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Jason Voorhees
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Who is听Jason Voorhees?
Ch-ch-ch. Ah-ah-ah. Watch your back for听闯补蝉辞苍听Voorhees, the听evil antagonist of the听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,听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听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鈥攁nd who obviously wear signature masks.
Battle of the silent killers Michael Myers vs Jason Voorhees in a battle to the death who wins?
— I am being blob (@juda1313)
Jason‘s hockey goalie mask is commonly called a Jason mask.听Given that films have him born on the date,听Friday the 13th听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鈥� almost never running鈥攈e’s associated with stalking movements.
I don't "walk" on a treadmill for cardio, I'm just practicing my Jason Vorhees stalking. 馃嚭馃嚫
— War Beard (@JimBrakewood)
Whenever Jason Vorhees appears, the film cues its eerie and suspenseful theme music, popularly represented as听ch-ch-ch-ah-ah-ah.听Movie trivia: the sound is properly a ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma, rendered from the movie line “Kill her, mommy!”
I鈥檇 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.
— Cameron Junge 馃巸馃崄馃崅 (@cam_junge)
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