This film was in the tradition of other backstage dramas (such as Gregory La Cava""sStage Door (1937)) and tales of unknown actresses rising to stardom (such as William Wellman""sA Star is Born (1937)).A killer buried, but not dead.A curse on Crystal Lake.A death curse.Jason Voorhees"" curse.They say he died as a boy, but he keeps coming back.Few have seen him and lived.Some have even tried to stop him.No one can."During the narration, the film jumped back to a montage of various killing scenes from previous installments:Part 2:the infamous double impalementMark""s backwards wheelchair fall down stepsVickie""s knifingPart VI:Paula""s blood-splattering death in a camp cabinPart 4:the attempt of young Tommy Jarvis to kill Jason, etc.Catching a glimpse of the man with the hearing aide and shopping bag, Ann becomes momentarily suspicious that they are being followed.Two of his armed cohort assistants (Dusan Hyska and Andrei Runtso) jumped onto the van""s thick roof and set explosives, to blow a circular opening...and a man""s desires!"...maybe it""s better for both of us to leave each other alone."Writer/producer/director Robert Rossen, also known for his earlier contributions to the screenplays ofThe Roaring Twenties (1939)andThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948),Body and Soul (1947), Best Picture winnerAll the King""s Men (1949), and his last filmLilith (1964), based this harsh, poignant, intensely dramatic film (with co-writer Sydney Carroll), a morality play, upon the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis.