Jason voorhees story movie

In 1980, the world lost the ability to look at wholesome, scenic summer camps and feel anything but terror. The culprit? Friday the 13th, a brilliant, bloody blockbuster that tore beautiful Camp Crystal Lake to pieces.

It would be another year before Jason Voorhees, the Friday the 13th series' iconic killer, took the reins of the franchise in Friday the 13th Part 2. But in the years since, there's no denying that he's become the summertime boogeyman.

Few who have seen the Friday the 13th movies are able to go camping without looking over their shoulder once or twice for a maniac in a hockey mask. His relentlessness, brutality, stealth, and supernatural powers make him the scourge of skittish viewers' nightmares and a cornerstone of the slasher genre.

What began as a classic morality tale wrapped in some good old-fashioned Hollywood violence has blossomed into one of the most complicated and lore-heavy hor