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A three-issue comic adaptation of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday written by Andy Mangels was published by Topps Comics. As the comics are based upon the original shooting script of the film, elements that were left out of the film are used in them. Topps also released a series of trading cards for the film.
Retrospective:
In November of 2017, Adam Marcus, the film’s director revealed that an apparently overlooked plot point of the movie is that Jason Voorhees is actually connected to the Evil Dead franchise. The filmmaker told Horror Geek Life:
“[Pamela Voorhees] makes a deal with the devil by reading from the Necronomicon to bring back her son. This is why Jason isn’t Jason. He’s Jason plus The Evil Dead, and now I can believe that he can go from a little boy that lives in a lake, to a full-grown man in a couple of months, to Zombie Jason, to never being able to kill this guy. That, to me, is way more interesting as a mashup, and Raimi loved it!
It’s not like I could tell New Line my plan to include The Evil Dead because they don’t own The Evil Dead. So it had to be an Easter egg, and I did focus on it… there’s a whole scene that includes the book, and I hoped people would get it and could figure out that’s what I’m up to. So yes, in my opinion, Jason Voorhees is a Deadite. He’s one of The Evil Dead.”
Box office:
Budget: $3,000,000 (estimated)
Gross worldwide: $15,935,068
Technical specs:
1 hour 27 minutes
Audio: Dolby
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
