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.

 

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

Rare Behind The Scenes Photos From Part 3

 

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.

Movie Mold VS Mask on a Stunt Mold Cowl

 

This piece was recently produced by Nathan Stafford Studios from the Freddy vs Jason stunt mold. It was likely sculpted large to accomodate the burn suit underneath and any breathing gear the actor needed. It was at least used during the burn scene in the corn field.

Alice Cooper with Mysterious Part 5 Mask

 

Here's something you don't see much: Alice Cooper did a photo shoot with an unknown hockey mask. It has the basic paint job of a Part 6, but is clearly unfinished, having no snap holes drilled, no axe cut, and appears too narrow to be from the buck used in Part 6. It's possible that this is an unused mask from Part 5 that Reel FX had laying around in the shop. Oddly enough, the vent hole that sits over where the axe cut should be is out of place, so this might itself be a recast of any of the early masks. Alice also doesn't have any makeup on, so this was evidently an entirely different shoot from the one he did with C. J. Graham.

Friday the 13th Mask Shows Up on Pawn Stars

 

The mask appears to be a recast of one of the promotional masks made for Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood. The original promotional masks are seen below. So it's probably not worth much by itself. Richard Brooker has been gone a long time and apparently his signature can fetch some money these days so the price quoted might be reasonable. It seems weirdly high to me but I'm not an autograph collector. The $6,500 ask was wild!

Here's a shot of the promotional masks made by the MMI in 1988. You can see that the Pawn Stars mask has the same distinctive cheek cut, which is not accurate to the hero mask.

My Part 8 Mask (Slightly Updated)

Every so often I make some minor modifications to my own masks that only I care about. So here it is! I recently trimmed a bit of the perimeter off my part 8 mask so that it's a little closer to the movie mask.

While my mask is accurate to what I remember when I saw it in person, I've been tempted to just sand it down and repaint the whole thing now that we have these astonishing Prop Store photos to use as reference. Your memory only goes so far. I didn't even realize, for example, that the straps are brown, rather than black until I saw the recent auction photos, or that the black weathering looks a little cloudier on the movie mask.

New Part 8 Movie Mold Mask Surfaces

Tony Lazarowich, a British Columbia-based special effects artist, recently posted a reel on his Instagram page where he showcases a Part 8 Jason mask. Lazarowich says in the video that he studied under the effects chief from the film (presumably referring to Jamie Brown) and was given the honor of making the masks for the movie.

The mask is definitely interesting. The blank itself looks very accurate to those used in Jason Takes Manhattan, having the telltale horizontal crack on the back that is seen in the Part 8 movie masks, a result of being recasted from a flawed Part 6 blank that was pulled after the buck had cracked through the mouth area. The mask also has an interesting split in the side, something we also see in another Part 8 spare mask that was on eBay over a decade ago, that may have been caused by an FX artist accidentally cracking the notoriously brittle acrylic while going about his work.

The vents appear to be drilled the right size and have the characteristic crudeness you usually see in movie masks. The color doesn't appear accurate to the hero mask to my eye. The straps and strap connections don't look accurate and the weathering doesn't look nearly as detailed as the hero mask, although stunt and other spare or promotional masks were sometimes painted more crudely. The mask does have the correct nylon blackouts for the eyes but the hero mask blackouts were just hot-glued in-- this appears to be done differently. In any case, the mask itself seems likely to have come from production in my estimation.

Really cool piece and it's nice to see Tony has taken good care of it over the years. Thanks to Mario for bringing this to my attention.

 

 

My Movie Mold Freddy vs Jason Mask

Have been trying to get a movie mold "vs" mask for years, and now I've finally got one! Still looking to acquire Jason X movie mold pieces if anyone can point me in the right direction. 

Comparison with my old NECA vs mask below. Almost the same size and the features are basically the same, although the movie mask is narrower and longer.

My paint job was based on the "corn field mask" used through much of the film (see below).

The Masks of Freddy vs Jason

As far as I can tell, seven hockey masks were used during the filming of Freddy vs. Jason. The masks were touched up a number of times and appear with very different weathering throughout the film, probably owing to not being clear coated (the main mask from Part 5 was also retouched several times). There are certain details that indicate masks that appear to be different are in fact the same, such as distinctive scratches or vent hole damage, so I've summarized what I've found below, with credit for updates and corrections to Nathan Stafford of the Horror Costume Index.

1. The Corn Field Mask: This mask is characterized by the wide, shallow forehead chevron. This mask had more subtle early in the film. Prop collector Paul Wintner bought this mask a few years ago but I think he's since sold it.

2. The Hospital Mask: This mask had a deep forehead chevron. This mask was also used in the resurrection scene in the beginning of the movie, among others. You can tell it's the same because the chevron is damaged in exactly the same way. This mask was also used during the resurrection scene, the first kill and in a number of promotional stills. Currently in private hands.

 

3. The Boiler Room Mask 1: This was the unscratched mask used in the initial confrontation between Freddy and Jason in Freddy's boiler room. Currently owned by The Ultimate Freddy vs. Jason Archive.

 

4. The Boiler Room Mask 2: This mask was used in the closeups where Freddy initially scratches the mask. Owned by a private collector. Photo credit: Ultimate Freddy vs. Jason Archive.

 

5. The Boiler Room Mask 3: This mask had unusually wide cut eyes, making it look distinct from all others in the film. The scratches are also slightly different from the above Boiler Room 2 mask.

6. The Ambulance Mask: While this mask also had a shallow chevron, it is distinct from the Corn Field Mask in a number of details. This mask was also used during the promotional "weigh-in" of Freddy and Jason as evinced by the distinct vent hole damage.

7. The End Scene Mask: This is the one owned by Mario Kirner for quite a few years. It's the narrowest and most damaged of the masks used onscreen and was recently sold at auction for nearly $100K.