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Jason Voorhees
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Who is Jason Voorhees?
Ch-ch-ch. Ah-ah-ah. Watch your back for Jason Voorhees, the evil antagonist of the Friday the 13th horror franchise. He wears a hockey goalie mask, wields a bloodstained machete, slowly stalks his victims, and almost never talks.
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Who uses Jason Voorhees?
In pop culture, Jason Voorhees, who often just goes by Jason, occupies a similar niche as Michael Myers from the Halloween movies that is popular among cult, camp, and nostalgic horror fans and resurfaces every year around Halloween.
Both are portrayed as strong, silent serial killers who always come back from the dead no matter how many times we think they’ve finally been axed—and who obviously wear signature masks.
Battle of the silent killers Michael Myers vs Jason Voorhees in a battle to the death who wins? pic.twitter.com/BwYamxvIRq
— I am being blob (@juda1313) September 24, 2020
Jason‘s hockey goalie mask is commonly called a Jason mask. Given that films have him born on the date, Friday the 13th is sometimes referred to as Jason’s birthday.
Because of his habit of dusting himself off after intense fighting, people often liken something unstoppable to the character (e.g., that football player is like some kinda Jason Vorhees). And, because he pursues victims by slowly walking— almost never running—he’s associated with stalking movements.
I don't "walk" on a treadmill for cardio, I'm just practicing my Jason Vorhees stalking. 🇺🇸
— War Beard (@JimBrakewood) October 16, 2015
Whenever Jason Vorhees appears, the film cues its eerie and suspenseful theme music, popularly represented as ch-ch-ch-ah-ah-ah. Movie trivia: the sound is properly a ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma, rendered from the movie line “Kill her, mommy!”
I’d like to see a standalone Friday the 13th film set during the winter season with either Kane Hodder or Derek Mears returning to portray Jason Voorhees. pic.twitter.com/11Qa8oZG1J
— Cameron Junge 🎃🍁🍂 (@cam_junge) September 27, 2020
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