<P> The film's heroine, Ginny, is played by Amy Steel, who won the part through an audition . "At the time of (making the film), it was before the genre really picked up so I didn't give it a lot of credit or take it seriously . For me, it was just another audition because I had no idea what it would end up meaning after all this time . When I played Ginny, I was really young and different from a lot of the people working at the time so that came out in my character . I was naturally suspicious of cocky guys at that age, and you see a lot of that when I'm on screen with Paul (John Furey). I tried to put so much behind the actual words in the script just so she felt almost unreachable, to Paul and to audiences . I wanted her to have some power ." </P> <P> Actor Warrington Gillette played Jason unmasked at the end of the film . Stuntman Steve Daskawisz (also known as Steve Dash) was credited as Jason Stunt Double but played the masked Jason throughout the rest of the film . </P> <P> Principal photography took place from October 3 and finished in November 1980, and primarily occurred in New Preston and Kent, Connecticut . Special effects artist Tom Savini was asked to work on the film but declined because he was already working on another project, Midnight (1982), in addition he didn't receive well to the concept of Jason as the killer in the film . Savini was then replaced by Stan Winston . Winston, however, had a scheduling conflict and had to drop out of the project . The make - up effects were ultimately handled by Carl Fullerton . Fullerton designed the "look" for the adult Jason Voorhees and went with long red hair and a beard while following the facial deformities established in the original film in the make - up designed by Tom Savini for Jason as a child . Fullerton's look for the adult Jason was abandoned in the sequel, Friday the 13th Part 3, despite the fact that the film took place the following day and was helmed by the same director, Steve Miner . Some fans have theorized that the sequence where we see Jason with a beard and long hair reflects a "dream" rather than a reality because the following sequel picks up with the events showing his face having not happened, and therefore what was represented was Ginny's guess at what he looked like under the burlap sack rather than what he actually looked like, which would excuse the lack of continuity . </P> <P> Steve Daskawisz was rushed to the emergency room during filming after Amy Steel cut his hand with machete during filming . Steel explained, "The timing was wrong, and he didn't turn his pickaxe properly, and the machete hit his finger ." Daskawisz received thirteen stitches on his middle finger . During the subsequent shoot, Daskawisz was forced to wear a piece of rubber over his finger, and both he and Steel insisted on reshooting this scene . When shooting the beginning sequence of Alice being killed by Jason in her own apartment, the ice pick prop itself didn't retract and King's on - screen was real considering it was injuring her head . </P>

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