'I actually said to them that I would do whatever they needed for the sequel, I was theirs,' she said in a Q&A at the Nite Owl Theater in 2018. King returned for the sequel, in which a traumatized Alice-who wakes up in the hospital at the end of the original and is told there was no sign of anyone or anything else at the lake-is picked off (literally, with an ice pick) right away. And who would have ever guessed that the killer could have been a woman? A sweet lady, too, Betsy Palmer. 'And sometimes I think about if it was accidentally empowering women, or if they just wanted to do something that had a twist. 'In terms of women not being victims, or a woman being the killer, it hadn't really been done before,' she told Daily Dead in 2016. King was always proud of being both Friday the 13th's 'final girl'-and that the killer turned out to be Jason's mom, turning slasher movie convention on its head.
