Miller might not have enjoyed what happened to the creation that he helped to bring into the world, but the fact is that Jason Voorhees has been seen as royalty in the horror genre for many years now, which means that his objections are noted, but they weren’t nearly enough to keep the legend from being created and then pushed for years on end. Vorhees was the mother I’d always wanted-a mother who would have killed for her kids.”īut somehow, Jason became the main point of the story since people were into a hulking monstrosity that couldn’t be killed, and could be controlled by the memory of his mother. But I took motherhood and turned it on its head and I think that was great fun.
I still believe that the best part of my screenplay was the fact that a mother figure was the serial killer-working from a horribly twisted desire to avenge the senseless death of her son, Jason. “To be honest, I have not seen any of the sequels, but I have a major problem with all of them because they made Jason the villain. It’s easy to argue with this, but it’s also just as easy to see his point of view since Jason’s mother was a surprise and it was something that could have been left alone or run with if a person really decided to make it happen. But Miller became adamant that those that took charge of the movies screwed it up badly since making Jason into the villain rather than keeping him the victim was a mistake. His idea to depict a mother as the killer was a great idea to be certain since a lot of people didn’t see it coming, and a lot of folks don’t even remember that Jason wasn’t the initial killer of Camp Crystal Lake.
But it’s fair to say that Miller underestimated how much people actually want to be scared and how much they would call for a sequel, then for another one, and several more after that. Tom Savini, who worked on the first movie, even admitted that the dream sequence at the end of the movie, when a decrepit-looking Jason leaped out of the water to pull the final survivor into the lake, was supposed to be a throwaway scene meant as a giant jump scare.
That’s how it started after all since the first movie featured Pamela Voorhees, Jason’s mother, as the original killer. Victor Miller fully believes that Friday the 13th missed the whole point of the movie and that Jason Voorhees should have never become the villain, but should have stayed the victim. There are a few stories out there that kind of got away from the creator in the sense that what they became wasn’t what the original writer intended.