Jason Voorhees kills at Camp Crystal Lake again

  • Breaking
  • 11/02/2009

Horror film fans are welcomed back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th.

The long-running horror-flick series which was originally filmed in 1980  focuses on Jason Voorhees  the hockey-mask wearing, machete-wielding, mass-murdering central character of the original low-budget Friday the 13th feature films.

 "I didn't watch them growing up," admitted actress Danielle Panabaker, "I am big scaredy cat and would have had nightmares for the rest of my life. So when the opportunity to be a part of this film came along I went out and grabbed the original and the Texas Chainsaw that these  guys did and did my research. I am really excited to be a part of an iconic horror series."

Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of at least eleven slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games and merchandise.

The franchise is mainly based on the fictional character of Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counsellors.

Decades later, the lake is rumoured to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings. Derek Mears who portrays present day Jason explains how he got into his character's menacing mindset.

"In my own head, I don't know if you will be able to see it on camera, I almost play it like when he attacks these kids it's like a Vietnam flashback . Where these kids are the ones who just killed his mother like it just happened. You think, you and I, someone murdered someone you love right now. Just the imitation that would come out the intensity and the passion like 'I am going to destroy you ' that is what is directed at these kids."

Originally created to cash in on the success of John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978 a lot has changed in how some kids view horror and death. They no longer fear it but actually cheer once they see it on screen.

"I don't know," actor Jared Padalecki said about the cheering fans during death scenes. "I was talking about this with someone earlier sort of this phenomenon of hooting and hollering through a death. Like when I was growing up and watching scary movies and someone would die I would be like '(makes cringing noise) or ohhh or ahhh ' you like cover your face. It would be like yeah! but I think there is so much, who knows what it is, maybe video games or something. But there is so much a fascination with the new cool deaths and I think this movie set out to kind of create kind of new scary deaths that you can't laugh at and scream at."

In the film  Clay Miller played by Jared Padalecki pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney,  played by Amanda Righetti.

Padalecki gets the help of Jenna played by Danielle Panabaker, a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up at Crystal Lake for an all-thrills weekend. They entered the domain of the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete.

"From my navel up to the top of my head I had a full body prosthetic on," Derek Mears said about the make up transformation.  "Not my arms just from torso when I had just the hockey mask on it took about an hour and a half to do. When they did the reveal, what was underneath mask, that was about four hours to get. But wearing the body prosthetic, the reason they did that, was for to have like a small spine curvature. In some shots the neck looks really thick because on one side is a little bit of a hump on one shoulder which is really subtle but it took a little while."

Friday the 13th opens in New Zealand on Thursday February 12. 

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