He broke into her locked house - literally breaking he rules - by busting through the side porch""s windowed doors with a garden lawn chair (to the sound of her wind chimes) to the awaiting, horny and receptive Matty.In future films, Jason would adopt the trademark hockey mask and he would become the killer.With a production budget of approximately $550,000, and box-office gross revenues of $39.7 million (domestic) and $59.7 million (worldwide).One of the longest running and most prolific horror film series of all time - a quintessential slasher movie with minimal character development (and amateurish acting), and one of the most successful financially.Recovering her poise, the snooty, rebuffed and humiliated lady huffs back up he hill with her ineffectual escort at her side, while Irene is intrigued and looks on with amusement.Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman""s screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp""s 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.However, its long but limited two-year run in one off-Broadway cinema house in New York City (the Bijou Theatre on W.