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By the end of 1987,

the idea of pitting
"Friday the 13th's” Jason

against “A Nightmare
on Elm Street's" Freddy Krueger

was already quietly circulating
around Hollywood.

Due to complex legal issues

involving the two characters,
however,

it would be another
fifteen years

before fans would see Freddy
and Jason battle to the death.

But that didn't stop executive
producer Frank Mancuso, Jr.

From finding Jason
a formidable foe.

I got kind of energized by 6
a little bit,

and I really wanted that
to tell people,

"Okay, we got your back.

We got Jason back
so it's going to be okay."

And 7, I sort of
backed off again.

I mean, inevitably it had to do
with what else

I was doing at the time.

I was about halfway
into the first season

of "Friday the 13th,”
the television series,

when I got a call
from Frank Mancuso

asking me if I'd like
to come down to Los Angeles

and discuss with him

the possibility of producing
"Friday the 13th Part 7.”

And Frank was in discussion
with John Buechler

to come and direct the film.

Basically I said, "Why?

Didn't they just make 6 of them?

I mean, why would you ever
want to do a “Part 7?”

And I said this in front of
Frank Mancuso,

and my agent was in the room
and both their jaws dropped.

And I think it's because I
didn't want to do it ultimately

that I got the job

because I did want to push it
in a slightly new direction.

John had been
a makeup effects artist.

He directed “Troll”
and a couple of other movies.

He'd come out of
the Charlie Band Empire world

of low-budget horror films.

So he was kind of
a perfect candidate.

Because of my particular
effects background,

I think I was considered
as being

the helmer of the project

because I could bring that
to the table.

Even when it got to “Part 7,”,
I mean,

they weren't costing any money.

So there wasn't any real risk.

Originally titled
“Jason's Destroyer”

the screenplay
written by Daryl Haney

would see Jason face off
against a powerful

though unlikely, new adversary.

Well, obviously
the main difference

in this "Friday the 13th"
was that there was a female foe.

A girl that could just come in
and stand up to Jason.

The synopsis of this movie
would be Carrie Meets Jason,

and, you know, this is a girl

who's got these incredible
telekinetic powers.

The first thing I remember
about getting the script

for "Friday the 13th"
was the fake name on it,

“Birthday Bash,”

and my husband was a huge
"Friday the 13th" fan.

And, he goes,
"This is Friday the 13th.

This is not “Birthday Bash.”
You've got to do this.

Please do it."

And he just begged and begged
and begged for me to do it.

Lar was wonderful,

and I don't think anyone
had really seen Lar

in anything before that.

But she was terrific.

One of the visual inspirations
for me

was an old Hammer film called
“Hands of the Ripper”

where you basically had
a beautiful, little blonde girl

who was Jack the Ripper's
daughter.

That kind of iconistic image

stuck with me and that became
the template for Tina.

I idenfified
with several things of Tina

right off the bat.

She was very vulnerable,

and she... a lot of people are.

They might have an exterior,

but they have a vulnerable
underside.

So Tina evolved from what was
basically a Carrie clone

with different baggage,
of course.

"Part 7" once again
opens at Crystal Lake,

where a young Tina Shepherd

first unleashes her powerful
telekinetic abilities.

My daughter, played by
Jennifer Banko,

had these special powers,

and my husband, John Otrin,
would beat me up constantly,

a horrible alcoholic.

Please, don't drink anymore!

Don't tell me what to do! (slap)

That's all I knew.

It was an abusive father.

And my little daughter
was able to cause his demise.

One day she just,
she's had enough,

and she accidentally with her
telekinetic powers

kills her dad.

She goes, "I hate you, Daddy."

I hate you!
I wish you were dead!

You know, I remember
I did that little

And the next thing I know,

the pier falls right into
the water, and I die.

But it was amazing

because we had to do
multiple shots,

and the bridge would shake
and it would collapse,

and then it would
put itself back together,

and we'd start from one.

After spending years
in a mental hospital,

17-year-old Tina
returns to Crystal Lake

to face her past...
and to exorcise her demons.

You didn't know
what Tina was capable of,

and she didn't know
what she was capable of.

I always had a sense that
what if she got too upset

and hurt someone that she loved
around her again.

Because you weren't really sure
what she was thinking,

and she couldn't control it.

Sometimes it happens
and sometimes it doesn't happen!

And you're lying to me!

Her adversary,
up until the end, is not Jason.

It is her doctor
who is trying to exploit her.

Terry Kiser played the doctor.

Terry did “Weekend at Bernie's”
where he played the corpse.

He became huge,
never said a word.

He wants to do
a research document on her.

He takes her to the one place,
Crystal Lake,

where her father
was accidently killed by her

to make her very agitated.

Instead of taking her anger out
on kids at the prom,

basically she takes it out
on the lake,

and she focuses her anger
at the lake,

and the lake starts to bubble,

and it jump-starts Jason.

Ch-ch-ch-!

Never before
had Jason been played

by the same actor/stuntman
more than once.

All that was about to change.

Enter Kane Hodder.

I had worked with Kane Hodder
on a couple of other films,

one was called "Ghost Town,"

and the other one
was called "Prison,"

and I thought that this might be
the kind of guy

that I would want to play Jason

because he is a coordinator,
he is a stuntman,

and he could perform
under tons of prosthetics

and makeup.

I had been a fan of the movies
for a long time,

a horror fan in general.

Loving the character of Jason,

never having any clue
that I might have a chance

to do it myself.

I kind of went into it
without any real plan.

I wanted to just do
what felt natural.

You don't get the performance.

You don't get the visceral
one-on-one confrontation

if you don't have an actor,

if you don't have somebody
who can perform

through a ton of foam latex
without a single word

and make you know
what he's thinking.

And obviously Kane Hodder
came through with flying colors.

Although the film's
exact timeline remains unclear,

at least 10 years have passed
since the events of "Part 6"

when a supposedly-dead Jason

was left to decompose
at the bottom of Crystal Lake.

Buechler's thoughts were that
he's kind of a rotted corpse,

and the makeup was
real extensive.

Every scar, every rip,
every tear

that Jason ever had
was in the Jason

that we created for “Part 7.”

I looked at things in the past,

and it just kind of seemed like
he was too much of a zombie

for what I would enjoy myself.

And so I tried to just put
subtle things in there

to make it a little more human,

like the breathing thing,
and the head turn

where I turn my head first
and then the body follows.

It just was something
that felt right

and felt kind of imposing.

And we all thought

he should have been Jason
from the beginning.

He should have been
every single Jason, you know.

He's the guy that ended up
playing Jason most

in the "Friday the 13th" movies

because he did bring something
to the role.

While Tina is subjected to
Dr. Crews'

unethical experiments,

the house next door is overrun

by another lively group
of teens,

including the handsome
yet sensitive Nick,

ugly duckling Maddy,
and the bitchy Melissa.

Played by the late
Susan Jennifer Sullivan.

I remember
Susan Jennifer Sullivan.

A fun little girl, not at all
like her character.

She was sweet as can be.

In many ways, she was playing
against type

because even though she looked,
she had the package

of that kind of privileged
snobby princess

There goes the neighborhood.

She was really humble
and very nice.

It's a matter of some curiosity
that at this point in time,

the fan base knows it as
"Fri-Gay the 13th Part 7."

We were kind of aware

that a large number
of the male members of the cast

and nee, indeed some females,
were indeed gay,

but it never had an effect
on making the show.

I know possibly one of
the reasons it got the name

Fri-Gay the 13th,
Kevin, the love-interest

of Lar Park-Lincoln,
was, I believe he was gay,

and maybe some people
thought there was no chemistry,

and you know, she might not have
been terribly attracted to him.

There was a little bit
of a rumor on the set

about that they didn't really
get along that well

which I thought was pretty
tough to have to be able to,

you know on film, appear like
they're hitting it off,

and they're having a connection.

It's a big pink elephant.

I was a little bit
oblivious to the fact

that their chemistry
wasn't all that good.

I kind of remember now

that Lar would say
a couple of things to me

that they weren't jiving,

but they never said
a bad word about each other.

The film worked just fine,

all the romances, all the drama.

I'm not sure sexual orientation
gets involved

with who Jason wants to kill.

He's an equal-opportunity
slasher.

While the Friday the 13th films

were never greeted
with enthusiasm

by the Motion Picture
Association of America,

no one felt their wrath
more harshly

than director John Buechler.

I've said it often,
and I'll say it again,

the ratings board
raped my movie.

The MPAA was the true horror
of the film.

They sent us back
many, many times

to re-cut the film,

to take out, you know,
pieces of gore.

The favorite Jason kill
that I've ever done

is the sleeping bag
just for the creativity of it.

OK you big hunk of a man,
come and get me!

Jason picks up the sleeping bag
with the young woman in it.

She's screaming, and he
bashes her against a tree.

They shot various versions
of the sleeping bag.

It had a heavy dummy in it

and about twenty gallons
of blood,

which is not light.

So, of course that was a big
no-no with the ratings board,

so I would cut it down,
cut it down.

And finally,
in the final version,

he picks up the sleeping bag,

hits the tree once
and throws it down.

One of the rare cases
where I thought

maybe the edited version ended
up better than the unedited.

Every kill in the film,

they shot footage
that was very, very graphic.

The kid who got killed
at the lake

when his girlfriend
was skinny dipping,

and there was far more detail
to what happened to him.

Jason, like a golf pro,
swings the axe upward

and slashes up through
a guy's jaw,

splitting his face forward

and a spout of blood
goes straight up.

In the movie, unfortunately,

you out away
before any connection is made.

For me it's like telling a joke
without the punch line.

I think Billy Butler's kill
was also kind of great

because you didn't really
see it happening,

but you saw Tina's vision.

William Butler and I

actually did “Texas Chainsaw”
together as well.

A lot of our fans, you know,
they bring up

that him and I did two
horror films together,

very close,
a couple of years apart.

They seem to think that's
really neat, I do as well.

We were filming
“Friday the 13th: Part 7”

in February in Alabama.

We had a guy with a gun
with us all the time

to shoot alligators.

He was a rather older man
and he was very slow,

so I don't think he could have
shot that alligator

if it came out of the swamp
at me,

so that was strange.

Oh, get real, Maddy.
You're not his type.

You need a little
touch-up work first.

Thanks!

I remember Diana Barrows.

She played kind of
the ugly duckling

who gets the makeover.

Need a little touch-up work,
my ass.

We actually did reshoots
in Topanga

to make the deaths
kind of longer

and that was the scenes
with Maddy smoking grass

for the first time with David,

and more versions
of my death scene.

[scream]

And my ex-boyfriend
confessed to me years later,

after I broke up with him,

that he would rewind my death
scene a million times and go,

"Get her, Jason!
Get her, get her."

[scream]

Yeah, right, happy
fucking birthday.

I certainly remember
how Jason killed Ben,

my boyfriend in the movie.

L'll bet it's Michael

I'm thinking Michael
is shaking the van.

It's actually Jason.
I hop out of the van.

For some reason I don't
want to have sex anymore.

I want to find Michael.

I don't think I've ever seen
a killing like that

where he just takes,
you know, his head,

one hand on top
and one under his chin,

and just smushes it to a pulp.

Actually in the script
my death is described

as "Ben's head gets squished
like a ripe pimple."

They had made a dummy head.

They had filled it
with cottage cheese

and a bunch of gook.

After my head is squished,

Jason picks up the party horn,
and she gets plugged again.

After the horn went in,

which I didn't realize until
I'd actually seen the movie,

there was a little toot noise.

When we were in Alabama,

we filmed a scene where they
made a kind of prosthetic body

under my nightgown,

and he took a big sword
and chopped me in half,

but the fake body underneath

had shifted,
and it looked really phony so...

but they didn't see that
until we got back to LA.

So that's why we re-shot it.

A new death scene for Robin

was filmed in the same
Topanga Canyon house

which previously served
as the Jarvis residence

in "Friday the 13th:
The Final Chapter.”

So he picked me up by the neck,

and he threw me out the window,

but the funny thing is,
is they hired a stuntman

to be my body double.

So when you see the body
going out the window,

it's this guy with these
big giant legs

and this kind of pretty bad
red wig.

You know, so I remember
people going,

"Your legs are so muscular."

Push comes to shove,

we discover
that not only does Tina

have this psychokinetic ability,

but she can also clairvoyantly
see things before they happen,

but not exactly as they happen.

She gets an image that is
kind of a surreal version of it.

Once in a while
if one of the characters

was particularly bad,

then I might want to come up

with a little bit more
violent way of killing 'em,

like Dr. Crews.

Terry's character,
he was not a good doctor.

You have deliberately
turned my daughter

into an emotional wreck.

That's not true.

In fact, in my death scene,
when we're out in the woods,

and I'm running and the whole
thing, he sees Jason coming.

And he literally puts my body
in front of his

so that he's safe for a second.

That's the kind of guy he was.

That guy's gotta die in a
creative, violent way,

more so than some of
the other people.

The psychiatrist's death
was another one

that was just gutted
by the MPAA.

I was surprised when I went
to see the movie,

so much of the gore
had been cut out.

That was a real tool.

I've never seen it since then.

I hadn't seen it before,

but it was like a weed whacker
with a circular saw blade on it.

Great weapon.

Didn't see much of it
in the movie unfortunately.

They shot all sorts of angles,

cutting into a prosthetic body
and blood and guts and... gone.

[screams and buzzing]

Everybody loved watching
Melissa get the axe in the head.

She was just
such a horrible character.

She was such
the quintessential bitch.

Melissa was a bitch.

You were already
waiting for her to get it.

Tina and myself and Melissa

are in the cabin
kind of waiting things out.

Don't go out there.

She says, "Fuck you. No..."

Fuck you both!

Turns to leave
and guess who's at the door?

Jason's sitting there
with the axe,

and he splits it
right in her head.

Whack!

We did a reverse pull-away gag
on her with a hatchet,

which didn't end up
in the movie at all.

I remember we watched
this stuntgirl...

fly across the room
with this axe in her...

It was extraordinary.

That was a fun day, actually,
watching that scene.

We were in a very small space
when that was shot.

And, of course, Kane takes up
half the room.

We acted scared and ran upstairs

because that's what you do.

You don't run outside,
you run upstairs.

I thought
from the very beginning

it should be
more of a stunt movie

than it would be
a makeup effects movie.

And we have that great
street scene

where she goes right up to him.

Jason?

I loved the twigs
coming around his legs

and taking him down that way.

I had to really take a lot
more abuse than I was expecting,

but I was glad to do it

because I think it made
the movie look much better.

The battle continued.

It just continued and continued,
and we shot it forever.

For me it was difficult

because my character was in
a constant state of upset.

I would have to constantly
keep myself very tense

to keep the tears rolling
and flowing,

and the anger, and the disbelief
and the craziness.

Going into it we relied heavily
on other mechanical effects

like the roof falling on Jason.

As soon as that thing hit me,
man, there was no acting.

It hit me so hard
and with such force

that it just drilled me
into the stairs.

We had special effects
in that movie

that were actually kind of
in competition

With the killing.

And we had TVs flying
across the room

and explosions
and the pearl necklace breaking,

and all this great magical stuff
that didn't typically happen

in a “Friday” film.

And we really wanted
that over-the-top aspect

with the makeup effects,
with the stunts,

with the physical effects,
everything.

Every time I turned around,

she was doing something else
to him.

I loved the nails,
and the gas in the basement.

I loved that scene.
That was really fun.

And he's like fed up with all
the stuff she's doing to him.

And I can vividly remember
Buechler saying,

"Go like this,
really move your face around."

He was talking
through the whole thing.

I was always amazed
and just in awe of him

because as a stuntman
he had an accident

and was burned in a stunt

and has scars
on his chest and his neck.

It really was a case, you know,
conquering your fear

and just moving on saying,
you know,

this is not going to stop me.

They truly blew up
an entire house in that movie.

It was wild.

You know, putting pryro in
in special places

so it would go boom, boom,
boom, boom.

And the grips,
everybody smoking cigarettes,

and up in the eaves
inside the house

are these little ropes
hanging everywhere.

And I went, "What are those?

And they went, "Oh, we're
going to blow up the house."

And I went, "You mean
it's all set to blow up,

and everybody's smoking!?"

Eventually the word came down
that, yes,

we were ready to go.

The countdown started happening.
We tensed up.

This was going to be great.

And as the button got pushed,

the whole building went up
within a split second.

I was there when they filmed
the cabin exploding,

and I don't know,

something must have gone wrong
with something

because you could actually
literally feel the heat.

There was not a piece of wood

larger than a matchstick
available

to be seen the following day.

It was Apocalypse Now.
It was just too big.

Lenses were smashed
on the lmo's.

You know, filters were melted.

And eventually, I think
the longest piece of film

of the explosion was about
20 frames, less than a second.

And eventually we created
at least something

that you could say,

"Okay, there's
an explosion there."

But on the day,
we were heartbroken.

From the earliest days
of production,

John Buechler
found himself at odds

with a key member of Frank
Mancuso, Jr.'s executive team.

When you're working
as a director on a movie,

you have a vision.

The producer's
interested in the money,

and the director
is interested in the product.

In this particular case...

I kind of went head-to-head
with my associate producer.

Barbara Sachs
worked for Frank Mancuso

across a broad range
of his development.

She was responsible
for developing

“He Said, She Said,”
“Permanent Record

so she was a very big part
of Frank Mancuso's company.

There was occasional tension
between her and John

because she was probably
giving her input,

and John had his own vision,
and John knew what he was doing.

This was not a new genre
for him.

The "Friday the 13th"
series of films

was a little bit
outside her wheelhouse.

This was not in her sort of

intellectual
and emotional direction.

She didn't like horror.

If you're going to be an
associate producer on a film,

or even a producer,
you gotta love it.

One of the things
I really lobbied for

was to show Jason mask off

for the better part
of the last reel of the movie.

She hated the look of Jason.

She said, "He looks like a frog.
He's so unbelievable."

She vetoed the idea
for me to do it at all.

And I was busy working,

and I couldn't really
go over her head

and talk to Frank
and get approval.

So I did it anyway.

And ultimately Frank Mancuso
loved popping Jason's mask off

the way I did it.

She always just seemed to be
somebody in the way.

There was, I believe, a conflict
about the very ending,

about how the father would look.

The ghost of Tina's father
was to be realized

as a fully animatronic thing.

I'm decaying after 7 to 10 years
of being in that water.

I look as ugly as Jason looks.

And we did this makeup on John,
and we did the animatronic,

and, of course,
Barbara vetoed that

because I'd gone
against her will.

We actually put the makeup on,

and we started
shooting some of it.

Actually I came out at the end
with that outfit on

and brought Jason down,
and it was never used.

And so what you see
at the end of the film

is John Otrin coming up
with a dirty face

and pulling Jason down.

I think when people
view the film they say,

"That's kind of lame."

I felt bad really for John
because he had done

so many really great things
in that movie,

and it was never...
It was never seen

and some of those scenes
were lost and deleted.

For years, fans have demanded
a home video release of the film

in its fully-restored form.

Unfortunately,
a truly uncut version

of "Friday the 13th Part 7”
will never be seen.

It would be terrific to
be able to go back

to "Friday the 13th Part 7”

and put it back together
in a form

that had more, sort of,
creative coherence.

Unfortunately that footage
has been discarded.

Paramount destroyed
all the outtakes of the film

which it's...
it's pretty unfortunate.

Without the elements,
without the outtakes,

there's really no hope of ever
making a director's cut

or alternate version
of those scenes

because the footage
just doesn't exist.

Like so much of, you know,
great American cinema,

it's now lost to the world.

Not that I'm saying
"Friday the 13th Part 7”

was great American cinema,

but great American cinema
of a certain kind.

Though it wasn't per se
a studio film,

it did have many of the
trappings of a studio film.

And it made me ultimately
very dissatisfied

with too many cooks.

Sometimes directors
can get kind of snippy.

John never did that, and he had
a lot of external forces

that could have certainly
made him go crazy.

We were fighting all kinds of
different battles

within producing the film.

And um, he was always
very kind to me,

and I'd go home at night
and say,

I'm gonna look like an idiot
in this franchise,

and my career is going
to be over.

But I trusted him, I believed in
him and it worked.

Jason... ls Back.

But this time,
someone is waiting.

"Friday the 13th: Part VII
The New Blood"

Little more than six months
after the start

of pre-production,

"Friday the 13th Part 7:
The New Blood”

debuted on May 13, 1988.

While its final take
of $19.2 million

was respectable,
it paled in comparison

to the late-summer release

of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:
The Dream Master,”

which took in a then record
setting $49.1 million.

Although Jason may have been
temporarily unseated

by the competition,

he was still a long way
from being dead.

It opened at the Chinese
Graumann Theater in Hollywood.

How awesome is that?

So here we are,
we're in the movie theater,

the 8 o'clock show or something,
and we're counting the deaths.

This is a sold-out crowd.

Every time
Jason killed somebody,

the whole audience would go...

1!

2!

3!

Every time somebody got killed,
they'd count 'em.

It's just amazing,
the movie magic,

and the way things
really come to life.

I was scared, I screamed,
I jumped, I moved, you know,

I was hiding,
and I knew what was coming,

I'd read the script, I'd seen
a lot of the scenes being done,

but when they actually
put it together, you know,

it's real!

I was very happy to see
in the "Hollywood Reporter"

that "Friday the 13th Part 7”

was the highest grossing movie
at the box office in May 1988

when it was released.

That says something
about the enduring legacy

of "Friday the 13th

Although Tina
would not be seen again,

fans have long envisioned
a sequel

that would bring together
the surviving characters

of "Friday the 13th" for the
ultimate showdown with Jason.

Well, I'm waiting for "Friday
the 13th Part 13”

to come out
and it would be terrific

if the surviving girls
get together

and that would be a script.

Hell, yeah.
I would definitely do it.

It sounds like it would be
a great time.

Charlie's Angels vs. Jason,
Jason's Devils basically.

We'd get all buff,
We'd get all strong

and then maybe I could
run as fast and jump as high

as I did before.

He's always only fought someone
one-on-one.

He's never had a group
fighting him at the same time.

I would, I mean I haven't
forgotten how to do it,

it's like a bike, I don't think
I could ever forget.

We'd just have probably
really great lives

with this terrible memory.

I would probably do another film

that would reprise that role,
you know,

the years later, as long as it
was done in, you know,

a good light.

I think what Tina
would be doing today

is trying to help others

but still dealing with her own
demons and being pulled back,

I think she would be pulled back
to the lake again.

Tina being fully realized
as who she is

made the movie work,

and the fact that we could
pay it off

with the special effects
and so forth

really contributed
to the success of the movie.

Even if Jason's machete blade

had dulled slightly
at the box office,

all seven films in the series

remained highly-profitable
ventures for Paramount.

But with its fan base growing up

and dream demon Freddy Krueger

now taking on
pop-icon status,

it was time for Jason to venture
out of the woods...

and step into
a much larger world.

There were seven before,
obviously,

and they all took place
in Crystal Lake, right?

And so the first question
I asked them,

was, "Does it have to be
in Crystal Lake?

Can I take Jason
out of Crystal Lake?"

Rob Hedden is an infectious
personality, first of all,

so he's a very upbeat guy.

He has tons and tons of energy.

Frank Mancuso Jr.
Who was producing it,

I mean he was the one,
he just said,

"Well, if it's a big city,
it's got to be New York."

I said, "That works for me.
That's a great idea."

So that's how the whole

"Jason Takes Manhattan"
thing came about.

But there was fun that
we hadn't seen before

about the notion
of a Jason in a big city.

The notion of what would happen

if Jason got into the subway,
you know all those things.

My first draft of the script
had a big chase scene

across the Brooklyn Bridge.

There was a lot more stuff that
we just couldn't afford to do.

He certainly had ambitions

that we didn't have the budget
to allow for.

Production reality set in
and it was like, okay,

instead of, you know,
75% of the movie

taking place in New York,
we'll do 50%.

And then it was, well,
we can't really do 50 either.

So then the concept, well,

let's do some mayhem
on the cruise ship

while they're getting
to New York,

and we'll make, you know, maybe
the last third of the movie

will take place in New York.

Among the sea of new faces,

at least one familiar passenger
was back on board.

Kane Hodder's enthusiastic
and always menacing

portrayal of Jason Voorhees

ensured that the graduating
class of Crystal Lake High

would be in for the voyage
of their lives.

So for me it was like I looked
at 7. How did he die in 7?

Okay, that's where we're going
to find him. He's underwater.

He's going to get shocked
with electricity.

In the film's opening sequence,

an amorous couple
anchored at Crystal Lake

inadvertently awakens Jason
from his watery grave.

Perhaps in retrospect

we probably shouldn't have
anchored our boat

in Camp Crystal Lake

where there was a corpse of
a murderer down under the water

waiting to be reanimated.

He really doesn't even need
the electricity.

He could come back just because
he feels like it.

Having Kane Hodder on board
was really helpful

because he had done PART 7,
and he knew what had been done.

And also Marty Becker
was our special effects guy.

And between them
and our makeup people,

we decided let's tweak Jason
a little bit too.

People ask me,

"Why does the makeup change
so much from movie to movie?

And the hockey mask changes
and everything else."

You know, basically it's because

it's a different makeup effects
person who designs it,

and they don't necessarily
stay true

to the previous movie.

Plus he starts out underwater

at the very beginning
of the movie,

and so he's pretty much
just gooey the whole movie.

They put slime on me
every single shot

so I was wet the entire movie.

Goo. Goo is great.

The moment where I get
almost shot by the spear gun

was the scariest moment
of the whole shoot for me,

out of the whole week,

because they did have to aim
the actual spear gun

really close to my head.

And they were like,
"Don't move and get it right

because we're going to damage
the wall behind you."

I didn't think there was really
any danger,

but it was definitely scary
because it did whiz by my ear,

and it was very loud
when it shot into the wall.

It also probably wasn't really
smart to hide on the boat

where the murderer
is coming to get you

instead of jumping
into the water

and at least trying to swim
for your life.

We were doing my death scene,
and I saw the fake torso,

and it originally had
really, really large boobs

on the fake torso which I was
super excited about.

And then they were like, "We
might have to rethink this."

I know they made
some adjustments,

and she had really nice nipples,
I remember that.

Kane Hodder was on the set
one day,

and he came out with a strap-on
in full garb you know,

Sounds like something
I should check out.

Once again, fans have been quick
to point out

inconsistencies in the timeline

and the logic of Part 8.

As far as the logic
on how that ship

got out of Crystal Lake
into the Atlantic,

I have no idea.

It's a tough one because
it had to be Crystal Lake,

and we had to get him
on a cruise ship to New York.

And so we tried to do
a little smoke and mirrors

and it maybe didn't quite work.

I have a theory.

I think we were all
so frickin' happy

to have a paying gig
and for most of us,

it was our maiden major movie
and it was like,

"This damn boat could come from
the Sahara Desert

and get into the Atlantic."

I'm not going to challenge
the concept.

And we ultimately just said,
"Let's just forget it,

you know. People can... people
may get mad at us for that,

but let's go for it."

Our graduating class
I'd say it's easily, what,

about 100 kids on that boat,

and it's like only
5 of us get killed

but yet everybody's wiped out.

At the very beginning
there were so many extras

and then as the shooting went on
there was less.

And that was probably
a budget issue.

They might've got a little
scared and jumped overboard.

And Julius is like,
"Hold it down."

School is out, McCullough.

I think that's the assumption,
right,

is that Jason basically,

behind the scenes,
was eliminating everyone.

A number of young hopefuls
were initially considered

for the role of the film's
smart yet aquaphobic lead.

Rennie had a special connection
to Jason

because her evil uncle

was trying to teach her
how to swim

when she was a little girl.

So I unfortunately,

because of an Old School
understanding,

I tossed her into the water

which was a not very nice thing
to do for an uncle.

And she saw Jason
under the water.

My character is terrified
of the water

but she decides to go
on the boat anyway.

One by one the classmates
are killed off or missing.

There's nowhere to go.

They can't escape from him
and that claustrophobia

gave me a lot of ideas
in how he could trap them

and kill them.

In 7 and 8 I was sort of absent.

I was there in spirit,

but I wasn't there
actually scoring it.

Fred Mollin, the composer
to the TV series,

took over writing the music
to those two films,

although they dropped in
a few pieces of mine

from previous films
and, of course,

k-k-k...

TCH-T CH-T CH-JA-JA-JASON

As production
of "Friday the 13th Part 8:

set sail in Vancouver,
British Columbia

under the code titles
"Ashes to Ashes,"

and "Burial at Sea,"

a last-minute change was made
to a key member of the cast.

Originally when we got
to Vancouver to shoot

there was this really hot guy
playing my boyfriend.

That's all I remember about him.
He was really hot and buff.

We shot the first day with this
other guy, great guy,

really nice guy.

It was my first major film but
I had done some other things,

so I shot the first scene
of that day

which was like
well into the script

when the ship was flooding
with Peter Mark Richman.

This is Jason's fault!

Not another word of Jason,
do you hear me?

No, I don't. And it's time
you listened to me

if you want to get off
this ship alive.

Let's get to the lifeboats.

He seemed
a little uncomfortable.

The chemistry with him
and the Rennie character

wasn't quite there.

I thought there was chemistry.
Whatever.

Thank God for the producers
because they really said,

"You know,
there's a problem here,

and if we don't correct it
right now,

we're going to have a problem...
A bigger problem."

I think the day after that, one
of the PA's came to me and said,

"The producers want to see you
tomorrow night."

And I knew without them
even saying it,

I'm going to be let go.

And so it was the toughest
thing I've ever, you know,

had to do was to basically
to replace an actor,

and that's what we
ended up doing.

But, again, it was for
the benefit of the movie.

And Scott Reeves came in.

And Scott Reeves was so sweet
and fantastic,

and he's hot too.

Also on board were
Martin Cummins

as film school geek Wayne...

Kelly Hu, best known
for her roles in "X2"

and "The Scorpion King,"

and Saffron Henderson

as head-banging rocker J.J.

There was one girl in the movie
who's a rocker,

and she's got the Flying V.

This place is achin'
for a video!

She's got to get her head
bashed in by a Flying V.

I mean, it just was like
that's a no-brainer.

[Scream and splatter sound]

This is actually J.J.'s guitar

and right here you'll notice

that there's actually
some of J.J.'s blood

after almost 20 years.

Forensics evidence.

I think every "Friday the 13th"
has to have the promiscuous girl

who is caught
doing something naughty.

And she pays.

Come and get it.

She was the Queen Bee.

She made everybody
buzz around her.

And she did that
by going in there

and being the edgiest,
the coolest,

the one that was always doing
the riskiest stuff.

I mean, seducing the teacher.

Hey.

There's a scene where she
paints body organs on her.

I didn't mind the biology
project so much

because it was kind of funny,

This girl comes on to me,
and I was getting turned on.

I was really mmm

having it affect me.

Peter was a much older man
when I was doing that,

but he definitely helped me
with the scene

and made me feel comfortable.

What do you think you're doing?
I'm your teacher!

- And cut it. (laughter)

I was a little nervous about,
you know,

some of the revealing shots.

That was my issue really.

Rob Hedden wanted to make me
feel comfortable,

so he just stripped down
at the same time.

He goes, "Look. I'm doing
the same thing."

And he was so awesome that way.

I did not feel exploited.

Then, again, I was the good girl

who was fully clothed
throughout the entire movie.

Not only did I have a shirt,

I had a shirt and a vest

and baggy, horrible pants,
macho shoes.

It was bad. It was very bad.

"Friday the 13th" has so many
'80-isms in it

with the camcorder being this
huge, huge camcorder,

the cocaine, and just the dress
and the hair

because it was big hair,
lots of backcombing

and definitely an '80s movie.

I think that a lot of creativity

rightfully has to go into
modes of murder,

you know, and you know,

how is he going to
dispatch his victims?

We had Kelly Hu and it was one
of her first movies, you know,

and she was great.

And she was totally up for it
and I thought,

"Well, okay, let's figure out
a way to kill them

that doesn't involve a knife
or something else.

The disco scene was one of
the hardest scenes

I've ever had to do as Jason

because we did like
14 hours of work.

We decided to do this big dance
thing and she's circling around

and his face is popping up
here and there.

And then at the end,
I had to pick the actress up

and choke her to the ceiling.

I had to say, "Well, now I have
to hold you up to the ceiling,

and then throw you down hard,
and you're dead.

So you can't break your fall.

Not easy to do, and the girl
did a great job

because she just
hit the deck hard.

That was actually one of the,
at least from what I heard,

you know, one of the more
satisfying deaths in it

because even without any blood
or, you know, gore.

Despite its attempts to feature
more fantastic effects

than outright bloodletting,

the film still had to
pass muster

with the stringent MPAA
ratings board.

I always thought of
"Friday the 13th Part 8"

as sort of the Disney version
of the "Friday the 13ths."

It wasn't quite as gory.

Well, I don't really know about
the censor boards

and what they allow, or
what they didn't allow,

but I'm sure they probably
didn't like

"Friday the 13th"
so maybe that's why the,

you know, blood situation
sort of diminished.

It just seemed a little tame.

I mean, the 1980's,
at the height of the success

of these movies,

there were multiple cases made
that he was kind of

the modern Reagan-era killer

because he was making those kids
that didn't "just say no"

and were having
premarital sex, pay.

It's just sort of, watch out,
young people.

Be careful what you do

because Jason's
gonna come to you.

There were various things
like, "Okay,

we gotta electrocute one kid,
gotta electrocute somebody.

A lot of sparks.
That'll be great.

Another one we did,

and this was done
after the fact,

it wasn't shot
during principal photography.

We decided let's put a sauna
on the ship.

I actually put the Panaflex
on my back

to shoot that sequence
of the hot coals.

You start asking yourself is
there something wrong with you

when you're spending your day

thinking up ways
to murder people.

L'll never forget when I was
shooting the shower scene

because when he comes in, even
though you know it's a movie,

and you know you're just
acting, it was scary.

You know, you shoot all night.

You shoot all night in these
movies and you're exhausted,

you're freezing, you're being
hosed down all the time.

You're in the same clothes
for 3 months.

It was somewhat dangerous.

We were rather miserable
through that period.

I had to be drowning
in the ocean,

and we were in this huge
oil tank

on the sound stage,

and I just remember
going under the water

and coming up and just being
covered in oil,

and on my face and thinking,

I think I've just taken
10 years off of my life.

One of the takes
that's in the film

where Julius comes up
out of the water,

the water was so violent

I'm losing the boat here.
I'm losing the boat.

The boat was closer
than I had anticipated,

so when I came up,
the top of my gums

hit the edge of the boat.

There were so many times
where I just hoped

that I wasn't going to end up
in a cast

at the end of the night.

But, you know, it's show biz,
baby, you know.

You keep it moving.

When the remaining cast members
abandon ship

in a final bid for survival,

it appears that Jason had been
left behind on the Lazarus.

Leaving fans to ponder
another question...

How did Jason
get to New York City?

We went through all of these,
you know,

scenarios of how did he
get there

and then we ultimately decided

let's just
let the audience wonder

and let them
try to figure it out.

He'd been doing all these
other things during the movie

that defy any kind
of human logic.

One image I had in my head

that really pertained
to the New York thing

was having Jason
rise up out of the water

into the harbor in New York,

and the first thing he sees
is a giant billboard

with his face on it,

and he gives, just this little
cock of his head like, what?

Operator, this is an emergency.
Get me the police.

[Glass My death scene, the fans

and just the letters and stuff
that I get,

it really, it really
made an impact on people.

Just a great scene because it
had really never been done

to try and box Jason.

Initially they had planned
to have that boxing match

take place
in Madison Square Garden.

His character thought, you know,
l'll just wear him out

with my punches and ended up
wearing himself out.

We just really went for it.

I, you know, to ask Kane.
I said, "Hey, dude.

Can I really hit you?" He goes,
"V.C., give me all you got."

He was punching me for real
on every shot to the body.

Like 66 punches each take.

And like even
at the end of that scene

where you see my knuckles
very swollen

and with blood and stuff
all on them,

that was real, baby.

It was, you know,
it was toe to toe.

So I did, you know,
I took a little abuse myself

so by the time it was time

to knock the head off the dummy,
I was ready to do it.

You know, everybody else can see
what's coming but Julius.

You know what I mean?
So he's just standing there.

And just a classic line that
he gives right before that.

Take your best shot

Motherfucker.

If you are going to sort of
tire yourself out

trying to take Jason on,

don't pause and say "Take your
best shot, motherfucker."

Run because he is going to knock
your head off into a dumpster.

They made three.
One was for close-ups.

One was heavier that actually
hit the garbage can,

and then there was another one
that was lighter

that they tossed up in the air.

Yeah, but I kept the one,
the money shot one.

The one that was for close-ups.

It was an adventure.

It was really,
really an adventure.

For veteran character actor
Peter Mark Richman,

best known for his roles
in episodes

of "The Twilight Zone"
and "Dynasty,"

being killed by Jason
was hardly the high point

of his prestigious
acting career.

One of the most awful things
that I had to do was my demise.

Jason picked me up and
carried me over to this barrel,

and there was a rat on top of
the barrel.

It was so nauseating.

We shot in some miserable street
in Vancouver.

That was supposed to be
New York, right?

So there was a joke
running around.

It was Jason Takes Vancouver

instead of Jason
Takes Manhattan,

but we were able to make
a lot of parts of Vancouver

look like New York.

Let's be honest.
That's not Manhattan.

I've been to Manhattan.
That's not Manhattan.

You don't understand, there's
a maniac trying to kill us.

Welcome to New York.

It's kind of like trying to
make a nice steak dinner

on a ham sandwich budget.

Not since "Rumble in the Bronx"

has a less accurate depiction
of New York been presented.

And then not only that,

they were only
going to let me shoot

for one week actually
in New York.

We put a 40-foot crane in
the middle of Times Square,

and we did some big stuff

that none of the Fridays
had been able to do before.

It gave us a different
kind of engagement

with the, with the audience.

The single most amazing thing
that I've ever done

as the character was shooting
the scenes in Times Square.

And there were hundreds of
people on either side

of the streets behind barricades
watching the filming.

So I had the mask on,

and just stood there knowing
there's hundreds of people,

and I just turned
and looked at them.

They went nuts.

It was the most incredible thing
I've ever seen.

Screaming and cheering

just because I had given them
the look in the costume.

But when I was standing
in Times Square

looking at this giant crane
with all these extras around,

Jason walking through.

This is a real movie.
This is big.

I felt like,
like a rock star or something

because the way people reacted.

You didn't get me in the lake.

And you're not gonna get me now!

I felt very empowered
playing the part,

especially at the end
when, you know,

I was the only one surviving

and there we were in the sewers,
and I felt like,

Alright, this is a nice,
tough, accurate portrayal

of a girl's strength.

You know, he's chasing
after our heroes

at the end and he gets hit
with toxic waste

and melts to the point where
it is supernatural ending

where he finally reverts
to the child,

which seemed like it had more
closure than the other ones

as far as Jason coming
full circle.

And what was supposed to happen
is that

young Jason comes out of this
giant skull,

and it just looked funny.

And so it was on the famous
cutting room floor.

Were I submerged in toxic waste,

I'm probably not emerging
as my 8-year-old self,

particularly if I was already
a mongoloid,

mentally handicapped person.

Clearly the government
needs to be investigating

the healthy byproduct
of toxic waste.

Part of it is that he is just
a supernatural kind of being,

that keeps coming back.

You just can't kill the guy.

And I couldn't kill him either.

He-he-he-he.

The never-ending battle

between Jason and the Motion
Picture Association of America

continued to make headlines

in the weeks leading up
to the film's release.

The ratings board wasn't amused

by the image of Jason

slashing his way through
the film's teaser poster

with a bloody knife.

And neither were New York City
officials.

I remember some controversy
as far as like

with the "I Heart New York"
poster.

It did piss off
the Tourism Board in New York.

In other news, after New York
officials threatened to sue,

Paramount Pictures
agreed to remove

the original promotional posters
for "Friday the 13th Part 8"

where Jason is slashing through
the "I love New York" logo.

As far as like capitalizing
on being in New York City,

I think one of the,
another way that they did that,

that was really kind of
brilliant was the trailer.

They set it up with the skyline

that we all know to be
New York City.

You know,
Frank Sinatra's playing.

You know, you're thinking
it's going to be

some beautiful, sleepy,
you know, date movie

and then all of a sudden
Jason's ass pops up in there.

Now New York has a new problem.

Even if you are not
a genre film fan,

you're just
a marketing executive,

that is a home run
marketing concept.

And then shortly after we did
"Jason Takes Manhattan,"

(I was asked to do
"The Arsenic) Hall Show,"

in costume as a guest.

And I walk out, and he pulled
the whole interview off

by talking to someone
who doesn't speak.

I got some great titles
I put together...

Jason and the Three Babies.
What you think of that?

(laughter)

Despite its clever ad campaign,

the film opened
to scathing reviews

and earned a new series low
of $14.3 million.

I don't know
if "Friday the 13th Part 8"

was the best episode.

I think the first one
was probably the best episode,

in my humble opinion.

But we gave it our best.
We really tried.

One of the things is that some
of the fans,

it kind of rubbed them
the wrong way,

the fact that they went
expecting to see

all this slashing and the things
that you typically associate

with a "Friday the 13th" movie
taking place in New York City,

and, you know, it took place
on the boat.

For producer Frank Mancuso, Jr.,

who would go on to produce
such films

as "Species,"
"Ronin" and "Stigmata,"

the time had finally come
to hang up the hockey mask

and bid farewell
to "Friday the 13th."

The "Friday the 13ths" had a lot
of negative connotations

that came along with it from
a societal point of view,

and I think that that was
very much a concern to me.

And if a kid got shot
in a Friday the 13th movie,

it was the movie's fault,

it wasn't the fact that the kid
was there with the gun.

You know, so,
I can't keep on doing this

because on some level this is
going to get to a place

where I can't get away from it.

So I've sort of made a conscious
decision not to do it anymore.

I got along so great
with Frank and just,

he just had such a great
attitude.

And I was just amazed
at how much creativity

and certainly insight
into what was going to work,

what wasn't going to work,

and how to handle people.

I was lucky enough
to be on that ride,

and I appreciate the fans

because as far as I'm concerned,

the fans are what
made this movie what it is.

A cultural sort of phenomenon.

And that doesn't happen one way.

That's a two-way street.

They sort of
brought a life to it

that it would have never had
without them,

without any doubt.

Although Paramount Pictures
never officially announced

the end of their association

with the "Friday the 13th"
franchise,

after the disappointing
box office returns

of JASON TAKES MANHATTAN,

there was little interest
in moving forward

with another sequel.

For three years,
Jason would lie dormant...

until producer
Sean S. Cunningham

decided that the time had come

for the monster
to return to his maker.

You know, I was away
from FRIDAY THE 13TH

for several years

because they were making the
same movie over and over again,

and I'd been associated with it,

but I had moved on
to do other things.

I think probably after "Part 8,"

Paramount figured the franchise
had gone its run.

The whole reason to come back

was I wanted to do
Freddy vs. Jason.

I thought that was going to be
so cool,

and it was a way to sort of
breathe the life into it.

As it turned out, I was able
to get the rights back

from Paramount
and Warner Brothers

and set something up
at New Line,

but we had to wait
for a long time

before we could do
FREDDY VS. JASON,

and that's when we wound up
doing FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 9.

Paramount kept the rights
to FRIDAY THE 13TH

and the other partners
had Jason Voorhees,

Which is Why PART 9
is a FINAL FRIDAY,

not FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 9.

With the sequel rights
now secured

and New Line Cinema
officially on board,

Cunningham turned
the director's chair

over to an ambitious young
filmmaker

whose passion was matched only
by his inexperience.

When I started
directing the film I was 23.

And at that point I was
the youngest director

New Line had ever hired, and I
was a year out of film school.

And I won Best Picture when
I was there for the short film

that I had made.

He had just graduated NYU,

had a script written
with a friend named Dean Lorey

Called JOHNNY ZOMBIE.

It was a fun little kind of
horror comedy

that started getting more
and more attention

and eventually became a film
called MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK

which was a major production
for Disney,

and they didn't want a
first-time director helming it.

So Adam kind of got bumped
off the project.

Our feeling about Jason

was we can't take it
too seriously.

It's got to be fun for us.

And we were huge geek fans.

We loved the series.

And it was like,
'How do we make a movie

that we want to see?'

I think when JASON GOES TO HELL
was conceived

it was coming off
the ill-reception of PART 8

which was not very positive.

So we tried to kind of change
the formula a little bit.

The plot was actually
dictated by Sean.

Basically what he said was,
'I want that damn hockey mask

out of the movie.

So whatever you come up with,
let's make that movie.'

Rightly or wrongly, maybe Jason
needed a little shaking up.

So we decided to go in and mess
with the mythology a little bit.

Much like in HALLOWEEN 3.

They just threw out
Michael Myers entirely.

Sean wasn't involved
with the hockey mask.

That wasn't Sean's movie.

Sean's movie was about a mother

avenging the wrongful death
of her son.

So Sean always wanted to kind
of go back to themes of family

and those ideas so we were
really turned on by that.

He wanted to create a mythology

out of these previous
eight films

that really weren't in any way
leading to a mythology,

so he had to kind of create it
from scratch.

We thought how fun would it be
to play with

the audience's expectations
and start the movie

by killing Jason.

Incoming!

And once he's been killed,

we started to reveal
a more sort of interesting,

or at least
from our point of view,

version of the Jason myth

which is that Jason
is ostensibly Hell's assassin.

I didn't have a clue
as to what the plot was.

And we got this hodge-podge
of a script.

There was something about Jason

transferring from body
to body to body.

So Jason is not
a hockey mask wielding maniac,

even though
that's his favorite form,

but that his evil can go
from person to person to person.

This was one of
the first films where

the idea and the essence
of Jason's evil

sort of manifesting itself
physically

was really the first time
they'd ever done that,

and it was definitely a
departure from the other movies.

So it was a bit more
of a creature movie

than it was an all-out
kind of slasher film.

It's reminiscent of THE HIDDEN

which I hadn't even seen
before we wrote JASON.

So we were like, 'Wow.
That's coincidental. Uh, oh.'

I was so surprised when I
finally saw the film

that it actually
made any sense at all.

I think we figured out
that the entire crew

was under the age of 25
except for me.

And I went, 'Really?'

And so there was that enthusiasm
like, 'Oh, boy!

We're doing a feature film here!

This is so cool!'

I didn't know a damn thing,

and I think about the first day
of production

is when I realized, 'Wow!
I am so in over my head.'

As JASON GOES TO HELL begins,

a nubile young woman returns
to her Crystal Lake cabin

in the dead of the night.

But in an unexpected twist,

it is revealed that Jason's
intended victim

is really an FBI agent
being used as human bait.

So what's funny about
my character, Agent Marcus,

is that she's an FBI agent.

We try to make it like you
wouldn't know that.

I mean, why would an FBI agent
get naked in this cabin

to lure someone but, hey,

the girl's gotta do
what the girl's gotta do.

And I remember Adam like
hating my hair.

I'm like, 'Honey,
if you're looking at my hair

and not my hooters,
what are you doing?'

And we put every cliché

that had ever been in any
of the FRIDAY THE 13TH movies

within a 5 minute section.

You'll see the mirror close,
and he's not there.

I thought Adam
was kind of brilliant

in the way he kind of just
spoon fed you.

'Oh, you're okay, you're okay,
okay. No, you aren't.

You're fucked.

I was able to bring
Kane Hodder back

who had played Jason before,
and he was basically

the only holdover that was left
from the Paramount years.

It wasn't even a discussion.

It was, 'So who's got
Kane Hodder's phone number?'

I really like working with Kane.

He took the part so seriously,

and he knew everything
that Jason would or wouldn't do

so it made my job
an awful lot easier.

It was probably the hardest
makeup to work in,

and the least amount of days
that I was in the makeup.

We really wanted to go
with a sort of mutated,

diseased look where the head is
sort of diseased and misshapen.

A lot more sort of Elephant Man.

The hockey mask had been on
Jason so long

that the skin had grown
around it in theory.

The hard thing was not being
able to take the hockey mask off

between shots.

If you do something violent
and, you know,

with a lot of energy,
it takes your breath away.

You want to be able
to take that thing off

and catch your breath.

I couldn't take it off
between shots

so I had to catch my breath

while breathing
my own exhaled air.

Not easy to do at all.

He's very method,
and that's great for camera,

but boy, when you have to
work with him,

it can be very daunting
and in one scene,

he almost took my head off.

And I was supposed to run
and jump around the car.

I literally jumped over the car
because he scared me that bad.

And I remember coming back,
and I was shaking.

I was like,
'Don't ever do that again.

Well, maybe one more time.
That was kind of good.

Was that good, Adam?'

Jason has been done away with
in so many different ways.

I mean, in previous movies,
you know, he was set on fire.

Of course, he's shot
hundreds of times.

But blown up
in JASON GOES TO HELL?

I thought all that could have
been done to Jason had been done

but, lo and behold.

There are a lot of Jason fans
who to this day are, you know,

pissed off at me
for blowing up Jason

in the first ten minutes
of the movie.

They love that scene

but then they want Jason
right back, right again.

And for me,
I thought it was more fun

to have Kane Hodder
actually in the film

making fun of Jason.

And he makes this comment
about himself

when basically he says

He wasn't nothing
but a big ol' pussy anyway.

And I love that. I love that!

Kane was a remarkable asset
to the film

because I wanted
all the other actors

who play the 'Jason Evil'
in the movie

to have that same
economy of movement

and that same language.

With not a single
teenage character

featured in the script,

Sean Cunningham called upon
an experienced ensemble

made up of recognizable faces
from network television

including Erin Gray,

Steven Williams
and John D. LeMay,

the only actor
to play the male lead

in both the film and television
incarnations

of FRIDAY THE 13TH.

We cast John D. LeMay because
the director, Adam Marcus,

really felt comfortable
having him

because he knew him
from THE SERIES.

That was the reason
I didn't want him to do it.

I married the daughter
of Jason's sister.

Who knew?

But I'm happy to know
that I am related

to such a cultural icon.

Tracked by mysterious bounty
hunter Creighton Duke,

it is revealed that Jason
is attempting to be reborn

through a never-before-mentioned
relative.

Thirteen years
and nine films later,

we learn that Jason Voorhees
had a sister.

The reasoning for another child

was that Pamela Voorhees

had had her daughter
out of wedlock.

And Jason became sort of
the jewel of her eye.

This was the only child
she cared about.

She fixated on this boy and sent
her daughter up for adoption.

That was the idea behind it.

I was the sister
to Jason Voorhees.

They needed somebody
who had the DNA,

and I guess it was me and then
my daughter, of course,

and my granddaughter.

I played Baby Stephanie
in JASON GOES TO HELL.

When I made the film,
I was about 6 months old.

I've little to no memory
about being in the film

considering I was so young

but when I got
a little bit older,

my parents broke the news to me

that I was in a horror film

Here's beautiful

And I wasn't allowed to watch
every scene, of course.

But I did watch the scenes
that I was in.

I was like,
'Oh my gosh, that's me.'

And it was just a really
crazy experience

to be able to watch myself.

I think the actors were amazing,

especially John LeMay
and Steven Williams

who was out of his mind
and brilliant.

The finger breaking scene was
one of my favorites actually.

Jason needs to be reborn again,
and he needs Jessica to do it.

Just because it was
so weird and twisted.

I mean, here's this guy
fondling my fingers.

Ooow! fuck!

Amazingly I was able to
still beat Jason up

at the end with my broken hand.

Everything about
JASON GOES TO HELL,

especially the scene

between Creighton Duke
and Steven Culp.

Robert: I want you to say
the first thing

that comes to your mind. Okay?

Creighton: Okay.

Robert: Jason Voorhees.

Creighton: Well, that makes me
think of a little girl

in a pink dress sticking
a hot dog through a donut.

It was always about,

'How can we
crack each other up?'

It was like two guys
on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

trying to get the other guy
to laugh.

After an early test screening,

New Line requested that several
new sequences be added

to the film,

including one that ranks
as one of the most violent

and graphic
in the series' history.

I play a camper named Luke
who's going camping

with two beautiful ladies.

Luke: We're going to
Camp Crystal Lake.

Steven: Oh yeah?

Planning on smoking
a little dope,

having a little premarital sex,
and getting slaughtered?

The murder
of the couple in the tent

was something that we shot
after the film had wrapped.

I was petitioning to have
both ladies in the tent.

I thought it would be fun.
Why not?

And it was one of those
sequences

where they felt they needed
a really violent kill

that had a lot of impact.

So we started our scene with
these kids

who are pretty lit up.

They'd been skinny dipping.

The run into the scene,
they go to have sex

and what happens is they choose
not to use a condom.

Oh, God, Debbie,
I hate these things.

And when the killer
steps on that condom wrapper,

on that unused condom,

the audience
went out of their minds.

Every screening.

For actress Michelle Clunie,

later known for her role in the
groundbreaking television series

QUEER AS FOLK,

the scene put her in a
compromising situation...

In more ways than one.

Michelle and he had been dating
and had broken up

right before we shot that scene.

And then we showed up on set
and there we were,

naked together
for a couple days.

So she had to do
this huge love scene

with her ex-boyfriend, and they
were both completely nude.

You're on a mattress
on the floor,

inside a fake tent
with all these guys around,

and you've got to sort of
create some sort of chemistry,

some sort of intimacy
between you

which doesn't feel natural
at all.

And then when they
finally kill her,

they put this fake Clunie
on top of me.

Michelle came up to K.N.B.,

and we actually cast her
in that position.

She's on top of the guy
and they're having sex,

and, all of a sudden,
out of the middle of her chest,

the road sign pops out
and blood sprays everywhere.

(screams)

Oh shit!

And then it's torn
through her shoulder blade

where she flops open.

And it was the second dummy
that had been already pre-cut

with the torso cut in half,

and it had a little mechanism
in it

so that it could sort of
flower open.

And they're spraying blood at me
with a fire extinguisher,

I remember.

It's a little sad that today
that probably would have been

a digital shot
of the thing coming out,

and they would have animated it.

Richard Gant
who was playing Jason

was supposed to at some point
crush my head.

And I think that they ran out
of time and money,

and they, and so they didn't
build a cast of my head.

And they cut out right as his
head's coming down, I think,

and they cut to an exterior of,

and we hear me screaming
and then crush.

[Off screen screaming]

Unsafe sex equals death,
I was totally cool with.

What was amazing about that

was that
the Wall Street Journal,

when they talked about
JASON GOES TO HELL,

they called the film
a return to morality in cinema

because of that scene.

The thing about Adam Marcus
was he was really behind,

100% behind shooting every gag
to its fullest.

[sounds of sharpening blade]

The reason for the homoerotic
shaving scene

in JASON GOES TO HELL
was that I knew 15 years later

everybody would be asking me

about the homoerotic shaving
scene in JASON GOES TO HELL.

Again, I found these movies
to be really pretty sexist.

It's always women in the shower

soaping up just before
they get whacked.

And I thought, 'You know what?

I'm going to make
the first one of these

where there's as many naked men
as there are naked women.

Let's even the score.
Something for the ladies.

Not only is it homoerotic,

but I have a middle-aged guy
naked on the table.

I don't have Brad Pitt
on the table.

I have an interracial kiss
at the end of the scene.

I mean, everything about it
was a taboo.

There's not a scene like it
in any other Jason movie

or really in any other movie
I can think of.

I don't know if that's good
or bad but

Filming my death scene
was lots of fun.

I remember in acting class,

I was good at being dead,

so I was able to bring that
to FRIDAY THE 13TH.

And it was kind of fun going to
work with a knife in my back

and pretending...
l've been killed.

[screaming]

In Joey B's restaurant,

the carnage was fabulous.

Bodies everywhere.

It was really bloody
and violent.

I just loved watching
Rusty work.

She was great at improving...

This makes a whole new patty,
hence,

the two-for-one burger sale.

And every time
she was in a scene,

I was just mesmerized by her.

When I have my gun
on John and Kari

defending the baby, the line was

'Nobody's going to touch
that baby, '

but I decided to say...

Nobody's gonna touch that
fuckin' ray of sunshine!

In Rusty Schwimmer's case,

she got punched in the face.

Poor Leslie.
He got dumped in a fry vat.

And I know from friends
that there was a big cheer

that let up when I was punched
in the face

because they wanted me
to shut up.

In an attempt to finally
subvert the MPAA,

the filmmakers planned to
release JASON GOES TO HELL

as both an R-rated
theatrical cut

and an unrated
home video version.

This allowed the K.N.B.
Effects team

the freedom to create
some of the bloodiest

and most over-the-top gags
ever attempted

in a FRIDAY THE 13TH film.

As a horror film back then,

you always went in
pretty gore-heavy

expecting to be cut back.

I think that
the whole point was,

throw all that stuff in there

and then go to the ratings
board,

and if we can't get it, then
we'll do the unrated version

and give the audience
what they want.

Eventually, of course,

the evil gets back
into the body of a Voorhees.

Steven: That part about
being reborn

through a Voorhees woman, does
it have to be a living woman?

Duke: No.

Steven: That thing's in the
basement with Jessica's mother.

And Jason is reborn into his
hulking magnificent form.

Jason's rebirth may have
thrilled fans,

but it did not sit as well
with actress Erin Gray,

who was not present when an
insert shot

was added to the film
at the last minute.

The first time that I was made
aware of this scene

was actually
in the movie theater

when I saw it,
and I gasped loudly.

I just thought it was
inappropriate.

It was not something that I
would have agreed to.

I actually felt violated.

It's the one thing in any scene,

in any movie that I've done

that I just find
very distasteful,

although I've forgiven
Sean since.

I do love Sean personally.

The truth is,
what I was trying to do

was use Jason,
the figure of Jason,

as almost a prize
for the audience.

Duke: Tonight, my friend...

You will...

Steven: Jessica!
Duke: Die!

[bone snapping]

Bringing him back at the end,

I wanted it to feel like your
friend came back into the movie.

John's character took a
tremendous amount of abuse.

We had a helluva fight
out in the front of the house.

I did put up a pretty
good fight.

I take great pride
in my backhand to Jason

at the very end of the film.

And, by the way,
you might not know this.

I'm Jason.

All of Jason's vocals,
that's me.

Because I work cheap.

Kari's character
was fairly tough too.

Unfortunately,
I didn't get to fight her

as much as I would like,

but we still had some
good scenes

where she stabbed me
with the knife and everything.

Interestingly enough,
at the end of the movie,

it was always scripted as a
big, lightning-filled climax

with the skies opening up
and all this celestial activity.

K.N.B. had a very
elaborate sequence

designed for that
with all kinds of puppets,

and we had a very elaborate
miniature

which wound up not being used
because of technical problems.

These branches or these roots
of these trees

were supposed to suck Jason
down into hell.

And we were all underneath the
table puppetering these things.

And they were going to do
these aerial shots

and big camera moves
going around the two of us

as we squared off.

Originally there was one
extra creature at the end

which was a demon baby

that they had, I believe,
an amputee in a prosthetic suit

that had a big long tail and

ultimately that wound up being
excised.

This is my doll that
Bob Kurtzman gave me

after the shoot.

They didn't use it so yeah,
a little keepsake for me.

But there was one parting shot
yet to come.

One that would set the stage

for Jason's long-anticipated
face-off

with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET'S
Freddy Krueger.

I suddenly said, 'Wait a second.

We've got a chance for the
ultimate in-joke in this movie.

We're with New Line.

New Line owns Freddy.

'What are we doing?

Like, that's the end
of our movie.'

And they fell in love
with the idea.

I mean, it was like instantly,
'Oh my God, that's great.'

In the end where Freddy's hand
comes out of the ground

and grabs the hockey mask,

it was my hand
wearing the Freddy glove,

grabbing the mask.

And this is your final chance...
to see it!

JASON GOES TO HELL
THE FINAL FRIDAY

opened on
Friday, August 13, 1993

to a respectable $7.5 million
in its opening weekend.

To this day, JASON GOES TO HELL

remains one of the most
hotly-debated installments

of the series.

And once again, THE FINAL FRIDAY
wasn't final after all.

We were trying to do
something different.

Some people really like it for
that and forgive its faults.

Other people only see it for
its faults and, you know,

say there should be all Jason
all the time.

Jason has to be in the film.

I think that was one of the
biggest let-down for the fans.

It's possible that the concept
jumped the shark on some level.

At the time they were trying to
reinvent and figure out

how to keep the franchise going,

and how to keep people
interested.

So I respect that.

I think we did something
that was bold.

I know there are people
who are upset by that,

but my response to that has
always been, 'You know what?

There are 7 of those movies
you can rent.

You can see a whole lot of Jason
in the hockey mask.'

You have to deliver
a certain story,

and that story
had better be consistent

with the ones that preceded it,

and Jason better be consistent
with what happened beforehand.

So this is not a place
where you want to say,

'l've got an idea.

Let's have Jason do
body swapping.'

Not so good.

The Jason audience
is a smart audience.

Not just about Jason movies,

which they will quote you
chapter and verse.

They know more about my movie
than I know about it.

The truth is, true horror fans

know every genre of cinema,

they just happen to know horror
better than anything else.

Yes, are they going to
blog incessantly

about the color
of someone's suit? Sure.

But ultimately, for me,

every time I see somebody
blogging

about JASON GOES TO HELL
or about, quite frankly,

about any of
the FRIDAY THE 13TH films,

I feel really lucky
that they care enough

to actually spend the time
and energy

talking about this character.

For me, I really learned to
always respect every audience.

And I think that's probably the
most important thing I learned

from Jason.

Following the crowd-pleasing
coda of JASON GOES TO HELL,

it appeared that
the long-anticipated showdown

between Jason and Freddy

was finally about to become
a reality.

But as the project remained
stalled at New Line Cinema

throughout the 1990s,

Sean Cunningham decided to
give fans one more FRIDAY.

We had been in development hell

on FREDDY VS. JASON for years,

and finally Jim Isaac,

who's the director of JASON X,
said, 'Well,

if we're just waiting
on FREDDY/JASON,

let's just make another
Jason film.'

So Todd Farmer,
Jimmy and I sat down

and just started coming up
with ideas for a new Jason.

We didn't want to do anything
that was going to screw

FREDDY VS. JASON.

So the way to stay away from
that was to push him

into the future.

I mean, that was just kind
of thrown out as kind of

like a gag at first

because that's, you know, that's
where horror films go to die,

like LEPRECHAUN or HELLRAISER,
l guess.

You know, space is kind
of the final frontier.

Armed with a budget
of $13 million,

Isaac took his team to Toronto

and set out to make the most
ambitious FRIDAY THE 13TH yet.

JASON X takes place
400 years in the future.

Jason has been captured by
the military,

and they really don't know
what to do with him.

There's somebody in charge
of the operation

who thinks
that he should be rozen.

The high ranking official comes
in, played by David Cronenberg,

and says, 'No, we're not going
to freeze him today as planned.

We're going to take him away
and study him.'

His unique ability

to regenerate
lost and damaged tissue,

it just cries out
for more research.

David Cronenberg
supplied a lot of his own crew

for Jim Isaac.

Our first AD was,
you know, David's AD.

Stephan Dupris,
who I've worked for years

Who did NAKED LUNCH.

He's got an Academy Award
for THE FLY

and a lot of
David Cronenberg films.

He's an amazing makeup effects
artist.

The rumor going around
set was Cronenberg

wanted to be in the movie
only if he got killed on camera.

That was the deal.

They dropped their guard a bit
and, of course,

Jason gets free
and creates havoc

but ends up
getting frozen anyway.

In the future, earth has been
completely destroyed.

It's a wasteland.

And a group of science students,
kind of loser kids,

go on this field trip.

We arrive doing some archeology

and discover
a frozen Jason Voorhees,

and we don't know
what trouble we're in for,

but of course the audience does.

Really it came down to,
you know,

kids basically having sex
or drugs are going to die.

Even four hundred years
in the future,

neither Jason, nor his appetite
for sex-crazed victims,

has evolved.

I think in the future
maybe teenagers

are a little more sexual.

Of course, some wonderful
devices that I get to use

for such things
as nipple tweaking.

So, yeah, it's all in there.

It's all in the curriculum.

The easiest, most fun work
you can get as an actor

because you're basically
just running from a monster

until he catches up with you
and kills you

and hopefully you get to
make outwith a hot chick

along the way.

Which is one of the things
that somehow

manages to sort of stir Jason's
soul and re-awaken him.

Certainly the way it's edited,
it kind of implies that,

that it was just too much
for him to take,

and he just had to rise up
and put a stop

to all this crazy teenage love.

One of the important things
in a Jason FRIDAY THE 13TH film

is to be true
to Jason's character.

I think that's where
Kane comes in.

My first impression of the
script of JASON X was like,

'I don't know. Jason in space?'

I didn't want to make it hokey.

He took it seriously.

He took playing Jason
very, very seriously.

Even though the location
and everything,

all the surroundings,
were different,

I just tried to keep him
the same

as I had always done before
and I guess, you know,

it worked out.

He definitely made sure that we
were all kind of a little bit,

sort of like intimidated by him.

I think he had a tattoo that
said 'Kill' in his lower lip.

I think he definitely goes
to a dark place

when he plays the role.

He was also very safe
when we were, you know,

when we were struggling.

He made sure that we worked out
how he was going to hold me

so that I could fight
without actually getting hurt.

I did my own stunt when he
threw me against the window.

Which I thought was great
because, you know,

sticking a girl's head
in cryogenic fluid

and smashed it on the counter.
Very creative.

I had to plunge my face
into water and scream

and then hold my breath
and just wait

because then they
ended up putting, you know,

all the CGI over the top.

Technically
our most difficult kill.

And we spent a lot of time
on that, prepping it.

I think they made 10 heads,

but it was really,
really creepy.

All these heads lined up of,
you know, me screaming.

L've never seen a crew
and a cast gather for an event

just to watch that effect.

Everybody just thought
that was a great one.

We knew from way back then that
that was going to be a good kill

and it stands the test of time.

Apparently MYTHBUSTERS
a few years ago tested my death

to see if they could actually
freeze a head in liquid nitrogen

and then smash it.

Guy: Absolutely nothing
like the movie.

Girl: So I guess this
one's busted.

Originally in the script

my death scene was going to be
that he was going to somehow

use the sliding doors
to cut me in half,

and I was really stoked
about that happening.

I was really looking forward
to them doing that.

And then I guess they thought it
would be a little too difficult

to do and so they switched it
to the machete blade.

Melanie's reaction
to me being killed,

they squirt out my blood.

It shoots up and hits her right
in the eyes,

and she just freaks out
because it wasn't actually

supposed to go in her eyes
like that,

and I think that's the shot
they ended up using,

so I kind of get a chuckle
when I watch that scene.

JASON X has some good kills,
I think.

I think we did a pretty good job
of that.

You had different elements
as well.

You had this sort of
super SWAT team

that was out to get Jason.

You had hologram games.

I thought this was an alien sim?

Yeah, it is.

This was my tiny cameo
in JASON X,

and I get the privilege,
myself and Dov get the privilege

of saying that we died twice
in a Jason movie

because we die
in the virtual reality scene

where I get my head cut off.

OK, screw this. Game over!

And then later I get my head
smashed into a wall

where my stuntman lovingly
broke his nose for me.

I really liked Jonathan,
the guy who plays the teacher.

We're gonna be safe here.

[Screams]

Shut up!

He's just such a sleaze ball,
you know,

and he's always making
the wrong choices and, you know,

he basically
endangers everybody.

Jason's coming at him,

and he doesn't know
what's going on,

and he grabs his machete
and so he says,

Guys. lt's okay.
He just wanted his machete back.

[Makes slashing sound]

We didn't know how I
was going to die initially.

I'm asking everyone,

'How do I get it?'

So they said, 'Ah, we're going
to cut your head off.'

Came back later and they said,
'We changed our mind.

He's going to grab you,

and he's going to slam your head
into an electronic box.'

I leapt up going
'Holy fuck, that's hot.'

The thing about
JASON X which, you know,

we didn't really think about

was that this took place
in the future

so every single thing on frame
had to be built.

It had to be created.

It had to be designed
and fabricated.

The future was a lot more
colorful

than I thought it would be.

It was beautiful, but it was
beautiful in the way

that BATMAN 3 was beautiful in
that, you know,

there was lots of color
and lots of neon

and just not what I was
expecting.

You know, what I was expecting
was THE DARK KNIGHT.

We had something like, I don't
know, 800 visual effects

in the film.

Sometimes you're acting
with a tennis ball

on the end of a stick.

I was very new to it.

Given the fact that we were
trying to pull off

a lot of technical things,

it was pretty smooth.

We had one shot that was outside

which just made the shoot
very easy

because we were on stage
every single day.

Following the release of Wes
Craven's 1996 mega-hit SCREAM,

'slick, smart
and self-referential'

became the hottest buzzwords
in horror,

and JASON X was no exception.

No wonder you wore this thing.

My only issue really was that,

as we got closer into shooting,
the script got changed.

It was one of the sort
of post-SCREAM films.

And suddenly
all the studio notes were

'this needs to be more
like SCREAM.'

So it was a movie
that had to acknowledge

that the movie-going audience,
we knew all the cliches.

Now what?

Now basically... we die.

At one point, Lewis Abernathy,
who had written DEEPSTAR SIX

and had been doing some work
with Cameron,

he was also in TITANIC.

He was the frizzy-haired guy
telling the story

about how the Titanic went down.

He came in just as a fresh set
of eyes.

I think they went through and
polished a lot of the dialogue

and it maybe made it
a less ALIENS

and a little more campy.

Aw, shit, I forgot my arm.

Yeah, here you go, dumb-ass.

Hi, hand.

Some people thought
it was a great idea and fun.

Other people thought, 'Oh, no.

We should go back to basics.'

If a rusted machete
would no longer cut it

for Jason in the 24th century,

his opponents also had to be
tougher, stronger

and more resilient
than ever before.

Both good and evil
needed an upgrade.

The women
in FRIDAY THE 13TH movies

are always the strong, you know,

the strong characters,

and we wanted to be true
to that.

But being in the future,

we wanted to take advantage
of that as well

so Todd and I came up
with this idea of this robot.

And this is the lovely
Kay-Em 14,

Tsunaron's little 'love-bot.'

I actually took this character
seriously.

I wanted to not just be
android-like,

completely robotic.

And so Jim and I talked about

what would be
some kind of templates

that we could work with,

and he actually mentioned
STEPFORD WIVES.

There's some strength in that

in terms of being
completely unflappable

and delighted at,
'Oh, what are you doing now?

You've taken my head off.
No worries.'

I'd clap if I could.

There's a scene in JASON X

where the robot Kay-Em
wants to get fake boobs.

- What do you think?
- Hmm?

- Do you like them?
- They're fine.

And the boobs are not
Lisa Ryder's boobs.

It's a prosthetic
that goes over it

and then they have
these fake nipples,

and they were attached to wires.

[clinking sounds,
Tsunaron grumbles]

To this day, still,
when people mention that movie

they are like, 'Oh, I love
that fake boob scene.'

A giant challenge
was my costume.

My costume was completely
head-to-toe PVC

and corseted at the back.

It was hard to breath.

I think I lost like 10 pounds
just sweating through that,

you know, PVC costume.

We wanted her to be the one
that kills off Jason.

So it was just - it was just a
way to have some fun with it.

There was a lot of gymnastics.

Just a lot of kung fu really.

Jason got shot so many times
during that movie.

The wardrobe was changing every
day, you know.

Here's the one that has
15 bullet holes.

Now this next scene you're
going to have 45 bullet holes.

She shot off his arm,
shot off his leg,

and then shot his head,
and it exploded.

Yeah.

And that's when we felt
that he had died.

We really wanted to play
with the technology,

with taking advantage
of the fact

that we're 400 years
in the future,

and then we tossed around ideas

of what kind of technology
might be forefront

and nanotechnology, I thought,
was the obvious choice.

So we've got Uber-Jason.

So this is Jason
100 times better

than Jason has ever been before
in the future.

The makeup was very easy
to work in

until we got to Uber-Jason.

That was an entire
one-piece suit.

It limited my motion a lot
with the arm and the leg

that had the metallic pieces.

I couldn't bend at the joints
as much as I was used to.

I still love the design
of that Uber-Jason mask.

Then you get the red
contact lenses.

Crew people didn't even want to
look at me in the eyes

because it was so weird looking.

Because even though you've got
the same character,

it's doing something different.

Jim lsaac's son brought his
class in and, you know,

of course, I scared
the hell out of them,

and, you know, kid went into
a fetal position, one of them.

I guess I'm a little cruel
but I gotta have some fun too.

Bar none, I mean,
you can't put the guy down.

I mean he literally is
indestructible in that sense.

Much to Kay-Em's sadness

because then he knocked
my head off.

You guys might want to run.

Our big plan to use our robot
has gone awry

so we've got this rolling
robot head

that Tsunaron is in love with.

He's holding it,
and he's gone crazy.

He's lost his mind, and he's
holding the robot head.

We've got Waylander

who's sacrificing himself
to save the day

and blows up the hull.

One of the things that's
interesting about the film

is my death is sort of
indirectly caused by Jason.

Jason has punched a
hole from outside

into the spaceship
and, of course,

when he pulls out his hand,
it creates this enormous vacuum.

We're all trying to run away
and poor little Janessa

just isn't strong enough
or fast enough

to get away before
the suction starts.

This sucks on so many levels!

Janessa has the best witticisms.

Want a beer?

Or do you want to
smoke some pot?

Or we can have
pre-marital sex.

The most successful scene
in that movie

was the sort of hyper-reality
of Jason on the spaceship,

you know, pummeling the naked
campers in the sleeping bag.

You know, it's a love letter
to all the other movies

because that's what they were
at one point.

It was just innocent and fun.

Originally I wanted Uber-Jason

to pick up the girls
in the sleeping bags

and swirl them around like this

and then hit them in the air
and then throw them down.

We were running out of time
and money by then.

It was the end of the show

and that would involve
a lot of rigging to do that

or a little CGI stuff,
so we adapted it a little bit,

which I think actually
worked out even better.

The weightless environment scene

with Jason fighting another guy
concerned me from the beginning.

I thought Jason
might look a little comical

floating around weightless
even if he's fighting

so we were able to limit that
a little bit.

One way to find a weakness

because it's pretty hard
to find a weakness for Jason.

Tsunaron and the Rowan character

escaped ultimately into a pod,

and they saw Brodski ride Jason
off into the sunset

kind of thing.

And it was basically my head,
Tsunaron and Rowan who survived.

During the year-long production
of JASON X, Michael DeLuca,

New Line Cinema's
president of production,

made a much-publicized exit
from the studio,

and with him would go
the film's biggest champion.

With virtually no support
for the film at New Line,

JASON X would be left adrift
in space for over two years.

You know, it just kind of
sat there.

It was the redheaded stepchild
for almost 18 months

um... and during which time
actually

a print got leaked out
on the Internet.

And I know for a couple months,

we were the most pirated movie
out there.

By the time JASON X
was released in April 2002,

it failed to ignite even a
modest spark at the box office,

and is regarded
by both critics and fans

as an interstellar dud.

When it finally did come
out, you know,

a lot of the buzz that had been
going on on the Internet

had kind of died down,

and whether it was deserved
or not,

I think there was a bad smell
to it,

and it just didn't perform
as well as it could have.

There's lots of things I'd like
to do differently.

I mean, I don't think
there's anybody

who's sort of directed a film
or, you know,

made a drawing or sculpted
an ashtray or whatever,

I mean, I think you always look
at it and go,

I could have done it
a little bit differently.'

I don't think anyone's ever
going to be happy

with the way it turned out.

Yeah, I wish it had been
a little bit darker,

a little bit edgier.

You want to make the best movie
you can make,

and I feel like because
we were all going

in different directions,
we didn't make the best movie

we could make.

And, you know, I know
that people love or hate it,

but it could have been better.

I think the movie does suck
on a lot of levels,

and I think that's part of
its appeal.

One of the things I love
the most about JASON X

is that it's not embarrassed
to be JASON X.

We watched the movie.
Everybody had a good time.

It was a packed house,

and we were walking out
and there were these girls,

and they were like,
'Oh. You're in the movie,

you're in the movie.'

And one of my buddies said,
'Hey, you want his autograph?'

and the girl went, 'Nah..

I went right from doing JASON X
to a TV show called ANDROMEDA

which the parallels
were astonishing.

Lexa Doig and I
both were in both.

It marked my, you know, the
beginning of six years in space.

I look back now and I realize
how lucky I was.

Of course, I was complaining,

and I thought my career was over

as I would see what was
becoming of it but, you know,

it was what it was.

There have been an absolute
tremendous number of spin-offs

for comic books, novels,
all that sort of stuff.

I think with the JASON X
franchise,

I think you can continue
telling those stories

in the future.

And, again, look,
even those movies,

if you really love the series,
they have their merits.

I mean, we all sit and watch
these things

when they play the marathon
on Spike

or whatever channel
they're on every year,

and there's no question,
if it's a Friday the 13th,

we're going to go check cable

because you know a couple of
them are going to be on.

And no matter what they are

or how ridiculous they might be
at times,

I'm going to sit and watch them.

And probably enjoy them
at an unhealthy level.

I think in general I should
have fought a little harder

for the script that
I fell in love with originally.

You know, that's your job
as a director

is to fight
for what you think is right

and that sometimes is difficult

when you're under the gun,
time, money and all that.

But, I mean, as far as it being
crazy and fun and different,

Pm pretty happy with it.

But really I think
at the end of the day,

it got Jason
back out there again,

gave the little push forward
that FREDDY/JASON

needed to really take off

and get us back to where
we are right now.

Ever since the idea

for a pairing of
FRIDAY THE 13THs Jason

with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET'S
Freddy

was first suggested
in the late 1980s,

fans had been anticipating
the ultimate showdown

between the two horror icons.

It was funny because
when we finished our FRIDAY,

it started to go around that,

what about bringing Freddy into
the series, you know,

and actually have
a FREDDY VS. JASON.

The kids had been
talking about it.

Whether it's letters to the
editor in Fango

or at conventions
or in fan clubs,

they'd been talking about Freddy
and Michael Myers,

Freddy and Jason,

Jason and Michael Myers.

You know, who would win?

There was always the talk
that Freddy and Jason

would somehow be combined,

and I think the ownership of
those two properties,

of Freddy and of Jason,

kind of mish-mashed around
various studios

and ended up finally
at the same place.

Then after JASON X,

they started seriously
talking about it,

saying they were going to
have a script done,

and, you know,

then it was definitely
a real project

and appeared to be the very
next one to be done.

And you've got to remember even,

almost a decade in front of that

when you look at
JASON GOES TO HELL,

it had been set up,
it was clear it was coming.

And our idea was Jason
was Hell's assassin,

so Freddy is the other assassin,

and both of them
had just been killed.

So now these guys are both
in hell,

and the devil proposes
a contest to these two guys,

which is,
I'm sending you both up.

Whoever brings me the most souls
in this given time slot,

you're the winner and you get
to stay up there as my assassin.

The other one is gone forever.

So that was sort of our idea
for Freddy vs. Jason

back in the day.

But New Line had, you know,

no interest in giving,
you know, the rights over

and Paramount was not going
to go the other direction.

And it took a long time
for Paramount

to finally lose their option.

They wanted
to distribute the film.

So it was a combination
of things.

I got the first draft
of FREDDY VS. JASON

when I was a freshman
in high school in 1994.

I bought it for $15 at the
Motor City Comicon in Detroit,

and I remember pledging
right then and there,

'I need to get to New Line,
I need to get to LA

before they make this movie,

or I'm never
going to forgive myself.'

And I made it my goal.

I dropped out of college

specifically to be able
to get there in time

to make FREDDY VS. JASON.

And credit to Jeff Katz
because, you know,

you've got to be kind of
a dog with a bone

on these things.

There's so much... not just
on FREDDY VS. JASON,

on every kind of movie,

it's always easier at
a million different stages

just to say no.

But after more than a decade
in the works,

and millions of dollars

spent on some of Hollywood's
most sought-after

screenwriters and directors,

it seemed that Freddy and Jason

might forever be trapped
in Development Hell.

They had gotten Rob Bottin
attached.

Rob Bottin was a huge special
effects makeup guy.

You know, he'd worked on
Carpenter's remake of THE THING.

And Rob Bottin was going to
make his directing debut

with this project.

And so it incubated
and then there were scripts

and scripts and scripts.

I think there were 13, 14,
15 writers on that script.

There were so many different
specific takes

and so many different, you know,

versions of that movie
from beginning to end.

The first draft I ever read
was the Peter Briggs draft

which was actually taking very
good care of continuity

to where Alice the Dream Master
was in it,

the Freemans from
JASON GOES TO HELL were in it.

It was about the kids and the
families coming together

ultimately to stop them.

They didn't like the script, and
they didn't like the director.

Then they didn't like
the script.

Because Freddy Krueger's origin

was that Freddy
was a child killer,

a child molester.

He had actually molested Jason
and actually drowned Jason

so that Jason wouldn't
tell anybody what had happened.

You had another series of
scripts

where I believe the character's
name was Dominic Necros

if I get this, if I remember
correctly.

It seems to me
that a third of this movie

needs to be about Freddy,
a third needs to be about Jason,

and a third needs to be
about a new character.

So I created the head
of a cult of Freddy fanatics

who were called Fred Heads.

But it was really, just look,
it's Freddy and Jason.

They're the stars of the show.

I certainly wouldn't
buy a ticket to a movie

Called FREDDY VS. JASON

to go spend the bulk of my time
with a guy named Dominic Necros.

I didn't buy a ticket
with his name in the title.

In our version they find
Jason's grave

at the Crystal Lake Cemetery,

and there's a headstone that
says Jason Voorhees, you know,

born 1958, died 1963,
and that was crossed off,

1978 and that was crossed off,
1981 was crossed off,

1982, 1983, and there were like
20 dates on there

of like all the times
he had died.

So that's probably a
documentary all unto itself.

It's all of the writers
and all of the drafts.

Ultimately, a young
screenwriting duo

came up with a take that would
pit the two terror titans

against each other
while remaining true

to the established histories
of both franchises.

The writers lobbied hard
not only for the assignment,

but also to put the project back

on the studio's fast track.

When Freddy's glove comes out
of the ground

and pulls the mask in,
and we asked ourselves,

'What does that mean?

Why is Freddy grabbing his mask?

Why is he pulling it down?

Does he need him
for something?'

And that's kind of the seed
that kind of grew

into FREDDY VS. JASON.

Our angle was we started by
saying here are the things

that you should not do
and then we went backwards.

And then we sort of got them
to understand

what this movie could be,
you know what I mean,

and then got them excited
about it.

Those guys ultimately,

because they grew up as fans of
both these franchises, got it.

I think if you ask
most of the fans,

I want to see Freddy as I know
him and love him best,

Jason as I know
and love him best

and just let these two sort
of forces of nature

go head-to-head and ultimately,

thankfully, we ended up
in that place.

While Sean Cunningham undeniably

retained creative control
of all things Jason,

the same could not be said
for Wes Craven,

the mastermind behind

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET'S
Freddy Krueger.

I never really had
any participation

after NEW NIGHTMARE.

That was kind of the end of it
for me.

Wes also had moved on
to other things,

the SCREAM franchise
and everything,

so he really didn't
really care too much

about FREDDY VS. JASON.

Outside of Wes, who's certainly
being paid every time

the character is used, getting
his credit and all of that,

it wasn't a case where Wes
could actually control,

I don't want Freddy to do that,

that wasn't a possibility,

whereas in Jason's case,
Sean has that ability.

When it finally got together,

we had trouble finding
a director too.

They met with probably
40 directors.

They met with every director
you could think of

on this project

because a lot of guys
wanted to do it.

We went to one of the
executives and said,

'You should really think about
this guy Ronny Yu'

because we were big fans of
BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR.

New Line agreed to meet
with the action director

from Hong Kong,

who had recently brought another
American horror franchise

back from the dead
with BRIDE OF CHUCKY.

That first meeting, my intention

really was to go in to tell Bob

that I don't want to do
the movie.

He's been getting, like,
directors,

tons of directors,

like saying they grew up with
these two franchise,

and they're crazy about this

and then there come this
Chinaman comes in

and tell them that, you know,

he doesn't care
about the franchise

but he knows how to make
an entertainment movie.

So he said this is what he want.

We wants somebody come in
with a different angle.

He had never seen a
FRIDAY THE 13TH movie

or a NIGHTMARE movie...

and that seemed like a very odd
choice for me,

for a director to direct
the most important one

of each franchise.

You know, at this point
we were looking for journeymen.

I liked the guy's cultural
influences,

and he was also a nice guy

that I felt like I could get
along with.

Just that little outside-ness
that Ronny Yu brought to it,

being a Hong Kong director,

I think really,
really helped it.

Don't take it too seriously.

You know, have fun
with the monster.

This is what I learned when I
was making BRIDE OF CHUCKY.

Chucky: What would
Martha Stewart say?

Tiffany: Fuck Martha Stewart!

It was never a question
in the minds of genre fans

that Kane Hodder, who had
already played Jason four times,

would be back
for FREDDY VS. JASON.

But as pre-production began,

rumors began to circulate that
Hodder was out of the running.

I had planned,
in my own mind, I guess,

for years to do that movie.

I thought they had planned
for me to do it as well.

In that fan boy base
there was a dispute

as to whether or not Kane Hodder

was going to be as good
as some other Jason might be,

and frankly I never thought of
anybody else playing the part.

I really was excited
about doing it.

Got the script.

Then the director was hired

and things started changing,
and I wasn't sure why.

Before I'm onboard,

already the studio decided
that they wanted a new Jason.

The decision not to use
Kane Hodder

really had nothing to do
with Ronny.

Ronny said from day one,

'If you guys want Kane Hodder,
I don't care.'

But one of the executives
at New Line said, 'No.

Let's go a different way.'

In terms of Jason,
I certainly personally point

to parts 3, 4 and 6 really
at the end of the day.

Tall, lanky, clean mask.

And I think that there
was an attitude

that when you shot them
side-by-side,

one had to look like a sort of
force of nature,

a tank, that being Jason.

You know, I think it
was just the stigma

of all of the Jasons that led
up to what we were doing.

They'd all been sort of,
you know, forgive me,

but a little cheesy
and not too expensive to make.

And I think New Line, when they
decided to make this movie,

decided they wanted to do
something different.

And different just didn't mean
Kane Hodder,

it meant everything.

I says fine, you know.

This is their call,
and I'm fine with it.

I always did feel kind of bad
that, I had been, you know,

pushing for this whole match-up
in interviews for 16 years

in playing Jason

and then not be allowed
to do it.

And a lot of people
were unhappy and still are.

And, you know,
part of me really wishes

that, you know,
those fans had been able to see

that dream that they were
always looking for,

which was Robert and Kane.

And unfortunately
that didn't happen.

But, you know, this is showbiz

and apparently
we're all replaceable.

I get the issue on this one,

but I also sort of know
the larger movie business,

and the way things go.

It was going to happen
at some point.

I would say to you
at the end of the day,

do I really think it affected
box office? I really don't.

You know, it was going to be
a success no matter what

just because people wanted to
see the two characters together,

and I just, I really wish I had
been able to do it.

The producers' search
for a new Jason

led them to a six-foot-seven
Canadian stuntman

who had donned Jason's trademark
hockey mask once before.

This time, however,

not only would Jason have to
convincingly swing his machete,

he would have to show

that even an unstoppable force
of nature could have feelings.

One of the people
that we'd seen early on

was a big-time stunt player in
Vancouver named Ken Kirzinger.

Jeff Katz who was at New Line

so passionately wanted to cast
Ken Kirzinger as Jason.

He just thought he would bring
something special.

Something in the eyes
he saw different or better.

As it was put to me when I
auditioned for it,

is they wanted to convey
some emotion in Jason.

Actually he had been a stunt
double of Kane Hodder, I think,

on one of the Jason films.

In JASON TAKES MANHATTAN

there was a shot where
Jason gets hit by a police car

and since Ken Kirzinger
was doing the stunts

on the show too,
he doubled me for that shot.

That was a question that I put
to them at the beginning.

Like, you know,

because Kane had sort of
established the character,

did they want some of
the trademark moves

that Kane does, you know,
the deep breath and stuff,

and they didn't.

They really wanted a more
unique character

and Ronny Yu and I had some
discussions about, you know,

movement and the fact that they
wanted to do

a lot of close-ups on the eyes.

He was big enough.
His attitude was good.

He looked good in the wardrobe.
So we cast him.

I was a little leery because a
lot of the feedback I, you know,

that fans were putting out there
was negative, I think,

in the beginning.

But then when the movie
came out,

it became very, very positive.

Jason was not the only role
to be recast.

Once again, the script
called for the return

of Jason's maniacal mother.

We literally underlined cameo,
and we wrote in the script

Betsy Palmer.

I believe they contacted
Betsy Palmer,

and she was not interested.

I was asked three times to be
in three different pictures

of FRIDAY THE 13TH,

and I declined each time.

First of all, they didn't
want to pay any money.

They probably said, 'Hey, we'll
give you a plane flight

and a sandwich,
and she was like,

'Well, everybody else
is getting paid.'

In the script they had me
standing in a graveyard,

I guess, and saying, you know,

'You promised me
you'd kill all those people.'

Mommy has something
she wants you to do!

I mean, what sort of
lines are that?

That's nothing for an actress
to do, for God's sake.

Make them remember
what fear tastes like!

Jason finally appears
after his mother says like,

'Wake up. Go get these people.'

And then he somehow,
finds my house.

I live in the house
that Freddy has, you know,

tortured people for years,

and then Jason shows up
out of nowhere.

Surprisingly the bed death
was not initially popular

when it was in the script.

We thought it was one of the
highlights of the script,

but, you know,

that was something that they
wanted us to take out.

Whoa, babe.

I told you about kissing me
after you smoked.

He wasn't a very nice guy.

He used to yell at my friend
Gibb a lot,

played by Katherine Isabelle.

You know I don't like
to be touched after, okay?

Just mouthing off
and Jason literally

just snapped his mouth
and his body shut.

[screams]

[giggles]

You know, and then they said,
'Well, it's too brutal,

it's too gory, it's too this,
it's too that,

and then we just kept saying,

'Listen, this is not something
you want to cut.'

That was actually the last day
of photography.

It was the last thing we shot.

When we went to the first test
screening, and that, you know,

the audience really
loved the movie

and that got
the biggest reaction

and you really couldn't hear
any of the dialogue,

like in the previous scene,

because people were still
cheering.

It was really satisfying.

To be drowned in a lake,
already have deformity,

be insecure about it,

and have to watch
your mother's head get cut off,

I think the fact that he just is
killing people isn't that bad.

With Freddy using Jason
as his pawn

to stalk the kids of Elm Street,

a cornfield rave sets the stage

for one of the film's biggest
and bloodiest set pieces.

The cornfield massacre is
one of my favorite one.

I loved the burning Jason,
you know,

going after the kids
with a machete.

That was, that was the most
difficult sequence in the movie

without question.

First of all,
it smelled to high heaven

because it was actually like
the cow field

and just the smell
of the manure or whatever

was horrible.

I think there were like 400
or 500 extras in that scene.

Those kids that were
smoking pot said

Why don't you go find yourself
a pig to fuck?

And they called him a corn poke.

And that's when he just breaks
his neck,

and, I don't know, once again
he felt like ostracized

and like he didn't fit in.

Maybe he was just there
to party.

I don't know.

Burn, motherfucker!

But shooting that sequence
is really tough

because lighting fire
in a dry cornfield

is the most dangerous request.

When they gave me the part
of Jason,

they made a point of telling me,

'Ken, you're an actor
on this movie.

We're going to have
a stunt double for you.

You know, we don't want you
getting hurt.'

And I went to them and I said,
'Listen, you know,

there's one stunt I really,
really want to do in the movie,

and that's the fire burn
in the cornfield.'

Very, very dangerous because
you could only,

an actor or stunt actor
could only be in a burn suit

and burn for 30 seconds maximum.

And they wouldn't let me do it.

And I was really disappointed

because that should have won the
stuntman's awards that year.

You know, the big top shot
of seeing this burning,

burning figure just running,

running across the cornfield

creating a path, for me,
that visual, that image is,

I thought is fantastic.

It took forever for them
to figure out

how to keep this machete
on fire.

They had to keep putting like
petroleum

and all this stuff, and we would
do like part of a take

and then it would burn out.

And, so, that was a very, very
long night of shooting.

Some of the extras,
some of the kids,

didn't know that a burning Jason

going to dash out
from the cornfield.

So some of the reaction
from their faces are real.

Jason probably did more damage,
had more carnage in that scene

than several of the movies
he's been in before.

We need those pills.

Can you get us back
to Westin Hills?

We're going to get some of
the Hypnocil

so that we don't dream,
so that Freddy can't get us.

Jason shows up and starts
causing shit,

as he is want to do.

He had to break through
the glass door with the machete

and Kelly Rowland and I

were screaming at the top
of our lungs.

L've never been... so terrified,

and I didn't know the line
between reality and fantasy.

My favorite personal part
of the film is,

for my character,
is the big standoff

where I'm actually
possessed by Freddy.

Let me handle this, bitch.

And Jason comes down
the hallway,

and he comes up
and ba-bam into the neck,

plunge him in...

Sliced right in half.

Which is a pretty awesome way
to go.

You need to have one guy

that the audience should invest
a little bit of their emotion.

And for me, personally,

I thought we should invest
a little bit more on Jason.

Dude, that goalie was pissed
about something.

Freddy obviously, even before he
became Freddy Krueger

and was a burn victim
and this crazy dream demon,

he was a bad guy.

Jason was just trying to go to
camp and have a good summer.

When Lori enters the
dream world of Jason Voorhees,

she witnesses
the childhood tragedy

that unleashed his inner rage.

In FREDDY VS. JASON
you see him confronted by fears

that he never had before
or people didn't realize

or wasn't shown
in the other movies.

So you are afraid of something
after all, huh?

Just knowing myself,
I would have tried to fight

against the Jason-fearing-water
part of that movie.

I just want to put
the record straight.

We never said that Jason
was afraid of water.

We never wrote that.
That was not in our script.

- Very important.
- That was not in our screenplay.

That would, that came
afterwards.

That was in a re-write.

All we wanted to do was say

that Jason perhaps would have
a subconscious fear of drowning.

And there was some debate of,

in that scene where you see
Freddy's blade

going into the little
poor kid's brain.

But there is a flashback to when
I go back to Camp Crystal Lake

to try to save him.

I really genuinely cared for him
and saw him in a new light.

I got to see him as
a little boy that was picked on.

If I had been there,

I would have killed all those
horrible camp counselors

and stuff.

Throwing him in the lake
and teasing him.

It was awful.

JASON VOORHEES?!

And sort of for the first time,
I think,

in FREDDY VS. JASON,
they touched on that,

and I think that would be
really interesting

to get into Jason's head more.

While Elm Street is
said to be located

in the fictional town
of Springwood, Ohio,

Crystal Lake is approximately
600 miles away

in rural New Jersey.

Fans have asked,
how were Lori and her friends

able to get Jason back to
Crystal Lake in record time?

Where is Crystal Lake located?

That was a big problem for us
in FREDDY VS. JASON.

We had to get them
to be able to drive there.

But for us it was important
that it was far,

like those two things.

So we had all these scenes
where they were going like

all night and all day,
and of course,

when the movie gets cut
it looks like

they're like right next
to each other.

Look, we're almost there.

Jason is in the back of a van.

They've got him all taped up,
and they've been drugging him.

Kelly Rowland despised the scene

where she had to give Jason
mouth-to-mouth.

As much as I'm saying
I loved Jason now,

and I have a certain compassion
and empathy for him,

I don't know that I'd want to
give him mouth-to-mouth.

[sputtering sounds]

And then the drugs wear off, and
the van flips,

and he comes shooting out
of the back of the van

which is probably the biggest
stunt I did on the movie.

The mother of all battles
between Jason and Freddy

is waged in the real world,

and on Jason's home turf.

The moment of truth had arrived.

For fans awaiting the ultimate
slasher slugfest,

the time had come
to place their bets.

My philosophy is everything
in the movie

should set up for the end fight.

Yeah, that was an amazing,
amazing finale there.

I'm like wrestling with
a 6 foot 7 Canadian stuntman

who's been in over 100 movies

and is buff and hard and can
drink me under the table,

and it was a rough shoot.

I did a lot of my stunts.

You know, I think Freddy got
the best of that one.

He's pretty much kicking his ass
the whole time.

I think there were a couple
moments where I felt

kind of maybe crossed the line
a little bit,

where we wanted to have Jason
to kick his ass

a little bit more.

Hey, asshole!

Originally in ours it was

- He calls him a mama's boy.
- Mama's boy.

Which I thought was
good, you know.

He's a little character related.
Calls Jason a mama's boy.

And they changed it
to 'Hey, Asshole.'

And I remember backing up
in the scene and saying...

Freddy vs. Jason,
place your bets!

And it never actually ended up
being in the movie.

I still don't know
why they cut it.

Place your bet was not in
script, and I didn't shoot it.

It's basically just for the,
for the trailer.

Quentin Tarantino saw the movie
and was so disappointed.

He went to the premiere
and he said,

'Where's the place your bets?

That's what made me
want to see it.'

At the end with the set piece,

we involved with all different
special effects,

like, you know, fire, water,
wind, smoke, explosions.

One of the bloodiest battles
you'll ever see in a movie.

And that was all
Ronny Yu's doing.

And none of it was CG.

We'd have sometimes six hoses
going in

and blood spraying everywhere
and Ronny still screaming,

'More blood! More blood!

We were like, this looks like
a Monty Python movie,

I mean the amount
of blood spraying,

it was unbelievable.

So over the top,

the violence and everything

that the audience
would laugh at the violence

rather than really affected
by the violence.

Jason, he and I
almost became teammates.

And we were both against Freddy,

and he actually saved my life
in the end

when Freddy was about to kill
me on the dock

at the very end of the movie.

And so he was protecting me.

Welcome to my world - BITCH!

He allowed me to be able to
cut Freddy's head off

at the end and kill him.

And I really felt like he and I

had some sort of bond
or connection.

Out of respect, I throw
the machete back in the water.

So in the end who won?

The claw or the machete?

Fans of both franchises

were equally passionate,

and New Line feared that tipping
the scales in either one's favor

would alienate just as many
as it would appease.

I always have problem
with the original ending.

I hated the ending.

I thought is a wrong focus.

Well, the original ending was
that it's six months later,

and Jason Ritter and I
are in bed together

and then he turns into Freddy
at the end.

Which I thought
was really interesting.

And we test screened it and then
the audience loved the movie

but hated the ending.

That's how they decided to do
the re-shoot

which I was a part of.

Originally I was up for
the role of Jason,

and I had had several callbacks
for the part,

but months later I got a call
to do the re-shoots

to play Jason
and I was just thrilled.

I was like, 'Oh my God.

I'm going to actually
get to do this.'

Not only did I get to step
behind that mask,

but I got to play Jason
in a film

with Robert Englund,
Freddy Krueger.

Ultimately, FREDDY VS. JASON

would end not with a whimper
or a bang...

but a wink.

I would say that Jason
won the fight,

but the war might not be over.

Look, Freddy's the one
who doesn't have a head

at the end of it,
now granted he winks.

But I think the ending,
what was great about that

was the great Rorschach test
for the fans.

You got the Robert
Englund/Freddy Krueger fans

who say Robert Englund won.

You got the Jason fans
say Jason won.

It's kind of left up in the air.

It gets people talking.

I spent three years

working in the professional
wrestling industry,

so I learned very early on

that even if someone
seems to have won,

the feud will go on.

Freddy or Jason, who won?

Me! I won!

I made Freddy defeat Jason
and then I killed Freddy!

So I'm the winner.
I'm the victor. I won!

In anticipation
of the film's release,

New Line put the FREDDY
VS. JASON publicity machine

into hyper-drive with
a pre-fight press conference

and boxing event
held in Las Vegas.

What's the matter?

Can't you speak for yourself,
hockey puck?

Soon Jason Voorhees
was everywhere.

From officially licensed
hats and mugs,

to comic books and even
children's lunch boxes.

And for the first time in his
more than twenty-year history,

Jason was even given a proper
Hollywood premiere.

It's something the fans
have wanted.

It was, that's really
a fan-inspired film,

and that's probably one reason
it did 135 million worldwide.

When the movie came out it was
the highest horror opening

of all time,

and I think it was the highest
grossing of the bunch.

I think it opened to $25 million
or something the first weekend.

It was incredible.

But to those who toiled
in the early years

of both franchises,

FREDDY VS. JASON was more hype
than holy grail.

After seeing the movie,
I guess I was kind of hoping

that I would see a scene to say,

'Oh, that's why.'

But honestly there's nothing in
the movie that I saw

that I wouldn't have been able
to do.

I went to see the film.

I found it really
just kind of brutal

without being very imaginative.

I love Ronny and I think he did
an excellent job?

But you know, he was maybe
a little more influenced

by WWE type stuff and you know,

you can see that in the film,
and that's not a criticism.

But definitely
in our screenplay,

we thought that there
would be scenes,

maybe there'd be
a little more tension.

While it's got its faults,
I think it was pretty true

to the spirit of those
characters

and tried to show a little love
for the continuity

which was very much intentional.

It was able to sort of help
breathe a little new life back

into the genre on the whole.

After the film's record-breaking
success,

the question
was inevitably asked,

would there be a rematch?

At that time I just thought,
you know, great.

We should do
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

type of movie with the HALLOWEEN
guy, you know.

The Myer vs. Jason vs. Freddy.

But then you've got two kind of
quiet killers.

I think it's kind of
an overkill there.

There were some interesting
ideas at one time.

There was a, you know,
a Freddy vs. Ash vs. Jason

that was talked about

which I think that Sam Raimi
wanted Bruce Campbell to win

which I thought was
a terrific idea.

You know, making the world
safe from sequels... Ash.

Sam and the camp
are very interested.

We negotiated sort of on and off
over two years.

As is the nature of Hollywood,
deal making,

it comes and it goes.

We try again
and it comes and it goes

until ultimately the deal's
just not going to make.

Well, I love EVIL DEAD.
I love EVIL DEAD II.

I love Ash.

Groovy!

But I think that that would
be even harder than it was

to pull off FREDDY VS. JASON
and as you can see,

it wasn't that easy.

But I think that's perfect
idea for a comic.

Several years later
in actuality,

David lmhoff at New Line
Licensing at the time said,

'You know what?

We should take the treatment
that I had written for the film

and let's go do this
and do it as a comic.

At my last horror convention,

one of these fans brought up
to me this comic book

FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH
and I said,

'Where did you get this?
This is amazing.

This is what the sequel
was supposed to be.'

And he said, 'I know.

Do you want to see it?
You're in it.'

The heroine from the first one
always has to die pretty quickly

in the second one.

But you know who kills me?

Jason.

Two pages in, I have a machete
hacking through my head.

And he wouldn't even have that
machete to kill me

unless I returned it to him.
I did the right thing.

And then he cuts
my face in half?

Freddy hadn't even shown up
on the scene yet.

I changed my mind.
He doesn't have morals.

He's just a heartless,
soulless killer.

I'm very honored
and at a large level

kind of humbled
that in comics now

we sort of have
the responsibility

of keeping the original
continuity going,

and FREDDY-JASON-ASH because it
was going to be

the legitimate sequel
and that was the take

we were going to use,

it's an incredible honor
because it's basically,

to the fans like myself that
care about the continuity

and want to know
where Tommy Jarvis has been

and what he's doing,

it's a thrill to get to kind of
deliver that

for them ultimately.

And at least let the people

that want to keep
the Freddy and Jason

that they grew up with and love,

let them sort of keep
living on in another medium

while these new sort of
re-interpretations are done.

Of course I'm very happy
and very excited

with the end result.

But more importantly,

I just felt
that my instinct was right

in the very, very beginning.

I'm so happy that the audience
also endorsed that,

endorsed my gut feeling.

You know, we love
NIGHTMARE and FRIDAY,

and, you know, we were, you
know, stewards of it, I guess,

a little bit, you know,
for a short period of time,

and, you know, we always try
to do our best.

We always put our,
you know, the fans first,

and, you know, hopefully
some people out there

think we did an okay job.

Two months after the box office
smash of FREDDY VS. JASON,

another horror icon was given
a new lease on life

With 2003s
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.

This time, it was neither
a sequel nor a crossover

that left audiences screaming.

It was a remake.

If the mother of all slasher
films was no longer sacred,

then a remake of FRIDAY
THE 13TH seemed inevitable.

Platinum Dunes is a company
I started with Michael Bay

and Andrew Form,
my two partners,

and I knew that New Line had
the rights to FRIDAY THE 13TH.

That was a title that we'd
always talked about

wanting to make.

I guess when you do a remake

you sort of play
with people's expectations.

You try to know
what those expectations are

and you give them what they want

but not what they expect.

I rang Marcus up and I said,
'Marcus, you know,

I'm not quite sure
why we're doing this film.'

And he explained to me that he
had enjoyed a great success

with THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
remake and that, you know,

basically he was taking
this film

because he felt like his
career needed

that shot in the arm again.

When I did
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

I was actually surprised to see
like the outcry, you know,

how dare they?

FRIDAY THE 13TH, in a Way,

it's less of a holy cow to bring
to the butchering block.

Aided by partner Michael Bay,
director of ARMAGEDDON,

PEARL HARBOR
and the TRANSFORMERS series,

the Platinum Dunes team

spent the better part of a year
securing the rights

from both studios.

Yet no one could see the point

of faithfully retelling
the story of Pamela Voorhees

and her murderous rampage
at Camp Crystal Lake.

The audience wanted Jason.

So the producers brought back
two of the series' biggest fans

to conceive a new vision
of FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Shannon: As kind of a reaction
to FREDDY VS. JASON,

we wanted to adjust the tone.

Yeah.

We wanted to make this
less goofy.

Yeah.

More serious, a little
harder edge.

Jason didn't kill
in the first movie as we know,

and we didn't want
to make a movie

where, that didn't have Jason,
that had Mrs. Voorhees killing.

So we took elements
of the first four.

We didn't really ever
think of it as number 12.

It was like, you know,
this could be

like we're starting
all over again.

This is the story
from the beginning.

There are many words for making
a movie again,

I think retelling is a
fashionable one right now.

Definitely not a re-imagining

because we are just basically
going back

to what Jason was
in the first place.

It could have been called
a sequel in my opinion.

A mash up, or a poupou platter.

More of a hybrid.

- It was a reboot.
- A reintroduction.

- A potpourri.
- A greatest hits.

I don't even really know
what it is.

From the get-go for me it was
always 'this is a reboot'

and that was sort of drilled
into our heads.

It's a re-box-officin-ing.
That's what it is.

It's sort of the Reader's
Digest of slasher films.

We did not want to say
none of these movies happened.

I mean, it was important for us
not to sort of say,

'Hey, we're starting over
and that didn't exist.

Absolutely.

That's not something
we wanted to do.

But, of course, you know, they
wanted to just call it

FRIDAY THE 13TH,
you know what I mean,

so it kind of started over.

But, you know, for me it
lives sort of in,

along with all the others.

It was really important to us
to go back to Crystal Lake.

It had been a long time since
Jason had been there,

and we loved the setting
of the camp.

This is really a New Jersey
story and for some reason,

we wound up shooting this
in Texas.

There weren't even camps
around, you know,

and not the right type of lakes.

I don't remember specifically
discussing

where we were geographically
in the United States.

I don't believe that's addressed
as to where it is.

I think it's kind of like
in THE SIMPSONS.

Crystal Lake, I mean, there's a
lot of Crystal Lakes out there.

You know, it could happen
anywhere.

Do you know how many lakes are
probably called Crystal Lake?

Crystal Geyser, Crystal Water.

For the next actor chosen to
wield the famous machete,

playing Jason wasn't
just another job,

it was the role of a lifetime.

I'm a huge fan of
the FRIDAY THE 13TH series.

It's my favorite horror series
of all time.

Derek Meats waked through
the door and, you know,

you don't know what to expect
after seeing his pictures

from past movies and clips

and he turns out to be
the sweetest guy.

And then you find out he
actually does cage fighting

as a hobby.

When I was in school, I have
a disorder called alopecia

which means my body sees hair
as a foreign obstacle

so it rejects it, and when it
started originally falling out,

it would fall out
in little patches,

little pieces here and there,

and I was kind of the different
kid in school.

And I looked and I go,
'Oh my God,

I'm like a, I'm like a little
Jason, like we're similar.'

And so I kind of
had a relation there,

a tie to that character.

Derek Mears was the only person

we considered to play Jason
Voorhees.

When that phone call came in,

trying to be professional
and be stone-faced,

'Well, that sounds great.
Well, cool.

We'll work the days. Where are
we shooting? Fantastic.

We'll talk to the managers.'

But inside you're like

a 13-year-old cheerleader,
schoolgirl,

'Oh my god, that's amazing.'

The fact that Derek got to
come in

and recreate this character,

someone who is so passionate
about FRIDAY THE 13TH

as a whole and every film
that's come in the genre before,

I feel like it couldn't have
been a better fit.

He was constantly in his head,

talking to the producers,
talking to the directors,

what about this,
what about that, you know,

and he'd go through
different films.

Well, you know,
Jason did this before,

or are we going to do
something different?

When I approached the character
of Jason,

I did a lot of research
on child psychology

being that Jason saw his mother
get murdered in front of him

at such a young age,

being that he was an outcast

and teased and picked on
from all the other kids.

His mother,
his only tie to life,

that's his only source of love

and seeing that
taken away from him,

how does that affect a person?

It'll be easier for you
than it was for Jason.

This is about a victim who is
lashing out in vengeance

for the death of his mother.

You should have been watching
him... every minute!

Ultimately Jason's
still a person.

He's just a very damaged person
obviously.

So I think Derek
really wanted to explore that.

You know, he's been rejected by
society. That's his area.

And so when the kids
come into his area,

he's forced into a corner,
again,

kind of like a wild animal,
and he retaliates.

It's very similar to John Rambo
from the FIRST BLOOD series.

John Rambo: Don't push it or
I'll give you a war

you won't believe.

And the discussion was, 'ls he
running or is he walking?'

He ran in the first few films.

You know, in 2, 3,4
he was running.

Why not go back to that?

It feels like
if you see him running,

all 240 pounds of him
with that 4 foot machete,

that it feels scarier than
if he just pops up.

We actually shot a lot of scenes
kind of two different ways.

One was like more empathetic

so the audience could understand
and feel for Jason,

and one was more aggressive.

You know, it's not an easy job
wearing all that makeup

and running around and carrying
the machete,

and it's easy to get aggravated
and mean.

And every day he was a pleasure
to be around and just a happy,

grateful guy to work with.

There couldn't be a greater
contrast in personality

for a serial killer.

Derek is the nicest guy
that any of us have ever met,

perhaps the nicest guy
that exists on this planet.

I mean, it's so funny that for
someone who plays

such a dark and scary character,

he couldn't be a warmer,
more loving person

filled with more light.
I just think the world of him.

I'm ruining my bad-guy career
right now.

I'm going to have to
punch somebody

just to establish dominance.

When you discuss the makeup,

or the costume really that
Jason Voorhees is wearing

in our film,
that's Scott Stoddard.

I was inspired by the asymmetry
of what Tom did

for the original makeup
for the little kid,

and what was done then
in Part 4.

But I also really wanted to
combine what Carl Fuller did

and had done in Part 2.

I thought that kind of
mountain man, you know,

just longer hair falling out,
kind of grizzly looking guy,

was something that I wanted
to put into it.

Scott did an amazing job.

I remember the first day
that Derek came on set.

I had - I mean, like chills
ran down my spine.

I was like,
'Oh my God, Dude.'

They wrote in the sackhead in
the script and when I read it,

I was like, 'Okay, great. Brings
me right back to Part 2.'

The sack cloth
was really scary for me too.

I think in some ways more scary
than the hockey mask.

I think both versions,
the hockey mask

and the sack head version
of Jason are terrifying.

To me the hockey mask does seem
more iconic though.

You know, that's what I
associate with Jason.

The film opens at Crystal Lake

in one of the longest
pre-credit prologues

in FRIDAY THE 13TH,

and perhaps motion picture
history.

This remake centers around

this brother-sister story
between the Whitney character

and the Clay character played
by Jared Padalecki,

and it starts off
because their mother is dying.

I don't feel right being here,
so far away from my mom.

My boyfriend drags me away
from taking care of her

to go on a camping trip,

and we don't realize that
it's Camp Crystal Lake.

And it doesn't go so well.

[random screams]

With the crew being around you,
once you sort of got outside

of all the lights and stuff,

you could really see how creepy
it would be

to be out there
in the pitch black

and not really know
your surroundings.

The dark woods outside
of Austin, Texas

provided the perfect cover
for a practical joke

on actor Jonathan Sadowski
by his fellow cast members.

We were shooting in the dark
woods late one night,

and, it was like 3 or 4
in the morning, super tired.

Of course, the portapotties
are like a walk.

It's a hike to get there,
and it's pitch black,

like there's nothin' out there.

This would make the perfect
serial killer story,

that somebody actually got
killed by a serial killer

in the woods while shooting
FRIDAY THE 13TH.

And we're all watching
the monitors,

watching the scene
that's taking place,

and Jonathan pops up from
his chair and goes,

Well, gotta go to the bathroom,

and he walks off
in the darkness.

And so Feldman and Mennell

like thought it would be a
really great idea

to convince Derek
to hide in the bushes.

So he goes out and, of course,
Derek sees him

disappear into the woods

and Derek goes to the
opposite side of the woods

and hides and waits for him
to walk back.

He hid in the bushes like
halfway through the walk

and jumped out at him with his
mask and machete.

I have never seen an adult man
get so scared

as Jonathan Sadowski
who literally,

when Derek came charging at him
out of the woods

in full costume,
didn't know what to do,

so just ran in place
like a cartoon character.

Ahhh-ahhh-ah-haha!

His feet are jumping
back and forth.

His hands are going up and down.

What happened was that part
between fight and flight.

He goes, I didn't know,
I was so scared I didn't know

if I should run
or punch you in the face.

And the whole set just died.
Just killed everybody.

So I'm like,
Oh, mission accomplished.

I felt pretty good about that.

Our movie has a ton
of nudity in it.

And as a kid when I was
going to movies,

that was part of the genre
and for some reason

it kind of went away.

And it was important to us
to bring back the nudity.

America and I are in the tent
and we are loving each other

biblically from behind.

Oh, you like that?

Yeah baby, wait for me,

- No I think I'm gonna...
- No, don't do that again-

As it turned out, playing
the role of sex-starved Amanda

was more than original actress
Moran Atias bargained for.

America Olivia bares her breasts
in the beginning of the film.

That was written into
the original screenplay.

And we shot that scene
with another girl

who when it came time
to bare her breasts,

she refused to do it.

You know, I think she'd recently
come from Israel

and was ready to do
some serious acting

and FRIDAY THE 13TH, I think,

was not exactly
what she had in mind

when she came to do
'high art' in America

and, I guess to put it plainly,

I think there were just
too many boob shots.

Hey It looks like you.

No, it doesn't.

It does. lt's cool,
you should keep it.

When Mike and Whitney go into
the cabin,

and she finds the locket,
because she's wearing it,

yes, it does save her life
to a certain degree.

That symbol of love
is that locket,

it's that confusion,
oh, that's my mom.

He's not all there but it's that
tie in to him needing love.

Little Oedipus.

[scream]

I think for me if there's
wooden boards involved

and someone's falling through
or bashing up into them,

that's the kind of death scene
I like.

I don't know why.
I'm just creeped out by it.

And I jump into the bathtub,

and I'm trying to pull Nick
into the tub with me.

There was a lot of thrashing
around and Derek Mears,

Jason, was out of town.

He was actually getting married,
funny enough

while we were shooting.

And they had a stunt double
for him

that was supposed to grab me.

I bashed this guy,
kicked him straight in the eye

and gave him a good shiner.

I run back to save Amanda,
and she is hanging from a tree

in a sleeping bag on fire
and burning to death.

That is when I stumble upon
a bear trap.

[scream]

We shot like 10 takes
and after a while I'm like,

my leg's kind of like dented
and like a little bit bleeding

and like black-and-blue
and so I was like,

Guys, can we loosen up
with the bear trap?

And they were like, Oh my God,
that's the real one.

Can somebody just get him
the rubber one?

Jason comes at me
at the end of the scene

and puts a machete
through my forehead

and then he turns on
Amanda Righetti's character,

and we cut to black
and then the real movie starts.

Jared Padalecki goes back to
Crystal Lake

because he thinks that
that's where his sister is.

So he kind of goes, he's there
on a mission to find her,

and he finds some other kids
who are hanging out

and partying at Crystal Lake.

I have a cabin. I'm very rich
and I want people to like me,

I guess, even though I don't
like anybody

that I really bring
to the cabin.

Hey, take your feet off
the table please.

Jenna, you know, registers
what Clay is going through

and how hard this must be

despite the fact
that all her friends

are just focused on partying
and having a good time.

I'm trying to set up
myself to get laid

with this beautiful girl.

She ends up going
to this other guy.

I'm definitely jealous,
a little pissed off.

So you don't want to be friends
after this?

Don't want to hang out?

Two boys wanting to duke it out
over a girl.

Like that's a story
we can all relate to.

I would probably leave soon
before I get pissed off,

and, you know... Yeah?

Yeah.

The new film attempted not one,

but two, versions of the scene

where Jason discovers
his iconic hockey mask.

The original scene was,
in my mind,

not nearly as interesting as
the one that we shot later on.

Donnie comes into his
pot den in the barn,

and he's getting high.

And he puts the hockey mask on,

and Jason comes in
and grabs him by the head.

You don't see him
get his head chopped off

but then you see the head drop
out of frame

and land on the ground.

He's looking at the mask
and puts the mask on

and there it was.

That's how he was going
to get it.

And then a few months later,

they decided to go and re-shoot
that a little different,

and it was when he goes
upstairs, confronts Donnie,

That shit ain't fuckin'
right, dude

Cuts his throat,
pulls something aside,

and there's the hockey mask.

I also think the scene's
quite effective.

I think it's an interesting
moment there.

Not only when he gets the mask,

he puts it on,
and he goes to the mirror.

I think it's quite an effective
scene.

I'm really glad we shot that.

I thought they both worked well.

It would have been fun if they
had Shelly from PART Ill

who introduced the hockey mask,

where he's like working with
Donnie doing something,

You know, there he is.
There's Shelly, you know.

In keeping with
FRIDAY THE 13TH tradition,

several of the film's
death sequences

had to be reconceived
and re-shot.

So there's a kill in the script
with Willa Ford's character,

originally it was written where
the boat sequence happens,

Ryan's character
gets shot with the arrow,

she gets hit by the boat,
and she's stunned.

As she's kind of coming to,
and she realizes

there's a guy
wearing a hockey mask,

and she's kind of confused
and all of a sudden,

the guy pulls out a machete,
and she's like,

Oh my God, oh my God.

And so she starts to swim
parallel to the water,

and he just slowly walks with
her keeping the same distance.

It cuts to the kids
back at the house

having a big party,
having a good time.

It's a very long scene there.

Then it cuts back to her
and now the time is passed

where it's dark,
and she's been treading water

for a long time,
and Jason hasn't moved.

He's still just staring at her.

And so it was more of a
psychological kill,

like she's so afraid to
get out of the water,

she'd rather drown in the water.

And I thought that was
brilliant.

But they changed it
where she faked it

and comes up under the docks,

has the machete
get the top of her head

which is still a great kill.

The kills are obviously
such an important part

of this franchise
and of horror movies in general,

and I loved them in this movie.

I thought everyone had a really
unique and disgusting way to go.

We were talking to the
producers and they were like,

Did you realize there are
13 kills in this movie?

And I was like,
Yeah, it was intentional.

And they were like, Really?
Wow. That's great.

The other part of the formula,
I guess for us,

was we wanted to have kids
having fun.

We wanted to bring back
some of that feeling

from the 80s where it's kind
of sex, drugs and violence.

Well originally we did want to
put it in the 80s,

I mean, that was sort of
important to us,

and then once you start talking
to like the studio guys,

they go,
yeah, it's not going to happen.

It's very modern, and we didn't
step back in time at all.

We really brought that
modern energy to it.

As Form and Fuller
once explained to me,

'These kids have got to be
fuckable.

The guys have gotta want to
fuck the girls,

and the girls have gotta
want to fuck the guys

in the movie.'
So that's what makes them care.

My character did have
some good lines in the film.

I know the one that I did not
want to say was

Your tits are stupendous.

And they said, Trust me.
It'll get a laugh. lt's funny.

I said, Okay.

And then we were doing
the sex scene,

and, it was like a twelve-hour
day for that thing,

and it sounds like, Oh, man, you
had to do that for twelve hours,

you poor guy, but seriously,
twelve hours a day

wearing a little cock sock,

it's not really the most
comfortable thing.

This is a man's sport.

Aaron Yoo, who plays Chewie
in the movie,

he had to have
full stomach surgery

while we were shooting.

He had an obstruction
in his stomach,

and he was rushed to
the hospital from the set.

He came back with, I don't know,
30 staples in his stomach.

I don't know how he held up
but he kept going like,

'Hey, look,
can you actually throw me?

Can you like do it for real?'

I go, 'Yeah, I can do it for
real. I'm not doing it for real

because I don't
want to hurt you.'

Are you looking for this?
'Cause it, uh...

completes your outfit.

And he was like,
'l'm good for one.

Is that cool with everybody?'
'Okay, dude, if you're sure.'

[screams]

And all I'm thinking is
if his guts pour out

while we're doing the scene...
l'm going to shoot that, right?

'Cuz I can use that in the movie
if his guts pour out.

There's a point
where I'm stabbing him,

and he starts to choke,
and he's gagging,

and he goes to the ground,
and we end the scene.

I go, Dude, are you okay?
What's going on?

And he goes, No, no, no.
I had the blood in my mouth,

and rather than just coming
out of my mouth,

I tried to inhale it into my
sinuses so it would come out.

I go, you are far too committed
for this.

That is insane.

No, but it looked really,
really cool.

Take that, motherfucker!

My death scene, it hurt
the most.

And you know, oh, he's getting
away and then all of a sudden

you just see [noise] axe.

I'm screaming for help,
and you can hear me.

Oh my god, please!

It's always interesting to me
to see, you know,

a bomb drops, you know,

a bunch of kids scatter around
like roaches on the kitchen sink

and how do they interact.

- You can't go out there.
- We have to help him.

No we can't, ok?
He's using your friend as bait.

You know, at least someone
said we have to help him.

Somebody's gotta do something!

I was like, Do it, be a friend,
go out there

and save your buddy.

And we're all like, Whose life
is more important here?

Ours.

As I was watching the movie,

I thought of so many different
scenarios

of how I could have been saved.

Spineless bastards.

[screams]

I mean, I think I die three
or four times in the movie.

I get suffocated by Jason.

Then I get hung on these hooks.

And I get shot through a door.

Then I get thrown out a window.

Marcus, I guess, wanted to try
to get a little more creative,

you know, like the things
that make you squirm.

The poker through the eyehole,
that was... errrrr.

Anything with eyes, like when
you watch that movie ZOMBIE.

As the remaining characters
make a last bid for survival,

an on-set accident
nearly resulted

in a real
FRIDAY THE 13TH casualty.

Whenever you're making
a horror movie

and kids or people are running
and they have sharp objects,

someone's bound to get hurt.

We were shooting
one of the scenes

where we run from upstairs
to downstairs.

And we're coming down
the stairs.

I'm backing down as fast
as I can

like pretending I'm a frickin'
FBI agent or something,

and I run into Danielle and
I slam her into the wall.

He somehow pushed me
into the windowsill,

and I hit my chin,
and I split my chin open

and fell back and gave myself
a concussion.

She hits her head,

and she almost gets knocked out
unconscious.

And she had to go
to the hospital.

I think - it was just bad.

So I still have a teeny tiny
scar on my chin

that will forever remind me
of FRIDAY THE 13TH.

I feel bad but it was - I mean,

I guess it was payback for her
going to the other guy.

So I got her back.

I think the most brutal kill

would probably have to be
Travis's.

He had the iconic scream.

[screams like a girl]

I think he probably out-screamed
all the women

that have been in any
of the FRIDAY THE 13TH films.

My death scene in this film
was a great one,

and I think the whole purpose
of my character

staying in the film
as long as he did

was you wanted the audience to
really slowly hate me

and hate me more and more

so that when I died
it was a big payoff.

We went through probably
10 gallons of blood.

Gets the machete basically
all the way up his body

until he's lifted off the
ground.

Then he lets me down,
lifts me up

and throws me on the back
of a hay bale spike

that goes through my chest
as the car pulls away.

So timing had to be perfect.
I had to be strapped in.

It was just a really...
It's a gnarly death.

He was the asshole,
he was the jerk,

and, as we all know in films,
we want those people to die.

So he got what he deserved.

And then they drive away
with my dying body.

So, altogether I'm... that was
one of my favorite parts

was to watch me die.

The original script that I read,

it involved a much more
intricate scene

involving Jared's character

and Amanda Righetti's character
and my character,

in more of a battle with Jason

and Jenna was definitely more
involved in that version.

They needed to find something

that wasn't going to be too
difficult to shoot

and that was going to fit in
their schedule.

So Jenna had to die
in the tunnel

I loved that about this.

You know, the sort of,
she follows all the rules

of a quintessential Jason movie,
and she doesn't swear,

she doesn't have sex,
she's not a hard partier,

and yet she still gets killed.

And I think it's fun.

I think it's a great
talking point,

and I love that people are so
invested in it.

With the Platinum Dunes partners

closely watching over the set,

and with the mounting pressure
of constant script changes,

tensions flared
between the producers

and director Marcus Nispel.

The working relationship
that I had with Marcus

shifted quite a bit in the
course of making this film.

Kind of a recluse.
He would just keep to himself,

and he would say things to you
when you needed to hear them.

There's a fine line
between genius and madness.

He's such a visual guy.
He gets so excited.

'Da-da very good scene.
I want you to burst in.

You're going to attack her.
The energy stop there.

Oh they can't help it.
You're going to rip them apart!

I think I had a better
relationship

and better communication
with Brad and Drew.

They were the producers
that were on set

the entire shoot.

Unfortunately there was
a lot of conflict

between those parties.

Marcus was trying
to push this film forward

but they kept changing
the script

and rewriting the script.
And they were forever at odds.

Almost every shooting day
would start with,

you know,
some sort of discussion

or conversation
about what we're shooting.

No, no, that's not even
a scene anymore.

There may have been
something between them,

but by the time
it gets to us actors,

everybody's... you know,
it's like mom and dad.

If they fought it was
when we went to bed.

As time went on I realized this
is no way to carry on

making a film.

We have to somehow arrive
at an amicable agreement

where we can just carry on
and, you know,

and that never really happened.

As filming drew to a close,

one question still remained...

How would this
FRIDAY THE 13TH end?

And we ended up going back out
to Austin

a few months after
we had wrapped the movie

to re-shoot some of it,

and they wanted to see me
stab Jason.

The original ending
we shot for FRIDAY

when Jason's getting pulled into
the wood chipper,

we actually shot
where the mask pops off.

He's staring, he's confused

because, you know,
he loves her so much.

It's like the confusion of like
he loves his mother,

and she's not his mother,
but she kind of is,

and so he's like,
Why are you doing this?

And then she stabs him
with the machete.

Jason! Say hi to Mommy... in Hell!

'Jason, say hi to Mommy
in hell.'

I fought that tooth and nail.

I was like, Oh, guys, really?
That's cheesy.

What they were looking for is
the entire audience going like,

Yay! The bad guy's dead!

But instead the entire audience
was silent.

And so they changed the ending.

I prefer the more,
the emotional one myself

because it adds more depth.

Obviously the big pressure is
will there be a big,

big scare at the end,

and then, of course,
your biggest trick as a director

is to see what you make look
like an end or not,

the false end, you know.

What are you going to do?
You know, it's hard.

It's hard to top what happened
in the first movie.

The first movie has one of
the great, you know,

jump scare endings of all time.

So it became a really
tough bar, I think,

for every other filmmaker.

It's like well we need
something.

And they just couldn't decide.

There was one point where we
were both in a canoe

and then the canoe goes over.

And then there was one point

that maybe it was just Jared in
the canoe,

and I was on the dock.

And then it ended up,
no, we'll both be on the dock.

They weren't sure if they were
going to do a sequel

but they wanted to keep it
open-ended

if they did do a sequel.

And then they ended up just
deciding, Okay,

he's going to just come out of
the water and grab you.

[screams]

On Friday, February 13th, 2009,
FRIDAY THE 13TH

was released on 3,105 screens
in North America.

Although it brought in an
astounding $43 million

in its opening weekend,

negative reviews and a backlash
from hardcore fans

caused the film's box office
to plunge 80%

in its second weekend.

Nevertheless, the film went on
to earn

$65 million domestically,

making it
the highest grossing film

among any of the slasher remakes

and proving that Jason Voorhees
can indeed survive anything,

including his own reinvention.

Any film that gets remade ever

is going to come across a lot
of criticism.

We're messing with something
that to a lot of people is holy.

So it doesn't surprise me
that there were people

that weren't happy or satisfied

with the way they depicted
where Jason was living

and how he was going about
killing these people.

The diehard fans

kind of got their panties
in a wad about it,

but I thought it was
a pretty good execution.

If you're really a fan
of those original things,

and you're mad that we messed
with some original things,

then go watch
the original movies

and don't come see
Michael Bay's remake of it.

Well, at least Jason
wasn't like living in space.

I had a friend send me
something the other day

saying there was a list
of recognizable characters

in the franchise,
and that I was one of them.

I'm like, That's really cool.

L've been very fortunate
because the fans, fan boys,

can sort of fall
on one side of the fence,

and they've been very kind
to me,

and I'm very grateful for that.

We tried to make a fans' dream.

Because we are fans and I mean
I don't know if everyone says,

You guys aren't really fans.

But I really am.
And I love these movies,

and we just wanted to write
the movie that we wanted to see.

I just knew I worked on a film
that I loved working on

with a great group of people

and then when the people
started seeing it

and watching it and coming up
to me and telling me

what they loved about it,

then I was able to look at it
and go,

I just worked on
a FRIDAY THE 13TH movie.

This is so cool because this is
what I grew up on.

I never thought about growing up

to try and make
one of these films.

I don't think you dared
to dream that high.

I make no bones about it.
I loved making this movie.

I would love to make
another 12 of them.

You know, I think there's
probably more life in Jason,

and there's just another
way to reintroduce him

into the next generation.

This is how much of a nerd I am.

I got chills, which is crazy.

It's such an honor to be
a part of the series.

It's mind blowing because when I
hear Jason I think of Kane,

C.J. Graham, Ted White.

You know, I think,
Oh, yeah, that's right.

I got to play Jason.
How unreal is that?

If they do a sequel,
I would like to return.

But if not, even if I'm not
asked or I don't return,

I'm a fan of the series.

I just want to see
more Jason films,

and I'm totally cool with that.

No matter when or if

Jason Voorhees ever hangs up
his mask and machete,

fans will always have
their Crystal Lake Memories

to remind them that the world
would indeed

be a must darker place
without FRIDAY THE 13TH.

It's fun to think that Jason,

who started off as just this
little surprise ending

on the first one,
has turned into a pop icon,

a virtual cottage industry.

I don't think anybody,

myself, Sean or Steve

or pretty much anybody involved
with that picture,

had any idea that
FRIDAY THE 13TH

would spawn twelve and who knows
how many more films?

I know I didn't.

Honestly, FRIDAY THE 13TH
has given me a gift

that is just bigger
than life itself.

A movie that I didn't
give two cents for

in the beginning
has brought me into the world

and into the lives of people
who have viewed it

in a very special way.

If that's how people saw me,

as kind of the strong,
intelligent woman,

it made me feel
pretty empowered.

To be able to carry it with me
for the rest of my life,

this fun cult film,

it's something to talk about,

it's a great
conversation starter.

I can say I was in
FRIDAY THE 13TH,

and I gave Jason
his hockey mask,

and nobody doesn't know
what I'm talking about.

Everyone knows what what is.

I'm really proud of it.

I'm part of history,
film history.

You know,
this is my first job ever,

and there I was
the lead of this film

and that sort of,
I think that started me off

to a good path of eventually
lots of doctor and lawyer roles.

It's like a badge of honor,
you know,

of all the iconic horror
figures, you know,

to be killed by Jason,
it's really cool.

The quote is 'you're not
an actor

unless you've done
a FRIDAY THE 13TH movie.'

There are so many people I run
into all the time that say,

You know, I was in
a FRIDAY THE 13TH.

The fact that We become an 'non

is the weirdest experience
of my life.

Because, you know,
there's no reward

when you're making
the damn thing.

It's a year later
when it comes out.

You're listening to the screams
and the applause

and that's what that's
why we do it, you know.

We went and had a great time
watching people

watch the movie.

Again, you don't see that
very much now.

Well I guess in some weird way
these are classics?

So I'm happy people enjoy 'em,

and can laugh about it and not
take us all too seriously.

A lot of actors tend to like
kind of shy away from it,

kind of put it in their past,
look the other way,

act likes it's a porn
or something

that they're not proud of and
they just would rather not admit

that it ever happened.

For me, I feel
quite differently about it.

I'm grateful to the fans
of the horror world,

and I am grateful that,
you know,

I was welcomed
with such open arms

by the fans of the franchise.

I loved playing Tommy Jarvis.

Corey set it up so great
in PART 4

that it was like
passing the torch.

And of course he goes on
to PART 6.

He at least lives, so I must
have done something right.

I just want everyone to know
I had a great time,

I was really proud
to be a part of it.

I am very grateful,

and I'm glad we can all share a
good laugh... or a scream.

Ethel: Ayyyy-ahhh!

No matter how twisted
these movies seem,

there's something that actually
kind of interweaves

this whole big group of people
that makes it one big family.

Host: Never in the course
of film history

has a single date

meant so much to our culture

than that of FRIDAY THE 13TH.

It was a party for the launch

of the Crystal Lake Memories
book.

And then of course,
Jason showed up and, you know,

cut the cake with a machete and
that was awfully fun and silly.

[cheers and applause]

And I got to meet
my father and mother

from the films,
and we had a photo,

and we felt like we were
a family reconnected,

found each other again.

And she's this little adult now,

I think she's going off to
college, bless her heart,

we did really well,
she turned out great.

FRIDAY THE 13TH has been
an anchor for a lot of people

for those who just had it
as entertainment,

but for filmmakers,
directors, writers.

Several years back
I had the great opportunity

to be cast as the standby
for Hugh Jackman

in the Broadway show
The Boy from Oz.

His whole dream
to grow up and become an actor

was based on Jason,
he wanted to play Jason.

REPORTER: So do you ever think
that you'll ever play Jason

in one of those
FRIDAY THE 13THs?

HUGH JACKMAN: Oh man,
you've done your research.

That's what inspired him
to be an actor.

I saw everyone was committed
to doing their job

to 100% and, you know,

it made me in a way fall in love

with what it is that I do.

I do think these movies
are essential.

I think they allow us to live
out some weird dark part

of our personalities.

I think they're healthy.

I don't think they're negative
on society.

I think that's an excuse.

We all love, you know,
being scared

and wondering what's happening
behind us and around us.

[scream]

I think that's why they last,
honestly.

FRIDAY THE 13TH is always
a great date movie, you know.

We like to say we've been
bringing people together

for thirty years.

[scream]

For guys like us who like
horror,

and who like Jason,
Michael and Freddy,

they're part of our culture
and so,

you know, we'll tell our kids
about these stories.

That is what made it scary

was the fact that you could only
deter them.

There was no way
of killing them.

They were gonna be around for
the next generation

and the next movie,

No matter what
you did to them...

they were gonna be back.

How long will this go on?
Who knows?

It could go on for another
20, 30 years. Who knows?

The amazing following
that we have,

I had no idea,
and I'm so pleasantly surprised

of the fans and everybody.

They're so nice,
and I feel really proud

to have been a part of it.

I'm just amazed at the
phenomenon this has become.

I never dreamed when I was
doing the film then

the effect it would have
on so many people

and how there would be such
a following 30 years later.

And I'm so grateful to the fans
for their loyalty.

They've shown me a lot of love

and that's been very uplifting
and surprising.

L've never met as many people

that are as excited
about saying hello

to some guy
that wore a hockey mask

and getting his signature.

They know more about me than I
know about myself half the time.

And they're terrific. They're
terrific, terrific people.

You know, as Andy Warhol said,

we all have fifteen minutes
of fame.

And thanks to FRIDAY THE 13TH,

my fifteen minutes,
it keeps going.

You know, it may be a one-time
thing for me, I don't know,

but it has been
a great experience.

I'm taking pictures
with 4-year-olds

with machetes and masks,
babies with masks on.

Most of them come up to me
and say,

Hey, you scared
the shit out of me

when I was 8 years old,
you know.

And I say, Well,
what were you doing

watching the movie
at 8 years old?

When you get that
cult following,

when you get that group
of people who's so into it,

it never goes away.

They would have stopped making
those movies a long time ago

if they weren't successful.

And success isn't just money,
it's people want to see 'em,

it's desire,
and they trigger something,

and they become an institution.

It's so weird now to go into
these different stores

and see these plastic
hockey masks

that are just there
because of the FRIDAY thing.

Between toys, novelizations,
non-fiction books, video games,

if everyone remembers
that wonderful Nintendo

Entertainment System game.

He is no less marketable
than Ronald McDonald

or Mickey Mouse at this point.

It's really become part of
the everyday culture

in the American culture
and throughout the world.

It's just an incredible
opportunity

of experiencing something
that, you know,

you're going to look back
15, 20 years, 30 years,

and just remember that you were
part of that.

What gave me nightmares
as a child,

now it's like a weird full
circle. lt's so bizarre.

How the heck did I get here?

It's kind of like I've jumped in
through my computer monitor,

and I've joined this secret,
fun, murdering society.

Playing a character that's
known around the world

is an amazing feeling

and something
I'm really proud of,

and I never expected
anything like that

going into this career
as a stuntman,

and I've just been very lucky,

and I'll always love the fact
that I was Jason.

FRIDAY THE 13TH
in this long odyssey

towards becoming iconic horror
filmmaking,

it's just an amazing phenomenon.

I swear to God,
I don't understand it,

and I'm just grateful
that it happened.

And there you have it,
the story of Jason Voorhees.

For now he may be quiet,

but he will be back.

The one thing
we know for sure...

Jason's horrific reign of evil

is eternal...

immortal...

and unstoppable.

Jason is still out there...

and maybe... just maybe...

he's closer than you think.

Kill her, Mommy.

Paul there's somebody
in this room.

There's somebody
in this fucking room!

Whooo! This feels good!

Dude, that goalie was pissed
about something.

If Vera had...

Boo!

[Scream] Ohhhh!

It's that creep Shelly.
What a sick sense of humor.

Why do you do these
stupid things?

I just want you to like me.

I have seen enough horror
movies to know any weirdo

wearing a mask is never
friendly.

I don't think so, Maddy.

You could use a little
touch-up work first.

Need a little bit of touch-up
work, my ass.

This sucks on so many levels!

Now I say we regroup,

and let's go find
this mother-fucker

before he finds us. Huh?
Are you with me?

You didn't get me
in the lake, Jason,

and you're not going to get
me now!

Tommy! Tommy,
get the hell out of here!

That's what's known as
screwin' the pooch!

Bad news Crews.

I'm in the mood for I feel
like a Jarvis Sandwich!

When I looked into that mirror
I knew I'd always be ugly.

I said, 'Lizzie, you'll
always be plain.

Are you ready for Tony
the Wonder Llama?

I told you to sit on it, Tonto.

Hey, you're lucky
you weren't alive

during the Microsoft conflict.

We were beating each other over
the heads

with our own severed limbs.

Come on, Sara, strip and dip?

Freddy died by fire,
Jason by water.

How can we use that?

Dude, that's not a good look
for you.

You ask the one black guy to
pump the gas for you? Shit.

Do you...

You know, I gave up a weekend
with Mary Jo Conrad

to be here with you.

You know, Jimmy,
you're a dead fuck.

Yeah, well, I guess
I do owe you.

You slut! [laughter]

Stay here. Relax.
L'll be right back.

I'm gonna chop you into itty-
bitty little pieces, my friend.

Just like I done to that piggo

over at that fuckin' crazy farm.

You tell 'em, Ma!

Ayyyyyy-ahhhh!

Melissa's a bitch. [laughter]
No, I can't even do it.

Jason belongs in hell. And I'm
gonna see that he gets there.

Wherever the red dot goes,
ya bang.

Nobody's gonna touch that
fuckin' ray of sunshine.

[tongue lapping sound]

Rrrrrrrrruffff!

My earring

Must be my imagination.

Survival's the name of the game,

and that flag is mine.

We never should have
let her play.

Oh God, somebody help!
He's trying to kill me!

You're not just a lousy doctor,

you're a blank-blank-blank
coward! [laughter]

Aww, what scary man?

It's the best. The best!

You're talking
to the prom queen, Eva.

Do you really think I'm going to
risk getting caught?

What's brown
and sits on a piano?

Beethoven's last movement.

[party horn sound]

Hey buddy, where are you,
Michael?

Hey buddy? [party horn sound]

Ben? Are you
coming back or not?

And then [slashing sound]

That's it. Come to Momma.

Mmmm. Smart and sexy.

[sounds of agony]

The story could have happened
anywhere, dude.

That's how they get little kids
to shit themselves.

May I please have the
wallet ma'am.

You've got perfect
nipple placement, baby.

L've actually said that
to a woman before.

Wow, you really know how to
make a girl feel special.

Jason's out there.
And he's hungry.

Ma'am...
we didn't find any boy.

Then he's still there.

Yeah, when I was doing the
films CLERKS, MALL RATS,

CHASING AMY and JAY AND SILENT
BOB STRIKE BACK,

um... wait a minute...
I wasn't in those movies.