Friday the 13th Celebrates 25 years...

[kybearfuzz]

Last night I was flipping through channels and landed on AMC that was playing the original Friday the 13th on "DVD on TV." I really enjoyed watching this because they had trivia facts about the movie and the stars at the bottom of the screen. I thought that was really interesting. For example,

• Betsy Palmer only did the movie so she could buy a new car and thought the script was a piece of crap.
  
• The filming was racing against the clock as the trees at the camp were turning color. The movie was set in the Spring, but it was turning Autumn.
  
• The producers wanted Sally Field to play the surviving character and Estelle Parsons to play Mrs. Voorhees. Both declined.

I wish I could have taped it for the trivia facts. This was one of the first movies that really scared me. Okay, sue me, I'm a horror movie geek :D

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first film, it seems there was a get together of actors, directors and such. I caught this Yahoo! News story about the event. It seems there's also a book about the movie series as well and talk about one more sequel and plans to remake the original.

Friday the 13th Celebrates 25 Years

Comments

[pariahcub.livejournal.com]

And I LOVED that people were expecting a guy to be behind all this carnage, and it turns out to be a SHE.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Ah, equality of the sexes... that was a great twist :)

[pariahcub.livejournal.com]

I could never figure out, when the heroine in the 1st film opened the jeep to find a dead body in it, why she didn't just kick the corpse out and drive off?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I wouldn't have even bothered to do that, I'd have driven off and kicked poor Annie's body out along the way as I went to get help. We're made of sterner stuff than the 1980's horror survivor chick apparently.

[pariahcub.livejournal.com]

I'd have driven off and kicked poor Annie's body out along the way as I went to get help.

Or check her pockets for change. I also could never figure out why parents continued to send their kids to this camp after all the murders from the 1st film.

"Mom, where is there a 'Room for Rent' sign in the front window?"
"Nevermind, Timmy. Now be a good boy and get on the bus."