Ms. Voorhees

[Seil]

So I was gonna do a horror thing today, and I had went out and gotten the original Friday The 13th Part II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiwtNpIqhEo) and the remake... original stor... whatever Michael Bay did (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Bum0dJHm0&feature=fvst), aptly named Friday The 13th. Now the reason I went with Part II instead of going for the very first film is that I understood that the first one was about Jason's mom, Pamela, not the horror icon himself, Jason.

Everyone knows the story - Jason was a deformed boy who was ridiculed at Camp Crystal Lake where his mother worked as a cook. He goes swimming, counsellors go off and get high/have sex/read/whatever and Jason drowns. His mother than stalks and kills all the counsellors until one of them beheads her. Jason then takes his mothers head and sets up a shrine in a shanty in the woods and kills anyone who camps out there again. Summer camp, amirite?

But the interesting thing is that the movie came out in... lemme see here... 1980. For those that don't know, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was out in 1974, Halloween in '78, then Friday The 13th Part I in 1980, Nightmare On Elm Street in '84 and Hellraiser in '87. Out of all of those we've got Jason, Leatherface, Michael, Freddy and Pinhead. Why, with all of those to choose from, do we take the most from Jason flicks? I guess they're more relatable than most, it's just a group of kids camping, but seriously: from his mask (http://www.manofactionfigures.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/sites/default/files/FREDDY_JASON_MASK.jpg) to the sound effects (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBkdtEkAZhM) to the running and screaming teens, Jason is arguably the most influential antagonist, when his mom is scarier than he is.

That's not me being mean, that's me being honest. I stated above that I didn't see the original 13th film, but it had a recap of the last movie for people who were just joining in. Betsy Palmer, the actress who played Pamela Voorhees, was creepy. She was unsettling. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QOvJBTcPs) Jason by comparison is just... a poor imitation of his mother.

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It's not that it's all been done before - from Michael to Freddy to Pinhead we see how unsettling and scary horror is if it's done right, but Jason... doesn't do it right. Seriously, the only reason to watch a Friday The Thirteenth movie is because you might see some boobies at some point. And I definately believe that the new Friday movie isn't as scary as Rebecca Black's version. If you're looking for a good horror flick, hit up Dream Warriors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGNHdsZi3v0).

[EVILNess]

I think the thing that makes her so creepy is the fact that she is such a sweet (Albeit, creepy) lady until she is revealed to be the killer.

Now if you want to talk about 80's horror icons that gave me nightmares I'm gonna have to say that Chucky was worse. I'm talking the original Child's Play movie. I want you guys to realize something.

I owned a motherfucking My Buddy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuinqB9z3JI) when I saw that movie. It had those motherfucking doll eyes that look real, and open and close when you lay it down. I would toss that son of a bitch outside every night.

And when I woke up there it was. In my room. Talk about a hyperventilating and seriously freaked out 4 year old. That seriously emotionally scarred me. I still have a slight case of pediophobia, but I am mostly okay as long as don't have realisitic glass eyes.

I found out when I was about 20 it was my mother picking it up and putting it back in my room when she got off work. She just thought I was forgetting it outside a lot.

[Seil]

Chucky was okay. He was pretty creepy, but the fear was always outweighed by the fact that I saw the first one in my twenties, and I knew that if he tried anything I could just put him in the fireplace.

The thing that totally fucked me right the hell out was Pennywise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzoPUHKZTNM). 'Cause, y'know, my name is George. I saw it when I was five or six and I was gone.