[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Straker

Oh, there is ONE thing:

"A more glaring issue though, as someone who has researched this costume to death and has cosplayed it, I can tell you for a fact that the machete sheath is facing the wrong direction on his belt."

Actually...you didn't look hard enough. As someone that researched this in five minutes I can tell you that NECA did indeed have this machete hung correctly. It also doesn't look black.

Hmm...I never caught it from that angle.

So...what we have is a case of Holywood magic (and it doesn't surprise me...) In the scene where Jason first appears with his toolbelt to kill the 3 paintballers, he draws the machete from the sheath with his right hand (sharpened part of the blade facing downward and away from his body) with the curved part of the grip also facing downward. This would in turn mean that the sheath, which is shaped to fit the machete, should in fact be flipped like I stated previously. When Jason swings the machete, you can also see that the sheath dangles from side, and the top of it is not only dark in color and wide, but is oval and solid looking ridge at it's edge, giving the appearance of an older, military style, machete sheath. While I was unable to find a screencap that shows this, I was able to find a photo of CJ Graham taking a break on the set, in which you can clearly see the dark, sturdier looking machete sheath on his costume, which gives off a shadow at the it's entry point, giving the impression that it has solid shape and form.



It's possible that the sheath in that shot was a special one used for a prop machete of some sort, or one that had a gimmick for effects (since when Jason swings the machete, blood splatters all over the camera, signifying that it might have been rigged with a pump to shoot the blood out of.)

I can see what you're saying though. The sheath in your photo is military green in color, and has been flipped, judging by the fact that the handle grip is facing towards Jason's back, meaning the sharpened edge of the blade would be as well. I dug a little deeper, and I also noticed the flipped sheath on a promotional photo that CJ Graham took with Alice Cooper to promote the film's soundtrack.




I'm just gonna chalk it up to Hollywood magic and continuity errors from the film due to it being on a rushed shooting schedule, a low budget, and the heavy editing and reshooting that was forced upon it due to the MPAA refusing the give the film an "R" rating during multiple cuts. There was also two different stuntmen who played Jason in the film, with Dan Bradley being fired just one week into the shoot (he was replaced by CJ Graham, and ironically, was the Jason in the paintball scene) so it was also possible that the costume was altered to better fit Graham, who was taller and more lanky than Bradley. So I'll give NECA a pass on this one I guess, since they're not technically wrong, even if having the sheath on backwards makes no sense if you're right handed...lol. Fault the director and film editors on that one. Good catch.