Who Was Jason Voorhees’s Father? Supernatural Past And Bloody History Of Crystal Lake – Explored

There has been a lot of conversation about Jason Voorhees and his gruesome acts, but his violent nature and ruthless on-screen depiction has overshadowed few crucial subjects like the history of Jason’s father and how a young boy was able to survive drowning and growing up all alone by himself in the jungle. Was it Crystal Lake itself that helped Jason become who he was? What was the role of Jason’s father in what Jason became in the later part of his life. In this video, we would answer these very questions and learn about Jason Voorhees’s Father And Supernatural Past And Bloody History Of Crystal Lake.
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[T-Bechilln]

Now that’s a really good story telling

[Metphies-]

While I'm not a fan of this version of Jason's backstory, anyone else notice the Shaman at 3:15 has the same chevron markings on his face as Jason's hockey mask? Nice touch

[urstillaklown]

Nice touch in how the shamans white warpaint matches the red on Jason's iconic hockey mask. Jason scared me so much as kid that now, he's my in top 10 of favorite anti-heros

[LamentButterfly]

I’d definitely recommend looking to the 1980s film novelisations rather than most of the comic books for insight into the Vorhees family. So many of the inconsistencies in Pamela’s Tale are painful. Jason was born in 1946 not 1947, when Pamela was only 16. Furthermore, Elias was in New Jersey when both his estranged wife was killed by Alice Hardy in 1979 and his son was killed by Tommy Jarvis in 1984. We see Pamela’s gravestone in several of the films (stating 1930-1979), and without someone to claim her body and pay for burial and a headstone, she would have been cremated or buried in an unmarked grave in a potter’s field. Because she had gone mad and become reclusive after Jason’s tragic death, the only logical person to pay for her burial is … her husband. The same applies to Jason’s corpse which was buried in the cemetery beside his mother after Part IV. In Part VI, Sheriff Garris makes it very clear that the body was to be cremated but someone had paid for a proper burial. In the novelisation of Jason Lives, it turns out that Elias Vorhees paid for both burials and for Martin to take care of the two graves. Elias even shows up at the end … and it definitely wasn’t from Pamela that Jason got his eeriness. Elias was one spooky man! And Pamela was known to have said and thought frequently that Jason was his father’s son. Elias even looked a lot like Jason as depicted in Part II - long, dark red hair and chiselled features, although only Jason was deformed.
As for WHY Jason came back, from everything F13th that I’ve read and watched over the last 35 years, I’d say that it’s pretty clear that it’s a combination of the tainted, bloody history of Crystal Lake described in the “Bad Land” comic (I’d recommend the 1983 film “Eyes of Fire” and the Clive Barker short story “The Book of Blood” if you have any questions about how such violence can permanently stain a place and what sort of being the resurrected Jason Vorhees is … and don’t think for a minute that he didn’t die when he drowned in 1957. By the time the lake spat him out, “the worms had eaten his face” according to the Part II novelisation.) and his father’s blood flowing through his veins. That made little Jason the perfect vessel to house all of the violent darkness that sank deep into the earth surrounding Crystal Lake and tainted the water for all eternity.
At least that’s my interpretation.
Very well done video. If you do any more on Friday the 13th, though, I’d really recommend diving deeper into your research 😉

[edgarthebug]

Jason wasn't unkillable until Part 6. In Part 2, 3 and 4, he was a normal human.
In canon, I think he never actually drowned, but survived, not by supernatural means, but by getting to shore in time.

Still quite the interesting story they told in the comics!

[maxvicious]

This is the reason why no one can't defeat Jason Voorhees. HIS POWER IS OVER 9000!!!

[evildoughboy]

So, Crystal lake has a long history of suffering and death, which probably helped give birth to the curse known as Jason Voorhees.

[doujinloverXD]

There are alternate takes on his father, a deleted scene in part 6 which was storyboarded showed a middle aged man with very long hair at Jason's grave apparently he was wealthy and despite being towards the end of middle age he still looked way too young implying he aged slowly somehow, and I. The awful part 9(Jason goes to hell) the Necronomicon is in the Vorheese family basement and the protagonists Jason's MUCH younger half sister and later his niece imply his father may still be around and was a sorcerer.

[Daynnikes]

The movies should play on this much more!! I believe they invaded his body, the shaman

[Glitch-Phases]

9:43
Been wanting something like that for Jason, I never got how the “Villain” in Story’s, almost ALWAYS has better Motivation, Storyline, and Arc compared to the “Hero’s” of it, one thing I always thought about was if Jason is “The Bad Guy” then are we really rooting for a bunch Horny Teenagers to win? And we don’t like him? We all love him, he’s one of the most Iconic Slasher Characters and the Franchise overall was Successful, and He’s the main character and the only one to appear in every movie in some form, whether Child, or Hallucination/Dream, yet he’s not treated exactly like the Main Character, I feel like Jason Voorhees is more reminiscent of an Anti-Hero than an actual Villain, he was like 11 Years old and Mental Underdeveloped when he Drowned leading to him raising himself in the Woods in Complete Isolation so he doesn’t understand that killing all of these people isn’t ok, still I digress.
If you read this far than you have
Perseverance: 100

[ericokonkwo]

Imagine Jason vs. the Creeper from the Jeepers Creepers Films, interesting fight battle!

[MotorcycleUS]

Growing up in the jungle? I was unaware that New Jersey contained a jungle that far north.

[lazerbladebrennerpurdy]

So basically, Jason and Michael Myers are similar in more ways than one. Driven by a spirit of hatred. The differences being that Jason's is of Native American origins and Michael's is of Celtic origin. Enda, the spirit inhabiting Michael Myers and the Shaman inhabiting Jason Voorhees. In stark contrast though, Jason doesn't go after children. Though, Michael does. Of course, Jason is undead as well. By the dark magic of the Necronomicon.

[silascraven]

Poor Jason, this guy can't seem to catch a break

[patzman]

So Jason is native?! My new favorite superhero!

[seancailes]

you do know Jason is a deadite and people wounder why he wont die not even Ash could kill him even without his Jason X upgrades

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[SageofSorrow]

In my mind, I’m casting Patrick Kilpatrick as Jason’s father in a live action prequel film that adapts this story and focuses on Pamela Vorheese’s life leading up to the first film.

[JimDavis_truckin_journey]

Cool video, good job! Thst could be made into an amazing prequel to the series. If done right, could be amazing. Maybe rob zombie

[travalionhold]

His father was a Primarch of the space marines. That's why he's so indestructible and powerful. Yet his mother was less than genetically viable and this is why Jason was a deformed monster.