13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday The 13th
3. The Writer Had One Major Quibble About The Finished Film
Victor Miller has made it very clear over the last few decades how irritated he was by the friday The 13th sequels. However, he was generally very pleased with how his script for the original movie had been realised by Cunningham and his cast and crew.
His one big issue, however, was the inclusion of a motorcycle cop arriving at the camp halfway through the movie, as it wasn’t something that he’d written at any point in any of his drafts of the script - it was an uncredited rewrite from Ron Kurz (who would later go on to take over from Miller and write the script to Friday The 13th Part 2).
Miller’s issue was that he wanted Camp Crystal Lake to be completely cut off from the outside world, away from the main roads. He believed that this would heighten the audience’s apprehension as the murders began, knowing that the young protagonists were too far away to fetch help or to have help come to them. Having a patrolman show up out of nowhere, in his mind, completely deflated what he was aiming for.