8 Shocking Plot Twists Cut From Movies

8. Meet Jason's Father - Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

In the original Friday The 13th timeline there were eleven films – including Freddy Vs Jason – so you’d think at some point, the issue of Jason’s father would have come up. After all, we met his stab happy mother in the original, and it’s not like the franchise is overburdened with story, so exploring his origins a little more makes sense.

Surprisingly this never happened, and the idea was only flirted with for the sixth entry. The film as is ends with Jason chained at the bottom of Crystal Lake, but the ending as scripted featured an epilogue where Jason’s dad Elias visits his grave. It turns out Elias was the one secretly paying for Jason’s grave to be maintained, and he visits the tombstone knowing full well Jason’s not in it.

This scene was meant to be teaser setting up the next movie, but the producer felt exploring the story of an old man the audience had never met before was a creative dead-end, so the scene was dropped before it was filmed.