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TEN FACTS WE LEARNED FROM

Making Friday The 13th: The Legend
Of Camp Blood, by David Grove

[The cover of the new FAB Press book Making Friday The 13th: The Legend Of Camp Blood] FACT ONE: During the filming of Friday The 13th, there was a real-life fatality. Laurie Bartram, who played Brenda in the movie, entrusted her cat to a crew member. Unfortunately, it was accidentally killed by cockroach poison. Oh dear.

FACT TWO: Writer Victor Miller went to school with a girl named Van Voorhees: hence Jason's surname, don'tcha know.

FACT THREE: Betsy Palmer (Pamela Voorhees) recorded her dialogue for Friday The 13th Part 2 in Los Angeles. She wasn't able to actually attend the Connecticut set because the producers wouldn't pay her airfare.

FACT FOUR: Jason's iconic hockey mask was innocently brought along to the set of Friday The 13th Part III by technical advisor Terry Ballard. "It was an old leather mask from the '50s," he says. "If I'd known what was going to happen, I'd have probably tried to copyright it."

FACT FIVE: Tom Savini was only hired as effects man on Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter when Greg Cannom quit. "They were going to let me do a totally different and original-looking Jason," says Cannom. "After a while I started having restrictions placed on me which, combined with some other stuff that went on with the production office, forced me to quit." Bless him.

FACT SIX: The cast and crew of Friday The 13th: A New Beginning weren't initially told it was a Friday The 13th movie. "After a while," recalls actor Ron Sloan, "it became pretty obvious, when they wanted to do a mould of my head."

FACT SEVEN: Despite having already appeared in Part 2, actress Marta Kober auditioned for Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood. And almost got the part. "They didn't know I'd been in the previous film," says Kober, who did the right thing and 'fessed up.

FACT EIGHT: Even writer/director Adam Marcus couldn't entirely follow Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday! "There was so much exposition in the story, and frankly, there was a point where none of us could really understand it all," he admits.

FACT NINE: In terms of box office, Jason X's total take of $12.6 million makes it the least successful Friday The 13th movie of all. Who'd have thought, hmmm?

FACT TEN: Three endings were shot for Freddy Vs Jason: one of which saw the monster-mash end in a draw. "It was good," reflects director Ronny Yu, "but we needed an ending that had some kind of victory for one of the monsters..."

Check out FAB Press' excellent Making Friday The 13th: The Legend Of Camp Blood, written by David Grove, at Amazon UK or Amazon US.


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