Jason Voorhees spends most of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday jumping from body to body, but look at […]
Jason Voorhees spends most of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday jumping from body to body, but look at him in those few minutes we get with Kane Hodder under the mask. Jason is so fucking bloated and massive that the hockey mask looks tiny on his face. His head practically grew around it. For a guy who barely gets to wear the thing in his own movie, it’s one of his most iconic looks.
Friday the 13th: The Franchise spotted the Heritage Auctions listing for Hodder’s screen-worn mask, which goes up for live auction December 2. Bidding starts at $40,000, and that gets you a shot at two pieces of Friday the 13th history.
The mask comes from the collection of Friday the 13th historian Mario Kirner. I put the screen-matched photo at the top of the article so you can see it for yourself. Look at the jagged break around the eyehole. You can see the leather strap right through it. Kirner’s comparison photos are included in the auction, too.
The other half of the lot is a hell of a find on its own. It’s Kane Hodder’s signed first-draft script, dated February 18, 1992, back when the movie was called Friday the 13th Part 9: The Death of Jason. Hodder used the backs of the last few pages to work out stunts, jotting down performers’ names, how many days he’d need them and what they’d be doing. Imagine flipping over a page of The Death of Jason and finding “dunked + thrown on grill” in Kane’s handwriting.
That script is such a cool addition to the mask. If you’ve got a lot of cash or Bitcoin stacked, this is a holy grail.
