Movie Dummy Owned by Kirk Hammett Gets a Touch Up

Blast From the Past on eBay

 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.

Part 6 Paintup

 

Haven't painted a part 6 mask in years. I went for hero eye cuts here but the rest of the mask isn't painted specifically to match the hero. Just kind of a general mask using the same techniques as the movie masks, like it had wandered off set. Blank is a second generation recast of a movie mask by Fiberglassmasks.com and it's easily the most accurate part 6 blank out there (aside from the fact that its not an acrylic vac pull). I tried to create the illusion of the clear spots on a vac pull with layers of gray and white paint in some spots.

Couple of Shots of the Part 4 Machete Dummy

I think both of these were screen grabs from the documentary Crystal Lake Memories. Today, though restored somewhat, the dummy is in very poor shape. I'm told that the head has shrunk significantly and most of the foam latex is hard as a rock. Some of the internal mechanics of the head are collapsing as well, so the restoration work involved propping up the machete wound to lengthen the life of the structures inside.

Rare Photo of Ari Lehman as Jason

 

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.

Happy Halloween!

 

Here's a random photo of a movie mold Uber Jason mask (left) and a replica from Darb Designz.

I Finally Found a PERFECT Part II Sweater

 

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:

• It has the same fat cables that connect with a left-to-right twist and the same plain fields of about three inches between them. The cables sit in their own "channel" with just a half cm or so width around them in the same fashion. 
  

• It has the same number of cables around the torso: four down the front, four down the back. 

• It has the same number of cable links from collar to waist: five complete links and two half links at either end of each cable. 

• It has the same broad, plain strips descending the arms, with a single cable running down the top of the arm from the top of the shoulder to the wrist cuff; the cuffs, waist pattern and collar are all correct 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.

Here's a comparison of the waist stitching. Notice that the field strips line up with exactly three vertical bands in the waist stitching and the cables have a two-band width, just like the movie sweater.

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.

Another thing I noticed is the sweater is very stretchy. Since Amy Steel wore it over a shirt in the movie, this stretched it out considerably and made it look larger and the features somewhat fatter.

Here's a few more shots of the movie sweater.

Jason Goes to Hell Mask Up For Auction at PropStore

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.

 

 

 

Screen-Used Reboot Cowl Pops Up

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.