The #2 copy of my first sculpt "That Horrible Face" is on eBay right now. I'm not the seller, don't know who is, but this is the first one of these I've seen come up for sale in over a decade. It was a crude sculpt with elements of two different designs from part 3 that I sculpted back in 2009.
Looks like he's in a state of transition here. Maybe just starting to take his appliances off? It's a freaky shot in any case. Shot sometime during filming in September-November 1979.
This is absolutely huge for me. I've been looking for the exact manufacture of the original sweater used in Friday the 13th Part II since I bought the screen-used head in 2015. It took me six years to locate one. And it was only $30 on eBay.
The sweater I found is pretty mysterious. There is no tag on the collar and it looks like there never was one; the only tag is near the waist and just says "dry clean or hand wash with care." As near as the seller could figure, it was a 1970s fisherman's sweater made of Shetland wool in the color of Heather Green (a gray with a tiny bit of a greenish tinge). It seems to have coarse brown and white fibers woven in. The sweater is very chunky and was clearly a male medium or large like the movie sweater.
Over the last six years, I've spent countless hours on eBay looking for the perfect cable knit sweater. There are a ton of vintage sweaters that are close, but this is the only one I've ever seen that is a perfect match to the movie sweater:
Here's a comparison of the collars. Check out the perfect stitching match between the field, the cable, the channel separating the cable from the field strip and even the length of the cables that are coming directly off the collar. If you look closely you can see the movie sweater seems to have the same flecks of white and brown or black wool blended into the gray fibers.
I actually didn't realize that the movie sweater even had the single cable pattern descending the arm until I saw this sweater. It prompted me to take a closer look at blu-ray screenshots. They're definitely there.
It's hard to tell from the photo, but the links on my sweater cables are big--nearly four inches long. The collar is slightly over an inch thick and the waist pattern has about a four inch depth. Every detail checks out with the movie sweater.
Here's a few more shots of the movie sweater.
This is a LW-101 resin stunt mask created during production of Jason Goes to Hell by FX artist Bill Hunt and worn by the dummy that took the chest stab at the end of the film. This is up for auction at PropStore. Last photos are of the dummy with the mask on, taken on set in 1992 and a more recent photo of the same dummy when the mask was still on it. The mask will come with a COA from The Friday the 13th Prop Museum (Mario Kirner), who previously owned the mask.
These photos were posted by collector Dirk Mueller recently. It's a screen-used cowl and part of a face appliance sitting on a biscuit foam bust of actor Derek Mears. The shirt may also be screen-worn. This was evidently worn under the mask during filming of the Friday the 13th reboot. Awesome piece, and excellent photos by Dirk. Here's a few more.
I've gotten this question a few times. I included fully completed wigs with every order of Mrs. Voorhees heads I did, but there may be copies out there that no longer have them. I've also noticed that most replicas have hair that looks off. Sometimes its too cottony or too stringy. Sometimes she almost looks coiffed, like she just got out of the hair salon. But almost always in need of improvement.
So I'm going to do a quick tutorial here to tell you exactly how I got the look I did. While not exact, its pretty close to what they did for Friday the 13th Part 2.
Here's a screen shot of how my personal copy looked in the fan film Voorhees.
The wig I used for this and every copy I sold was something I found on eBay. It was a light brown-gray wig classified as a "JF1971" model fashion wig from some Chinese manufacturer. Here is a screenshot of the advertisement.
This listing is long gone, so I don't know where you'd find one now. But any similar wig will do.
The first thing you have to do with a copy like this is cut the whole wig down to a four-inch length. You can start with a short-haired wig as well and don't have to cut anything of course, up to you. The whole thing should be roughly uniform in length.
Once you've got it cut down, you get a heat gun and blast the hell out of it. This will cause the fibers to fray out into a sort of "rats nest" texture, creating the fuzzy, thinned-out look you see in the original film wig. You can also pull hair out to thin it even more, but that's not something I did for any of my copies.
Then you have the most time-consuming part: one your fibers are sufficiently heated, they will tend to stick together in clumps. So you have to spend quite a bit of time pulling them apart to make the hair look fuller. You can of course leave a few clumped up so that you have some stringy elements as well. Variance helps to create a more natural, chaotic look. But pulling hair fibers apart will help to create a very dirty version of the grandma perm that the movie head had.
From there, it comes down to styling. The wig hair will end up really stiff at this point so whatever styling you do will stay put. You can use your hands or a brush to curl the hair back, away from the face to get something approximating the movie look.
There's a lot of ways you can customize it. Yours might turn out better than mine. But don't skimp on the heat gun. It's the most essential part of the look.
Just bought this from Marcos Medina--its a rare resin casting that came directly off the front of the hero mask used in Friday the 13th Part 8. These castings came from Beyond Disgusting Studios, who got an old mold from an unnamed professional FX artist in Hollywood. At right is a clear vac blank produced by BDS by creating a buck from one of the direct castings. Amazingly no distortions or size increase happened in the vac pulls. As you can see, they're perfectly sized, although some modification had to be done to reduce the super-wide spread of the original mold and return it to the correct width.
Here's a recent shot of Mario with the movie mask that both of these came from.
These were posted by Instagram user levi86athan (Justin Ray), owner of the hero mask. The dark mess on the back, he explained, is evidently the remnants of zombie skin tone makeup worn on C. J. Graham's face during filming, and the foam bits came from one of the foam latex cowls he wore. These are some of the best photos we've ever seen of the main hero mask, really awesome of him to post.
I've had this for years, don't remember where it came from, but I bet it was from the sculptor, Brian Wade. You can find him on Instagram @millionaireclayboy
This was the final design (and only face sculpt) used in the cemetery scene.
Mario posted this to Facebook recently--one of the best photos of the Part 7 mask we've ever seen. As you can see, the paint detail isn't really that spectacular--they simply used black washes over a white mask to get an "aged" look. You can also see the original Part 8 and Jason X hero masks in the background.
This mask belongs to a collector on Facebook, who shared some photos recently. This seems to be the primary "hero" mask used in Freddy vs. Jason, and appears in much of the marketing material.
I just finished a second watch of Jason Rising, a fan film I've been anticipating for the last year or so. Directed by James Sweet and co-written by Never Hike Alone's Vincent DiSanti, this film has had a couple of spooky trailers that definitely left me wanting more.
Jason Rising seems to take place after the events of Part 4, and Jason's crude grave is a clear homage to Tommy's dream from the opening of Part 5, though most of the film takes place in present day. While burying Jason following Tommy's machete work, the frustrated police realize that Jason just isn't killable, and have resorted to chaining him into a coffin and burying him alive. He remains in the ground for more than thirty years until trespassing fugitives disturb the old camp property and inadvertently awaken the headless corpse of Pamela Voorhees, who exhumes her son. Mass murder, and hilarity, ensue.
The movie is wonderfully atmospheric right from the opening sequence, and makes effective use of lighting, fog and camera filters, at times rising to Hollywood-quality cinematography. Jason looks GOOD. The team seems to have modeled him off the version hallucinated by Tommy Jarvis in part 5, although he's now somewhat zombified. Some shots even seem like a deliberate homage to Part 5. This version of Jason (played by Dan Kyle) is quick, decisive and brutal, and there are some decent kills throughout. Though none of them were extremely well executed, there was one that was at least pretty inventive, and I'll give the writers credit for taking Jason into some new territory with this film.
The acting was solid and casting choices were made smartly; in
particular, Alexandria McCormack pulls off a young Betsy Palmer (Mrs.
Voorhees) extremely well. The soundtrack by Gabe Johnston and James
Sweet was particularly strong, with no shortage of the familiar "ki ki
ki..." hook we usually hear in Friday the 13th films.
On the negative side, some of the story elements strain the imagination--like why a manhunt for three wanted fugitives who have recently committed murder would have only two U.S. marshals on the job. There is also an overuse of the jump scare fake-out. It was a decent gimmick in the 1980s, but feels outdated and weakly executed here. There also seemed to be a tone shift that I found disappointing: the foreboding atmosphere of the first half gives way to some
campiness in the second, and I found some of the battles later in the film to be a little too funny for my taste.
Lest I get too critical, I want to acknowledge the limitations of the film do feel like they are mostly stemming from predictable budget constraints. For example, in the latter part of the film, it does feel like a few shots are missing, creating some minor narrative "hiccups." Fans of the franchise won't likely be terribly disappointed with these minor flaws and there are quite a few Easter eggs throughout, including an original screen-used prop from one of the Paramount films. So keep an eye out.
Overall, I'll give this a 7 out of 10. The film is fun, gory, fast-paced and daring, sometimes to the point of absurdity. Worth a watch!
WOW. Kevin Yagher, who painted and applied the appliances on Ted White during production of Friday the 13th Part 4 just shared some new photos of his work during production. Anyone trying to get an accurate paint job should have no problem with these beauties. The intense black shading around the eyes makes Jason look unexpectedly zombie-like compared to fan paint-ups I've seen.
I believe only the top photo is of the final sculpt; the others seem to be of the initial sculpt used for the FX dummies. Really awesome to see these photos surface after more than 35 years.
