10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Jason Voorhees

How could an undead serial killer with a triple-figure bodycount possibly have anything close to a moral code? Well, it’s not that exactly, but Jason is pickier than you might expect when it comes to slicing n’ dicing.

Camp counsellors were the reason for his ‘drowning’ and the death of his mother, so he has a vilified view of them. Despite his best efforts, people keep applying for that same position at Camp Crystal Lake; perhaps the biggest mystery in the franchise is why people keep showing up there.

There have been occasions that Jason has killed people regardless of their relation to camp management, but this usually comes down to his territorial, animal instincts.

The film that best showcases Jason’s boundaries is Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which he chooses to scare off a group of kids by showing them his gruesome face, rather than killing them. In another scene, he inadvertently saves the main character Rennie (Jensen Daggett) by killing two criminals assaulting her. There was also a scene in the script that would have Jason kick a dog, but actor Kane Hodder refused to shoot it because he felt it wasn’t in character.

Jason is definitely a monster, but he doesn’t torment innocents with the same wicked glee as someone like Freddy Krueger.