In the final scenes of the films, the killer (played by Betsey Palmer) has hacked to death everyone at the camp to avenge the drowning of her mentally disabled son Jason, except for Alice who is the lone survivor, who battles the killer on the beach.
But when Alice finally grabs the machete, she is able to vanquish her assailant once and her for all.
The killer gets her head chopped off. The Queen of the Slashers gets a death worthy of a queen.
At this point an exhausted Alice collapses into the canoe and drifts into the lake under the guiding light of the full moon.
As night turns to morning on the placid lake, we are greeted by the most beautiful music I have ever heard in a horror film. Something about film cameras in 1979 made the gorgeous green, orange and pink colours of the changing fall leaves and their reflection on the lake just pop. As the police approach on the shore, we know Alice is going to be all right, and…
BAM!
Just when we least expect it, the corpse of Jason (the killer’s son who drowned decades earlier) pops out of the very lake he drowned in to drag Alice to her death.
Cut to Alice screaming in a hospital bed. Apparently it was all a dream. Or was it? The police found her floating in the lake, put didn’t find the boy she claimed pulled her in, with Alice strangely saying “then he’s still there.”
Still there meaning his corpse is still at the bottom of the lake where he drowned decades earlier, or still there, meaning a zombie is still on the loose? It’s all left so beautifully ambiguous as we cut once again to a shot of the beautiful lake and its majestic Fall colours. Cue beautiful music.
Apparently, the idea of the final jump scare came from a producer who had just seen Carrie (1976) which had ended with a similar dream jump scare, where the heroine visits Carrie’s grave, only to have Carrie’s arm reach out from beneath the ground:
But when Friday the 13th quickly became one of the most successful horror films of all time with lineups around the block, the film’s producers began demanding a sequel that continued the story.
Continued what story? The killer was beheaded and Jason returning from the dead was just a dream. But the producer’s wanted Jason to come back so part 2 opens with Jason stalking Alice at her own home a couple months later, and what makes this so creepy is he’s suddenly a grown man.
So while Alice being pulled into the lake by the zombie of an 11-year-old drowned boy was just a dream, it foreshadowed an even creepier reality: Jason never drowned at all but survived in the woods all those years and was now a grown-ass man wanting revenge for the beheading of his mother. I think that’s absolutely brilliant, but the creators of the original film thought it was the dumbest idea they ever heard and had little to do with the sequels.
Nonetheless when they saw all the money the franchise would gross with 10 sequels, and a remake, a brief TV show and video games, novels and comics, original screen writer Victor Miller, who was only paid perhaps 5 figures in 1979, sued to gain rights to the series. The judge gave him ownership of Jason as a child, but not the hulking hockey masked homicidal maniac he’d become as an adult.
Great scene. Thanks for these posts; they’ve been quite enjoyable. The sequels never quite captured the magic of this one (F13 Part 2 came closest)
glad you enjoyed them. Are you a regular reader of this blog or did you just stumble upon it while searching F13?
Longtime reader and lurker on many HBD blogs. Also a bit of a horror movie aficionado. Sure, they’re “bad” but I suppose they’re a guitar pleasure of mine. They tap into something very visceral (the better ones at least) that so-called high brow films fail to do. 1974 to 1981 was the golden age
I recently came across some some studies that suggest that horror movie fans are slightly higher in anxiety than the average moviegoer (might have been a link from one of Geoffrey Miller’s tweets) This comports with my own personal experience (high anxiety, Asperger’s cognitive profile – i.e. high verbal/low performance IQ).
Anyway, great blog you have here. Love the HBD/horror theme combo. Cheers
Thanks!
i am much smarter than the average person. probably 90th percentile for intelligence but for creativity and outside thinking probably much higher.
my genetics are pretty solid too!
Loaded you might be the dumbest person here in terms of IQ. In terms of everyday social smarts maybe in the middle.
Someday we are going to confirm Unz’s theory that most high level gentile politicians are chosen because they have something comprising about them in their background to be blackmailed by you-know-who by.
The whole point of Epstein was Clinton was NOT compromised so Epstein was sent to compromise him.
unz is a mossad agent idiot.
politicians don’t need to be compromised. they’re selected for their already agreeing with the donors or … some think of themselves as advocated for their donors, hired to represent their interests … plenty of lawyers represent a side they know is liable or guilty … they know what the public is presented is professional wrestling … and they think that’s fine.
You are a deeply retarded guy. You believe such ridiculous things. You also think the capitol riot was an inside job and that the 2020 election was ‘stolen’. Idiot.
You also think the capitol riot was an inside job…
typical mossad agent lies.
it was an “inside assisted” job.
it wasn’t an “inside job” in the usual sense.
im really my biggest fan lol.
…and that the 2020 election was ‘stolen’…
yes. but again in a sense of “stolen” too subtle for you to unnuhstan.
if oprah and clarence thomas shook hands they would both be annihilated and replaced by a black hole.
yes.
one way of looking at the US congress is as a yuge panel of …
judge-advocates, so to say.
people complain about “pork”, but who wants a congressman who doesn’t bring home the bacon?
btw, “congress” is almost always misused to mean the house of reps. congress is the house and senate together. a “congressman” is a man or woman who is a rep or senator.
pork is haram! bring back LOADED!
but according to leonard nimoy locusts are kosher.
being Pakistani means i am superior to Jews. Asians are inferior though.
all american politics (idk about others) is like this…
pill: i bet andre the giant was blackmailed by jews to lose to hulk hogan.
mugabe: i thought you were a marxist. have you ever actually read marx? AND understood him?
the abortion issue is interesting from a marxist perspective which regards the US government as 100% controlled by capital which has no principle other than profit.
why would so many states pass laws restricting abortion following the supreme catholics’ decision today? what does that have to do with profit?
answer: it was a way of getting people to vote against their economic interests…
so: now that this issue is over…how many anti-abortion folks will vote for dems or not vote at all? a lot of romans i expect. not many evangelicals.
i’m chuffed even though i’m pro-abortion in many cases…
i’m even pro making it illegal NOT to have an abortion is some cases!
BUT!
50 years!
so sometimes conservatards don’t lose?
but even dershowitz said roe was a bad decision…legally speaking.
yes!
no one can say it in any public venue…because aktion t4…but…
sometimes it is immoral NOT to have an abortion.
like if the baby is a monster or even just a mongoloid or the product of rape or incest…
BUT!
these abortions should be done ASAP.
infanticide should be even further restricted…but not totally illegal…
but the nazis proved the “slippery slope” argument is totally LEGIT!
we brahmins are the greatest. but we have the curse of living in a place chock-a-block with subhumans.
we brahmins invented the steam engine and a british man stole it. we also invented the airplane and the jet engine and americans stole it.
now finally we can escape the prison of subhumans and dominate the world as we should.
^^^the script in every “classy” [redacted by pp, 2022-06-24] head^^^
sad.
They didnt invent all of that but invented the zero. Also decimal and place system in mathematics.
and the arabs invented al-gebra and (al-)chemi(stry).
whoever’s on top always claims it’s because muh genes forgetting that they weren’t always on top.
the arab world is like portugal. always looking backward to when “they was wuz kangz n sheeeit”. whereas black africans were never much of anything. sad.
and the arabs invented al-gebra and (al-)chemi(stry).
whoever’s on top always claims it’s because muh genes forgetting that they weren’t always on top.
the arab world is like portugal. always looking backward to when “we wuz kangz n sheeeit”. whereas black africans were never much of anything. sad.
prior to the discovery of dna “mongoloid” was used to describe down syndrome. mongos were thought to be atavistic, a throwback, as chinapeople were regarded as a lower form of evolution than wypipo, especially british wypipo.
britisher down described the syndrome in 1866. Origin of Species was published in 1859. mendel did his studies 1856 – 63. but they weren’t much known until much later.
why are so many here autistic? who here doesnt have autism except for me?
also my IQ has been listed at 130 verbal 100 spatial right now.
this blog is outdated is it not Pumpkin? you are lucky i post here! because otherwise you wouldve been dead.
the actual racism of yankee liberals shows itself in the way they talk about thomas.
yes! it is true he was appointed because black…marshall had died in office…
but! even though i was a math and science guy in school…you have to have to have a high IQ to be where thomas is. very high.
what’s his background relative to the others? Thomas grew up in a poor, Gullah community in Savannah, Georgia,…
but! iirc, his father was self-employed, like oprah’s…the marxist analysis…
business owner however “low income” = bourgeois
employee however “high income” = proletariat
according to wikipedia: …a large number of participants from many research studies have reported strange dreams occurring just before the onset of latah. These dreams usually had a sexual element to them, often involving penises…oprah is much rarer and its etiology is distinguished from that of latah by dreams of black penises…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latah#Possible_causes
In the words of my half-East Asian English teacher, “he’s bright, he’s VERY BRIGHT, but he’s not brilliant”.
I would seriously doubt if he could take on big brained savvy Oprah on tasks that psychometrists would consider high in g.
the supremes’ background is not classy…because…
1. legal scholars don’t make the big bucks
2. you have to be a law nerd
3. you have to be smart
so…
all these pro-business rulings aren’t from bourgeois justices…
they’re from prole justices.
yes! from the most sophisticated pov these so many Slaughter of the Innocents are a price worth paying such that the empire of liberty survives…
we had to memorize this in middle school before hating america became the curriculum…
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure…
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here….
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
america is a religion.
where hitler’s germany and hirohito’s/tojo’s japan were just about race…
america is about an IDEA…
like stalin’s soviet union claimed to be but wasn’t…
it’s a horrible evil country…
but!
that’s my dream too stinkin’ lincoln!
it’s everyone’s.
well yes!
but again…there’s a slippery slope…
mugabe’s pov is that the state should never have this ultimate power.
AND if any libertarian says he’s pro death penalty, then you know he’s a FRAUD, not a libertarian.
do some people deserve it?
yes! absolutely!
but the state still should never have the power to do it.
so sometimes lynchings (extrajudicial murder) are blameless?
sometimes.
but!
no one knows what the alternative is…
a western european system would be too expensive…
western europe doesn’t have many criminals…
but!
mugabe would treat the economic criminals much better than the others…
a drug dealer or even a murderer for a gang because drugs…
he gets rehabilitation resources…
the chimo doesn’t!
one thing is women will change diapers…
shit and farts don’t gross out women because they have blood…
every month.
Speakers at the convention included former Democratic Party 2020 presidential election candidate Marianne Williamson, former Harvard University professor and philosopher Cornel West, Sanders 2020 co-chair Nina Turner, former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, comedian/political commentator/satirist Jimmy Dore, journalist Chris Hedges and podcaster Ryan Knight.[14]
You get 90% of your political opinions from Alex Jones. Sad!
What Alex Jones says = what Mugabe thinks.
On the subject of abortion…I couldn’t care less about an issue.
Clarence Thomas is an idiot. Even among black ivy league students he was an idiot. He was chosen because he was black and conservative.
The only good that would come from his appointment is even he struck down brown vs board of education.
Anyway the dems should pack the court. Like FDR threatened to when the conservative puppets on it kept striking down his laws. If Biden wasn’t a puppet for the donors he would have packed the court.
Of course, the republicans will reciprocate upon resumption of power, then democrats… lather, rinse, repeat. Perhaps future proceedings will be held at Justice Stadium.
If Michelle Obama played pro football would she be competitive? Some conspiracy theories…likely believed by Mugabe…posit that she is a trans-woman and her real name is Michael. Black women are hideous.
Would be hilarious if the court struck down gay marriage….then even the jews would go apeshit!
Puppy and Mugabe get dumber every year that goes by. Eventually Mugabe will sit at his computer dressed up as leatherface and communicate in grunts.
HA HA! Did you learn of leatherface from this blog or had you heard of that character on your own?
I’ve watched more horror movies than you have puppy.
still didn’t answer the question
Some days when I wake up my hair is messed up and my receeding hairline is quite visible. Im nearly to a point where I can’t cover it but not yet.
this guy should be the supreme court, not merely on the supreme court.
a book from 2021.
so all hope is not lost.
Nobody knows how the founders would have ruled on abortion. Probably not even the founders.
that’s not what original intent means pill.
you’re confusing original extension with original intension.
you’re very confused. i’m surprised mossad keeps on its payroll.
like answer this question pill:
how can someone believe both of these statements at the same time?
1. there were no illegal votes counted or legal votes not counted, but…
2. the election was stolen.