His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Page #9

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than their share of ambiguities

and inconsistencies,

leaving the fans longing

for more.

Oh, no way, Becca.

- You so owe me a Wonderbra.

- ( giggles )

Well, okay.

Strip Monopoly's

so much fun.

Oooh!

Camp Crystal Lake rocks.

One of the things

that the ''Friday'' series

never really took pride in

was continuity.

How could it be Friday the 1 3th

if ''2,'' ''lll'' and ''4''

are within three or four days?

l don't think Monday the 16th

has quite the same ring to it.

Cohen:

People send me Jason timelines

and show me categorically

where l'm wrong about certain things,

and where the writer of ''Vl'' was wrong,

or the writer of ''lll'' was wrong.

And you know what, so what?

l just don't know.

King:

The fans have told me

at convention after convention

that they felt ''ripped off''

about the way Alice died

in ''Part 2.''

She didn't even see him.

lt's like it could have been anyone.

As far as l'm concerned,

it was somebody else.

lf Jason is who l believe he is

and who l think the fans

think he is,

it's not like he can look

her number up in the phonebook.

lt's not like she would be listed

in the phonebook.

She got away.

But in the second one

he comes to her apartment

and kills her?

Now what l want to know is

how did Jason get a plane ticket?

There was a ''Friday the 1 3th''

TV series.

LeMay:

The only thing that the series

and the movies

had in common

was the title.

lt turns out it was about

people trying

to retrieve cursed artifacts

from a pawnshop.

l think a lot of people who were

really big fans of the series

didn't like the fact

that they stole the name

and tried to sneak a fast one

past everybody.

So beginning with ''Part lll,''

when Jason finds the mask

that everyone identifies

with him,

there's been some debate

over the years about

how that happened.

And the one thing that

everybody likes to take credit for

is who put the hockey mask

on Jason.

One day we were doing

makeup tests

on ''Friday the 1 3th Part lll.''

So just for the 3D concept,

l must admit, in modesty,

that l put the hockey mask

on Jason.

l don't care

what anybody says.

They weren't gonna use that bag again

based on what happened

to me with the burns.

They had to come up with another idea.

That's why they came up

with the hockey mask.

l believe it was Peter Schindler

and Marty Becker were

Detroit hockey fans.

And it was their idea

to come up with a hockey mask

to cover the face up.

Every time

kids come to my door

wearing

the Jason hockey mask,

l figure, ''Wow, this is

another 50c l didn't get.''

They're all still bickering about it, but you

heard it here--

mine.

Katz:
The end of

''Friday the 1 3th Part 2'' is still

one of the most confusing endings

of that series.

Probably easily the most,

other than the toxic-waste

version of teenaged Jason.

Paul! Where's Paul?

For me, it wasn't a dream.

Maybe that's one

of the good parts of the movie

is that you get to decide that

for yourself.

On ''Freddy vs. Jason,''

they went a different direction

with casting Jason

and didn't cast Kane Hodder.

And l was really surprised.

l really wanted to use Kane

and then Ronnie Yu decided

that he really kind of

liked this other guy.

And he was directing

the movie and l said, ''Fine.''

lt was a shame at some level

that Kane didn't get to do it.

About our clothes, l mean--

that's slightly the weirdest thing

about our roles,

which were supposed

to be these sexy girls

and we're dressed

in these ghastly clothes.

Camilla More:

What about our hair as well?

Our hair put up in sort

of little librarian buns.

l mean, hello.

And the pink puffy shirts

with the shoulder pads.

Lynch:
lt's kind of like Springfield for ''The

Simpsons.''

lt's like, where is Crystal Lake?

lt would be nice to find out someday

where is this Crystal Lake,

'cause l'd like to go there and swim.

l can definitively answer

the question of where is Crystal Lake.

Crystal Lake is in

Green Valley, New Jersey.

And the reason we know that

is because in ''Part lll,''

Shelly and Vera go

to a country store

and in the store,

you can see in the back,

it says ''Welcome to Green Valley,

New Jersey.'' Case closed.

Katz:
''Jason Takes Manhattan''--

outside of having one of the great

teaser posters of all time,

which of course was then discontinued,

ultimately, the ''l Heart New York,''

that's actually something

that's trademarked

by probably, l'm guessing,

the tourism bureau, if memory serves,

and that's actually a very valuable

license to them, ultimately.

Crystal Lake has changed sizes.

Somehow the boat gets

from this tiny little lake

to the Atlantic Ocean

to New York.

The cruise ship wasn't really

in the lake.

The cruise ship was on the ocean.

ln my mind, l had it justified,

because l've seen places where

you can go from a lake to the ocean.

And we ultimately just said,

''No, let's forget it.

People may get mad at us for that,

but let's go for it.''

Body switching

in ''Jason Goes to Hell,''

l think that was a terrible

terrible decision.

Roday:

The fact that Jason turned into a slug

in ''Part 9''... unacceptable.

Gordon.

The most rational character

in the entire

''Friday the 1 3th'' series

is the dog in ''Part 4.''

You don't know whether Jason grabbed

the dog and threw him out the window.

The dog sees Jason

and the next shot is the dog

apparently jumping

through the window.

There was a big fight over

whether we could kill the dog.

l think he jumped,

but l was hoping

some people will

think Jason did it.

Maybe Tina from ''Vll'' telekinetically

yanked the dog out the window.

Well, he was bound

to catch up with her-- sooner or later.

lf there's one thing

that we've learned

it's escaping Jason

is a rarity.

Over the last three decades,

his reign of terror

has gone beyond

the silver screen.

ln fact, it's clear that Jason

has done more

than take Manhattan.

ln fact, l'd say

he's conquered the world.

( gears grind )

Oh! That had to hurt.

lnterestingly enough,

Jason did manage

to infiltrate the pop culture

in a big big way.

And l think that all started

with ''Part lll'' in 3D.

l have the home-theater glass set,

so you can see it and watch it

and people would walk into my house

and l have them on,

and be like, ''Hey, what's up?

l'm watching

'Friday the 1 3th Part lll.'''

Graham:
From a merchandising

perspective, it's huge.

l cannot believe

the branding of Jason.

He is no less marketable

than Ronald McDonald

or Mickey Mouse at this point.

Jason is making money.

l mean, does he get

a percentage of the sales?

l'm very curious.

Jason Voorhees has been

mass marketed over the years,

starting with this Nintendo game

back in the early '80s.

Adam Green:

That was the worst game ever.

All you did is run around the cabins. And

there'd be like nothing, nothing,

Jason's in here! l'm dead.

My name's James Rolfe.

l have an internet show--

''The Angry Video Game Nerd.''

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