10 Movie Villains Who Won AFTER They Died
6. Pamela Voorhees - Friday The 13th
Betsy Palmer took the role of Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980) because she needed money for a new car; the role then became the most famous (or infamous) performance of her career.
Pamela is the deranged mother of Jason Voorhees, who drowned at the Camp Crystal Lake summer camp whilst the camp counsellors were distracted. Years later, when the camp tried to reopen, she engaged in a killing spree, murdering the new counsellors in increasingly inventive and psychotic ways. Eventually, only Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) remained.
Duping Alice into trusting her, Pamela suddenly turned on her, ending in the classic final confrontation on the shore of Crystal Lake, in which Alice decapitated Pamela. Rowing out onto the lake where she felt safe, Alice believed that she was attacked by Jason and dragged down into the lake, but woke up in a hospital, apparently safe.
Naturally, Alice is haunted by the memory of Pamela and her son, Jason in the opening of Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Isolated from her family, Alice comes to fear that she is being stalked; opening her fridge, she discovers the gruesome sight of Pamela's head in cold storage. Before she can react, the adult Jason (Steve Daskawisz) puts an ice pick through the unfortunate Alice's head, avenging his crazed mother!