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Matthew Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0and Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 17 Bloody Facts About Friday the 13th<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/b>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. THE ORIGINAL INSPIRATION WAS HALLOWEEN<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> \n 7. SHELLEY WINTERS WAS THE FIRST CHOICE FOR MRS. VOORHEES.<\/span><\/strong> \n<\/blockquote>\n \n 15. THE FINAL SCARE WAS SUPPOSEDLY NOT IN THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT.<\/span><\/strong> Matthew Jackson\u00a0and Mental Floss present 17 Bloody Facts About Friday the 13th.\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. THE ORIGINAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15064,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions\/15064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nIn 1978, producer and director Sean Cunningham was looking for a model on which to build a commercially successful film, and he found one in John Carpenter\u2019s horror classic Halloween<\/em>. The two films ultimately don\u2019t share much other than very broad slasher tropes, but Cunningham says he \u201cwas very influenced by the structure of Carpenter\u2019s film.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nFor the now-iconic role of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, Cunningham and company went in search of an actress with a recognizable name whose career was nevertheless on the decline, so she could be paid relatively little and the budget could stay low. Cunningham eventually made a list of actresses he was considering, and two-time Oscar winner Shelley Winters was his top priority. Winters wasn\u2019t interested, and while fellow candidate and Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons actually negotiated to be in the film, she ultimately backed out. Cunningham also considered actresses Louise Lasser and Dorothy Malone right up until filming began, but ultimately the production wound up with Betsy Palmer in the role.<\/p>\n\n
\nThe story of who invented the final scare in the film, in which a deformed Jason bursts out of the lake and grabs Alice (Adrienne King) from her canoe, is disputed. Victor Miller, Tom Savini, and uncredited screenwriter Ron Kurz all claim credit for it, Kurz because he claims to be the one who made Jason into a \u201ccreature,\u201d and Savini because he claims the moment was inspired by a similar final scare in Carrie<\/i>. Whatever the case, it left a lasting impression.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"