His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Page #4

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Steel:

They have almost, like, one

of each type of personality.

So that no matter

who you are

looking at the movie, you can

relate to one of those characters.

Cunningham:
We want to have

these sort of beautiful teenagers

but which include all the stereotypes.

You know, the fat guy

and the high school jock

and the pretty cheerleader

and then the girl

with brown hair

who is sort of soulful.

The obnoxious teenager

who you just want to die so bad,

and when he dies, you all cheer.

( laughs )

( gasps )

l think every ''Friday the 1 3th''

has to have the ''promiscuous'' girl

who is caught doing

something naughty

and she pays.

She's usually the first one to go.

And then they are picked off

one by one

and you have to figure out

as many different ways

of making the teenagers dumb

without being really stupid.

Because the great thing about

''Friday the 1 3th'' and other horror films

is it gives a lot of people

in the audience a chance

to be way smarter

than the characters.

There has to be teenagers

having sex

and getting killed

while they're having sex.

Barton:

Jason likes to get you

when you're that much aroused.

lt's like he takes

your sexual energy,

then he fucks you

with his machete.

For the most part,

the less sex you have,

the higher chance

you have of living.

Also has to be in the film:

a pair of breasts

every 15 minutes.

lt's show time.

We were kind of short

on the breast thing, l think.

l can only count about three.

Three breasts?

We need more.

l needed the T&A for me.

To hell with the audience.

And then of course,

the important ingredient

- is Jason.

- ( girl screaming )

Jason is an unstoppable force

of nature.

lt's interesting how

he could just walk

and nobody could ever

get away from him.

lt also kind of seems like

he's everywhere at once-- at one time.

He notices everybody

all of a sudden

when they're just gonna

have a great time--

( imitates blade cutting )

And if you go back

and remember what it was

that caused Jason's drowning,

it was teenagers canoodling

and not watching.

lf you're screwing,

you get killed.

We weren't doing anything.

We were just messing ar-- ugh!

You have sex, die.

That's the premise.

That's the underlying theme

going through

the ''Friday the 1 3th'' movies.

l didn't have sex until l was 30

because of Jason.

That motherf***er was the best

contraceptive a guy like me could have.

Slasher movies particularly

are like Broadway musicals.

You can't go too long

without a song.

You can't go more than

Kids went to see these movies

to see kids get killed.

The kills have to be

interesting and unique.

And even the cast,

the kids would come up to us,

''How am l gonna die?''

l think that's what

audiences came to see.

How is the next guy

gonna get it?

( screaming )

Help, somebody help me!

Charles:
lt's pure fantasy

and we know it's fantasy.

These films are better

than the gory

modern killing films

that are made

to look so realistic.

Usually at the end

of the movie there's some sort of

a jump scare.

The famous ending scene

was not in the original script.

They really didn't have

an ending so l said to Sean,

''Why don't we have Jason

jump out of the lake

and attack her?''

Lehman:

Alice has this look of hope

and she's just trailing

her fingers in the water.

And at the moment

when the strings just swell--

( shrieking )

( screams )

Bam!

That's where the trick is played.

The reason l think this has

gone is it transcends

a lot of different ages.

And the music is important

because you're sort of heightened

and scared

just with the music

and the visual all at the same time.

Music and score

is another character.

lt's every bit as important

as Jason.

Harry Manfredini

took the minimalist approach

and it works

to a perfect effect.

Music in a horror movie

is crucial.

lt can make or break a film,

and his score in that movie

was just untouchable.

( softly )

Kill kill kill kill...

( imitating soundtrack )

( nonsense noises )

- No no, that doesn't sound right.

- That's not good. Let's start again.

And if you go to the end of the film,

you'll see a very close-up

of Betsy Palmer's

Mrs. Voorhees' mouth,

where she's saying

to herself, ''Kill her, Mommy.

Kill her, Mommy.''

And it goes back and forth

between her voice

and supposedly Jason's voice.

And l said, ''Bingo, that's it.''

So then l just went

and l took the consonant sound

of the K, ''ki'' from killer

and ''ma'' from mommy.

l went up

to a microphone and just went

''ki... ma.''

And we ran it through

something called an echoplex,

and it ended up coming...

( imitates soundtrack )

When you hear that...

( imitates soundtrack )

you know you've got

a ''Friday the 1 3th'' movie.

lt created all the conventions

of the slasher films that followed,

pretty much using the template

that was established

on that first film in 1980.

Obviously,

Jason Voorhees is a true

worldwide icon.

One could say that he's

as famous as the Beatles

or Madonna,

a veritable rock-star slasher

if there ever was one.

And what rock star

would be complete

without a greatest-hits compilation?

Does Jason have one, you ask?

Let's ask this guy.

- ( bones crack )

- ( screams )

What are you doing,

douchebag?

So Jason will kill with anything

he could get his hands on.

Lynch:
lt was another one

that you sit in the audience

and watch it with a crowd

and everyone just goes, ''Oh, dude!''

( gasps )

The obvious most memorable moment

is with Kevin Bacon.

He's like on his knees

under the bed.

Me and my buddy Taso

are under there

and l'm pushing

the arrow through

and Taso was

pumping the blood,

but an accident occurred.

The tubes separated

from Taso's pump,

so he grabbed it and blew in it.

That's what made

the blood shoot out and gurgle.

My favorite kill of all:

Mrs. Voorhees slo-mo.

lt doesn't get better than that.

- The ultimate kill by Alice.

- ( screaming )

( mimics knife thrust )

We actually made a cast

of Betsy Palmer's head.

l attached it with toothpicks.

So the toothpicks

were just kind of holding it in place,

knowing that when l whacked it

with that machete,

it would go through

the toothpicks.

But if you watch the movie

when Betsy Palmer is decapitated,

her hands come up into frame

and kind of like a grabbing there.

They're Taso's hands

with hairy knuckles.

l don't have hair

on the back of my hands like he did.

l thought that was

a little weird in one shot.

One of the things that turned out

wildly effective

was the back-cracking

of the sheriff character.

- ( screaming )

- ( bones crack )

They dug a hole

and those weren't my legs.

They had a guy head down

in the hole with his legs

behind me.

But just that whole idea

of bending somebody all the way back

and hearing all this...

( knuckles crack ) sound

drove them crazy.

A little sound design, a little screaming, it

all turned out great.

Wheelchair death in ''Part 2,''

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