" They made numerous attempts to enter the spaceship without any luck, and were astonished there wasn't even a 'crack' marking the ship's ramp entryway or opening.His first response to the words Jason Voorhees, was: "That makes me think of a little girl in a pink dress sticking a hot dog through a doughnut.The screenplay was based on Jack Schaefer's successful 1949 book of the same name.The film received six Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Brandon de Wilde), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Palance), Best Director, Best Screenplay (by A.It is most remembered for its thrilling, hair-raising climax - a reckless, 'safety last,' (instead of 'safety first', a double entendre) humorous stunt in which Lloyd scaled a 12-story building and found himself hanging off a clock on the side of the skyscraper above busy Los Angeles streets.