Friday the 13th Part V’s Miguel Nunez Jr. talks ‘Oooh, baby!’

Actor Miguel A. Nunez Jr. is recalling the legendary song his character Demon sang in the outhouse in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning.

Without a doubt, Friday the 13th Part V has most memorable characters out of any one film in the series. It’s almost impossible to choose favorites with such an amazing cast. But in any case, it’s hard to deny that Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.’s Demon Winter has to be near the top of the list.

In the 1985 sequel, Nunez has a small but memorable role eating enchiladas with his girlfriend before getting killed minutes later in an outhouse. The part gave Nunez some of the very best lines in the movie, which are still quoted often by horror fans to this day. This includes, of course, Demon’s comment about “those damn enchiladas,” and it’s hard not to think of the line any time anyone ever mentions that food.

But perhaps what’s even more memorable about Demon is the song he and his girlfriend Anita sing together once he’s in the outhouse. After playfully scaring Demon first by shaking the outhouse, Anita starts softly singing to him, “Hey baby… hey baby…” Demon, being the true Romeo he is, plays right back along with it, enthusiastically singing to her, “Oooh, baby, oooh baby!”

When I attended the Part V reunion at HorrorHound Weekend earlier this month, I lost track of the number of times I heard this song quoted. And Nunez wasn’t even there. More than 30 years later, people still remember the song fondly, and even Nunez himself has taken a moment to reflect upon the scene.

More romantic than Casanova, if you ask me.

“It was ad lib,” Nunez says to 1428 Elm, which perhaps explains why it felt so natural. The iconic outhouse song was not planned to be the way it was. Nunez and his co-star Jere Fields came up with the song during the course of filming, and the rest, as they say, is horror history.

Of course, having been filmed more than three decades ago, there’s not much else Nunez recalls about the scene. “I just remember it was freezing that night,” he recollects, making Demon’s death scene that much more heartbreaking. Just think — on top of everything else, the dude had to die in the blistering cold. I guess that leather jacket ain’t as warm as it looks.

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Demon Winter may have died all the way back in 1985, but his sweet song will live on forever. Oooh, baby!