It's been more than 40 years since the original movie in the decades-spanning franchise slashed its way into theaters and turned sex at camp into a deadly pastime — and there's so much you didn't know.
Before a single scene had been shot, an ad was placed in Variety that touted it as"the most terrifying film ever made!" and showed the title,"Friday the 13th," in big block letters crashing through a mirror. They were trying to drum up interest among possible financiers — and it worked. 3. Sole survivor Alice made King an iconic scream queen."Every actor and actress that was under 21 was trying to get an audition," King recalled years later."I was trying to make the break from commercials into television into film," and she was up for anything, including dancing for four weeks as an extra in"Saturday Night Fever."
6. Betsy Palmer, who played Pamela Vorhees, was known as a squeaky-clean morning TV host when she was cast in"Friday the 13th," Cunningham's thought being that audiences would see her and think,"Oh, it's Betsy Palmer! There's nothing to worry about there." They had to shoot that scene a few times, much to the opposite of King's delight. It was"cold and freezing," she recalled, but they had heaters set up and towels waiting after every take.
9. Adrienne King was always proud of being both the"Friday the 13th""final girl" — and that the killer turned out to be Jason's mom, turning slasher movie convention on its head."In terms of women not being victims, or a woman being the killer, it hadn't really been done before," shein 2016."And sometimes I think about if it was accidentally empowering women, or if they just wanted to do something that had a twist.
She passed on Part III, both because she was exhausted and wanted to be taken seriously as an actress — and so far, there had only been one scream queen to rule them all, 11. Warrington Gillette had one scene as the unmasked Jason at the end of"Friday the 13th: Part II," but throughout the film the masked killer is police officer-turned-stuntman and actor Steve Dash, who died in 2018. He's credited as"stuntman" throughout, but really did all of the heavy lifting.
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