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@ An Eaglemoss Publication Every fortnight UK £6.99 Malta LM5.60 The hockey mask that became a horror icon JHBorfy oorhees Masked Menace Movie nioiiiiaS ^ The moment that made a horror icon - Jason with mask and machete. Jason Voorhees Masked Menace The Crystal Lake slasher in his most unmistakable guise. The slasher movie goes stereoscopic ~ the startling 3-D effects in Part 3. hifiiite sfopy / The Friday The 13th phenomenon ‘ T - how It all began. Fear factor Find out how the movie-makers have us hooked even before the film is released. Ato Z of Ipoppoi* Delve into more juicy facts and trivia I / about weapons, themes and characters.J?[ f Alan Jones is an ind Inally recagnis»d horror expert. Author of thd dling The Rough Guide to Horror Movi^t ||s for Fangoria and VISIT W^^SIT^ regularly tuming up«i| the UK's biggest horrorl www.horror-collectjon.co.uk It's been a long night at the lake and homicidal monster Jason Vooriiees goes head to head with the final teenager, Chris Higgins. Here, for the very first time in Friday The 13fh history, we see Jason as the icon of popular culture he has now become - bearing hockey mask and machete. V % It is during the last campaign of carnage in Friday The 13th Part 3 that we f ' witness Jason as he would never be forgotten. As the action moves to the barn, the Trademark • That infamous only surviving teenager, Chris Higgins, is machete gripped goalie mask, now seemingly trapped. There's nowhere to reedy to malm synonymous with run, nowhere to hide... horror Deformed 9kull 1)611111(1 the mask Blood-splattered clothes, from 'a grisly nl^ht of Backed up against the door, Chris turns homicide to face Jason. The image before her is formidable... a brute of a man, a killing machine, stomping towards her, with no other intention than cold-blooded murder. Stah* wound With a hockey mask covering his face and a .inflicted N. (now) trademark machete ready to rain down earlier hy a bloody blow, this is the image that people feisty teen associate with the name Jason Voorhees. ...Chris Higgins This time the teenager dodges the machete, but the struggle is far from over. Friday The 13th Part 3 saw Jason Voorhees don that world-famous hockey mask for the first time. No one knew it then, but from that moment on Jason would y\- forever be intrinsically linked to the mask. StomjJiLng boO' ^ made 'for 'V- stalking This symbol indicates a close-up feature on pages six and seven. 1 "T 1 B ^ Having escaped the machete, dTFTs hides ^Chhs succeeds and finds a winch rope ^ Part 3 was filmed with amazing 3-D in the upper level of the barn. Jason is to fasten round the unconscious Jason's effects. Jason's hanging scene worked quick on her heels, but he cannot hnd neck. The barn, with all its implements, particularly well viewed through 3-D ^ her. at first. The tension is palpable as ropes and recesses, is the perfea setting glasses. As Jason comes hurtling towards we wonder whether she'll have a chance for killing sprees. This one was specially the camera, cinema-goers would have to strike him before being discovered. designed and built for the film. been jumping out of their seats! C^s opens the door to a seerhlngly ifH ^ Chris descends and breathes a groan ^ ^ With Jason on the loose again, some of relief, which the viewers share. To Jason. But true enough, it's not quite unexpected help arrives from (assumed emphasise that the danger is over the over yet. Jason comes back to life and dead) biker, Ali. This further shock is screeching soundtrack stops, as well. But lifts his mask to reveal his grotesquely heightened by the gross-factor of on- is this just a horror trick? Are we being deformed face - a shock factor that is screen gore; Jason hacks Ali's arm clean lulled into a false sense of security? deliberately saved for the end of film. .. - off, before finishing him off completefy." Our heroine seizes the opportunity to ^ Chris plunges the axe into Jason's head. ^ He can't last much longer though, arm herseK with an axe. Dana Kimmell, This must be it for him now.,.? But no, in and sure enough the massive monster who played Chris, admits to finding the another jump-out-of-your-seat moment, collapses in a heap at Chris's feet. Finally closing scenes of the film - during which he's jerking, arms out stretched, and it's over, and Jason is really dead,.. ' she uses several weapons^- particularly lurching towards her - and the audience. Until, that is, the next sequel, "tough, because she doesn't like violence. Another spectacular shot in 3-D. of course. Wotfte ' l- . M ^though tb« bjf biker gaiig doesn't Before being slashed to pieces (off-screen), give the vacationing teens at Higgins' tnsiorparm gets sliced clean off in a juicily effect / II- Retreat the skest of welcomes, one of gory special effect. To achieve this a ' the tt)ugs does get the chance to salvage his cast of his arm, stuffed with blood-soaked Ifepijtation at the end oPlh® f^eviously meat was used. Savage thought the effect - presumedde^ck'Ali appears from the tecesses was great: "It really did look real 1 had to ' it!" ‘iof the bam-andjumps^tlte unsuspecting “ctieck my own arm after I saw Watch Jjiason. Nick Savage, who played Ati, was the shot of his arm 4 quite proud of his role: *1 thought it was cool (pre-chop) 5that AN can^.backfrom the dead and tried -carefully, to save thfgirl- . HJiked the fact that All got though, and ' f the cjianceto redeem himself," Unfortunately you'll spot his'second chance doesn't last long^ he is where the cast %fter alt pitched against a machete-wielding fs attached to his ^ ^madman. ^HrSASMlVIVOR he' heroine of Friday The 13th because she fought back, i didn't want her Part 3. like many before and-ffter to be ar^imp. I wanted her to someone - T her, has a special role teplay in the who could surviye and she did." film. She's different from the rest ofthe-i- t^ens, who get dispatchW methodicatry;'- .•one by one (starting, of course, with those who have sdkof take drugs). The - heroine's the one whoJias guts, she*^ the on^who gets to defeat the baddie. *And more'importantljt she's the one ' who gets to survive. Oaia Kimmpll, v^o played Chris, was not unlike her virtuous oni6creen ’ cfaraadr - agparen^y ^h^^sed to . SCREAM QUEEN take her clothes off for the film, anyl • ^ "You catt’t ‘wen ^sked produce^ank Mancuso.Jr. Pana Kimmell v>ho plays Chris Higgins to tflpiolowfT'some oT the fcxual stuff alwaysJoked that shegot the part really well. beaNvo!" . in the saipt^3espitefmdifi^ filming "a because she screams little stressl^(i towards the^d", tOmmell Apparently that's pretty much all she • was'pleasVd^ith hepart, which had to do in the audition. ^ | CliritIBi she found empowering' "Hiked Chris V . AXEDI (Zou would think that an axe to the Chris can't quite decide whether she should skull would be enough to finish laugh or cry. someone off - it seems to work Richard Brooker, who played Voorhees for most of Jason's victims at least. But in this film, says he loved acting the part the masked monster himself is, of course, where his hands stick straight out. "We different: after all he has just survived a rehearsed those movements quite a bit," he bash round the head with a shovel and recalls, "and I really wanted to make sure a seemingly-lethal hanging. Still, when that I played Jason as a monster who was Jason's arms suddenly jerk out towards the constantly being fuelled by rage.* Well, he long-suffering Chris, having just had an axe would have been enraged had he himself embedded in his head, we still can't quite faced the axe. In actual fact a puppet was believe It. It!^ a great moment, a 3-D joKer, used in this scene and it was special effects ^almost comical, in fact. Even man Douglas J White, who really took the e hysterical brunt: "I basically took a steel sleeve and put hand in there and that's what took the not Richard's head." '! the most athletic Jason in the entire any instant reaction ^ series' history. to hb grotesquely T ^ The expert opinion Most horror films released in the flawed features. ' ' wake ofFriday the 13th's success were From now on, ifhe could ^ Sfunnir^ 3-D added a unique reality based. They mined the dread of help it, he woufdgo nowhere f ^ *• X dimension offerror to Friday man's dark inhumanity to their fellow men. without it. the !3th Fart 3. But the real A serial killer could be sat next to you on Then there's the primal frights still came courtesy of a bus, a train or in a cinema andyou 'd machete, normally used as a too! to Jason Vooti)ees — this time revampedand never know! Their surface normality, cut throng thick vegetation in tropica! accompaniedby his two brandspanking their anonymity, was a perfect disgube countries. But here Jason uses the loig new customisedprops: the hockey mask for seethirg whirlpools ofwarped thin blade, considered the best knife to and the machete. emotions. And that's exactly what Jason cut down evil spirits in Latin American Former circus trapeze artist b seekirg when hegrabs the nearest folklore, as hb primary weapon.