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The Many Faces of Jason Voorhees. And Michael Myers.

Super Halloween Monday Day!
Yes, Super Halloween Monday Day, featuring two new articles on the Countdown that are some of the most important to date, or something. For October 25th, we've got a movie-by-movie look at the Many Faces of Jason Voorhees. If you're a casual Friday the 13th enthusiast, you'll be surprised to see how much the guy's look has evolved from film to film. The feature starts with the first film and goes all the way to Jason X.

The almost-but-not-quite-late entry for Sunday presents my official costume for Halloween 2004: Michael Myers! The sometimes underappreciated star of the Halloween movies makes his first appearance on X-E with two different masks, including one that lights up for no good reason. I feel like I say this every day, but it's probably only once a week: if you're just getting back after the weekend, there's all sorts of new shit posted. Check 'em out.

Posted by Matt on 10/24/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 64 comments

Heck, I’m just pleased that we get a still of the defeated Jason from the "Friday the 13th" video game.

But who knew Jason had a pot belly?

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 10/25/2004 2:33 AM

Another one here who never saw an F-13 movie in his life…

Based on the picture, I’d go with the "Final Chapter" version of Jason.

I’ve seen most every type of movie, but I haven’t really gotten into horror. I own the first "Halloween" and I did the type-up on a Jekyll and Hyde movie called "Edge Of Sanity" for the 80s Movies Rewind, but I guess my thrills come more from cerebral movies.

Also, Matt, here’s a suggestion for a movie to review: "Forbidden Zone". The movie is so tasteless and out there, it makes "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" look like a Merchant-Ivory movie. I think it would be cool to get your take on this movie.

Chestnuts roasted by The Rock Steady Flamethrower @ 10/25/2004 3:41 AM

Damn….

I stare at the pic of Part 2 Jason, and I just can’t seem to stop thinking….

Isn’t that just Sloth with Hair?

Chestnuts roasted by NOTV DNugg @ 10/25/2004 5:19 AM

I liked all F13 movies, so I also liked Jason X. But my taste in movies is a bit weird. I have just watched all three original Sleepaway Camp movies, and liked them (especially number 2). So is it any surprise I like F13′s, even parts 8 and X? ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Sjoerd @ 10/25/2004 6:02 AM

If while wearing your original Michael Myers mask you held a round, silver mouthpiece between your lips, wore a silver bump-cap and carried a shiny sphere, you would look just like Woody Allen in Sleeper.

Chestnuts roasted by R. Frog @ 10/25/2004 10:02 AM

My favorite Micheal Myers film is the first "Austin Powers."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/25/2004 12:10 PM

Matt: Whenever I see pictures of these cluttered shelves in your place, I wonder: How do you keep that place dusted?

I ask, beause I have similar shelves, and it is always nuclear winter on them.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 10/25/2004 12:33 PM

has anyone ever figured out what the deal was with Halloween 3, they decided to get rid of Michal Meyers and instead have it about spooky haloween masks, I think it was written by the same people who wrote "The Stuff"

Chestnuts roasted by dr mindbender in a speedo @ 10/25/2004 12:50 PM

I hated that fat guy shelly. He was worse than jason x. so whiney.
He kinda reminded me of the wheelchair guy in Chainsaw Massacre (the OG one)

Chestnuts roasted by zombone @ 10/25/2004 2:30 PM

Personally, I’ve always been a huge fan of continuity in horror series. Something about the fact that SOME people out there actually try to remain true to these slasher characters’ convoluted back stories is quite charming and shows that the past is always important to some people, even in widely considered "throwaway" horror flicks.

Chestnuts roasted by scaryrobot @ 10/25/2004 2:42 PM

Oh yeah, and speaking of Halloween 3. I’ve always been curious as hell as to what the shit was the thinking behing that move. I do like it for the pure fact that it’s possible the most dated horror flick I’ve ever seen. That deliciuosly bizzarre Silver Shamrock commercial screams 1982 the way few other things could.

Chestnuts roasted by scaryrobot @ 10/25/2004 3:01 PM

Nigel Kneale wrote Halloween III.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460600/

http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/interviews/nigelkneale.htm
"OTT: The Guinness Book of Classic Television describes The Stone Tape as ‘one of the most frightening pieces of television ever made’. Was this your objective when you set out to write it?

NIGEL KNEALE: No. Never never. Why would I want to do that? I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer’s attention. The magic word here is ‘paradox’. You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it’s going to be about something and it does the opposite. Now if the more simple-minded people found that a frightening experience well, too bad. Real horror movies are dead easy.

20 years ago I was in Hollywood to write a script for John Carpenter. He’d made Halloween I and II and wanted another. I told him ‘I didn’t like the first two but I’ll write you an original and quite different story’. I just told him the story in a café and he said, ‘Yes let’s do it!’ (which is not the reaction you ever get in this country). So I wrote a very good script – if I say it myself. It’s one of the best I’ve ever written. But he was busy working on The Thing. Now the object of that film is to frighten and it did so beautifully – very stylish. So in the meantime, the thing I’d written was being sidelined and Carpenter handed it over to a buddy of his called Tommy Lee Wallace who had never directed anything. So they took my script and to bring it down to the price they reckoned they could spend on it, they ruined it – they took all of the invention out of it. So I took my name off it and was contacted by the American Writer’s Guild who said ‘Do you really want to take your name of it? People here are trying to get their names on things!’

It would have been the only good Halloween film too. What they put into it was slashing and cutting of eyebrows and all the standard crap for a horror movie, precisely the stuff I avoided. They shortened the thing by about half and everybody hated it. But that’s show business I suppose."

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/25/2004 3:08 PM

Matt, you can use the second mask to dress up as Buckethead.
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~cjwade/images/buckethead.jpg
http://www.bucketheadland.com/faq/
http://www.bucketheadland.com/index_map.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/25/2004 3:15 PM

Part 3 is my personal favorite.

Movie Maniacs Jason had his mask glued on to his head, but if you pull it off anyway, you can see his face-maybe his JGTH face?

It looks like shit…pretty much as bad as Jason takes Manhatten.

http://www.moviemaniacs.net/mm1/jason/unmasked.jpg

The face under the mask in Freddy vs Jason is COOL though-they have it in the pics of the new jason figure on Sideshowtoy.com

Chestnuts roasted by Casey Jones @ 10/25/2004 4:16 PM

Friday the 13 is my favourite movie francise of all time with my favorite movie out of the lot being part 6. I have to go with the unmasked Jason of part 4 as being the best one because all of the other movies that had Jason unmasked made him look..well…not like a person who would have been underwater for 30 odd years.

Have you ever noticed that in each movie. Jason’s head seems to get bigger and bigger like it’s going to explode? My friends and I made that observation years ago while having a F13 marathon.

Oh, and I had to comment on Halloween article..the second Mike Myers mask looks like a full version of the Phantom of the Opera mask. Oh, and I hate the third Halloween movie..I had to say that.

Okies, I’m done. Happy Halloween..love your site. XD

Chestnuts roasted by MC @ 10/25/2004 5:03 PM

Loved the F13 tribute.

Chestnuts roasted by Awesome @ 10/25/2004 8:18 PM

That last mask makes you a dead ringer for Robert Plant!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Another Matt @ 10/25/2004 8:38 PM

What a great article. Haven’t seen JASON X or FREDDY VS. JASON, but I am familiar with the rest. I like Jason as the big trucker in part 2. It didn’t get out of hand until part 3 when he was really unstoppable. This is also were the killings are not jusitified in anyway (watched it this past Saturday). At least in part 6, his unstoppableness is explained. I don’t remember much about 7 except that Jason seems to go to the toolshed for a new weapon every two minutes.

Chestnuts roasted by manimal789 @ 10/25/2004 10:59 PM

Michael Myers masks never look anything like the REAL Michael mask. The masks they sell are too smoothe and featureless, and the hair is never right.

Halloween 3 was crap, and I’m sure the writer’s "brilliant" script was crap as well.

Jason’s "Final Chapter" head is easily the best… no wonder, as makeup master Tom Savini designed it.

Chestnuts roasted by JT Striker @ 10/26/2004 1:32 AM

Hahaha! That first mask makes Matt look just like Lion-O!

Thunder….. Thunder…. Thunder…. Thundercats…. HOOOO!!!! Matt needs a bigger sword.

Of course, to confuse the issue, he needs a friend to dress as Cheetara. Or a blow-up version, perhaps. Heck, even a blow-up sword would be appropriate. Lion-O manufactured hot air better than Clinton! ::cigar puffs::

Chestnuts roasted by eminentfreak @ 10/26/2004 1:50 AM

I agree with Matt about the best one. But part VII was definitely scary as hell.

Chestnuts roasted by Jay @ 10/26/2004 9:28 AM

Oh yeah – that guy Q is a moron. He didn’t have to correct the extreme close up thing as it was just a figure of speech! jeez. Oh yeah…anyone notice that in blair witch 1 and 2 there is no sign of the actual witch, but they have a figure of her from Mcfarlane? It looks pretty scary too.

Chestnuts roasted by Jay @ 10/26/2004 9:39 AM

I think they had two versions of the witch-one with a skeleton looking head with hair, and one with a demon looking head w/ horns

Chestnuts roasted by Casey Jones @ 10/26/2004 9:56 AM

Ive seen a "clip" of of Jason’s face from Jason Goes to Hell on an reissue A Nightmare on Elm Street video I bought a few years back. Jason’s head looks like he got these rock thorns growing out of him and sorta FT13 Part 7 face. I also rememeber seeing it back in 93 in the preview. Where did that seen of Jason’s face go?

Chestnuts roasted by garbage pail kid @ 10/26/2004 2:08 PM

You say there isn’t a unmasked Jason scene in ‘Freddy Vs Jason’? What about the flashback scene where Jason is tormented by his fellow campers as a kid?

Chestnuts roasted by Shaun @ 10/26/2004 4:33 PM

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