10 Deeply Depressing Origin Stories Of Horror Villains

3. Jason Voorhees

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Just a simpleton mommy's boy, driven to his death by bullies, where he drowned thanks to incompetent camp counsellors. Then, to add insult to injury, they killed his mother when she came seeking revenge for his death.

For eleven movies after that, Jason has risen every Friday the 13th (possibly more than that, the films are fuzzy with dates, in spite of the title) to wreak his violent revenge, simply too angry and stupid to die. And you know what? Of all the killers on this list, Jason is probably the one we root for the most. Sorry, horny camp counsellors.

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A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.