'Friday the 13th': Late '50s star, killer cook Betsy Palmer once called horror script 'a piece of dreck'

Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who achieved lasting, though not necessarily sought-after, fame as the murderous camp cook in the cheesy horror film “Friday the 13th,” passed away in 2015 at age 88.

Despite believing no one would see the film, the actress agreed to play Mrs. Voorhees because she needed a new car.

"I had a Mercedes, which I had for a number of years, and it broke down on the Connecticut turnpike," Palmer, who passed away in 2015 at age 88, once recalled, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter. "So I said to myself, ‘I need a new car, universe.’"