Paramount Pictures/Entertainment Pictures/ He's also an actor whose credits include Grindhouse, Machete and Django Unchained, because of course Quentin Tarantino would be a fan. Special makeup effects artist Tom Savini-the man behind Jason's deformities and all that blood and gore-had previously worked on special effects for George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, but was still an up-and-comer when Cunningham hired him. His later projects included Creep Show, Day of the Dead and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (part 4). It was "cold and freezing," she recalled, but they had heaters set up and towels waiting after every take.Īri Lehman, who was 15 when he played the first-ever Jason, later fronted a punk band called First Jason. They had to shoot that scene a few times, much to the opposite of Adrienne King's delight. The investors insisted on some sort of "jump at the end," Cunningham recalled, which in turn led to Alice, thinking her troubles are behind her once she had beheaded Pamela, languidly drifting in a canoe on the lake, only to be pulled into the water by Jason's restive corpse. In fact, he was already back waiting tables when Animal House came out in 1978 and needed to ask for the night off to attend the premiere. He was not entirely unknown, having already made his film debut in Animal House, but he still definitely considered himself a struggling actor at the time. There's one in every crowd, and Kevin Bacon was the future big star to emerge from Friday the 13th (though his character Jack was brutally dispatched in the movie). After acting, he became an investment banker and philanthropist. Harry Crosby III-Alice's love interest Bill, who almost makes it out of Crystal Lake alive-is the fifth son of late crooner Bing Crosby. "These things just don't happen! I was a Burger King girl before."
"For me to actually get this without a theatrical agent was pretty amazing," she said.
"I was trying to make the break from commercials into television into film," and she was up for anything, including dancing for four weeks as an extra in Saturday Night Fever. "Every actor and actress that was under 21 was trying to get an audition," King recalled years later. Sole survivor Alice made Adrienne King an iconic scream queen forever after.