Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

During filming, Kane Hodder's dressing room was a quarter of a mile down a dirt road. One night filming ended at 2 a.m. and while still in the Jason costume he decided to walk through the woods on a path to his dressing room. As he was walking someone approached him and asked if he was with the movie. He didn't reply, because he thought it was a pretty stupid question to ask, as he was standing there in full Jason costume. When the man asked again, Kane took a little lunge at him and grunted. The guy took off, tripping and running. The next day director John Carl Buechler told Kane that the local sheriff was supposed to stop by, but he never showed.

Kerry Noonan, who played Paula in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), read for the role of Tina when she thought the title was "Birthday Bash." She quickly realized that it was a Friday the 13th film and confessed that she'd starred in the last movie, so John Carl Buechler decided not to cast her.

John Carl Buechler was so impressed with Kane Hodder when he ate live worms on the set of Prison (1987) that he pushed for Paramount Pictures to let him cast Hodder in the role of Jason. If it had not been for Buechler's persistence, the role of Jason Voorhees would have been reprised by C.J. Graham.

Director John Carl Buechler has publicly fumed many times over the years about the number of edits required by the MPAA to avoid an "X" rating. The film had to be submitted nine times to the Motion Picture Association of America before being granted an "R" rating, and it stands as arguably the most heavily censored entry in the 'Friday the 13th' series.

In Kane Hodder's book "Unmasked: The True Story of the World's Most Prolific Cinematic Killer", he notes that one of his fondest memories of the Part VII shoot was the film's costume department making his mother a custom "Jason's Mom!" crew member's jacket, which he found very amusing. He says that she would wear it during the whole final two decades up until her passing. He noted that It would be over 90*F in Sparks, Nevada (his hometown) but she would still proudly wear it to the grocery store, hoping someone would say something. In case they inquired, her purse was loaded with signed autographs that he would send to her that were leftovers from his convention appearances. He noted that at times it got "playfully embarrassing" but because it made her beam with pride, he also oddly loved it and holds onto it as a positive memory.