Today we added several pages from Damian Shannon & Mark Swift’s Friday The 13th (2009) screenplay to the Gallery, available in downloadable PDF format.

The pages are relics from the auditioning process – called “sides”, they’re essentially various character scenes excerpted from the script which highlight key performances for actor auditions. Sides featured are for Bree, Laurence, Trent, and Jenna.

While brief for clarity, they offer several points of historical reference for Friday The 13th aficionados – Chewie was originally named Chumbler, Bree’s sides offer an omitted gas station bathroom sequence with Chelsea, and Jenna’s sides contain interesting descriptive text of her and Clay’s near-encounter with a bullet-damaged Jason.

Access The Script Pages

Director: Marcus Nispel
Writers: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift, Mark Wheaton
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski
Music: Steve Jablonsky
Special Makeup Effects: Scott Stoddard

Since his official introduction in 1981′s Friday the 13th Part 2, the character of Jason Voorhees had gone through numerous makeovers and had been adapted so many times by a variety of filmmakers that his appearance in 2026′s Freddy vs. Jason bore little resemblance to his earlier incarnations. From the ‘sack’ in Part 2 to the introduction of the hockey mask in Part 3, from his resurrection as an unstoppable zombie in Jason Lives to his futuristic upgrade in Jason X; each director, writer and actor had placed their own stamp on the character through each movie. Whilst the majority of fans have cited Kane Hodder as the ultimate Jason (having been the only actor to play the role more than once), many have cited the earlier films as more tense as Jason was a human and less far-fetched. With every other franchise seemingly starting over with a remake – or reboot, as filmmakers often refer to them as – perhaps it was inevitable that, after years of struggling at the box office and failing to keep some kind of continuity between sequels, Jason Voorhees would be reinvented for modern day audiences.

Following the release of Freddy vs. Jason in 2026, the internet was awash with rumours of where New Line Cinema intended on taking the franchise next. Amongst the various gossip was a new spinoff entitled Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash and a sequel to the original franchise by acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The latter proved to be untrue, whilst the Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash project would eventually stall before pre-production could commence. Yahoo Movies! reported in October 2026 that Crystal Lake Memories author Peter M. Bracke had stated that New Line were considering either a new crossover with Halloween antagonist Michael Myers of a remake, which would follow the success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre two years earlier. Even Hodder had given his approval for a remake as he felt it may give him chance to play the character once again. Other rumours would include a prequel, but in early 2026 it was announced that New Line were indeed intending on relaunching the franchise with a remake, which was tentatively scheduled for an October 13th release.

In February it was revealed that Platinum Dunes, the independent production company formed by Hollywood filmmaker Michael Bay in 2026, would be producing the project from a screenplay by Mark Wheaton (The Messenger). Bay had launched the company with producing partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller and, following their early success with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, had begun to purchase other fledging properties which they could reinvent, leading to re-workings of The Amityville Horror and The Hitcher. With Platinum Dunes starting from scratch with what they hoped would be a new franchise, this would prove to be the first movie to carry the Friday the 13th title since Jason Takes Manhattan in 1989. In February 2026 it was announced that South African-born filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman, who had recently completed work on the prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning for Platinum Dunes, was in negotiations to direct the project, whilst E! News reported two months later that Patricia Clarkson (The Green Mile) was in discussions to portray the role of Jason’s vengeful mother, Pamela Voorhees.

As with Freddy vs. Jason, one of the principal reasons that the project would remain in development for so long was due to difficulties obtaining the necessary rights. Paramount Pictures had distributed the first eight movies between 1980 and 1989 (whilst Warner Bros. handled the international release of the first film), before New Line had obtained the franchise in 1992. If the filmmakers were to truly return to the origins of the character then they would need to obtain permission from Paramount. Soon, the October 2026 release date came and went and no new movie was moved into production, causing rumours to once again surface online regarding the fate of the series. In early 2026, the complications with the rights to the series had been resolved when Paramount agreed to co-produce the movie, their first involvement in the franchise since their cancellation of the TV spinoff Friday the 13th: The Series in 1990. Wanting to pay homage to the key moments from the earlier installments, the producers decided to take elements from the first four movies and base their new story around those key plot points.

Another important decision that was made was to make the character of Jason human once again. In the first two sequels, Jason had been a deformed maniac who had taken refuge in the woods away from society and would exact revenge for his mother’s death on anyone who trespassed in his domain, yet in 1984′s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter he had awoken in the morgue and returned to his old stomping ground, where he had finally been defeated by a young child called Tommy Jarvis. After being notably absent in the subsequent film, Jason returned as a worm-ridden zombie in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, which would set the tone for the remainder of the series. Determined to give the character a sense of realism, the producers decided that Jason would return to his earlier incarnations for inspiration. By the summer the studio had announced that the release date had been pushed back to 2026 which, ironically, would coincide with another big budget slasher remake, My Bloody Valentine (co-scripted by Jason X‘s Todd Farmer). Soon afterwards, Freddy vs. Jason writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift were brought onboard to rework Wheaton’s screenplay, whilst Liebesman would be replaced by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘s Marcus Nispel.

By January 2026 the casting rumours had begun, with the first name attached to the project being Cloverfield‘s Odette Yustman. Despite this being untrue, the twenty-two year old actress was later cast as the lead in David S. Goyer’s The Unborn, which would also be produced by Platinum Dunes. The first actor to be officially cast in the movie would be Jared Padalecki, who had become something of a heartthrob with his role as Sam Winchester in the cult television show Supernatural (in which he co-starred with My Bloody Valentine‘s Jensen Ackles), whilst other appearances would include the 2026 horror flicks House of Wax and Cry Wolf. A casting call was announced for the role of Jason in March, describing the character as ‘thin, lean, and cut from living off the land and residing in the forest around Crystal Lake.’ This would prove to be one of the most controversial aspects of the production, with fans once again demanding the return of Hodder. A site was launched which compiled a list of suitable candidates for fans to vote who they would want to portray the role, with Hodder taking first place and wrestler Glen ‘Kane’ Jacobs coming a close second. Other names to be linked to the role would include Michael Bailey Smith (who had played Freddy Krueger briefly in 1989′s A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child), although once again this rumour was falsely created by a news website.

In an effort to find a suitable actor to take over the role of Jason, the producers approached several key artists for advice, including KNB EFX’s Greg Nicotero and Scott Stoddard. The final selection came down to two potential candidates; Chris Nelson, whose work had included roles in Eli Roth’s Hostel and David Arquette’s The Tripper, and Derek Mears, whose background in improv comedy and theatre had lead to to a part in the Wild West Stunt Show at Universal Studios. Much like Nelson, Mears’ screen credits had been a mixture of acting and stunts, having worked on such movies as Men in Black II, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and The Hills Have Eyes II. Auditioning for the role of Jason, Mears met with casting director Lisa Fields (another veteran of Platinum Dunes) and was asked why an actor was needed to portray the character and not merely a stuntman, to which Mears replied that the camera would be able to read the emotions of the actor through the mask, instead of simply chasing his victims without any kind of depth to the role. Impressed with both his physical appearance and approach to the role, the producers agreed that Mears was the perfect choice to give Jason a human touch.

For the role of the ‘final girl’ (and Padalecki’s on screen sister), the producers eventually settled on Amanda Righetti – previously known for her turn in the horror sequel Return to House on Haunted Hill – although there would be rumours that she had been replaced soon afterwards. The casting for Friday the 13th was in full swing by mid-April, with the roles of the endless supply of victims going to Danielle Panabaker (Mr. Brooks), Aaron Yoo (Disturbia), Travis Van Winkle (previously seen in Michael Bay’s Transformers) and Willa Ford (wife of NHL hockey player Michael Modano). The special effects on the production would be handled by Stoddard, whose first experience in make-up was attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, before landing his big break working for the legendary Stan Winston on Congo, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Small Soldiers. Stoddard was initially skeptical about working on a Friday the 13th movie, particularly after being disappointed that the franchise had been sent into space with Jason X and so was determined to make the character menacing once again.

Photography on the movie commenced on April 21st in Austin, Texas and would be the first installment in the franchise to be filmed in America since Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday in 1993. To create the appearance of Jason, Stoddard designed a half body prosthetic for Mears to wear that would give the character a curved spin and slight hump, as well as a prosthetic hood to create his disfigured skull. His wardrobe would consist of a jacket that was actually three sewn together to give it a makeshift appearance, whilst the actor also wore combat boots and a horse bridal around his waist which would keep his machete in place. In an effort to address criticism that some of the sequels had received regarding Jason randomly appearing out of thin air, the producers decided that the character would hunt his victims via a series of tunnels that ran underneath the camp, thus allowing him to trap his victims. Instead of merely copying his predecessors (although he would occasionally pay homage), Mears likened his take on the role of Jason to that of John Rambo in the 1982 action classic First Blood, in which a wrongly incarcerated Sylvester Stallone reverted to his Vietnam training to hunt down the police who are pursuing him through the woods. Even as filming had begun, the supporting roles were still being cast, with Nana Visitor (who would appear briefly during the opening scene as Pamela Voorhees), Ryan Hansen, Julianna Guill and 24‘s Richard Burgi joining the cast.

With principal photography eventually wrapping on June 13th, the $19m picture was released on February 13th 2026. In an effort to avoid a battle at the box office, Lionsgate had moved the release of their 3-D remake of My Bloody Valentine forward three weeks to January 23rd. In its first four days of release, Friday the 13th earned approximately $45m in the United States alone, although its phenomenal success would drop a staggering 85% by the following weekend. Regardless, its final worldwide gross would be an impressive $91m and soon Platinum Dunes expressed interest in producing a sequel, although their attention would be diverted by their remake of another popular slasher, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whilst the majority of fans were impressed with the makeover the franchise had received, many critics were divided on the merits of the picture. Rober Ebert, who had launched an attack on the original movie in 1980, stated, “Friday the 13th is about the best Friday the 13th movie you could hope for. Its technical credits are excellent. It has a lot of scary and gruesome killings. Not a whole lot of acting is required.” The New York Times, rather humorously, commented that, “There’s a refreshing lack of numbers in the title of Friday the 13th, the latest in a slasher-flick franchise that has spawned approximately 500 sequels, including one that sent its villain, a hockey-mask-wearing psycho named Jason, into outer space to terrorize nubile astronauts.”

Further reading -
- Crystal Lake’s Bloody Legacy pt.1-15

If the Friday the 13th franchise is to be remembered for anything, other than the iconic hockey mask, then it will be the elaborate and graphic special effects, which were created by various different artists and workshops, from the legendary Tom Savini and Stan Winston to the likes of Martin Becker and Greg Nicotero. Twelve movies, hundreds of victims – it would be impossible to narrow their gory highlights down to just a few but here’s thirteen of Jason’s most memorable kills.

I couldn’t decide which one should claim the top spot so instead these are listed in chronological order. No doubt you’ll have your own favourites so tell us which you would have included.

Enjoy!

FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) – Jack (Kevin Bacon)
Long before the awards and critical acclaim, Kevin Bacon’s claim to fame was his iconic death in the original Friday the 13th. Storyboarded by associate producer Steve Miner (who would later direct the first two sequels) and executed by special make-up effects artist Tom Savini, the sequence saw an arrow being driven through Bacon’s throat from underneath the bed. This relatively complex gag would be created by designing a cast of the actor’s torso, whilst his real body was hidden underneath the bed. With a neck cast attached to Bacon, a hand belonging to stills photographer Richard Feury (who would later be credited as second assistant director on Part 2) reached up from under the bed to pull Bacon’s head down whilst the arrow was pushed through the neck cast. But when the tube that ran the blood from a bag to the neck cast came loose Taso N. Stavrakis, Savini’s assistant, improvised and blew hard down the tube, causing the blood to spray out from the open wound. Although not a Jason kill, this is still a favourite amongst fans.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981) – Mark (Tom McBride)
To prove that Jason Voorhees was an equal rights serial killer, Part 2 saw him dispatch of the franchise’s sole wheelchair-bound victim. Having seemingly scored with pretty-yet-naïve Vickie (Lauren-Marie Taylor), Mark (Tom McBride) waits patiently before heading outside the house, where he is suddenly struck in the face by a machete and sent hurtling backwards down a set of steps. For this highly effective sequence, special make-up effects artist Carl Fullerton designed a mask for McBride to wear, which the balsa wood machete was then attached to. Pulling the blade away from the actor’s face, the footage was then played back in reverse to create the illusion that Mark had been hit in the face by the machete. McBride was then replaced by stuntman Tony Farentino (who would later work on the underrated slasher Alone in the Dark the following year), who was sent backwards down the stairs using a rig to avoid the wheelchair losing control.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 (1982) – Vera (Catherine Parks)
Having rebuffed the advances of shy practical joker Shelly (Larry Zerner), Vera (Catherine Parks) finds his wallet in the water and looks through the contents, before realising that a masked figure has appeared from behind the house. Believing it to be Shelly, who had previously scared her whilst wearing his hockey mask, Jason (Richard Brooker) raises a speargun towards her and fires a shot directly into her eye. Yet another gag played back in reverse, the sequence began with Parks reacting to the arrow being pressed against her eye, before the arrow was retracted via a wire and rod. Cutting away, the next shot saw Parks with an arrow attached to her eye as she fell backwards into the water, although this could only be shot once as the prosthetics that the make-up crew had created would fall to pieces when wet. This scene has an important place in the history of the franchise as it would be the first on-screen kill committed by Jason after obtaining his infamous mask.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 (1982) – Rick (Paul Kratka)
Accommodating for the 3-D effects that would be the selling point for Friday the 13th Part 3, director Steve Miner took every opportunity he could to have objects jumping or reaching out at the camera; from yo-yos and joints to spears and even eyeballs. The latter would be used for the death scene of Rick (Paul Kratka), the lumberjack boyfriend of heroine Chris (Dana Kimmell). Having returned to find the house deserted, Chris searches for her friends whilst Rick heads outside, only to be accosted by Jason. Grabbing his head from behind and crushing his skull, Rick’s eyeballs burst literally from their sockets under the pressure and leap out at the audience. Weeks before principal photography had begun, Kratka was brought to the FX workshop to have his upper torso and head cast in plaster to create a life-size dummy that would be used for the majority of the sequence. With a mark having been set between the two lenses that were used to capture the images in 3-D, the eyeballs were sent out of the fake skull using wires after several attempts using compressed air had failed to achieve the desired result.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) – Axel (Bruce Mahler)
Despite having launched his career on the back of his work on the first Friday the 13th movie, Savini had declined the chance to return for the subsequent two sequels, instead choosing to work on other splatter flicks like The Burning and Creepshow. Yet when the possibility to end what he had helped create by killing off Jason once and for all for 1984′s The Final Chapter arose he found the offer too tempting. After two relatively tame sequels, Savini was determined to outdo his own work on the original by creating some of his most brutal set pieces since The Prowler in 1981 (which, coincidentally, was also directed by Joseph Zito). Aside from Jason’s own demise, the stand out death scene was awarded to Axel (Police Academy‘s Bruce Mahler), an obnoxious orderly whose failed seduction attempts with a nurse (Lisa Freeman) results in him watching aerobics on television. Jason (Ted White), having awoken from the slab after believing to have died from his wounds endured at the end of Part 3, sneaks up behind Axel and grabs him by his head, before taking a surgical hacksaw used for cutting through bone and slices deep into his throat. A dummy was created using a cast of Mahler and a saw, whose blade was filled with blood, was placed against the throat, which also allowed for the head to be violently turned as Jason sunk deep into his neck.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 5: A NEW BEGINNING (1985) – Joey (Dominick Brascia)
Sweet-yet-simple loner Joey (Dominick Brascia) is often dismissed by his fellow patients at the relatively laxed Pinehurst mental institution and, after an attempt at helping two of the girls with the laundry results in the clean clothes being covered in chocolate, tries to make friends with resident psychotic Victor (Mark Venturini, also known to splatter fans for his turn in Return of the Living Dead, released the same year). Angered by his persistence, Victor swings his axe down on Joey’s back and begins to hack him to pieces as the other patients watch in horror. Some time later, an ambulance arrives on the scene and one of the paramedics (Caskey Swaim) pulls back the sheet that is covering his corpse to reveal hacked-up body parts. Whilst the murder itself is shown off screen (with only a brief reaction shot from Brascia at the point of impact), it is the following scene when the state of the body is revealed that showed the gruesome handiwork of the special effects team. Not technically a Jason kill, but the murder would become the catalyst for the Jason copycat murders that followed.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 6: JASON LIVES (1986) – Sheriff Garris (David Kagan)
Sheriff Garris (David Kagan) would prove to be the archetypal authority figure of the slasher film. Much like A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Lt. Donald Thompson (John Saxon), who would also refuse to believe the fact that a seemingly dead killer was responsible for a recent series of grizzly murders, Garris’ ignorance and refusal to accept the warning from former mental patient Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews, Venturini’s Return of the Living Dead co-star) would eventually cost him his life. Having made his way with his deputies to Camp Forest Green – formerly Camp Crystal Lake, the scene of countless murders at the hands of Jason (C.J. Graham) – Garris soon finds himself alone and takes shelter in the bushes as he watches Jason from afar. But when his daughter, Megan (Jennifer Cooke), arrives at the camp with Tommy, Jason heads back out of the woods to kill them both, forcing the sheriff to finally face the truth and fight back, resulting in him being literally broken in two. Although heavily censored by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) prior to release, the sequence was achieved by fake legs being bent back over Kagan’s shoulders as Jason breaks his back. In an effort to avoid the same kind of problems with the censors that the previous movies had encountered, director Tom McLoughlin would shoot several versions of the scene, including one which would be relatively gruesome, although sadly this would not be used in the finished print.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 7: THE NEW BLOOD (1988) – Judy (Debora Kessler)
Unlike his contemporaries, namely A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘s Leatherface, Jason Voorhees has never taken much pleasure in torturing his victims, instead opting for the fastest way to dispatch them. Kane Hodder, who would be cast in the role at the insistence of director John Carl Buechler, would take the character of Jason to new heights by creating a unique body language that he would use through the subsequent three sequels. With Buechler also being a renowned special effects artist, many of the set pieces in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood would be extremely elaborate and graphic, this was until the MPAA ordered drastic cuts to many of the film’s highlights. One sequence would see one of the young vacationers, Judy (Debora Kessler), dragged across the ground by Jason in her sleeping bag and swung against a tree, killing her instantly. Originally, Jason was to have thrown her against the trunk several times but the MPAA ordered the filmmakers to reduce the number of hits, resulting in Jason simply swinging her against the tree once and then tossing her body aside. Ironically, this would make the sequence all the more effective.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 8: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN (1989) – Jules (V.C. Dupree)
Although ultimately defeated at the end of each movie, Jason rarely faced a character who was able to match him physically, with his victims often resorting to weapons, water or even telekinesis. In 1989′s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, the latest graduating class embark on a cruise from Crystal Lake to New York City, which soon turns into a fight for survival as Jason (Kane Hodder) makes his way onboard and begins to dispatch each of the teens one-by-one. Although the majority of the deaths would be relatively blood-free (again, due to strict regulations from the MPAA), one that would stand out would be that of Julius (V.C. Dupree), undefeated high school boxing champion who, tired of running, faces off against Jason on top of a building in a rough neighbourhood of New York. With bloody knuckles and gasping for breath, Julius in unable to fight Jason any longer and challenges him to punch him back. In one swing, Jason sends Julius’ head from his shoulders, down the side of the building and into a dumpster in the street below. Showcasing his sick sense of humour, Jason later left Julius’ head on the dashboard of a police car as the other students attempt to escape.

JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY (1993) – Deborah (Michelle Clunie)
With Paramount having eventually sold the rights to the Friday the 13th franchise to rival studio New Line Cinema (the home of A Nightmare on Elm Street), the series received a makeover in 1993 with Adam Marcus’ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. Ostensibly a rip-off of Jack Sholder’s 1987 science fiction thriller The Hidden (also distributed by New Line), the movie boasted impressive special effects by the always reliable KNB EFX, although predictably these would be heavily censored for the theatrical print. Thankfully, Marcus’ original cut was later released on video and featured in all its glory the murders of horny young campers Deborah (Michelle Clunie) and Luke (Michael B. Silver). With their friend Alexis (Kathryn Atwood) having allowed them to keep the tent for the night whilst she sleeps outside, the couple had begun to make out before moving onto sex, whilst a coroner (Richard Gant) from a hospital who has been possessed by the spirit of Jason appears at the tent, thrusting his weapon through the material and into Deborah’s stomach, before violently thrusting it upwards, tearing her torso in two.

JASON X (2001) – Adrienne (Kristi Angus)
With the regular setting of Camp Crystal Lake having grown stale over several installments, filmmakers had been forced to try new locations in which Jason could continue his bloodbath. New York had failed to impress the fans and so the makers of Jason X, in a last attempt to rejuvenate the formula, sent their antagonist into twenty-fifth century deep space. This new science fiction location would allow for an array of possibilities; some of which would be exploited, whilst others were sadly neglected. The film’s best death would go to scientist Adrienne (Kristi Angus), who is given the responsibility of performing an autopsy on the recently thawed out Jason (Kane Hodder), whose body was found in an abandoned space station. Whilst distracted, Adrienne is unaware that Jason has awoken behind her and grabs her by her hair, forcing her face-first into a sink filled with liquid nitrogen, causing her head to immediately freeze. Removing her and looking at his handiwork, Jason would smash her head against the work surface, shattering her face, before tossing her corpse aside.

FREDDY VS. JASON (2003) – Trey (Jesse Hutch)
Freddy vs. Jason had been fifteen years in the making, pitching the villains from the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises against each other in a fight to the death. Having gone through numerous writers and directors, the task of bringing the concept to the big screen fell to Ronny Yu, who had previously given the Child’s Play series a postmodern makeover with 1998′s Bride of Chucky. The story that was eventually selected saw both antagonists trapped in the bowels of Hell, with Freddy desperate to escape so he can continue his killing spree at his old stomping ground, Elm Street. Allowing Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to escape Hell, he lures him to Elm Street in an effort to evoke enough fear in the town’s teenagers so that he will be able to break free from his restraints and control the dream world once again. Jason makes his way to the former home of Lt. Donald Thompson and his daughter, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), a house which Freddy is strangely drawn to time and time again. Finding a group of teens partying without the supervision of parents, Jason appears over the bed of obnoxious jock Trey (Jesse Hutch) and begins to butcher him with his machete to the point that the bed breaks in half, crushing Trey’s lifeless body.

FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009) – Nolan (Ryan Hansen)
Having made a suitable impression on the executives at New Line with their script for Freddy vs. Jason, writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift were given the task of resurrecting the Friday the 13th franchise for Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes (previously responsible for the all-style-no-substance remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hitcher). Taking elements from the first four movies, arguably favourites among fans, the reboot saw Jason (Derek Mears) reinvented as a hunter, who kidnaps a young woman (Amanda Righetti) who resembles his dead mother, prompting the girl’s brother (Jared Padalecki) to head out to Crystal Lake in search of her. Whilst the characterisation would be lacking, even for a slasher film, and the acting would be subpar (with the exception of Mears and Danielle Panabaker, the film’s only truly sympathetic character), some of the murders would be gruesome enough to delight fans of the series. The most memorable of which was the death of Nolan (Ryan Hansen) who, whilst out on the lake with his girlfriend (Willa Ford), is suddenly shot in the head by an arrow.

Back in April, the Hero wardrobe for the character of Wade was sold for only $200. This wardrobe for “Clay” sold for $900! Personally, I thought the wardrobe for “Clay” was going to sell for more. For those collectors, keep an eye out for more auctions of screen used items as they do appear from time to time.

Lost amongst some of the hatred for the new 2026 film, which seems to have waned thanks to the Nightmare On Elm Street remake, is the fact that the Friday reboot brought back the jump scare/dream sequence ending. There have not been too many debates about this ending and it is a little surprising, considering how much fans like to pick these films apart and also like to reminisce about the old Paramount films.

Was the ending of the Platinum Dunes produced 2026 film a dream, or did Jason swim back to the dock and pull Whitney underneath the water to her death?

Add your questions in the comments below. We will need your questions by the end of today as the interview will be happening shortly thereafter. Selected questions will be added to the list of questions that are already prepared. Please post respectful and relevant questions for Mark. Thank you!

Storyboards photo from www.fridaythe13thprops.de

Below we have listed a few of the items, there relationship in the 2026 film and how much they sold for. Some prices may seem very expensive at first glance, but in the world of movie prop collecting, the selling prices may be very minimal.

Hero metal wok with wooden handle
Used as a shield by Arlen Escarpeta’s character “Lawrence” to defend himself against Jason.

SOLD FOR:  $150

Jason’s creepy doll
Picked up by Jared Padalecki’s character “Clay”. Cloth body with porcelain head, hands, and feet.

SOLD FOR: $800

Deer Antlers
These antlers were used by Jason to hang the corpse of Julianna Guill’s character “Bree” on the bathroom door. Constructed of resin and realistically weathered.

SOLD FOR:  $400

Remember the first behind the scenes images to be released?

Or, how about when we were first shown the mask on the MTV behind the scenes video.

The excitement level for this film was through the roof. So much so, that it was guaranteed to take home a lot of money from the box office! As with every film with high expectations, it was destined to fail with certain fans. The film’s billing as a reboot and Producers proclomation of returning to the original four film’s look and feel gave numerous fans false visions of yesteryear.

The newest Friday movie is a good horror movie and a good Friday the 13th film. However, it will never live up to the nostalgic views of many of the Friday the 13th faithful. Back in 1985, fans absolutely hated A New Beginning. That is a very generous statement as it was actually a much worse feeling. All of these years later, a shift in feelings has occured towards Part 5 and now many people can embrace the film. In the coming years, perhaps more and more people will be more accepting of the 2026 film as well.