Jason Voorhees

Real Name: Jason Voorhees
Date of Birth: Friday June 13th, 1946
Place of Birth: Wessex County, Mass.
Race: Caucasian Sex: Male
Height: 6' 3" (est) Weight: 250lbs (est)

Current Location: Well dear old Jason can no longer be found lurking the woods near Camp Crystal Lake anymore because apparently the psycho is dead. After a brutal battle to the death with fellow slasher Freddy Krueger, Jason was sent back to hell where he belongs. But wait in 2455AD after an archeolgocial dig, Jason is once again discovered, reanimated and from the looks of things given an upgrade. So whether he shows up again between now and then is another question.

WHAT A LITTLE MOMMA'S BOY

Poor kid. He was having such a nice swim as well, but hey its the idiots fault for not having industrial strength arm bands wasn't it. Yes poor little Jason Voorhees drowned in the Camp Crystal Lake in the Summer of '57. But jeez man, his mother took it pretty bad didn't she. I mean killing a mass of campers several years later. Couldn't she just mourn in peace. Well no, not really, else we wouldn't have the king of the slashers Mr Jason Voorhees coming back for no less than 10 pretty entertaining sequels would we now.

Jason isn't quite human, and he isn't quite a monster either. God knows what this thing is anymore. He's been burnt, shot, drowned, stabbed, kicked, punched, and buried...but you can't keep a good psycho down. How many times can you possibly be raised from the dead? Sean Cunninghams' 1980 hit Friday the 13th opened this whole explosion of slasher movies in the 80s which had been fuelled mostly by the creation of such popular slasher movies as Halloween. But would anybody have envisaged that this series would continue over 20 years later and spawn 10 sequels, including the release of Jason X (which oddly follows Jason Goes to Hell: The FINAL Friday, doesn't seem very final to me) and the all out bout which was Freddy vs Jason.

Newline, who also own the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise must either be complete morons to keep spilling crud like this onto our cinema screens or complete genius' who care about the fans, and play to the target groups so well. I must admit I do own all the releases of the Friday the 13th series, maybe out of morbid curiousity, or maybe because Jason movies are cult classics.

The amazing thing about Jason is the fact that he has carried an assault of descructive weaponry in his time and for nigh on 20 years he has donned that now iconic hockey-mask. Yet the guy has probably never played a game of hockey in his entire life. Never once glided that puck across the ice, which seems a little ironic. And the face of Jason seems to have changed in every movie making it more and more difficult to make any conclusions to what he does actually look like behind the mask. The guy has killed about 107 people in total over the years which should make his mother (responsible for 9 deaths) a very proud lady. So why the hell would anyone want to resurrect this evil being?

The most interesting thought for years was the fact that Jason may meet the one and only Freddy Krueger one day in a new Freddy vs Jason picture (cleverly hinted in an in-joke of Freddys glove snatching Jasons hockey mask at the end on Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday). But of course with the magic of movie making bringing the two together on screen for the first time was a lengthy process but probably worthwhile after all.

Jason is arguably the most famous movie psycho of all-time. Frequently referenced, and unbelievably original in his killings. This man.. thing ..demon ..WHATEVER, will surely continue forever. And from experience we can clearly see this guy will just not REST IN PEACE!

Psycho Analysis by Steven Davies © 2003