13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday 13th: The Final Chapter
8. The Film Finally Gives A Name To Jason's Mother
Throughout the first three movies in the franchise, Jason’s mother - the original killer in Friday The 13th - is never actually fully named.
The closest we get is when she introduces herself to Alice Hardy - that first film’s ‘Final Girl Friday’ - as Mrs Voorhees: it’s shortly after that that the demented mother tells Alice the sad story of her son’s tragic drowning in 1957. Shortly after that, of course, Mrs V goes on one final kill-crazy rampage, pursuing Alice across half the site until that climactic fight on the shore where she quite literally loses her head.
Towards the beginning of The Final Chapter, the doomed teens drive past a roadside gravestone with the name 'Pamela Voorhees', the dates ‘1930 - 1979’ and the legend ‘AT REST’. Assuming that this is the same Voorhees that killed all those people, the glimpse of this gravestone finally gives the series' iconic first killer a first name.
However, regardless of this it's become the convention to refer to her as ‘Mrs Voorhees’ when discussing any of the first three movies, as at that point that’s the only name anyone knew her by.