Adrienne King

Mama Voorhees with her kind of sweater and her, you know, her knife, and she's, she's not exactly very feminine.

And then the haircut that they gave to Adrienne King, she couldn't stand.

It's like that Peter Pan kinda haircut.

So yeah, I mean, there was...

"You get your revenge." We get to the set.

Tom and Tom Savini, they do the whole new makeup with the mud, and it's disgusting with the blood and the peeling skin and everything, you know.

But we don't let Adrienne King see the makeup.

Like, the whole time Adrienne King, like, didn't even really know I was on the set, [laughs] you know? It was like...

Yeah, the best we got is the fan film.

All right, we are talking Friday the 13th, the 1980 slasher directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrian King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Betram, Janine Taylor, and Kevin Bacon, among others, as a group of 1980s teenage camp counselors who are gearing up to reopen Camp Crystal Lake after a horrific drowning accident of a little boy, maybe named Jason, in 1957. and the subsequent murder of two horny counselors one year later in 1958, and find themselves stalked and murdered by a mysterious serial killer who clearly does not want this camp reopened.

Despite talking a lot about slashers and proto-slashers on the show, this is our first time talking about one of the most commercially successful and influential franchises that alongside...

Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street defined the pop cultural image of the genre to this day and obviously gave us one of its most iconic screen villains alongside, again, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger in the form of the not in this episode, but eventual hockey mask wearing machete wielding Jason.

It was...

I think it was in, like, November timeframe, 'cause I had just went to Monster Mania and met Amy Steele and Adrian King.

And he was like, "Oh, this is us, like, couple weeks ago hanging out for one of their birthdays or something" and he's sending me videos of them just, like, hanging out, going down the streets and shit, and it's just like they are some of my favorite Final Girls of all time.

Mm-hmm.

Chris? Doing a very poor Jamie Lee Curtis or...

Adrienne King, Final Girl.

And who else do we have in this movie, Tony?

We have Nancy Meyer, Joanne Whitley, Danny David, Lance Desauras, Paul Amend, David Whitley, Rick Polizzi, Mary Louise Mitchell.

She was also in a soap opera called Guiding Light.

You have Adrian King returning as Alice, and John Furley as Paul, the head camp counselor, the stickler, plays the masculine man, flannel-wearing masculine man of this movie.

It seems like every Friday the 13th, They have to get a white dude wearing flannel who's going to be our savior for the movie.

I guess that's Paul for this movie here.

And the cast, we have Betsy Palmer playing Miss Voorhees.

We have Adrian King playing our final girl, Alice, the legend.

We have Janine Taylor playing Marcy, love of my life.

We have Robbie Morgan playing Annie.

We see Kevin Bacon for the first time as Jack.

We see...

Brenda, we also see Bill, uh, they arrive, Annie, uh, Eddie, Adrian King as Alice is already there.

Um, and at that point, uh, we meet our cast of characters.

[tense music]

All right, Friday the 13th, 1980, directed by Sean Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, and the slippery sanguine stylings of Tom Savini SFX.

[laughs] Wow.

I know.

[claps] Hey, Kev B.

Uh, Adrienne King's return for the opening sequence was short-lived, but, uh...

Oh, that was our gal.

Uh, but her reaction to being killed by the ice pick was genuinely painful.