Anecdotes

Friday the 13th producer Frank Mancuso Jr. didn't get on with the film's director Danny Steinmann. Mancuso called Steinmann a pervert and called the film a soft core porn sex movie rather than a slasher horror film

The film was originally written to have Corey Feldman as the star, reprising the role of Tommy Jarvis, but he was already working on Les Goonies (1985), and therefore the character was recast. Why the producers chose such a considerably older actor for the role is unknown.

Deborah Voorhees said in a recent interview that when she went in for an audition, one of the things that caught the director's eye on her photo was she had the same name as Jason. Nowadays, she doesn't really get recognized, but some people freak out when they see her last name. She tells them Jason Voorhees is her husband and that it's a real bitch getting blood stains out of his laundry.

Ted White, who played Jason in Vendredi 13 : Chapitre final (1984), stated in interviews that he was offered the opportunity to reprise the role in this sequel and the follow up, but turned it down. White also stated that he regretted that decision.

During a 2013 interview, Deborah Voorhees revealed that her nudity in this film got her fired as a teacher at two schools years later. At one high school, some boys got hold of her topless images from the film and text messaged them around the school. That was three weeks before the end of the school year and she wasn't allowed to stay until graduation or sit with her students and fellow teachers at graduation. It devastated her. She went to the principal and said "Look, I understand people are worried about this nudity thing but it's not as if I'm going to go tell a young girl to go pose nude, not that there's anything wrong with it." She said she doesn't let what happened bother her, adding, "I think people worrying about nudity in a film is silly and ridiculous but that's just my personal opinion and my conflict of what's right and wrong. Theirs is different and that's okay! We can be different!"