Horror Icon #2

Jason Voorhees
Born: Friday the 13th
Son of Pamela & Elias Voorhees

Jason Actors:

Friday the 13th Part 1
Ari Lehman

Friday the 13th Part 2
Warrington Gillette
Steve Daskewisz - Stuntman

Friday the 13th Part 3
Richard Booker

Friday the 13th Pt. 4: The Final Chapter
Ted White

Friday the 13th Pt. 5: The New Beginning
Dick Wieand - Roy
Tom Morga - Stuntman

Friday the 13th Pt. 6: Jason Lives
C.J. Graham
Dan Bradley - left film

Friday the 13th Pt. 7: A New Blood
Kane Hodder

Friday the 13th Pt. 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
Kane Hodder
Timothy Burr Mirkovich - Boy Jason

Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Kane Hodder

Jason X
Kane Hodder

Freddy Vs. Jason
Ken Kirzinger
Spencer Stump - Boy Jason

Friday the 13th (2009)
Derek Mears
Little boy - Young Jason

I really wanted to put Jason as my first ever Horror Icon of The Week, but I decided not to for two reasons:

1. I had already posted a bunch of Friday stuff on my blog, and I wanted to expand out into other things.

2. Sarah Michelle Gellar is hot!

In the end...I gave him the #2 spot. I've stated before that I'm a "Jason-Man" when it comes to horror films and killers/slashers/boogeymen. Here's the low down and movie recap on the masked man...

The first Friday movie is centered around his mother, Pamela. She is seeking revenge on careless camp counselors who occupy Camp Crystal Lake, because her son, Jason died because a group of counselors neglected to save him during his drowning. She holds all counselors accountable for his "death".

In her view, they were too busy making love and doing drugs while her boy drowned. At the end of the film Jason witnesses his mother's death and starts a revenge tour on any one who steps foot on his grounds.

The second and my favorite Friday movie takes place 5 years after the first and Jason is now a teenager. A camp across from Camp Crystal Lake...aka Camp Blood..is being opened by a new set of counselors. They are warned not to cross property lines and visit Camp Blood, but a few do and get caught by the police and by the way, piss Jason off.

Jason runs around their camp later on slaughtering counselors. Jason is stalking around the camp with a pillow case/potato sack on his head taking out unsuspecting counselors one by one. At the end, there is a mystery of whether or not Jason gets killed. Only to be solved when Part 3 comes out.

Well the mystery gets solved as Part 3 comes out and Jason is back...and seems to have grown a couple of years and goes bald in a day since Part 2. Jason moves down the road from the camp and comes across some twenty-somethings at a farm house up the road.

Jason kills them one by one and in the sea of blood he happens to pick up the "hockey mask" by killing one of them. Jason takes an axe to his noggin' from a pissed off survivor chick and lays dead in the barn as the audience ponders if he's finally dead.

In Part 4: The Final Chapter, the film events picks up right after Part 3 and Jason comes back to life in the hospital morgue only to return to his stalking groungds slaughter more victims. Jason meets his arch rival, Tommy Jarvis (the kid from the Goonies...Corey Feldman) and falls to the little boy wonder.

Part 5: The New Beginning continues to follow the storyline of Tommy Jarvis (Corey Felman's character) only to see Corey star in about ten minutes of the film before leaving to film The Goonies. Corey is replaced by some retard guy that says 24 words besides yelling and grunting.

Unfortunately Jason does not star in the film, but is replaced by Roy Burns. A guy who is impersonating Jason to seek revenge on his dead son. Bull shit, bull shit...

Part 6: Jason Lives yet again continues to follow the Tommy Jarvis vs. Jason storyline, and yet again a re-casted Tommy resurrects Jason from the grave with the help of some thunder and lightning. Kind of Frankensteinish.

Jason is now transformed from a pissed off dude in a hockey mask into a dead zombie creature. He returns to Forest Green (aka Camp Crystal Lake) to kill more people only to find his demise at the bottom of the lake again. Novelization of movie introduces his father, Elias.

In Part 7: A New Blood, Kane Hodder takes over the role of Jason and battles a chick with psychic powers who resurrects him from the bottom of the lake...only to be laid to rest at the bottom of the lake. Again.

Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan Jason gets a jolt of an underwater powerline that strikes him when a boat anchor drops on it...and...whoola! He's back to life! Jason then kills a few teens on the boat and "floats" out to another water channel which allows him to hop on a High School Senior Class Trip to New York. Jason slaughters more kids and reaches New York only to be victimized by NewYork's dreaded toxic waste that floods the sewers at midnight.

New Line studios takes over franchise afterwards and Friday the 13th name is no longer used. Cheesy titles are attached to the series starting with Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday...or in my book Friday the 13th Part 9. Jason mysteriously returns to Crystal Lake somehow after his New York City toxic sewer death, only to fall into the hands of a government trap. Jason gets blown up by the government. I guess he didn't pay his taxes.

Jason's body is shipped to some place in Ohio, but he still lives! Jason lives because some demon snake which took home in his heart pops out of his mouth and "jumps" from body to body possessing the host until the snake has found a descendant of the same blood...a.k.a. his sister. His sister turns out to be the hot chick from Buck Rogers. Jason kills her before transferring his demon snake over, so Jason sets his attention to his niece. You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family as his niece using a "special knife" stabs him in the heart and send him to hell.

The world suffers a set back when Jason is officially killed and sent to hell. Years of depression and boredom go by and then somehow Jason comes back to life and has been captured by the government. Jason has been and taken to a "top secret military installation" underneath the grounds at Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason escapes but is accidentally cyrogenetically frozen in time with a government agent only to be discovered 445 years later by a college science party visiting the now inhabited-laid-to-waste-planet-Earth.

Jason is taken aboard their spaceship ( The Grendel) for transport back to their world. Jason thaws out and hunts down and kills the crew of the Grendel.

Jason meets his end...again...when he is killed by the leather-dominatrix-wearing female android. His body falls on some medical repairing hospital bed which starts some cycle of regeneration only to be reborn with a blend future technology in him. Restructured with his human tissue and metal, Uber Jason is born again (not like a Christian) and looks like the Terminator. Uber Jason continues to kill the crew of the Grendel only to be vaporized while re-entering an atmosphere of another planet.

After an outrageous movie featuring Jason in space...in the future...writers script him back into a role with another horror movie icon...Freddy Krueger. In Freddy vs. Jason, Kane Hodder gets dropped from the Jason role and replaced by Ken Kirziner.

It sucked, but anyways...Freddy summons Jason from hell to kill people in Freddy's hometown, so they would remember the now forgotten child killer Freddy. Jason kills teens to restore Freddy's powers only to get his ass kicked by Freddy in the final battle, but prevails and kills Freddy.


In 1992 Jason received the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award...Go Jay! Jason is also one of the most recognizable horror movie icons, because of the hockey mask. He has found his way in to pop culture, has been in numerous novels and comic books that have further explored his tales. Jason has even had his own video game on the Nintendo video game system.