" She fired more rounds at Jason, severing his right arm, and then kicked him through a passageway carved out with bullets.[Note: Some of the original performers, Tim Curry, Patricia Quinn and Little Nell Campbell, also appeared in the subsequent film.The next two films in the series were Universal""s second sequel o the original 1931 film - director Rowland V.As a result, he earned increasingly high salaries, became a pioneer of the percentage deal (a performer accepted a reduced or non-existent salary in exchange for a percentage of the box office profits), and was the industry""s top box-office star by mid-decade.The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, decadent, and discredited older generation (that finds its stability in "plastics") was well understood by film audiences and captured the spirit of the times.