76 Facts About Jason Voorhees

Jason Voorhees is a character from the Friday the 13th series.

Jason Voorhees first appeared in Friday the 13th as the young son of camp-cook-turned-killer Mrs Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman.

Kane Hodder is the best known of the stuntmen to portray Jason Voorhees, having played the character in four consecutive films.

Jason Voorhees has been featured in various humor magazines, referenced in feature films, parodied in television series, and was the inspiration for a horror punk band.

Jason Voorhees's hockey mask is a widely recognized image in popular culture.

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Jason Voorhees first appears during a nightmare of the main character Alice Hardy in the original Friday the 13th film; he becomes the main antagonist of the series in its sequels.

Jason Voorhees is left incapacitated as Ginny is taken away in an ambulance.

An unmasked and reclusive Jason Voorhees kills anyone who wanders into the barn where he is hiding.

Chris fends off Jason Voorhees by slamming an axe into his head, but the night's events drive her into hysteria as the police take her away.

Jason Voorhees appears in the film only through Tommy's dreams and hallucinations.

Jason Voorhees is inadvertently freed from his chains by the telekinetic Tina Shepard, who was attempting to resurrect her father.

Jason Voorhees begins killing those who occupy Crystal Lake, and after a battle with Tina, is dragged back to the bottom of the lake by an apparition of Tina's father.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Voorhees Takes Manhattan sees Jason Voorhees return from the grave, brought back to life via an underwater electrical cable.

Jason Voorhees follows a group of students on their senior class trip to Manhattan, boarding the Lazarus to wreak havoc.

In Jason Voorhees Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, through an unexplained resurrection, he returns to Crystal Lake where he is hunted by the FBI.

However, through mystical possession, Jason Voorhees survives by passing his demon-infested heart from one being to the next.

The film starts off in 2010; Jason Voorhees has returned after another unexplained resurrection.

Jason Voorhees escapes, killing all but one of his captors, and slices through the cryo-chamber, spilling cryonics fluid into the room, freezing himself and the only other survivor, Rowan .

Freddy vs Jason Voorhees is a crossover film in which Jason Voorhees battles A Nightmare on Elm Street's villain Freddy Krueger, a supernatural killer who murders people in their dreams.

When his body is dumped into the lake, Jason Voorhees emerges from the water to grab Whitney and their fates are left unknown.

Jason Voorhees first appeared outside of film in the 1982 novelization of Friday the 13th Part 3 by Michael Avallone.

When she opens the door, Jason Voorhees is standing there with a machete, and he decapitates her.

Jason Voorhees next appears in print in the 1986 novelization of Jason Voorhees Lives by Simon Hawke, who adapted the first three films in 1987 and 1988.

Jason Voorhees made his comic book debut in the 1993 adaptation of Jason Voorhees Goes to Hell, written by Andy Mangels.

Jason Voorhees made his first appearance outside of the direct adaptations in Satan's Six No 4, published in 1993, which is a continuation of the events of Jason Voorhees Goes to Hell.

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Jason Voorhees meets Leatherface, who adopts him into his family after the two become friends.

Jason Voorhees is discovered below a prison site and unknowingly awakened in To The Third Power.

Jason Voorhees has a son in this book, conceived through a form of artificial insemination.

The comic has Jason Voorhees being captured and experimented upon by the Trent Organization; Jason Voorhees escapes and seeks out Violet, the survivor of Friday the 13th: Bloodbath, who is being contained by the Trent Organization in their Crystal Lake headquarters.

Jason Voorhees is stuck in Hell, when recently executed serial killer Wayne Sanchez persuades Jason Voorhees to help him return to Earth in Friday the 13th: Hell Lake.

Pamela is in search of Jason Voorhees, who is part of a traveling sideshow and about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

The comic book provides new insight into the psychology of Jason Voorhees as he befriends a boy born with a skull deformity.

Freddy attempts to use Jason Voorhees to retrieve the book, stating it will make him a real boy.

The miniseries features Jason Voorhees stalking a trio of teenaged hikers taking shelter from a blizzard in Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason Voorhees's soul is then absorbed by Freddy, who uses it to increase his own power.

Jason Voorhees first appeared in Friday the 13th, a 1985 Commodore 64 game.

The premise involved the gamer, who picks one of six camp counselors as their player, trying to save the campers from Jason Voorhees, while battling various enemies throughout the game.

Jason Voorhees appears as a playable character in the fighting game Mortal Kombat X as a downloadable content bonus character.

Ron Kurz confirmed that Miller's version of Jason Voorhees was that of a normal child, but claims that it was his idea to turn Jason Voorhees into a "mongoloid creature", and have him "jump out of the lake at the end of the film".

The adult role of Jason Voorhees has been played by various actors, some not credited, others taking great pride in their parts.

Director and co-screenwriter Danny Steinmann disliked the idea of Jason Voorhees not being the killer, but decided to use Tommy's fear of Jason Voorhees as the primary story.

In yet another alteration of the series' continuity, Tom McLoughlin chose to ignore the idea that Jason Voorhees had survived his drowning, instead presenting him as always having been some sort of supernatural force.

Jason Voorhees went from deceased child to full-grown man for Friday the 13th Part 2, and Warrington Gillette was hired to play the role.

Jason Voorhees previously worked alongside director John Carl Buechler on a film called Prison.

Regardless, Adam Marcus, the director for Jason Voorhees Goes to Hell, always intended to hire Hodder for the role.

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Hodder did receive the script for Freddy vs Jason Voorhees, and had a meeting with director Ronny Yu and New Line executives, but Matthew Barry and Yu felt the role should be recast to fit Yu's image of Jason Voorhees.

New Line wanted a specific movement in Jason Voorhees's walk; Kirzinger met their expectations and signed a contract with the studio.

Physical design of Jason Voorhees has gone through changes, some subtle and some radical.

For Friday the 13th, the task of coming up with Jason Voorhees's appearance was the responsibility of Tom Savini, whose design for Jason Voorhees was inspired by someone Savini knew as a child whose eyes and ears did not line up straight.

The original design called for Jason Voorhees to have hair, but Savini and his crew opted to make him bald, so he would look like a "hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead", with a dome-shaped head.

The process of creating Jason Voorhees's look was hard work for White, who had to constantly make alterations to Richard Brooker's face, even up to the last day of filming.

Script for Part 3 called for Jason Voorhees to wear a mask to cover his face, having worn a bag over his head in Part 2; what no one knew at the time was that the mask chosen would become a trademark for the character, and one instantly recognizable in popular culture in the years to come.

Jason Voorhees pulled out a Detroit Red Wings goaltender mask for the test.

Since Jason Voorhees is not the actual killer in A New Beginning, it was not necessary to do any major designing for Jason Voorhees's look.

The idea was for the teens to completely destroy Jason Voorhees's body, allowing the futuristic technology to bring him back to life.

Stoddard's vision of Jason Voorhees includes hair loss, skin rashes, and the traditional deformities in his face, but he attempted to craft Jason Voorhees's look in a way that would allow for a more human side to be seen.

Since Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer.

Jason Voorhees is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series.

Tom McLoughlin, the film's director, felt it was silly that Jason Voorhees had previously been just another guy in a mask, who would kill people left and right, but get "beaten up and knocked down by the heroine at the end".

Ronald D Moore, co-writer of the first draft, explained that Jason was the easiest to make redeemable, because no one had previously ventured into the psychology surrounding the character.

Freddy is a figure of actual pure evil and Jason Voorhees is more like a figure of vengeance who punishes people he feels do not deserve to live.

We never wanted to put them in a situation where Jason Voorhees is a hero.

Jason Voorhees saw his mother get murdered by a camp counselor in the first Friday the 13th, and so now he exacts his revenge on anyone who returns to Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason Voorhees is one of the leading cultural icons of American popular culture.

Jason Voorhees was the first of only three completely fictional characters to be presented the award; Godzilla and Chewbacca are the others.

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Jason Voorhees was named No 26 in Wizard magazine's "100 greatest villains of all time".

In June 2020, Jason Voorhees appears in a PSA to encourage people to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outside of literature sources based on the character, Jason Voorhees has been featured in a variety of magazines and comic strips.

Jason Voorhees has appeared twice in the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm.

Jason Voorhees received a free drink, because nobody got the answer right.

In 2014, Jason Voorhees made a cameo appearance in the RadioShack Super Bowl XLVIII commercial "The '80s Called".

In "That Hurts Me", Jason Voorhees reappears, this time as a housemate of "Horror Movie Big Brother", alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Pinhead and Ghostface.

Three years later, in episode sixty-two, Jason Voorhees is shown on the days before and after a typical Friday the 13th.

Jason Voorhees is spoofed in the season five episode of Family Guy entitled "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One".

The so-called "Mr Jason Voorhees" explains to Asian reporter Trisha Takanawa how happy he is to see local wildlife return following the cleanup and rejuvenation of Lake Quahog.

Jason Voorhees reappears later in the episode as the manager of the "Britches and Hose" clothing store.