There is no Jason Voorhees without the original Friday the 13th and there is no Friday the 13th without Victor Miller, who wrote the screenplay for the legendary horror classic.
We’re sad to learn that Victor Miller has passed away this week at 86.
“Yesterday my father, Victor Miller, went to his final reward,” son Ian Miller writes on Instagram. “He was almost always the smartest, funniest person in whatever room he was in. He inspired in me, and many others, a love of photography, music, and storytelling.”
Miller’s son adds, “He had a helluva run and will be missed dearly.”
Prior to writing the original Friday the 13th, Victor Miller had written the film Manny’s Orphans for director Sean Cunningham, who of course directed Friday the 13th just two years later.
Victor Miller’s writing credits also include the 1982 film A Stranger Is Watching, along with TV shows “One Life to Live,” “Guiding Light,” “General Hospital,” and “Married With Children.”
Victor Miller later returned to the horror genre to write the film Rock, Paper, Scissors in 2017, which was directed by fellow horror legend Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Fright Night).
But it’s of course Friday the 13th that will forever be the enduring legacy of Victor Miller in the world of entertainment, and what a legacy that is. The 1980 horror classic changed the game for the horror genre and launched a legendary saga that still continues to this day, with Victor Miller on board as an executive producer for the upcoming prequel series “Crystal Lake.”
The A24 series, set to premiere on Peacock this October, will jump back in time to explore the events that paved the way for the story Miller and Cunningham told all those years ago.
Victor Miller is survived by his wife, two sons, and his grandson.
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