Thirteen Facts About Friday The 13th Part VI - Jason Lives: 1. Director Tom McLoughlin, who also wrote the script, had previously written and directed the acclaimed 1982 horror film One Dark Night. 2. Shock rocker Alice Cooper was commissioned to perform three songs for the soundtrack, two of which ("He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" and "Teenaged Frankenstein") are available on his 1986 album Constrictor. The other, a track entitled "Hard Rock Summer," did make an appearance on Alice's box-set anthology The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper. 3. Simon Hawke's tie-in novelization misspells Jason's last name as Vorhees, which the author continued to use in his following novels for the first three movies in the series. 4. The opening title sequence is a spoof of the early James Bond films' opening titles, wherein a profile-shot Jason walks onscreen in front of a large eyeball image, turns to the camera and swings his machete, followed by a wash of blood across the screen. 5. Jason actor C.J. Graham had no previous acting experience. A nightclub manager, Graham had stood in as Jason for a magic trick skit one night, and the magician, who was soon to work on the Part VI effects unit, remembered Graham when casting time came. After numerous call-backs, Graham landed the role for the picture. 6. Thom Mathews, who was cast as Tommy Jarvis for this film, was already a familiar face to horror fans who'd seen him in Return Of The Living Dead two years earlier. 7. One noteworthy item in McLoughlin's story is that the town council had voted to change the name of the lake and township from Crystal Lake to Lake Forest Green. None of the later films bothered with consistency on this point and continued to use the name Crystal Lake. 8. McLoughlin also introduced Jason's father at the end of his original script, with the senior Voorhees coming to pay his respects to his wife and son's graves. Although Paramount nixed the scene, it still appears in the Hawke novelization. Martin the cemetery caretaker also survives in the novel. 9. Although most critics dismissed Part VI, which opened on 2 August 1986, as typical slasher schlock, some did note the element of dark comedy and self-parody that McLoughlin had woven into the storyline; of the entire series, this one received the most favorable (or maybe that should read "least disfavorable") critical reviews. 10. As an homage to a certain legendary horror actor, the cornershop at which Tommy phones Megan Garris (Jennifer Cooke) is called Karloff's General Store. 11. Another instance of cynical humor involves a camera pan across a room full of sleeping pre-teen boys at Camp Forest Green. One of the lads has a paperback copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit bookmarked on his chest--not exactly a title found on most ten-year-olds' reading lists! 12. In the triple decapitation sequence of the three paintball players (Larry, Stan and Kate), watching the sequence in slow motion reveals the cords which support the mannequin bodies when the three characters drop to the ground--but only if you're watching the unmatted, full-frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio) version available on VHS. 13. When the cash registers stopped ringing and the totals were tallied, Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives had grossed $22.1 million. << Back