13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday 13th Part III

In a significant departure from the shoestring budgets afforded the first two movies, the sets on location - the farmhouse and barn - were constructed specifically for the movie, and remained in situ for years after the production wrapped.

It may have been built to last, but the house was still a set, not a working domicile. While it appeared to be a two-storey structure, it was really only one with high ceilings and platforms instead of a second floor.

The ‘house’ was used in several other productions over the years until 2006 when - in a turn of events that feels like the plot of a Friday The 13th movie - a group of drunken holidaymakers broke down and took shelter in what they believed to be an abandoned cabin in the California woods.

Continuing to drink, they tried to light a fire in the fireplace to ward off the chilly night, not realising that while the hearth itself was stone, the chimney flue wasn’t real: just lightweight wood dressed to look real.

The fire immediately spread to the roof, and the partiers fled. The house burned down, but not before the douchecanoes took pictures of the blaze, posting them online on a Friday The 13th chatroom boasting that “Jason is DEAD”.

The perpetrators are so loathed by the Friday The 13th fandom that the makers of the Friday The 13th Part 3 - The Memoriam Documentary dramatised them being stalked and murdered by an ersatz Jason Voorhees. Horror nerd revenge is sweet.