Jason vs zombies
So while Voorhees can technically die, he doesn’t stay dead as he can simply resurrect right after. Vorhees is blessed or cursed, however, you want to look at it, with the powers of resurrection and immortality. Can Jason Voorhees die?ĭespite Voorhees being a zombie, there still remains a way to kill him, correct? Well, yes, and no at the same time. Therefore, we can only classify him as one. Despite how Voorhees is supposedly a mentally handicapped individual, we can clearly see that the man has a skill in hunting and stalking his own prey.ĭespite all the disparities between Voorhees and the classical definition of what it means to be a zombie, it has been stated that by the end of Part 6, Jason Voorhees has turned into what is known as a Revenant Zombie. In Part 2, we find Jason restraining his victims to avoid detection, carefully and strategically stacking his kills in such a way that they all line-up and also murdering his victims in different unique ways, often getting to them in moments they least expect. Jason is also shown to be extremely intelligent and high functioning, particularly gifted in the area of strategic planning despite his deformities. He has kept all of his memories intact, neglects to eat human brains or flesh, and clearly shows agony and emotion over the loss of his mother. As a creature, we find Jason to be one who is reminiscent of normal humans. Zombies, as portrayed in various films, are given enough feelings to feel hunger and the basic human instinct of hunting. Most zombies in films are functional but only at a sub-human level. Would an average zombie show such fear? I would think not.Ī truly undead zombie would be mindless. Additionally, it seems to me that a large portion of his motivation to murder is due to the murder of his mother, to whom he shared a deep bond. It’s fitting for Voorhees to be afraid of water – he was thrown into the water and nearly drowned as a child so therefore, returning him to the place of such a traumatic experience would easily immobilize him. Voorhees has a clear weakness to water, inspired by vampire lore as Tom Mclaughlin, the film’s director, had pointed out. They neither show emotion nor remorse.Īlthough Voorhees definitely lacks empathy for other people, he definitely has emotions. As we look at the history of Vorhees, he definitely has this sense of self-awareness that zombies lack.Īdditionally, zombies generally don’t have any sense of fear or weakness. A zombie would run around half-naked and guts all over the place without a care in this world. Additionally, we can see that Voorhees actively roams around. Multiple scenes in the movies show him placing forethought on his actions, choosing his targets selectively, and stalking the locations that they are in. As opposed to zombies, Voorhees can definitely think rationally. Zombies, as depicted in movies and literature, are mindless, thoughtless creatures that lack a sense of self-awareness. Although there is no universal definition of what a zombie is, the difference between being undead and a zombie is the same difference between a zombie and a vampire – while both creatures are technically dead, vampires are definitely not zombies. A lot of people seem to confuse the state of Jason Vorhees with that of a zombie. Technically speaking, Voorhees is undead. When Tommy Jarvis supposedly finally killed him, lightning came down from the sky and brought back Jason, now as an undead monster- stronger and more durable than before.įrom what we notice here, Voorhees didn’t start off as an undead monster but became one in the later adaptations of the film.Īdditionally, Voorhees only became stronger the more often he was resurrected – similar to the old stories of Hawkman in which he was consistently reincarnated only to become stronger than before. He was living off of wild animals and vegetation around the camp.
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Perhaps he had washed up on shore, lived out in the woods for years in a hut as we have all seen in the second movie before returning to camp to which he had seen his mom’s decapitation. Although there isn’t a definitive canon that serves as a basis for reasoning out why he grew larger despite being dead, Parts 2 to 4 of the movie points out that he actually survived the time that the camp boys threw him into the lake. This is an interesting fact to point out as in his lore, Jason Voorhees died as a young boy. In the literature, we find Vorhees to be a grown man. Is Jason a Zombie? Jason Voorhees resurrection