Roy Burns (played by Dick Wieand when unmasked, but mostly played by Tom Morga) is a fictional character in the Friday the 13th sequel Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. In the film, the character copies the murder style of Jason Voorhees in order to avenge the death of his son (similar to Mrs. Voorhees) who was killed by another patient at Pinehurst halfway house. Until his death at the hands of Tommy Jarvis, many assumed that the killings were being carried out by Jason himself. In fact, when the killer made his appearance, he was wearing a hockey mask as well. Burns did not copy Jason's attire correctly, however; The marks on his hockey mask were blue instead of red, and instead of the "blue collar" clothes that Jason wore, his were actually a mechanic suit, which are worn by another famed movie murderer, (Michael Myers from Halloween).
It's interesting to note that unlike Jason, Burns was mortal, and yet inexplicably withstood the blow from a very large tractor.
Burns seemed to have an affinity for eyes, as many of his victims had their eyes gouged out in some manner.
Burns' actions almost sent Tommy Jarvis to take up copycat killings himself, but was stopped by unknown means. To date, nothing more on Burns has been mentioned, although he may have been influential to a police officer in Freddy vs. Jason for thinking the murders were the work of a copycat and not Jason himself.
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Tommy Jarvis
Tommy Jarvis is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th film series. He appeared in the fourth, fifth, and sixth films of the series (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives). He was portrayed, in order, by Corey Feldman, John Shepherd, and Thom Mathews.
Tommy made his first appearance as a young boy with an affinity for making his own masks and make-up effects. When Jason Voorhees brings his blood bath to the Jarvis cabin, Tommy is forced to fight for his life along with his sister. In an attempt to trick Jason, Tommy shaves his head to make himself appear as Jason was when he himself was young. Ultimately, Tommy kills Jason, first with a fatal blow to the skull with a machete, then repeatedly hacking at Jason when the killer shows some signs of life. This event has an affect on Tommy's mind where he is put in an institution until he is a young man. He is then put in a halfway house, but unfortunately, at this time a series of murders begin nearby with Jason Voorhees being tied to the killings. Tommy's minds continues to slip again, seeing images of Jason haunting him. Tommy manages to confront the hockey masked muderer, believing him to be another hallucination. But he is real and attacks Tommy, finally forcing him to take his life - only for it to turn out that the killer was a copycat. But it's too late for Tommy, as the last wall of sanity has fallen with the ghost of Jason fading before his eyes. Keeping the killer's hockey mask, he puts it on and attempts to assume Jason's mantle. Sometime later, a more stable Tommy, with a friend from the institution, is ready to confront his demons - or rather the demon that is Jason. Wanting to see Jason's decayed body himself, he also wants to make sure that Jason will never rise again and attempts to cremate him. But his memories of his encounter with Jason still linger heavily and he madly attacks the body with a metal pole. This winds up attracting bolts of lightning that reawaken Jason and gives him a more powerful lease on life. Trying to make amends for his mistake, Tommy warns the sheriff who, being familiar with Jarvis, locks him up thinking he's slipped. The piles of bodies Jason racks up only convinces the sheriff, but time is running short as Jason makes his way to the renamed campgrounds. With a plan in mind, Tommy lures Jason into the very same lake from which the Voorhees legend started. Chained to the bottom of the lake, encircled in fire, and having part of his face chewed by propeller blades, Tommy's monster is put to rest... as far as he knows.
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Importance
The character is notable for two reasons. He is one of the series' few returning characters, which, aside from Jason and his mother, only consists of himself, Alice, and Crazy Ralph, and both Alice and Crazy Ralph were subsequently killed (ironically, Tommy would somewhat take on Ralph's role in his finale appearance by being the town loon, trying to warn everyone). He is also the only character to successfully murder Jason Voorhees. The great irony is that he is the very same person to actually resurrect Jason, allowing him to exist for years to come in a more powerful and unstoppable incarnation. In his three film appearances, the character is actually vital to the series itself, first killing Jason, then potentially bringing the series into a new direction with himself being the first to carry Jason-mimicking murders into the next film. When the latter plan was dropped after the backlash of A New Beginning, it is his character that literally brings Jason back into the series, helping to usher the new Jason into the furture of the franchise. Appropriately, the character has never been seen in the films after Jason Lives.
Assorted facts
Tommy's only known family was his mother and sister Trisha. In The Final Chapter, his mother is murdered (offscreen) by Jason. Neither of the subsequent films have made mention of Trish, much less explained what happened to her after the film's events.
It is believed that the character was created as a reference to special effects artist Tom Savini who, it is said, only returned to The Final Chapter to kill the Jason character he helped create - something which Tommy actually does within the film's story.
Tommy made his first appearance as a young boy with an affinity for making his own masks and make-up effects. When Jason Voorhees brings his blood bath to the Jarvis cabin, Tommy is forced to fight for his life along with his sister. In an attempt to trick Jason, Tommy shaves his head to make himself appear as Jason was when he himself was young. Ultimately, Tommy kills Jason, first with a fatal blow to the skull with a machete, then repeatedly hacking at Jason when the killer shows some signs of life. This event has an affect on Tommy's mind where he is put in an institution until he is a young man. He is then put in a halfway house, but unfortunately, at this time a series of murders begin nearby with Jason Voorhees being tied to the killings. Tommy's minds continues to slip again, seeing images of Jason haunting him. Tommy manages to confront the hockey masked muderer, believing him to be another hallucination. But he is real and attacks Tommy, finally forcing him to take his life - only for it to turn out that the killer was a copycat. But it's too late for Tommy, as the last wall of sanity has fallen with the ghost of Jason fading before his eyes. Keeping the killer's hockey mask, he puts it on and attempts to assume Jason's mantle. Sometime later, a more stable Tommy, with a friend from the institution, is ready to confront his demons - or rather the demon that is Jason. Wanting to see Jason's decayed body himself, he also wants to make sure that Jason will never rise again and attempts to cremate him. But his memories of his encounter with Jason still linger heavily and he madly attacks the body with a metal pole. This winds up attracting bolts of lightning that reawaken Jason and gives him a more powerful lease on life. Trying to make amends for his mistake, Tommy warns the sheriff who, being familiar with Jarvis, locks him up thinking he's slipped. The piles of bodies Jason racks up only convinces the sheriff, but time is running short as Jason makes his way to the renamed campgrounds. With a plan in mind, Tommy lures Jason into the very same lake from which the Voorhees legend started. Chained to the bottom of the lake, encircled in fire, and having part of his face chewed by propeller blades, Tommy's monster is put to rest... as far as he knows.
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Importance
The character is notable for two reasons. He is one of the series' few returning characters, which, aside from Jason and his mother, only consists of himself, Alice, and Crazy Ralph, and both Alice and Crazy Ralph were subsequently killed (ironically, Tommy would somewhat take on Ralph's role in his finale appearance by being the town loon, trying to warn everyone). He is also the only character to successfully murder Jason Voorhees. The great irony is that he is the very same person to actually resurrect Jason, allowing him to exist for years to come in a more powerful and unstoppable incarnation. In his three film appearances, the character is actually vital to the series itself, first killing Jason, then potentially bringing the series into a new direction with himself being the first to carry Jason-mimicking murders into the next film. When the latter plan was dropped after the backlash of A New Beginning, it is his character that literally brings Jason back into the series, helping to usher the new Jason into the furture of the franchise. Appropriately, the character has never been seen in the films after Jason Lives.
Assorted facts
Tommy's only known family was his mother and sister Trisha. In The Final Chapter, his mother is murdered (offscreen) by Jason. Neither of the subsequent films have made mention of Trish, much less explained what happened to her after the film's events.
It is believed that the character was created as a reference to special effects artist Tom Savini who, it is said, only returned to The Final Chapter to kill the Jason character he helped create - something which Tommy actually does within the film's story.
Pamela Voorhees
Pamela Sue Voorhees is the mother of the fictional slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th films.
In the original Friday the 13th film, the character is simply named Mrs. Voorhees, her first name not being revealed until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
The character was portrayed by Betsy Palmer in the first two films.
Some mistakenly believe it was her son doing the killings in all of the films, but she was the killer in the first film, in which she had nine victims.
Her motive for her killings were out of revenge for the death of her son. Despite his deformity, she loved him dearly. Mrs. Voorhees was a cook at the camp and was working the day he drowned in that summer of 1957. She blamed the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake for his death as some were having sex instead of watching the campers while he drowned. A year after the incident, she killed two counselors as they were fooling around, causing the camp to close. Attempts to reopen it were thwarted. The final attempt in 1979 by a Steve Christy resulted in Mrs. Voorhees murdering several counselors including Mr. Christy over the course of a single night (one counselor early in the day never even made it to camp). As there was but one lone survivor, Pamela came out of the shadows and played herself to the last victim as a kind old woman. But her true nature leaked when she brought up the grief over reopening the camp and told of her son Jason. She turned mad and suddenly claimed that the girl is responsible for his drowning and began attacking her. As she's chased over the campgrounds, the girl is forced to defend herself and uses Pamela's machete to behead her.
Two months later, Jason carried out his own revenge by killing his mother's murderer. Jason had kept his mother's severed head, first to frighten the girl (by placing it in her refrigerator) and then took both her corpse and the head to his shack in the woods. In it, he built something of a shrine to his mother and subsequently placed some victims there. After he is hit in the shoulder with a machete and left for dead at the end of his first killing spree, he leaves his crudely made home and his mother.
Mrs. Voorhees was born in 1930 and initially laid to rest in a run down cemetery. When Jason was murdered by Tommy Jarvis a few years later, it's presumed that she was relocated (now with her head) to Eternal Peace Cemetery along with her son in accordance with arrangements made by Elias Voorhees, the father of Pamela's son.
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Life after death
Although Pamela does not share her son's immortality, she does reappear in later films. The character is seen again in the climax of Friday the 13th Part 2 in which Betsy Palmer reprises her role when Jason sees his mother talking to him while in reality it is the character of Ginny trying to fool Jason. She is seen again in Friday the 13th Part 3 when lone survivor Chris Higgins has a nightmare that ends in the corpse of Mrs. Voorhees (played by an unknown actor), wearing her blue sweater with head attached, reaching up from the lake to pull her under. She is seen again in Freddy vs. Jason (played this time by Paula Shaw) when in Hell she commands her son to kill the children of Elm Street - although it turns out that it is actually Freddy Krueger disguised as his mother.
Reportedly, the character was to make another appearance for Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday in a flashback sequence, but was dropped when Palmer turned it down. Another jettisoned idea took place in Jason X where Mrs. Voorhees would appear during the virtual reality scenerio, but in a demonstration of how he had changed from his recent transformation, Jason winds up trying to kill her.
In the original Friday the 13th film, the character is simply named Mrs. Voorhees, her first name not being revealed until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
The character was portrayed by Betsy Palmer in the first two films.
Some mistakenly believe it was her son doing the killings in all of the films, but she was the killer in the first film, in which she had nine victims.
Her motive for her killings were out of revenge for the death of her son. Despite his deformity, she loved him dearly. Mrs. Voorhees was a cook at the camp and was working the day he drowned in that summer of 1957. She blamed the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake for his death as some were having sex instead of watching the campers while he drowned. A year after the incident, she killed two counselors as they were fooling around, causing the camp to close. Attempts to reopen it were thwarted. The final attempt in 1979 by a Steve Christy resulted in Mrs. Voorhees murdering several counselors including Mr. Christy over the course of a single night (one counselor early in the day never even made it to camp). As there was but one lone survivor, Pamela came out of the shadows and played herself to the last victim as a kind old woman. But her true nature leaked when she brought up the grief over reopening the camp and told of her son Jason. She turned mad and suddenly claimed that the girl is responsible for his drowning and began attacking her. As she's chased over the campgrounds, the girl is forced to defend herself and uses Pamela's machete to behead her.
Two months later, Jason carried out his own revenge by killing his mother's murderer. Jason had kept his mother's severed head, first to frighten the girl (by placing it in her refrigerator) and then took both her corpse and the head to his shack in the woods. In it, he built something of a shrine to his mother and subsequently placed some victims there. After he is hit in the shoulder with a machete and left for dead at the end of his first killing spree, he leaves his crudely made home and his mother.
Mrs. Voorhees was born in 1930 and initially laid to rest in a run down cemetery. When Jason was murdered by Tommy Jarvis a few years later, it's presumed that she was relocated (now with her head) to Eternal Peace Cemetery along with her son in accordance with arrangements made by Elias Voorhees, the father of Pamela's son.
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Life after death
Although Pamela does not share her son's immortality, she does reappear in later films. The character is seen again in the climax of Friday the 13th Part 2 in which Betsy Palmer reprises her role when Jason sees his mother talking to him while in reality it is the character of Ginny trying to fool Jason. She is seen again in Friday the 13th Part 3 when lone survivor Chris Higgins has a nightmare that ends in the corpse of Mrs. Voorhees (played by an unknown actor), wearing her blue sweater with head attached, reaching up from the lake to pull her under. She is seen again in Freddy vs. Jason (played this time by Paula Shaw) when in Hell she commands her son to kill the children of Elm Street - although it turns out that it is actually Freddy Krueger disguised as his mother.
Reportedly, the character was to make another appearance for Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday in a flashback sequence, but was dropped when Palmer turned it down. Another jettisoned idea took place in Jason X where Mrs. Voorhees would appear during the virtual reality scenerio, but in a demonstration of how he had changed from his recent transformation, Jason winds up trying to kill her.
Jason Voorhees
Jason Voorhees (born June 13, 1946) is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. A vicious mass murderer, he features in all the films, with the exception of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. With his trademark goalie mask and machete, he is arguably among the most recognizable villians from any slasher film.
Childhood years
Jason was born on June 13, 1946 to Pamela and Elias Voorhees. Born with mental retardation and severe facial disfigurement, children his age frequently teased and bullied him. However, his mother never drew attention to his illness and loved him deeply.
In the summer of 1957, Jason attended Camp Crystal Lake, where his mother worked as a chef. The other children chased him into the lake while the camp counselors were having sex in a nearby cabin, thus leaving the children unattended. Because he could not swim, he began drowning. The camp counselors didn't hear his cries for help, so Jason slipped under the water and was washed away to the other side of the lake. It is unclear whether he survived, or died and came back to life, but his growth into adulthood by the time of Friday the 13th Part 2 suggests that he survived.
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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 13, 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 a man named Steve Christy, whose parents originally owned the camp, spent $25,000 to try to reopen it. Mrs. Voorhees snuck into the camp and murdered Christy and the six teenage counselors he had hired. The only remaining person, Alice, decapitated Mrs. Voorhees with a machete during a struggle.
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Jason resurfaces
Living as a hermit in the camp's forest, Jason witnessed his mother's bloody demise and was devastated. When Alice returned to Crystal Lake to face her fears, Jason stabbed her in the head with an ice pick. Jason then returned to the forest. Five years later, a man named Paul Holt opened up a camp counselor training ground near the Camp Crystal Lake site. Jason, wearing a pillowcase on his head to hide his disfigured face, went into the area to drive them out of his home. After dispatching six counselors, he struggled with a girl named Ginny, who drove a machete into Jason's shoulder. Ginny returned to the training ground with Holt and they locked themselves in one of the cabins. A few minutes later, Jason appeared to burst through the window and attacked 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 Holt nowhere to be seen (in Making Friday The 13th: The Legend Of Camp Blood by David Grove, it is confirmed that Holt was killed off camera), or that it really happened.
The next day Jason killed a couple living in a home near Crystal Lake and got new clothes. Then he made his way to a vacationing spot called Higgins Haven and killed 10 vacationing teenagers there. It was there where he replaced the pillowcase with the trademark hockey mask that he took from a teenager he killed. The one person who survived Jason's rampage, a girl named Chris Higgins, whose parents owned Higgins Haven and was attacked several years before by Jason, took an axe and gashed it into the left side of his head, knocking him out.
Jason's body was taken to the Wessex County Morgue, where he regained consciousness, killed the coroner, and quickly escaped. When he returned to the camp, he killed the teenagers resting there. As he was about to kill a girl named Trisha Jarvis, her brother, Tommy, distracted the mute murderer by shaving his head and dressing as Jason when he was a boy. Tommy then hacked Jason in the left side of his face until Jason fell onto the machete and split his head open. Tommy would spend the next four years in a mental institution. Jason was buried at Eternal Peace Cemetery near his mother.
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Jason comes back from the grave
Years later, Tommy Jarvis, now in his early 20s, was released from the mental institution, but was still plagued by nightmares about Jason and a man named Roy Burns, whom he had killed a year earlier because he was masquerading as Jason and killing people in the mental institution. After he got out of the institution, Tommy and a friend went to Eternal Peace Cemetery to dig up Jason's grave and cremate him. After they dug him up, Tommy stabbed a metal rod from a cemetery fence into Jason's rotting corpse and threw his hockey mask into the grave. As they were about to cremate him, however, a lightning bolt struck the rod in Jason's chest, reanimating him. The reanimated Jason killed Tommy's friend as Tommy escaped. Jason was now considerably stronger and even more resilient than ever before. With a bloodlust in his eye, Jason put on the hockey mask that Tommy threw into the grave before proceeding to Camp Crystal Lake, which was now called Camp Forest Green. When Tommy told the sheriff his ordeal, the sheriff just thought he was crazy and put him in a jail cell for the night. After escaping from the jail cell Tommy made his way to Camp Forest Green, where Jason had already killed several counselors. Tommy wrapped a metal chain with a rock attached to it around Jason. Then he pushed Jason into the lake, where he (seemingly) drowned. Jason's body lay at the bottom of the lake and decomposed for some time.
Five years later, a girl at Camp Forest Green named Tina Shepard accidentally released Jason from his underwater tomb. Jason then proceeded to do what he did best: slaughter the people at the camp site. Tina then confronted Jason, using her telekinetic abilities to knock Jason's mask off, to see that Jason's face was now even more deformed from decomposing underwater for several years. Tina then forced Jason back into the lake with her powers.
Then after that, Jason was resurrected by an electrical cable and climbed aboard a cruise ship full of teenagers bound for New York. He was close to being unleashed in all of Manhattan, but he was (seemingly) killed again by toxic waste in the sewage system, where his body washed up back in Camp Crystal Lake.
A few years later, he came back yet again, only to be supposedly blown to bits by a team of FBI agents. Unfortunately, he was reincarnated in several bodies through his evil soul. His only surviving family member, his 22-year-old niece Stephanie Kimble, stabbed Jason with a magic dagger, sending him to Hell.
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Freddy versus Jason
Years later, Jason would be resurrected once again. This time, by Freddy Krueger, another mass murderer with supernatural powers. Disguising himself as Mrs. Voorhees, Krueger manipulated Jason into killing the children of Elm Street. Freddy's plan was for the murders to make people relate the teens' deaths to the almost-forgotten memory of Freddy Krueger. Thereby, Freddy would once again be feared, which was key to his power. Eventually, Jason interrupted Krueger's plan by killing so many teens in public places that he left behind witnesses. These witnesses described not Krueger to the people of Elm Street, but an almost 7-foot-tall maniac wearing a hockey mask and wielding a machete. The realization of the general populous that the killer was Jason Voorhees, not Freddy Krueger, took Freddy's newly-found power away from him again. This infuriated Freddy, and he challenged Jason-- not once, but twice: first in the dream world, and then in the real world. During the struggle, Jason ripped off Krueger's right arm and impaled him through the chest with his own glove, striking the decisive blow. Stunned and dying, Krueger fell to his knees and was then decapitated by Lori Campbell with Jason's machete, while Jason sunk to the bottom of the lake. Jason, however, came up from the lake the next morning carrying the decapitated head of Freddy Krueger, which winked and laughed, into the forest.
Jason's current location is unknown.
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What the future may hold
While much of the details leading up to his capture are unknown, by 2010 Jason will be held in the Crystal Lake Research Facility (built on the site of what was once Camp Crystal Lake). They fail to actually execute the killer in conviction for hundreds of murders due to his unique regenerative ability, and the government operates on him, probably trying to find the source of his invulnerability. Eventually, the researchers decree that Jason be held in cryogenic suspension. Jason manages to escape and murders several guards before he is frozen by the project manager, Rowan, who is both fatally wounded and frozen along with Jason. The Facility is wisely left undisturbed as Earth itself eventually becomes uninhabitable. By 2455, a ship full of students find Rowan and Jason's still-frozen bodies and take them back to their ship. Rowan is thawed and healed, with the aid of nanotechnology, and warns them of Jason's nature. These warnings are dismissed. While being thawed and studied, Jason awakes and begins wreaking destruction until an android stops him, destroying huge chunks of his body. But because his remains are lying on a bed used to help regenerate tissue, the nanotechnology repairs the gaps in Jason (including the hockey mask), even adding the metal from the machete stabbed into his body as part of the tissue. Once the process is complete, his build is not only bigger, but he himself is virtually indestructable. Jason is even powerful enough to withstand gunfire, punch through a titanium hull, and withstand being in the center of a massive explosion with no visible damage done. It is unknown exactly if he survived entry into the atmosphere of Earth 2. If he has, his last known whereabouts are believed to be in the bottom of one of its lakes.
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The men behind the mask
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 favourite amoung 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 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 come 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 failed to give the desired performance. A nightclub owner with a military history, Graham performed 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 the role for a fifth time.
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.
Childhood years
Jason was born on June 13, 1946 to Pamela and Elias Voorhees. Born with mental retardation and severe facial disfigurement, children his age frequently teased and bullied him. However, his mother never drew attention to his illness and loved him deeply.
In the summer of 1957, Jason attended Camp Crystal Lake, where his mother worked as a chef. The other children chased him into the lake while the camp counselors were having sex in a nearby cabin, thus leaving the children unattended. Because he could not swim, he began drowning. The camp counselors didn't hear his cries for help, so Jason slipped under the water and was washed away to the other side of the lake. It is unclear whether he survived, or died and came back to life, but his growth into adulthood by the time of Friday the 13th Part 2 suggests that he survived.
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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 13, 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 a man named Steve Christy, whose parents originally owned the camp, spent $25,000 to try to reopen it. Mrs. Voorhees snuck into the camp and murdered Christy and the six teenage counselors he had hired. The only remaining person, Alice, decapitated Mrs. Voorhees with a machete during a struggle.
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Jason resurfaces
Living as a hermit in the camp's forest, Jason witnessed his mother's bloody demise and was devastated. When Alice returned to Crystal Lake to face her fears, Jason stabbed her in the head with an ice pick. Jason then returned to the forest. Five years later, a man named Paul Holt opened up a camp counselor training ground near the Camp Crystal Lake site. Jason, wearing a pillowcase on his head to hide his disfigured face, went into the area to drive them out of his home. After dispatching six counselors, he struggled with a girl named Ginny, who drove a machete into Jason's shoulder. Ginny returned to the training ground with Holt and they locked themselves in one of the cabins. A few minutes later, Jason appeared to burst through the window and attacked 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 Holt nowhere to be seen (in Making Friday The 13th: The Legend Of Camp Blood by David Grove, it is confirmed that Holt was killed off camera), or that it really happened.
The next day Jason killed a couple living in a home near Crystal Lake and got new clothes. Then he made his way to a vacationing spot called Higgins Haven and killed 10 vacationing teenagers there. It was there where he replaced the pillowcase with the trademark hockey mask that he took from a teenager he killed. The one person who survived Jason's rampage, a girl named Chris Higgins, whose parents owned Higgins Haven and was attacked several years before by Jason, took an axe and gashed it into the left side of his head, knocking him out.
Jason's body was taken to the Wessex County Morgue, where he regained consciousness, killed the coroner, and quickly escaped. When he returned to the camp, he killed the teenagers resting there. As he was about to kill a girl named Trisha Jarvis, her brother, Tommy, distracted the mute murderer by shaving his head and dressing as Jason when he was a boy. Tommy then hacked Jason in the left side of his face until Jason fell onto the machete and split his head open. Tommy would spend the next four years in a mental institution. Jason was buried at Eternal Peace Cemetery near his mother.
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Jason comes back from the grave
Years later, Tommy Jarvis, now in his early 20s, was released from the mental institution, but was still plagued by nightmares about Jason and a man named Roy Burns, whom he had killed a year earlier because he was masquerading as Jason and killing people in the mental institution. After he got out of the institution, Tommy and a friend went to Eternal Peace Cemetery to dig up Jason's grave and cremate him. After they dug him up, Tommy stabbed a metal rod from a cemetery fence into Jason's rotting corpse and threw his hockey mask into the grave. As they were about to cremate him, however, a lightning bolt struck the rod in Jason's chest, reanimating him. The reanimated Jason killed Tommy's friend as Tommy escaped. Jason was now considerably stronger and even more resilient than ever before. With a bloodlust in his eye, Jason put on the hockey mask that Tommy threw into the grave before proceeding to Camp Crystal Lake, which was now called Camp Forest Green. When Tommy told the sheriff his ordeal, the sheriff just thought he was crazy and put him in a jail cell for the night. After escaping from the jail cell Tommy made his way to Camp Forest Green, where Jason had already killed several counselors. Tommy wrapped a metal chain with a rock attached to it around Jason. Then he pushed Jason into the lake, where he (seemingly) drowned. Jason's body lay at the bottom of the lake and decomposed for some time.
Five years later, a girl at Camp Forest Green named Tina Shepard accidentally released Jason from his underwater tomb. Jason then proceeded to do what he did best: slaughter the people at the camp site. Tina then confronted Jason, using her telekinetic abilities to knock Jason's mask off, to see that Jason's face was now even more deformed from decomposing underwater for several years. Tina then forced Jason back into the lake with her powers.
Then after that, Jason was resurrected by an electrical cable and climbed aboard a cruise ship full of teenagers bound for New York. He was close to being unleashed in all of Manhattan, but he was (seemingly) killed again by toxic waste in the sewage system, where his body washed up back in Camp Crystal Lake.
A few years later, he came back yet again, only to be supposedly blown to bits by a team of FBI agents. Unfortunately, he was reincarnated in several bodies through his evil soul. His only surviving family member, his 22-year-old niece Stephanie Kimble, stabbed Jason with a magic dagger, sending him to Hell.
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Freddy versus Jason
Years later, Jason would be resurrected once again. This time, by Freddy Krueger, another mass murderer with supernatural powers. Disguising himself as Mrs. Voorhees, Krueger manipulated Jason into killing the children of Elm Street. Freddy's plan was for the murders to make people relate the teens' deaths to the almost-forgotten memory of Freddy Krueger. Thereby, Freddy would once again be feared, which was key to his power. Eventually, Jason interrupted Krueger's plan by killing so many teens in public places that he left behind witnesses. These witnesses described not Krueger to the people of Elm Street, but an almost 7-foot-tall maniac wearing a hockey mask and wielding a machete. The realization of the general populous that the killer was Jason Voorhees, not Freddy Krueger, took Freddy's newly-found power away from him again. This infuriated Freddy, and he challenged Jason-- not once, but twice: first in the dream world, and then in the real world. During the struggle, Jason ripped off Krueger's right arm and impaled him through the chest with his own glove, striking the decisive blow. Stunned and dying, Krueger fell to his knees and was then decapitated by Lori Campbell with Jason's machete, while Jason sunk to the bottom of the lake. Jason, however, came up from the lake the next morning carrying the decapitated head of Freddy Krueger, which winked and laughed, into the forest.
Jason's current location is unknown.
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What the future may hold
While much of the details leading up to his capture are unknown, by 2010 Jason will be held in the Crystal Lake Research Facility (built on the site of what was once Camp Crystal Lake). They fail to actually execute the killer in conviction for hundreds of murders due to his unique regenerative ability, and the government operates on him, probably trying to find the source of his invulnerability. Eventually, the researchers decree that Jason be held in cryogenic suspension. Jason manages to escape and murders several guards before he is frozen by the project manager, Rowan, who is both fatally wounded and frozen along with Jason. The Facility is wisely left undisturbed as Earth itself eventually becomes uninhabitable. By 2455, a ship full of students find Rowan and Jason's still-frozen bodies and take them back to their ship. Rowan is thawed and healed, with the aid of nanotechnology, and warns them of Jason's nature. These warnings are dismissed. While being thawed and studied, Jason awakes and begins wreaking destruction until an android stops him, destroying huge chunks of his body. But because his remains are lying on a bed used to help regenerate tissue, the nanotechnology repairs the gaps in Jason (including the hockey mask), even adding the metal from the machete stabbed into his body as part of the tissue. Once the process is complete, his build is not only bigger, but he himself is virtually indestructable. Jason is even powerful enough to withstand gunfire, punch through a titanium hull, and withstand being in the center of a massive explosion with no visible damage done. It is unknown exactly if he survived entry into the atmosphere of Earth 2. If he has, his last known whereabouts are believed to be in the bottom of one of its lakes.
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The men behind the mask
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 favourite amoung 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 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 come 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 failed to give the desired performance. A nightclub owner with a military history, Graham performed 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 the role for a fifth time.
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.
Kane Hodder
Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California, USA) is an American actor and stuntman. Standing 1.92 metres, he is best known for his acting in the Friday the 13th movies as the seemingly unstoppable mass murderer Jason Voorhees. He also did stuntwork for the character Leatherface in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
He offered to reprise the part of Jason Voorhees in the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason, but the burly, 6'3 1/2" stunt man was rejected by director Ronny Yu and replaced by 6'5 1/2" Canadian stunt man Ken Kirzinger, a move that Kane still resents. The switch caused a lot of arguments among fans of the series.
Kane is the only actor/stunt man to have played Jason Voorhees more than once.
In the mid 1980's, Kane was involved in a stunt gone wrong where over 75% of his body was burned, leaving him with 2nd degree burns on most of his body. As such, Kane often wears gloves at horror conventions.
Has the word "Kill!" tatooed on the back of his bottom lip.
He spends time working with children in burn centers, and despite the roles he often plays, Kane Hodder has often been described as a very friendly man, and loves to meet his fans.
He offered to reprise the part of Jason Voorhees in the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason, but the burly, 6'3 1/2" stunt man was rejected by director Ronny Yu and replaced by 6'5 1/2" Canadian stunt man Ken Kirzinger, a move that Kane still resents. The switch caused a lot of arguments among fans of the series.
Kane is the only actor/stunt man to have played Jason Voorhees more than once.
In the mid 1980's, Kane was involved in a stunt gone wrong where over 75% of his body was burned, leaving him with 2nd degree burns on most of his body. As such, Kane often wears gloves at horror conventions.
Has the word "Kill!" tatooed on the back of his bottom lip.
He spends time working with children in burn centers, and despite the roles he often plays, Kane Hodder has often been described as a very friendly man, and loves to meet his fans.
Freddy vs. Jason
Freddy vs. Jason is a slasher film. Directed by Ronny Yu, the film, released in 2003, pits Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th horror series) and Freddy Krueger (of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror series) against each other.
Tagline: Winner Kills All
The film begins with Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) stuck in Hell. Because no one remembers him and his crimes, he remains unable to escape. Therefore, he conjures up Jason Voorhees (played by Ken Kirzinger), a renowned mass murderer from Crystal Lake who also possesses, or is at least controlled by supernatural forces.
Freddy, in the guise of Jason's mother (Pamela Voorhees, the one person to whom Jason will listen), convinces Jason to kill teenagers living on Elm Street to make the residents of Springwood think that Freddy is back.
Jason commits a few murders which are blamed on Freddy. A small group of youths and a sheriff's deputy notice that it was not Freddy who had committed the murders. However, when they realize this, it is already too late and the population's fear has made Freddy strong enough to come back from hell.
Since Jason had done what he was expected to do, Freddy wants him to stop. But Jason does not listen and goes on killing. Thus, a bloody fight begins between Jason and Freddy.
The teens who are still alive try to pit Jason against Freddy in the hope that they will destroy each other and leave the teens and their town in peace.
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Reaction
While a box office success and fairly well received critically (at least among fans and genre critics), many felt that the film failed to live up to the hype that had been building up for so long for such a highly anticipated film. This is mostly faulted to the plot, which is often cited as adding little to the genre, and the characters being standard slasher stereotypes. While these criticisms are argued to be expected in the genre, others express the desire for something different in a film that they believe should be grander than both sets of predecessors and other slasher films. Some Friday the 13th fans have also expressed a distaste for the way in which Jason is portrayed in the film, although these complaints may have root in the controversial decision not to cast fan favourite Kane Hodder again in the role he played consecutively in the previous four Friday the 13th films. However, one of the most talked about aspects is the final scene, which has caused endless debates among fans of both franchises as to its meaning and who of the two actually comes off as the victor. Fans of Jason contend that he won the conflict, due to him striking the last blow of the fight, weakening Freddy enough so that Lori (Monica Keena) was able to decapitate him. Fans of Freddy argue that since Jason himself did not strike the fatal blow, that it was a draw. Neither argument has been confirmed or denied by New Line. However, co- writer Mark Swift has stated that he considered Jason to be the victor.
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Betting
Due to the popularity of Jason and Freddy among adults (who remember them from their teen years), a large number of bets were placed on the outcome of the movie. Some professional betting establiments even started taking bets and given odds on different outcomes. Some of the most common/popular outcomes were:
* Freddy wins hands down, Jason survives
* Jason wins hands down, Freddy vows revenge
* Jason beats Freddy, but ends up in hell at the end
* Freddy beats Jason, but is defeated by locals
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Notes
* At one point, Pinhead was to make an appearance in the film (at the end, as Jason and Freddy are duking it out in hell, Pinhead appears and breaks up the fight) but the licensing issues prevented it.
* Many fans were upset that longtime Jason actor Kane Hodder was not asked to reprise his role. The producers wanted an actor with more sympathetic eyes, and who was much taller than Robert Englund in size, so professional stuntman Ken Kirzinger was hired. Kirzinger previously appeared (albeit briefly) in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. He also served as that film's stunt coordinator.
* An alternate ending was also considered where Freddy and Jason fight for eternity as gladiators in hell for Satan's endless amusement, but it was never filmed. However, animatics for this sequence do exist and were included as a hidden "easter egg" in the DVD special edition of the film.
Tagline: Winner Kills All
The film begins with Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) stuck in Hell. Because no one remembers him and his crimes, he remains unable to escape. Therefore, he conjures up Jason Voorhees (played by Ken Kirzinger), a renowned mass murderer from Crystal Lake who also possesses, or is at least controlled by supernatural forces.
Freddy, in the guise of Jason's mother (Pamela Voorhees, the one person to whom Jason will listen), convinces Jason to kill teenagers living on Elm Street to make the residents of Springwood think that Freddy is back.
Jason commits a few murders which are blamed on Freddy. A small group of youths and a sheriff's deputy notice that it was not Freddy who had committed the murders. However, when they realize this, it is already too late and the population's fear has made Freddy strong enough to come back from hell.
Since Jason had done what he was expected to do, Freddy wants him to stop. But Jason does not listen and goes on killing. Thus, a bloody fight begins between Jason and Freddy.
The teens who are still alive try to pit Jason against Freddy in the hope that they will destroy each other and leave the teens and their town in peace.
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Reaction
While a box office success and fairly well received critically (at least among fans and genre critics), many felt that the film failed to live up to the hype that had been building up for so long for such a highly anticipated film. This is mostly faulted to the plot, which is often cited as adding little to the genre, and the characters being standard slasher stereotypes. While these criticisms are argued to be expected in the genre, others express the desire for something different in a film that they believe should be grander than both sets of predecessors and other slasher films. Some Friday the 13th fans have also expressed a distaste for the way in which Jason is portrayed in the film, although these complaints may have root in the controversial decision not to cast fan favourite Kane Hodder again in the role he played consecutively in the previous four Friday the 13th films. However, one of the most talked about aspects is the final scene, which has caused endless debates among fans of both franchises as to its meaning and who of the two actually comes off as the victor. Fans of Jason contend that he won the conflict, due to him striking the last blow of the fight, weakening Freddy enough so that Lori (Monica Keena) was able to decapitate him. Fans of Freddy argue that since Jason himself did not strike the fatal blow, that it was a draw. Neither argument has been confirmed or denied by New Line. However, co- writer Mark Swift has stated that he considered Jason to be the victor.
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Betting
Due to the popularity of Jason and Freddy among adults (who remember them from their teen years), a large number of bets were placed on the outcome of the movie. Some professional betting establiments even started taking bets and given odds on different outcomes. Some of the most common/popular outcomes were:
* Freddy wins hands down, Jason survives
* Jason wins hands down, Freddy vows revenge
* Jason beats Freddy, but ends up in hell at the end
* Freddy beats Jason, but is defeated by locals
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Notes
* At one point, Pinhead was to make an appearance in the film (at the end, as Jason and Freddy are duking it out in hell, Pinhead appears and breaks up the fight) but the licensing issues prevented it.
* Many fans were upset that longtime Jason actor Kane Hodder was not asked to reprise his role. The producers wanted an actor with more sympathetic eyes, and who was much taller than Robert Englund in size, so professional stuntman Ken Kirzinger was hired. Kirzinger previously appeared (albeit briefly) in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. He also served as that film's stunt coordinator.
* An alternate ending was also considered where Freddy and Jason fight for eternity as gladiators in hell for Satan's endless amusement, but it was never filmed. However, animatics for this sequence do exist and were included as a hidden "easter egg" in the DVD special edition of the film.
Jason X
Jason X is the tenth film (hence the X) in the Friday the 13th film series starring Kane Hodder as the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. The film made $13.1 million with an $11 million budget. Fan reaction has been split: many felt the concept of Jason in space was laughable among many things; others enjoyed it, believing that the film was not meant to be taken seriously, and that it epitomized the "dumb fun" of the series.
The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while Freddy vs. Jason was still in the script stages of development. Since almost nothing was solid on that film's story at the time, Jason X was planted in the future so that both films would not mix up continuities.
Jason has been finally captured by the government, but at the failure of execution, the killer is being prepared for cyrogenic suspension until further notice. However, greedy bureaucrats feel the need to keep Jason fresh so as to study his regenerative ability that has kept him going for so long. But unfortunately for them, Jason frees himself of his restraints and piles up a small body count before the leader at the Crystal Lake Research Facility successfully lures Jason to a frozen tomb - but not before he compromises the cryogenic chamber, both wounding her and forcing the room to seal her in with him. 445 years later, students on a field trip explore the facility and find the preserved bodies of Jason and Rowan. They leave the ruins of the old, lifeless Earth in the ship Grendel on route to Earth 2. From there Rowan is thawed out and her damaged tissue is repaired with nanotechnology; Jason, believed to be dead and beyond repair, is left for study. However, the murderer wakes up on his own and gives the 25th century students an old school lesson in slaughter, even making short order of the ship's trained grunts. Things get even worse when Jason manages to wreck the ship into the space station Solaris, both obliterating it and their hope of getting off the ship and to safety, but also damaging the Grendel itself with time running out. Finally, Jason is put down by Kay-Em, an android created by one of the students who has been upgraded to adequately fight off Jason. Kay-Em puts Jason through the rounds, destroying large portions of his body. Jason is left with most of his head blown away, lying in a mangled heap. As a saviour ship comes to pick up the remaining crew, the nanotechnology is kicked on, and it begins to repair Jason. When it is finished, Jason is bigger and badder than before: a bigger build, with parts of his body integrated with metallic tissue, rendering him virtually indestructible. In order to buy time, a VR scenario of Camp Crystal Lake circa 1980 is brought up around this new Jason. As UberJason finishes the VR play, everyone is ready to leave behind the dying ship. However, before Jason can join them, he is stopped by the seemingly unbeatable Brodski, and the two go at each other, ready to rumble. The ship goes out with a bang. Jason is hurled at the survivors, but Brodski, still in his space suit, flies around to knock Jason off course. Brodski rides Jason into the atmosphere of Earth 2. On this earth, a teen couple watch what they think is a falling star hitting a lake, where Jason's metallic hockey mask sinks to the bottom. They decide to investigate...
Trivia
* Although the DVD contains no deleted footage, two omitted scenes served as an explanation for two mysteries in the film's opening: one explained how Jason managed to get free, that when the soldier guarding him put the blanket over his head, it pulled out the IV drip that was keeping Jason sedated. Another showed Rowan going through a box of materials that included Crystal Lake newspaper clippings [1] and Jason's machete, explaining where it came from.
* Screenwriter Todd Farmer appears in the film playing the character Dallas, named after the character in Alien on which he based much of the film.
* Both Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder also appeared in the science fiction TV series Andromeda. Ironically, in the series, it is Doig who played the android and Ryder the human, in this movie, Doig plays the human and Ryder the android.
* David Cronenberg only agreed to appear in the film if he got killed off. Coincidently, his appearance came 13 years after directing an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series.
* The release of this film closed the longest gap between films, eight years after the preceding Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. To put this gap into perspective, the longest break in the series before was between 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and 1993's Jason Goes to Hell.
The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while Freddy vs. Jason was still in the script stages of development. Since almost nothing was solid on that film's story at the time, Jason X was planted in the future so that both films would not mix up continuities.
Jason has been finally captured by the government, but at the failure of execution, the killer is being prepared for cyrogenic suspension until further notice. However, greedy bureaucrats feel the need to keep Jason fresh so as to study his regenerative ability that has kept him going for so long. But unfortunately for them, Jason frees himself of his restraints and piles up a small body count before the leader at the Crystal Lake Research Facility successfully lures Jason to a frozen tomb - but not before he compromises the cryogenic chamber, both wounding her and forcing the room to seal her in with him. 445 years later, students on a field trip explore the facility and find the preserved bodies of Jason and Rowan. They leave the ruins of the old, lifeless Earth in the ship Grendel on route to Earth 2. From there Rowan is thawed out and her damaged tissue is repaired with nanotechnology; Jason, believed to be dead and beyond repair, is left for study. However, the murderer wakes up on his own and gives the 25th century students an old school lesson in slaughter, even making short order of the ship's trained grunts. Things get even worse when Jason manages to wreck the ship into the space station Solaris, both obliterating it and their hope of getting off the ship and to safety, but also damaging the Grendel itself with time running out. Finally, Jason is put down by Kay-Em, an android created by one of the students who has been upgraded to adequately fight off Jason. Kay-Em puts Jason through the rounds, destroying large portions of his body. Jason is left with most of his head blown away, lying in a mangled heap. As a saviour ship comes to pick up the remaining crew, the nanotechnology is kicked on, and it begins to repair Jason. When it is finished, Jason is bigger and badder than before: a bigger build, with parts of his body integrated with metallic tissue, rendering him virtually indestructible. In order to buy time, a VR scenario of Camp Crystal Lake circa 1980 is brought up around this new Jason. As UberJason finishes the VR play, everyone is ready to leave behind the dying ship. However, before Jason can join them, he is stopped by the seemingly unbeatable Brodski, and the two go at each other, ready to rumble. The ship goes out with a bang. Jason is hurled at the survivors, but Brodski, still in his space suit, flies around to knock Jason off course. Brodski rides Jason into the atmosphere of Earth 2. On this earth, a teen couple watch what they think is a falling star hitting a lake, where Jason's metallic hockey mask sinks to the bottom. They decide to investigate...
Trivia
* Although the DVD contains no deleted footage, two omitted scenes served as an explanation for two mysteries in the film's opening: one explained how Jason managed to get free, that when the soldier guarding him put the blanket over his head, it pulled out the IV drip that was keeping Jason sedated. Another showed Rowan going through a box of materials that included Crystal Lake newspaper clippings [1] and Jason's machete, explaining where it came from.
* Screenwriter Todd Farmer appears in the film playing the character Dallas, named after the character in Alien on which he based much of the film.
* Both Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder also appeared in the science fiction TV series Andromeda. Ironically, in the series, it is Doig who played the android and Ryder the human, in this movie, Doig plays the human and Ryder the android.
* David Cronenberg only agreed to appear in the film if he got killed off. Coincidently, his appearance came 13 years after directing an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series.
* The release of this film closed the longest gap between films, eight years after the preceding Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. To put this gap into perspective, the longest break in the series before was between 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and 1993's Jason Goes to Hell.
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is the ninth instalment in the Friday the 13th film series.
Much like The Final Chapter, the film sported a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2005) by two films, with at least a third expected. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series. However, later VHS and DVD releases of the film feature cover art that only reads Jason Goes to Hell, conspicuously leaving the subtitle out.
The film is not regarded highly by fans, that while appreciation is commended for attempting to do something different, it came at the cost of the continuity that held Paramount's films together (an example would be that none of the previous eight films make mention of Jason having a sister). Many have also mocked the concept of Jason's new ability of possession, seeing it as too reminiscent of The Hidden, with an additional complaint going to having too little of Jason in the film. It is, along with A New Beginning and Jason Takes Manhattan, one of the most criticized entries.
It is a usual night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal serial killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. He gets blown to pieces. But when his remains are sent to a morgue, the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and consumes it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can he be reborn, and that only through a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman to save her and their baby. For she learns that her mother was none other than Jason's unknown sister, and that in order to save her baby from the Voorhees curse, she must take up her birthright to send Jason to Hell once and for all.
Trivia
* In the Voorhees home (which is never seen in any of the other films), the Necronomicon from The Evil Dead trilogy is sitting on a table.
* John D. LeMay also appeared in the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series, making him the only actor to appear in both the film series and the television series.
* The only film in which Jason is not seen unmasked (the final scene before the credits show the hockey mask alone), excluding Part V.
* The film features Kane Hodder's only other performance in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides Freddy Krueger's arm in the final scene.
* Contrary to popular belief, Freddy's hand coming up and pulling down Jason's mask in the final shot was not meant to be a set-up to the long-awaited Freddy vs. Jason. By the filmmakers' own admission, it was meant to be nothing more than a sight gag, New Line's original monster welcoming in their newest acquisition. This unintentional crossover extends to the Evil Dead prop used in the film, as the K.N.B. team had just come off Army of Darkness and director Sam Raimi lent it to the filmmakers. The Necronomicon was not meant to have any significance to the Voorhees legacy, but its presence has unwittingly led to fan-based rumours of bringing Ash into a future film.
* The film was released 13 years after the original Friday the 13th.
Much like The Final Chapter, the film sported a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2005) by two films, with at least a third expected. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series. However, later VHS and DVD releases of the film feature cover art that only reads Jason Goes to Hell, conspicuously leaving the subtitle out.
The film is not regarded highly by fans, that while appreciation is commended for attempting to do something different, it came at the cost of the continuity that held Paramount's films together (an example would be that none of the previous eight films make mention of Jason having a sister). Many have also mocked the concept of Jason's new ability of possession, seeing it as too reminiscent of The Hidden, with an additional complaint going to having too little of Jason in the film. It is, along with A New Beginning and Jason Takes Manhattan, one of the most criticized entries.
It is a usual night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal serial killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. He gets blown to pieces. But when his remains are sent to a morgue, the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and consumes it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can he be reborn, and that only through a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman to save her and their baby. For she learns that her mother was none other than Jason's unknown sister, and that in order to save her baby from the Voorhees curse, she must take up her birthright to send Jason to Hell once and for all.
Trivia
* In the Voorhees home (which is never seen in any of the other films), the Necronomicon from The Evil Dead trilogy is sitting on a table.
* John D. LeMay also appeared in the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series, making him the only actor to appear in both the film series and the television series.
* The only film in which Jason is not seen unmasked (the final scene before the credits show the hockey mask alone), excluding Part V.
* The film features Kane Hodder's only other performance in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides Freddy Krueger's arm in the final scene.
* Contrary to popular belief, Freddy's hand coming up and pulling down Jason's mask in the final shot was not meant to be a set-up to the long-awaited Freddy vs. Jason. By the filmmakers' own admission, it was meant to be nothing more than a sight gag, New Line's original monster welcoming in their newest acquisition. This unintentional crossover extends to the Evil Dead prop used in the film, as the K.N.B. team had just come off Army of Darkness and director Sam Raimi lent it to the filmmakers. The Necronomicon was not meant to have any significance to the Voorhees legacy, but its presence has unwittingly led to fan-based rumours of bringing Ash into a future film.
* The film was released 13 years after the original Friday the 13th.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is the seventh sequel to the original Friday the 13th. The film is lambasted among some fans of the series for obvious plot holes and noticeable gaffes in production (such as the sewers of New York flooding with toxic waste or Jason's ability to move between long distances in short spaces of time), culminating in a very confusing ending - all of which landed the film on IMDb's Bottom 100 (which has since risen out of the list). But perhaps the biggest complaint was in the film's faulty promise of letting Jason take Manhattan. Its failure to generate a substantial amount of money at the box office, which continued the decline in grosses the series had been suffering, may have been the deciding factor in Paramount selling the franchise to New Line Cinema soon afterwards.
After being resurrected once again, this time in the form of a cable tow, Jason rises from Crystal Lake to board the Lazarus. On its way to New York and full of high school graduates, Jason has plenty of time and people to kill before he eventually chases his prey into the streets of the Big Apple.
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Trivia
* There was a now sought after poster featuring Jason ripping through an "I Love New York" poster. However, it was never used due to complaints from the New York Tourism Committee.
* The scenes set in Times Square were the only scenes actually filmed in Manhattan; the rest was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
* Writer/director Rob Hedden originally wrote the film to feature much more of New York, including Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building. But budget limitations restricted such scenes from being filmed, so the script was rewritten to feature more time on the ship.
* In the diner scene, the busboy thrown against the mirror by Jason is played by Canadian stuntman Ken Kirzinger (who also served as the film's stunt coordinator). Kirzinger succeeded Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason.
After being resurrected once again, this time in the form of a cable tow, Jason rises from Crystal Lake to board the Lazarus. On its way to New York and full of high school graduates, Jason has plenty of time and people to kill before he eventually chases his prey into the streets of the Big Apple.
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Trivia
* There was a now sought after poster featuring Jason ripping through an "I Love New York" poster. However, it was never used due to complaints from the New York Tourism Committee.
* The scenes set in Times Square were the only scenes actually filmed in Manhattan; the rest was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
* Writer/director Rob Hedden originally wrote the film to feature much more of New York, including Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building. But budget limitations restricted such scenes from being filmed, so the script was rewritten to feature more time on the ship.
* In the diner scene, the busboy thrown against the mirror by Jason is played by Canadian stuntman Ken Kirzinger (who also served as the film's stunt coordinator). Kirzinger succeeded Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
As a child, Tina Shepard unconsciously used latent psychokinetic powers to kill her father after witnessing his abuse on her mother. Now as a young woman, her mother takes her to the same lakeside residence so that her powers can be studied (and exploited) by a doctor. But during an attempt to raise her father, she incidently resurrects someone else long ago left to die in the lake: Jason Voorhees. Tina's torment from her powers is increased as Jason kills everyone around her, leaving her no choice but to control her abilities so they can be used to stop him.
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Trivia
* The voice that narrates the opening recap is provided by Walt Gorney who played Crazy Ralph in the first two Friday the 13th films.
* The last name of Tina Shepard is taken (albeit with a different spelling) after the last name of John Shepherd who played the adult Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Both films begin similarly with a nightmare of Tina and Tommy, respectively, as a child before we see them wake up as an adult in a moving vehicle.
* The film was originally hoped to be a clash between Jason and Freddy Krueger. Plans fell apart when Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema, who held the rights to the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street films respectively (at that time; New Line currently owns the rights to both franchises), failed to come to an agreement.
* The film originally ended with a fisherman out on a boat when Jason rises up and pulls him into the water. This was cut when it was perceived to be too close to the endings of Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 3. Consequently, its absence left the film with a more optimistic ending than the previous films in the series. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is the only other film in the series that ends on a less ominous note.
* Possibly the hardest hit film in the series by the MPAA, director John Carl Buechler has kept much of the cut footage on VHS and shows it often at horror conventions. Regardless, the film has almost been cut to the point of having the majority of blood and gore cut out. Many of the cut scenes were featured on the Friday the 13th DVD Boxset that was released in 2004.
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Trivia
* The voice that narrates the opening recap is provided by Walt Gorney who played Crazy Ralph in the first two Friday the 13th films.
* The last name of Tina Shepard is taken (albeit with a different spelling) after the last name of John Shepherd who played the adult Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Both films begin similarly with a nightmare of Tina and Tommy, respectively, as a child before we see them wake up as an adult in a moving vehicle.
* The film was originally hoped to be a clash between Jason and Freddy Krueger. Plans fell apart when Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema, who held the rights to the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street films respectively (at that time; New Line currently owns the rights to both franchises), failed to come to an agreement.
* The film originally ended with a fisherman out on a boat when Jason rises up and pulls him into the water. This was cut when it was perceived to be too close to the endings of Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 3. Consequently, its absence left the film with a more optimistic ending than the previous films in the series. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is the only other film in the series that ends on a less ominous note.
* Possibly the hardest hit film in the series by the MPAA, director John Carl Buechler has kept much of the cut footage on VHS and shows it often at horror conventions. Regardless, the film has almost been cut to the point of having the majority of blood and gore cut out. Many of the cut scenes were featured on the Friday the 13th DVD Boxset that was released in 2004.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a slasher film, the fifth sequel to the original Friday the 13th. It's widely praised by fans of the series. Many fans also cite the film's soundtrack as particularely good, with Alice Cooper's theme song often praised.
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Plot summary
Jason Voorhees is dead. After the killer was brutally murdered by a young Tommy Jarvis, his body lay rotting in a grave in Crystal Lake, now renamed Forest Green by a town desperately trying to forget their past. But when an adult Tommy returns to ensure that Jason is in fact, dead, it is he, ironically, that brings the monster back to life. Now seemingly unstoppable, Jason claims a new set of victims while he makes his way to his old killing grounds at the newly reopened camp. As Tommy desperately tries to get the police to listen to his claims,he is being hounded by a stubborn sheriff who's trying to keep him silent;meanwhile his daughter has taken an interest in him. Once Jason steps foot on "Camp Blood", Tommy devices a plan to kill Jason and send him to Hell once and for all.
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Notes
* This is the only film in the series that does not contain any onscreen nudity.
* This was the first film since Part 2 to bring the story back to the campgrounds (which may be another contributor to its high praise among fans). This was penultimate to its final appearance in Freddy vs. Jason, which by this time would be closed and empty, ready to be built over.
* It's been said that before the negative reaction over A New Beginning, the film's original plot picked up where it ended with Tommy doing the killings. However, the backlash over the fake Jason caused this to be dropped with immediate plans to bring Jason back. The desire to assure fans that it was the real Jason this time even extended to the subtitle: Jason Lives.
* The script contained material that eluded to Jason's father, which, to date, remains the closest the series has ever come to shedding light on the mysterious character. In the material we would see Pamela's headstone next to Jason's; a reference to the fact that someone paid to have Jason buried, which would have explained why he wasn't cremated as the Mayor stated in Part 5; and a final scene in which Jason's father (Elias) visits his son's grave, seemingly aware of the fact that Jason isn't inside. These scenes were filmed, but excised; however, they did make it to the film's novelization.
* While C.J. Graham portrays Jason for most of the film (as well as being uncredited for the character's stunts), crew member Dan Bradley was originally hired to play Jason. He plays Jason during the paintball murder scene but after seeing the footage, Paramount were unhappy withhis performance, and Graham was recast for the part.
* There is some debate among fans as to whether the film is a continuation from the previous film, or if it in fact simply writes over it. It is often stated that Tommy's state of mental health is too radically different to his at the end of A New Beginning. None of the subsequent films have acknowledged it, but have also done nothing to negate it. The novelization of Freddy vs. Jason, by Stephen Hand maintains that the events of both films occurred.
* Unususally, Jason is seen in full, including his face, from the begining of the film. Typically, only quick, brief shots of the killer are used prior to the climax of the film.
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Plot summary
Jason Voorhees is dead. After the killer was brutally murdered by a young Tommy Jarvis, his body lay rotting in a grave in Crystal Lake, now renamed Forest Green by a town desperately trying to forget their past. But when an adult Tommy returns to ensure that Jason is in fact, dead, it is he, ironically, that brings the monster back to life. Now seemingly unstoppable, Jason claims a new set of victims while he makes his way to his old killing grounds at the newly reopened camp. As Tommy desperately tries to get the police to listen to his claims,he is being hounded by a stubborn sheriff who's trying to keep him silent;meanwhile his daughter has taken an interest in him. Once Jason steps foot on "Camp Blood", Tommy devices a plan to kill Jason and send him to Hell once and for all.
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Notes
* This is the only film in the series that does not contain any onscreen nudity.
* This was the first film since Part 2 to bring the story back to the campgrounds (which may be another contributor to its high praise among fans). This was penultimate to its final appearance in Freddy vs. Jason, which by this time would be closed and empty, ready to be built over.
* It's been said that before the negative reaction over A New Beginning, the film's original plot picked up where it ended with Tommy doing the killings. However, the backlash over the fake Jason caused this to be dropped with immediate plans to bring Jason back. The desire to assure fans that it was the real Jason this time even extended to the subtitle: Jason Lives.
* The script contained material that eluded to Jason's father, which, to date, remains the closest the series has ever come to shedding light on the mysterious character. In the material we would see Pamela's headstone next to Jason's; a reference to the fact that someone paid to have Jason buried, which would have explained why he wasn't cremated as the Mayor stated in Part 5; and a final scene in which Jason's father (Elias) visits his son's grave, seemingly aware of the fact that Jason isn't inside. These scenes were filmed, but excised; however, they did make it to the film's novelization.
* While C.J. Graham portrays Jason for most of the film (as well as being uncredited for the character's stunts), crew member Dan Bradley was originally hired to play Jason. He plays Jason during the paintball murder scene but after seeing the footage, Paramount were unhappy withhis performance, and Graham was recast for the part.
* There is some debate among fans as to whether the film is a continuation from the previous film, or if it in fact simply writes over it. It is often stated that Tommy's state of mental health is too radically different to his at the end of A New Beginning. None of the subsequent films have acknowledged it, but have also done nothing to negate it. The novelization of Freddy vs. Jason, by Stephen Hand maintains that the events of both films occurred.
* Unususally, Jason is seen in full, including his face, from the begining of the film. Typically, only quick, brief shots of the killer are used prior to the climax of the film.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is the fourth sequel to the original Friday the 13th. In spite of the fact that the previous film claimed to be the "final chapter," this installment set out to live up to its title by being a "new beginning" for the franchise. However, these plans fell through when the film was greeted with a massive backlash from fans who felt deceived and betrayed. The film even sat for a period of time at the bottom of IMDb's Bottom 100.
Twelve year-old Tommy Jarvis, who killed Jason Vorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, walks through the woods in the pouring rain to visit Jason's tombstone. He hides when two young men arrive and begin to dig up Jason's grave. They open the coffin to find Jason's not dead, and he was apparently buried with weapons. Jason senses Tommy watching, and pursues him. But it was just a dream.
Tommy, now fifteen(yet being played by a 24-year-old actor), awakes from the nightmare in a van from the Unger Institute of Mental Health. He's dropped off by the attendant, Billy, at Pinehurst, a halfway home for troubled teens, and meets Pam Roberts, the assistant director, and Dr. Matthew Letter. 'Matt' and Pam explain that Pinehurst is run on an honor system, since the intent is to help teens like Tommy reenter society. Tommy then meets "Reggie the Reckless," the grandson of George, who works at the house. Sheriff Tucker and his deputy return Pinehurst residents Eddie and Tina after they're caught trespassing on the land of Ethel Hubbard and her buffoonish son "Junior," whose property is next door. The foul-mouthed Ethel and Junior arrive and Ethel threatens to shoot the next Pinehurst resident on her property.
We then meet several more Pinehurst residents, a Forrest Gump-like Joey, punk Violet who's always listening to headphones, red-head Robin, and Vic who appears to be taking anger issues out on the wood he's chopping. Joey pesters Vic until he snaps & kills Joey with the axe. Vic is arrested by Sheriff Tucker, and ambulance attendants Duke Johnson and Roy Burns come to take away Joey's body.
That night, Pete and Vinnie, some young Fonzie-wannabes, have their car break down near Pinehurst. They are killed creatively by an unseen assailant. Tommy has another hallucination of Jason the next morning, and at breakfast he loses control and beats up Eddie when Eddie scares him with one of Tommy's own masks. A drifter, Raymond, shows up at Ethel and Junior's house looking to work for food. Night arrives, and when the attendant, Billy, goes to pick up a waitress, Lana, for a date, and they are murdered by an unseen axe-wielding assailant.
The next day, Sheriff Tucker is convinced that Jason Vorhees is responsible for all the deaths, but the prosecutor thinks he's crazy and wants a real suspect. Tina and Eddie sneak off into the woods to have sex. The drifter spies on them, but falls victim to the killer, who then kills Tina and Eddie. That night Pam drives Reggie to see his brother Demon, and brings Tommy along for the ride. Reggie and Demon catch up on old times and Demon introduces his girlfriend Anita. Junior comes across Tommy and attacks him, but Tommy fights back, beating him savagely until Pam stops him. Tommy runs off into the night so Pam takes Reggie back to Pinehurst where she finds Matt and George are missing. Demon and Anita fall victim to the killer, who then goes to the Hubbard place and kills Junior and Ethel. Pam goes to look for everyone.
Jake and Robin are watching a movie (A Place in the Sun) when he tells her he wants to make love to her, which she thinks is a joke. Jake goes to Violet for advice, but she's dancing in her room and can't be bothered. The killer arrives and takes out Jake, Robin, then Violet. Reggie discovers their corpses just before Pam returns, and they both run into a hockey mask-wearing figure. A storm rages as they flee to the road where they find the body of Duke Johnson in his ambulance. They run into the woods where they find Matt's corpse. They become separated and Pam runs back to the house where she find's George's body. With the killer just behind her, she heads for the barn, and just as the killer is about to strike, Reggie drives a tractor into him. Pam and Reggie run into the barn to make their stand. Pam is having some success with a chainsaw until it stalls out, and when things look their worst, Tommy arrives to save them by killing the killer. It turns out that Roy Burns had been hiding the fact that Joey was his son, and when he was confronted with his son's mutilated body, he went crazy. He adopted the Jason Vorhees persona he'd read about in the newspaper, and set out to kill anyone he could.
That same night as Tommy lays in his hospital bed, he has a vision of stabbing Pam. He snaps out of it only to find a hockey mask and knife in his room. He stalks Pam and...fade to black. The movie ends with Tommy about to become Jason.
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Trivia
* Originally, the opening of the film actually picks up not too long after the events of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter with Tommy Jarvis taken to the same hospital with Jason's body. In an effort to get to Jason, Tommy murders several of the hospital's staff trying to get to the morgue. When he finally gets there, he finds Jason's body rising from the autopsy table. It's at this point that an adult Tommy wakes up in a van on way to Pinehurst as in the film.
* When the killer is finally seen, careful inspection would allow some to realize that the character is not Jason. Aside from wearing the same kind of mechanic suit that Michael Myers wears in the Halloween films, the hockey mask actually sports blue marks as opposed to the original mask's which were red (which might be perceived as a play on a red herring). This is obvious when compared to how the image of Jason that Tommy sees bares a much closer resemblance to how he appeared in the previous films.
* The producers had originally wanted Corey Feldman to reprise his role as Tommy. But because he was filming The Goonies, Feldman was only available to do a cameo in the movie's opening scene.
Twelve year-old Tommy Jarvis, who killed Jason Vorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, walks through the woods in the pouring rain to visit Jason's tombstone. He hides when two young men arrive and begin to dig up Jason's grave. They open the coffin to find Jason's not dead, and he was apparently buried with weapons. Jason senses Tommy watching, and pursues him. But it was just a dream.
Tommy, now fifteen(yet being played by a 24-year-old actor), awakes from the nightmare in a van from the Unger Institute of Mental Health. He's dropped off by the attendant, Billy, at Pinehurst, a halfway home for troubled teens, and meets Pam Roberts, the assistant director, and Dr. Matthew Letter. 'Matt' and Pam explain that Pinehurst is run on an honor system, since the intent is to help teens like Tommy reenter society. Tommy then meets "Reggie the Reckless," the grandson of George, who works at the house. Sheriff Tucker and his deputy return Pinehurst residents Eddie and Tina after they're caught trespassing on the land of Ethel Hubbard and her buffoonish son "Junior," whose property is next door. The foul-mouthed Ethel and Junior arrive and Ethel threatens to shoot the next Pinehurst resident on her property.
We then meet several more Pinehurst residents, a Forrest Gump-like Joey, punk Violet who's always listening to headphones, red-head Robin, and Vic who appears to be taking anger issues out on the wood he's chopping. Joey pesters Vic until he snaps & kills Joey with the axe. Vic is arrested by Sheriff Tucker, and ambulance attendants Duke Johnson and Roy Burns come to take away Joey's body.
That night, Pete and Vinnie, some young Fonzie-wannabes, have their car break down near Pinehurst. They are killed creatively by an unseen assailant. Tommy has another hallucination of Jason the next morning, and at breakfast he loses control and beats up Eddie when Eddie scares him with one of Tommy's own masks. A drifter, Raymond, shows up at Ethel and Junior's house looking to work for food. Night arrives, and when the attendant, Billy, goes to pick up a waitress, Lana, for a date, and they are murdered by an unseen axe-wielding assailant.
The next day, Sheriff Tucker is convinced that Jason Vorhees is responsible for all the deaths, but the prosecutor thinks he's crazy and wants a real suspect. Tina and Eddie sneak off into the woods to have sex. The drifter spies on them, but falls victim to the killer, who then kills Tina and Eddie. That night Pam drives Reggie to see his brother Demon, and brings Tommy along for the ride. Reggie and Demon catch up on old times and Demon introduces his girlfriend Anita. Junior comes across Tommy and attacks him, but Tommy fights back, beating him savagely until Pam stops him. Tommy runs off into the night so Pam takes Reggie back to Pinehurst where she finds Matt and George are missing. Demon and Anita fall victim to the killer, who then goes to the Hubbard place and kills Junior and Ethel. Pam goes to look for everyone.
Jake and Robin are watching a movie (A Place in the Sun) when he tells her he wants to make love to her, which she thinks is a joke. Jake goes to Violet for advice, but she's dancing in her room and can't be bothered. The killer arrives and takes out Jake, Robin, then Violet. Reggie discovers their corpses just before Pam returns, and they both run into a hockey mask-wearing figure. A storm rages as they flee to the road where they find the body of Duke Johnson in his ambulance. They run into the woods where they find Matt's corpse. They become separated and Pam runs back to the house where she find's George's body. With the killer just behind her, she heads for the barn, and just as the killer is about to strike, Reggie drives a tractor into him. Pam and Reggie run into the barn to make their stand. Pam is having some success with a chainsaw until it stalls out, and when things look their worst, Tommy arrives to save them by killing the killer. It turns out that Roy Burns had been hiding the fact that Joey was his son, and when he was confronted with his son's mutilated body, he went crazy. He adopted the Jason Vorhees persona he'd read about in the newspaper, and set out to kill anyone he could.
That same night as Tommy lays in his hospital bed, he has a vision of stabbing Pam. He snaps out of it only to find a hockey mask and knife in his room. He stalks Pam and...fade to black. The movie ends with Tommy about to become Jason.
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Trivia
* Originally, the opening of the film actually picks up not too long after the events of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter with Tommy Jarvis taken to the same hospital with Jason's body. In an effort to get to Jason, Tommy murders several of the hospital's staff trying to get to the morgue. When he finally gets there, he finds Jason's body rising from the autopsy table. It's at this point that an adult Tommy wakes up in a van on way to Pinehurst as in the film.
* When the killer is finally seen, careful inspection would allow some to realize that the character is not Jason. Aside from wearing the same kind of mechanic suit that Michael Myers wears in the Halloween films, the hockey mask actually sports blue marks as opposed to the original mask's which were red (which might be perceived as a play on a red herring). This is obvious when compared to how the image of Jason that Tommy sees bares a much closer resemblance to how he appeared in the previous films.
* The producers had originally wanted Corey Feldman to reprise his role as Tommy. But because he was filming The Goonies, Feldman was only available to do a cameo in the movie's opening scene.
Friday the 13th The Final Chapter
Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," as of 2005 there are seven (including Freddy vs. Jason) further sequels in the franchise. The popularity and financial success of the film kept Paramount Pictures from retiring the franchise. To keep the series going, but leave the meaning of the subtitle intact, the follow-up entry had to be promised as "a new beginning" for the franchise, one that did not catch on.
Police and paramedics are busy cleaning up the mess Jason Voorhees left at Higgins Haven during Friday the 13th Part 3, including the defeated hockey-masked killer himself. Once delivered to the Wessex County morgue, Jason rises again, kills an attendant and nurse, then makes his way back to Crystal Lake to continue his bloodshed.
A group of friends (Paul, Samantha, Sara, Doug, Ted and Jimmy) have rented a house on Crystal Lake. On the way there, the group passes a hitchhiker, who is Jason's next victim. Next to the rental house is the cabin of Mrs. Jarvis, her teenaged daughter Trish, her twelve-year-old son Tommy, and their dog, Gordon. The group meets Trish, Tommy and Gordon. The next day the group befriends twins Tina and Terri, who live in the area, and they all go skinny-dipping at Crystal Point. Trish and Tommy, driving by, stop to see who's at Crystal Point and the group invites Trish to a party that night. Trish's car breaks down a bit further along the road, and they are helped by Rob, a hiker with mysterious reasons for visiting Crystal Lake, who soon becomes good friends with Trish and Tommy, and camps out in their yard.
The group, along with Tina and Terri, are enjoying their drunken revels that night when Samantha, who's dating Paul, becomes infuriated when Paul doesn't turn down advances by Terri. Samantha leaves in a huff and decides to go for a midnight swim, where she is easy prey for Jason. Paul has a change of heart and goes out to apologize to Samantha, encountering Jason instead. Meanwhile, Tina takes an interest in the virgin Jimmy, and Ted strikes out with Terri. Terri decides to leave for home but never quite makes it. Sara and Doug get cozy and decide to retire upstairs together.
Next door, Mrs. Jarvis has just returned to an empty home. As a storm rages, she looks for her family outside; unfortunately the scenes of her encounter with Jason were cut. Trish and Tommy return to find their mother missing, so Trish goes to Rob for help. Rob explains that he's looking to get revenge for the death of his sister, Sandra (killed by Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2).
Back at the rental house Jimmy goes downstairs to brag about his conquest to Ted. He goes to the kitchen looking for a corkscrew to pop some celebratory wine and Jason gives it to him. Jason then sends Tina home in his own inimitable way, and then interrupts Ted's movie-watching. Doug and Jason have a Psycho moment in the shower and Sara's discovery of Doug's body sends her running...right to Jason.
Trish, Rob, and Tommy discover that Jason kills phone lines as well as he kills people, so Trish and Rob take Gordon next door to see what's going on. Tommy is left at home, and finds Rob's newspaper articles about Jason (it's unclear how a family living in Crystal Lake could possibly have been unaware of Jason and his exploits). Rob finds out why it wasn't such a good idea to go hunting for Jason and Trish flees back to her home, intending to warn Tommy. Tommy has come up with a plan to save his sister and himself, but what lasting effects will killing Jason have on this young boy?
Trivia
* Ted White refused to be credited for his role as Jason, saying he believed that many of the young actors were being horribly treated and often felt bad about what he had to do them, even after production. One particular instance was when young actress Judie Aronson was out on a raft in the lake, naked and freezing to the point where she was crying. Fed up, White stepped in and demanded that she come in to warm up or he would quit, and director Joseph Zito complied. Despite his disdain for the film (though he says that it came out better than he expected), he was asked to reprise the role, but turned it down saying, "I had played Jason once and once was enough."
* The character of Rob Dier is the brother of Sandra who was killed in Friday the 13th Part 2 during the double-impalement scene.
* It has been said that Tom Savini only returned to contribute to the franchise to kill off Jason whom he helped create in the original Friday the 13th.
* The character of Tommy Jarvis is interpretated as an homage to Tom Savini. Aside from sharing a similar first name and an affinity for designing monster masks, both in their own right kill Jason off in the film.
* The film was released on a Friday the 13th.
* Among the many scenes cut was one in which Trish finds her mother drowned in the bathtub, which would have explained her disappearance in the film.
* During filming, actress Kimberly Beck experienced strange occurrences of a man watching her while she ran in a park, accompanied by phone calls at all hours. They oddly stopped once production of the film had stopped.
Police and paramedics are busy cleaning up the mess Jason Voorhees left at Higgins Haven during Friday the 13th Part 3, including the defeated hockey-masked killer himself. Once delivered to the Wessex County morgue, Jason rises again, kills an attendant and nurse, then makes his way back to Crystal Lake to continue his bloodshed.
A group of friends (Paul, Samantha, Sara, Doug, Ted and Jimmy) have rented a house on Crystal Lake. On the way there, the group passes a hitchhiker, who is Jason's next victim. Next to the rental house is the cabin of Mrs. Jarvis, her teenaged daughter Trish, her twelve-year-old son Tommy, and their dog, Gordon. The group meets Trish, Tommy and Gordon. The next day the group befriends twins Tina and Terri, who live in the area, and they all go skinny-dipping at Crystal Point. Trish and Tommy, driving by, stop to see who's at Crystal Point and the group invites Trish to a party that night. Trish's car breaks down a bit further along the road, and they are helped by Rob, a hiker with mysterious reasons for visiting Crystal Lake, who soon becomes good friends with Trish and Tommy, and camps out in their yard.
The group, along with Tina and Terri, are enjoying their drunken revels that night when Samantha, who's dating Paul, becomes infuriated when Paul doesn't turn down advances by Terri. Samantha leaves in a huff and decides to go for a midnight swim, where she is easy prey for Jason. Paul has a change of heart and goes out to apologize to Samantha, encountering Jason instead. Meanwhile, Tina takes an interest in the virgin Jimmy, and Ted strikes out with Terri. Terri decides to leave for home but never quite makes it. Sara and Doug get cozy and decide to retire upstairs together.
Next door, Mrs. Jarvis has just returned to an empty home. As a storm rages, she looks for her family outside; unfortunately the scenes of her encounter with Jason were cut. Trish and Tommy return to find their mother missing, so Trish goes to Rob for help. Rob explains that he's looking to get revenge for the death of his sister, Sandra (killed by Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2).
Back at the rental house Jimmy goes downstairs to brag about his conquest to Ted. He goes to the kitchen looking for a corkscrew to pop some celebratory wine and Jason gives it to him. Jason then sends Tina home in his own inimitable way, and then interrupts Ted's movie-watching. Doug and Jason have a Psycho moment in the shower and Sara's discovery of Doug's body sends her running...right to Jason.
Trish, Rob, and Tommy discover that Jason kills phone lines as well as he kills people, so Trish and Rob take Gordon next door to see what's going on. Tommy is left at home, and finds Rob's newspaper articles about Jason (it's unclear how a family living in Crystal Lake could possibly have been unaware of Jason and his exploits). Rob finds out why it wasn't such a good idea to go hunting for Jason and Trish flees back to her home, intending to warn Tommy. Tommy has come up with a plan to save his sister and himself, but what lasting effects will killing Jason have on this young boy?
Trivia
* Ted White refused to be credited for his role as Jason, saying he believed that many of the young actors were being horribly treated and often felt bad about what he had to do them, even after production. One particular instance was when young actress Judie Aronson was out on a raft in the lake, naked and freezing to the point where she was crying. Fed up, White stepped in and demanded that she come in to warm up or he would quit, and director Joseph Zito complied. Despite his disdain for the film (though he says that it came out better than he expected), he was asked to reprise the role, but turned it down saying, "I had played Jason once and once was enough."
* The character of Rob Dier is the brother of Sandra who was killed in Friday the 13th Part 2 during the double-impalement scene.
* It has been said that Tom Savini only returned to contribute to the franchise to kill off Jason whom he helped create in the original Friday the 13th.
* The character of Tommy Jarvis is interpretated as an homage to Tom Savini. Aside from sharing a similar first name and an affinity for designing monster masks, both in their own right kill Jason off in the film.
* The film was released on a Friday the 13th.
* Among the many scenes cut was one in which Trish finds her mother drowned in the bathtub, which would have explained her disappearance in the film.
* During filming, actress Kimberly Beck experienced strange occurrences of a man watching her while she ran in a park, accompanied by phone calls at all hours. They oddly stopped once production of the film had stopped.
Friday the 13th Part 3
Picking up almost directly where Part 2 left off, Jason escapes to a nearby lake resort named Higgins Haven to rest from his wounds. At this time, Chris Higgins returns to the property with some friends after she was attacked by a mysterious disfigured stranger two years earlier. While Chris tries to swallow her fear of past events, an unmasked and reclusive Jason kills anyone who wanders into the barn in which he is hiding. But once he finds a means to cover his hideous face, he wanders out to hunt again.
Trivia
* As of 2005, this is the highest grossing 3-D film.
* At one point, the character of Debbie picks of a copy of Fangoria and turns to an article on Tom Savini who provided the make-up and effects for the original Friday the 13th and would return for the film's follow-up, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
* Excluding the footage from Part 2, this is the only Friday the 13th film in which a character does not say Jason's name.
* An infamous alternate ending depicted Jason actually decapitating Chris. It seems, however, that this ending may not have actually been filmed, featured only in behind-the-scenes photos and in at least one of the two novelizations.
Trivia
* As of 2005, this is the highest grossing 3-D film.
* At one point, the character of Debbie picks of a copy of Fangoria and turns to an article on Tom Savini who provided the make-up and effects for the original Friday the 13th and would return for the film's follow-up, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
* Excluding the footage from Part 2, this is the only Friday the 13th film in which a character does not say Jason's name.
* An infamous alternate ending depicted Jason actually decapitating Chris. It seems, however, that this ending may not have actually been filmed, featured only in behind-the-scenes photos and in at least one of the two novelizations.
Friday the 13th Part 2
This is the first film in which the famed slasher Jason Voorhees kills(whereas the killer in the first movie was in fact Jason's mother Pamela Voorhees). Jason's famous hockey mask is not worn until the third film; here he uses a pillowcase as a mask (a reference to the killer in "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" and to John Merrick in "The Elephant Man") though it is commonly misidentified as a burlap sack. Jason manages to kill ten people throughout the movie. However, one of the victims dissapears and is presumed dead. No one really knows if he is. (Except Jason)
Friday the 13th
In the first movie, a group of teenagers return to a summer camp, Camp Crystal Lake, to prepare it for reopening. Many years earlier, a young boy named Jason Voorhees had drowned at the camp, and shortly thereafter, the two counselors responsible were murdered by an unknown assailant, after which the camp was closed. After unsuccessful tries to reopen the camp, it is finally reopened. One by one, the new counselors are brutally murdered, it transpires, by Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees.
Notes:
* Betsy Palmer agreed to be in the film only as a means to pay for a new car, believing the film to be trash.
* The film was shot at Camp NoBeBoSco in Blairstown, New Jersey.
* The scene with the snake was not in the script and was an idea from Tom Savini after an experience in his own cabin during filming. The snake in the scene was real, including its onscreen death.
* The character of Crazy Ralph who warns the would-be counselors not to visit Camp Crystal Lake inspired filmmaker Tony Urban to name his company Crazy Ralph Films.
Notes:
* Betsy Palmer agreed to be in the film only as a means to pay for a new car, believing the film to be trash.
* The film was shot at Camp NoBeBoSco in Blairstown, New Jersey.
* The scene with the snake was not in the script and was an idea from Tom Savini after an experience in his own cabin during filming. The snake in the scene was real, including its onscreen death.
* The character of Crazy Ralph who warns the would-be counselors not to visit Camp Crystal Lake inspired filmmaker Tony Urban to name his company Crazy Ralph Films.
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a popular series of slasher films. All of the films feature Jason Voorhees, either as the killer, or as the motivation or inspiration for the killings.
After the original film, the franchise was taken up by Frank Mancuso Jr. during its time with Paramount. When it was sold to New Line Cinema, Sean S. Cunningham came back to take up Mancuso's role of overseeing the franchise. Victor Miller, however, has not returned and claims to have never seen any of the sequels because he does not like the fact that Jason, who was essentially an innocent victim in the first film, has become the killer/villain of the series.
After the original film, the franchise was taken up by Frank Mancuso Jr. during its time with Paramount. When it was sold to New Line Cinema, Sean S. Cunningham came back to take up Mancuso's role of overseeing the franchise. Victor Miller, however, has not returned and claims to have never seen any of the sequels because he does not like the fact that Jason, who was essentially an innocent victim in the first film, has become the killer/villain of the series.
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