Victor Miller
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Oct 27, 2026
Jason ColvinHOST
Yeah.
DeeHOST
So he and his writer, Victor... victor miller miller thank you
Jason ColvinHOST
who
DeeHOST
had just written here come the tigers right they put out an ad in variety magazine that is just the title and it's like the scariest movie you've ever seen and they don't even have a movie yet right there's no movie there's no script there's nothing they just put this big one out and they put from the guys who brought you last house on the left uh-huh Well, the producers of Last House on the Left go to them and they're like, hey, what are you doing? We want to be involved.
DeeHOST
Okay.
Jason ColvinHOST
And so at this point, they've got the funding that they need to get started.
Jason ColvinHOST
Victor Miller, who wrote Here Come the Tigers, Sean Cunningham says, guess what? You're writing this movie called Friday the 13th.
Jason ColvinHOST
What do you know about horror? He's like, I don't know anything about horror.
Ari LehmanGUEST
And so he said, I don't know, Friday the 13th.
Ari LehmanGUEST
And he turned to his buddy Victor Miller.
Ari LehmanGUEST
And the two of them historically came up with this idea.
Ari LehmanGUEST
They knew they'd need a little boy.
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Ari LehmanGUEST
So we went down to Pittsburgh and we shot the Foul Deeds video, which was done by a group of independent filmmakers.
Ari LehmanGUEST
So they fan funded it.
Ari LehmanGUEST
And since we were in Pittsburgh, I reached out to my buddy, Richie Vomit, who did these tattoos on me over here.
Ari LehmanGUEST
Yeah, Richie did this one, and Richie did that one.
Jason SiloHOST
So I think we talked a little bit in the first film.
Jason SiloHOST
You have Victor Miller, who's a screenwriter, who is a friend of the producer-director Sean Cunningham in Connecticut.
Jason SiloHOST
They had done – or at least Sean had done some films including Last House on the Left, which is a really dark, nefarious, rape, revenge fantasy film.
Jason SiloHOST
And the story goes that Sean Cunningham had noticed the success of Halloween and said we should do a low-budget horror movie.
Jason SiloHOST
Sean Cunningham had done some softcore pornography films.
Jason SiloHOST
He had done Last House on the Left.
Jason SiloHOST
He took out the ad and paid a little bit of money to Victor Miller to write the first edition of a screenplay.
Jason SiloHOST
And the ad did bring, as I understand it, a consortium of three producers who were, I believe, exhibitors in that they owned some number of theaters in the United States.
TylerHOST
This film came out on May 9th, 1980.
TylerHOST
It was directed by Sam S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller.
TylerHOST
Sam S. Cunningham is credited not just as the director of this movie, but the creator of the franchise.
TylerHOST
And he started out as a theater manager, like live theater, not movie theaters.
TylerHOST
Much better Friday the 13th.
TylerHOST
But the big idea is going to be teenagers at a summer camp being attacked by a very clearly some sort of killer that maybe, as Michael Myers asked, who knows.
TylerHOST
So he has Victor Miller write the screenplay.
TylerHOST
He had previously co-written both of those Bad News Bears ripoffs.
NezHOST
But, yeah, if you guys ever get a chance to meet him, he's a really cool guy.
NezHOST
but uh oh this was uh written i guess they gave victor miller uh credit uh for this um because he helped uh do the original story of friday the 13th he just passed away um in august of this year i'm not sure from what i know he had they were still dealing with some of the The rights issues.
NezHOST
I know some of it was able to go to him.
NezHOST
But I don't know.
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NezHOST
Because she almost said word for word what Betsy Palmer said in the original one.
NezHOST
So we see that we get, we see her head get cut off and then we see Jason, a young Jason kind of walking up and, uh, I guess he saw it all because in, from what we remember in part two, the, when, um, Paul was telling the story to all the counselors, he was did saying that Jason did see his mother beheaded that night.
NezHOST
But if you go into what Victor Miller was saying, that now that Jason died, there was no...
NezHOST
He didn't see anything.
Nick DigilioHOST
I do want to mention, though, that it's interesting that this has debuted about a month ago.
Nick DigilioHOST
After Victor Miller passed away.
Nick DigilioHOST
Victor Miller, who's the guy who created the original Friday the 13th, along with Sean
Dan FienbergGUEST
Cunningham.
Dan FienbergGUEST
Who quote-unquote created.
Paul CaiolaHOST
So this is what we're doing today.
Paul CaiolaHOST
So Friday the 13th was written by Victor Miller and directed by Sean S. Cunningham.
Paul CaiolaHOST
It stars Betsy Palmer, Adrian King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Janine Taylor, Robbie Morgan, and a Kevin Bacon.
Erika VillalbaHOST
It's so funny, too, because we were talking off mic earlier.
Tasha HuoHOST
even thinking about this movie to begin with is like, what spawns franchises? How does that even work? But before we get into that, I want to do a little bit of backstory to this movie that I found very interesting.
Tasha HuoHOST
So Friday the 13th was written by Victor Miller, who was a soap opera and comedy writer.
Tasha HuoHOST
He wrote on soaps like All My Children and Guiding Light.
Tasha HuoHOST
And actually he just passed away this August.
Tasha HuoHOST
So RIP Victor Miller.
Dave LevinsonGUEST
Rest in peace.
Tasha HuoHOST
It was directed by Sean S. Cunningham.
Tasha HuoHOST
That movie cost $300,000 to make and made $70 million at the box office.
Sean S. CunninghamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We didn't know what it was.
Sean S. CunninghamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I called my friend Victor Miller, who had worked on these two children's films with me, and I said, have you ever made a scary movie? Do you want to make a horror film? And he said, sure, but I've never done one.
Victor MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Victor Miller, screenwriter.
Victor MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I have to confess, I'm not really a horror film aficionado.
Victor MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm an absolute wuss when it comes to horror.
Victor MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'm not a long-term student of
Peter BrackeHOST
horror films.
Peter BrackeHOST
Victor Miller was a very accomplished writer by the time he wrote Friday the 13th.
BrettHOST
And nowhere, never.
BrettHOST
And when Victor Miller wrote Friday the 13th, never did he say that Jason was still alive and living in the woods.
BrettHOST
That was done in Friday the 13th part two.
BrettHOST
And that was just a way to keep it going, to keep it going.
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