The film required numerous cuts to avoid an X-rating.In this film, Jason didn""t actually appear - except as part of the prologue""s nightmare or as Tommy""s haunting hallucination.Provoking a range war, they trample over Joe""s garden during their approach, mockingly laugh at him for holding a rifle [his son""s unloaded shotgun], and immediately threaten and intimidate the homesteader.With an ensemble cast, the low-budget R-rated, Best Picture-winning hybrid film viewed a dysfunctional family""s angst and crisis in suburbia.The young victim had blood-red tear streaks dripping from her empty sockets where her eyes had been stabbed out.He refused to fight back when taunted.The brawl was broken up when his father appeared, and he was given a helping hand by Pete Ross.Jonathan offered solid advice to young Clark: "You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark.