Factoids of the Living Dead: FRIDAY THE 13TH
That's right, today I'm taking on a whole franchise.
I've got nothing better do with my life, except literally anything else.
- The most profitable slasher series of all time. The original alone made $40 million on its budget of $500,000.
- Onscreen body count: 199. The movie with the most murders is Jason X at 23, a number that's even higher if you count the 20,000 people on board that exploding space station.
- The sound isn't "chi-chi-chi cha-cha-cha". It's "ki-ki-ki ma-ma-ma", as in "Kill her, Mommy".
- It's no secret most of the actors who have worked on this series don't view it in the best light. Some called their respective movies "c-list", and Betsy Palmer (Pamela Voorhees) hated the original.
- Over 10 actors have played Jason over the years. Kane Hodder (who also played Lord Zedd on Power Rangers) was the stuntman who played him the most, in a total of four separate films.
- Tom Savini, makeup artist on the first film, based Jason's disfigured visage on a mentally challenged man he knew from his childhood.
- It was Savini who thought up the Carrie-style jump scare at the end of the movie. He would check out the last five minutes of screenings just to see people's reactions, which probably made the three months needed to reshoot and reshoot it.
- The original was filmed at Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Blairstown, New Jersey, which still functions as a boy scout camp.
- The original magazine ad for the movie was released before they had even written a script. They just wanted to see if any other movie already had that title.
- The original mask was sculpted out of a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask.
- Crispin Glover's awkward dancing scene in Part IV was originally set to "Back in Black", but they couldn't secure the rights.
- Speaking of which, Part IV has the most nudity out of any movie in the franchise...
...or so I've been told.
- Part VII was meant to crossover the series with Nightmare on Elm Street, but they couldn't get the rights to Freddy, so his role in the script was replaced with a teenage girl with psychic powers. We would have to wait to 2003 for that fight to happen.
- Jason Goes to Hell features a cameo from The Evil Dead's Necrinomicon, along with the demonic dagger thing from the first two movies, implying some sort of connection with that franchise. In fact, the sequel to Freddy vs. Jason was suppose to include Ash in a three-way battle to the death, but Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell decided not to take part when they were informed that Ash would not be allowed to definitively kill the other two.
- That corporate guy who gets killed in the opening to Jason X is David Cronenberg, director of The Fly, The Brood, and Videodrome, which should probably be your indication that you shouldn't be taking anything in that movie seriously...
...if this scene or the robot nipples didn't make that clear already.
- In a majority of the films, there is a storm either approaching Camp Crystal Lake or there's already one going on. The obvious idea we're suppose to be taking from this is that Jason is totally a force of God killing all those horny teenage delinquents.
- The 2009 remake apparently featured too much sex for producer Michael Bay, who walked out on the premiere.
- Not really trivia so much as an obvious fact, but Jason wasn't the killer in the original. It was his mum. Do your homework, kids; your life may depend on it.
- Jason hates all the bands you like.
What a fun, if not totally stupid franchise. Let's end this with Jason punching a dude's head off.
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