10 Things You Never Knew About the Friday the 13th Franchise

Heretofore untold truths about the iconic slasher series: Jason was almost named Josh (which is SO TOTALLY NOT SCARY), the kid who played Jason in the original now has a metal band called “First Jason,” and big-time Hollywood actress Betsy Palmer only agreed to do the first movie so she could buy Volkswagen Scirocco… ALL THESE AND MORE CRAZY STORIES in the video below!

The name Jason Voorhees is synonymous with horror. The hockey mask-wearing, machete-toting maniac has terrorized unsuspecting precoital teens for decades. Since Friday the 13th hit screens in 1980, the franchise has produced 12 movies, a TV show, a series of graphic novels, and a brutal video game, but audiences still want more. Jason’s origin and evolution are known to many genre devotees, but a look behind the scenes at how he came to be one of the most recognizable movie monsters of all time reveals how close he also came to total obscurity.

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