*Contains Spoilers*
If Hollywood has taught us anything, is that it likes sequels/reboots/remakes/reimaginings, basically anything that doesn’t involve an original idea. For every Inception we’re blessed with, we’re subjected to a weekly Saw film. Not that all of the above are necessarily bad things. The Dark Knight was a sequel spawned off the back of a reboot. Then again maybe Nolan is in fact Jesus afterall.
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| On the set of Memento |
Regardless, Hollywood doesn’t know when to say stop most of the time, and in doing so has managed to ruin many a great character by their constant toying with them. None more so than the movie maniac! What makes these villains so great is they have unexplained supernatural power. This is a film after all, who gives a fuck if it’s not plausible. Well, the writers of sequels it would seem.
Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th
The premise of the original Friday the 13th was simple. Retarded child drowns while councillors opt to fuck each other and smoke weed. Said child’s mother exacts revenge only to have her head cut off for her troubles. Child turns out not to be dead but was in fact living (probably) in the woods the whole time and avenges his mother by killing everyone brain damaged enough to go near the lake. Able to take a shit load of punishment, he proves difficult to kill enabling many sequels to then follow.
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| It's all about the art! |
Until Jason goes to Hell – the Final Friday. Now it can be argued that Jason was always just a man (though a very fucking hard one to kill) up until Part 6, when he becomes was is affectionately known as the “zombie Jason”. See Jason died at the end of Part 4, killed by Corey Feldman who would later continue his bloodbath by killing his own career. But he dies at the end of all the films you say, true but at the end of 4 he was dead, really dead, the films series intended to be done. Skip past 5 where the killer is a copycat (seriously), Part 6 – Jason Lives has Jason resurrected by a bolt of lightning and now ten times more stronger than before. This however is fine, if films have taught us anything it’s that lightning is the bringer of life.
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| Skynet had a lot to learn |
In Part 9 (the Final Friday part deux) however they attempt to explain further why Jason is so powerful. It’s because Jason isn’t really what we think he is. He’s not a person, technically he’s a demon but more literally he’s a parasite that can latch himself onto any living person once his own body is destroyed and possess them. This ingenious plot point enables the filmmakers to have a Jason film that Jason is hardly in, well as we recognise him anyway. Because we all know there is no greater way to continue a franchise than by removing the iconic image of its main protagonist for most of the film.
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| Jason transferring his soul by kissing someone. Makes Jason X look like the Godfather by comparison |
