13 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Jason Voorhees

13. Eating Jason's Heart Made Richard Gant Sick

In the ninth Friday the 13th movie - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday - good old Mr Voorhees manages to get himself blown up and sent in bits to a morgue. There, his still beating heart goes all Jumanji drums on coroner Phil, who is compelled to eat the thing and house the soul of Jason, because why the hell not, hey?

Turns out though that Phil's disgust at chomping down on the gigantic, filthy heart wasn't acting. Actor Richard Gant was faced with a prop made from gelatine, filled with fruit cocktail, and finished off with black dye, which is hardly the lunch you'd be wanting for a long day of filming. In fact, it was so repellant to Gant that he reportedly could barely finish the take, attempting to hold back spew so he didn't blow Jason chunks all over the set.

In the end, the jumbo, sludgy, disgusting heart did its job perfectly, and was actually repurposed as a vampire heart in From Dusk Till Dawn, too.