His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Page #2

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''Wow, there's tongue-in-cheek

in this. There's rock music in this.''

But Jason, in fact,

in this movie, bends people in half,

twists their heads off,

does a triple beheading.

l really didn't want it to be

just about you have sex and die,

'cause that had been done. lt's sort

of like you're in the wrong place

at the wrong time kind of thing,

and also try to have the characters

have a sense of humor.

When Nancy's killed

and the American Express card floats

out of her hand, inevitably

there was always some clown

that would go,

''Don't leave home without it!''

Kevin Spirtas:

ln ''Part Vll,'' the girl whose got these

extraordinary telekinetic powers

resurrects him by throwing

her anger and her energy

into the lake

where he's already been killed

from a previous movie.

She musters all of her

telekinetic ability to raise him

and thus begins the story.

That's what really made it different.

She had the psychic abilities

which he had not fought before,

but realistically,

the psychic stuff would have had

to have been in there anyway,

because this monster

kept coming back.

He's a surreal monster.

Jason, played by Kane Hodder,

l believe, for the first time.

''Vll'' starts the Kane Hodder era.

Everything about the way

Kane Hodder played him

makes him menacing

and yet he's human.

Elizabeth Kaitan: l remember thinking,

''Wow, this is Jason!''

l grew up watching this,

and here he is chasing me.

( chokes )

Since l was doing it for the first time, there

seems to be some anger there,

some differences that you

didn't see in Jason before.

The kids love

Kane Hodder's Jason.

Rob Galluzzo:
The coolest

teaser trailer to a movie ever

was ''Friday the 1 3th 8:

Jason Takes Manhattan.''

You get this trailer

where you don't know what is it

and then they reveal that

it's Jason in the middle of the city.

l live in New York.

l was stoked. l was like,

''Oh my God. He's coming to New York.

He's coming to where l know.''

When they first brought me in

to do the movie,

the first question l asked them was

does it have to be in Crystal Lake?

Can l take Jason out

of Crystal Lake?

The general plot

of ''Friday the 1 3th Part 8''

is a young woman

and her graduating class

of Crystal Lake High going

on a big cruise to New York.

One by one,

the classmates are killed off.

The single most amazing thing

that l've ever done

as the character was shooting

the scenes in Times Square

in ''Jason Takes Manhattan.''

l felt like a rock star.

( raspy breathing )

''Part 9''-- they went

from not having blood

to not having Jason.

There was something about Jason

transferring from body to body to body.

Joe Lynch:

Then Jason comes back to life

and to Crystal Lake

and is exploded

and becomes a bunch

of demon-hearted baby things

and decides to possess

a couple of people.

And then gets thwarted again by ''21

Jump Street'' himself Steven Williams.

Adam Green:

He really wasn't in the movie.

lt was kind of other people. Then if

he was in a mirror, you could see him.

And he could transport

into bodies.

But the best part was when

he was this little worm thing

and he went--

was it the girl from ''Buck Rogers''?

ls that who she was? He went

in her p*ssy and that was awesome.

They basically tried

to create a mythology for Jason.

There are a lot of Jason fans

who to this day

are pissed off at me

for blowing up Jason.

James lsaac:
''Jason X'' takes place

And a group

of science students,

kids go on a field trip.

These students go on.

They're on the planet.

They're digging things up,

and of course they find Jason.

Anyway, Jason wakes up

and of course does what Jason does.

We set it up

that Kay-Em actually did kill him.

This time he got killed, right?

Then the nanobots

bring him together

and now he's part machine,

and so he's more unstoppable

than ever.

To this day, still,

when people mention that movie,

they're like,

''l love that fake boob scene!''

All right, the story

of ''Freddy vs. Jason'' is a hybrid story.

You're bringing these two

great characters together finally.

Tony Timpone:

lt took them literally decades

before they came up with a story

that was strong enough

to support these two characters.

The premise of this movie

was for Freddy to use Jason

to get his powers back.

There came a point where

you had to choose a side.

And l was a Jason guy, always.

So for ''Jason vs. Freddy,''

l didn't wanna see anything

but Jason kick Freddy's ass.

Lynch:
lf it wasn't for Alice killing Mrs.

Voorhees in that one film,

none of this would happen.

l like Jason Voorhees.

He has a backstory,

and he has a reason

for being the way he is.

What a messed up kid.

l think that just

in the overall energy

of trying to do it simple

and scary

was the thing that drove

the whole process forward.

After all that,

who could imagine that Jason,

the bloodthirsty

indestructible force of nature,

was at one time

an innocent kid

just like the rest of us?

Well, most of us.

Jason not only witnessed

his mother's beheading.

But he was shot and stabbed

and burned and sent to hell

and shot into outer space.

l think to really

understand Jason

you gotta go back

to the beginning--

who he is,

where he came from,

why he can't resist

a good kill.

( man softly )

Kill kill kill...

Does Jason have a soul?

l don't think so.

He is not mindless.

l think actually that's something

that the fans would like

to learn more about--

what's going on in his head.

Jason started

as a drowning victim.

That's as simple

as you can make it.

He's just a little boy

who was ignored

by his camp counselors

and couldn't swim very well

and drowned. And no matter

what movie you're talking about,

he's still a victim.

For any good villain,

there's always that sadness to them,

and that thing where you can

almost feel bad for them.

He didn't do anything wrong.

He didn't deserve to die.

Jason was the outcast. Jason was

the little kid who got picked on.

And now Jason's the one

who's getting the last laugh in a way,

or the last slash.

Who did it start with?

His mother.

l'm Mrs. Voorhees,

an old friend of the Christies.

The fact that she's a loon,

totally out of her mind

and also channeling her son

and going...

Kill her, Mommy.

Kill her!

The idea for the character

came out

of my own past.

Mrs. Voorhees

is the mother l never had.

She is the mother

who will kill people

to avenge her son's death.

But, hey,

if you're gonna have

a mother defend you,

she might as well be crazy.

Palmer:

They love Mrs. Voorhees.

And l've said to people,

l say, ''Why do you love her

as much as you do

when she's supposed

to be this dreadful human being?''

And they say because

we understand why you did it.

Mrs. Voorhees was

really not a murderess.

All she was trying to do was

to protect other children

from being drowned.

One of the things that

really works for ''Part 2''

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