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Kane Hodder Reveals the Surprising Way He Had a Cameo in ‘Freddy vs. Jason’
I’ve seen the film a few dozen times and never noticed this.
One of the bummers of Freddy vs. Jason is that it brought back Robert Englund but not Kane Hodder, as it was seemingly the perfect opportunity to bring Englund and Hodder together for the mash-up fans had truly been begging for. Hodder was instead replaced by Ken Kirzinger, who himself was a Jason Takes Manhattan stuntman.
But believe it or not, Kane Hodder actually does appear in Freddy vs. Jason!
Speaking with We Got This Covered, Hodder just told us something we never knew.
“They say I wasn’t in Freddy vs. Jason. The filmmakers didn’t even know it, but I was in that movie,” Hodder told the site. “There was a scene where they’re at the insane asylum or whatever, the hospital, and there’s a movie playing on a TV set – and it happens to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3.”
He continued, “And there’s a scene of Leatherface doing something, and that’s actually me as Leatherface. I was the stunt double for R.A. Mihailoff for that movie and I was stunt coordinator. And so, they’re trying not to to put me in the movie, and I was still in it and they didn’t even know it.”
Indeed, Chainsaw Massacre 3 is briefly featured in the background of a Westin Hills scene that begins at 20:37. And yup, that’s Kane Hodder as Leatherface in the scene!
How crazy is that?!
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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