1184. so I wound up auditioning
but I think there was a point
Copy !req
1185. where Steve said,
'Hey Stu, tell a joke.'
Copy !req
1186. I did, I told a joke.
Copy !req
1187. They wound up,
in the movie, using jokes
Copy !req
1188. that I had invented like this
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1189. 'What's brown
and sits on a piano?'
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1190. 'Your face.'
Copy !req
1191. 'Beethoven's
last movement.'
Copy !req
1192. There was a sign on the side
of the road
Copy !req
1193. in the beginning of the movie,
Copy !req
1194. but we do have that sign
as a remembrance
Copy !req
1195. of that particular scene.
Copy !req
1196. We come back to Crystal Lake to
open up this camp again,
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would have been smart enough
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1198. not to go back to a place
like that,
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to a place
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were murdered.
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there and everybody's gathered,
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made it to the camp,
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the shit out of everybody.
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to you straight about Jason.
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in the country,
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1207. so while he's doing
that monologue,
Copy !req
1208. little Lauren-Marie Taylor is
thinking inside her head,
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1209. Ahhh! For real.
Copy !req
1210. I thought that John did
a great job of, you know,
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1211. kind of, in the scene,
of building the tension,
Copy !req
1212. you know, then to break with
Ted, you know,
Copy !req
1213. jumping out
and scaring everybody.
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1214. And we just think it's going
to be a regular summer,
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1215. the kids are going to arrive.
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1216. And then these horrible,
horrible things start happening.
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1217. And one by one
Jason Voorhees kills us
Copy !req
1218. and continues to do
what he does best.
Copy !req
1219. With the departure
of gore wizard Tom Savini,
Copy !req
1220. another renowned Hollywood
special effects artist,
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1221. the late Stan Winston,
was initially brought on
Copy !req
1222. to create the film's
bloody set pieces.
Copy !req
1223. Due to scheduling conflicts,
however,
Copy !req
1224. Winston was forced
to drop out of the project,
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1225. handing his duties over
to up-and-coming
Copy !req
1226. special make-up effects
designer, Carl Fullerton.
Copy !req
1227. But a key casting decision
still needed to be made.
Copy !req
1228. Who would play murderous
mama's boy Jason Voorhees?
Copy !req
1229. That question would,
like the character himself,
Copy !req
1230. grow into the stuff of legend.
Copy !req
1231. They give me a black script.
Copy !req
1232. It said "Jason"
on the front of it.
Copy !req
1233. 'Well, we like you, you know,
for this counselor role.'
Copy !req
1234. I guess this was the role
that ultimately John Furey got.
Copy !req
1235. And so then they said, 'Well,
would you like to be Jason?'
Copy !req
1236. Well, sure, yeah,
Copy !req
1237. I'd love to do anything
you want me to do.
Copy !req
1238. I could never figure out
the deal with Jason.
Copy !req
1239. They had a guy for a while.
Copy !req
1240. I believe his name
was Warrington.
Copy !req
1241. And then he didn't seem to like
doing it,
Copy !req
1242. or he didn't want to do
stunts or something.
Copy !req
1243. And then, he didn't stay
for the whole movie
Copy !req
1244. I got a call from Cliff Cudney,
Copy !req
1245. who happened to be
the stunt coordinator
Copy !req
1246. on “Friday the 13th 2,"
Copy !req
1247. and he had called me and said,
Copy !req
1248. 'Listen, I'm up here
in Connecticut doing this film,
Copy !req
1249. and the guy that they hired
to play Jason
Copy !req
1250. can't do his own stunts.
We got big problems.'
Copy !req
1251. He says, 'Can you get up
to Kent, Connecticut?'
Copy !req
1252. I know that the rest
of us on set,
Copy !req
1253. we knew that there was stuff
going on about Warrington
Copy !req
1254. and Steve and in terms
of who was doing what.
Copy !req
1255. If you had asked me
who was Jason,
Copy !req
1256. I would have said Warrington.
Copy !req
1257. Warrington Gillette
was my Jason Voorhees.
Copy !req
1258. He got all the hoopla, you know,
Copy !req
1259. for everything that I did.
Copy !req
1260. Cliff Cudney, the stunt
coordinator, said to me,
Copy !req
1261. 'You're the guy
that was the Jason.
Copy !req
1262. Tell your story.
You did all the work.
Copy !req
1263. Ironically, neither actor
played Jason the first time
Copy !req
1264. the character appears on screen.
Copy !req
1265. For the film's moody opening,
Copy !req
1266. Jason was played,
for the first and only time
Copy !req
1267. in the series' history
by a woman...
Copy !req
1268. Costume designer Ellen Lutter.
Copy !req
1269. It also fell to Lutter
to come up with a disguise
Copy !req
1270. for the hideously-deformed
Jason.
Copy !req
1271. One that could only be called
a first step
Copy !req
1272. in the evolution of one of
horror's most iconic faces.
Copy !req
1273. It was through Steve,
I remember him and Sean
Copy !req
1274. having these talks
up in Sean's office
Copy !req
1275. and coming up with designs
Copy !req
1276. for you know "Part 2"
with that canvas bag.
Copy !req
1277. Instead of using an ugly face
or an ugly mask for Jason,
Copy !req
1278. he would just cover it
completely
Copy !req
1279. in a sack or a bandage,
or whatever.
Copy !req
1280. And everybody in the audience
would have their own images
Copy !req
1281. of what is the most horrible
person they can think of.
Copy !req
1282. And it worked pretty well.
Copy !req
1283. The movie,
"The Town that Dreaded Sundown"
Copy !req
1284. had a serial killer
wearing a potato sack,
Copy !req
1285. and so I think that could
have been, you know,
Copy !req
1286. an idea that was definitely
well utilized.
Copy !req
1287. The costume designer
was the one that brought us
Copy !req
1288. the pillowcase to cover Jason.
Copy !req
1289. I didn't like it at the time.
Copy !req
1290. But, I know why it was chosen.
Copy !req
1291. It was chosen because it was
an artifact
Copy !req
1292. that was readily available.
Copy !req
1293. That was the bridge
to the hockey mask,
Copy !req
1294. which became the icon,
and it was a great icon.
Copy !req
1295. Once I put the bag over my head,
and I ran in the woods,
Copy !req
1296. I couldn't see anything
'cause the bag flopped
Copy !req
1297. back and forth.
Copy !req
1298. We'll put double face tape,
Copy !req
1299. and we'll hold it
right close to your eye.
Copy !req
1300. This way you'll see
where you're going.
Copy !req
1301. And it worked marvelously.
It was terrific.
Copy !req
1302. But to me, you know,
the real talent came in
Copy !req
1303. with Carl Fullerton
trying to create this face
Copy !req
1304. that was pretty pretty intense.
Copy !req
1305. And yeah, you would get in the
makeup chair at noon
Copy !req
1306. they'd be ready to go at seven.
Copy !req
1307. So it's a process.
Copy !req
1308. Another notable character
from the first film
Copy !req
1309. would also meet an untimely and
early demise in "Part 2."
Copy !req
1310. I told the others.
They didn't believe me.
Copy !req
1311. Walt Gorney was just there
for a very short time
Copy !req
1312. at the beginning of the movie,
Copy !req
1313. and at the beginning
of our production.
Copy !req
1314. I'd say near,
between the American flag
Copy !req
1315. and that stop sign,
Copy !req
1316. that's where they had
the phone booth.
Copy !req
1317. And the actor came
riding through on a bicycle
Copy !req
1318. when they were in
the phone booth, and said,
Copy !req
1319. 'You are all Doomed!'
Copy !req
1320. You're all doomed.
Copy !req
1321. Amazing guy.
Copy !req
1322. I remember Walt being sort of
quiet, but very, very nice.
Copy !req
1323. Very and very,
very kind of elegant.
Copy !req
1324. A really good actor.
Copy !req
1325. It was interesting,
when they did set up that booth
Copy !req
1326. in New Preston,
Copy !req
1327. they took a break for lunch, and
while they were eating lunch,
Copy !req
1328. two young girls came and they
tried to use the telephone.
Copy !req
1329. And of course,
it was a dummy phone,
Copy !req
1330. and everyone was just hysterical
watching them
Copy !req
1331. trying to use it
and coming out angry.
Copy !req
1332. Crazy Ralph was choked.
Copy !req
1333. He was, I believe,
the first death
Copy !req
1334. in “Friday the 13th” Part 2.
Copy !req
1335. Yeah, yeah, I killed Ralph
with a garrote and a thin wire
Copy !req
1336. and you take his head like that.
Copy !req
1337. What are you kids
doin' out here?
Copy !req
1338. I'm proud to be known
as Deputy Winslow.
Copy !req
1339. In the original script,
I wasn't named.
Copy !req
1340. I was just kind of
an officer of the law.
Copy !req
1341. But in the book that followed,
I was given a name,
Copy !req
1342. and the name was Winslow.
Copy !req
1343. An interesting anecdote is that
I was hired as this cop.
Copy !req
1344. And I had to drive a police car.
Copy !req
1345. Now, I've never driven
a car in my life,
Copy !req
1346. before or since.
Copy !req
1347. And for a time they were
giving me some lessons,
Copy !req
1348. and I almost killed
more people than Jason.
Copy !req
1349. Now if you were a policeman,
and you were doing your job
Copy !req
1350. and you came driving down
the road here,
Copy !req
1351. and you saw a shape rush across
the road into the woods,
Copy !req
1352. you probably would do
Copy !req
1353. what that policeman in
“Friday the 13th” Part 2 did.
Copy !req
1354. He pulled over, got out of
the car and ran into the woods,
Copy !req
1355. chasing the figure.
Copy !req
1356. Unfortunately, the results
weren't so good to him.
Copy !req
1357. In shooting that death scene,
Jason has this hammer.
Copy !req
1358. The claw end of the hammer
Copy !req
1359. went right in the back
of the cop's head.
Copy !req
1360. Before we started to shoot,
Copy !req
1361. I went to this make-up place
Copy !req
1362. and they made this exact
replica of me.
Copy !req
1363. And they put some blood bags
in there,
Copy !req
1364. and they were gonna smack me in
the head and
Copy !req
1365. everything was gonna
go like that,
Copy !req
1366. and they never used it.
Copy !req
1367. It intrigued me that we killed
Walt and the sheriff so early.
Copy !req
1368. And I think it was
just to remove any possibility
Copy !req
1369. that the cavalry would come over
the hill and save the campers.
Copy !req
1370. So you knew that they were
in jeopardy,
Copy !req
1371. and that there was just
no turning back, or no help
Copy !req
1372. from the outside going to come.
Copy !req
1373. So there I was, sitting in this
fast food joint.
Copy !req
1374. I think that Muffin was,
Copy !req
1375. I don't know if it was
someone's personal dog,
Copy !req
1376. or it was actually a trained
performing dog.
Copy !req
1377. It was very likable,
very friendly.
Copy !req
1378. I think it actually got
its name above my name
Copy !req
1379. in the credits.
Copy !req
1380. Do you want to dance?
Copy !req
1381. No, thank you.
Copy !req
1382. My character, you know,
was just striking out
Copy !req
1383. with women
and with the girl he was after.
Copy !req
1384. But the dog, she showed me a lot
of love in that movie.
Copy !req
1385. One of the cuts that I love
from “Friday the 13th Part 2,"
Copy !req
1386. is the camera is on the dog
and all of a sudden
Copy !req
1387. it cuts to hot dogs
on a barbeque grill.
Copy !req
1388. And it's just funny,
and Steve is like that.
Copy !req
1389. He has a sort of like a very wry
sense of humor.
Copy !req
1390. Well, I think that if Muffin
was still around,
Copy !req
1391. you know, we probably
would have stayed together
Copy !req
1392. and but I don't want to get too
specific about that.
Copy !req
1393. One of the actresses went
swimming in the nude,
Copy !req
1394. and of course that was a big
talk in the group,
Copy !req
1395. and everybody volunteered
to come there
Copy !req
1396. and help with the scene.
Copy !req
1397. They were looking
for a towel boy.
Copy !req
1398. Somebody who would wrap
towels around,
Copy !req
1399. I believe it was Kristen
Copy !req
1400. who would come out of the water
in the nude,
Copy !req
1401. and everybody volunteered.
Copy !req
1402. Looking for something?
Copy !req
1403. I was so innocent. You know,
I don't know why I was killed.
Copy !req
1404. I don't know why Jason had it in
for me. It's crazy.
Copy !req
1405. My mother calls me
the night before and she goes,
Copy !req
1406. 'Do you die today
in the movie?'
Copy !req
1407. I go, 'Yeah.'
Copy !req
1408. She goes, 'Why are they
save that to the very end?
Copy !req
1409. Is this a snuff movie?
Are they going to kill you?'
Copy !req
1410. I said, 'No, I don't
think so, mom.
Copy !req
1411. This is Paramount.'
Copy !req
1412. The snare was attached
to a sapling tree.
Copy !req
1413. And when he cut the rope
on the sapling tree,
Copy !req
1414. it pulled the rope up, which
would have the victim's foot
Copy !req
1415. in the rope and he'd be hanging
upside down.
Copy !req
1416. AAAAHHHHHHH!
AHH! HELP!
Copy !req
1417. In effect, it worked perfectly
and nobody was hurt.
Copy !req
1418. My head gets pulled back by
Jason, and he slits my throat.
Copy !req
1419. First they put the machete
against it,
Copy !req
1420. and then he would pull it
and as he slit,
Copy !req
1421. it looked like he was
actually cutting it.
Copy !req
1422. But they used the dull side of
the machete and many times
Copy !req
1423. people have said to me,
'It looks like you were cut
Copy !req
1424. from the wrong side
of that machete.'
Copy !req
1425. And it's quite true.
Copy !req
1426. The role
of wheelchair-bound Mark
Copy !req
1427. was played by openly gay actor
and model Tom McBride,
Copy !req
1428. who sadly passed away in 1995.
Copy !req
1429. I started flirting
with Tom McBride very early
Copy !req
1430. in the process.
Copy !req
1431. And he finally said,
'Lauren, not gonna happen.'
Copy !req
1432. And I went, 'Oh, shucks.'
Copy !req
1433. He's actually the only one
I flirted with,
Copy !req
1434. but Tom McBride was great.
Copy !req
1435. And he was just a sweetheart.
Copy !req
1436. If you watch the movie,
Copy !req
1437. the most uncomfortable moment
I have
Copy !req
1438. is when I look at Tom McBride
in the wheelchair,
Copy !req
1439. and I'm supposed to be
smoking a joint?
Copy !req
1440. And I say... Toke?
Copy !req
1441. You can tell I have no idea
what I'm talking about.
Copy !req
1442. And everyone on the set knew it.
Copy !req
1443. And they never let me forget it.
Copy !req
1444. I was such a good Catholic Girl.
Copy !req
1445. McBride's death scene in
“Friday the 13th Part 2"
Copy !req
1446. remains one of the series' most
memorable and controversial.
Copy !req
1447. I thought Tom McBride's
kill was cool.
Copy !req
1448. He got a machete in his head and
went down a series of steps.
Copy !req
1449. It was just, seemed so cruel.
Copy !req
1450. You know, here's a guy
in a wheelchair,
Copy !req
1451. and you know he's got no way
to defend himself really.
Copy !req
1452. To me that's like, how could you
Copy !req
1453. go much further than that?
That's really far.
Copy !req
1454. Actually, he had
constructed a rail
Copy !req
1455. for the wheelchair to travel on,
Copy !req
1456. and to make sure that the actor
wouldn't get hurt.
Copy !req
1457. It was a tremendous amount
of work put into it.
Copy !req
1458. It was a fantastic,
fantastic stunt
Copy !req
1459. back down that staircase.
Copy !req
1460. I don't know
if you've ever tried
Copy !req
1461. to go down backwards,
on a wheelchair,
Copy !req
1462. with a make-believe machete
in your head,
Copy !req
1463. but it's a challenge.
Copy !req
1464. Many of the film's
most inventive murder sequences
Copy !req
1465. were actually suggested
by the late Phil Scuderi,
Copy !req
1466. who never took credit for his
creative contributions
Copy !req
1467. to the “Friday the 13th” films.
Copy !req
1468. Phil Scuderi was more,
I would say,
Copy !req
1469. like the architect
of the series.
Copy !req
1470. He came up with some great
scenes himself.
Copy !req
1471. I mean he, and it was
embarrassing sometimes,
Copy !req
1472. he'd get up in a restaurant
and act them out for me.
Copy !req
1473. You know, 'This is what I want
you to write, ' you know,
Copy !req
1474. and he'd act a scene out for me.
Copy !req
1475. Of course there was a couple
in the bed having sex.
Copy !req
1476. And we all know
in a horror movie,
Copy !req
1477. if you have sex,
you have to die.
Copy !req
1478. Because it's wrong.
Copy !req
1479. Which is not the case
in real life.
Copy !req
1480. Oh, I thought it was great,
are you kidding?
Copy !req
1481. You know, I remember
I was a young guy, you know.
Copy !req
1482. You'd be able to, you know,
film this, you know, love scene.
Copy !req
1483. And then, and then get a spear.
I thought it was terrific.
Copy !req
1484. Essentially, there's a hole in
the floor and both characters
Copy !req
1485. were standing in this hole.
Copy !req
1486. Carl Fullerton who was
our make-up guy,
Copy !req
1487. I had gone to his place
in New Jersey
Copy !req
1488. and they had made a latex back,
Copy !req
1489. which actually you never see
in the film.
Copy !req
1490. So he was actually
skewered on camera.
Copy !req
1491. That spear actually went into
his back on camera.
Copy !req
1492. It was fabulous.
Copy !req
1493. It was just really fun.
Copy !req
1494. The sound guy at one point,
Copy !req
1495. I'm sitting there on my knees
and he comes over to me,
Copy !req
1496. and he says, he says,
How are you? How you doin'?
Copy !req
1497. Are you okay?
I said, 'You know, yeah.
Copy !req
1498. I'm alright, you know my, you
know I'm a little uncomfortable.
Copy !req
1499. He said, Open your mouth.
Copy !req
1500. And he blows some powder
into my mouth.
Copy !req
1501. And I'm telling you, they could
have filmed it 15 times.
Copy !req
1502. I was having a great time
after that.
Copy !req
1503. Fullerton's human-shish-kebob
Copy !req
1504. was one of the many graphic
special effects
Copy !req
1505. deemed too disturbing
Copy !req
1506. by the Motion Picture
Association of America.
Copy !req
1507. To date, the scene has
never been released
Copy !req
1508. in its uncut form.
Copy !req
1509. That skewering scene was
actually really fun to set up
Copy !req
1510. and really fun to shoot.
Copy !req
1511. And what a disappointment
that it all hit the floor.
Copy !req
1512. When we were prepping
"Day of the Dead,"
Copy !req
1513. Carl Fullerton said,
'Oh, do you guys want to see
Copy !req
1514. some of the gags
from “Friday the 13th” Part 2?'
Copy !req
1515. We're like, 'Yeah, of course.
That would be great.'
Copy !req
1516. Before it got butchered
by the ratings board,
Copy !req
1517. the fact that
the guy's on top of her,
Copy !req
1518. and she sees Jason coming,
and she's struggling
Copy !req
1519. and she's trying to push him
off of her
Copy !req
1520. so she could get out of the way.
Copy !req
1521. It was such an effective,
disturbing sequence
Copy !req
1522. that, to this day,
I could, I still remember
Copy !req
1523. exactly what it looked like.
Copy !req
1524. For all its gory inventiveness,
Copy !req
1525. the scene has been
widely accused of ripping off
Copy !req
1526. a nearly identical
murder sequence
Copy !req
1527. from Mario Bava's
1971 Giallo thriller,
Copy !req
1528. "Twitch of the Death Nerve."
Copy !req
1529. It was kind of fun
after the fact
Copy !req
1530. to discover that Mario Bava
had made a film
Copy !req
1531. called "Twitch
of the Death Nerve,"
Copy !req
1532. which I had never heard of
and never seen
Copy !req
1533. until long after the fact.
Copy !req
1534. This is going to sound
really, really weird,
Copy !req
1535. but I was a great screamer.
Copy !req
1536. I hope nobody takes that
the wrong way.
Copy !req
1537. But, I was. I could scream,
I mean...
Copy !req
1538. I was really good at that,
Copy !req
1539. and I think once they figured
that out,
Copy !req
1540. they decided, 'Okay, we're gonna
have her scream a lot.'
Copy !req
1541. So they made it really long.
Copy !req
1542. And it started with just that
little swipe on the leg.
Copy !req
1543. Where he, kind of, missed
whatever he wanted to cut off.
Copy !req
1544. But then he kept,
you know, it was like...
Copy !req
1545. They didn't use a dummy for that
Copy !req
1546. when they dragged me
down the stairs.
Copy !req
1547. They actually dragged me
down the stairs!
Copy !req
1548. So when you saw my feet going
'blump, blump, blump,
Copy !req
1549. that was a crew member
dragging me down the stairs.
Copy !req
1550. There was a scene later on,
where everybody's at the bar,
Copy !req
1551. and everybody's you know,
Copy !req
1552. partying while the rest of us
are getting killed.
Copy !req
1553. What if there is a Jason?
Copy !req
1554. Oh, bullshit, Ginny!
Copy !req
1555. I mean, let's try to
think beyond the legend
Copy !req
1556. and put it in real terms.
Copy !req
1557. I mean,
what would he be like today?
Copy !req
1558. The character of Ginny Field,
Copy !req
1559. she somehow really understood
Copy !req
1560. that there's more to a person
than just the bad side.
Copy !req
1561. You know, and everyone
wants to demonize somebody.
Copy !req
1562. And so, she had some kind of
insight that this,
Copy !req
1563. something had to go wrong
somewhere in his childhood
Copy !req
1564. or his upbringing.
Copy !req
1565. He must have seen his mother
get killed,
Copy !req
1566. and all just because
she loved him.
Copy !req
1567. I think Ginny kind of
understood that some,
Copy !req
1568. that there's more to it
than just this demon guy
Copy !req
1569. with a pillowcase over his head.
Copy !req
1570. We went to that bar
and none of those people,
Copy !req
1571. I think, had ever seen a movie,
Copy !req
1572. had been around a movie.
Copy !req
1573. And they were all hired
as extras.
Copy !req
1574. And it was pretty funny.
Copy !req
1575. And we actually started
drinking a bit in that scene,
Copy !req
1576. so by the time
four in the morning came along,
Copy !req
1577. we just kept drinking.
Copy !req
1578. Arguably the luckiest character
is fun-loving prankster Ted,
Copy !req
1579. who decides to stay behind
at the bar,
Copy !req
1580. thereby escaping certain death.
Copy !req
1581. I did another movie, a John
Carpenter film, "Christine,"
Copy !req
1582. and there's a scene in that
where I got killed.
Copy !req
1583. Where I got squished.
Copy !req
1584. And they originally filmed it
as me getting crushed
Copy !req
1585. underneath a car coming down.
Copy !req
1586. In the movie they wound up
not using that scene.
Copy !req
1587. And I'm convinced that it's
because I don't die good.
Copy !req
1588. So I'm glad that they
didn't try to kill me here,
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1589. 'cause, you know, to make
believe me dying as an actor,
Copy !req
1590. has got to be
one of the silliest things
Copy !req
1591. for a grown-up to do.
Copy !req
1592. This is the site of the old
Lake Waramaug Casino,
Copy !req
1593. and this burned down
about a year after it was used
Copy !req
1594. for some scenes
in “Friday the 13th Part 2."
Copy !req
1595. It starts to rain
and Amy Steel and John Furey
Copy !req
1596. are coming out of the bar.
Copy !req
1597. And they're
about to get into their,
Copy !req
1598. her little red Volkswagen.
Copy !req
1599. But I convinced Steve Miner
Copy !req
1600. that I could run
through the scene
Copy !req
1601. in the parking lot.
Copy !req
1602. As they're getting in the car,
Copy !req
1603. you can see me
running into the restaurant.
Copy !req
1604. You can't even tell
that it's anything
Copy !req
1605. other than a body running
through the rain, but it's me.
Copy !req
1606. I come back from the dead.
Copy !req
1607. Unaware of the carnage that
has occurred in the main cabin,
Copy !req
1608. Ginny and Paul
make a gruesome discovery,
Copy !req
1609. and the terrifying final
confrontation with Jason begins.
Copy !req
1610. When I'm down there waiting,
and they're coming in,
Copy !req
1611. and I'm behind the couch,
I was like a little kid.
Copy !req
1612. You know what I mean?
Copy !req
1613. I was like, I couldn't wait,
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1614. I was, oh,
this is gonna be good.
Copy !req
1615. Paul, there's someone
in this fuckin' room!
Copy !req
1616. Amy with the screaming,
and the whole thing.
Copy !req
1617. And that's when
the chase scene started.
Copy !req
1618. There was a lot of physical
action in the film.
Copy !req
1619. I had to jump out
of this window.
Copy !req
1620. And I remember the stunt guy
said you know,
Copy !req
1621. 'Maybe you could get
a stunt adjustment for that.'
Copy !req
1622. But yeah, it was
a lot of running.
Copy !req
1623. Splashing through the puddles.
Copy !req
1624. Jumping, hiding,
a lot of it was hiding.
Copy !req
1625. I really like Amy,
I mean, I always liked Amy.
Copy !req
1626. She brought a great sort of
buoyancy to whatever she did.
Copy !req
1627. I mean, she came in,
she was enthusiastic,
Copy !req
1628. she was down with whatever
the program was.
Copy !req
1629. Here I am under the bed,
Copy !req
1630. and Jason's walking around,
and I'm scared to death,
Copy !req
1631. and all of a sudden a rat comes
right in front of my face.
Copy !req
1632. I thought Ginny was so scared
she peed her pants.
Copy !req
1633. Maybe it was the rat,
I don't know.
Copy !req
1634. But it wasn't a large amount
of pee for a rat?
Copy !req
1635. I gotta give Amy Steel
a lot of credit
Copy !req
1636. because all during the filming
Amy never spoke to me.
Copy !req
1637. Off camera.
Copy !req
1638. I didn't have much
communication with him,
Copy !req
1639. or I kind of kept him
very separate.
Copy !req
1640. Amy was non-existent.
She didn't want to come near me.
Copy !req
1641. She didn't want to know
anything about me.
Copy !req
1642. I respected that.
I stayed away from her as well.
Copy !req
1643. But mostly, you know,
Copy !req
1644. they would shoot him
and then shoot me.
Copy !req
1645. So we were never exactly at
the same place at the same time,
Copy !req
1646. with the exception
of the sweater scene.
Copy !req
1647. That final scene we used to call
Chez Jason.
Copy !req
1648. Where Amy goes and dresses up
as Mrs. Voorhees.
Copy !req
1649. And Jason is somewhat
stunned by, wait a minute.
Copy !req
1650. This is my mom.
Copy !req
1651. And she psyches him out.
Copy !req
1652. In her only cameo in any of
the “Friday the 13th” sequels,
Copy !req
1653. Betsy Palmer appears to Jason
Copy !req
1654. as the ghostly visage
of Mrs. Voorhees.
Copy !req
1655. They said, would I come
and let them make up my head?
Copy !req
1656. Again.
Copy !req
1657. And that they needed that
and do a few voice-overs.
Copy !req
1658. And I said, Sure, I'll do that.
Copy !req
1659. Which I did.
Copy !req
1660. He's a tragic figure because he
was looking for his mother.
Copy !req
1661. Now here, after all this time,
Copy !req
1662. Amy's in the lair, and she says
Copy !req
1663. Jason, mother is talking to you!
Copy !req
1664. Jason, Mother is talking to you.
Copy !req
1665. And when I listen
to what she said,
Copy !req
1666. that's when I did the,
you know, the tilt the head.
Copy !req
1667. Is that my mother?
Is that my mother?
Copy !req
1668. My heart broke. I really
felt bad for poor Jason.
Copy !req
1669. I felt what I was doing
through the whole thing,
Copy !req
1670. I really did.
Copy !req
1671. That was the point
of the film where I went,
Copy !req
1672. 'That's really
where we're going.
Copy !req
1673. That's what the sound
of this is.'
Copy !req
1674. So there was a certain
ethereal, sort of spacey,
Copy !req
1675. kind of sound that permeated
the picture from the beginning.
Copy !req
1676. I have the machete
behind my back.
Copy !req
1677. And I'm instructed
to pull the machete up.
Copy !req
1678. And just as Mrs. Voorhees'
face is revealed,
Copy !req
1679. he's supposed to bring up
this pickaxe.
Copy !req
1680. And then that's when I bring
the machete down.
Copy !req
1681. There was a lot of discussion
before that scene was shot.
Copy !req
1682. It was ultimately decided
that Amy could do it.
Copy !req
1683. So Cliff took her,
and he walked her through it
Copy !req
1684. a couple of times,
on what would happen.
Copy !req
1685. 'Make sure you hit the pickaxe
in the middle,
Copy !req
1686. and so forth, and so on.
Copy !req
1687. She is a great actress, but
unfortunately that day for me,
Copy !req
1688. she was trying to kill me.
Copy !req
1689. So I guess I got really anxious,
Copy !req
1690. and I brought the machete down
Copy !req
1691. when he still had the pick-axe
like this,
Copy !req
1692. as opposed to this.
Copy !req
1693. She missed the pick-axe,
and she came down on my finger.
Copy !req
1694. And I felt so bad.
Copy !req
1695. But the actor who played Jason
was really cool about it.
Copy !req
1696. You know, he just said,
'Hey, this is what happens.
Copy !req
1697. This is what happens when you're
a stunt person.'
Copy !req
1698. So then he goes to the hospital.
Copy !req
1699. I think he had the machete
through his chest or something,
Copy !req
1700. and walks into the
emergency room and they're like,
Copy !req
1701. Oh, my god!
Copy !req
1702. I come walking in
with the machete
Copy !req
1703. sticking out of my shoulder,
Copy !req
1704. and everybody
in the emergency room went...
Copy !req
1705. And I walked up to the desk,
Copy !req
1706. I says, Have you got anything
for a headache?
Copy !req
1707. I've got a very bad headache.
Copy !req
1708. They stitched him up.
Copy !req
1709. But, he was professional,
he came back,
Copy !req
1710. and they finished the scene with
the bandage under the shirt.
Copy !req
1711. And I have 13 stitches
in this finger to show you.
Copy !req
1712. It's right here,
this, it's 13 stitches.
Copy !req
1713. So, very apropos.
Copy !req
1714. Muffin comes tottering in.
Copy !req
1715. 'Oh, Muffin. You're alive!'
Copy !req
1716. Come here, Muffin.
Copy !req
1717. The scene where Jason comes
careening through the window?
Copy !req
1718. Look, you thought he was dead.
Copy !req
1719. And it's the greatest shock.
Copy !req
1720. I know that the Jason
coming through the window
Copy !req
1721. was a nightmare for me.
Copy !req
1722. I had to do it three times.
Copy !req
1723. And it was really scary.
Copy !req
1724. And yeah, it's plenty scary.
Copy !req
1725. The mystery of the unknown.
Copy !req
1726. What is behind that potato sack?
Copy !req
1727. We never saw the make-up.
Copy !req
1728. And he didn't want me to see it.
Copy !req
1729. And he wanted to look
really real.
Copy !req
1730. You know, because we could have
walked up to the make-up area
Copy !req
1731. and seen what this guy
looked like
Copy !req
1732. so we wouldn't have been
as shocked, you know,
Copy !req
1733. when he blasts
through the window.
Copy !req
1734. They built a platform
outside the house.
Copy !req
1735. The platform was probably
4 feet long.
Copy !req
1736. So we coordinated how
many steps it takes.
Copy !req
1737. One, two three, bah, you know,
through the window.
Copy !req
1738. And at this time in my life,
Copy !req
1739. I was not a well-seasoned
stuntman.
Copy !req
1740. So this was the first time
I jumped through a window.
Copy !req
1741. Steve was, he knew how I felt
about that scene.
Copy !req
1742. And I remember he was,
you know he goes,
Copy !req
1743. Hey, let's go have lunch.
Copy !req
1744. And he was trying to kind of
play it really cool
Copy !req
1745. and not let me know.
Copy !req
1746. And then all of a sudden
he said, Guess what?
Copy !req
1747. We have to re-shoot
that scene again.
Copy !req
1748. Ruined my day.
Copy !req
1749. But anyway, look, the proof
is in the scene.
Copy !req
1750. Cause we got it right,
and people are still talking.
Copy !req
1751. Much like its predecessor,
Copy !req
1752. Part 2's ending would ultimately
pose more questions
Copy !req
1753. than it answered.
Copy !req
1754. Chief among them,
what happened to Paul?
Copy !req
1755. The end of
“Friday the 13th Part 2"
Copy !req
1756. is still one of the most
confusing endings
Copy !req
1757. of that series.
Copy !req
1758. You didn't know what happened
to my character.
Copy !req
1759. Like she says
at the end of the movie,
Copy !req
1760. she says, "Where's Paul?"
Copy !req
1761. And they said, "We don't know.
We haven't found him yet."
Copy !req
1762. So they purposely
left it ambiguous.
Copy !req
1763. And I'm not sure exactly
what did happen to Paul.
Copy !req
1764. Too bad he didn't come back
in Part 3.
Copy !req
1765. As noted, we've seen a dog
that earlier in the film
Copy !req
1766. it's suggested has been killed,
shows up again.
Copy !req
1767. There is, of course,
some speculation
Copy !req
1768. that it's a dream ultimately.
Copy !req
1769. Maybe that's one of
the good parts of the movie
Copy !req
1770. is that you get to decide that
for yourself.
Copy !req
1771. I guess there was talk
of an alternate ending.
Copy !req
1772. It was not anything
that was prominent
Copy !req
1773. when we were shooting it.
Copy !req
1774. At the very end, they zoom in
on Mrs. Voorhees' head.
Copy !req
1775. It was just sort of
sitting there on the altar.
Copy !req
1776. I know when they were
shooting it
Copy !req
1777. I think they couldn't decide
Copy !req
1778. whether the eyes
should open or not.
Copy !req
1779. I think that they did
make her eyes go open.
Copy !req
1780. Although the alternate ending
of “Friday the 13th Part 2"
Copy !req
1781. remains unreleased,
Copy !req
1782. production stills have surfaced
of actress Connie Hogan,
Copy !req
1783. who played the decapitated head
of Mrs. Voorhees
Copy !req
1784. in the film's unused final shot.
Copy !req
1785. In my world that was never
a serious contender
Copy !req
1786. for an alternative ending.
Copy !req
1787. And we spent a lot of time
getting it right.
Copy !req
1788. And we did.
It's a fabulous ending.
Copy !req
1789. One of the guys came to me,
Copy !req
1790. I was from the camp office.
And he said, "Thanks a lot.
Copy !req
1791. We left you a Thank You
down at the lake."
Copy !req
1792. I came down there
and what I found was a head
Copy !req
1793. hanging from a tree
in a little net basket.
Copy !req
1794. And, I guess
that was my thank you
Copy !req
1795. for the courtesies extended
to these guys and the cast
Copy !req
1796. who were down there.
Copy !req
1797. So I still have that head and
I've had a lot of fun with it
Copy !req
1798. over the years.
Copy !req
1799. As a matter of fact,
Copy !req
1800. I've had a number of people
who wanted
Copy !req
1801. to purchase that
and the Crystal Lake sign,
Copy !req
1802. but they bring back too many
happy memories to me.
Copy !req
1803. Paramount Pictures released
"Friday the 13th Part 2"
Copy !req
1804. on April 30, 1981.
Copy !req
1805. Continuing the original film's
winning ad campaign
Copy !req
1806. highlighting the escalating
body count,
Copy !req
1807. PART 2 brought in a final
domestic box office take
Copy !req
1808. of $21.7 million.
Copy !req
1809. Even if the sequel didn't
achieve the monster success
Copy !req
1810. of the original,
Copy !req
1811. it was still a bona fide
moneymaker.
Copy !req
1812. If nothing more, it proved
there was much more lifeblood
Copy !req
1813. to be drained
from Jason Voorhees.
Copy !req
1814. The film came out,
and it was amazingly successful.
Copy !req
1815. We were all very proud of it.
Copy !req
1816. We made it
on a very small budget
Copy !req
1817. and pretty adverse
circumstances.
Copy !req
1818. You know, somebody from
Paramount called me up one day
Copy !req
1819. and they said, 'You're starring
Copy !req
1820. in the number one box office
movie in America.'
Copy !req
1821. You know, it sort of
sinks in then.
Copy !req
1822. And I'm glad that it's an
iconic kind of horror movie.
Copy !req
1823. I was shocked.
Copy !req
1824. I had no idea that there was
such a fan base
Copy !req
1825. for this film, and for Ginny.
Copy !req
1826. And everyone I've met
has been excited
Copy !req
1827. and just been nothing
but gracious.
Copy !req
1828. When I got involved in
the second “Friday the 13th”
Copy !req
1829. I had never seen the first one,
Copy !req
1830. so I didn't know
what I was getting into.
Copy !req
1831. And I very quickly had to sort
of get up to speed,
Copy !req
1832. and I had to very quickly sort
of had to assimilate myself
Copy !req
1833. into a place that I hadn't been
because of the opportunity,
Copy !req
1834. and the faith that people had
in me, that they gave me,
Copy !req
1835. it turned out to be a, you know,
Copy !req
1836. like a life changing sort of
dynamic for me.
Copy !req
1837. We were actually shooting
the end of the movie,
Copy !req
1838. and Frank comes up and says,
Copy !req
1839. 'Can I talk to you
for a minute?'
Copy !req
1840. and I said, 'Sure.'
So he said,
Copy !req
1841. 'I have two job offers
when this film is over.
Copy !req
1842. One is I can be
Robert Evans' assistant.
Copy !req
1843. He's doing a film for Paramount.
Copy !req
1844. Or, I can produce my own film.
Copy !req
1845. Which do you think
I should do?'
Copy !req
1846. And I said, 'You know, I think
you should do your own film.
Copy !req
1847. I think that that would be
great for you.
Copy !req
1848. I think you're ready
to do that.'
Copy !req
1849. And I was just really thrilled
that he asked.
Copy !req
1850. And I had no idea
what he was talking about.
Copy !req
1851. And it turned out to be
Friday the 13th Part 3.
Copy !req
1852. And off he went.
Copy !req
1853. And he did a great job
with the series.
Copy !req
1854. I had no idea it was going to
work the way it did.
Copy !req
1855. In fact I really thought
Copy !req
1856. it wasn't going to work
the way it did.
Copy !req
1857. And I'm delighted
to have been so wrong.
Copy !req
1858. Bolstered by the success
of “Part 2.”
Copy !req
1859. “Friday the 13th” managed to
survive its sophomore slump.
Copy !req
1860. A third installment
seemed a foregone conclusion.
Copy !req
1861. This time, however,
Copy !req
1862. the previous film's
surviving character
Copy !req
1863. would not return to face Jason.
Copy !req
1864. “Part 3” was going to have
me as a trauma patient
Copy !req
1865. in a mental hospital
Copy !req
1866. and that Jason was going to come
to find me
Copy !req
1867. and now his focus of revenge
was all on me.
Copy !req
1868. And then he started offing
all the patients,
Copy !req
1869. and they were going to call it
“Friday the 13th
Copy !req
1870. Meets Cuckoo's Nest."
Copy !req
1871. I was offered to write "Part 3"
but I turned it down.
Copy !req
1872. I didn't want to be pigeon-holed
Copy !req
1873. as “Friday the 13th” guy.
Copy !req
1874. I said no because I thought
I was going to go on
Copy !req
1875. to all these like other things,
and I didn't have time.
Copy !req
1876. But in hindsight I should have
just done it
Copy !req
1877. and had a great time.
Copy !req
1878. Once again, Steve Miner returned
to the director's chair
Copy !req
1879. while script supervisor
Martin Kitrosser,
Copy !req
1880. along with his wife
Carol Watson,
Copy !req
1881. wrote the screenplay.
Copy !req
1882. This time,
the Boston-based investors
Copy !req
1883. put the film into the hands
of a young,
Copy !req
1884. but extremely capable,
new producer.
Copy !req
1885. These guys in Boston were
used to working
Copy !req
1886. with people that they knew,
Copy !req
1887. like they knew Steve Miner
from the first movie.
Copy !req
1888. He was a PA. Then
the second movie he directed.
Copy !req
1889. He directed the third movie.
Copy !req
1890. So they liked sort of
hanging onto people.
Copy !req
1891. Despite receiving a serviceable
first draft
Copy !req
1892. from Kitrosser and Watson,
Copy !req
1893. the producers ultimately
decided that the script
Copy !req
1894. needed more work before
the project could be green lit
Copy !req
1895. for production.
Copy !req
1896. I was friendly with
Frank Mancuso,
Copy !req
1897. and he mentioned
that they had the screenplay
Copy !req
1898. in a series of horror movies,
Copy !req
1899. it was called
“Friday the 13th.”
Copy !req
1900. It's not a bad script,
but it has to be re-written.
Copy !req
1901. It has to have a different kind
of atmosphere.
Copy !req
1902. It has to be
a lot more sinister,
Copy !req
1903. a lot more menacing.
Copy !req
1904. In addition to injecting
the screenplay
Copy !req
1905. with more horror and menace,
Copy !req
1906. Steve Miner felt that “Part 3”
could benefit
Copy !req
1907. from the revival of a gimmick
Copy !req
1908. that he hoped would draw
audiences back into theaters.
Copy !req
1909. And one that would make
it possible for Jason
Copy !req
1910. to literally
jump off the screen.
Copy !req
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would be shot in 3D.
Copy !req
1912. Back in the early 80s,
Frank Mancuso, Sr. and I
Copy !req
1913. sat in an office in Toronto
Copy !req
1914. and discussed the idea
of really trying to do
Copy !req
1915. something radically new in film
Copy !req
1916. that would help the theaters out
a great deal.
Copy !req
1917. And what kind of a movie
should we make?
Copy !req
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"Star Trek 3D"
Copy !req
1919. which is what was
originally discussed,
Copy !req
1920. or should we try to do
something that's horror
Copy !req
1921. and to try to really break
the ground in horror films?
Copy !req
1922. We spoke a lot about
the horror films
Copy !req
1923. that came out in the 50s in 3D.
Copy !req
1924. I had not seen many 3D movies,
maybe one or two only.
Copy !req
1925. He took me to a 3D screening of
"Dial M for Murder"
Copy !req
1926. which was he, Steve Miner
was a fan of that movie,
Copy !req
1927. and a fan of Hitchcock
in general.
Copy !req
1928. Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Really saw the idea
Copy !req
1929. of what the potential was.
Copy !req
1930. That whole idea
of going to a theater,
Copy !req
1931. putting these kind of goofy
glasses on.
Copy !req
1932. You want to have that fun
and so, you know,
Copy !req
1933. that was part of the charm,
I think.
Copy !req
1934. To help defray costs associated
with the new 3D technology,
Copy !req
1935. the production team moved
to the west coast.
Copy !req
1936. And by the spring of 1982,
Copy !req
1937. the search was underway for yet
another resourceful
Copy !req
1938. female survivor
and a youthful cast
Copy !req
1939. of soon-to-be victims.
Copy !req
1940. I sat in on the casting,
Copy !req
1941. and I was surprised
how different my ideas
Copy !req
1942. of who should be the girl were
Copy !req
1943. compared to who was selected
by Steve Miner.
Copy !req
1944. Well, I had done a film called
"Sweet Sixteen,"
Copy !req
1945. and I guess
the producer/director
Copy !req
1946. saw me in that,
Copy !req
1947. And I went for an audition and
basically met with Steve Miner
Copy !req
1948. and that was it.
Copy !req
1949. I didn't really have to do a
whole lot of auditioning for it.
Copy !req
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There was the jock,
Copy !req
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Copy !req
1952. and the nerd
and his good-looking date
Copy !req
1953. I don't think so.
Copy !req
1954. And the stoners.
Copy !req
1955. They didn't really tell us much
on the interview.
Copy !req
1956. It was very secret. There
wasn't a lot talked about.
Copy !req
1957. My mother was an agent
at the time,
Copy !req
1958. and I was getting ready
to go to college.
Copy !req
1959. I had been working as a child
as an actress,
Copy !req
1960. and it was time to go
to college,
Copy !req
1961. and I was excited about that.
Copy !req
1962. My mom called my agent and said,
Copy !req
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for a movie of some sort.
Copy !req
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Copy !req
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what it was,
Copy !req
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It was wonderful.
Copy !req
1967. Actor Larry Zerner was literally
approached on the street
Copy !req
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Copy !req
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for the role
Copy !req
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insecure prankster.
Copy !req
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Copy !req
1972. Would you be yourself
if you looked like this?
Copy !req
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and heavy,
Copy !req
1974. and he just had very poor
self-esteem
Copy !req
1975. so he thought that if he had
these little tricks,
Copy !req
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to him,
Copy !req
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like him.
Copy !req
1978. I guess
I fooled you, huh?
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that way.
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these stupid things?
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to like me.
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she was supposed to be a babe.
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who go, you know,
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the character and I love you.
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amount of people who go...
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Worst character in the series.
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in "Part 2,"
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needed someone more agile,
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to play the savage killer.
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as a stuntman in LA.
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is actually circus.
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as a flying trapeze artist
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1998. He looked creepy and scary
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had him moving.
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malevolent intelligence
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seen in the other movies per se.
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Steve Miner at all actually.
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you know,
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me what your motivation is
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2006. You're just a mindless killer,
and you just go out and kill.
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version of "Jaws."
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that Steve Miner made
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lurking and unseen,
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creative choice
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to try to keep Jason
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as a shadowy figure
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and having Jason stand there.
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throughout the whole movie
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or see, you know,
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at the climax of the movie.
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laid-back director,
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a lot of tension on the set
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since I was 2 years old,
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with a lot of directors.
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2024. And a lot of in my mind,
directors were grown-ups
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2025. and Steve was another kid.
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2026. Never difficult.
Never hard on us.
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2027. Just a nice guy.
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to his idol Alfred Hitchcock,
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in an early cameo
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on the grisly aftermath
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2032. Crystal Lake was shocked today
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2033. with reports of a grisly,
mass-murder scene.
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2034. Naturally, the ominous warning
goes unheeded
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2035. by Jason's
next batch of victims.
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2036. I have warned thee!
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2037. You know, a lot of kids don't
listen to the news, you know?
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2038. They got better things to do
with their life.
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2039. So I think it's understandable
that all of us would be,
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to Crystal Lake
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the events in "Part 2,"
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Saturday the 14th,
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2045. It was filmed at a ranch
in Saugus, California.
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2046. They actually built
the set there
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2047. so everything
was in one location.
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2048. They built a little lake.
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2049. They built the barn.
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2050. They built the house and so
everything was done right there.
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for a day or so
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2052. because there was an infestation
of bees around.
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2053. So there were
rattlesnakes everywhere
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2054. and some of the guys,
some of the grips had guns
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2055. and then they'd hear
this gun going off
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2056. because they were shooting
rattlesnakes.
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2057. Here we are on the set of
"Friday the 13th Part 3,"
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2058. In 3D.
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2059. Over here's the house
that we used,
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2060. that unfortunately burned
about a year ago,
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2061. but the fireplace
is still there.
Copy !req
2062. But this house was built
just for us.
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2063. It was a great atmosphere.
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2064. Our producer was young.
Our director was young.
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2065. The whole cast
were a bunch of young kids.
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2066. And it was a very relaxed
atmosphere.
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2067. Everyone having a good time,
and everyone having fun.
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2068. Well, it was also the first
movie with the 3D camera,
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2069. which was kind of exciting.
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2070. I mean, it was a very
unusual camera.
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2071. This was the lens that was used
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2072. to shoot "Friday the 13th
Part 3 in 3D."
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2073. As you can see, it's really
lightweight and handheld,
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2074. and it permitted you to really
make a horror movie
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2075. the way other horror movies
are made.
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2076. We could do things like shoot
long lenses with it.
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2077. We could do rack focuses
with it.
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2078. Steve Miner did wonderful work
with Gerry Fiel
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2079. by shooting a whole picture
on a moving Louma crane.
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2080. The first feature film
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2081. to utilize the all-new
Marks 3D system,
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2082. "Friday the 13th Part 3"
encountered more than its share
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2083. of technical mishaps
along the way.
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2084. The 3D was very difficult.
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2085. It was a brand new process.
No one had ever used it before.
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2086. Today 3D, I'm sure,
has come much farther
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2087. and is a lot easier to shoot.
Copy !req
2088. Back then it would take hours
to set up a shot.
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2089. There was a lot of time
to just, as an actor,
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2090. to just sit around and wait.
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2091. That's what we did mostly.
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2092. And there was always
something going wrong with it.
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2093. We were using at the time,
which was very new,
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2094. a Louma crane.
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2095. And in the first run they did
down the track,
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2096. it collapsed.
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2097. The whole thing went over.
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2098. So, you know, they had to start
all over again.
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2099. And I remember
the guy who ran it,
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2100. he showed up one day
with a shirt that said,
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2101. "I Hate the Louma."
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2102. The first thing we shot
was the scene at the store,
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2103. and they ended up
basically throwing that away
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2104. because it was really
just a test
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2105. to see if it could be done
and then they revised it,
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2106. and we came back a week later
and then we did it.
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2107. You had to do it exactly
the way you were directed,
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2108. or the 3D effect
wouldn't turn out.
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2109. So it was very precise.
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2110. Often times we would do
additional takes
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2111. just because
there were technical issues.
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2112. So as an actor
that was a little frustrating.
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2113. When we're doing takes,
you know,
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2114. I'm throwing the wallet at
the camera in the store just
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2115. it's just take after take
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2116. because you have to hit
right to the camera
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2117. otherwise it doesn't work.
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2118. So things did take
more takes than usual
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2119. because I had to be perfectly
right into the camera.
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2120. You weren't really worried so
much about your acting skills
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2121. as much as could you get
that yo-yo
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2122. to go right in the lens.
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2123. That was more important
than anything else.
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2124. Director Steve Miner
focused on creating
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2125. a totally new look for Jason
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2126. and a host of gory
practical effects
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2127. that needed to leap out
at the audience in 3D.
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2128. Some of the good 3D gags,
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2129. he puts a knitting needle
through a woman's mouth
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2130. so it comes out the front.
Copy !req
2131. When it comes out her mouth,
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2132. it's actually a plastic version
of the knitting needle
Copy !req
2133. connected to the original one,
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2134. and it's actually behind
Richard's hand.
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2135. She just has her mouth open,
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2136. and it's being fed
down the side of his hand
Copy !req
2137. and out through his fingers.
Copy !req
2138. It's definitely a movie
that should be seen in 3D.
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2139. If you watch it on DVD,
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2140. it just a lot of the stuff
just doesn't work.
Copy !req
2141. When you watch it on 3D,
it's like a whole other movie.
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2142. People who see it
in a good 3D projection
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2143. do say
it is one of their favorites.
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2144. "Part 3" had me at the credits.
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2145. When those credits came out
part way and the whole music,
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2146. the whole disco thing,
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2147. and then they came out further,
was so cool.
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2148. The creative force behind the
film's now famous disco theme
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2149. was renowned music producer
Michael Zager,
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2150. who shared credit
with a fictional band
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2151. that he named "Hot Ice."
Copy !req
2152. I'm not sure if disco was dead,
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2153. but it was certainly
it was still around.
Copy !req
2154. Disco really never
goes away anyway.
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2155. Once you hear it,
you start to move,
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2156. you feel you feel the groove,
I guess, you know.
Copy !req
2157. I had no idea that this would
become such a huge
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2158. and popular thing.
Copy !req
2159. For example, in all the discos,
gay clubs.
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2160. I understand there's actually
a tribute band
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2161. who plays that particular piece
live which astounds me.
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2162. People just come to me and like,
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2163. "I just really love that tune."
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2164. Get yourself
a little drum machine
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2165. and you're on your way.
Copy !req
2166. You, too, can be Hot Ice.
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2167. In one of the film's
more memorable scenes,
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2168. Shelly and Vera
are accosted at a general store
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2169. by a fearsome
motorcycle-riding trio.
Copy !req
2170. Hey, we're back in the store
where we filmed the scene
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2171. in "Friday the 13th Part 3."
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2172. This is
the Spunky Canyon Market.
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2173. It is located in Green Valley,
California.
Copy !req
2174. This is the scene where we go
to the store to buy stuff,
Copy !req
2175. and Vera goes to talk to
the cash register girl,
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2176. and she says that famous line
Copy !req
2177. We don't accept no food stamps.
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2178. The other two members of
the gang, Fox and Ali,
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2179. played by Gloria Charles
and Nick Savage,
Copy !req
2180. were great and I think that,
very much like myself,
Copy !req
2181. I don't think that that
was their natural role.
Copy !req
2182. Then they throw
the condom thing in.
Copy !req
2183. Is this your rubber?
Copy !req
2184. I was more embarrassed
than the character,
Copy !req
2185. the other character
was supposed to be
Copy !req
2186. about someone talking
about a condom.
Copy !req
2187. Right behind me it was where
the motorcycles were.
Copy !req
2188. There's that scene
where the car backs up
Copy !req
2189. and one time I did
hit the motorcycle on accident,
Copy !req
2190. and they were not happy with me.
Copy !req
2191. One of the first things we shot
Copy !req
2192. when we started shooting
the movie
Copy !req
2193. was the sequence
in the Volkswagen
Copy !req
2194. and somebody smashes
the Volkswagen window out,
Copy !req
2195. and Larry Zerner
looks to the camera and said
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2196. You went too far this time.
Copy !req
2197. Shelly gets us out of there
Copy !req
2198. and I think shared experiences,
you know,
Copy !req
2199. like that bring people together.
Copy !req
2200. I did it! Did I do it?
Copy !req
2201. Yes, you did it.
You were great!
Copy !req
2202. So there was a scene
that was in the original script
Copy !req
2203. that we never shot
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2204. where the Volkswagen
headed down that road
Copy !req
2205. and then the motorcycle gang
got on the motorcycles
Copy !req
2206. and chased us down.
Copy !req
2207. And Shelly
had a champagne bottle
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2208. that he bought at the store,
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2209. and what he did is
he popped the cork
Copy !req
2210. into their face
Copy !req
2211. which caused the motorcycle
to fly off
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2212. and them to be able to get away.
Copy !req
2213. And it would have been
a whole lot of fun
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2214. but we never shot it.
Copy !req
2215. And I don't know why.
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2216. One of my favorite shots
in the movie
Copy !req
2217. is when we're going to siphon
the gas out of the van
Copy !req
2218. and that great shot
of Tracie Savage
Copy !req
2219. that goes basically
from her behind to me.
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2220. I love the idea of siphoning gas
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2221. with a lit cigarette.
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2222. It's amazing.
The barn's still here.
Copy !req
2223. Right above is actually where
my little body
Copy !req
2224. was swinging back and forth.
Copy !req
2225. The swinging part
was the scariest part for me
Copy !req
2226. because they had this harness
on me inside my pants
Copy !req
2227. that were way too tight.
Copy !req
2228. I was absolutely
afraid of heights.
Copy !req
2229. And I took this
as an opportunity
Copy !req
2230. for me to just face that fear
and say
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2231. This feels good!
Copy !req
2232. Inside is where I so
stupidly walked in.
Copy !req
2233. Amazing. That's where
I was pitchforked.
Copy !req
2234. The stunt coordinator had
hooked her up on a wire support
Copy !req
2235. to the rafters
so she was already in position.
Copy !req
2236. The fork was actually
a real pitchfork
Copy !req
2237. but had the two prongs
in the center were collapsible,
Copy !req
2238. and the hard part
was for me to not giggle
Copy !req
2239. while I was hanging there.
Copy !req
2240. Same thing for the one
biker guy who Jason stabs.
Copy !req
2241. So we had to cut off the tangs
in the back
Copy !req
2242. and that welded to a plate
and put that on his back.
Copy !req
2243. We needed to get the impact
of the pitchfork
Copy !req
2244. and then be certain
that the handle
Copy !req
2245. was sticking at the direct point
of the camera.
Copy !req
2246. I didn't put up a struggle.
Copy !req
2247. I didn't, you know I just said
"Okay, it's my turn."
Copy !req
2248. I was a fairly good juggler
before being cast in the movie,
Copy !req
2249. and originally they had asked us
to do paddle balls.
Copy !req
2250. No matter how good you are,
Copy !req
2251. you can't get the ball
to go into the camera.
Copy !req
2252. The ball goes like that.
Copy !req
2253. You can'tit won't go
into the camera.
Copy !req
2254. So it just wasn't working
with the paddle balls.
Copy !req
2255. Jeffrey could juggle
a little bit,
Copy !req
2256. and I helped him
get a little better
Copy !req
2257. and so me and Jeff
did the juggling scene.
Copy !req
2258. Later in the film,
it is revealed
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2259. that Chris was attacked by Jason
several years earlier.
Copy !req
2260. But for actress Dana Kimmell,
Copy !req
2261. the implication that her
character may have been
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2262. sexually violated by Jason
simply went too far.
Copy !req
2263. He had a knife...
and he attacked me with it!
Copy !req
2264. I came on the set
and Dana and Steve
Copy !req
2265. were arguing about what
the character should be like.
Copy !req
2266. Steve was insisting for a sort
of daring girl
Copy !req
2267. and which she remained
in the end.
Copy !req
2268. But Dana wanted someone that had
a certain kind of purity.
Copy !req
2269. He ran after me.
Copy !req
2270. He caught me, and he pulled me
down to the ground.
Copy !req
2271. As far as the monologue goes,
Copy !req
2272. I don't remember all the
particulars that go with it,
Copy !req
2273. but I know I always wanted Chris
to be portrayed
Copy !req
2274. as a very positive character.
Copy !req
2275. I don't know what happened
after that,
Copy !req
2276. I just don't know!
Copy !req
2277. In fact, the revelation that
she might have been violated
Copy !req
2278. was the most shocking
Copy !req
2279. because that scene was a sort
of controversial scene.
Copy !req
2280. "Should we have it,
should we not have it?"
Copy !req
2281. At any rate,
it was something that she won,
Copy !req
2282. so to speak.
Copy !req
2283. Dana Kimmell
Copy !req
2284. was and is
the consummate professional,
Copy !req
2285. and she worked hard.
Copy !req
2286. I mean, certainly
the movie had a bunch of goofy
Copy !req
2287. sexuality innuendo in it
as it was,
Copy !req
2288. but I don't think it was hurt
by that
Copy !req
2289. if that was indeed the case.
Copy !req
2290. The film's true defining moment
saw the transformation
Copy !req
2291. of Jason Voorhees
from slasher movie footnote
Copy !req
2292. into movie monster legend.
Copy !req
2293. And no one would ever look
at a hockey mask
Copy !req
2294. the same way again.
Copy !req
2295. In "Friday the 13th Part 3,"
Copy !req
2296. Jason wears,
for the very first time,
Copy !req
2297. a hockey mask
which he has taken from Shelly.
Copy !req
2298. You just see Jason suddenly turn
up in Shelly's hockey mask.
Copy !req
2299. So you know that,
you know, Shelly's dead.
Copy !req
2300. He not only has the hockey mask,
Copy !req
2301. he has another mask
that he actually wears
Copy !req
2302. earlier in the movie.
Copy !req
2303. He actually thought to bring
two masks up to Crystal Lake,
Copy !req
2304. along with the spear gun
and a wetsuit
Copy !req
2305. and I guess a change of clothes,
all in this little bag
Copy !req
2306. What do you got in there?
Copy !req
2307. My whole world.
Copy !req
2308. This dock behind me,
Copy !req
2309. this is where
the legend of Jason was born.
Copy !req
2310. This is the first time we saw
him step out in the hockey mask.
Copy !req
2311. The birth of Jason.
Copy !req
2312. I was never a huge fan
of the sack
Copy !req
2313. because I just felt like
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2314. it didn't have
any real substance to it,
Copy !req
2315. and we wanted something
that would mask Jason.
Copy !req
2316. But at the same time, you know,
Copy !req
2317. it had to have
a level of menace to it.
Copy !req
2318. Sam Winston made a latex mask.
Copy !req
2319. And that's what I wore
all the way through the movie.
Copy !req
2320. For some unknown reason
they didn't like the mask.
Copy !req
2321. They thought it looked too much
like a monster,
Copy !req
2322. and so they came up
with the idea to cover it
Copy !req
2323. with a hockey mask.
Copy !req
2324. I don't think at the time
it really struck me,
Copy !req
2325. when I saw the hockey mask,
Copy !req
2326. that this was going to just go
on and on
Copy !req
2327. to "Friday the 13th Part 11
and so on.
Copy !req
2328. But I can see why.
Copy !req
2329. It did kind of create this
imposing, ominous character.
Copy !req
2330. I think the whole hockey mask
thing was kind of a fluke.
Copy !req
2331. I'm not really sure
how it came about.
Copy !req
2332. God, who came up
with the hockey mask?
Copy !req
2333. I don't really know.
Copy !req
2334. My recollection was that,
you know,
Copy !req
2335. multiple kinds of masks
were brought around
Copy !req
2336. and so on and so forth,
Copy !req
2337. and then somebody brought
the hockey mask and said,
Copy !req
2338. "Hockey mask, that's great."
Copy !req
2339. I think it was Frank
that brought the mask.
Copy !req
2340. I'm sure it was Steven.
Copy !req
2341. I mean, he was really thoughtful
and really knew that genre.
Copy !req
2342. The one thing that everybody
likes to take credit for
Copy !req
2343. is who put the hockey mask
on Jason.
Copy !req
2344. And I must admit, in modesty,
Copy !req
2345. that I put the hockey mask
on Jason.
Copy !req
2346. Peter Schindler, Marty Becker
Copy !req
2347. and Marty Sadoff were all
hockey fans...
Copy !req
2348. and it was their idea
to come up with a hockey mask
Copy !req
2349. to cover the face up.
Copy !req
2350. Success has a lot of fathers,
Copy !req
2351. and everybody's willing to take
a little bit of credit for it,
Copy !req
2352. I think,
and maybe that's just the best.
Copy !req
2353. Once we had the mask, it was
sort of said, "This is it.
Copy !req
2354. This is ourthis is our
signature piece."
Copy !req
2355. It's part of the iconography
of what this movie is,
Copy !req
2356. and so I wanted to make sure
that we held onto that.
Copy !req
2357. With the look of its iconic
character now fully realized,
Copy !req
2358. Jason could get back to doing
what he does best.
Copy !req
2359. Hey, now cut that out right now.
That's not funny!
Copy !req
2360. When that spear comes
out in the audience,
Copy !req
2361. everybody is reflexively
avoiding that.
Copy !req
2362. I mean, that was awesome.
Copy !req
2363. And there was a cable that
was actually set up
Copy !req
2364. on the post that ran across
Copy !req
2365. to where she was standing,
Copy !req
2366. and I basically think,
Copy !req
2367. kind of was rigged in such a way
Copy !req
2368. that I actually hooked the gun
onto the cable
Copy !req
2369. and shot it so it went
straight down the cable.
Copy !req
2370. And then we made an acrylic
plate that fit over her eyeball.
Copy !req
2371. We had to do it in one take
Copy !req
2372. because the minute
I hit the water,
Copy !req
2373. the little prosthetic
was kind of spongy,
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2374. and it would absorb the water
and just kind of slide off.
Copy !req
2375. But it was fun.
It was really a lot of fun.
Copy !req
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Copy !req
2377. Well, first
we take our clothes off.
Copy !req
2378. For me, the most
trying situation
Copy !req
2379. about making this movie
was that I was a kid
Copy !req
2380. and this was the first movie
I had ever done
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2381. without my parent on the set.
Copy !req
2382. I was 18 and I had to do
a shower scene
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2383. where there was
some frontal nudity.
Copy !req
2384. In the beginning,
I might have been
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2385. a little uncomfortable with it
but all these years later,
Copy !req
2386. I think, 'Wow, I had
a pretty nice body.'
Copy !req
2387. Jeffrey Rogers' part in the show
Copy !req
2388. was he came walking down
the hallway on his hands,
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2389. and he's basically wearing
just a pair of jeans
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2390. and then Jason shows up
with a machete
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2391. and basically splits him
in half from the groin down
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2392. through his chest.
Copy !req
2393. So he splits wide open.
Copy !req
2394. I mean,
that is horrifically gory
Copy !req
2395. but it's classic Jason.
Copy !req
2396. And we did a body cast
of him in pieces.
Copy !req
2397. They actually, in the house,
Copy !req
2398. built a Plexiglas floor that the
camera was mounted down inside
Copy !req
2399. so we could do the shot
through the floor,
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2400. up to the ceiling.
Copy !req
2401. Then, of course,
there's the next scene
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2402. where Tracie Savage sees Jeffrey
stuffed up in the rafters.
Copy !req
2403. Even actress Tracie Savage
was unaware
Copy !req
2404. of just how closely
her on-screen death
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2405. resembled that of a certain
famous, yet ill-fated, character
Copy !req
2406. from the original
"Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
2407. I had no idea that Kevin Bacon
and I have so much in common.
Copy !req
2408. Another six degree separation
from Kevin Bacon.
Copy !req
2409. There you go.
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2410. We died the same way?
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2411. I was in makeup for 4 hours
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2412. so that they could
glue this torso to my neck.
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2413. Then it was lighting
for another 2-3 hours.
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2414. All for a S-second shot.
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2415. And you had to get it right
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2416. because then, if you don't,
you gotta do it all over again.
Copy !req
2417. So we were all kind of
on pins and needles.
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2418. I think that line...
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2419. We would have
been there already
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2420. if some people didn't have to
go to the bathroom
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2421. every five minutes.
Copy !req
2422. That's what happens
when you're pregnant.
Copy !req
2423. Was put in there just to make
the teenage kids go... ooh.
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2424. And then when I'm killed make
it even more grisly and awful.
Copy !req
2425. This is a pregnant woman.
Copy !req
2426. There was never a death scene
filmed for Shelly.
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2427. It was always... that's exactly
how it was in the script.
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2428. I guess you're supposed
to think, well,
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2429. maybe he's joking again?
Copy !req
2430. Nice make-up job.
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2431. Although obviously the audience
knows he's not joking
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2432. because they've seen Jason kill
a bunch of people.
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2433. I think I did the first take,
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2434. and I think I heard
some people chuckling.
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2435. They were like -
they were like, 'That's bad.'
Copy !req
2436. I was like...
That all got into my head.
Copy !req
2437. It's not the greatest
death scene in the world.
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2438. Well, I don't know
what's going on,
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2439. but I'm gonna go outside
and take a look around.
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2440. I think my favorite kill
was probably
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2441. Rick getting his eye popped out.
Copy !req
2442. They did change the name
of the character.
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it was Derek,
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2444. and the reason
why they changed it
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2445. was at the end of the film
when I go outside,
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2446. and I get killed,
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2447. and she comes out and starts
yelling the name out,
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2448. that they wanted a monosyllabic
name for her to say.
Copy !req
2449. Rick?
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2450. You know, of course,
Copy !req
2451. the death
that my character experienced,
Copy !req
2452. me getting my head crushed,
Copy !req
2453. was I mean, this was, yeah,
that's historic.
Copy !req
2454. I just remember when
Paul's eyeball popped out,
Copy !req
2455. the whole audience just screamed
at that one and it was like,
Copy !req
2456. Oh, that's great.
Copy !req
2457. Technically,
it was very hard to do,
Copy !req
2458. and it was one of those things
Copy !req
2459. you only had one chance
of doing it,
Copy !req
2460. especially the 3D effect.
Copy !req
2461. Well, in actuality we did
the Paul Kratka head twice.
Copy !req
2462. I was actually playing
with a bunch of stuff
Copy !req
2463. trying to figure out how to make
and collapse the head properly.
Copy !req
2464. Anytime they wanted to,
we could just pull the string
Copy !req
2465. and the eye
would pop out of the socket
Copy !req
2466. and come straight down the line
toward camera.
Copy !req
2467. The last part of the filming
was basically Jason and Chris.
Copy !req
2468. And a lot of night shooting.
Copy !req
2469. She runs up the stairs, and
I'm at the bottom of the stairs
Copy !req
2470. and she tips the bookcase up
on top of me.
Copy !req
2471. And I have to say
that hurt like hell.
Copy !req
2472. It's Dana who finds me
in the closet later on
Copy !req
2473. with the knife
sticking out of my neck
Copy !req
2474. after I've already been killed.
Copy !req
2475. It was an easy day. I didn't
have to memorize any lines.
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2476. When he's breaking down
that door,
Copy !req
2477. and the whole thing where
he gets stabbed in the hand
Copy !req
2478. and stabbed in the leg,
those are intense moments.
Copy !req
2479. I mean, those grip you
Copy !req
2480. because then it becomes him
not so much a monster
Copy !req
2481. as a human who has
monstrous capabilities.
Copy !req
2482. And then I chased her
up the stairs,
Copy !req
2483. and she went in
through the bedroom window
Copy !req
2484. and went out the window.
Copy !req
2485. Then she tried to run away
in the car,
Copy !req
2486. and the car ran out of gas
on the bridge.
Copy !req
2487. No!
Copy !req
2488. I think I kept in shape
doing that film.
Copy !req
2489. There were...
There was a time or two
Copy !req
2490. where I was running
through the woods
Copy !req
2491. right after the scene
where he grabs me in the van,
Copy !req
2492. and, you know,
breaks the window with his head,
Copy !req
2493. and I bolt out the other side.
Copy !req
2494. There's a place
where I run and fall,
Copy !req
2495. and actually when I did that,
I didn't get hurt
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2496. but people in the cast...
In the crew were just gasping
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2497. because they thought
I had really fallen
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2498. and smacked my face.
Copy !req
2499. So that was good.
Copy !req
2500. When I went into the barn
after her,
Copy !req
2501. you know, it was... Steve and I
had obviously spoken about it,
Copy !req
2502. and Jason at this point is now
really angry
Copy !req
2503. because he hasn't managed to do
what he wanted to do
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2504. and that was kill her.
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2505. And so, he just said, you know,
Copy !req
2506. we don't need the barn anymore
so just tear it up.
Copy !req
2507. So I grabbed whatever I could
and smashed whatever I could.
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2508. But then the scene
in the barn on the beam,
Copy !req
2509. I actually did that
and shimmied out
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2510. and that was,
you know, I don't know,
Copy !req
2511. 20 feet above the ground,
Copy !req
2512. and I ended up with some bruises
from that one,
Copy !req
2513. but I turned out okay.
Copy !req
2514. Jason gets pushed
out of the barn,
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2515. and he's hanging and the mask
has to come off,
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2516. and she sees his face
for the first time
Copy !req
2517. and recognizes who he is.
- It's you!
Copy !req
2518. We had a mold
of Richard Brooker's head,
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2519. and we wanted the axe
to be able to stick,
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2520. so that's why we used
the rigid polyfoam
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2521. so the axe had something
to stick into.
Copy !req
2522. There wasn't that much makeup
until the dream sequence.
Copy !req
2523. I used to have to go in
and do about 6,
Copy !req
2524. sometimes 7 hours of makeup.
Copy !req
2525. And it was 11 different
appliances
Copy !req
2526. that they glued to my face,
Copy !req
2527. with the one eye lower down,
Copy !req
2528. you know, and certain teeth
and the whole thing.
Copy !req
2529. It was awfully painful.
Copy !req
2530. I mean, he had to be in that
make-up for like 6 hours,
Copy !req
2531. and it was hot and sweaty.
Copy !req
2532. And you could see that he
was very uncomfortable.
Copy !req
2533. The bad part about it was
that as soon as they finished,
Copy !req
2534. it was usually lunch time,
and I couldn't eat.
Copy !req
2535. So they used to give me
Tiger's Milk through a straw
Copy !req
2536. so I would get some nourishment
for the day.
Copy !req
2537. We shot the ending twice.
Copy !req
2538. We actually did another ending.
Copy !req
2539. Dana Kimmell comes up to the
door of the house in a dream,
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2540. and Jason comes through the
front door and decapitates her.
Copy !req
2541. And that was just
an alternate ending
Copy !req
2542. that somewhere along the lines
somebody came up with.
Copy !req
2543. It was a very quick thing.
Copy !req
2544. It wasn't something that,
you know,
Copy !req
2545. we knew was going to happen
in advance.
Copy !req
2546. It was just kind of
one of those added scenes
Copy !req
2547. that they said let's just
do this real quick.
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2548. It was only when we did
the infamous alternate ending
Copy !req
2549. that you really started
to see his face
Copy !req
2550. and that's what
they didn't like,
Copy !req
2551. and that's why
the alternate ending
Copy !req
2552. was totally scrapped
out of the movie.
Copy !req
2553. So we made the mask.
We sculpted it.
Copy !req
2554. Then they came up with the new
dream sequence
Copy !req
2555. that Jason's at the house,
Copy !req
2556. and she sees him
at the top window
Copy !req
2557. and then comes down and blasts
through the door.
Copy !req
2558. Steve Miner said that he wanted
this creature
Copy !req
2559. to come out of the lake as if
it was Mrs. Voorhees
Copy !req
2560. who had been down there
for awhile.
Copy !req
2561. I have no idea
how she got her body back,
Copy !req
2562. but it's a dream.
Copy !req
2563. They gave us Marilyn Poucher
and just said,
Copy !req
2564. "She's your guinea pig.
Use her."
Copy !req
2565. Little did she know
what she was in for.
Copy !req
2566. Once we started
doing the makeup,
Copy !req
2567. it took about 6 hours,
Copy !req
2568. and I remember
just sort of like,
Copy !req
2569. falling asleep at certain times.
Copy !req
2570. It was just downright horrible
Copy !req
2571. because the water was just
full of mosquito larvae
Copy !req
2572. and baby frogs and tadpoles.
Copy !req
2573. It was just like...
Oh, it was pretty nasty.
Copy !req
2574. Covered her in river slime
and vinyl worms,
Copy !req
2575. and the rest is history.
Copy !req
2576. So this is the actual mask
that was done of my skin.
Copy !req
2577. It's a little, a little...
Oh, here's a worm.
Copy !req
2578. Luckily they were able
to cut it off,
Copy !req
2579. and we peeled it off
Copy !req
2580. because then I had to do
the shot three more times.
Copy !req
2581. While not as deliberately
ambiguous
Copy !req
2582. as the ending of "Part 2,"
Copy !req
2583. the film's conclusion suggests
Copy !req
2584. that the door has again
been left open
Copy !req
2585. for the return of Jason.
Copy !req
2586. But what of the fate
of traumatized Chris Higgins
Copy !req
2587. who was never seen
or heard from again?
Copy !req
2588. I would say Chris has recovered.
Copy !req
2589. Even though she drove away
looking like she was losing it
Copy !req
2590. there in the back
of the cop car,
Copy !req
2591. I think
that she was strong enough
Copy !req
2592. to recover and move on.
Copy !req
2593. And that's the way I wanted
to portray that character,
Copy !req
2594. as a survivor,
and I think Chris did that.
Copy !req
2595. A new dimension in terror.
Copy !req
2596. It will scare you!
Copy !req
2597. "Friday the 13th Part 3"
was released on August 13, 1982
Copy !req
2598. with Paramount spending
millions of dollars
Copy !req
2599. to equip theaters
with the new technology
Copy !req
2600. required to show the 3D film.
Copy !req
2601. Their investment
quickly paid off
Copy !req
2602. when the film managed
Copy !req
2603. to knock the year's reigning
box office champion,
Copy !req
2604. Steven Spielberg's "E.T.,"
from the ♪1 spot.
Copy !req
2605. With a final U.S. take
of $36.7 million,
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2606. "Friday the 13th Part 3"
Copy !req
2607. ushered in a new wave
of 3D films in the 1980s.
Copy !req
2608. And remains one of the most
profitable installments
Copy !req
2609. of the franchise.
Copy !req
2610. I believe the choice to do this
in 3D
Copy !req
2611. was really risky but,
in retrospect,
Copy !req
2612. it was brilliant.
Copy !req
2613. "Friday the 13th Part 3"
was the first big hit 3D movie
Copy !req
2614. of the 80s and the audience
was just screaming.
Copy !req
2615. And we made our money back
Copy !req
2616. before the first matinee show
in Los Angeles.
Copy !req
2617. And I find that very rewarding,
Copy !req
2618. and it's been great being
able to meet people
Copy !req
2619. that appreciate
and have enjoyed those films
Copy !req
2620. from back then.
Copy !req
2621. Actress Tracie Savage went on
to a successful career
Copy !req
2622. as a broadcast journalist.
Copy !req
2623. Best known for her coverage
Copy !req
2624. of the sensational OJ Simpson
murder trial in 1995.
Copy !req
2625. As a news reporter
Copy !req
2626. in different markets
all across the country,
Copy !req
2627. people knew where to find me.
Copy !req
2628. They'd see me on the air
Copy !req
2629. and every newsroom I've ever
worked in,
Copy !req
2630. I've always gotten fan mail
from "Friday the 13th" fans.
Copy !req
2631. And I still do. I still do.
Copy !req
2632. Part of the charm
of the movies are, is that,
Copy !req
2633. you know, it really
invited people to engage.
Copy !req
2634. It really invited people
to go out, have fun.
Copy !req
2635. And when we did that film,
at the time
Copy !req
2636. that was going to be the last
"Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
2637. At the wrap party,
Frank Mancuso declared
Copy !req
2638. that he was not going to produce
another one.
Copy !req
2639. This is the permanent death.
Copy !req
2640. We're not
going to do this again.
Copy !req
2641. This is it. He's dead.
Copy !req
2642. They really stressed the fact
Copy !req
2643. that they wanted to make sure
that I had killed Jason
Copy !req
2644. because that was going to be it.
Copy !req
2645. When Paramount announced
a fourth “Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
2646. at the end of 1983,
Copy !req
2647. producer Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Copy !req
2648. Was feeling
the critical backlash
Copy !req
2649. against slasher films.
Copy !req
2650. And “Friday the 13th"
in particular.
Copy !req
2651. He decided it was time
to kill off Jason
Copy !req
2652. once and for all.
Copy !req
2653. When we got done with 3,
Copy !req
2654. I was like, "Okay,
Copy !req
2655. what I want to do now is I
really want to bring this thing
Copy !req
2656. to an effective close."
Copy !req
2657. With the departure
of Steve Miner,
Copy !req
2658. Mancuso
and investor Phil Scuderi
Copy !req
2659. set their sights on finding
a new director.
Copy !req
2660. Their search led them
to Joseph Zito,
Copy !req
2661. who had impressed Scuderi
with his 1981 slasher film,
Copy !req
2662. "The Prowler."
Copy !req
2663. With an early draft
of the script
Copy !req
2664. written by the late
Bruce Hidemi Sakow,
Copy !req
2665. the filmmakers set out to make
the best and "final" chapter.
Copy !req
2666. The people at Paramount
said this to me.
Copy !req
2667. They weren't going to do
any more films
Copy !req
2668. and this was the last.
Copy !req
2669. So I knew that it would be
book ended
Copy !req
2670. with a dead Jason
and another dead Jason,
Copy !req
2671. you know, at the end.
Copy !req
2672. We'll do some things
that refer to our past.
Copy !req
2673. Jason's out there.
Copy !req
2674. We'll bring this thing
to its rightful conclusion.
Copy !req
2675. Noooo!
Copy !req
2676. And we'll be done.
Copy !req
2677. So the idea for the last movie,
Copy !req
2678. which we thought
"The Final Chapter" was,
Copy !req
2679. was just to resurrect Jason
one more time
Copy !req
2680. and then kill him in a way
where the film grammar
Copy !req
2681. said he's really dead.
Copy !req
2682. I wanted to pick it up
exactly where Friday 3 left off.
Copy !req
2683. That he was on the ground just
exactly where you had left him.
Copy !req
2684. We crane down on a bunch
of police cars arriving,
Copy !req
2685. helicopter has a searchlight.
Copy !req
2686. You know, gives you kind of
a big-budget feel
Copy !req
2687. and very dramatic opening.
Copy !req
2688. I held off Jason
coming to life for a long time
Copy !req
2689. in the film.
Copy !req
2690. The audience is continuously
on edge through these kind
Copy !req
2691. of languorous, elegant shots.
Copy !req
2692. When is Jason going
to re-awaken?
Copy !req
2693. The audience certainly is not
going to believe he's dead,
Copy !req
2694. but they become co-conspirators
in bringing him to life.
Copy !req
2695. They start yelling at the screen
for him to get up.
Copy !req
2696. So instead of groaning
that he gets up too soon,
Copy !req
2697. and they say, aw, this is fake,
they make him get up.
Copy !req
2698. As Jason's put into the freezer,
Copy !req
2699. we see a little puff of air
so we get the first hint
Copy !req
2700. that Jason is not dead.
Copy !req
2701. Once again, the producers chose
to recast the role of Jason.
Copy !req
2702. This time turning to a rough
trade Hollywood veteran
Copy !req
2703. to don the hockey mask.
Copy !req
2704. Regarding the actor
to play Jason,
Copy !req
2705. I wanted to go with a really
experienced Hollywood stuntman
Copy !req
2706. and Ted White was a very...
Copy !req
2707. He had doubled famous, you know,
Hollywood actors.
Copy !req
2708. He was an older guy, way older,
Copy !req
2709. twice the age,
almost three times the age
Copy !req
2710. of some of the kids
he was killing.
Copy !req
2711. I actually turned it down
to begin with
Copy !req
2712. and later on I did accept it.
Copy !req
2713. After I accepted it,
I did go down
Copy !req
2714. and rent two of the Jasons,
Copy !req
2715. and I watched Jason itself,
Copy !req
2716. how he moved and so forth.
Copy !req
2717. And I felt that I'd like to
play him a little bit different.
Copy !req
2718. I'd like for him to move
a little bit different.
Copy !req
2719. I didn't want that
slow motion routine anymore,
Copy !req
2720. and I thought that if this is
the final chapter,
Copy !req
2721. then that's the way
I'd like to take it out.
Copy !req
2722. He has a sense
of dramatic timing
Copy !req
2723. that other Jasons, you know,
maybe didn't think about
Copy !req
2724. in the same way because they
didn't have 40 years experience
Copy !req
2725. of being before the camera.
Copy !req
2726. There was a nurse there
that I'm supposed to strangle,
Copy !req
2727. and when I shoved her
up against the wall,
Copy !req
2728. she had a button
on the back of her cap,
Copy !req
2729. and when her head hit the wall,
Copy !req
2730. the button kind of penetrated
her head just a little bit,
Copy !req
2731. and she yelled out.
Copy !req
2732. These are the times
when you back up
Copy !req
2733. and say you're not really Jason,
you know.
Copy !req
2734. You're just doing a thing here.
Copy !req
2735. You're supposed to be making a
few bucks and not hurt anybody.
Copy !req
2736. You know, this is not a guy
who was waiting his whole life,
Copy !req
2737. he's not a fan of
"Friday the 13th,"
Copy !req
2738. and someone who was waiting
for the opportunity
Copy !req
2739. to be in “Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
2740. It's a guy who came to work
and had to put a mask on
Copy !req
2741. and had to put fake teeth
in that made him drool
Copy !req
2742. and was embarrassed
by the entire thing,
Copy !req
2743. was happy that you couldn't
see his face.
Copy !req
2744. The job of creating the film's
bloody make-up effects
Copy !req
2745. initially went to future
Oscar winner Greg Cannom.
Copy !req
2746. But when Cannom left the project
Copy !req
2747. due to 'personality
differences, '
Copy !req
2748. director Joe Zito called upon
the one man
Copy !req
2749. who could rightfully be called
Jason's father.
Copy !req
2750. It's almost like
I'm Dr. Frankenstein.
Copy !req
2751. I created the monster.
Copy !req
2752. Thank you for letting me
kill the monster, which I did.
Copy !req
2753. Tom Savini did a wonderful job,
I thought, of makeup.
Copy !req
2754. And that was a 41/2 hour
makeup job every morning.
Copy !req
2755. I actually replaced
a makeup artist
Copy !req
2756. on "The Final Chapter,"
Copy !req
2757. and luckily,
that's what they were doing.
Copy !req
2758. They were designing
the adult Jason
Copy !req
2759. from my makeup design
on the kid,
Copy !req
2760. which is only logical
I would think, you know,
Copy !req
2761. so I was glad
they were doing it,
Copy !req
2762. but I had nothing to do
with the design, you know.
Copy !req
2763. They did a very good job.
Copy !req
2764. It's funny that in all of
our conversations
Copy !req
2765. about Jason coming back to life,
Copy !req
2766. nobody ever used the word
zombie... ever.
Copy !req
2767. We never heard it.
Copy !req
2768. We knew you couldn't
exactly kill him,
Copy !req
2769. and he would always
be coming back to life.
Copy !req
2770. So it's sort of like
he just wouldn't die.
Copy !req
2771. You can't be alive!
Copy !req
2772. After escaping from the morgue,
Copy !req
2773. Jason returns to his familiar
slayground at Crystal Lake
Copy !req
2774. Where he quickly sets his sights
on the Jarvis family.
Copy !req
2775. A recently divorced mother,
Copy !req
2776. a pretty-yet-reserved
teenage daughter,
Copy !req
2777. and a very special boy
named Tommy.
Copy !req
2778. I remember walking into
the casting office
Copy !req
2779. and going "'Friday the 13th?"
Copy !req
2780. I thought this was
for "Halloween."
Copy !req
2781. and they were like, "No, no, no.
Copy !req
2782. It's “Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
2783. And I was like, "Oh, right,
of course. I knew that."
Copy !req
2784. Corey walked in there,
and he was so alive,
Copy !req
2785. and so friendly and he and I,
just we clicked.
Copy !req
2786. I went, I did my audition
and then at the end of it,
Copy !req
2787. I remember my mom
telling me like, "Okay,
Copy !req
2788. they really liked you a lot
but they have some concerns."
Copy !req
2789. And I said,
"What are the concerns?"
Copy !req
2790. And she said, 'Well, they just
think you're too small,
Copy !req
2791. and, you know,
it's not very believable
Copy !req
2792. that this little tiny kid
Copy !req
2793. is going to pick up the machete
and, you know,
Copy !req
2794. whack the hell out of this
6 foot 5 bad guy.
Copy !req
2795. And I went, "Give me a machete.
Let's give it a shot."
Copy !req
2796. And I think that was
the end of it.
Copy !req
2797. You could see with Corey.
You really could.
Copy !req
2798. This young man
was going to skyrocket.
Copy !req
2799. And I remember
it was a very big deal
Copy !req
2800. because "Gremlins" and "Friday"
were both coming out
Copy !req
2801. pretty much
over the same summer,
Copy !req
2802. within a couple weeks
of each other
Copy !req
2803. from what I remember,
Copy !req
2804. so that was very exciting
as a kid
Copy !req
2805. to have these two giant
blockbusters coming out.
Copy !req
2806. I think Kimberly and Corey and I
got along well
Copy !req
2807. because they're just
nice people.
Copy !req
2808. A Jarvis Sandwich!
Copy !req
2809. I did a lot of work about
the parents being divorced
Copy !req
2810. and then I was going to protect
my brother,
Copy !req
2811. that I would take care of him
emotionally,
Copy !req
2812. and that, you know, we were
going to make it as a family
Copy !req
2813. without my dad.
Copy !req
2814. My parents are separated.
You know, middle-aged crazies.
Copy !req
2815. And I do remember her doing
a lot of, kind of,
Copy !req
2816. looking after me, making sure
that I was taken care of.
Copy !req
2817. She was kind of the person
Copy !req
2818. that I think I could probably
relate to most.
Copy !req
2819. I at least felt that it was
a real connection.
Copy !req
2820. As much as I could bring
to that role,
Copy !req
2821. I wanted to bring to it.
Copy !req
2822. There was thought about making
Copy !req
2823. the surviving characters
outsiders.
Copy !req
2824. So Trish isn't really
one of the guys.
Copy !req
2825. She's an outsider.
Copy !req
2826. She's not ready to become
part of the party,
Copy !req
2827. or the party doesn't want her.
Copy !req
2828. Tommy's an outsider, like Jason.
Copy !req
2829. Tommy's a kid
that doesn't fit in.
Copy !req
2830. I argue that one of the reasons
Tommy Jarvis
Copy !req
2831. has been as popular as he's been
Copy !req
2832. is because that was a very
relatable character
Copy !req
2833. to the core audience
in these movies
Copy !req
2834. that they could very easily
see themselves in
Copy !req
2835. and ultimately sort of
the challenges that he has,
Copy !req
2836. the kind of outsider kid
who's a little bit freaky.
Copy !req
2837. He's got hobbies that maybe not
everybody approves of per se.
Copy !req
2838. At a roadside cemetery,
the gravesite of Mrs. Voorhees,
Copy !req
2839. and her first name, are revealed
for the first time ever.
Copy !req
2840. I found out her name was Pamela,
Copy !req
2841. I guess about 10 years
after I did the film.
Copy !req
2842. I didn't know.
Copy !req
2843. Of course we were aware putting
a mother character in the film
Copy !req
2844. that fans who knew "Part 1"
would think about that.
Copy !req
2845. That idea of Joe giving me
a hint
Copy !req
2846. that maybe
I should look sinister
Copy !req
2847. when I looked out the window
Copy !req
2848. because of the mother
being the one
Copy !req
2849. that did the killing in one of
the other movies.
Copy !req
2850. Never occurred to me.
Copy !req
2851. Never occurred to Joe,
I don't think,
Copy !req
2852. or he certainly didn't
tell me that.
Copy !req
2853. We didn't play it hard, and we
didn't try to suggest
Copy !req
2854. that she was going to be
a villain,
Copy !req
2855. but she does make a judgment
on these kids,
Copy !req
2856. and it feels like these kids
are going to bring
Copy !req
2857. trouble and bad stuff
onto my kids.
Copy !req
2858. And, of course,
she's completely right.
Copy !req
2859. With the events
of "The Final Chapter"
Copy !req
2860. picking up directly
after PART 2 and 3,
Copy !req
2861. fans have pointed out
a number of holes
Copy !req
2862. in the series' continuity
and timeline.
Copy !req
2863. My character, Rob,
had a sister named Sandra
Copy !req
2864. who was a counselor
at Crystal Lake
Copy !req
2865. in Part 2, I think.
Copy !req
2866. My sister Sandra was just
a really great kid.
Copy !req
2867. But the man
that killed your sister is dead.
Copy !req
2868. We butt up against
Friday 3 in chronology,
Copy !req
2869. yet Rob is doing some stuff
that he hasn't been doing
Copy !req
2870. since just a couple of days ago.
Copy !req
2871. When I read it,
Copy !req
2872. I did not connect that character
Copy !req
2873. with someone who had died
the same day
Copy !req
2874. or the day before
or a few days before.
Copy !req
2875. So I assumed
Rob had been searching
Copy !req
2876. for a longer time than it turns
out he was actually searching.
Copy !req
2877. What are you
hunting for up here?
Copy !req
2878. Bear.
Anybody up at the lake today?
Copy !req
2879. You can't be
hunting for bear.
Copy !req
2880. Zito said he didn't want to
invent really cool new ways
Copy !req
2881. to kill kids,
although we eventually did.
Copy !req
2882. He said, "All I want you to do
Copy !req
2883. is make real kids
that look like real kids
Copy !req
2884. and whatever we do to them
will be horrifying."
Copy !req
2885. It would be nice to make them
so likeable
Copy !req
2886. that you were sorry
when they got killed.
Copy !req
2887. I wanted the kids
to be a little more real,
Copy !req
2888. and it took a lot of pain
in casting for that.
Copy !req
2889. It was not an easy piece
to bring in "the names."
Copy !req
2890. That's not what
“Friday the 13th” was about.
Copy !req
2891. I got lucky.
Copy !req
2892. The people
who were really the stars
Copy !req
2893. were Peter Barton who had just
come off a series
Copy !req
2894. called "Powers of Matthew Star."
Copy !req
2895. and the other one
was Lawrence Monoson
Copy !req
2896. who had starred
in "The Last American Virgin."
Copy !req
2897. I've been lucky in the sense
Copy !req
2898. that I've had certain roles
throughout my career,
Copy !req
2899. part of these legacy franchises,
Copy !req
2900. and this is certainly
one of them,
Copy !req
2901. and it's nice to be
a little part of a big thing.
Copy !req
2902. Arguably one of the most
memorable victims
Copy !req
2903. in the “Friday the 13th” series
Copy !req
2904. was Crispin Glover's
sex-starved,
Copy !req
2905. yet hopelessly insecure, Jimmy.
Copy !req
2906. The film marked the beginning
of a long career
Copy !req
2907. for the young artist,
Copy !req
2908. who became known for his wildly
eccentric behavior,
Copy !req
2909. both on and off camera.
Copy !req
2910. Crispin Glover and I
had a love fest.
Copy !req
2911. I adored him.
Copy !req
2912. He was the most unique
young man that...
Copy !req
2913. he just really... you couldn't
pigeonhole him at all.
Copy !req
2914. On the set,
he was always the oddball.
Copy !req
2915. He was always the one
that kept to himself.
Copy !req
2916. He was always the one that
was kind of like
Copy !req
2917. in his own little world.
Copy !req
2918. He's an eccentric.
He's mysterious.
Copy !req
2919. But he just walks to the beat
of a different drum.
Copy !req
2920. Crispin and I actually worked
really hard on our characters
Copy !req
2921. and the relationship.
Copy !req
2922. And we both loved improv.
Copy !req
2923. He thinks that's funny.
Copy !req
2924. He thinks it's a funny thing
he's doing.
Copy !req
2925. And that stuff
in the back of the van
Copy !req
2926. when we're all driving,
and I'm typing on the beer cans
Copy !req
2927. and the "dead fuck" lines.
Copy !req
2928. It says
you're a dead fuck.
Copy !req
2929. A dead fuck?
Copy !req
2930. Crispin and I made all that up,
you know,
Copy !req
2931. and they just let us
have fun with it.
Copy !req
2932. The two of them together
really had a great thing going,
Copy !req
2933. a really good rapport.
Copy !req
2934. I think you should run that
through your little computer.
Copy !req
2935. And they were pretty
good buddies on that set
Copy !req
2936. and it did show.
Copy !req
2937. It showed a relationship.
Copy !req
2938. I think that's so important
in these films
Copy !req
2939. to have that.
Copy !req
2940. In one of the film's more
memorable sequences,
Copy !req
2941. Jimmy decides to bust out
his dance moves.
Copy !req
2942. I don't remember what song
Crispin was really dancing to.
Copy !req
2943. I just know that he was
dancing really crazy.
Copy !req
2944. In the way that only
Crispin could be.
Copy !req
2945. And it was just fun. It was
just really fun and funny.
Copy !req
2946. There's slightly the weirdest
thing about our roles
Copy !req
2947. which would first be
the sexy girls
Copy !req
2948. who were sort of coming,
you know, from,
Copy !req
2949. to join in with this other group
of people,
Copy !req
2950. and all the boys are madly
attracted to us,
Copy !req
2951. and we're dressed in these
ghastly clothes!
Copy !req
2952. Well, what about our hair
as well.
Copy !req
2953. Our hair put up in sort of
little sort of librarian buns.
Copy !req
2954. I mean, and the pants
seemed to be too big.
Copy !req
2955. Everything was just sort of big
and bulky and very unsexy.
Copy !req
2956. Yeah, I wouldn't bonk
either of us.
Copy !req
2957. The twins, you know, they were
the Doublemint twins
Copy !req
2958. and they were loads of fun.
Copy !req
2959. The biggest thing for me
was boobies!
Copy !req
2960. You know,
I was an 11-year-old boy.
Copy !req
2961. I'm like, I get to do scenes
with boobies.
Copy !req
2962. Whoa.
Copy !req
2963. Not much has changed.
Copy !req
2964. I have to say the skinny
dipping was very equal
Copy !req
2965. because when we
were shooting it,
Copy !req
2966. we obviously as girls
had to have no tops on,
Copy !req
2967. but then the boys go,
Copy !req
2968. 'We'll do it
with no bottoms on as well, '
Copy !req
2969. and there they are
swinging off ropes.
Copy !req
2970. So, you know,
it was a cute group
Copy !req
2971. to work with, that's for sure.
Copy !req
2972. At the time,
I was the kid who was like
Copy !req
2973. always wanting to get up in
everybody's business.
Copy !req
2974. I was like,
"Hey, let's all go out.
Copy !req
2975. Let's go do this.
Copy !req
2976. What do you mean you're all
going to town without me?
Copy !req
2977. Why can't I come too?"
Copy !req
2978. I mean, like, I really wanted
to be a part of that group.
Copy !req
2979. The first day
was Halloween actually,
Copy !req
2980. and I took him
trick-or-treating.
Copy !req
2981. And we went out on the street,
Copy !req
2982. and this street was like
a festival
Copy !req
2983. of guys in Jason's masks.
Copy !req
2984. So ironic that we were there
actually creating this stuff
Copy !req
2985. and then this group of people
Copy !req
2986. were actually out there
having a great time with it.
Copy !req
2987. I think everybody was very
sweet to Corey Feldman.
Copy !req
2988. I remember getting along
with everybody on that set.
Copy !req
2989. The only person that I didn't
get along with
Copy !req
2990. or was afraid of was Ted White.
Copy !req
2991. Mean little devil.
I couldn't stand him.
Copy !req
2992. I wanted to kill him
desperately.
Copy !req
2993. There were times when Corey
got close to me
Copy !req
2994. that it took all my reserve
to not just reach out
Copy !req
2995. and grab him and give him
a good spanking.
Copy !req
2996. Ted was very respectful when it
came to the fact
Copy !req
2997. that I was a kid, and he knew
to keep his boundaries.
Copy !req
2998. But at the same time
Copy !req
2999. I don't think that he was really
very aware
Copy !req
3000. of how to deal with children.
Copy !req
3001. Well, I was a child actor
Copy !req
3002. so I had a lot in common
with him.
Copy !req
3003. It's a hard, a hard thing,
a lot of your... I mean,
Copy !req
3004. you miss a lot
of your childhood.
Copy !req
3005. You could see there was
a dark side to Corey.
Copy !req
3006. Not bad but wanting to stay
with the actors
Copy !req
3007. as opposed to getting in the car
and going home
Copy !req
3008. to the so-called "real life"
that he was living.
Copy !req
3009. Frank Mancuso, Jr. was quite
helpful keeping him together
Copy !req
3010. and “WW-
Copy !req
3011. Even after the movies,
you know, Frank,
Copy !req
3012. we all stayed in touch
with Corey.
Copy !req
3013. As with Part 3, the filmmakers
chose rural areas
Copy !req
3014. of Southern California
to stand in
Copy !req
3015. for the fictional New Jersey
enclave of Crystal Lake.
Copy !req
3016. We shot
in three different places,
Copy !req
3017. Franklin Canyon
in Beverly Hills,
Copy !req
3018. north of Santa Barbara
in a place called Zaca Lake,
Copy !req
3019. and in Topanga Canyon.
Copy !req
3020. The Jarvis house
would later be featured
Copy !req
3021. in such films as
"Eraser,"My Girl 2,"
Copy !req
3022. and episodes of the HBO series
"Entourage."
Copy !req
3023. But for the cast
of "The Final Chapter,"
Copy !req
3024. working on the set presented a
number of physical challenges.
Copy !req
3025. And we're at the house
where we shot the movie.
Copy !req
3026. Tommy's room was up there
on the second floor.
Copy !req
3027. And the kids' house
is over here, right?
Copy !req
3028. The kids' house
was right over here.
Copy !req
3029. We built the kids' house, the
house where they have the party,
Copy !req
3030. and the house where they
get killed, right over here.
Copy !req
3031. It was my idea, and I don't mind
telling you
Copy !req
3032. the studio objected a lot
Copy !req
3033. to have the houses
in real proximity.
Copy !req
3034. See, the thing is when we built
this other house,
Copy !req
3035. it was an expensive thing to do,
Copy !req
3036. building a house as opposed
to finding two houses,
Copy !req
3037. but we really loved
the Jarvis house.
Copy !req
3038. I really loved the Jarvis house,
and I really pushed for it.
Copy !req
3039. So the studio agreed to build
this other house here.
Copy !req
3040. But the thing is
that we had a design for it
Copy !req
3041. where it was a really good house
to shoot in, a big house,
Copy !req
3042. but as they started
doing the numbers
Copy !req
3043. and analyzing the numbers,
Copy !req
3044. the house got
smaller and smaller
Copy !req
3045. so in the end it wasn't a great
house to shoot in,
Copy !req
3046. but it was a cool-looking house.
Copy !req
3047. The young people
we had in the cast
Copy !req
3048. were some of the greatest kids
that I've ever worked with,
Copy !req
3049. and I've worked with a lot of
young kids in the business.
Copy !req
3050. But what they went through
to make this movie
Copy !req
3051. was unbelievable.
Copy !req
3052. Shooting the movie was pretty
horrible
Copy !req
3053. because it was raining
the whole time,
Copy !req
3054. and it was freezing cold
because it was dead winter.
Copy !req
3055. I didn't read the script
when I got the job,
Copy !req
3056. and I didn't read the last
40 pages of the script
Copy !req
3057. said night rain.
Copy !req
3058. What the hell
are you doing here?
Copy !req
3059. What are you
trying to do, kill me?
Copy !req
3060. What I remember the most
about those steps right there
Copy !req
3061. is that for continuity's sake
Copy !req
3062. at the end of the movie,
I had to be wet
Copy !req
3063. because it was raining
all the time,
Copy !req
3064. so in 35-degree weather,
Copy !req
3065. I was hosed down with water
from a tank
Copy !req
3066. that was sitting outside
in 35-degree weather.
Copy !req
3067. Just unbelievable what they
went through
Copy !req
3068. for the amount of money
they were making.
Copy !req
3069. It was, it was a trial
in a good way.
Copy !req
3070. I felt like a Marine
after it was over.
Copy !req
3071. Once again, the real stars
of this “Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
3072. were the elaborate
death sequences
Copy !req
3073. designed by effects wunderkind
Tom Savini.
Copy !req
3074. I had done a movie
called "The Prowler."
Copy !req
3075. It was mostly a lot
of special effects,
Copy !req
3076. really good Tom Savini
special effects.
Copy !req
3077. I think that's what audiences
came to see.
Copy !req
3078. How is the next guy
going to get it?
Copy !req
3079. So that's what it was about.
Copy !req
3080. And it was almost like
the latest exhibit
Copy !req
3081. from your favorite
makeup artist magician.
Copy !req
3082. How is Jason
going to kill these kids?
Copy !req
3083. So we spent a lot of time
talking about
Copy !req
3084. how to kill people
in interesting ways.
Copy !req
3085. And that's the number one thing
you do with Savini
Copy !req
3086. because it's his favorite thing
in the world to do,
Copy !req
3087. is talk about
how to kill things.
Copy !req
3088. This just kind of crazy mind
that was always creating.
Copy !req
3089. It was a terrific honor
to work with Tom
Copy !req
3090. and especially to be a part
Copy !req
3091. of one of his last great
effects films.
Copy !req
3092. The choice of name for
the character of the kid Tommy
Copy !req
3093. was a little homage
to Tom Savini
Copy !req
3094. who contributed so much
to these pictures.
Copy !req
3095. I was really kind of fascinated
with the process
Copy !req
3096. of how this was all going
to be put together
Copy !req
3097. at some point
Copy !req
3098. and so I used to hang out
in Tom's trailer all the time
Copy !req
3099. and watch them do the rehearsals
for the different effects.
Copy !req
3100. The kids would come up to us.
Copy !req
3101. "How am I going to die?
How am I going to die?"
Copy !req
3102. The juicier and grosser it was,
Copy !req
3103. the more they loved it,
you know?
Copy !req
3104. And even the kills that had
conventional things.
Copy !req
3105. Because we had seen in
"Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
3106. a blade coming through
the throat before,
Copy !req
3107. right, from the first one.
Copy !req
3108. So we gave the girl a banana.
Copy !req
3109. Mmm. I love bananas.
Copy !req
3110. It's sort of a comedic kill
in a way
Copy !req
3111. and a comedic character,
but it's awful anyway.
Copy !req
3112. I mean, the blade
comes through her neck,
Copy !req
3113. but you're sort of watching
her squish the banana.
Copy !req
3114. I never really met Ted White
who played Jason.
Copy !req
3115. Tom Savini stood in for him
Copy !req
3116. because you only see Jason
from the waist down.
Copy !req
3117. He's the one
that grabbed my head.
Copy !req
3118. He's the one that pulled
the knife down.
Copy !req
3119. And the direction
he gave me was,
Copy !req
3120. 'Okay, now this is a real knife.
Copy !req
3121. You're not going to get hurt.
Copy !req
3122. Don't fight me,
just let me move your head
Copy !req
3123. where it needs to be.
Copy !req
3124. That was the scariest thing
of the whole shoot for me.
Copy !req
3125. The way the thing worked,
Copy !req
3126. I had a track around my neck
with a flexible steel blade
Copy !req
3127. that pushed from the back
Copy !req
3128. and then a false neck over it,
Copy !req
3129. which took hours to put on it.
Copy !req
3130. And it also had a little tube
for blood to squirt.
Copy !req
3131. So there were like 3 people
behind me um, um,
Copy !req
3132. laying down behind
the sleeping bags
Copy !req
3133. and my gear
to work the entire thing.
Copy !req
3134. It was such a messy
little death.
Copy !req
3135. We did full-on special effects
Copy !req
3136. that were extended
and bloodletting
Copy !req
3137. and actually terrific.
Copy !req
3138. I mean, the one of Judie Aronson
Copy !req
3139. when she's killed in the boat
Copy !req
3140. with the knife coming through
her body.
Copy !req
3141. I mean, the original cut on that
was really totally cool.
Copy !req
3142. I mean, it was extended,
it was horrible to watch
Copy !req
3143. because you really believed
she was dying in there
Copy !req
3144. and in pain for
an extended period of time.
Copy !req
3145. Sam, Judie Arsonson, thank God
I didn't get that role,
Copy !req
3146. 'cause what she
had to go through but,
Copy !req
3147. all naked on a raft,
and then just, very vulnerable.
Copy !req
3148. Kind of almost quasi-sexual.
Copy !req
3149. Even now as I watch it,
I just think, ew, God.
Copy !req
3150. Shooting my death scene
was a bit of a challenge.
Copy !req
3151. That's where the horror part
came into the filming for me.
Copy !req
3152. What they did was they made
a fake body.
Copy !req
3153. There was a raft with a hole
cut in it,
Copy !req
3154. and my body
went through the hole.
Copy !req
3155. I was upright in the water and
from here up,
Copy !req
3156. I was just leaning over.
Copy !req
3157. I think this was in January,
and it was around midnight
Copy !req
3158. and it was either
22 or 23 degrees.
Copy !req
3159. It was very, very cold.
Copy !req
3160. And we were all sitting there
bundled up, gloves, boots.
Copy !req
3161. It was very, very cold,
and the water was even colder.
Copy !req
3162. It was hours and hours
in the water.
Copy !req
3163. And it became
really difficult for me.
Copy !req
3164. There were points where I just
felt like
Copy !req
3165. I couldn't go on any more.
Copy !req
3166. I was shivering so badly.
Copy !req
3167. She was freezing.
Copy !req
3168. She was so cold
her teeth were chattering,
Copy !req
3169. and she asked to get out,
Copy !req
3170. and they were reloading
the camera
Copy !req
3171. and the director said no.
Copy !req
3172. They said,
"No, we have to finish.
Copy !req
3173. We have to finish."
Copy !req
3174. I did everything to hold back
from crying,
Copy !req
3175. and I don't think
I was successful.
Copy !req
3176. This girl was actually
turning blue,
Copy !req
3177. and I went to Joe Zito
and told him.
Copy !req
3178. I said, "Joe,
we gotta get her out of there
Copy !req
3179. before she freezes up
completely."
Copy !req
3180. And he said,
"Why don't you just do Jason
Copy !req
3181. and I'll do the direct."
Copy !req
3182. So that's when I got
a little upset with him.
Copy !req
3183. I said, "Well, either
get her out, or I'll walk.
Copy !req
3184. One or the other."
So they pulled her out.
Copy !req
3185. They took me into a trailer
and heated me up
Copy !req
3186. and got me back out there.
Copy !req
3187. And it was great.
Copy !req
3188. I warmed up,
thawed out basically.
Copy !req
3189. Joe, of course,
was not trying to be mean.
Copy !req
3190. He was trying
to get a film made.
Copy !req
3191. Whether he was going
a little too far
Copy !req
3192. with somebody else's feelings,
I would say yes.
Copy !req
3193. And it turns out that I had
gotten hypothermia,
Copy !req
3194. and I was quite sick
for several days after that.
Copy !req
3195. The other gruesome one
really is, you know,
Copy !req
3196. Sam being killed
in the boat naked
Copy !req
3197. and then her boyfriend coming
Copy !req
3198. out and getting it
in the crotch.
Copy !req
3199. When you're looking, you know,
for your girlfriend in a lake,
Copy !req
3200. and you think
she's probably naked,
Copy !req
3201. you do not want to get speared
in the crotch.
Copy !req
3202. That is a bad thing
to happen at that moment.
Copy !req
3203. The guys certainly feel
that one when they watch it.
Copy !req
3204. Pretty much all the deaths
were pretty graphic and grisly,
Copy !req
3205. but you don't see
the mother die.
Copy !req
3206. In most of the Jason movies,
Copy !req
3207. I think there is
no parental supervision.
Copy !req
3208. In ours there was
Copy !req
3209. because we thought
that made it scarier,
Copy !req
3210. especially when the parents
were made to disappear.
Copy !req
3211. In filming that scene
Copy !req
3212. where you see me
come in from the rain,
Copy !req
3213. and you see me turn around
and the shock,
Copy !req
3214. there was no other murder
and mayhem
Copy !req
3215. that you could put
on the screen.
Copy !req
3216. That was it. That one point.
Copy !req
3217. Although Mrs. Jarvis's death
was only implied,
Copy !req
3218. a deleted scene
Copy !req
3219. involving Trish's discovering
her mother's corpse
Copy !req
3220. was originally intended to be
the film's final jump scare.
Copy !req
3221. But I do remember that we
shot a scene of her
Copy !req
3222. in the bathtub all made up
like a cadaver.
Copy !req
3223. Kimberly comes in and she sees
water dripping down,
Copy !req
3224. and she goes upstairs
and opens the bathroom door,
Copy !req
3225. and you see me under the water,
in the bathtub, dead.
Copy !req
3226. It was really intense,
that scene.
Copy !req
3227. And I was surprised
that they left it out,
Copy !req
3228. but I guess it was just,
it was disturbing,
Copy !req
3229. and they didn't
want it in there.
Copy !req
3230. It was excised
almost immediately.
Copy !req
3231. I didn't want to dwell on it.
Copy !req
3232. I didn't think it was good
psychologically
Copy !req
3233. to keep... to make more of that
than we did.
Copy !req
3234. The main thing
about my death scene
Copy !req
3235. was really
the sort of atmosphere,
Copy !req
3236. it was the flashing
of the lightning,
Copy !req
3237. and the thunder,
and the feeling of it being
Copy !req
3238. very scary out there.
Copy !req
3239. They put a big light behind me
Copy !req
3240. so that I'm silhouetted
against the side of the house,
Copy !req
3241. and at that moment...
Copy !req
3242. you know the pitchfork
goes through me,
Copy !req
3243. and I get flung
against the wall.
Copy !req
3244. That is not me, you know.
I'm just the shadow.
Copy !req
3245. Crispin does a whole thing
where he's so happy
Copy !req
3246. about being successful
with this girl in bed.
Copy !req
3247. I think you were incredible.
Copy !req
3248. You're incredible.
Copy !req
3249. Which is what I say in bed
to Crispin
Copy !req
3250. when he's like uh-am-l-uh-uh.
Copy !req
3251. Was I a dead fuck?
Copy !req
3252. That was quite funny.
Copy !req
3253. People talk a lot
about the corkscrew
Copy !req
3254. that gets Crispin Glover.
Copy !req
3255. Hey, Ted, where the hell's
the corkscrew?
Copy !req
3256. He's calling for a corkscrew
and, Wham,
Copy !req
3257. right through his hand.
The corkscrew nails him.
Copy !req
3258. Jason's clever.
He nails him with the cork screw
Copy !req
3259. and then machete to the face.
Copy !req
3260. I thought that was
really creative,
Copy !req
3261. and it came out of left field.
Copy !req
3262. I just had an idea that we
shouldn't use a weapon at all
Copy !req
3263. in one of the kills
with one of the twins
Copy !req
3264. and just have this
prolonged thing
Copy !req
3265. of her at the window
Copy !req
3266. and the hands
come through the glass,
Copy !req
3267. grab her and throw her out.
Copy !req
3268. It was a pretty big stunt.
Copy !req
3269. I actually don't know
when it's gonna happen,
Copy !req
3270. but what I'm told is
Jason's going to come,
Copy !req
3271. grab me and at that point,
the only thing I have to do
Copy !req
3272. is get my neck out of the window
as it shatters.
Copy !req
3273. After I've done that,
Copy !req
3274. the stunt girl
has to propel herself
Copy !req
3275. out of the window.
Copy !req
3276. That's her first shot.
Copy !req
3277. And she landed on a car top.
Copy !req
3278. We blew the windows out
at the same time.
Copy !req
3279. I thought that was
a really neat stunt
Copy !req
3280. and was well done
and well thought-out.
Copy !req
3281. I didn't suffer as much as
other people did, really,
Copy !req
3282. in terms of coldness
and wetness.
Copy !req
3283. One of the first sequences to
suffer the wrath of the MPAA
Copy !req
3284. was the death of the cocky
yet ultimately rejected Ted,
Copy !req
3285. who was left alone
to spend the night
Copy !req
3286. with a blue movie,
a teddy bear, and a joint.
Copy !req
3287. I remember in mine watching
that sort of old-fashioned,
Copy !req
3288. semi soft-core porn movie.
Copy !req
3289. So the film breaks,
the screen goes white.
Copy !req
3290. Lawrence stands
in front of the screen
Copy !req
3291. and a knife
comes through the back,
Copy !req
3292. stabs him
in the back of the head.
Copy !req
3293. We're not sure exactly
what happens
Copy !req
3294. until we see the blood
on the screen as he slides down.
Copy !req
3295. I remember at first
I had to go visit Tom Savini,
Copy !req
3296. and I went to get
my head created.
Copy !req
3297. Tom rigged up a knife
that was cut away
Copy !req
3298. with a little pump
that was pumping blood,
Copy !req
3299. and you just looked
at the dailies,
Copy !req
3300. and it was just
horrifying to watch.
Copy !req
3301. I was a very young actor
when I did this movie.
Copy !req
3302. I think I was 20 or something.
Copy !req
3303. Really committed, you know.
What are you doing?
Copy !req
3304. Real. Everything had to be real,
Copy !req
3305. and so my character in the movie
had to be stoned,
Copy !req
3306. and so I thought, hmmm,
wouldn't that be interesting
Copy !req
3307. to actually get stoned
Copy !req
3308. and see what that's like
to actually be stoned
Copy !req
3309. on camera?
Copy !req
3310. I go to my trailer,
and I'm like.
Copy !req
3311. I'm smoking this joint,
and I get stoned,
Copy !req
3312. and I'm a very
paranoid stoned person.
Copy !req
3313. So it was the worst, worst idea
I could have ever done.
Copy !req
3314. I was unable to comprehend
what the director was saying,
Copy !req
3315. and I just was too paranoid
to do anything.
Copy !req
3316. It was terrible.
Copy !req
3317. Actor Peter Barton,
who had previously starred
Copy !req
3318. With Linda Blair in "Hell Night"
Copy !req
3319. and "Part 2's Amy Steel
in the short-lived series
Copy !req
3320. "The Powers of Matthew Star."
Copy !req
3321. suffered perhaps one of
the most brutal deaths
Copy !req
3322. in “Friday the 13th” history.
Copy !req
3323. My hands
were my weapon of choice.
Copy !req
3324. Once I got my hands on 'em,
the killing was easy then.
Copy !req
3325. I mean, he smashes, you know,
a pretty guy's face
Copy !req
3326. through the shower
with his bare hands.
Copy !req
3327. Breaks his nose with his finger,
blood comes out,
Copy !req
3328. and then smashes the head
against the tiles.
Copy !req
3329. Tom said to me,
'Don't tear the head up.
Copy !req
3330. This is the only one we've got.
Be very careful with it.'
Copy !req
3331. Yet the director
was just the opposite.
Copy !req
3332. He said, 'Ted, I want you
Copy !req
3333. to really be physical
with this thing.'
Copy !req
3334. That was the whole reason
for having a stuntman in there,
Copy !req
3335. to be a little more physical.
Copy !req
3336. To me, that probably
was my favorite kill.
Copy !req
3337. To truly immerse himself
in the role of Jason,
Copy !req
3338. Ted White took great pains
Copy !req
3339. to keep his fellow cast members
at bay.
Copy !req
3340. I think his way
of keeping the character
Copy !req
3341. was kind of separating himself
from everybody else.
Copy !req
3342. I stayed away from the cast
completely.
Copy !req
3343. I sat by myself on the set.
Copy !req
3344. I just stayed away
from everybody,
Copy !req
3345. and I tried to keep in character
as much as possible.
Copy !req
3346. I just felt that Jason
should not be sitting there
Copy !req
3347. laughing and cutting up
and kidding,
Copy !req
3348. and the next minute turn into
this horrible killer.
Copy !req
3349. As the night of murderous mayhem
comes to a close,
Copy !req
3350. Trish and Rob are drawn into
the empty house
Copy !req
3351. and Jason claims his last,
though bloodless, kill.
Copy !req
3352. He's killing me!
He's killing me!
Copy !req
3353. The 'he's killing me,
he's killing me' thing,
Copy !req
3354. that was something that I just
reacted to viscerally
Copy !req
3355. as it was happening.
Copy !req
3356. That's sort of why
it wasn't necessary
Copy !req
3357. to do a big, bloody, gory kill
Copy !req
3358. because it wasn't really
about the kill.
Copy !req
3359. It was about the horror
of hearing someone being killed.
Copy !req
3360. They had the rig
for this effect.
Copy !req
3361. They had the gardening tool
with the blood spurting out.
Copy !req
3362. They had all that stuff done,
but it was never used.
Copy !req
3363. And when Rob is getting killed,
Copy !req
3364. Trish should get out of there,
Copy !req
3365. and then she does
get out of there,
Copy !req
3366. and then she comes back.
Copy !req
3367. Part of that was, I think,
in the story making
Copy !req
3368. was to get to the point
where now you were left
Copy !req
3369. with a 12-year-old kid
and Kimberly Beck,
Copy !req
3370. and that's all
that was left alive.
Copy !req
3371. The last part of it, we pretty
much shot it in sequence.
Copy !req
3372. The sequence involved
Erich Anderson's character
Copy !req
3373. being thrown through the window.
Copy !req
3374. Jason comes and picks me up
through the window
Copy !req
3375. and scares the hell out of me
Copy !req
3376. which still to this day
was the most terrifying thing
Copy !req
3377. I've ever
shot in my life - ever.
Copy !req
3378. Terror struck
across my face, my heart,
Copy !req
3379. my every nerve
in my body was on end.
Copy !req
3380. And I literally was shaking
and crying in terror.
Copy !req
3381. And I remember once we cut
and that take was over,
Copy !req
3382. everybody took me outside,
"Are you okay? Are you okay?"
Copy !req
3383. "No! No, I'm not okay."
Copy !req
3384. I was not okay, and I was not
okay for quite a while.
Copy !req
3385. I enjoyed chasing the girl.
Copy !req
3386. I love the screaming
and all the hollering.
Copy !req
3387. All it did was invigorate me.
Copy !req
3388. It was just grueling physically.
Copy !req
3389. Well, the stopping
and the starting,
Copy !req
3390. and the cat and mouse
with the girl
Copy !req
3391. was not my idea or her idea.
Copy !req
3392. It was our director's idea,
Copy !req
3393. and he felt that
that little play between us
Copy !req
3394. built up the suspense,
and I think it did.
Copy !req
3395. Later on when I saw the film,
Copy !req
3396. I thought it added
quite a bit to it.
Copy !req
3397. You know,
he wasn't brilliant and cunning,
Copy !req
3398. but he was smart,
or he figured some things out,
Copy !req
3399. you know, in an animal plus way.
Copy !req
3400. I never thought of her
as being a heroine
Copy !req
3401. until, you know,
you actually watch the movie
Copy !req
3402. and you go,
"Wow! She's kicking some ass."
Copy !req
3403. But how are we going
to get him in the end?
Copy !req
3404. Are we going to use
silver bullets?
Copy !req
3405. Are we going to use garlic?
Copy !req
3406. Are we going to use a stake?
Copy !req
3407. Are we going to use any of
the typical cliché ways
Copy !req
3408. to kill a bad man? No!
Copy !req
3409. We're going to use intelligence
to outsmart him.
Copy !req
3410. And of course, of course,
there's an obvious relationship
Copy !req
3411. between Tommy and Jason
Copy !req
3412. when Tommy takes on the persona
and impersonates him
Copy !req
3413. as a weapon to undo him.
Copy !req
3414. Jason!
Copy !req
3415. I remember when I first
heard this I went,
Copy !req
3416. "Really? They're going to
make me look like Jason?
Copy !req
3417. How's that going to work?"
Copy !req
3418. The choice was made to not
go the truthful, honest,
Copy !req
3419. you know, dedicated actor way
and actually go for it
Copy !req
3420. and shave my head.
Copy !req
3421. Instead we were going to use
Tom Savini's
Copy !req
3422. great, illustrious
makeup effects once again
Copy !req
3423. and put a bald cap on.
Copy !req
3424. We talked about so many ways
to kill Jason.
Copy !req
3425. There were so many
death proposals.
Copy !req
3426. They came from everywhere.
Copy !req
3427. Of course, the producers would
dream them up every night,
Copy !req
3428. but mostly Tom would come up
with really cool ways to do it.
Copy !req
3429. And we described this
elaborate thing with Tommy,
Copy !req
3430. the effects kid,
was also an amateur inventor,
Copy !req
3431. and he's taken a microwave oven
apart, you know,
Copy !req
3432. and put a reflector behind it
with a variat
Copy !req
3433. that goes from 1 to 10.
Copy !req
3434. On 1 he melts a toy soldier.
Copy !req
3435. We thought, why don't, you know,
Copy !req
3436. at the end he jams this thing
into Jason's head,
Copy !req
3437. turns it up to 10,
cooks his head from within,
Copy !req
3438. and his head explodes.
Copy !req
3439. And the producers took it
very seriously for a while.
Copy !req
3440. And there were others,
there were other things,
Copy !req
3441. but they were generally
clever things
Copy !req
3442. that special effects guys
can sort of laugh about
Copy !req
3443. and high-five each other for,
you know, in the lab.
Copy !req
3444. But in the end,
Copy !req
3445. give the audience a distance
from what really was happening.
Copy !req
3446. I remember thinking, "Okay,
I've really got to show
Copy !req
3447. how mean I can be,
how tough I can be.
Copy !req
3448. You know,
that I'm this little kid,
Copy !req
3449. but I can kill this guy.
Copy !req
3450. I can do this.
Copy !req
3451. Jason is about using
a very simple weapon
Copy !req
3452. to do awful things,
Copy !req
3453. and it would be sort of nice
Copy !req
3454. if we just use
a very simple weapon
Copy !req
3455. to do an awful thing to him.
Copy !req
3456. A change was suggested to us
Copy !req
3457. that Jason's head be lopped off
top down,
Copy !req
3458. not across the neck.
Copy !req
3459. In other words, cut open
from the top to the chin
Copy !req
3460. like an artichoke.
Copy !req
3461. And they suggested
we didn't do that.
Copy !req
3462. And we thought, hmm.
Copy !req
3463. I think there's going
to be a sequel here.'
Copy !req
3464. You maybe were expecting
something quick.
Copy !req
3465. Tommy hits him in the head
with a blade and, you know,
Copy !req
3466. the end. No.
He slides down the blade.
Copy !req
3467. I came into the set
with 101 fever that day.
Copy !req
3468. I was very sick.
Copy !req
3469. And it's the middle
of the night,
Copy !req
3470. and you're already sick,
Copy !req
3471. and now you're sitting there
using all of your energy
Copy !req
3472. to kill this giant man.
Copy !req
3473. And the fact that I was sick,
Copy !req
3474. and the fact that I was
so under the weather,
Copy !req
3475. and I was like really fighting
just to be there at that moment,
Copy !req
3476. I think comes across
in the look in my eyes.
Copy !req
3477. Tommy!
Copy !req
3478. Die!
Copy !req
3479. Because you can see
the desperation in my eyes
Copy !req
3480. as I'm trying to take him down.
Copy !req
3481. What happened with "Friday 4"
Copy !req
3482. is that the Motion Picture
Association of America
Copy !req
3483. was really on us.
Copy !req
3484. And it was kind of a game
Copy !req
3485. where you would trim them down a
little bit,
Copy !req
3486. send it back,
trim them down a little bit,
Copy !req
3487. and they would wear you down,
and you would wear them down.
Copy !req
3488. We would keep trading off frames
of everybody else's kill scenes
Copy !req
3489. so we could protect
as much of Jason.
Copy !req
3490. The kills are all there
but they were very fast.
Copy !req
3491. But when Jason finally got it,
you dwelled on it.
Copy !req
3492. It made Jason's death
more powerful.
Copy !req
3493. This is the one
you've been screaming for.
Copy !req
3494. “Friday the 13th
The Final Chapter"
Copy !req
3495. debuted on April 13, 1984.
Copy !req
3496. Although it still didn't
win over any critics,
Copy !req
3497. the film went on to gross
an impressive $32.9 million.
Copy !req
3498. As far as the filmmakers
were concerned,
Copy !req
3499. they had done their job.
Copy !req
3500. Jason had left the screen
on a high note
Copy !req
3501. and was gone for good.
Copy !req
3502. Or was he?
Copy !req
3503. It really was this kind of
renegade little group
Copy !req
3504. that was involved
in major motion pictures,
Copy !req
3505. that, you know,
would knock off big movies.
Copy !req
3506. Clint Eastwood would do 7,
and we'd do 9.
Copy !req
3507. I mean, it would be like you
know the people at Warner Bros.
Copy !req
3508. Were cursing us up and down.
Copy !req
3509. It's like, you know,
those bastards
Copy !req
3510. with the million dollar movie
beat us!
Copy !req
3511. I remember
in the New York Times,
Copy !req
3512. I think it was Janet Maslin
Copy !req
3513. wrote like an angry review
about the film.
Copy !req
3514. At least from
this critic's point of view
Copy !req
3515. it was actually
kind of disturbing
Copy !req
3516. to see people
that you actually did create
Copy !req
3517. some kind of relationship with,
Copy !req
3518. you know meet their demise
in the horrible ways
Copy !req
3519. that we all did.
Copy !req
3520. We had fun reading the reviews.
Copy !req
3521. We know what they're going
to be like
Copy !req
3522. and especially if someone gets,
you know,
Copy !req
3523. particularly bitchy and clever.
It's great.
Copy !req
3524. I mean, in a way it's sort of
like the “Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
3525. movie itself. If they're clever
in the way they're trying
Copy !req
3526. to kill you, you cheer.
Copy !req
3527. At the time I was not
really overly proud
Copy !req
3528. of making the film.
Copy !req
3529. You know, I was offered
the 5th one and 6th one.
Copy !req
3530. I could have done either one
of them, and I turned them down.
Copy !req
3531. I'm sorry now that I did
turn them down.
Copy !req
3532. We all just wanted to make it
as good as we could make it.
Copy !req
3533. We didn't want it to be
campy and stupid.
Copy !req
3534. As much as we could make it
real and scary
Copy !req
3535. and that we would be feeling
the real feelings.
Copy !req
3536. Everybody had the same goals.
Copy !req
3537. We were already at that time
talking about ways
Copy !req
3538. to further the franchise,
elongate the franchise,
Copy !req
3539. bring my character back.
Copy !req
3540. And when we did the end scene
in the hospital,
Copy !req
3541. to Joe and I, that was the nod,
Copy !req
3542. that was the way to kind of
set up the next film.
Copy !req
3543. But I thought what a big win
this would be,
Copy !req
3544. you know, as a new director,
Copy !req
3545. if I could make this thing live
Copy !req
3546. and become something that fans
can appreciate again,
Copy !req
3547. and the studio was surprised,
Copy !req
3548. and they go ahead
and take it out and make more.
Copy !req
3549. What we decided to do was make
a statement about horror.
Copy !req
3550. That horror is contagious.
Copy !req
3551. The horror that Jason dispenses
has been passed on to Tommy.
Copy !req
3552. And maybe I was the next Jason.
Copy !req
3553. Maybe it was The Final Chapter
of this Jason,
Copy !req
3554. but maybe "Part 5"
was going to be
Copy !req
3555. Tommy comes to fruition,
Copy !req
3556. Tommy comes into his own
as the next great serial killer.
Copy !req
3557. And that was really the set-up
Copy !req
3558. for where the franchise
was intended to go.
Copy !req
3559. If somebody had pressed me
at that time
Copy !req
3560. and said how about
six more movies,
Copy !req
3561. it would have been not the
running Tommy Jarvis character,
Copy !req
3562. but this contagion of horror
Copy !req
3563. going from one person
to the next.
Copy !req
3564. And the look of Tommy
in the end was, you know,
Copy !req
3565. it wasn't an accident.
Copy !req
3566. I mean, that was something
that was hoping to give birth
Copy !req
3567. Few modern horror franchises
Copy !req
3568. can commit cinematic suicide
and return to tell the tale.
Copy !req
3569. But the prospect of wringing
a few more dollars
Copy !req
3570. from one of their
least expensive
Copy !req
3571. and most profitable franchises
Copy !req
3572. was hard for Paramount
to ignore.
Copy !req
3573. What else can you do with it?
Copy !req
3574. We've just killed Jason.
Copy !req
3575. We've just said that
the series is ended.
Copy !req
3576. You've gotta figure out
something to do.
Copy !req
3577. So everybody
was trying to figure out
Copy !req
3578. a way to break the
"you look making the same movie
Copy !req
3579. over and over again."
Copy !req
3580. The title of "New Beginning,"
I think came from Frank.
Copy !req
3581. I think it was how
he was reaching around
Copy !req
3582. for a way
to let the audience know
Copy !req
3583. that we were promising them
something new
Copy !req
3584. after having told them
that it was done.
Copy !req
3585. I had been an assistant editor
for many years,
Copy !req
3586. mostly for Michael Kahn who's
Steven Spielberg's editor,
Copy !req
3587. and I was an assistant editor on
"Raiders of the Lost Ark,"
Copy !req
3588. "Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom,"
Copy !req
3589. the "Star Wars."
Copy !req
3590. And Michael said to Frank,
'You should hire Bruce.
Copy !req
3591. I can vouch for him,
Copy !req
3592. and if he doesn't do a job
that you like,
Copy !req
3593. I'll come in, and I'll cut
the film for free.'
Copy !req
3594. After "Part 4,"
I felt like, okay,
Copy !req
3595. I need to take a step back,
Copy !req
3596. and I need to find people
to just sort of have their,
Copy !req
3597. you know, imprint
go on these films.
Copy !req
3598. I'll make sure
they come in on budget,
Copy !req
3599. and I'll make sure we get people
Copy !req
3600. that are placed
in the right positions
Copy !req
3601. so that they're not
going to get screwed with.
Copy !req
3602. But, you know, that creatively
this is really going to be
Copy !req
3603. sort of
other people's stuff now.
Copy !req
3604. With Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Copy !req
3605. Now taking on a more ceremonial
role as an executive producer,
Copy !req
3606. the job of finding a director
for "Friday the 13th Part 5"
Copy !req
3607. once again fell
to the uncredited
Copy !req
3608. yet always omnipresent
Phil Scuderi.
Copy !req
3609. This time, he chose a director
Copy !req
3610. from the world of
exploitation cinema and porn.
Copy !req
3611. These guys from Boston
Copy !req
3612. also did
"Last House on the Left."
Copy !req
3613. So before the film was finished,
Copy !req
3614. they were going to Cannes
to sell
Copy !req
3615. "The Last House
on the Left, Part 2."
Copy !req
3616. And they offered me
to write it and direct it.
Copy !req
3617. And I said, Sure.
Copy !req
3618. Then it turns out that they
didn't have their full ownership
Copy !req
3619. of the rights.
Copy !req
3620. Phil Scuderi, he somehow
knew Danny Steinmann.
Copy !req
3621. And thought
that he would be a good choice
Copy !req
3622. to direct the film.
Copy !req
3623. And so, again,
Copy !req
3624. I wasn't going to be in
a situation where I'm saying,
Copy !req
3625. "I'm not going to drive the bus,
I'm going to take a step back"
Copy !req
3626. and then say, "Oh, no,
you can't use this guy,
Copy !req
3627. and you can't do this,
and you can't do that.
Copy !req
3628. I wanted to say, "Ok."
Copy !req
3629. And I knew nothing about
Copy !req
3630. his past filmmaking experiences
at all.
Copy !req
3631. He arrived pumped
and full of energy
Copy !req
3632. and ready to do another draft
of the script,
Copy !req
3633. which was what everybody
had agreed needed to be done.
Copy !req
3634. As far as the script
was concerned,
Copy !req
3635. after they discounted the fact
Copy !req
3636. that Jason is going to be alive
and kicking,
Copy !req
3637. they thought that using Tommy
as a new Jason
Copy !req
3638. would be an interesting
and fun thing to do.
Copy !req
3639. Did Tommy do this?
Did he not?
Copy !req
3640. Was Tommy crazy?
Copy !req
3641. These things were running
through the script.
Copy !req
3642. Unfortunately, Spielberg
fucked up all our plans
Copy !req
3643. because he decided he
wanted me in a couple films.
Copy !req
3644. I was forced,
quite begrudgingly,
Copy !req
3645. to participate in a little film
called "Goonies"
Copy !req
3646. and not participate,
as I would have liked,
Copy !req
3647. in the full version
of "Friday the 13th Part 5."
Copy !req
3648. So instead,
a compromise was reached.
Copy !req
3649. I would come do a cameo
Copy !req
3650. to help buy myself
out of the pre-made story
Copy !req
3651. that we had all come up with
years before.
Copy !req
3652. To schedule
to get him back was insane.
Copy !req
3653. He was busier than anybody
I'd ever met in my life.
Copy !req
3654. So what we did,
we went over to his house,
Copy !req
3655. and in his backyard
we put up bushes,
Copy !req
3656. had the rain machine,
Copy !req
3657. and did it all like in like
an hour and a half, two hours,
Copy !req
3658. and got him done that way.
Copy !req
3659. And we used then
a very small woman
Copy !req
3660. to walk through the woods.
Copy !req
3661. And I thought it was really
actually brilliantly executed.
Copy !req
3662. In casting Tommy, uh...
Copy !req
3663. I wanted someone who was tall,
of course,
Copy !req
3664. had some weight on him,
Copy !req
3665. and was good physically.
Copy !req
3666. When I came in for the audition
I again, I resolved
Copy !req
3667. I'm not going to talk
to anybody,
Copy !req
3668. I'm not going to look them
in the eye,
Copy !req
3669. I'll answer yes or no questions.
Copy !req
3670. And then when Danny
called me in,
Copy !req
3671. I just sat down
and looked and stared,
Copy !req
3672. and I started sweating.
And it was great.
Copy !req
3673. And he got it.
Copy !req
3674. So it emboldened me to really
become the character.
Copy !req
3675. After being released
from a mental asylum,
Copy !req
3676. Tommy Jarvis is sent to live
in a halfway house
Copy !req
3677. populated by a group
of at-risk teens.
Copy !req
3678. Taking a cue from the plot
of the original film,
Copy !req
3679. the producers decided
that the identity of the killer
Copy !req
3680. would not be revealed
until the final act.
Copy !req
3681. "Friday the 13th Part 5
would be a whodunit.
Copy !req
3682. In a sense the whole picture
becomes one giant red herring
Copy !req
3683. because we're going to
pull the plug on it
Copy !req
3684. right at the very end
of the film.
Copy !req
3685. The guys who started the series
Copy !req
3686. ultimately signed off on that
idea, you know.
Copy !req
3687. I mean, that was...
That came out of Boston
Copy !req
3688. and that was okay,
and everybody wanted
Copy !req
3689. to sort of take this road and
maybe thought it may be cool.
Copy !req
3690. In 5, I actually played
the imposter of Jason.
Copy !req
3691. Dick Warlock, who is known
for Michael Myers,
Copy !req
3692. he was the stunt coordinator.
Copy !req
3693. Part of that job
was to bring in some guys
Copy !req
3694. that could play Jason.
Copy !req
3695. So I brought in three guys
Copy !req
3696. and when I brought them in,
I knew who I wanted.
Copy !req
3697. I wanted Tom Morgan.
Copy !req
3698. This guy's an exceptional
stunt guy.
Copy !req
3699. He's agile and, you know,
and that's why I wanted him.
Copy !req
3700. I knew that if Jason had to do
anything at all
Copy !req
3701. that Tom could carry it off.
Copy !req
3702. My idea was that I was going
to play the character
Copy !req
3703. as Jason.
Copy !req
3704. That's what they wanted.
Copy !req
3705. And at the end they'd sort out
what the answer was.
Copy !req
3706. And I did have a couple moments
Copy !req
3707. where I did play the apparition
of Jason himself.
Copy !req
3708. In the film, it was obvious
they had to distinguish
Copy !req
3709. in some way so they used the
blue for the marks on the mask
Copy !req
3710. for the imposter Jason,
Copy !req
3711. where when I did
the actual Jason,
Copy !req
3712. I was wearing the real mask
with the red marks on it.
Copy !req
3713. There's a shot where the camera
is looking out at Jason
Copy !req
3714. right as he steps out
from behind a tree.
Copy !req
3715. I was just standing still.
Copy !req
3716. I had nothing to do
but to look up at the window.
Copy !req
3717. I'm in the window upstairs.
Copy !req
3718. And he was trying
to make me laugh
Copy !req
3719. standing there in the mask.
Copy !req
3720. I turned around and mooned him,
Copy !req
3721. and he's laughing
underneath the mask
Copy !req
3722. trying to not do this, you know.
Copy !req
3723. And I'll never forget
the day we shot that scene
Copy !req
3724. where I look up
and in the mirror,
Copy !req
3725. there's a guy with a machete
and a mask on,
Copy !req
3726. and I look again, and he's gone.
Copy !req
3727. And is he real? Is he there?
Copy !req
3728. Is he monster or victim?
Well, he's a little bit of both.
Copy !req
3729. And I find that when I look
at the man in the mirror
Copy !req
3730. that there's a monster there
and there's a victim
Copy !req
3731. depending on which day it is.
Copy !req
3732. Call me Reggie the Reckless.
Copy !req
3733. Shavar Ross was...
He was adorable.
Copy !req
3734. Again, you know,
a little, young talent.
Copy !req
3735. Yes, Miss Osbourne.
Copy !req
3736. There was many times on the set
during "Friday the 13th Part 5"
Copy !req
3737. where a lot of screaming,
Copy !req
3738. and, "Hey, he's got
to get off the set.
Copy !req
3739. We ain't got too much time.
He's got to go to school."
Copy !req
3740. Solid.
Copy !req
3741. In keeping with
"Friday the 13th" tradition,
Copy !req
3742. the services of a smart
and resourceful leading lady
Copy !req
3743. were required.
Copy !req
3744. This time, however,
Copy !req
3745. the film's final girl
was anything but a happy camper.
Copy !req
3746. John had a very heavy character
Copy !req
3747. and mine was just dealing
Copy !req
3748. with trying to do the best
I could
Copy !req
3749. under bad conditions
because the conditions were bad.
Copy !req
3750. Low-budget movie making
is tough,
Copy !req
3751. and it's tough
on kind of everybody.
Copy !req
3752. She was expecting
to be picked up every day
Copy !req
3753. and brought to the set
Copy !req
3754. and, I think, in a limo
or something to that effect,
Copy !req
3755. and that's another world.
Copy !req
3756. I don't think
anybody gets above,
Copy !req
3757. no matter where you are
in the food chain,
Copy !req
3758. nobody gets above the desire
to do something good,
Copy !req
3759. but the limitations
of what you're dealing with.
Copy !req
3760. Danny, you couldn't go to him.
Copy !req
3761. And actors, especially when
you're young and starting out,
Copy !req
3762. you kind of look to
the director as a father figure.
Copy !req
3763. And I had a question, and he'd
just say, "Just do it."
Copy !req
3764. So from that moment on,
Copy !req
3765. and that was about, I think,
Copy !req
3766. the second or third day
of filming.
Copy !req
3767. So at that moment I said,
Copy !req
3768. "Okay, you're really
on your own here."
Copy !req
3769. I'm sure that's
an uncomfortable part to play,
Copy !req
3770. you know,
when you have a director
Copy !req
3771. that isn't exactly gracious
but you've got a role to play.
Copy !req
3772. So I decided to just do
what I set out to do,
Copy !req
3773. to do the best job I could.
Copy !req
3774. I understand to some people
that Daniel was kind of coarse.
Copy !req
3775. And kind of rough.
Copy !req
3776. I can only say...
Copy !req
3777. it wasn't that way
when I was around,
Copy !req
3778. but I wasn't really around
that much.
Copy !req
3779. In order to maintain the secrecy
of the film's storyline,
Copy !req
3780. the movie went into production
with a befitting code title:
Copy !req
3781. "Repetition."
Copy !req
3782. No way did I know that this was
a "Friday the 13th" movie.
Copy !req
3783. So the first day
we're sitting on the set.
Copy !req
3784. There's this guy with
a hockey mask and the blade.
Copy !req
3785. He walks past us, stops
and stares right at us.
Copy !req
3786. We looked at each other,
Copy !req
3787. and the whole energy
just turned into excitement.
Copy !req
3788. We're in "Friday the 13th!"
We're in "Friday the 13th!"
Copy !req
3789. I want this looney bin
closed down.
Copy !req
3790. You tell 'em, Ma!
Copy !req
3791. I did a fair amount
of ad-libbing as Ethel.
Copy !req
3792. Horse shit.
Copy !req
3793. Shut the fuck up.
Copy !req
3794. You big dildo.
Copy !req
3795. Lots of swear words came out.
Copy !req
3796. Who the fuck are you?
What the fuck do you want?
Copy !req
3797. One of my favorite scenes
Copy !req
3798. is in the kitchen
with a chicken.
Copy !req
3799. I'm gonna chop you
Copy !req
3800. into itty bitty little pieces,
my friend.
Copy !req
3801. You know, the stew that Junior
had to eat in the show,
Copy !req
3802. it was foul only because
it was cold Campbell's soup.
Copy !req
3803. Best goddamn stew in the whole
wide world, Momma.
Copy !req
3804. I thought, you know, we're going
to eat this for lunch.
Copy !req
3805. Hey, Junior would eat anything!
Copy !req
3806. I have a wig from a movie that
I'd done with Burt Reynolds
Copy !req
3807. called "Sharky's Machine"
where I played a hooker.
Copy !req
3808. You fuckin' low-life creep!
Copy !req
3809. They loved it so much
Copy !req
3810. that they wouldn't get me
another one.
Copy !req
3811. I had to use mine.
Copy !req
3812. Eeeeee-yahhh!
Copy !req
3813. Eeeee-yaw.!
Copy !req
3814. "Part 5's" first turning point
occurs when Joey,
Copy !req
3815. a mentally-challenged
ward of the state,
Copy !req
3816. incites the wrath of
the wood-chopping Vic Faden,
Copy !req
3817. played by the late
Mark Venturini.
Copy !req
3818. Hi, Vic.
Copy !req
3819. Get lost!
Copy !req
3820. And then, like that, he flips,
Copy !req
3821. and the axe is going,
and there's blood flying.
Copy !req
3822. The scene itself
was pretty grisly,
Copy !req
3823. and they did a lot of takes
over and over and over.
Copy !req
3824. Oh, god!
Copy !req
3825. For the film's pivotal role
Copy !req
3826. of soft-spoken ambulance driver
Roy Burns,
Copy !req
3827. director Danny Steinmann
sought out an actor
Copy !req
3828. who could project
an aura of menace
Copy !req
3829. without tipping his hand.
Copy !req
3830. Roy is called
an ambulance driver. He's not.
Copy !req
3831. He's a paramedic.
Copy !req
3832. He had seen
an awful lot of death
Copy !req
3833. because this had been going
on for a little bit.
Copy !req
3834. So when it ends up
being his son,
Copy !req
3835. I think that's what
pushes him over.
Copy !req
3836. My character was,
you know, a wise-ass.
Copy !req
3837. My thing was I blew a bubble
and looked up at them and said
Copy !req
3838. Bunch of pussies.
Copy !req
3839. And then of course,
the moral of the character,
Copy !req
3840. of my character,
Copy !req
3841. is be nice to your co-workers,
Copy !req
3842. or you'll get your throat slit
from ear to ear.
Copy !req
3843. With nearly two dozen
onscreen kills,
Copy !req
3844. "Part 5" boasts one of
the highest body counts
Copy !req
3845. in "Friday the 13th" history.
Copy !req
3846. The producers
came up with the idea
Copy !req
3847. that Tommy would be Jason
and then every 8, 9 minutes,
Copy !req
3848. there should be a kill
or a jump, a big jump.
Copy !req
3849. Come on, mother fucker,
fix the fuckin' car!
Copy !req
3850. The death scenes
for Pete and Vinnie
Copy !req
3851. were certainly gory.
Copy !req
3852. I had the machete
across the throat, of course.
Copy !req
3853. And they also
put most of their effort
Copy !req
3854. into the gore
and into the kills.
Copy !req
3855. And most of that footage
wound up on the floor.
Copy !req
3856. I watched when they shot
Vinnie's death scene.
Copy !req
3857. They had made a cast of his face
Copy !req
3858. and then made another face
of his out of latex,
Copy !req
3859. and then they took
the road flare
Copy !req
3860. and stuck it in his mouth.
Copy !req
3861. You could see
everything glowing.
Copy !req
3862. It was horrific but at
the same time, you know,
Copy !req
3863. it was certainly an inventive
way to bring about his death.
Copy !req
3864. Crap my ass!
Copy !req
3865. Just do it, man!
Copy !req
3866. Some people have supposed
that our characters
Copy !req
3867. were the first gay characters
Copy !req
3868. to be killed in
the "Friday the 13th" series,
Copy !req
3869. and I think it's an open-ended
question.
Copy !req
3870. I hadn't made that choice,
Copy !req
3871. but who knows where it went
with Pete,
Copy !req
3872. and where it would have gone,
you know,
Copy !req
3873. if they could have lived
a little longer.
Copy !req
3874. Lana! Hey, Lana!
Copy !req
3875. Sorry, buster, we're closed.
Copy !req
3876. The original scene
of Lana and Billy
Copy !req
3877. were... I guess it was originally
written for "Part 4,"
Copy !req
3878. but for whatever reason,
they didn't use it,
Copy !req
3879. and they put it in "Part 5."
Copy !req
3880. It just said,
"Billy calls for Lana.
Copy !req
3881. He's waiting in the car,
and he starts doing cocaine."
Copy !req
3882. A couple weeks before that I had
seen the film "All That Jazz"
Copy !req
3883. about Bob Fosse,
Copy !req
3884. and he would throughout
the film say 'It's showtime.'
Copy !req
3885. It's showtime, folks.
Copy !req
3886. And so I came out of my trailer
Copy !req
3887. and went up to Danny Steinmann,
the director,
Copy !req
3888. and I said, "You know, Danny,"
Copy !req
3889. I said, "I'm changing
in the dressing room,
Copy !req
3890. getting ready for my boyfriend.
Copy !req
3891. I said, What if I did
something really cute and sexy
Copy !req
3892. like It'sshowtime!
Copy !req
3893. He was like, "I love it!"
Copy !req
3894. Using an axe on a guy's head
Copy !req
3895. almost looks for real
when you're there
Copy !req
3896. because you're looking
at the head,
Copy !req
3897. which is just this guy's head.
Copy !req
3898. It looks just like him.
Copy !req
3899. The dummy had a full head
of hair,
Copy !req
3900. and they were panic stricken
because I had a bald spot
Copy !req
3901. and then Jason was going
to crash this axe
Copy !req
3902. into a guy
with a full head of hair,
Copy !req
3903. and they had
to take the dummy away,
Copy !req
3904. get another head and, you know,
Copy !req
3905. cut the hole but try
and make it look real.
Copy !req
3906. So they got the bald spot
all set, made that up,
Copy !req
3907. put the squibs under there
and then wham.
Copy !req
3908. And that was his target,
the bald spot on my head.
Copy !req
3909. Because I'm killed with an axe,
Copy !req
3910. they built the cast with the axe
actually glued to it
Copy !req
3911. and then they put my pink dress
over it,
Copy !req
3912. and I'm covered with blood.
Copy !req
3913. I kind of played along with it,
Copy !req
3914. and I started walking through
the street going...
Copy !req
3915. in front of the cars
and people were just like,
Copy !req
3916. "Oh, my God."
Copy !req
3917. Because they didn't know
a movie was being made up there.
Copy !req
3918. So we had a lot of laughs
with that.
Copy !req
3919. I played along with that.
Copy !req
3920. These kids, people
were rooting for them to die.
Copy !req
3921. Fuck you.
Copy !req
3922. Exactly. Fuck me.
Copy !req
3923. I don't know
if they were degenerates,
Copy !req
3924. but they were definitely...
Copy !req
3925. not wholesome.
Copy !req
3926. In my mind the movie was more
like, you know, sort of
Copy !req
3927. Fellini meets Hardcore.
Copy !req
3928. I mean, it was just
sort of bizarre.
Copy !req
3929. I was certainly surprised
by the sleazy quality
Copy !req
3930. to the images.
Copy !req
3931. Sleazy is a great word.
Copy !req
3932. I mean, in terms of describing
"Part 5."
Copy !req
3933. Everybody was cast because
of the size of their tits.
Copy !req
3934. It was like a porn film
in a lot of ways.
Copy !req
3935. I did my first nude scene
for Danny.
Copy !req
3936. Sorry... I didn't.
Copy !req
3937. I just had to say that.
Copy !req
3938. I think Danny Steinmann
was bringing to it
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3939. what he thought would make it
more urgent, you know.
Copy !req
3940. More intense. Not as campy.
Copy !req
3941. And some people
found that sleazy,
Copy !req
3942. Some people found that
difficult to watch.
Copy !req
3943. They obviously didn't appreciate
not having Jason around.
Copy !req
3944. Although the part of
sex-starved Tina
Copy !req
3945. was originally intended to be
played by actress Darcy DeMoss,
Copy !req
3946. who would later appear
in "Friday the 13th Part 6,"
Copy !req
3947. director Steinmann
ultimately gave the role
Copy !req
3948. to a former Playboy bunny
with a familiar last name.
Copy !req
3949. As soon as they saw
my last name, Voorhees,
Copy !req
3950. they said we absolutely have to
interview this woman.
Copy !req
3951. They told me I had the role
and then they told me
Copy !req
3952. I had to go meet
with the producer
Copy !req
3953. to audition three women.
Copy !req
3954. Two of whom I remember,
one of them was Darcy DeMoss,
Copy !req
3955. who ultimately played in role VI
Copy !req
3956. and was a long-time
girlfriend of mine after we met.
Copy !req
3957. The other girl was Gina Gershon,
Copy !req
3958. you know,
"Faceoff,", "Showgirls."
Copy !req
3959. She's been in a lot of stuff.
Copy !req
3960. She went on to do very well.
Copy !req
3961. I went in for my audition and
Danny Steinmann, the director,
Copy !req
3962. asked me to lift my top up
and show my breasts.
Copy !req
3963. I wasn't prepared for that
at all.
Copy !req
3964. So I said "I have no problem
with nudity,
Copy !req
3965. but you need to contact
my agent,
Copy !req
3966. and have him okay it."
Copy !req
3967. We made arrangements
to get together
Copy !req
3968. because obviously we had
to shoot the woods scene,
Copy !req
3969. the sex scene,
like the following Monday.
Copy !req
3970. The next day,
I didn't have a part,
Copy !req
3971. and the excuse was that I wasn't
well enough endowed.
Copy !req
3972. It was one of those things
where the producer
Copy !req
3973. had seen the one woman
and then the director saw me,
Copy !req
3974. and he decided he wanted me.
Copy !req
3975. And if you look at the girl,
Copy !req
3976. her breasts
are absolutely enormous.
Copy !req
3977. I did meet the guy, Eddie,
Copy !req
3978. a couple days before
we actually, you know,
Copy !req
3979. shot the film, the love scene,
Copy !req
3980. and I think probably
one of the funny moments
Copy !req
3981. was when we said goodbye
and said,
Copy !req
3982. "Okay, we'll have sex on Monday.
Bye."
Copy !req
3983. Okay, sugar.
Copy !req
3984. And I get that all the time.
Copy !req
3985. People will say, "Well, you
know, you did this sex scene
Copy !req
3986. with a Playboy bunny
in the woods.
Copy !req
3987. I mean, it must have been
incredible.'
Copy !req
3988. And, it's like, well, you know,
Copy !req
3989. it's not really
comfortable at all.
Copy !req
3990. You got 50 people
standing around.
Copy !req
3991. In the background off-screen
Copy !req
3992. is Danny Steinmann,
the director, yelling,
Copy !req
3993. "Come on. Fuck her. Fuck her.
Fuck her harder.
Copy !req
3994. Come on. Come on. Grab her tits.
Grab her pussy.
Copy !req
3995. Grab her ass."
Copy !req
3996. And I'm sitting there
like dying.
Copy !req
3997. And I'm not a prudish guy.
Copy !req
3998. And I turned to Frank,
Copy !req
3999. who looked just as dumbstruck
as I did, and I said,
Copy !req
4000. "What do you want me
to do with this stuff?"
Copy !req
4001. And he put his arms around me
and he said,
Copy !req
4002. "Bruce, make it look like
a Pepsi commercial."
Copy !req
4003. I do remember seeing
the final cut and thinking,
Copy !req
4004. "God, it looks like I'm like
Quick Draw McGraw, man,
Copy !req
4005. I mean like, in and done.
Bang, you know,
Copy !req
4006. it's like,
"Okay, I gotta go wash up."
Copy !req
4007. It's like, "Ah wait a minute."
Copy !req
4008. Of course,
I was the classic bad girl
Copy !req
4009. so, you know, I had to die.
Copy !req
4010. I think the garden shears
through the eyes
Copy !req
4011. was pretty bad when I went,
you know.
Copy !req
4012. And the way they did
the little snap
Copy !req
4013. where you could see the bone
right there and stuff.
Copy !req
4014. But at that point,
once they put the mask on me,
Copy !req
4015. they put the red blood
in the eyes,
Copy !req
4016. and I can't see at that point.
Copy !req
4017. So I'm having to be led around
in nothing but a robe.
Copy !req
4018. And, you know, I have to admit
that was a little intense.
Copy !req
4019. Plus that stuff burned bad.
Copy !req
4020. I mean, really burns the eyes.
Copy !req
4021. In the end, you know,
my death was very unique.
Copy !req
4022. I mean, how many people have
been impaled or hatcheted,
Copy !req
4023. or, you know, meat cleaver
in the head.
Copy !req
4024. That's old hat.
Copy !req
4025. You can't say another guy
has ever had a horse strap
Copy !req
4026. thrown across his face
and crushed against a tree.
Copy !req
4027. Some fans have pointed out
that at one point
Copy !req
4028. he's turning it clockwise
and then at another point,
Copy !req
4029. he's turning it
counter-clockwise.
Copy !req
4030. From my understanding,
Copy !req
4031. my death scene was so gory
Copy !req
4032. with the blood being pumped
through the strap,
Copy !req
4033. that they were able to use that
as a bargaining tool
Copy !req
4034. with the censors,
Copy !req
4035. and they were able to get
more nudity and less gore
Copy !req
4036. based on my death.
Copy !req
4037. There was a scene,
there was Miguel Nunez,
Copy !req
4038. who played my brother Demon
Copy !req
4039. Damn enchiladas!
Copy !req
4040. Died on the toilet.
Copy !req
4041. I mean, that is not
the way to go.
Copy !req
4042. Just got killed in the bathroom
Copy !req
4043. calling out his
girlfriend's name and singing.
Copy !req
4044. Ooh baby, ooh baby
Copy !req
4045. ooh baby, ooh baby
Copy !req
4046. Just spikes coming through
the outhouse.
Copy !req
4047. And his beautiful girlfriend
got just jacked up.
Copy !req
4048. My goodness. Terrible.
Copy !req
4049. Shooting my death scene
was pretty, pretty intense.
Copy !req
4050. That's probably
the only place where Danny
Copy !req
4051. actually put a lot
of pressure on me
Copy !req
4052. because I'm riding a motorcycle
through the woods.
Copy !req
4053. And they have the camera
mounted on the motorcycle.
Copy !req
4054. Danny said, "You dump this bike,
Copy !req
4055. that's a $50,000 camera,
Copy !req
4056. I'm going to kill ya.
Copy !req
4057. So you will die
before Jason gets ya."
Copy !req
4058. Kept going around and around
and the next thing you know
Copy !req
4059. The MPAA sent a long note
of changes
Copy !req
4060. that we had to make,
Copy !req
4061. and one of them was when
Junior's riding the motorcycle
Copy !req
4062. and gets decapitated,
Copy !req
4063. His head can only bounce
on the ground once.
Copy !req
4064. At the time this really did look
real, you know.
Copy !req
4065. It's cracking and yellowing
and falling apart,
Copy !req
4066. but it was pretty intense.
Copy !req
4067. My death scene,
Copy !req
4068. there was a shot where they used
my prosthetic head
Copy !req
4069. and had put an axe
in the forehead of it.
Copy !req
4070. I don't think the
prosthetic piece with the axe
Copy !req
4071. made it in the movie.
Copy !req
4072. I think it was cut.
Copy !req
4073. Tiffany Helm did the robot
Copy !req
4074. to one of the greatest songs,
I think.
Copy !req
4075. I had never heard that song
until she brought...
Copy !req
4076. She brought it in herself.
Copy !req
4077. J” There's a man with no life
in his eyes J”
Copy !req
4078. J” There's a man no life
in his eyes J”
Copy !req
4079. It was cool because it
was the 80s, you know?
Copy !req
4080. The kill scene with Tiffany,
Copy !req
4081. they had an idea that they
were going to use
Copy !req
4082. a little more graphic kill.
Copy !req
4083. They were going
to take the machete
Copy !req
4084. and actually stab her
straight up through the legs
Copy !req
4085. and pick her up and pin her.
Copy !req
4086. She was like this, and Jason was
going straight for the gusto.
Copy !req
4087. I remember hearing about it.
I might have seen some stills.
Copy !req
4088. I don't remember if they
actually shot the footage.
Copy !req
4089. It would have been
pretty difficult to look at.
Copy !req
4090. Couldn't show that.
Couldn't show that back then.
Copy !req
4091. That was cut. Rated X.
Copy !req
4092. And they toned that down
a little bit
Copy !req
4093. and ended up sticking her
in the stomach
Copy !req
4094. and pinning her to the wall,
which is probably as good.
Copy !req
4095. You know,
everybody was frustrated.
Copy !req
4096. The editor, and Frank Mancuso.
Copy !req
4097. The stuff that was taken out
had a big, big impact
Copy !req
4098. on the reaction to the kills.
Copy !req
4099. You don't get to see the kills.
Copy !req
4100. How they were set up,
and how they were executed.
Copy !req
4101. So that's what pissed me off
the most.
Copy !req
4102. From the point where I discover
the bodies upstairs,
Copy !req
4103. everything after that
until the end of the film
Copy !req
4104. was my best time.
Copy !req
4105. I was just so excited
to be doing it.
Copy !req
4106. I just remember
having a lot of fun,
Copy !req
4107. running through the woods
in the fake rain.
Copy !req
4108. Where are you?
Copy !req
4109. I just had fun.
Copy !req
4110. And quite frankly, I think
I only looked good
Copy !req
4111. when they finally
turned on the rain.
Copy !req
4112. So I was grateful for,
as cold as it was,
Copy !req
4113. I was so grateful
because I said,
Copy !req
4114. "Oh, God, at least
I look good wet."
Copy !req
4115. I didn't shoot a death scene.
Copy !req
4116. It was shot up in the canyon.
Copy !req
4117. I remember
they had a rain machine.
Copy !req
4118. It was cold that night.
I nearly froze my ass off.
Copy !req
4119. But what happened was every
time they would open the door,
Copy !req
4120. and my head would come back,
the water would hit the blood
Copy !req
4121. and so it didn't have as good
of effect as it should.
Copy !req
4122. You could tell it didn't slit,
Copy !req
4123. but they could have done
a better makeup job on that.
Copy !req
4124. I lost my voice,
Copy !req
4125. and I actually screamed
like a girl.
Copy !req
4126. I screamed like a girl,
Copy !req
4127. and I still get people
that email me
Copy !req
4128. to remind me that
that scream was so high.
Copy !req
4129. The most shocking thing when
I saw the film in the theatre
Copy !req
4130. was my pink sweater.
Copy !req
4131. She's running through the forest
Copy !req
4132. and in some cuts,
she's got this pink sweater
Copy !req
4133. which she wore all the time,
Copy !req
4134. and in other cuts, she doesn't
have the pink sweater.
Copy !req
4135. I can't even look at it anymore
because I just, all I see
Copy !req
4136. is that pink sweater
reappearing and disappearing.
Copy !req
4137. The attitude usually
in an editing room
Copy !req
4138. when there are continuity
problems
Copy !req
4139. is that if there are people
in the audience
Copy !req
4140. that are noticing that sweater,
Copy !req
4141. they're not really engaged
in the story.
Copy !req
4142. The bane of my existence
of that film
Copy !req
4143. is that damn sweater.
Copy !req
4144. And I didn't even like it.
Copy !req
4145. Pink thing.
Copy !req
4146. And I think the thing with
Reggie the Reckless was that
Copy !req
4147. it was that red suit.
Copy !req
4148. It was the red suit.
Copy !req
4149. It was the blood of Jesus
over Reggie.
Copy !req
4150. And I think that helped me some,
you know, throughout the film,
Copy !req
4151. you know, to be able to have fun
running him over
Copy !req
4152. with a tractor.
Copy !req
4153. When that front loader hit me,
Copy !req
4154. that was probably
the most fun for me.
Copy !req
4155. I helped set that up.
Copy !req
4156. It wasn't in cuts.
It was a full hit.
Copy !req
4157. And the distance
I flew through the air
Copy !req
4158. and hit the ground was all real.
Copy !req
4159. So for me that was the most
enjoyable stunt.
Copy !req
4160. And the shooting in the barn,
the infamous chain saw scene
Copy !req
4161. which did take a few takes
Copy !req
4162. because the first three
I couldn't get through.
Copy !req
4163. I was laughing so hard.
Copy !req
4164. Where am I going to do a scene
with a chain saw ever,
Copy !req
4165. you know, except this film?
Copy !req
4166. The killing that was the most
memorable to me in "Part 5"
Copy !req
4167. was, of course, me taking
the machete to Jason's arm,
Copy !req
4168. and him falling back
out of the barn
Copy !req
4169. and landing down on some kind
of farming instrument.
Copy !req
4170. Tom Morga, he called me,
Copy !req
4171. he wanted me to come out
and take his place
Copy !req
4172. one night on the show.
Copy !req
4173. If you watch the movie,
Copy !req
4174. you'll see that the first guy
that does the fall
Copy !req
4175. coming out the door,
is Tom Morga,
Copy !req
4176. and then you'll see a guy
fall through frame.
Copy !req
4177. That's me.
Copy !req
4178. I love the part
where he just goes
Copy !req
4179. right through those
spikes.
Copy !req
4180. I did the graveyard sequence.
Copy !req
4181. When the two guys come up
to the, and dig the grave open,
Copy !req
4182. I was lying down in the coffin.
Copy !req
4183. They actually dumped
nightcrawlers on top of me.
Copy !req
4184. They had like
five gallon containers,
Copy !req
4185. and they dumped them
all over me.
Copy !req
4186. This is dick head.
Copy !req
4187. They used this when Roy
falls out of the barn
Copy !req
4188. onto the farm implement.
Copy !req
4189. It's really freaky,
really strange.
Copy !req
4190. Well, you know, in "Part 5,"
Copy !req
4191. we didn't have the quote-unquote
real Jason.
Copy !req
4192. Jason was an imposter,
as it turned out,
Copy !req
4193. which was a disappointment
to some fans
Copy !req
4194. to find out that it was a human.
Copy !req
4195. We got to the end,
Copy !req
4196. and I found out it was
the ambulance driver.
Copy !req
4197. That just threw me
Copy !req
4198. because I didn't know
that was going to happen.
Copy !req
4199. Another piece of advice:
Copy !req
4200. Don't allow the overweight,
mentally handicapped son
Copy !req
4201. of the local ambulance driver
Copy !req
4202. to get hacked to shit
over a candy bar.
Copy !req
4203. Because chances are
Copy !req
4204. that driver's going to turn into
a Jason clone
Copy !req
4205. and try to take people out.
Copy !req
4206. Remains one of the least
satisfying endings
Copy !req
4207. in the history of film
as far as I'm concerned.
Copy !req
4208. So the sheriff,
played by Marco St. John,
Copy !req
4209. we're in the hospital.
Copy !req
4210. He's now explaining
the whole thing to me,
Copy !req
4211. who was chasing me,
and the motive,
Copy !req
4212. and who this person was.
Copy !req
4213. I guess when he was called
to the scene,
Copy !req
4214. and he saw that it was
his own Joey
Copy !req
4215. all hacked to pieces
Copy !req
4216. Jason was a good scapegoat
for Roy
Copy !req
4217. because he was in the papers.
People knew who he was.
Copy !req
4218. And he whips out these clippings
Copy !req
4219. and shows me a mug shot
of Jason,
Copy !req
4220. like they got a mug shot
of Jason?
Copy !req
4221. And I ended up writing
the last three pages of Tommy
Copy !req
4222. in the hospital room...
Copy !req
4223. And I brought it to Danny
and I said, you know,
Copy !req
4224. "Here's the ending."
Copy !req
4225. And I remember him just x'ing
out all the dialogue and going,
Copy !req
4226. "John, you don't talk
the whole movie
Copy !req
4227. and all of a sudden you got
like a S-page monologue."
Copy !req
4228. But he said, you know,
"This is good,"
Copy !req
4229. and he came back
the next day and said,
Copy !req
4230. 'We're going to use that.'
Copy !req
4231. But at the very end,
Copy !req
4232. that's when the metamorphosis
takes place in his hospital bed.
Copy !req
4233. He comes to see Jason there
Copy !req
4234. and then Jason
kind of disappears
Copy !req
4235. and then he gets out of bed,
Copy !req
4236. opens the drawer
and sees the mask.
Copy !req
4237. He's in there freaking out.
You hear a crash.
Copy !req
4238. I rush into the room
Copy !req
4239. because I think he's jumped out
of the window.
Copy !req
4240. And he's behind me
with the Jason mask.
Copy !req
4241. I become Jason
and so in that sense, to me,
Copy !req
4242. he's the most fearsome,
awesome, indestructible,
Copy !req
4243. mysterious figure
in movie history
Copy !req
4244. because you see a side
of yourself
Copy !req
4245. that could become possessed,
if you will,
Copy !req
4246. by this larger-than-life
character.
Copy !req
4247. Despite the backlash
to lmposter Jason,
Copy !req
4248. "Part 5" proved that audiences
still had a bloodlust
Copy !req
4249. for "Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
4250. As the film grossed $8 million
in its opening weekend
Copy !req
4251. on March 22, 1985.
Copy !req
4252. Frank Mancuso
called me late that night,
Copy !req
4253. 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.
Copy !req
4254. He was so excited,
you know, saying
Copy !req
4255. these numbers are like
the golden times.
Copy !req
4256. I mean, this is unheard of.
Copy !req
4257. Everyone is going
to the next "Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
4258. based on their experience
of the last one,
Copy !req
4259. and if they go from 4
and 5, and 5 lets them down,
Copy !req
4260. it's already in profits before
it has a chance to fall off.
Copy !req
4261. I would say that the movie is a
pretty substantive departure
Copy !req
4262. from the rest of the series.
Copy !req
4263. I think it's really interesting.
Copy !req
4264. This film is either loved
or absolutely despised.
Copy !req
4265. Some people say,
"You didn't even play Jason.
Copy !req
4266. It didn't even count."
Copy !req
4267. And they have no respect
for that particular film,
Copy !req
4268. and they think it was the worst
in the series.
Copy !req
4269. And I've had others that tell
me the way it was done,
Copy !req
4270. and they loved it
and it was the best kills,
Copy !req
4271. and it was the most exciting.
Copy !req
4272. You know, it's personal opinion.
Copy !req
4273. And I was kind of proud
to be part of something
Copy !req
4274. that they were taking a chance
Copy !req
4275. of doing something different,
you know.
Copy !req
4276. Whether that worked out
is another story.
Copy !req
4277. It's like "Halloween 3."
Copy !req
4278. Michael's not in the movie
so it's not a "Halloween" movie.
Copy !req
4279. I liked the fact that it wasn't
Jason killing people.
Copy !req
4280. I liked the fact that it was
a bit of a whodunit
Copy !req
4281. and nobody really knew
what was going on.
Copy !req
4282. What the hell's going on here?
Copy !req
4283. The only mistake that they made
Copy !req
4284. was giving the explanation
that it wasn't Tommy.
Copy !req
4285. I think that if they would
have kept it elusive,
Copy !req
4286. and you really didn't know for
sure at the end of the movie,
Copy !req
4287. I think they could have
gone a great number
Copy !req
4288. of really cool places
with it after that point.
Copy !req
4289. But really, no, lmposter Jason,
it just doesn't work.
Copy !req
4290. I mean, ultimately,
"A New Beginning," not so much.
Copy !req
4291. There's a reason why the
next one's called "Jason Lives."
Copy !req
4292. But, you know, in retrospect,
you know, it's glorious.
Copy !req
4293. I had a really good time
and, you know,
Copy !req
4294. some of it's not bad.
Copy !req
4295. Everybody starts off
trying to do good.
Copy !req
4296. You know, they really do.
Copy !req
4297. And he thought he was doing
a really good job.
Copy !req
4298. And he thought that...
Copy !req
4299. He thought what he was bringing
to this thing
Copy !req
4300. was going to be
a different element
Copy !req
4301. that people might really
appreciate.
Copy !req
4302. After the disappointing response
to “Part 5,”
Copy !req
4303. producer Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Copy !req
4304. Received a directive from the
top brass at Paramount Pictures.
Copy !req
4305. Get "Friday the 13th"
back on track.
Copy !req
4306. You know, well -intended people
can make mistakes.
Copy !req
4307. And I know
I've certainly made them.
Copy !req
4308. They realized in it,
and the fan response,
Copy !req
4309. that they were not happy
with “Part 5”
Copy !req
4310. because Jason their
favorite character wasn't in it.
Copy !req
4311. So they had to go back
to the old formula.
Copy !req
4312. Obviously, 5, where you have
an imitation Jason,
Copy !req
4313. angered the fans.
Copy !req
4314. I mean, it was like,
"Let's just ignore this.
Copy !req
4315. Let's move on."
Copy !req
4316. Clean house. Start all over.
Copy !req
4317. Everybody,
let's just start fresh.
Copy !req
4318. 5 was a bad dream.
Copy !req
4319. So it was important to me
that Jason come back
Copy !req
4320. in a very spectacular, fun way.
Copy !req
4321. You know, we needed somebody
who would sort of embrace
Copy !req
4322. that kind of theatricality
Copy !req
4323. and infuse the rest of the movie
with that.
Copy !req
4324. Enter Tom McLoughlin,
Copy !req
4325. who began his career in comedy
and as a professional mime.
Copy !req
4326. During an initial meeting
with Mancuso,
Copy !req
4327. the up-and-coming
writer/director
Copy !req
4328. pitched an idea that everyone
hoped would breathe new life
Copy !req
4329. and bring a bit of levity
into "Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
4330. I came to the attention
of Frank Mancuso
Copy !req
4331. because of the movie I made,
“One Dark Night.”
Copy !req
4332. I was not
particularly interested
Copy !req
4333. in doing a “Friday” sequel
Copy !req
4334. because, as far
as I was concerned,
Copy !req
4335. it basically had kind of
run out of steam.
Copy !req
4336. Oooh, it's those
damn enchiladas!
Copy !req
4337. The idea was still kind of
challenging to me
Copy !req
4338. at the same time so I said,
Copy !req
4339. "Well, let me see, you know,
all the "Fridays,"
Copy !req
4340. and I went to Paramount
and sat in a screening room
Copy !req
4341. and watched them all
back-to-back.
Copy !req
4342. And out of that I thought, okay,
what hasn't been done?
Copy !req
4343. And, because I've always had
a great love of Gothic horror,
Copy !req
4344. I thought if I could bring in
that element.
Copy !req
4345. It's alive! It's alive!
Copy !req
4346. Mancuso was smart hiring
a young, hip director.
Copy !req
4347. He didn't want somebody that
was just going to phone it in
Copy !req
4348. and take a check.
Copy !req
4349. Being a huge fan of the old
Universal horror movies,
Copy !req
4350. and particularly “Frankenstein,”
that was the first idea.
Copy !req
4351. You know, let's bring
Jason back to life.
Copy !req
4352. Gotta be a lightning bolt.
Copy !req
4353. Then I actually would go
to these bizarre locations,
Copy !req
4354. you know, cemeteries,
and, I don't know,
Copy !req
4355. somehow I just loved
that whole process
Copy !req
4356. of writing in unusual places
for this
Copy !req
4357. and just sort of see
what the inspiration was.
Copy !req
4358. Originally titled
“Jason Has Risen,”
Copy !req
4359. McLoughlin's script once again
Copy !req
4360. focused on the Jason-obsessed
Tommy Jarvis,
Copy !req
4361. but virtually ignored
the events from "Part 5."
Copy !req
4362. After I did
“Friday the 13th, Part V,”
Copy !req
4363. I got hired by Frank Mancuso Jr.
Copy !req
4364. To edit a movie called
“April Fools' Day,”
Copy !req
4365. which, coincidentally,
had Amy Steel in it,
Copy !req
4366. who had been in “Friday ll.”
Copy !req
4367. After that was over,
Copy !req
4368. Frank wanted me now
to do the next Friday,
Copy !req
4369. which was VI.
Copy !req
4370. John and I were assigned
to do “Part 6.”
Copy !req
4371. Pretty soon after I got word
from Paramount through my agent
Copy !req
4372. that John wasn't going to do
“Part 6.”
Copy !req
4373. I was at a crossroads in my life
Copy !req
4374. where I was trying to decide do
I really want to pursue acting,
Copy !req
4375. or, you know, is this the best
use of my time and talents.
Copy !req
4376. So I made a conscious decision
on “Part 6.”,
Copy !req
4377. that, you know what,
I'm going to pass on this.
Copy !req
4378. And they said we can't use you
because you are intertwined.
Copy !req
4379. They wanted to kill me off
in "Part 6," but we said nope,
Copy !req
4380. not doing that to us.
Copy !req
4381. One of the very few brothers
that survived
Copy !req
4382. the "Friday the 13th" series
by the way.
Copy !req
4383. 6 begins
and it's a different actor,
Copy !req
4384. it's a different story.
Copy !req
4385. And enter Thom Matthews.
Copy !req
4386. I did do a movie,
a horror movie before
Copy !req
4387. called “Return
of the Living Dead.”
Copy !req
4388. When Tommy shows up in 6,
Copy !req
4389. Jason has not been cremated
as you thought.
Copy !req
4390. His body was cremated.
Copy !req
4391. He's nothing
but a handful of ash!
Copy !req
4392. And beyond that, Tommy
is no longer bat-shit crazy.
Copy !req
4393. This is between me and Jason.
Copy !req
4394. He has now apparently not only
found his moral center,
Copy !req
4395. he is a hero again.
Copy !req
4396. And he's bringing
Horshack with him no less.
Copy !req
4397. Accompanying Tommy
on his ghoulish quest
Copy !req
4398. was fellow mental patient
Allen Hawes,
Copy !req
4399. played by the late Ron Palillo,
Copy !req
4400. best known as "Horshack"
from the cult 1970s sitcom,
Copy !req
4401. “Welcome Back Kotter.”
Copy !req
4402. Once Jason was dead
and Tommy was still around,
Copy !req
4403. and he had gotten out of this
institution,
Copy !req
4404. you know, his vow was to go
and make sure, you know,
Copy !req
4405. Jason was dead.
Copy !req
4406. My character goes over
and grabs a metal stake
Copy !req
4407. from the rotting
wrought iron fence,
Copy !req
4408. and I stick it into his heart
several times.
Copy !req
4409. Oh, shit.
Copy !req
4410. It starts to rain,
Copy !req
4411. lightning bolt hits the rod
Copy !req
4412. that's still stuck
into his chest,
Copy !req
4413. and it kind of revitalizes
his body.
Copy !req
4414. The Hawes character
whacks him with the shovel
Copy !req
4415. and all it does is, you know,
get his attention.
Copy !req
4416. He turns around
and punches his heart out.
Copy !req
4417. That was pretty interesting.
Copy !req
4418. We made a foam rubber heart.
Copy !req
4419. We had it so it could actually
pump off camera,
Copy !req
4420. and there were tubes running in
that the guys on set
Copy !req
4421. had the blood
squirting out of it.
Copy !req
4422. That also to me was important
Copy !req
4423. because, you know,
we've given him this power
Copy !req
4424. with a lightning bolt.
Copy !req
4425. He should be pretty damn,
you know, unstoppable that way.
Copy !req
4426. One of the exciting things
for me
Copy !req
4427. on "Friday the 13th Part 6” was
the creation of Jason's mask.
Copy !req
4428. And we wanted it to really
look the same,
Copy !req
4429. but we still had to customize it
to our actor,
Copy !req
4430. which was C. J. Graham in this.
Copy !req
4431. Once he turns around after
taking Horshack's heart out
Copy !req
4432. and puts that hockey mask
back on,
Copy !req
4433. that was the last time you'll
see me with my face exposed.
Copy !req
4434. After that the inside
of the prosthetics
Copy !req
4435. became pretty simple.
Copy !req
4436. But the people, Reel FX,
they did a great job.
Copy !req
4437. He had to be
this unstoppable force.
Copy !req
4438. And nobody
was listening to Tommy
Copy !req
4439. that he had brought him
back to life.
Copy !req
4440. You're gonna be sorry
you didn't listen to me.
Copy !req
4441. You're gonna be sorry
if you don't shut up.
Copy !req
4442. It did create a new rule
which I thought was cool
Copy !req
4443. only because, you know,
how do you kill something
Copy !req
4444. that is already dead?
Copy !req
4445. From the opening moments
of McLoughlin's gothic,
Copy !req
4446. tongue-in-cheek horror film,
Copy !req
4447. fans were aware
that they were in
Copy !req
4448. for a very different “Friday.”
Copy !req
4449. I had nothing to do with
the James Bond title sequence,
Copy !req
4450. but when I saw it, I just
absolutely loved it.
Copy !req
4451. I thought it was, like, so cool.
Copy !req
4452. And it was also a wink and a nod
to the audience
Copy !req
4453. saying "You're in store,
this is something different.
Copy !req
4454. We're having fun with this."
Copy !req
4455. Does he think I'm a fart head?
Copy !req
4456. YES!
Copy !req
4457. It was fun because every time
Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Copy !req
4458. Came up with some bogus title
Copy !req
4459. that we were making
the “Fridays” under,
Copy !req
4460. and he was a huge Bowie fan,
Copy !req
4461. so every movie had some
Bowie song as the title.
Copy !req
4462. “Part 3” was Crystal Japan,
Copy !req
4463. and “Part 5” was "Repetition,"
Copy !req
4464. and we had the one,
which I thought was the best,
Copy !req
4465. Aladdin Sane.
Copy !req
4466. To play Megan Garris,
the spunky sheriff's daughter,
Copy !req
4467. McLoughlin chose Jennifer Cooke,
Copy !req
4468. who had recently starred
Copy !req
4469. in the science-fiction
television series
Copy !req
4470. Jennifer Cooke was picked
for two reasons.
Copy !req
4471. One, the "Friday" girl always
seemed to have to be blonde,
Copy !req
4472. and I think that was
Frank Mancuso's desire
Copy !req
4473. to kind of carry on
Copy !req
4474. the Hitchcock tradition
of the blonde.
Copy !req
4475. In my particular choice,
Copy !req
4476. I wanted her to have a very kind
of '30s, '40s snappy attitude.
Copy !req
4477. Tommy Jarvis
is a very sick boy.
Copy !req
4478. How do you know, dad?
What did you do?
Copy !req
4479. Take his temperature?
Copy !req
4480. Like a... you know,
like Barbara Stanwyck was,
Copy !req
4481. or Jean Arthur back in the day.
Copy !req
4482. Playing Megan was terrific, and
she really was a feisty girl.
Copy !req
4483. I would say
like most girls her age,
Copy !req
4484. she was figuring
a few things out in life,
Copy !req
4485. like how to fall in love,
and how to say no to your dad.
Copy !req
4486. You keep forgetting,
little Megan,
Copy !req
4487. I'm the parent,
and you're the child!
Copy !req
4488. That's right.
Copy !req
4489. When are you gonna stop
treating me like one?
Copy !req
4490. When you stop acting like one!
Copy !req
4491. I've been an acting coach
for a long time
Copy !req
4492. and actually
Jennifer studied with me.
Copy !req
4493. And so we knew each other.
Copy !req
4494. David Kagan was also...
Copy !req
4495. His character name
was Sheriff Garris,
Copy !req
4496. and he was cleverly named
after a horror director
Copy !req
4497. named Mick Garris.
Copy !req
4498. And Tom inserted
a lot of those references
Copy !req
4499. throughout the movie.
Copy !req
4500. One was the town of Carpenter,
Copy !req
4501. you know, after John Carpenter
and "Halloween."
Copy !req
4502. The best I can do is call
the station in Carpenter
Copy !req
4503. and have them
keep a look out for them.
Copy !req
4504. And then the other
was Cunningham Road.
Copy !req
4505. Drive out to Cunningham Road
and look for him.
Copy !req
4506. Megan!
Copy !req
4507. If you watch the movie there's
are a lot of little references
Copy !req
4508. to Frankenstein, you know,
in there.
Copy !req
4509. The Karloff, you know, market.
Copy !req
4510. Where are you?
Copy !req
4511. Uh, Karloff's General something
Copy !req
4512. There was stuff
all over that picture,
Copy !req
4513. just signs on walls.
Copy !req
4514. He had really done a great job
in pulling all that together.
Copy !req
4515. Harry did such an amazing job
with the score
Copy !req
4516. because you know,
he kept the "Friday' score
Copy !req
4517. but he had, you know, this whole
Gregorian, gothic feeling to it
Copy !req
4518. with what he added.
Copy !req
4519. The score was different because
the movie was different.
Copy !req
4520. It was probably the first one
that really, to me,
Copy !req
4521. felt like, "WOW!
Copy !req
4522. This has turned into
an actual movie.
Copy !req
4523. Over the years, it's come up
that, you know, I was doing,
Copy !req
4524. both a horror movie
of "Friday the 13th,"
Copy !req
4525. and also sort of doing
a satirization
Copy !req
4526. of, not so much the "Friday,"
Copy !req
4527. but the kind of slasher movies
in general.
Copy !req
4528. The fact that the characters
reference Jason,
Copy !req
4529. make jokes about it,
Copy !req
4530. I enjoyed,
I thought it was a lot of fun.
Copy !req
4531. Because I've seen
enough horror movies
Copy !req
4532. to know any weirdo wearing
a mask is never friendly.
Copy !req
4533. Happy Friday the 13th.
Copy !req
4534. The object of the game
is to find out
Copy !req
4535. which cabin Jason is in!
Copy !req
4536. What if it's that guy, Jason?
Copy !req
4537. I don't wanna know.
Copy !req
4538. It was real. Just like on TV!
Copy !req
4539. I think we're dead meat.
Copy !req
4540. Sowhat were you gonna be
when you grew up?
Copy !req
4541. Some folks have
a strange idea of entertainment.
Copy !req
4542. It was a way of really
kind of having fun
Copy !req
4543. and involving the fans.
Copy !req
4544. Tommy's very bizarre
sense of humor
Copy !req
4545. really shines through, I think.
Copy !req
4546. But, yet, a fondness.
Copy !req
4547. You know I found out
years later,
Copy !req
4548. meeting Kevin Williamson,
Copy !req
4549. that that did have an influence
on him for "Scream."
Copy !req
4550. Name the killer
in "Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
4551. Jason! Jason! Jason!
Copy !req
4552. Everyone was, you know,
very fun and wholesome kids,
Copy !req
4553. you know, innocent.
Copy !req
4554. For the roles of likeable
camp leaders Darren and Lizbeth,
Copy !req
4555. McLoughlin cast his wife Nancy
Copy !req
4556. and a young actor who would
find out-of-this-world success
Copy !req
4557. after his brief encounter
with Jason.
Copy !req
4558. The big discovery of the movie
was Tony Goldwyn.
Copy !req
4559. "Ghost."
Copy !req
4560. He became famous
for the movie "Ghost."
Copy !req
4561. The thing that Tommy brought him
back to life with
Copy !req
4562. is this spear that he yanked
off of a fence.
Copy !req
4563. So once Jason had that,
Copy !req
4564. he had something to spear both
Tony Goldwyn and Nancy with.
Copy !req
4565. My wife Nancy had a pretty
close call in the movie,
Copy !req
4566. and it was completely
unintended.
Copy !req
4567. She actually almost got impaled
because of the windshield.
Copy !req
4568. It changed the trajectory
of the spear
Copy !req
4569. that Jason was lunging
through the windshield.
Copy !req
4570. I would have been speared,
and it missed me by a speck.
Copy !req
4571. I mean they could
only do it once.
Copy !req
4572. It was really scary.
Copy !req
4573. And then there was obviously
the times
Copy !req
4574. where somebody
tries to reason with him.
Copy !req
4575. Please! Take anything!
Copy !req
4576. You know,
as Nancy does in her scene,
Copy !req
4577. tries to offer him,
Copy !req
4578. money and credit cards
and stuff.
Copy !req
4579. My head was submerged,
literally in the mud,
Copy !req
4580. literally with a vice.
Copy !req
4581. And they gave me a regulator
Copy !req
4582. thinking that would
keep me well.
Copy !req
4583. Well, apparently regulators
don't work in the mud,
Copy !req
4584. so the mud's creeping down
my throat.
Copy !req
4585. The American Express card
Copy !req
4586. was another thing that I knew
Copy !req
4587. the way audiences
responded in those days,
Copy !req
4588. that when that card floated,
Copy !req
4589. there would always be some joker
in the back of the theatre
Copy !req
4590. that would go,
"Don't leave home without it!"
Copy !req
4591. And everybody would laugh.
Copy !req
4592. They say that there's
always a reason
Copy !req
4593. that Jason kills someone.
Copy !req
4594. What did I do?
Copy !req
4595. I mean, I was driving.
I wasn't having sex.
Copy !req
4596. I mean, I was with a guy but we
were doing nothing,
Copy !req
4597. so it's curious
as to why we were killed.
Copy !req
4598. I've never figured that one out.
Copy !req
4599. Jason has no bias.
Copy !req
4600. If you were in his territory,
fair game.
Copy !req
4601. To establish a new look
for Crystal Lake...
Copy !req
4602. Now rechristened Forest Green...
Copy !req
4603. McLoughlin took his cast
and crew to rural Georgia,
Copy !req
4604. where they soon discovered
some interesting local pastimes.
Copy !req
4605. The big thing for the kids to
do on Friday nights
Copy !req
4606. was a big parking lot,
Copy !req
4607. and they would just drive
around in this circle
Copy !req
4608. and drive this loop,
Copy !req
4609. and that was the big thing
to do at night.
Copy !req
4610. But it was kind of remote
and sort of out of it,
Copy !req
4611. kind of not cozy,
for lack of a better word.
Copy !req
4612. The camp we shot at,
Daniel Morgan,
Copy !req
4613. actually was the site also of
the movies
Copy !req
4614. "Little Darlings,"
and "Poiison lvy."
Copy !req
4615. 6 was a lot more fun to do
than 5.
Copy !req
4616. I think everybody else
was happy.
Copy !req
4617. You had Tom McLoughlin,
who I think is a real director.
Copy !req
4618. It really was like a family.
Copy !req
4619. When you film something
on location,
Copy !req
4620. you tend to get to know
the cast and crew a lot better
Copy !req
4621. than you would if you
were filming at a movie studio
Copy !req
4622. where you get to go home
every night.
Copy !req
4623. It's not love, it's location
because everybody...
Copy !req
4624. I was the den mother, and they'd
come with these huge crushes.
Copy !req
4625. She was great.
She took care of everybody.
Copy !req
4626. She was mothering everyone
from the beginning.
Copy !req
4627. Absolutely. I'm glad
she survived the movie.
Copy !req
4628. Because that spear could have
gone right through her.
Copy !req
4629. By a Speck!
Copy !req
4630. I just had such fun.
Copy !req
4631. I mean, it's like
a big improvisation.
Copy !req
4632. With Tom's words.
Copy !req
4633. He was filming a film
that took place in a camp,
Copy !req
4634. and it was like he was running
a camp for wayward actors.
Copy !req
4635. Despite the congenial,
family-like atmosphere,
Copy !req
4636. not everyone supported the
director's artistic aspirations
Copy !req
4637. for the film.
Copy !req
4638. There was a man who, Don Behrns,
Copy !req
4639. who was a little on the
cheap side.
Copy !req
4640. The first horror film
I ever worked on
Copy !req
4641. was "Halloween 1
Copy !req
4642. which nobody ever knew
was going to be
Copy !req
4643. the big success that it was.
Copy !req
4644. He, you know, certainly
had a past with doing, you know,
Copy !req
4645. horror movies and things so he
seemed like the right candidate.
Copy !req
4646. And, at the time, you know,
he made me very angry
Copy !req
4647. because as the writer/director,
you know, you had a vision.
Copy !req
4648. Everything was nickel and
diming, nickel and diming.
Copy !req
4649. If I wanted a crane shot
for this,
Copy !req
4650. or I wanted this for this,
Copy !req
4651. and many times I showed up
on the set,
Copy !req
4652. and it's like, "Where is it?"
Copy !req
4653. It's like, "Oh, yeah.
I forgot to tell you."
Copy !req
4654. You know I wanted to kill him.
Copy !req
4655. He said, "By any chance,
you got a deal with Frank,
Copy !req
4656. do you get a bonus for getting
this picture done on time?"
Copy !req
4657. I said, "Yes, I do."
Copy !req
4658. At the end of the day, you know,
Copy !req
4659. every time
you have a restriction,
Copy !req
4660. you have to come up
with something else.
Copy !req
4661. And lots of times you come up
with something better.
Copy !req
4662. By the time cameras rolled
in January 1986,
Copy !req
4663. McLoughlin had surrounded
himself with a loyal crew
Copy !req
4664. and a likeable ensemble cast,
Copy !req
4665. several of whom were recruited
from his comedy and mime days.
Copy !req
4666. Tom McLoughlin wanted to
cast experienced actors
Copy !req
4667. in the first scene
that he shot in this movie
Copy !req
4668. because he wanted to be
ahead of schedule.
Copy !req
4669. It was a fairly complicated
scene.
Copy !req
4670. We were all being beheaded.
Copy !req
4671. I knew Tom
from the LA Mime Company.
Copy !req
4672. He was the director
of the LA Mime Company,
Copy !req
4673. and I was a mime in there.
Copy !req
4674. And when he was going to do
this film,
Copy !req
4675. he talked to me.
Copy !req
4676. "Well, I have a part
I'd like you to do."
Copy !req
4677. And I said, "Oh, great.
Do I get killed?"
Copy !req
4678. He said, "Yes."
Copy !req
4679. We actually were playing
paintball, and it really hurts.
Copy !req
4680. After I got off a great shot,
Copy !req
4681. I made the men put on headbands
that said "Dead."
Copy !req
4682. Don't be spoilsports.
Put on your headbands.
Copy !req
4683. A foreshadowing
of things to come.
Copy !req
4684. One of my favorite kills in 6
Copy !req
4685. was the sort of misogynist guy
with the machete
Copy !req
4686. who has the machete,
and he's hacking the branches
Copy !req
4687. and complaining about
women should, you know,
Copy !req
4688. stay in the kitchen.
Copy !req
4689. She should've stayed in the
kitchen where she belongs!
Copy !req
4690. A woman shouldn't
even be allowed in these games!
Copy !req
4691. And then Jason grabs his arm
and throws him against the tree,
Copy !req
4692. and he winds up hitting the tree
Copy !req
4693. and his head goes back,
Copy !req
4694. and there's like a bloody
smiley face on the tree,
Copy !req
4695. and you see Jason holding his
arm that's been severed
Copy !req
4696. from the rest of his body.
Copy !req
4697. And then it was a question
of going,
Copy !req
4698. Okay, you know,
we've seen decapitations,
Copy !req
4699. you know, how do we take it
one more step?
Copy !req
4700. Okay, let's do three in one.
Copy !req
4701. You know, so that three heads
went at the same time.
Copy !req
4702. Jim Gill, who now runs
Reel Effects,
Copy !req
4703. did this really cool gag where
Copy !req
4704. as the idea was
as we passed the machete
Copy !req
4705. across the three
artificial dummies,
Copy !req
4706. a trip mechanism would
perfectly send the heads off
Copy !req
4707. at the right time.
Copy !req
4708. It was really authentic,
really excellent.
Copy !req
4709. Then we made the legs so they
would buckle at the knees
Copy !req
4710. and collapse out of frame.
Copy !req
4711. A lot of work went into that.
Copy !req
4712. And the rating system
made them cut that back.
Copy !req
4713. The head was so realistic.
Copy !req
4714. The eyes,
I had more hair at the time.
Copy !req
4715. It wasn't
until the first screening
Copy !req
4716. about two minutes
before that scene came on
Copy !req
4717. and someone on the crew
leaned forward
Copy !req
4718. and tapped me on the shoulder
and said,
Copy !req
4719. "By the way, the triple
decapitation has been edited out
Copy !req
4720. because of the ratings."
Copy !req
4721. And I'm like, "What?"
Copy !req
4722. Just as I turned back to watch
the machete go up,
Copy !req
4723. and I think you see the bodies
crumple by frame,
Copy !req
4724. and I remember thinking,
"Wow. What a shame."
Copy !req
4725. When he fires the paintball
thing to Jason,
Copy !req
4726. and Jason looks down,
Copy !req
4727. I thought that was like
really, really funny.
Copy !req
4728. You see me running away,
Copy !req
4729. and Jason following me
with the machete, and I'm going,
Copy !req
4730. "Help, help, help."
Copy !req
4731. He's gonna kill me!
Copy !req
4732. And then they cut away,
Copy !req
4733. and nothing is ever said
about Roy until later.
Copy !req
4734. "Did you find Roy?"
And the went, "Yeah."
Copy !req
4735. And they pull out an arm,
and my glasses and parts of Roy.
Copy !req
4736. I'll order up some body bags.
Copy !req
4737. There were the kids
Copy !req
4738. and then there was
the Sheriff's assistant... me,
Copy !req
4739. Deputy Rick Cologne.
Copy !req
4740. And my mail order laser scope
Copy !req
4741. which, you know, as you see
where the movie takes place,
Copy !req
4742. it had to be mail order.
Copy !req
4743. There was not
a whole lot of places to go
Copy !req
4744. and buy that kind of thing.
Copy !req
4745. Wherever the red dot goes...
ya bang!
Copy !req
4746. Trying to find a cemetery
that would allow us to shoot,
Copy !req
4747. even though we were calling
the movie Aladdin Sane.
Copy !req
4748. 'Cause that was the whole thing,
Copy !req
4749. we did not want to say
we were "Friday the 13th."
Copy !req
4750. Old Madison Cemetery,
where we finally got permission,
Copy !req
4751. and we had one area where we
could drive the truck in there
Copy !req
4752. 90 miles an hour
over the train tracks
Copy !req
4753. and into there.
Copy !req
4754. There was an entrance made
Copy !req
4755. so it looked like the front
of the cemetery.
Copy !req
4756. And then the rest of it
was staying on the paths
Copy !req
4757. until the point
where he gets tackled
Copy !req
4758. and then that was kind of
a bare area.
Copy !req
4759. But like anything else
in movies,
Copy !req
4760. you're given permission
to do something,
Copy !req
4761. and you try to make the best
out of what you're given.
Copy !req
4762. Echoing the behind-the-scenes
controversies of "Part 2,"
Copy !req
4763. the original stuntman
hired to play Jason
Copy !req
4764. was replaced during
the early days of production.
Copy !req
4765. Originally we had
a stunt coordinator
Copy !req
4766. who was also playing Jason,
which is Dan Bradley.
Copy !req
4767. We started the movie doing
all the daytime sequences,
Copy !req
4768. all the things with
the paintballers and stuff,
Copy !req
4769. and so all that was Dan
as Jason.
Copy !req
4770. And Paramount,
when they got the dailies,
Copy !req
4771. somehow - and I don't even know
whose decision it was
Copy !req
4772. because I was busy shooting,
Copy !req
4773. said that we're making a change.
Copy !req
4774. "What do you mean?"
Copy !req
4775. "We're getting
a different Jason."
Copy !req
4776. "Why?"Just trust us,
we need to do this."
Copy !req
4777. I remember that Dan didn't,
apparently,
Copy !req
4778. didn't look that good on screen.
Copy !req
4779. Apparently had put on
a few pounds.
Copy !req
4780. For a person who had been dead
for a long time,
Copy !req
4781. he had been eating pretty well.
Copy !req
4782. It was devastating to me.
Copy !req
4783. It was certainly devastating
to Dan,
Copy !req
4784. and I, you know,
Copy !req
4785. as I said
I just was really leery
Copy !req
4786. about who was going to walk
in that door.
Copy !req
4787. And, you know, 'm comes (I)
Copy !req
4788. who had really
little or no experience.
Copy !req
4789. He was large and imposing,
and that's what they wanted.
Copy !req
4790. Cd was huge.
Copy !req
4791. He looked the part,
but he was a gentle giant.
Copy !req
4792. So, frankly,
when he was grabbing people
Copy !req
4793. and chasing us
through the woods,
Copy !req
4794. we had to do a lot of acting
Copy !req
4795. because he just wasn't
that scary in person.
Copy !req
4796. He didn't want
too much of a zombie,
Copy !req
4797. but he wanted that fear,
that anger,
Copy !req
4798. and the projection had to be
through the body,
Copy !req
4799. 100% through the body.
Copy !req
4800. Just a simplistic little
movement would create fear.
Copy !req
4801. I pray the lord my soul to keep.
Copy !req
4802. If I should die before I wake
Copy !req
4803. Many of those small,
little physical nuances
Copy !req
4804. definitely helped add, you know,
Copy !req
4805. that sense that, you know,
there was a machine in there,
Copy !req
4806. like Terminator.
Copy !req
4807. But at the same time you had to
give a little bit of that
Copy !req
4808. human thought process
so you didn't become robotic.
Copy !req
4809. Ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma
Copy !req
4810. I remember my first scene,
my very, very first scene.
Copy !req
4811. It was a back shot.
Me walking towards the trailer.
Copy !req
4812. Where Jason sees
the Winnebago moving,
Copy !req
4813. and he kind of tilts his head
in a humorous sort of way.
Copy !req
4814. You know, he wants to understand
Copy !req
4815. what the noise is about,
why the mobile home is rocking.
Copy !req
4816. You're the best!
Copy !req
4817. During my love scene,
Copy !req
4818. they had a little powwow
and said,
Copy !req
4819. "We don't have any nudity
in this."
Copy !req
4820. so they asked me if I'd be
interested in doing it topless.
Copy !req
4821. The contracts had been signed,
Copy !req
4822. so that just didn't seem
to pan out.
Copy !req
4823. The best part about working with
all the actors and actresses
Copy !req
4824. that I worked for is we had
a great camaraderie.
Copy !req
4825. They trusted me
which was a great feeling.
Copy !req
4826. I'm walking by the bathroom
of the Winnebago,
Copy !req
4827. and Jason comes out
of the bathroom,
Copy !req
4828. grabs me from behind,
slams the door
Copy !req
4829. and there I have
this amazing fight with him.
Copy !req
4830. And I'm this little tiny person,
Copy !req
4831. and I really gave it my all
and fought with him.
Copy !req
4832. I mean, I had to take
a young lady's face
Copy !req
4833. and slam it into a camera lens
with force.
Copy !req
4834. Slammed it through the wall
of the Winnebago
Copy !req
4835. where the imprint
of my face came out.
Copy !req
4836. And how they actually did that
is they filmed it underwater,
Copy !req
4837. and they shot it in slow mo,
Copy !req
4838. getting... pushing through this
piece of plastic underwater.
Copy !req
4839. John Travolta's nephew,
Copy !req
4840. who's driving the RV,
Jason comes behind him.
Copy !req
4841. And the way the guy's rocking
out, and listening to music
Copy !req
4842. and looks up and all that.
Copy !req
4843. Hey, Nikki what are you
doing back there, taking a dump?
Copy !req
4844. And we're driving along
and up until
Copy !req
4845. the slamming of the knife
into the side of his head,
Copy !req
4846. it's a real knife.
Copy !req
4847. I mean, and he's trusting me,
Copy !req
4848. and I'm wearing a hockey mask,
Copy !req
4849. and I'm not just taking
a cheap shot of force.
Copy !req
4850. I'm throwing that knife
towards his head.
Copy !req
4851. Stein-stein-stein-stein-stein
Copy !req
4852. But then that iconic thing
with that big crash
Copy !req
4853. and then Jason on top of the RV
Copy !req
4854. with the fire in the background.
Copy !req
4855. Literally the last shot
of the film.
Copy !req
4856. The sun was coming up.
Copy !req
4857. I was on my knees praying
Copy !req
4858. that this guy wasn't
going to get killed doing this
Copy !req
4859. because nobody had ever flipped
an RV like that before.
Copy !req
4860. And I guess, what I heard later
Copy !req
4861. is that our production manager,
Don,
Copy !req
4862. wanted the swamp cooler
that was up on top of that.
Copy !req
4863. He had little special deals
for himself,
Copy !req
4864. and one of the special deals,
my understanding is,
Copy !req
4865. he had this swamp cooler that
he pulled aside...
Copy !req
4866. $5,000 swamp cooler.
Copy !req
4867. Well, apparently some people
got wind of that
Copy !req
4868. and got a little excited.
Copy !req
4869. And they all marched over there,
Copy !req
4870. and they tied it
to the top of the RV.
Copy !req
4871. And when the thing flew and hit,
Copy !req
4872. the first thing to fly off
was that swamp cooler, you know.
Copy !req
4873. And as it exploded,
Copy !req
4874. the cheers that went up,
and the excitement over
Copy !req
4875. "We got him. We got him."
Copy !req
4876. It was worth
every penny-pinching moment.
Copy !req
4877. The car chase scenes
were really fun,
Copy !req
4878. and I was pretty comfortable
doing those
Copy !req
4879. because, I must admit, my first
car when I was 16 years old
Copy !req
4880. was a 1970 Firebird
Copy !req
4881. that looked a lot
like Megan's car.
Copy !req
4882. This is gonna be a hairy turn.
Copy !req
4883. They were just looking for a guy
to play a cop.
Copy !req
4884. Officer Pappas
was a little vain.
Copy !req
4885. Come on, handsome.
Copy !req
4886. And I got to say one of
my favorite lines...
Copy !req
4887. You got a description
of the plates?
Copy !req
4888. I got the whole enchilada.
Copy !req
4889. "I've got the whole enchilada."
Copy !req
4890. Megan, step out of the car.
Copy !req
4891. End of the line.
Copy !req
4892. As Tommy is locked up
by Sheriff Garris,
Copy !req
4893. Jason's primal instincts lead
him back to Camp Forest Green.
Copy !req
4894. One of the other sort
of notorious aspects
Copy !req
4895. of my "Friday,"
Copy !req
4896. it's the only one that actually
has kids at the camp.
Copy !req
4897. And I don't think
there was anybody in fandom
Copy !req
4898. that wanted Jason
to kill children.
Copy !req
4899. It just gave it, to me,
another level of "Oh my God.
Copy !req
4900. Are they going to actually show
kids getting killed?"
Copy !req
4901. Tom spent more time
shooting the kids
Copy !req
4902. and working on
their performances
Copy !req
4903. in a lot of ways than he did
on the kills
Copy !req
4904. that were going on in the movie.
Copy !req
4905. One of the little girls
in the bed,
Copy !req
4906. she's laying there
and all of a sudden
Copy !req
4907. Jason's walking down the aisle
Copy !req
4908. and leans down to the bed
Copy !req
4909. and looks closely and tilts
his head looking at her.
Copy !req
4910. And she just starts praying
that he's going to go away.
Copy !req
4911. I named the little girl Nancy,
actually after my wife Nancy
Copy !req
4912. because she sort of
represented to me
Copy !req
4913. the sweet, innocent child
Copy !req
4914. who believes
that if you're good,
Copy !req
4915. God's going to protect you.
Copy !req
4916. And there's been the other rumor
Copy !req
4917. which is it was named
after Nancy
Copy !req
4918. from "Nightmare on Elm Street"
Copy !req
4919. who also had nightmares,
but that's not true.
Copy !req
4920. I mean... but again,
if that works, we'll take it.
Copy !req
4921. Jason can just about do anything
as far as strength.
Copy !req
4922. There's a scene where he takes
one of the girls,
Copy !req
4923. the camp girl's head,
and twists it off.
Copy !req
4924. You know, some of that stuff
unfortunately
Copy !req
4925. had to be cut way, way down
from the way we had shot it.
Copy !req
4926. But everything I tried to do
in the movie
Copy !req
4927. also was something
that you couldn't do
Copy !req
4928. as a normal human being.
Copy !req
4929. Kerry's character
was hopefully shocking
Copy !req
4930. how badly she got it
Copy !req
4931. and most of that
was your imagination
Copy !req
4932. because you didn't
actually see it.
Copy !req
4933. But you certainly saw
the bloody aftermath.
Copy !req
4934. I remember the little girl
that runs out,
Copy !req
4935. and she's in the woods,
Copy !req
4936. and she's scared
and, myself as the policeman,
Copy !req
4937. goes to calm her down
and tell her everything's okay.
Copy !req
4938. What scary man?
Copy !req
4939. Of course,
everything's not okay.
Copy !req
4940. That's just before Jason
crushes my head.
Copy !req
4941. They did build a great head
where the brains popped out.
Copy !req
4942. I guess the fans were
a little bit disappointed
Copy !req
4943. that some of my death was cut
by the MPAA.
Copy !req
4944. And then I come into the scene,
and I'm looking for Jason,
Copy !req
4945. and I trip over something,
and I fall down,
Copy !req
4946. and my face goes right up
against his face.
Copy !req
4947. And that's where the sheriff
takes a shot with the shotgun.
Copy !req
4948. Blows me back.
Copy !req
4949. Takes another shot,
blows me back.
Copy !req
4950. You can blast him a number
of times and knock him down.
Copy !req
4951. He's laying there,
Copy !req
4952. and, as far as I was concerned,
he's playing possum
Copy !req
4953. you know, just to mess with you.
Copy !req
4954. One of the things that turned
out wildly effective
Copy !req
4955. was the back cracking
of the sheriff character.
Copy !req
4956. They dug a hole
and those weren't my legs.
Copy !req
4957. They had a guy head down
in the thing,
Copy !req
4958. in the hole,
with his legs behind me.
Copy !req
4959. And when I bent him up,
all he did was lift himself up
Copy !req
4960. from a box in the ground.
Copy !req
4961. And the idea is the actor gets
cracked backed by Jason.
Copy !req
4962. Just that whole idea of bending
somebody all the way back,
Copy !req
4963. and, you know, hearing all this
Copy !req
4964. A little sound design,
a little screaming.
Copy !req
4965. It all turned out great.
Copy !req
4966. Interestingly, that scene
probably had more issues
Copy !req
4967. with the MPAA
than anything else.
Copy !req
4968. And it's a bloodless kill.
Copy !req
4969. They felt
that it was too intense
Copy !req
4970. so they sort of quick cut.
Copy !req
4971. And we to just keep taking
frame after frame after frame
Copy !req
4972. out of that thing.
Copy !req
4973. So that had a huge, you know,
reaction in the audience too
Copy !req
4974. because, again, it wasn't
something you had seen before.
Copy !req
4975. With his undead Jason
on the loose,
Copy !req
4976. McLoughin injected his film
with a new set of rules.
Copy !req
4977. The thing I found
the "Fridays" lacked
Copy !req
4978. in my form of storytelling
Copy !req
4979. was the sense
of some kind of mythology,
Copy !req
4980. some sense of rules.
Copy !req
4981. And if you could somehow
maybe follow those rules,
Copy !req
4982. maybe you can, you know,
save the day.
Copy !req
4983. And it is just like
in ghost legends, you know,
Copy !req
4984. is that, Jason
was never going to be at peace
Copy !req
4985. until he was back
where he drowned as a boy.
Copy !req
4986. And my idea is to somehow
manipulate him
Copy !req
4987. so I can put this noose
around his neck
Copy !req
4988. and drown him with a big rock.
Copy !req
4989. I think he called me a pussy
if I remember correctly.
Copy !req
4990. Jason, come on!
Copy !req
4991. Come on, ya pussy!
Copy !req
4992. And then I give my attention
to Tommy in the water,
Copy !req
4993. and I just go after him.
Copy !req
4994. It's very visual and beautiful.
Copy !req
4995. You've got this fire.
It's really well shot.
Copy !req
4996. Cinematically, it's one of
the more interesting sequences
Copy !req
4997. in any of the "Friday" films.
Copy !req
4998. The scene
where Megan kills Jason
Copy !req
4999. with the outboard motor was shot
in two different places.
Copy !req
5000. All of the underwater scenes
Copy !req
5001. were shot in
a temperature-controlled tank
Copy !req
5002. in Los Angeles
Copy !req
5003. well after we'd filmed
the rest of the movie.
Copy !req
5004. And when I say
they chained me down,
Copy !req
5005. they did chain me down.
Copy !req
5006. I was, I was at the mercy
of the safety divers.
Copy !req
5007. If I needed air, I would signal,
give a hand signal.
Copy !req
5008. The divers would swim in.
Copy !req
5009. They'd lift my mask and put
a regulator right in my mouth.
Copy !req
5010. All of the above-the-water
scenes
Copy !req
5011. were shot in this murky,
eerie lake
Copy !req
5012. in the middle-of-nowhere
Georgia,
Copy !req
5013. in the middle of the night.
Copy !req
5014. So, that was terrible.
Copy !req
5015. I believe we shot
in Tom McLoughlin's
Copy !req
5016. father's swimming pool
after the fact,
Copy !req
5017. of the motor,
the blade from the motor,
Copy !req
5018. cutting Jason's mask,
and the blood coming out.
Copy !req
5019. Jason has, you know,
obviously lived
Copy !req
5020. far beyond
anybody's expectations
Copy !req
5021. because even when I
was doing the film,
Copy !req
5022. it was pretty much,
Copy !req
5023. "Well, I think this is probably
going to be the last one,
Copy !req
5024. and so just have fun with him,
Copy !req
5025. but don't kill him kill him"
Copy !req
5026. which is why I had him,
you know,
Copy !req
5027. hanging there in the bottom.
Copy !req
5028. I mean, you can see
at the end of the movie,
Copy !req
5029. the eye opens up,
Copy !req
5030. and the man behind the mask
is still alive,
Copy !req
5031. and it just sets it up
for the next phase.
Copy !req
5032. As with all
of the previous "Fridays,"
Copy !req
5033. a number of different endings
were suggested,
Copy !req
5034. though none were ever
quite so daring
Copy !req
5035. as Tom McLoughlin's scripted
though never filmed
Copy !req
5036. cliffhanger.
Copy !req
5037. Tom McLoughlin had written
a different ending
Copy !req
5038. where you met Jason's father.
Copy !req
5039. We'd seen Jason's mother.
Copy !req
5040. We understand how messed up
Pamela is.
Copy !req
5041. Well, who marries that woman?
Copy !req
5042. And, really, what did he
have to do with this ultimately?
Copy !req
5043. We don't know who he was,
what he was, or anything.
Copy !req
5044. So I thought it would be
Copy !req
5045. really interesting
at the end of mine to, you know,
Copy !req
5046. have him show up.
Copy !req
5047. In my original script,
the caretaker had not died.
Copy !req
5048. He was still around.
Copy !req
5049. So he was, you know,
it had a kind of an epilogue
Copy !req
5050. with him in the cemetery
and in walks this guy,
Copy !req
5051. kind of an almost Rasputin,
you know,
Copy !req
5052. type character you didn't
get to see too much of,
Copy !req
5053. and you realize
that he's the one
Copy !req
5054. who's been paying the caretaker
Copy !req
5055. to take care of Jason's grave
all these years.
Copy !req
5056. And you now kind of understand
that whatever Jason came from,
Copy !req
5057. you know, the truly wicked side
of him,
Copy !req
5058. was his father.
Copy !req
5059. What I got worried about with
Tom's idea about Jason's father
Copy !req
5060. is that if you sort of dangle
like something like that
Copy !req
5061. at the end of the movie,
Copy !req
5062. all of a sudden
we're trying to tell the story
Copy !req
5063. of a 60-year-old guy,
Copy !req
5064. and how that would sort of
circle back around
Copy !req
5065. into a movie that we could
actually sort of make work.
Copy !req
5066. Frank Mancuso felt that, no,
Copy !req
5067. we don't want to split,
you know,
Copy !req
5068. the attention of the franchise
off on something like that
Copy !req
5069. as cool as it, you know,
the idea might be.
Copy !req
5070. You know, stay with Jason
Copy !req
5071. and probably
he's ultimately right.
Copy !req
5072. The Elias Voorhees character
I think
Copy !req
5073. really would have been
very interesting to visit.
Copy !req
5074. That I think was a bit
of a missed opportunity.
Copy !req
5075. Maybe the people
who didn't like "Part 7"
Copy !req
5076. would have thought that would
have been a better movie.
Copy !req
5077. I don't know. But I was happy
that they actually released
Copy !req
5078. a Signet Pocketbook version
of the movie,
Copy !req
5079. which has, you know, that aspect
in it at the end of it.
Copy !req
5080. In a further attempt
to broaden the film's appeal,
Copy !req
5081. Paramount recruited legendary
shock rocker Alice Cooper
Copy !req
5082. to contribute
three songs to the film.
Copy !req
5083. You don't have to be a genius
to take a look at me
Copy !req
5084. and realize I'm an old rocker
that refuses to die
Copy !req
5085. and so when, all the movies
I always try to put
Copy !req
5086. as much rock music in as I can.
Copy !req
5087. The music score
done by Alice Cooper
Copy !req
5088. was done after the fact,
but it was a very cool thing.
Copy !req
5089. We didn't mind
a little blood on stage,
Copy !req
5090. and a little, you know,
slash here and there.
Copy !req
5091. And so when the slasher movies
came along in the '80s,
Copy !req
5092. all of a sudden
we were right there.
Copy !req
5093. So when it came to writing
for Jason, you know,
Copy !req
5094. Jason's like a member
of the band.
Copy !req
5095. They came to us and they said,
Copy !req
5096. could you write 2 or 3 songs
for the movie,
Copy !req
5097. a couple of incidentals
and a theme.
Copy !req
5098. And I went, "Yeah, absolutely."
Copy !req
5099. Alice was incredible
Copy !req
5100. to just kind of let us use
whatever songs we wanted.
Copy !req
5101. And the song that he came up
with was just huge.
Copy !req
5102. Yeah cuz he's back
Copy !req
5103. He's the man behind the mask
Copy !req
5104. And he's out of control
Copy !req
5105. "The Man Behind the Mask" was
written 3 or 4 different ways.
Copy !req
5106. We wrote a heavy metal version
of it.
Copy !req
5107. And then we wrote sort of
a hard rock version.
Copy !req
5108. And then we realized
at that time
Copy !req
5109. that they were looking
for something
Copy !req
5110. a little more...
Copy !req
5111. a little more bounce to it.
Copy !req
5112. And so we got together
with Kelly
Copy !req
5113. who wrote, I think
"Material Girl" for Madonna,
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5114. and he was the one that came in
with that
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5115. Early test screenings
of "Jason Lives"
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5116. did not fully satisfy
Paramount executives.
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5117. So they decided to enhance
the film's thrill quotient
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5118. by increasing its body count.
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5119. And I do remember
being in meetings
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5120. talking about who can we kill,
how will they get killed.
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5121. And that's where I came in.
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5122. Oh Steven, it's beautiful.
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5123. I am friends with
Tom McLoughlin, the director.
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5124. So I knew him beforehand.
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5125. He had directed my husband
Vinnie Guasterferro,
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5126. who is the deputy,
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5127. and so he hired me to shoot
the scene we did.
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5128. We shot that at Griffith Park
here in LA.
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5129. And he shish-ke-bobs them
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5130. where it puts it
right through the front
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5131. and right through the back.
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5132. I know we weren't the first
shish-ke-bob
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5133. to occur in "Friday the 13th"
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5134. but I think we were the first
on a motor scooter.
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5135. That is probably
our claim to fame.
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5136. Optimistic about
the film's chances
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5137. of playing to a summer audience,
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5138. Paramount Pictures bumped up
its release date
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5139. to August 1, 1986.
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5140. Despite being the only
"Friday the 13th"
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5141. to receive the occasional
positive notice,
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5142. the film failed to capture
the ♪1 spot at the box office,
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5143. falling behind another
high-profile horror sequel,
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5144. James Cameron's "Aliens."
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5145. With a final tally
of $19.5 million
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5146. "Jason Lives" became
the lowest-grossing
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5147. "Friday the 13th" to date.
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5148. And I really think the reason 6
didn't do well
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5149. is not because 6 is not as good,
if not better,
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5150. but the fans
didn't really come back
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5151. because they felt so ripped off
by 5.
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5152. And then when they began
to see 6 on video,
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5153. that got them back
into the series
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5154. because they saw that Tom
McLoughlin, more than anybody,
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5155. brought the series back to life.
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5156. I was really happy with
the movie, the way it came out.
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5157. I'm still happy with it. I think
it holds up really well.
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5158. And I sure had fun filming it.
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5159. I never got to go to summer camp
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5160. so it was the closest
I ever got.
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5161. And I thought Tom did
a really good job on that movie.
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5162. I thought that he brought
a lightness to it,
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5163. a fun-ness to it.
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5164. He had a great sensibility.
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5165. He had a real appreciation
of the movies.
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5166. And as a result, we had a lot
of very good reviews on the film
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5167. because they said,
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5168. "Well, you can't really
hate a movie
Copy !req
5169. that is making fun of itself."
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5170. Yet, you know,
for most of the fans,
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5171. it still delivered, you know,
what a "Friday" should deliver.
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5172. By the late 1980s, Paramount
was looking for new ways
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5173. to exploit their most lucrative
franchises.
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5174. To the dismay of its critics,
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5175. "Friday the 13th"
would soon be coming
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5176. to television.
Copy !req
5177. Mel Harris, who was at the time
head of Paramount Television,
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5178. came to me and he said,
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5179. you know, "We're having a very
successful syndication run
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5180. with "Star Trek."
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5181. We want to try to identify
some other titles
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5182. that we control that we think
will bring an audience.
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5183. Just by virtue of the title."
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5184. It was essential that we found
a way to tell stories
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5185. that would have a kind of
"Friday the 13th" theme
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5186. without being directly
associated
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5187. with "Friday the 13th."
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5188. And he said, "Look, this has
nothing to do with the movies.
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5189. It could be anything
that you want.
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5190. It just has to be
"Friday the 13th,"
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5191. and you have to be involved."
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5192. I remember when I was a kid
going...
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5193. Doing like the 11:00
monster movies, and it's like,
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5194. you know, kind of freaks you out
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5195. and then you gotta go to sleep.
Copy !req
5196. What I need
is a Vampira cocktail
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5197. to settle my nerves.
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5198. It will not only settle them,
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5199. it will petrify them.
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5200. And that's kind of the dynamic
that I was looking for.
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5201. With only a title to work with,
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5202. Mancuso and co-creator
Larry B. Williams
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5203. began brainstorming a premise
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5204. that could sustain itself
in the world
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5205. of late-night
syndicated television.
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5206. Like the films themselves,
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5207. "Friday the 13th: The Series"
had to be made cheap.
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5208. And it had to be scary.
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5209. And I was kind of intent
on doing an anthology
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5210. with continuing characters,
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5211. so we started talking about
the notion of a curio shop
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5212. and what that would be like.
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5213. And then the idea
of it being cursed
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5214. and then we started saying,
"Well, you know,
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5215. if we had all these
cursed objects,
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5216. then we can go ahead and have
a great time with that."
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5217. So that really became the sort
of the core of the show.
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5218. Frank's plan with "The Series"
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5219. is that all these antiques
were cursed,
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5220. but they all could actually
service you
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5221. in something really good,
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5222. but there's always
a price to pay.
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5223. The allure of the object
that is cursed
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5224. and the things that happen
to people
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5225. with that object
in their possession
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5226. is really a terrific idea.
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5227. And it was a terrific
launching pad
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5228. for really some... some really
fascinating storytelling.
Copy !req
5229. Lewis Vendredi
made a deal with the devil
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5230. to sell cursed antiques.
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5231. But he broke the pact,
and it cost him his soul...
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5232. Distributed by Paramount
Domestic Syndication,
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5233. "Friday the 13th: The Series"
debuted on September 28, 1987.
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5234. It told the story of cousins
Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster
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5235. who inherit an antique store
from a distant uncle
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5236. who sold his soul to the devil.
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5237. Aided by antiquities expert
Jack Marshak,
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5238. their quest was to retrieve
the cursed objects
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5239. before obsession and death
came to those who acquired them.
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5240. I'd been out in Los Angeles
for three years
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5241. and got an audition
for this television series.
Copy !req
5242. It all just happened very fast.
Copy !req
5243. Went in for a wardrobe fitting
and was on a plane to Toronto.
Copy !req
5244. Robey, John LeMay and
Chris Wiggins were a dream cast.
Copy !req
5245. Chris is a senior emeritus
honored Canadian actor,
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5246. and it surprised us when we
asked him to join the cast
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5247. and he said yes.
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5248. So they wanted to shoot like
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5249. this little pilot kind of thing,
which I directed,
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5250. and, you know,
it was very contained,
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5251. very small, and, you know, we
probably did it for $85.
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5252. I have no time for you!
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5253. But it communicated what we
were meant to communicate
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5254. which is that, you know,
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5255. it's going to be scary,
it's going to be spooky,
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5256. it's going to be tense.
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5257. With not a single episode
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5258. featuring an appearance
by Jason,
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5259. or even his cursed hockey mask,
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5260. many "Friday the 13th" fans
felt alienated.
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5261. And even cheated by its
television counterpart.
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5262. The only thing
that the television series
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5263. "Friday the 13th" and the movies
"Friday the 13th" had in common
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5264. was the title
and Frank Mancuso, Jr.
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5265. While "Friday the 13th"
as a title was a come-on,
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5266. we really felt that there
was something there.
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5267. There is no concept
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5268. that could have sustained itself
on television
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5269. with a slasher killer
on the loose
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5270. anywhere for the 76 episodes
that were subsequently made.
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5271. I really wish they would have
called it "Friday's Curse."
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5272. Which was the original
intention.
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5273. In Europe it was called
"Friday's Curse,"
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5274. and in Canada it was called
"Friday's Curse" as well.
Copy !req
5275. It was set up in Canada
and I was producing the show.
Copy !req
5276. And it was
a fascinating experience.
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5277. And we got like Atom Egoyan
to do one.
Copy !req
5278. David Cronenberg did one.
Copy !req
5279. David Cronenberg brought that
terrific kind of
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5280. laser-like focus on a theme
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5281. which so totally fit into
the storytelling notions
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5282. of "Friday the 13th."
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5283. And it was wonderful.
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5284. It was also great
to work with David
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5285. who's a fabulous director.
Copy !req
5286. Frank asked me about being
story editor
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5287. because they had a story editor
up in Toronto
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5288. where they were doing the show,
and, you know,
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5289. wanted me to write and direct,
you know,
Copy !req
5290. some episodes as well.
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5291. "Master of Disguise,"
I thought was a great idea
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5292. basically having, you know,
a makeup case that, you know,
Copy !req
5293. could take somebody who was
really deformed
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5294. and, you know, you'd kill
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5295. and then you would sop up
the blood of the victim
Copy !req
5296. and then he was as handsome
as like a James Bond.
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5297. And because it was syndication,
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5298. we literally never got a note
from anybody about anything.
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5299. I mean, I don't know that
anybody
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5300. even looked at the shows.
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5301. I mean, it was like literally
they just went out.
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5302. So if I wanted to do it
in black and white,
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5303. it was black and white.
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5304. If I wanted to do a two-parter,
you did a two-parter.
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5305. I mean, it was like literally
whatever we decided to do.
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5306. "Friday the 13th,"
the new television series
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5307. that has put real fright
into late night.
Copy !req
5308. "Friday The 13th: The Series"
was a bona fide ratings hit.
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5309. Often ranking just behind
Paramount's
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5310. top-rated "Star Trek:
The Next Generation."
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5311. After two successful seasons,
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5312. actor John LeMay
decided to leave the show
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5313. to pursue other opportunities.
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5314. The thing that was the most
interesting of a challenge
Copy !req
5315. was the third season,
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5316. Frank asked me if I would
write and direct
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5317. for the season premiere.
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5318. And he said, "You know, we need
to kill the Ryan character
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5319. because he wants to get off
the show,
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5320. and but don't kill him in a way
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5321. that we can't bring him back
if he changes his mind.
Copy !req
5322. And I got turned back
into a child
Copy !req
5323. at the end of my two-year stint
on the show.
Copy !req
5324. It was a grand and glorious
two hour episode.
Copy !req
5325. It was a way of basically
taking him off the show
Copy !req
5326. and, if you wanted
to bring him back, you could.
Copy !req
5327. When LeMay was replaced in
the third season opener
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5328. by actor Steven Monarque
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5329. as streetwise Johnny Ventura
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5330. "The Series" lost not only
its leading man,
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5331. but its luster.
Copy !req
5332. Once Ryan got turned into
a little boy,
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5333. Johnny Ventura had to take over
that spot.
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5334. Johnny“.
Copy !req
5335. Johnny was the cousin of Ryan.
Copy !req
5336. He was a little bit more
of a blue-collar kid.
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5337. I don't think he was afraid
of fighting
Copy !req
5338. and physically getting involved
with saving the day.
Copy !req
5339. "Friday the 13th"
and "Nightmare on Elm Street"
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5340. were head-to-head in terms
of their television experience.
Copy !req
5341. "Freddy's Nightmares" was always
a somewhat more lighthearted,
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5342. tongue-in-cheek
kind of a television series.
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5343. I think the makers
of "Friday the 13th"
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5344. always wanted it to be dark,
Copy !req
5345. always wanted it
serious quality.
Copy !req
5346. Because the show
got good reviews,
Copy !req
5347. and the show was successful,
Copy !req
5348. the people at Paramount said,
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5349. "If we can get X dollars
at 11:00,
Copy !req
5350. if we move it to 10:00
we can even get more."
Copy !req
5351. So they moved it to 10:00
in year two.
Copy !req
5352. And all of a sudden it's like
even more successful.
Copy !req
5353. They said, "You know what?
Copy !req
5354. Let's start putting it on
at 7:00, 8:00, you know,
Copy !req
5355. whatever it is.
Copy !req
5356. They start moving it.
Copy !req
5357. So now, all of a sudden,
Copy !req
5358. different kinds of people
are watching.
Copy !req
5359. No longer is it
the last thing that you see
Copy !req
5360. before you go to bed at night.
Copy !req
5361. Now it's like, it's on at 7:00.
Copy !req
5362. They stopped the clock, Lewis!
Copy !req
5363. Here you are,
sitting at home, eating dinner
Copy !req
5364. and all of a sudden this,
you know,
Copy !req
5365. splat thriller
comes on the tube.
Copy !req
5366. I think, you know, as a parent
Copy !req
5367. it would catch me
by surprise, too.
Copy !req
5368. And with Paramount
boldly pushing the show
Copy !req
5369. into primetime slots,
"Friday the 13th: The Series"
Copy !req
5370. soon came under fire from
right-wing religious groups
Copy !req
5371. who were less than enthused
about a show
Copy !req
5372. involving black magic
and pacts with the devil.
Copy !req
5373. I think when I came in
at the time,
Copy !req
5374. people were already
not liking he show.
Copy !req
5375. There was already this force
trying to get it off the air.
Copy !req
5376. So this guy, Donald Wildmon,
Copy !req
5377. who had like this kind of
Christian Coalition group
Copy !req
5378. started squawking about
"Friday the 13th"
Copy !req
5379. because it started
to get recognized.
Copy !req
5380. He's talking about Jason.
Copy !req
5381. He's talking about,
you know, all this stuff.
Copy !req
5382. I'm saying, this guy's never
even seen one of the shows.
Copy !req
5383. What's at stake here?
Copy !req
5384. Western civilization
as we've known it
Copy !req
5385. for two thousand years.
Copy !req
5386. We kind of all laughed him off
in the beginning.
Copy !req
5387. But, you know, you get somebody
like that who calls and says,
Copy !req
5388. "Yeah, I got 555,000
constituents,
Copy !req
5389. and they're not going to buy
Proctor & Gamble products
Copy !req
5390. if you continue to put your ads
on this show."
Copy !req
5391. All of a sudden
it's not so funny anymore.
Copy !req
5392. I was sad that it ended
that quickly.
Copy !req
5393. You know I really wanted to do
at least another year or two
Copy !req
5394. because I was just finally
getting my feet wet.
Copy !req
5395. It's amazing how our culture
has changed in 20 years
Copy !req
5396. and how permissive and pervasive
violence, in particular,
Copy !req
5397. is on TV,
Copy !req
5398. and how much it's just
taken for granted,
Copy !req
5399. that it's just
going to be there.
Copy !req
5400. So, yeah, it was sad because
we did, what, 73 hours
Copy !req
5401. and, you know,
there were some clunkers,
Copy !req
5402. but there were a lot
of really good shows in there.
Copy !req
5403. And, in point of fact,
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5404. when I talk to people
about the television series,
Copy !req
5405. you know, people do
remember it fondly.
Copy !req
5406. But I think a lot of people
Copy !req
5407. who were really big fans
of the series
Copy !req
5408. didn't like the fact
that they stole the name
Copy !req
5409. and tried to sneak a fast one
past everybody
Copy !req
5410. and get them to watch
this hour serial on TV.
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5411. But it was fun. I liked it.
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