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Jason Voorhees has been stabbed, buried, and killed so many times, yet somehow, the masked killer always finds his way back to Camp Crystal Lake. At this point, death seems like a very minor inconvenience for one of the most iconic villains. But have you ever thought about why Jason refuses to stay dead?
Unlike Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers, who had supernatural powers and evil natures, Jason doesn’t really have many explanations to address the mystery regarding his death. And apart from the fact that Hollywood loves making sequels on him, the movies haven’t given us much to work with here, except one theory.
All we know is that a lightning strike changed Jason into a zombie. But one theory about Jason’s mother might give us some answers.
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Was Jason Voorhees Ever Really Dead In Friday The 13th?
Jason was only a young boy who died of drowning in the pool when his story started. The camp counselors who were responsible for watching him were so busy having fun that nobody noticed the child. Jason’s mother, Pamela Voorhees, not only blamed the counselors but also ended up murdering two teenagers.
Two decades later, we see Pamela again when Camp Crystal Lake reopened and went on another killing spree. By then, Jason’s story had become part of the urban legend, and teenagers started believing that it was he who was causing the murders. However, the original Friday the 13th revealed that, originally, Pamela was the killer, and Jason only started murdering after his mother’s death.
But in Part 2 of the movie, it was suggested that Jason never really drowned in the first place. Instead, he appeared to have survived the accident and spent years living in a shack near Crystal Lake. Well, that pretty much gives us a valid reason behind his killings too. But what didn’t add up was: after surviving such fatal injuries in Part 2 and Part 3 of Friday the 13th, how did Jason come back?
Although Adam Marcus offered an interesting explanation for Jason Voorhees’ immortality, his connection to The Evil Dead franchise was never fully developed. The movie introduced several supernatural ideas without properly explaining them and left fans to connect the dots.Â
Why Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers Have The Same Immortality Problem?
Beyond all the supernatural theories that exist out there, there is a much simpler reason behind Jason’s continuous comeback: Hollywood wasn’t ready to let go of one of its biggest horror icons. Jason was simply too popular to stay dead, especially when Friday the 13th could keep producing sequels.
Interestingly, Halloween’s Michael Myers faced the same problem. Both killers have seemingly died multiple times, only to return in another movie. However, Friday the 13th handled Jason’s resurrections a little better.
Unlike Michael, whose survival often remained mysterious, Jason eventually received a supernatural explanation in Jason Lives. Turning him into a zombie made his impossible survival easier to accept.
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