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[[Image:Jason pt1.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Jason Voorhees as a child.]]Jason Voorhees (middle name cited in some sources as being "Elias" after his father) was born on June 13th, [[1946]] to [[Pamela Voorhees|Pamela]] and Elias Voorhees. Sometime later, Pamela is left alone to raise Jason. The circumstances leading to Elias' absence remains unknown. |
[[Image:Jason pt1.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Jason Voorhees as a child.]]Jason Voorhees (middle name cited in some sources as being "Elias" after his father) was born on June 13th, [[1946]] to [[Pamela Voorhees|Pamela]] and Elias Voorhees. Sometime later, Pamela is left alone to raise Jason. The circumstances leading to Elias' absence remains unknown. |
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At birth, Jason was deformed, possibly inflicted with a condition known as [[hydrocephalus]]. Originally, Jason was created as a normal child by Victor Miller, but was later made to be deformed as the crew behind the film decided he was not "special" enough. It was eventually decided that Jason be deformed and [[Tom Savini]] designed [http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/multimedia/pictures/part1/bts1_savinijason2.html the makeup for Jason's visage]. When interviewed, Victor Miller, the writer of the original ''Friday the 13th'', was asked about the new "deformed" Jason and said, "He wasn't a deformed creature from the ''Black Lagoon'', but that's how movies are made. I don't think the ending would have been as good if he were a cute blonde kid who looked like Betsy Palmer at 8 years old, do you?". [http://www.campcrystallake.com/interviews/victormiller.htm] By this statement, Victor Miller means that although he preferred the "normal" Jason, the jump ending would not have had the same effect if it included a normal looking child. Despite evidence in the original ''Friday the 13th'' some fans still firmly believe Jason was not deformed at birth, and instead, that his deformity was caused after the time of his supposed drowning (see below). This fan speculation is untrue as [http://www.geocities.com/packanack_lake/fridaythe13th/images/1/108.jpg Jason's deformed face can clearly be seen in the flashback to his drowning]. |
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Some fans believe that Jason was also born mentally disabled, though in-film details tend to indicate otherwise -- a mentally disabled child would not have been allowed into a summer camp in the 1950s, for example. Interestingly, the novelizations of the films, especially that of Part II, describe the young Jason as quiet and distant but otherwise normal, and make no mention of either deformity or retardation. At other points in the novels through the series, Jason's thought processes, as described from his perspective, seem to be of normal intelligence. |
Some fans believe that Jason was also born mentally disabled, though in-film details tend to indicate otherwise -- a mentally disabled child would not have been allowed into a summer camp in the 1950s, for example. Interestingly, the novelizations of the films, especially that of Part II, describe the young Jason as quiet and distant but otherwise normal, and make no mention of either deformity or retardation. At other points in the novels through the series, Jason's thought processes, as described from his perspective, seem to be of normal intelligence. |
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| Jason Voorhees | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race | Caucasian |
| Height: | 6'3" (approx) [1] |
| Weight: | 240-250 lbs. (approx) [2] |
| Birth/Death | 1946 - 1984 |
| Location | Camp Crystal Lake |
| Family | Elias Voorhees (father) Pamela Voorhees (mother) Diana Kimble (sister) Jessica Kimble (niece) Stephanie Kimble (grandniece) |
| Enemies | Everyone |
| Portrayed by: | Friday the 13th: Ari Lehman (child) Friday the 13th Part 2: Warrington Gillette (unmasked) & Steve Daskewisz (masked) Friday the 13th Part 3: Richard Brooker Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter: Ted White Friday the 13th: A New Beginning: Tom Morga Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives: C.J. Graham Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood - Jason X: Kane Hodder Freddy vs. Jason: Ken Kirzinger |
Jason Voorhees (born June 13, 1946) is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. A vicious mass murderer, he has a presence in all the films, even when he is not the killer. With his trademark hockey goalie mask and machete, he is arguably among the most recognizable villains from any slasher film. Throughout the series, Jason has never spoken aside from occasional mumbles and groans, and a few words in the ninth film of the series when he possessed another man's body. Jason is credited as having been created by Victor Miller, the screenwriter of the first Friday the 13th film, in spite of the fact that he barely appeared in that film. For his part, Miller has gone on record as saying he has avoided watching the sequel films and that he has great reservations about how Jason has been handled.
In 1992, Jason was awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. He is one of only three known completely fictional characters to be given the award. Chewbacca from the Star Wars series and Godzilla are the other two.[3]
Character history
Childhood years
Jason Voorhees (middle name cited in some sources as being "Elias" after his father) was born on June 13th, 1946 to Pamela and Elias Voorhees. Sometime later, Pamela is left alone to raise Jason. The circumstances leading to Elias' absence remains unknown.
At birth, Jason was deformed, possibly inflicted with a condition known as hydrocephalus. Originally, Jason was created as a normal child by Victor Miller, but was later made to be deformed as the crew behind the film decided he was not "special" enough. It was eventually decided that Jason be deformed and Tom Savini designed the makeup for Jason's visage. When interviewed, Victor Miller, the writer of the original Friday the 13th, was asked about the new "deformed" Jason and said, "He wasn't a deformed creature from the Black Lagoon, but that's how movies are made. I don't think the ending would have been as good if he were a cute blonde kid who looked like Betsy Palmer at 8 years old, do you?". [1] By this statement, Victor Miller means that although he preferred the "normal" Jason, the jump ending would not have had the same effect if it included a normal looking child. Despite evidence in the original Friday the 13th some fans still firmly believe Jason was not deformed at birth, and instead, that his deformity was caused after the time of his supposed drowning (see below). This fan speculation is untrue as Jason's deformed face can clearly be seen in the flashback to his drowning.
Some fans believe that Jason was also born mentally disabled, though in-film details tend to indicate otherwise -- a mentally disabled child would not have been allowed into a summer camp in the 1950s, for example. Interestingly, the novelizations of the films, especially that of Part II, describe the young Jason as quiet and distant but otherwise normal, and make no mention of either deformity or retardation. At other points in the novels through the series, Jason's thought processes, as described from his perspective, seem to be of normal intelligence.
In any case, his mother loved him deeply. In the summer of 1957, Jason attended Camp Crystal Lake, where his mother worked as a chef or cook. Jason, though, was not a very good swimmer. The other children often ridiculed him for his inability to swim, along with his deformity. Flashbacks from Freddy vs. Jason show that Jason's "death" at Crystal Lake was an accident that resulted from the other children chasing him across the docks and into the water. Jason cried for help, but the counselors didn't hear his gurgled screams since they were having sex, and Jason presumably died by drowning.
Pamela Voorhees' revenge
Mrs. Voorhees went insane with grief after her son's disappearance. She swore revenge on the people responsible for her son's death. She waited one year to act out her vengeance. On June 13th, 1958 she murdered the two teenagers she believed to have been responsible for Jason's drowning. After the incident, the camp was closed. A few years later, Mrs. Voorhees sabotaged an attempt to reopen the camp by setting fire to it. Later still, Mrs. Voorhees poisoned the camp's water to prevent the camp from reopening. Because of these incidents, the locals around Crystal Lake began to believe that the camp was cursed and dubbed it "Camp Blood".
The camp was deserted for years, until 1979 when a man named Steve Christy, whose parents originally owned the camp, spent $25,000 to try to reopen it. Mrs. Voorhees sneaks into the camp and murders Christy and the six teenage counselors he had hired. The only remaining person, Alice, decapitates Mrs. Voorhees with a machete during a struggle before going out into the lake on a canoe and passing out. The next morning police arrive, calling out to her in the middle of the lake. Waking up, she is pulled into the lake by young Jason's hideous corpse. From the hospital, police tell Alice that her experience with Jason was merely a dream.
Jason resurfaces
Although it was stated in the first film that Jason drowned, no explanation is given as to why, in the second film, Jason appears, seemingly alive and well, and having grown into an adult. There is the possibility that he was swept away by the water's current, and began living alone as a hermit when he realized he was lost. If he was indeed living as a hermit in the camp's forest, Jason was probably drawn to the bank of Crystal Lake by the cries of two women fighting. He arrived just in time to witness his long-lost mother's bloody demise and was horribly devastated. Alice, his mother's killer (in self defense), was trying to get over the massacre when Jason attacked her in her home, stabbing her in the head with an ice pick. Jason then returned to the forest. Five years later, a man named Paul Holt opens up a camp counselor training ground near the Camp Crystal Lake site. Jason, wearing a pillow case on his head to hide his disfigured face, goes into the area to drive them out of his home. After dispatching six counselors, he struggles with a girl named Ginny, who drives a machete into Jason's shoulder. Ginny returns to the training ground with Paul and they lock themselves in one of the cabins. A few minutes later, Jason appears to burst through the window and attack the two remaining counselors. However, it is disputed whether this was only a hallucination by Ginny, who awoke to find herself being loaded into an ambulance and Paul nowhere to be seen (Making Friday The 13th: The Legend Of Camp Blood by David Grove, states that Paul was killed off camera), or that it really happened.
By the next day, Jason has left the campgrounds and proceeds to the residence of a couple living in the area from whom he steals new clothes before murdering them. He then makes his way to a vacationing spot called Higgins Haven, killing a total of ten teenagers. Without a means of hiding his face, he relegates himself to a barn until he obtains a hockey mask from one of his victims and begins wearing it. The sole survivor is a girl named Chris Higgins, whose parents own the resort and who was attacked several years before by Jason. Though she is able to hang him, it is not until she strikes him in the head with an axe that he is finally rendered unconscious.
Believing him to be dead, paramedics take Jason's body to the Wessex County Morgue. He soon afterward regains consciousness and promptly kills a coroner and nurse before he heads back into the woods where he murders teenagers renting a lakeside house and targets a family next door. A young boy named Tommy Jarvis finally destroys Jason by striking him in the head with his own machete. But the ordeal clearly affects Tommy's mental health as he then continues to attack Jason's body, screaming "Die!" again and again with each blow. The trauma results in Tommy spending the next four years in a mental institution, his grip on sanity severely questioned when paramedic Roy Burns assumes Jason's identity to exact revenge for the death of his son at the Pinehurst halfway house. The real Jason, however, is buried at Eternal Peace Cemetery beside his mother. Initially, the body was to be cremated, but Jason's father intervened to pay for a proper burial.
Jason returns from the grave
Years later, a more physically mature Tommy Jarvis has made great strides in overcoming his mental illness. However, he is still plagued by the thought that Jason could return, and with a friend's reluctant assistance, they unearth the killer's rotting corpse. Upon seeing the body, Tommy madly stabs the body repeatedly with a metal rod from a fence. When he calms down, Tommy prepares to cremate Jason himself, but the rod left in the corpse soon attracts lightning and Jason is reanimated. Rising from his grave, Jason is even more physically powerful, able to endure strong blows and gunshots with little effect. Jason himself even recognizes this new prowess, and unlike in previous confrontations, he does not retract or reel away when his targets fight back.
Tommy, however, devises a plan. Luring Jason into the middle of the lake, at the risk of his own life, Tommy encompasses Jason in a ring of fire and chains him to the bottom. Seemingly drowned in the lake in which he had drowned before as a child, Tommy believes that Jason is finally "home".
Jason's body lies undisturbed at the bottom of the lake where it decomposes over several years. Although initally showing signs of life, it is presumed that Jason eventually did die or simply fell into unconsciousness. Several years later, a girl named Tina Shepard, who lived by the lake as a child, returns in order to overcome the death of her father whom she accidentally killed using her latent psychokinesis. In an attempt to raise him, she winds up reviving Jason instead. After the slaughter of those around her, including her mother, Tina fights back, eventually raising her father (or more likely a manifestation) to drag Jason back into the lake.
Sometime later, Jason is resurrected again by electricity, this time by a cable tow. When he comes by the cruise ship Lazarus, full of teenagers and bound for New York, Jason secretly boards and begins murdering everyone. When the ship sinks after an accident, he pursues the handful of survivors as they make their way to Manhattan. Once inside the city's sewers, Jason is seemingly washed away as the system is flooded with toxic waste. The issue of Jason's destruction is hampered by the perspective of the final girl who, when the waste clears, sees only Jason as a young boy, free of deformities. Regardless of how this vision fits into Jason's fate, he was obviously not killed and eventually makes his way back to Crystal Lake.
Though Jason had been a local entity, known only to Crystal Lake, the FBI's attention was eventually garnered (presumably by the public mayhem in Manhattan), and a sting was set up. Once he falls into their snare, a SWAT team descends on Jason, blowing him apart. However, Jason's spirit laid in his untouched demonic heart. Jason's soul is then physically passed from host-to-host in an attempt to find a Voorhees, which is the only means of Jason being "reincarnated," but a Voorhees is also the only one who can destroy him. Once reborn through his sister's body, his niece takes up a special dagger empowered by her bloodline, and uses it against Jason, sending him directly to Hell.
Clash with Freddy Krueger
In 2003, Jason is resurrected once again, this time, by Freddy Krueger, a serial killer with supernatural powers that allows him to control dreams. Disguising himself as Mrs. Voorhees, Krueger manipulates Jason into murdering a number of children in the Elm Street neighborhood in the hope the residents will attribute the deaths to Krueger himself and fear him once again. With this fear, Krueger's powers would regenerate and he could resume his role as a killer through dreams. However, after building up fear in the town of Springwood and restoring Freddy's power, Jason then kills one of Krueger's intended victims before Krueger has the chance to do so. Furious at Jason for taking away something he feels is rightfully his -- a victim -- Krueger schemes to put his murderous surrogate out of commission. Freddy uses a teenager to tranquilize Jason (and before going under, Jason slices the teenager in half), putting him to sleep and allowing Freddy to enter his dreams. Krueger challenges Jason and discovers his fear of water, but before he can kill him once and for all, Jason wakes up; eventually, Krueger is brought out of the "dream world" and into reality, face to face with Jason. The two then engage in a brutal battle on the campgrounds of Crystal Lake, and both combatants suffer injuries which would kill normal persons (including getting maimed by iron rods, numerous deep stab wounds, and dismemberment). After fighting to the pier of Crystal Lake, teenagers Lori Campbell and Will Rollins set the pier on fire and blow up a gas tank, sending both Jason and Freddy into Crystal Lake. After Freddy comes out of the lake and sets his sights on the teens, Jason impales Krueger through the chest with his own glove (still attached to his dismembered arm). Stunned and dying, Krueger falls to his knees and is then decapitated by Lori Campbell with Jason's machete, all while Jason sinks to the bottom of the lake.
Jason is later seen leaving the lake with Freddy's severed head in tow. Because the head is seen winking, the nature of this scene remains rather ambiguous.
The future
While much of the details leading up to his capture are unknown, in the year 2008 Jason is held in the Crystal Lake Research Facility (built on the site of what was once Camp Crystal Lake). Being unable to have Jason executed due to his regenerative ability, the researchers decree that Jason be held in cryogenic suspension.
Unfortunately, when a scientist decides to have Jason taken somewhere else to study his unique regenerative abilities, Jason manages to escape and murders several guards, before being lured by the project manager Rowan into a freezing chamber. As he is being frozen, Jason stabs a hole through the door, both mortally wounding Rowan as well as letting the coolant escape, freezing her with him as the room locks down to save the facility. This is Jason's last known activity as the facility is left undisturbed. Eventually Earth itself becomes an uninhabitable planet, with humanity relocating to a new star system, living on a world called "Earth Two".
In the year 2455, a ship full of students find Rowan and Jason's still-frozen bodies and take them back to their ship. The crew thaws the two bodies, reviving Rowan while Jason remains unconscious, leading the others to believe him dead. When Jason later wakes up, he goes on a killing spree until an android belonging to one of the student upgrades itself and blows off Jason's left arm, right leg, and head, as well as a large portion of his upper torso.
Jason's remains are left on a bed used to help regenerate tissue, and the nanotechnology repairs Jason's injuries (including the hockey mask). The medical equipment discerns that there wasn't enough tissue left to reanimate Jason, but through a glitch, over-rode the abort procedure. The nano-bots searched for a synthetic replacement for Jason's tissue, and used the metal around them as a substitute, giving Jason his armored appearance seen above. When the process completed itself Jason's build was larger than before, his strength is enhanced enough to rip through titanium, and his body is virtually indestructible; being able to withstand gunfire and the center of an explosion with no visible damage.
Ultimately, one of the few remaining crew members of the dying ship Grendel sacrifices himself by tackling Jason into the atmosphere of the nearby Earth Two.
The fate of Jason after coming into the planet's atmosphere has so far only been addressed in comics and novels, which are not necessarily canon.
Other appearances / emulation
Jason has appeared twice on Adult Swim's stop motion animated show Robot Chicken. The first time he is seen is in episode 17, when Scooby Doo and the gang investigate Camp Crystal Lake, with Velma the only survivor of the scene. In episode 19, Jason is one of the many other house guests alongside other famous horror movie figures (Freddy Kreuger, Ghostface of Scream, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Hellraiser's Pinhead) in "Horror Movie Big Brother."
The character of Jason has appeared in many other media forms other than just the movies. He has appeared in comics books: Satan's Six, Jason Vs. Leatherface, and most recently a series of specials from Avatar Comics.
In the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Clark approaches the camera with a hockey mask and chainsaw, as brooding music starts to play. The music cuts out when his son, Rusty, asks "Dad?" from off-screen, causing Clark to turn his head dramatically to the side.
In the anime, Pani Poni Dash!, Akane Serizawa can be frequently seen in a hockey mask, trying to impersonate Jason. Also her hand puppet resembles a smaller version of Jason, with Jason's blade and hockey mask as well as his blood-stained shirt.
In the anime, Irresponsible Captain Tylor one of Tylor's crewmembers is a man named Jason who is always wearing a hockey mask and never speaks. Although, this Jason seems to be different, having blond hair and an affinity for chainsaws, something Leatherface is famous for.
The Final Fantasy character Edgar Roni Figaro uses a chainsaw as one of his methods of attack. Typically he uses a buzzsaw as his weapon, but randomly dons a hockey mask and uses a true chainsaw, inflicting a mortal blow.
In the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Moonrunner, there is a recurring character named Conrad Zaar. Upon defeating him, his body is struck by lightning and is resurrected as Conrad, The Maniac Guard. He appears dressed in an all-over guards uniform with armoured face mask and armed with a machete, the illustration of which is a straight homage to Voorhees. During the storyline Conrad appears at various times, seemingly unkillable, until his body is weighted down and chained before being thrown into a lake.
Dr. Salvador from Resident Evil 4 wears a sack over his head just like Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2. Although he uses a chainsaw, the trademark of Leatherface.
Chainsaw Maniacs (known as Lumberjacks in Europe, changing from chainsaws to axes) are a Jason-esque enemy that wear hockey masks in Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
It isn't beyond speculation that the WWE superstar Kane was partially inspired by the gruesome tale of Jason Voorhees.
Castlevania 64 features a chainsaw-wielding, imposing Frankenstein Monster. The Monster is impossible to kill due to rapid regeneration: it can only be stunned.
He is mentioned as a prisoner in the book Krokodil Tears by Jack Yeovil as part of the Dark Future series.
In Eight Legged Freaks, a citizen puts a goalie mask on his face, wears a jacket similar to that of Jason, and uses a chainsaw to battle the big spiders attacking him.
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer runs into Bart's room, screaming and wielding a chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask.
Dozens of other direct references have been spotted in various media; one website maintains a near-comprehensive list.
The men behind the masks
Much like his masked counterpart Michael Myers, the part of Jason Voorhees has been played by various actors; some uncredited, others taking great pride in their parts. Due to the physical demands the character requires and the lack of emotional depth depicted, it comes as no surprise that almost all of the actors are stuntmen with no pre-existing history solely in acting. The best known among them is Kane Hodder who has become a favorite among fans and is often cited as the best to take up the role; there are others, however, that argue against these claims, pointing to another one of the actors as a better or "best Jason." Although, it is worth noting that there are those who do not see any distinction between the portrayals and do not find it worth arguing over.
In the original Friday the 13th Ari Lehman portrayed a young Jason, seen only in a brief flashback and the surprise ending. Although he is not the only actor to portray a young Jason (a role that went to Timothy Burr Mirkovich in Jason Takes Manhattan and Spencer Stump in Freddy vs. Jason) he stands as the first actor to ever play Jason Voorhees.
For the role of the first adult Jason, some controversy arose over the role in Part 2. While Warrington Gillette is credited as Jason, the majority of the role was actually played by Steve Daskewisz, who was simply credited as the stunt double. Gillette only played the role in the unmasked scene, with Daskewisz playing the role in almost all of the character's other scenes. Although this credit was corrected of sorts in Part 3 (in which Daskewisz is credited as Jason for the reused footage from the climax of the film), this confusion existed for years.
Daskewisz was asked to reprise his role in the third film, but turned it down simply because of the money he would have had to put out during filming and refrained (though he later says he regrets this). Instead, the role went to Richard Brooker, a trapeze artist, cast simply because of his big frame. He took the role believing that dialogue was not a necessity to acting.
More controversy stirred for the part in The Final Chapter when the role was handed over to professional stuntman Ted White. He refused credit for the role, feeling bad about the treatment of the actors who would play the victims. He claims that he took the role solely for the money, not wanting his name on what he called a "piece of shit." Although, he has been cited as later saying that the film came out better than he had expected and is credited in reused footage for later films.
Much like with Part 2, there has been confusion over the role in A New Beginning, partly due to the crediting of the killer and not Jason himself. While Dick Wieand is credited as Roy Burns, the film's actual murderer, it was stuntman Tom Morga who performed in the few flashes of Jason, as well as portraying Roy in all but the unmasked scenes. Wieand, while not ashamed, has been outspoken about his lack of enthusiasm over his role in the film.
C.J. Graham auditioned for the role in the sixth film. He initially lost the role, but was called back five days later for the role when the hired stuntman, Dan Bradley, failed to give the desired performance (Bradley can still be seen in the paintball sequence in the film). A nightclub owner with a military history, Graham performed almost all of his own stunts in the role. Although he was passed over for reprising the role, he has often been cited as speaking highly of his time in the part.
The part was then taken up by Kane Hodder in The New Blood where he carried the role consecutively into Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes To Hell, and Jason X. He remains the only actor to reprise the role, and is often cited as perfecting the role. His strong following caused obvious upset among fans when he was turned down for Freddy vs. Jason.
For Freddy vs. Jason, the role went instead to Ken Kirzinger, a Canadian stuntman who worked on Jason Takes Manhattan. There has been conflicting reports over the reason behind the casting of Kirzinger, although many believe that it may have simply been due to his residence in Canada, where the film was shot, and thus done to save money. Additionally, according to director Ronny Yu, Kirzinger was hired because he was taller than Freddy actor Robert Englund. Ken stands 6' 6" compared to the 6' 3" of Kane Hodder and Ronny Yu wanted a much larger actor to tower over Englund, even though Englund only stands 5' 10". Yu also wanted someone with more "sympathetic eyes." [citation needed]
Trivia
- Ironically, the date given as Jason birthday was not a Friday the 13th. June 13th 1946 was a Thursday. However the next year June 13th was a Friday the 13th
- Jason's weapon of choice is the machete, but he has used many other weapons, including axes, knives, and even corkscrews. Primarily, his choices fall under the lines of knives and stabbing weapons. However, despite being portrayed in popular media emulations as using a chainsaw (such as in the videogame Splatterhouse 2 or Eminem's wielding of a chainsaw whilst wearing a hockey mask during a live performance), Jason has never been shown to use such a weapon. In fact, a chainsaw only ever appears in Part 2 and "A New Beginning," wielded against him by other characters. The closest Jason ever came to using a chainsaw-like killing tool was in Part 7, when he employed a tree-limb trimmersaw against the character of Dr. Crews.
- Multiple times, Jason is revived by electricity, such as in Jason Lives and Jason Takes Manhattan, although the electricity in both cases was different; one was lightning and the other an electric cable. Despite this, electricity appears to be ineffective at stopping Jason for more than a few seconds at a time.
- According to Kane Hodder, Jason would never hurt innocent children or harmless animals, such as a dog. Jason was supposed to kick the main character's dog near the climax of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan but Kane refused, saying Jason may kill people but he's not bad enough to kick a dog (Hodder says in the interview, "As ridiculous as it sounds, I said, 'Oh, that's not right. I mean, Jason can pull people's limbs off and beat them to death with their own arms, things like that, but he's not gonna be kicking any dog.' You know, you gotta draw the line somewhere.")[2] This is contradicted, however, in early films before Hodder began to play the part -- in Part IV, for example, he attacked young Tommy Jarvis (but, was ultimately unable to kill him).
- The teenagers Jason attacks are typically those who are involving themselves in premarital sex, drinking, or drugs. This seems to be explained in Freddy versus Jason, as, when Jason was drowning, he could have been saved, if not for the camp counselors at Crystal Lake being too involved in the aforementioned activities to notice his predicament. Some of the novels also hint that Jason's anger comes from his own resentment of the fact that his deformity prevents him from experiencing these things himself.
- Jason frequently targets a victim for what seems to be personal, vendetta-like reasons -- nearly all of these victims are intruders onto Jason's wooded territory. In many of the films (particularly Part VI and after), Jason chases down his quarry while completely ignoring the other potential victims all around him, except for those who try to stop him. It's probable that this style of chase was modelled after The Terminator.
- Jason is most noticed for having the largest body count (or victims killed) than any other horror movie character. Apparently, he has claimed at least 178-200 victims.
- Jason's last name, Voorhees, is usually misspelled as 'Vorhees' by journalistic and fan sources. Leading to further confusion, it is even misspelled occasionally by official sources: The back of Part V's VHS box, and on a sign seen in Jason Goes to Hell.
- The repetitious noise that accompanies many of the POV shots is explained in the DVD commentary for the original film, by composer Harry Manfredini. During the end of the film, Mrs Voorhees speaks in a child's voice, ostensibly that of her son, telling her to "Kill her, Mommy". Manfredini spoke the first letter of "kill" and "mommy" through a guitar device to gain a strange echo effect, leading to the "ki-ki-ki-ki" and "muh-muh-muh-muh" used to show that the audience is seeing what the killer sees. Manfredini stated that it suggests that the killer is hearing these voices, and also makes the viewer aware that they are with the killer, rather than a general camera shot.
- In the game Battle Arena Tohshinden 3, there is a secret character named Judgement who clearly resembles Jason in appearance (including the Hockey Mask), ironically, armed with a chainsaw.
Quotes
Oh, there certainly is still the innocence and good in [Jason]. I've tried to keep a little bit, believe it or not, and it'll sound funny, but I've tried to keep a little bit of integrity in the character. There are a lot of little things that the fans don't know. For instance, in Part VIII, there was a scene written in the script where, if you remember the movie where the encounter with the survivors and Jason on the docks right when they arrive in New York, the dog is there. There was a scene written where Jason kicks the dog and goes after the people. As ridiculous as it sounds, I said, "Oh, that's not right. I mean, Jason can pull people's limbs off and beat them to death with their own arms, things like that, but he's not gonna be kicking any dog." You know, you gotta draw the line somewhere. ~Kane Hodder on Jason Voorhees.
See also
- Freddy vs. Jason
- Michael Myers
- Pinhead
- Leatherface
- Chucky
- Candyman
- Freddy Krueger
- Wishmaster
- Leprechaun
- Maniac Cop
- Tall Man
References
- ^ http://www.houseofhorrors.com/jason.htm General belief about size
- ^ http://www.pitofhorror.com/f13/jasonstats.htm General belief about size II
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6uk5kiOaU&mode=related&search Jason awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award
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