Betsy Palmer thought this would go nowhere, but little did she know that this movie would make her an American Icon. I loved her in this role. I don't care how many great movie quotes there are, one of my favorites will always be "Jason was my son...and today is his birthday."
I appreciate that she gave it her all. She could have given a half assed performance, but she didn’t. You could tell she deeply loved her son, and was off her rocker.
I always get a kick out of hearing Betsy Palmer tell the story about how she got the role and why she agreed to be in it. She didn't think anyone would even watch the movie, let alone like it. How wrong she was. I'm glad she finally embraced it. RIP, dear lady.
Are you talking about the villain, because Laurie Strode and Heather Thompson (Nightmare on Elm Street) would be up there too if the protagonists are factored in.
@@barrett7893 , agree as kid or little bit in middle school times I start really like Betsy Palmer and ms.Voorhees... I kinda hate her but same time I feel sad and sorry and wanted kill.. all consulers for what happen to baby boy.. Jason that poor boy but I find face little bit scare as a kid but.. never much scare well little and sometime horror movies to but.. I find them extremely cute same for xenomorphs but for me thus my option.
It's funny to think that she really didn't want this role, but of course how many of us would have acted differently if we had suddenly needed a new car? I respect her for playing the role she didn't want to the max. Come to think of it, this may be why Volkswagens were so prevalent in the later "Friday the 13th" films. There's one in 2, 3, and 6.
+Alexis M and then somehow part 2 was filmed in Connecticut and part 3 and 4 in California lol so where is camp crystal lake truly located is the question.
Let’s not forget that Morgan Freeman played the killer in his first role ever. In an interview, Kevin bacon says that Freeman was on ecstasy the entire film shoot. Crazy how Friday the 13th created so many stars!!
haha - i slept at the camp in the early 1970s on a class trip. By the way, Enis didn't do Annie any favors when he gave her a lift from the diner, about 10 miles in the opposite direction of Camp Crystal Lake
Yep, in October of 2007. She made an appearance at horror collectibles store. She answered all of my questions and gave me a hug before I left. Yeah I had to pay like 10 bucks for a ticket but it was worth it. She even wore a light blue sweater like in the movie!
I enjoyed how the original and reimaging of the film came out to be but ive had 2nd thoughts about it: If Friday the 13th was remade, 1st half of it should focus on Mrs. Voorhees' rampage in Camp Crystal Lake right after Jason's supposedly drowning, let her murder her husband first, then the Camp Crystal Lake founders/owners the Christys, then the teen counsellors whom she felt responsible for ignoring Jason outside in the lake before she finally gets killed by the sole surviving counsellor like Alice. Then the 2nd half would jump forward 20 years or 30 years later with Jason as the next Camp Blood killer terrorising a new group of people who came into the now abandoned campsite like a family of a mother, father and two daughters (one older and younger) and another group of teens who are like into partying and sex who are camping out in another side of the woods. You remember how Rob Zombie's Halloween was presented? 1st half being a prequel while 2nd half was a straight forward remake? This would have Friday the 13th was supposed to be like, but without the frequent use of the f-word and no removal of the famous theme tune hook you know the ki-ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma-ma. Cause if it's removed then it isn't a F13 film, avoiding the mistake that Rob zombie made which was not including any Halloween related music (e.g. the theme tune) until the end credits.
Matt Chalifoux For me, part 2 and 4 made the series for me. Jason's kill on Mark, the way the camera panned out marked the first moment where we would see just how much merciless he was. Then part 4, him getting unmasked and the music made it too damn epic - unlike p2 and p3, he didn't pick it up, it's like he embraced himself and reached a new level in his vengeful soul.
There will never be a horror movie like this one, remember sitting with my friends in the theater watching it over and over. Going in smoking Kona Bud from Hawaii very high, good days in America back then. Now we have it on Blu-ray.
Very interesting spin on Mrs. Voorhees. She is of course killing several people, but according to Ms. Palmer, her character just didn't want more children to die. I suppose we can except her evil in the film as a sort of 'ruined goodness.'
It still amazes me to this day how a low budget slasher with random B Level actors from would blow up and turn into an iconic franchise….don’t judge a book by its cover
The reason I watch movies like Friday the 13th is that I know no matter how gory a slasher movie is, no screenplay can ever be as scary as the real world, and horror movies help me realize that!
gameroftheyear1000 yeah he worked for a meal at Denny's for each movie he made...up until Footloose, where he suddenly started demanding tons of money for each movie.
@donniedarkodevotte No, he did not say it opened in 1979, he said it was racking up dollar amounts in hollywood during 1979 which that is true, Halloween was not a smash right at the very beginning, it took it a couple of months after it was released to be a great smash hit
Despite People saying that Friday the 13th copied this off of Halloween this was much Scarier movie (in my opinion) than Halloween from Friday the 13th's Score ,to the Setting being in the woods and the Suspense of not knowing who the killer is until the very End of the movie ,the Gore and kills ft Tom Savini's make up Effect's and the shock value of the Killer being Jason's mother and then the Chair Jumper when kid Jason comes from the lake and Attacks Alice ,Halloween you know who the Killer is Michael Myers ,you obviously know there something wrong with him but what makes Halloween so much more interesting is why he was trying to kill the Jamie Lee Curtis character until part 2 and the fact on what is he obviously not Human since he was shot stabbed and Shot 6 times but otherwise Friday is by far way better than Halloween
Michael llehctim There's nothing wrong with taking ideas from other movies to improve your movie. But Halloween will always be the best and the scariest.
I agree, i prefer Friday The 13th as a movie and as a franchise, Halloween focuses on score and suspense, Friday kinda came with the gory kills and the jumpscares!
Who'd figure the Horror Movie Connection -- Last House On the Left - Sean Cunningham Directs ( and goes on to do the FT13th - works with Wes Craven who wrote the script ( and went on to do the N.O.E.S movies ). Mrs Palmer is so kick a** in this movie and still seems like that when i watch this documentary btw... she'll always be Mrs Voorheese to the Friday fans
People never give a damn about the storylines of movies anymore. It's all Special effects, money, and shit. I honestly like older movies better than today's movies. The old ones have that spark that today's movies don't.
@idgarad Hell, Blood Feast ( the "original gore flick" ) did THAT to people way back in 1963! There were also those Mark of the Devil flicks in the early seventies which made some audiences retch .
There's definitely both pros and cons of a film having a huge budget vs a small budget. It all depends on what type of film the director sets out to do and if overproducing a film ruins it's authentic look and makes it look too polished. Friday the 13th was perfect for a tiny budget. The only negative is that the cast and crew made very very little money (just a few thousand dollars) while the movie made $60 million. I'd be bitter and angry if I was one of the main actors and was only paid like $10,000 for it with zero residues.
Betsy Palmer thought this would go nowhere, but little did she know that this movie would make her an American Icon. I loved her in this role. I don't care how many great movie quotes there are, one of my favorites will always be "Jason was my son...and today is his birthday."
Agreed her Performance was Awesome in this movie and she scared the hell outta me when i first saw this film
hi mikle myers hows your trimmed hair!
+Michael llehctim Me too I saw Friday the 13th when I was 12 years old on cable. Scary!
I appreciate that she gave it her all. She could have given a half assed performance, but she didn’t. You could tell she deeply loved her son, and was off her rocker.
Today is 40 years since the original 1980 classic
Betsy Palmer calling the script a piece of shit,
then cutting to Pamela Voorhees saying "what monster could have done this?".
Now THAT's funny!
I always get a kick out of hearing Betsy Palmer tell the story about how she got the role and why she agreed to be in it. She didn't think anyone would even watch the movie, let alone like it. How wrong she was. I'm glad she finally embraced it. RIP, dear lady.
RIP Betsy😢🙏
"It will come and it will go and I'll have my sherocco." Lmao to funny
gigi langdon *TOO
That was funny
Scirocco not sherocco
R.I.P. BETSY PALMER
R.I.P Ms. Palmer. You and Sean scared the hell out of me as a child. Thank you.
Mrs Voorhees is probably the most iconic female character of the '80s horror films
Are you talking about the villain, because Laurie Strode and Heather Thompson (Nightmare on Elm Street) would be up there too if the protagonists are factored in.
Hell Yeah.. Mrs. Voorhees was my favorite Serial killer.. She had a good reason…
@@barrett7893 , agree as kid or little bit in middle school times I start really like Betsy Palmer and ms.Voorhees... I kinda hate her but same time I feel sad and sorry and wanted kill.. all consulers for what happen to baby boy.. Jason that poor boy but I find face little bit scare as a kid but.. never much scare well little and sometime horror movies to but.. I find them extremely cute same for xenomorphs but for me thus my option.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424.. agreed along with: hellrasier Kristy and so many others.. can't come to mind
@@barrett7893 yeah... No it wasn't. No reason justifies murder unless it's self defense
It's funny to think that she really didn't want this role, but of course how many of us would have acted differently if we had suddenly needed a new car? I respect her for playing the role she didn't want to the max.
Come to think of it, this may be why Volkswagens were so prevalent in the later "Friday the 13th" films. There's one in 2, 3, and 6.
Awesome movie. Never gets old. Inspiring how a small crew and small budget can make a simple, powerful movie and it become a success.
"What MONSTER Could Have Done This?" Hahaha
Poor Victor Miller!
"Kill her mommy, kill her don't let her get away mommy, don't let her live." " I won't Jason, I won't!"👵🔪👩🏕😱🌕
6:25 "Well I-I'm Mrs. Voorhees. An old friend of the Christies."
My favorite line.
I love Betsy Palmer! What a character.
Adrienne king is really pretty, she has not changed in looks
This movie was filmed in my town.
Michael Caristi where?
+Joelle Sawyer Blaristown Nj
+Alexis M and then somehow part 2 was filmed in Connecticut and part 3 and 4 in California lol so where is camp crystal lake truly located is the question.
Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick, New Jersey.
Woooooooow ! ! ! Harwick , NJ like to travel there some day .
Great documentary. Betsy Palmer scared the hell out of me, and she's so nice.
The music in this movie gives me chills
These movies launched so many great careers. Just give me a few minutes to think of them.
+slide4180 Kevin Bacon, for starters. Uh, that probably sums it up!
+slide4180 Kane Hodder and Kevin Bacon other than those I have no idea
+slide4180 idk about "launching their careers" but corey feldman & crispin glover were in part four.
Let’s not forget that Morgan Freeman played the killer in his first role ever. In an interview, Kevin bacon says that Freeman was on ecstasy the entire film shoot. Crazy how Friday the 13th created so many stars!!
haha - i slept at the camp in the early 1970s on a class trip. By the way, Enis didn't do Annie any favors when he gave her a lift from the diner, about 10 miles in the opposite direction of Camp Crystal Lake
Yep, in October of 2007. She made an appearance at horror collectibles store. She answered all of my questions and gave me a hug before I left. Yeah I had to pay like 10 bucks for a ticket but it was worth it. She even wore a light blue sweater like in the movie!
I enjoyed how the original and reimaging of the film came out to be but ive had 2nd thoughts about it:
If Friday the 13th was remade, 1st half of it should focus on Mrs. Voorhees' rampage in Camp Crystal Lake right after Jason's supposedly drowning, let her murder her husband first, then the Camp Crystal Lake founders/owners the Christys, then the teen counsellors whom she felt responsible for ignoring Jason outside in the lake before she finally gets killed by the sole surviving counsellor like Alice.
Then the 2nd half would jump forward 20 years or 30 years later with Jason as the next Camp Blood killer terrorising a new group of people who came into the now abandoned campsite like a family of a mother, father and two daughters (one older and younger) and another group of teens who are like into partying and sex who are camping out in another side of the woods.
You remember how Rob Zombie's Halloween was presented? 1st half being a prequel while 2nd half was a straight forward remake? This would have Friday the 13th was supposed to be like, but without the frequent use of the f-word and no removal of the famous theme tune hook you know the ki-ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma-ma. Cause if it's removed then it isn't a F13 film, avoiding the mistake that Rob zombie made which was not including any Halloween related music (e.g. the theme tune) until the end credits.
Betsy Palmer is one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Adrienne King hasn't aged at all. She looks better now than she did when she was younger.
Yes she does
Yea
Adrienne King God bless her, she was so beautiful.
So Mrs. Voorhees killed 2 camp counselors and 7 would be counselors all so she could buy a car? Sounds legit.
You gotta do, what you gotta do lol. Hope it was a great car 😂
@@daniellelawman9724 in 1979? Ya. It was a good car.
Part 1 and part 4 were the best.
Matt Chalifoux For me, part 2 and 4 made the series for me. Jason's kill on Mark, the way the camera panned out marked the first moment where we would see just how much merciless he was. Then part 4, him getting unmasked and the music made it too damn epic - unlike p2 and p3, he didn't pick it up, it's like he embraced himself and reached a new level in his vengeful soul.
I liked Part 1 and part III the best! Yes III had the dumb 3D aspect, but there were a ton of kills and it was gorey without going too far
Unpopular opinion I liked jason x and jason goes to hell.
Part 1, Part 4 & Part VI
feels kinda relaxing watching this seeing everyone alive now
Funny to see Sean and victor talking normally and not trying to kill each other for the rights to the movies
There will never be a horror movie like this one, remember sitting with my friends in the theater watching it over and over. Going in smoking Kona Bud from Hawaii very high, good days in America back then. Now we have it on Blu-ray.
This is way better Friday the 13th out of all the whole series.
RIP Horror Legend Betsy Palmer 😩
RIP 🤮🤮 Dogshit Besty Palmer 😊😊
Fun fact: Victor Miller, the writer of Friday the 13th, was also a longtime writer for a little soap opera called All My Children.
Betsy Palmer beautiful woman, but my introduction to her was this movie at 11 years old, and yeah she still freaks me out.
Betsy is so hilarious😂
They were playing Pokemon in the woods while that young boy drowned.
W.
***** Michael Cera should play Mrs.Vorhees in a remake......will scare the hell out of everybody
Michael Myers Same Profile Picture, Twin Brother. But you type like the modern days now.
Pokemon didn't exist back in the day.
@@spongebobandplanktonshould2920 well, duh
ITS GOT A DEATH CURSE!!!!!
RIP Betsy Palmer.
Very interesting spin on Mrs. Voorhees.
She is of course killing several people, but according to Ms. Palmer, her character just didn't want more children to die.
I suppose we can except her evil in the film as a sort of 'ruined goodness.'
It still amazes me to this day how a low budget slasher with random B Level actors from would blow up and turn into an iconic franchise….don’t judge a book by its cover
38 years old and still spooked out watchin nis shit
The reason I watch movies like Friday the 13th is that I know no matter how gory a slasher movie is, no screenplay can ever be as scary as the real world, and horror movies help me realize that!
Ralph is my favorite, he owned every scene he was in. Would love to have hung out with him.
Thank God 4 Sean Cunningham who created such a CLASSIC masterpiece. Halloween and Friday the 13th remakes can GO 2 HELL!!!
OMG! It's Kevin Bacon! RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIVES!!!
LOL
Discount Kevin bacon.....got him while he was super cheap
I think KB should disappear for a bit. Dr. Hannibal Lecter really does have a hankerin' for some Bacon and eggs. OM NOM NOM!!!
gameroftheyear1000 yeah he worked for a meal at Denny's for each movie he made...up until Footloose, where he suddenly started demanding tons of money for each movie.
Mrs. Voorhees is scarier than her son Jason.
James Johnson no
I agree. She is far more creepy ... and far more realistic!
bigpoppa 1967 no she isn’t.
Nah
RIP Pamela Voorhees AKA besty Palmer. She was and is the greatest horror movie actor ever.she is the queen of horror and her son is the King.
king thanos It's BETSY! Get it right!
Friday the 13th made close to $40, million in mid - 1980 !!!
Brendan Bakos it made 59million
There's an Elm street where I live (Melbourne, Australia) as well. Just goes to show that what Freddy said is true. "Every town had an Elm street"
Also Palmer: nobody will watch this it will come and go
Friday the 13th: makes 12 movies and has some games
6:39 Betsy Palmer was very hot in her younger years. She reminds me of some other blonde screen goddess. Jayne Mansfield, maybe.
Iconic horror/slasher.
Horror movie history.
Betsy Palmer’s performance in this film was just SO captivating. It really made this film special.
Besty Palmer Shit Waste 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩💩
I used to live right next to an Elm Street. It's quite a common street-name. But it's cool that there actually is a Crystal Lake in Iowa.
What I always loved about this movie was that it could actually happen! The only fiction was Jason at the end
Thank u for posting!
I did not think these kids or anyone one in this film overacted as a person here suggested; they all acted convincingly.
Let it be a movie lesson that nothing films like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, etc.. will always end up becoming movie icons.
Betsy Palmer: "What a piece of..." Lol
think its fucked up you never hear KB talk about his start in acting and being in Friday the 13th
Mrs. Voorhees would be considered a hardcore KAREN these days. Beware.
They should do a friday the 13th where all the survivors come together to finally kill Jason
Rip betsy :(
@donniedarkodevotte No, he did not say it opened in 1979, he said it was racking up dollar amounts in hollywood during 1979 which that is true, Halloween was not a smash right at the very beginning, it took it a couple of months after it was released to be a great smash hit
Yea meanwhile Kevin Bacon never talks about this movie. I wonder why.
haha exactly! and the actors in this doc act like they made citizen kane
@Jon Snow reduced now to making commercials for a UK mobile phone network
@Jon Snow me too- i hate citizen kane and i have no idea why i made that original comment.. i must have been in really odd mood
"Crazy Ralph" was the muthafuckin' MAN!
The first teenage girl that was killed “Annie”( Robbi Morgan) was sooooo damn cute! 😍
I think Palmer get a kick out of reminiscing about her initial reaction to the script being a piece of shit.
It's interesting that they openly admit it's a Halloween rip-off.
Now if only Halloween admited it was inspiered by BlackChristmas
Is it though?
Despite People saying that Friday the 13th copied this off of Halloween this was much Scarier movie (in my opinion) than Halloween from Friday the 13th's Score ,to the Setting being in the woods and the Suspense of not knowing who the killer is until the very End of the movie ,the Gore and kills ft Tom Savini's make up Effect's and the shock value of the Killer being Jason's mother and then the Chair Jumper when kid Jason comes from the lake and Attacks Alice ,Halloween you know who the Killer is Michael Myers ,you obviously know there something wrong with him but what makes Halloween so much more interesting is why he was trying to kill the Jamie Lee Curtis character until part 2 and the fact on what is he obviously not Human since he was shot stabbed and Shot 6 times but otherwise Friday is by far way better than Halloween
Michael llehctim There's nothing wrong with taking ideas from other movies to improve your movie. But Halloween will always be the best and the scariest.
I agree, i prefer Friday The 13th as a movie and as a franchise, Halloween focuses on score and suspense, Friday kinda came with the gory kills and the jumpscares!
I'll tell you what.Betsy Palmer seems like one cool lady lol.Well a real cool old lady now.
It's got a Death Curse love that line 😅😅😅😅
I liked 4 and 8 the best, I know there wasn't much new York in jason takes manhattan but I really like it for some reason
Didn't they already do this with His Nam Was Jason?
Who'd figure the Horror Movie Connection -- Last House On the Left - Sean Cunningham Directs ( and goes on to do the FT13th - works with Wes Craven who wrote the script ( and went on to do the N.O.E.S movies ). Mrs Palmer is so kick a** in this movie and still seems like that when i watch this documentary btw... she'll always be Mrs Voorheese to the Friday fans
Hey ! Anybody ! Just how many of the Friday the 13th did they make ? ? ?
It's so freaky, I live in Iowa. There's a Crystal Lake, Iowa and in Osage, there's a Elm St.
Adrienne King was the first of the truly beautiful women in the series...but Betsy Palmer was very beautiful in her day as well.
ALFAL-PHA BITS *WOMAN
Tom Savini clearly saved this movie Betstsy gave zero fucks the others sounded like they got counfused part way through, thank you Tom!
@captainonetake Well THIS first one actually WAS indipendently PRODUCED. But a major hollywood studio ( Paramount ) bought and distributed it .
awesome!haha have you been to both places?
One of my favorite horror movies
People never give a damn about the storylines of movies anymore. It's all Special effects, money, and shit. I honestly like older movies better than today's movies. The old ones have that spark that today's movies don't.
Storm Lake and Crystal Lake are in two totally different locations in Iowa...
hey whats this documentary taken off of what fridat the 13th dvd??
was this on the uk dvd?
@idgarad Hell, Blood Feast ( the "original gore flick" ) did THAT to people way back in 1963! There were also those Mark of the Devil flicks in the early seventies which made some audiences retch .
There is a Elm St. in GA and in NY!
There's a Crystal Lake in Haliburton Ontario, I seen it myself when I was a kid and thought Jason was gonna get my friends.
I was just watching that ! Hey ! Wait a minute isn't there a part l l ( 2 )
Pamela only been shown in 1 movie, except her head in the others, but at least she became a mystery for Friday the 13th
Alice still looks hot, damn!
It's those eyes. Her and Lar park were always gorgeous.
she still look the same after all these years.
She looks better now
But I thought she died in the second movie.
8:33 😂
Halloween came out in 1978
Much like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a low budget helped make this film scarier and more iconic
There's definitely both pros and cons of a film having a huge budget vs a small budget. It all depends on what type of film the director sets out to do and if overproducing a film ruins it's authentic look and makes it look too polished. Friday the 13th was perfect for a tiny budget. The only negative is that the cast and crew made very very little money (just a few thousand dollars) while the movie made $60 million. I'd be bitter and angry if I was one of the main actors and was only paid like $10,000 for it with zero residues.
wait a minute how played Jason ?
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+primetime HOW ?? WHO ??
You think that's bad, I live in NJ, where we have a Crystal Lake, Vorhees NJ, and Haddonfield, NJ...
The original Halloween & the original Friday the 13th movies are awesome, so much better then there remakes by far!! The new ones dont compare....
I know, I read that it was why his stuff was some of the closest things to real blood and gore.
It took me 4 years to find out that the mom was the killer in the original. I was retarded ;p;