Lets start with the Friday the 13th(1980) This is the origin story. But as we find out, the killer is not Jason, but his mother Pamela. Matter of fact, Jason is not even in the movie at all. The cameo of him coming out of the water to grab Alice is a hallucination or dream. She wakes up in the hospital after decapitating Pamela. So we can skip this one in the mythos of Jason.
Friday the 13 Pt.2(1981) is when we finally see Jason for the first time. He did not drown in the lake as a child, but had been living a hermit life alone in the woods surrounding the lake. When his mother is killed, Jason seeks revenge. So he finds where Alice lives and kills her. He then goes back to the lake. 5 years later the camp is reopened, and apparently Jason doesn’t like trespassers. Donning a burlap sack as a mask, Jason goes about killing the counselors. Ginny however, chops him in the shoulder with a machete. She assumes the blow kills him, then Paul and her run back to the house where Jason grabs Ginny after busting through a window. Then Ginny wakes up in up being loaded into a ambulance. The fate of Paul or Jason is left as a mystery. We can assume Paul is dead, and Jason is not, since the machete blow was not as bad as it seemed. So for now, Jason is still alive, however with a shoulder injury.
We knew Friday the 13th Pt.3(1982) was coming. The last part left too many unanswered questions. Right out of the gate we see a injured Jason going to a store close to the lake where he kills the owners and gets a new set of clothes(and medical supplies we can assume). He then heads back to the lake but stops in a barn of a rather nice summer home to rest. He goes about killing everyone around and gets his world famous hockey mask. However in the end he receives a ax to the head and left for dead, then Chris gets into a canoe until the police comes. We are assuming Jason is finally dead. But we find out in the next movie otherwise.
Friday the 13th The Final Chapter(1984) takes place only hours after the ending in Pt.3. We find Jason in the morgue at the hospital. He awakes in cold storage, and escapes(after killing a coroner and nurse) back to Crystal Lake. Lucky for Jason, the mask helped stop the ax blow.Since this is a slasher film, we get a new group of teens to watch being killed. The plot is pretty much the same as the rest; Jason goes around killing til only 2 people are left, Trish and her 12 year old brother Tommy. Trish fights Jason, while Tommy comes up from behind and chops Jason in the side of the head with a machete. When he notices one of his fingers twitch, little Tommy acts like a Japanese chief and dices up Jason with the before mentioned machete. Now finally after 3(well kinda 4) movies, Jason has finally been killed. These first 4 movies are not about a supernatural killer, but a insane mentally challenged killer and his insane killer mother. See this is why the movie is called “The Final Chapter” Jason is dead.
You know when a franchise is liked as much as Ft13th, it will either get a continued story, spinoff, or remake. You do not stop a money making juggernaut. So they made a Friday the 13th A New Beginning(1985). Well of course it is a new beginning, Jason died in the last film. So now he is a undead monster? Nope. Tommy from the last film goes through therapy and lives at a halfway house. One of the people living there kills another tenet, and the body is found by the his father who snaps and starts killing people dressed as Jason. When the reviews from fans came in, they were so negative, the studio did a 180 on the idea of Jason is gone. Horror fans can and are very finicky, and just like Halloween 3, fans demanded the real Jason back.
As the old saying goes, “Hit while the iron is hot”. Well the studio did. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives(1986) came out at the end of summer. We now see a older Tommy going back to Crystal Lake to cremate the remains of Jason who he is still having hallucinating about. Him and a buddy dig up Jason’s grave, but when seeing the body he has a flashback and stabs the body with a metal fence post. While he gets control of himself, luck would have it, that the metal pole is struck by two lighting bolts. Just like Frankenstein’s Monster, Jason is revived with lighting. Now he a reanimated corpse. Jason grabs the mask Tommy brought with him(why?) and kills his friend. Tommy goes to the police but they dont believe him. Jason then goes around killing everyone around the lake. In the end, Tommy ties a chain around Jason and throws the rock anchor into the lake. But of course, he doesn’t need to breath, so Jason sits patiently at the bottom of the lake. This is also where we see some of the Frankenstein traits. He tears the arm off a paint ball player, just like the monster did in the classic film. Not needing oxygen while chained to the bottom of the lake like the Monster doesnt need air while submerged in the sulfur pits.
That is as far as I am going in the franchise since the rest are of a reanimated Jason. In a nutshell, he kills, then is injured, he rests, then repeats. I just wanted to show how Jason became the way he was. For 4 movies, Jason was human, dead for 1 movie, and was reanimated for 6(pt.9 we try to forget). Just like the Frankenstein Monster, Jason exhibits superstrenth, stamina, endurance, and immune to injury. When he takes damage, he lays dormant for awhile til his strength returns, and he again goes on a killing spree. He is smarter than a zombie, but dumber than a demon. He is a modern day Frankenstein.
That is as far as I am going in the franchise since the rest are of a reanimated Jason. In a nutshell, he kills, then is injured, he rests, then repeats. I just wanted to show how Jason became the way he was. For 4 movies, Jason was human, dead for 1 movie, and was reanimated for 6(pt.9 we try to forget). Just like the Frankenstein Monster, Jason exhibits superstrenth, stamina, endurance, and immune to injury. When he takes damage, he lays dormant for awhile til his strength returns, and he again goes on a killing spree. He is smarter than a zombie, but dumber than a demon. He is a modern day Frankenstein.
I totally respect your opinion, but I wholeheartedly disagree..
ReplyDeleteWe KNOW that Jason did in fact drown as a kid in 1957. That's a straight up fact and not up for debate. This is the sole reason why his mother, Pamela, went insane and proceeded to go on numerous murder sprees.
The confusion regarding him being dead or undead simply stems from part 2, which is a total what-if scenario; They literally say so in the dialogue: "What if he did survive"..
Yes, in part 2 Jason is a living, breathing human. That's something everyone can agree upon.
However, he dies at the end. By a machete through the chest, no less.
Part 3 has him as undead, there's no doubt in my mind regarding this. He gets hanged by the neck, drops 20 feet and snaps his neck. he then gets an axe though his skull. The last track on the soundtrack is also titled "Jason dead in barn". Yup, he died.
In part 4, he's a bona fide undead. He's superhuman, flinches at stuff that would have killed normal people and when unmasked he even looks like a rotting corpse. If that's not undead, I don't know what is..
I might also add; he's not a zombie or a deadite. He's a revenant, an undead killer back for revenge. Plain and simple.
A few flaws with this.
ReplyDelete•Why no body was recovered
•Jason's shack
See how the lore is told after his supposed drowning, she left the camp and didn't come back til the film's timeframe. So he could be alive and roaming the forest and Ms. Voorhees not know he was in fact alive. That is why he has a shack. Plus how was a body not recovered from a flacid lake. No currents to carry it away.
As for the revenant. No glowing red eyes. Sorry.