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10/24/2004: 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.

And, that Jason feature was cool. The Final Chapter is my personal favorite Jason film, also.

The Final Chapter may have the best Jason face, but in the end, all Jason faces are winners.

"Halloween 4" was actually pretty good. 5 sucked, 6 and 7 were ok, and I refuse to watch 8.

Hey i have a pic of what jason looks like under the mask from Freddy vs jason if anyone is interested. there hasbeen like 2 really good masks made off of the VS style makeup the closest u can see it is in the van when jason gts mouth to mouth, but i have a production still of the makeup under the hockey in that shot. E-mail

You know, the original Michael Myers mask from Halloween was a mask of William Shatner from 1978, painted white. Good luck finding one for less than $400 now, unfortunately, but if you can find a Captain Kirk mask and some white paint you’ll probably have something that looks a lot better than the ones you bought…

Thank you Thank you!!
Huge Mike Myers fan here…
This article was by far my fave of the "holiday" season!

I pick the Part 3 face, as it looks freaky but still like something you could see in real life.

Didn’t part IX have the "hell baby?" I mean, not much of a "face" per say, but only a face a mother could love.

Plus, it was pretty freaky when he was "reborn" scootin’ up his sisters vagina.

I’ve always wondered why the special effects artists changed Jason’s appearance so drastically between parts 2, 3, and 4. If you follow the plots and timelines of those three movies, they are supposed to take place in the same week.

Dude..I dont have a comment on your Michael Myers Halloween Articale, but you got a good site, here, love the commercials, keep it up!!!

Matt, if you REALLY wanted the authentic Myers look you could track down a Shatner/Captain Kirk mask and spraypaint it white. That’s what they did for the original film.

I’m not a big horror fan, but I have to say I am also angered by Myers’s attempt to be more attractive. I thought the second mask in particular looked more like a severely frightened Michael Bolton than Michael Myers.

They actually do show a bit of Jason’s fucked up teeth in Freddy vs. Jason during the part where the black chick has to give Jason CPR.

I’ll admit it, I’ve never seen a Friday the 13th movie or a Halloween flick in its entirety. Maybe it was because, unlike most kids, I was severely disturbed by the idea of a weird guy killing innicent people in terrible (but creative) ways.

Having just read the Jason article, I don’t think it’s so weird that his appearance changes. I mean, with every new Castlevania game (not including some of the earliest, which reuse sprites) we’re presented with a completely new look for Drac and each of his cronies. That’s one of the fun things about the series–wondering what Death will look like THIS time.

But I can also understand how it can irritate hardcore fans. In another Castlevania analogy (because I’m a loser), it irritates the hell out of me that the people at Konami couldn’t bother themselves to make the dates in the Castlevania timeline consistant. Or that they tried to incorporate the Brahm Stoker novel and did it so poorly (yeah… Quincy Morris had a son, who somehow followed his father throughout the events of the novel yet stayed hidden, and who witnessed–along with his little friend Eric– the death of his dad after taking care of Drac. Oh, and if you look at the birthdates given, he would have had to be something like 2 years old at the time.)

Here’s something for those who own(or have at least seen the Friday boxset extras).

There is a short clip of a fan who displays a guitar with the Friday the 13th part VI paint scheme signed by several cast members from the series.

I personally think that all the short-comings of "Jason Goes to Hell", including not showing Jason without his mask, were completly made up for by the FRICKEN FREDDY KRUEGER CAMEO!

Dude, Jason X sucked soooooo bad! I actually paid money to see it and was furious when I walked out. I don’t even include it as a part of the F13 series. A curiousity, did anyone actually like it? anyone?…hello?…so alone.

That light up Michael Myers mask looked more like that rejuvenique mask from the infomercial.

Psychic heroine Tina puts the handless moves on Jason, and before we know it, his head gets all gooey, the mask pops off, and we’re faced with a well-lit extreme close-up of a guy worth pissing our pants over.

I would just like to comment on that line. That shot was not an extreme close-up, rather it was only a close-up. An extreme close-up is a shot which singles out a portion of the face (eyes or lips) and isolates and magnifies a detail. This shot is a only a close-up on the grounds of a close-up being a shot which shows just the head, hands, feet, or a small object. Sorry, just my two cents - I’m a stupid film majors.

As for Capt. Spacklepants. I personally loved Jason X. it was in no way my favorite Friday the Thirteenth film, however… The simple fact that they explain Jason’s inability to die sets it high on the pedestal for me.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Night_Trekker-That reminds me of the varying appearances of Ganon from the Zelda games. For example, in the first game, he was totally green, but in A Link to the Past, he was totally purple. I’ll admit, there have been many similarities in his appearance (not counting his appearance as Ganondorf), such as the whole giant pig motif, but there still have been differences.

Hmmmm.. I like the first face best, i think it has a better phychological effect than the others. yea its ok to try to scare me with a freaky overdone looking zombie face, but if you put more of a mentally disturbing freak of nature twist to it, you will get better results… or maybe i am full of crap, whatever…

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

Hey part V wasn’t that bad. I loooooove all the Jason movies and I think this was one of the better written ones. No Jason, sure, but the audience doesn’t know that until the very end. It’s not like he doesn’t kill kill kill anyway. Plus Violet was an oldschool hotty punk. Part VI, on the other hand, I think started the eventual ruination of the series. I liked him better before he became the unstoppable supernatural beast. My opinion, sure, but when the killer can’t be killed it doesn’t lead to good writing. It leads to a gigantic sewer-loads of toxic waste and lightning bolts bringing people to life. Not to mention psychic chicks and space stations. Where do they belong in Jason movies? Nowhere.

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"

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)

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.

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.

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."

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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::

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

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.

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

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?

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?

The Jason head with the horns growing out of it is a closeup of the Jason fetus from Jason Goes To Hell, the one that crawls up Erin Gray’s skirt…they talk about it in the commentary track.

Dude, I wore almost the exact same Myers costume last year. Let me tell you, it will scare more people than you think. Key points…don’t talk, don’t move fast, and I wore some fingerless wool gloves, made my hands appear larger. If possible, just stand in a corner or hallway…people will not only be scared, but will start to creep out, if you just stand there not moving….I loved it. good luck and have fun

In Freddy vs. Jason doesn’t Jason’s mask get taken off when the black chick gives him mouth to mouth? Or was that just a wet dream I had due to the Vodka??

They take off his mask when they have him in the back of the van. I haven’t picked up the DVD otherwise I would have posted a screenshot.

Its sorta scary how the way he changes all the time. His best face was in Friday the 13th part 7 the new blood. Just please if ya gonna make another jason plz make him look suitable for a hockey mask. Jason Voorhees is the best although i live in australia i think hes cool

About the myers films
1, great
2, great
3, nothing to do with any other halloween film
4, Bad
5, good, bad ending
6, good, explains everything
7, Ugh, terrible
8, good, a few attempts at humor

Does anyone know who the kid who yelled for HELP on Friday The 13th was. Was it Jason?

The final chapter is the most ghoulish, it sticks out most in my mind as Jason in a subhuman. I also liked the way they made it in the new blood, it sticks out most in my mind as Jason in his corpse form.

I loved the f13 tribute and i’ve think that the first jason face from part 1 is one of the best. Jason did not have hair as a child but as part 2 suggests jason survived after nearly drowning and went out to the woods and started to stalk people with a bag on he’s head. He’s hair was long but the rest of him looked a little like hes child face. In part 3 jason is bald. Let’s say that he shaved he’s hair with a machete(lol). Then in part 4 after getting an axe trough hes head he is scarred and has the most awsome face he has ever had(designed by tom savini like in part 1). He was killed however and the series died with him. In part 5 here is no jason and in part six he is revived by a lightning bolt. Now he has a gray and rotten face an later in part seven after rising from the water hes face was even more messed up. I say that it is from the lying in that water causing skin to get removed and stuff. Later in part 8 he looks even more messed up but not scary at all. I liked he’s human freak faces more. I guess that lying in that water so long after part 7 he’s face has become like a sponge filled with water. And in part 9 he ís an abomination. I think he has all these burnmarks and destroyed skin is because of the toxic waste incident in part 8. Some say he had a unexplained revival but i don’t think so. He is reanimated by freddy in freddy vs. jason so now he is like a normal freak again(but with gray skin). That explains hes normal freak face in jason x wich takes place after freddy vs. jason.

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