Friday The 13th Part 2

Top 10 Fun Facts

1. Just like TV... with popcorn: the studio wanted to use the Friday the 13th title as a way to bring in teenagers once a year to see the next "episode" - with each new scary story connected to the others only by the title.
2. However, wiser heads decided that Jason Voorhees was the real hook ­­­­­- and insisted that he take center stage in the sequel.
3. Moviegoers were treated to the oh-so-straightforward tagline "The body count continues." Just in case you thought slasher movies ended with a happily ever after.
4. Jason Voorhees was actually played by two different men: actor Warrington Gillette when Jason was unmasked, and stuntman Steve "Dash" Daskawisz the rest of the time. It's sort of like how Darth Vader sounded like James Earl Jones and then took off his helmet to reveal some old white dude.
5. Stunt men have all the guts and get none of the glory: Dash had to get 13 stitches on his middle finger after actress Amy Steel accidentally whacked him with a machete.
6. Adding injury to previous injury, Dash later sustained burns around his eye where the crew had taped a burlap sack to his face - for a scene, of course. It's not like they were hazing him. We think.
7. The crew had to create a hoist to simulate Jason crashing through a window in the final scene because Warrington Gillette couldn't do his own stunts (see above).
8. Although the beginning of Friday the 13th Part III explains away the ending of Part II as a dream sequence, writer Ron Kurz has said that Jason's window jump was intended to be set in reality. We're going to assume "reality" is a relative term.
9. An alternate ending might have cleared up the confusion about Paul's fate - originally we would have seen a cutaway to a smiling Mrs. Voorhees, leading us to believe that Jason had finished the job.
10. Roger Ebert gave the film half a star (out of four). That's better than negative stars, though! Glass half full, people.

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