Tuesday, March 5, 2024

We Hit Half a Million Views!

Just yesterday this blog passed 500,000 views. I started posting here back in 2009 as a way to display my Jason-related artwork. Since then I've done deep dives into hockey mask history and all things makeup and prop-related in the Friday the 13th franchise and I want to thank everyone who stops by to check out all the photos I've collected from around the web and read my analysis. I've been away from this for several months but I have a couple of Jason-related projects underway I'll be posting soon.



Friday, October 20, 2023

New Stan Winston Jason Photos Revealed

Stan Winston Studios posted these recently on their social media in honor of the recent Friday the 13th. Really nice photos of casting Richard's face for the original sculpt used in Part III. You can also see the exaggerated mauve flesh tones used in painting the final pieces. FX guys usually did this knowing that color timing would inevitably rob the piece of some amount of it's original color.








 


Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Jason Takes Manhattan BTS

 

Kane has a lot of mud and debris on him, so I'm guessing this was when they were filming the opening scene on the house boat.

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

More Photos of the Part VII Mask

Here's a couple more gorgeous photos of the Part 7 hero mask, from the Wall Street Journal and Josh Ludemann of Beyond Disgusting Studios. What a great piece of cinematic artwork.




Thursday, June 8, 2023

Finally: Razor Sharp Photos of the Part VII Mask

Taken from the Profiles in History auction catalog. This mask is expected to fetch over $100,000.

You can also see a short HD video of the mask here:



Saturday, March 25, 2023

Bloody Ending II Touch-Ups

 I've done a few enhancements to my Bloody Ending II bust, made from a stunt-mold mask from the production of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. I went for the heavily shadowed paint job that Kevin Yagher chose for the original stunt pieces, while adding some His Unlucky Day-inspired touches of realism, with blemishes and depth in the skin. The results are below.These are easily the best photos I've taken of this piece, and I'm happy to finally have them up.



Here's Yagher with the original stunt heads he painted for the film in 1984. The shadowy paint job gives Jason a bit of a "zombie" appearance.

Despite being a couple generations removed from the movie mold, you can see here the detail on the Bloody Ending II is pretty high-fidelity to the original.

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Screen-Used Head From 'Voorhees' Lit Up

 

I got a mounted light over my Pam Voorhees 3D print master copy (printed from a scan of the screen-used head from Friday the 13th Part 2 and used in the fan film Voorhees). So now I have her lit at will just like it was on set. I sold two runs of these back in 2017-2018, right after I sold the original.

A screen cap from Voorhees (2020)

The director of Voorhees and I are working on a new film called The Crow: Days of Sodom and you can find the project group on Facebook.


Saturday, March 4, 2023

Rare Footage of Ted White in Makeup Chair

 Courtesy of Nathan Stafford of the Horror Costume Index, here is some of the clearest footage we've seen from Tom Savini's old VHS tapes of Ted White getting made up as Jason by Kevin Yagher for the unmasking scene in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. There is also some machete dummy footage. 

This came off a DVD copy of the Tom Savini documentary Smoke and Mirrors.  

This is likely the clearest look we'll ever get of Ted in full makeup nearly forty years ago and it's glorious! Just beautiful work by everyone involved.