How did Alice fall into the lake?

Yeah. How could I ever ask a plot-related question about "Friday the 13th" on a "Friday the 13th" board? What a stipid idea. :rolleyes:

The fact alone that you need to prepare that Jason costume, get a child actor to play him and prepare the whole setup in the water pretty much shows that it was not a last minute addition, as if they spontaneously decided to do this ending and shot it within an hour at the last day of filming. There had to be done some elaborate preparation which would have given them enough time to think it through. So, this is really no excuse.

Wow! Thank you so much. So, so much.

I was asking a question and made some elaborate explanations on what I think about the scenario and why I have problems with it. There were some back and forth discussions about the various aspects with different users. And in the end we came to the conclusion that continuity is not one of "Friday the 13th"'s strongest aspects.

And now you come here, ignore everything that was said before, and, without any further explanation, simply write: "She's dreaming".

Now, that has convinced me. Thank you so much for this very helpful post.

Of course. How could I have not realized this? She's dreaming.

Those few words explain absolutely everything. Really. They explain everything. Including the objections that I have with the theory that she's dreaming. You know, the objections that I mentioned in the first post and which were the issue of all the discussions going on in this thread. You explained them away with your short statement that she's dreaming.

Thanks again, man. You really settled the discussion once and for all. Your post was so insightful. Thanks.

Then how would you explain the cops that were looking directly at her and shouting to her, don't see Jason pop up and pull her under.

I always thought that we were supposed to feel like Paul's rendition of the event was was other he had through word of mouth and people doubted Alice's versionas. However, we were supposed to take the ending of first as being true.

I just watched this after not seeing it since the 90's, in my teens... It really doesn't seem like a dream, it seems like she is pulled from the canoe and then unconscious until she wakes in the hospital. The cops not seeing Jason pull her out is understandable since it was a quick grab and far off in the lake. The cop says they 'pulled her out of the lake' so clearly she fell out of the canoe somehow.

I know the screenwriter says it was just a dream so who am I to argue with him, but that makes less sense than it just being real, plus it adds the creepy factor.

I guess people hail this movie as a classic but it was really poorly made, it just felt clumsy, even with the psycho mom (the high point) I can't give this more than 5/10. I didn't care about any character so when they got slashed it had no effect. Comedy was non existent, the kills were pretty uninspired, the layout of the camp was never really emphasized so when someone leaves one building to go to another I didn't get the sense of place that adds a huge dimension to these kinds of movies.

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