9. Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
Somewhere between the start of Friday 13th part II and the climax of part III, Jason Voorhees metamorphosed from an onscreen bogeyman to an anti-hero that we just love to cheer, awaiting with glee his next inventive kill. Which is most peculiar. It's easy to understand why we like Freddy - Freddy has his one liners. But Jason isn't humorous. Hes po-face personified and, like the most devastating farts, silent and deadly. When he slammed a machete into the face of a disabled guy in part II, sending him hurtling backwards down a mega set of steps in his rickety wheel chair, we laughed. But it wasn't a
"haha, that was great" laugh. It was more of an inappropriate
"did that really just happen?" But by the time a hand-standing dude got chopped in half in part III, the audience was whooping and hollering with delight, falling just short of holding up their score cards like Olympic skating judges. And in recounting part IV, fans gleefully regale how Crispin Glover's character shouts: "
Hey Ted, where's the damned corkscrew? before Jason slams the corkscrew down onto his hand, pinning it to the worktop! Swiftly followed by a machete to the head. Nice. Be it the ever increasingly inventive kills, unique application of gardening implements, or the increasingly annoying teenagers that wed gladly slice n dice ourselves, we want Jason to slay every one of them and are pretty bummed when the prim virgin thwarts him. Until the next film.