Give the name of the villain from the 'Friday the 13th.' series of movies?
"13th: The Ultimate Collection"" features only the first eight films of the franchise. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (also known as Friday the 13th: Part V) is a 1985 American slasher film directed by Danny Steinmann, and starring Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, and Shavar Ross. It is the fifth installment in the ""Friday the 13th"" film series, after """" (1984). Narratively, ""A New Beginning"" departs from the Camp Crystal Lake setting and Jason Voorhees-themed mystery of the previous four installments and instead acts as a psychological horror film set at a fictional halfway"
"Jason Voorhees Jason Voorhees () is the main character from the ""Friday the 13th"" series. He first appeared in ""Friday the 13th"" (1980) as the young son of camp cook-turned-killer Mrs. Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Created by Victor Miller, with contributions by Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham and Tom Savini, Jason was not originally intended to carry the series as the main antagonist. The character has subsequently been represented in various other media, including novels, video games, comic books, and a crossover film with another iconic horror film character, Freddy Krueger. The character has primarily"
"films, parodied in television series, and was the inspiration for a horror punk band. Several toy lines have been released based on various versions of the character from the ""Friday the 13th"" films. Jason Voorhees's hockey mask is a widely recognized image in popular culture. Jason Voorhees first appears during a nightmare of the main character Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) in the original ""Friday the 13th"" film; he becomes the main antagonist of the series in its sequels. As well as the films, there have been books and comics that have either expanded the universe of Jason, or been based"
"Tommy Jarvis Tommy Jarvis is a fictional character in the ""Friday the 13th"" franchise, portrayed by Corey Feldman, John Shepherd and Thom Mathews. He appears in four of the twelve ""Friday the 13th"" films, making his first appearance in """". Tommy is the most prominent of three ""Friday the 13th"" protagonists, the others being Alice Hardy and Ginny Field, to appear in more than one film. Originally, the ending for ""A New Beginning"" intended to have Tommy Jarvis become the antagonist in subsequent sequels. Outside of the films, he is a main character in the comic book adaptions and novels."
"Jack. Except for the first episode, Uncle Lewis is always a pure-evil character, the principal recurring villain of the series. He appears in occasional flashbacks (for example, in ""What a Mother Wouldn't Do"", ""Night Hunger"") and as a malevolent ghost (""Hellowe'en"", ""Bottle of Dreams"", ""Doorway to Hell""). He is alleged to have been the leader of a witches' coven while he was alive (""Coven of Darkness""). His name, ""Vendredi"", is French for ""Friday"". ""Friday the 13th: The Series"" was created by Frank Mancuso, Jr. and Larry B. Williams originally under the title of ""The 13th Hour""; the series ran for"
"of antagonist Jason Voorhees wearing his signature hockey mask, which has become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and horror films in general. Originally, the story was supposed to focus on Ginny Field, who checked herself into a mental institution after her traumatic battle with Jason Voorhees in the previous film. The film would have been similar to ""Halloween II"" (1981), with Jason tracking down Ginny in the mental hospital, but the concept was abandoned when Amy Steel declined to reprise her role. ""Friday the 13th Part III"" was"
"proceeds to murder everyone aboard the spacecraft. He is seemingly killed, but is then resurrected via nanotechnology as a cyborg version of himself. Finally, he is ejected into space and incinerated by Earth Two's atmosphere, his mask falling to the bottom of a lake. The next ""Friday the 13th"" film, ""Freddy vs. Jason"" (2003), was a crossover with ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"". Set in the contemporary period, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) resurrects Jason (Ken Kirzinger) and sends him to Springwood hoping that he will create enough fear among the residents that Freddy will be strong enough to invade their"
"Pamela Voorhees Pamela Voorhees is a character from the ""Friday the 13th"" film series. She first appeared in Sean S. Cunningham's original film as the vengeful mother of Jason Voorhees, simply known as Mrs. Voorhees. The character was created by Victor Miller, and was portrayed by Betsy Palmer in the original film as well as briefly in ""Friday the 13th Part 2"" (1981). She was portrayed by Paula Shaw in ""Freddy vs. Jason"" (2003). According to Palmer, she was asked to reprise her role as Pamela Voorhees for ""Freddy vs. Jason"" but she turned the part down after she read"
"rolling blackouts. When Brian questions Peter's actions, Peter reveals that he's been using the power to reanimate actor Jim Varney's corpse (he'd actually wanted to bring back actor and ""Saturday Night Live"" alumnus John Belushi). Horror-movie legend Jason Voorhees from the ""Friday the 13th"" movie series appeared twice in this episode, carrying his trademark blood-drenched machete. First, Quahog news reporter Tricia Takanawa is interviewing him by the lake, during which he kills two bathing-suit-clad women. The scene references Camp Crystal Lake, Jason's traditional haunt. Later he appears as the boss of the store where Lois tries to buy her expensive"
"Larry Zerner Lawrence J. Zerner (born September 8, 1963) is an American lawyer and actor who is perhaps best known for his role in the 1982 horror film ""Friday the 13th Part III"" as Shelly Finkelstein. His character in the film was most notable as the original owner of the infamous hockey mask which became Jason Voorhees's trademark. He later reprised the role in the 2017 video game . Other film roles include the 1984 movie ""Hadley's Rebellion"". He made a guest appearance on the television series ""Fame"". Zerner was born in Los Angeles, California. He was discovered on a"
"the ""Friday the 13th"" title being used for a series of films, released once a year, that would not have direct continuity with one another but be a separate ""scary movie"" of their own right. Phil Scuderi—one of three owners of Esquire Theaters, along with Steve Minasian and Bob Barsamian, who produced the original film—insisted that the sequel have Jason Voorhees, Pamela's son, even though his appearance in the original film was only meant to be a joke. Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, believed in the idea and would go on to direct the first two sequels,"
"of Pamela being attacked by a soldier and suffers a hallucination, which causes him to perceive the soldier as Alice, while the novel ""Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs"" adapts her battle with Pamela as its prologue, and also features an appearance by her corpse which is found in Jason's shack by Glo and her friends and later, the police. Alice makes a cameo appearance in the sixth and final issue of Wildstorm's ""Friday the 13th"" comic series, in a flashback depicting Jason's attack on her from the first film. The second issue of the comic miniseries ""Friday the 13th:"
"Alice (Friday the 13th) Alice Hardy is a fictional character in the ""Friday the 13th"" series, created by Victor Miller. She first appears in Sean S. Cunningham's ""Friday the 13th"" as a camp counselor, with a brief appearance in Steve Miner's 1981 sequel ""Friday the 13th Part 2"". Alice is portrayed by Adrienne King in both films. The character has a supporting role in the comic book series and a main role in the novels. The character went through different drafts during the early stages of the screenplay, eventually moving to a more sympathetic role for the original film. Her"
"Freddy vs. Jason Freddy vs. Jason (alternatively known as A Nightmare on Friday the 13th) is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film is a spin-off crossover between ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" and ""Friday the 13th"" series, and pits Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees against each other in the eighth and eleventh installments in their respective series. The film is also the last in both ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" and ""Friday the 13th"" series before they were both rebooted. In the film, Freddy (Robert Englund) has"
"playwriting class in New York City. ""Friday the 13th"" is Miller's most successful film, grossing $59,754,601 worldwide on a very low budget of $550,000. The original is the only one of the series that had Miller's involvement; it grew into a long series of sequels and became the highest grossing horror franchise in the United States, earning a worldwide total of $465,239,523. Miller says he hasn't seen any of the other ""Friday the 13th"" films because he does not approve of Jason Voorhees being the killer rather than Jason's mother as she was in the original. He also adapted two"
"on a minor aspect of him. Jason made his first cinematic appearance in the original ""Friday the 13th"" on May 9, 1980. In this film, Jason is portrayed in the memories of his mother, Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), and as a hallucination of the film's protagonist, Alice (Adrienne King). Though the character makes no contemporary appearance onscreen, he propels the film's plot—Mrs. Voorhees, the cook at Camp Crystal Lake, seeks revenge for his death, which she blames on the camp counselors. Jason's second appearance was in the sequel, ""Friday the 13th Part 2"" (1981). Revealed to be alive, an adult"
"Michael Myers from ""Halloween"" and Jason Voorhees from ""Friday the 13th"". At the end of the film """", the mask of the title character, Jason Voorhees, played by Kane Hodder, is dragged under the earth by Freddy's gloved hand, thus setting up ""Freddy vs. Jason"". Freddy's gloved hand, in the ending, was played by Hodder. Freddy Krueger Frederick Charles ""Freddy"" Krueger () is a character from the ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" (1984) as a burnt serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill"
"mask while digging in the dirt. Freddy Krueger's gloved hand bursts out of the dirt and pulls Jason's mask into the ground. John D. LeMay is one of only two actors from the TV series to appear in the film series; the other is John Shepherd, who played Tommy Jarvis in """". Producer Sean S. Cunningham originally conceived an action-horror film in which Jason Voorhees would battle Freddy Krueger of the ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" series. Paramount Pictures, who had released the previous eight ""Friday the 13th"" films, negotiated with New Line Cinema over the rights to the series,"
"occasions. Larry Zerner Lawrence J. Zerner (born September 8, 1963) is an American lawyer and actor who is perhaps best known for his role in the 1982 horror film ""Friday the 13th Part III"" as Shelly Finkelstein. His character in the film was most notable as the original owner of the infamous hockey mask which became Jason Voorhees's trademark. He later reprised the role in the 2017 video game . Other film roles include the 1984 movie ""Hadley's Rebellion"". He made a guest appearance on the television series ""Fame"". Zerner was born in Los Angeles, California. He was discovered on"
"13th"", and ""Evil Dead"" horror film franchises. ""The Nightmare Warriors"" sees Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees resurrected by the United States government, who wish to exploit their supernatural powers; however, the government is unable to control them, and the killers attempt to take over the world using the ""Necronomicon Ex-Mortis"". Meanwhile, Ash Williams joins forces with the Nightmare Warriors, a support group for people who have survived encounters with Freddy and/or Jason which consists of numerous established characters from the ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" and ""Friday the 13th"" franchises, to defeat Freddy and Jason for good. Katz and Kuhoric"
"the first ""Friday the 13th"", and so now he exacts his revenge on anyone who returns to Camp Crystal Lake. Teenage fans can identify with that sense of rejection and isolation, which you can't really get from other killers like Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers."" As Jason went through some characterization changes in the 2009 film, Derek Mears likens him more to a combination of John Rambo, Tarzan, and the Abominable Snowman from ""Looney Tunes"". To him, this Jason is similar to Rambo because he sets up the other characters to fall into his traps. Like Rambo, he is more"
"(Friday the 13th). It received negative reviews from critics, but grossed $10.9 million against a $4 million budget. Peter and Bronny Taylor go on a vacation to the Grand Canyon in Arizona with Stephanie, their teenage daughter, and Mikey, their adolescent autistic son. Mikey discovers a small Kiva cavern, where he finds black rocks with symbols on them. He takes the rocks, keeping a secret untold. When the Taylors return home, strange things begin to happen. Bronny finds that the kitchen taps keep turning on, and Stephanie sees handprints on a steamy mirror, both of which Mikey blames on “Jenny”."
"on the forehead and cheeks. Age them down a bit, break them up."" In the end, Stoddard crafted six versions of the mask, each with varying degrees of wear. In his original appearance, Jason was scripted as a mentally disabled young boy. Since ""Friday the 13th"", Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer. Jason is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series. Exceptions to this include flashbacks of Jason as a child, and a brief scene in ""Jason Takes Manhattan"" where the character cries out ""Mommy, please don't let me drown!"" in"
"ax or a man stuck to a door with arrows, you should stay away from ""Friday the 13th"". It's bad luck."" The film's most vocal detractor was Gene Siskel, who in his review called Cunningham ""one of the most despicable creatures ever to infest the movie business."" He also published the address for Charles Bluhdorn, the chairman of the board of Gulf+Western, which owned Paramount, as well as Betsy Palmer's home city and encouraged fellow detractors to write to them and express their contempt for the film. To convince people not to see it, he even gave away the ending."
"Dean being confronted by serial killer Jason Voorhees of the ""Friday the 13th"" film series. After production cleared the rights to use the character, Kripke made everyone view """" to help them create the ""perfect facsimile"" of Jason. However, the film studio that had granted permission realized a few days before filming that it did not actually own the rights. In dire need of a new concept, the writers recalled Sam's dream sequence with Bela; since Sam is revealed to be a ""horn dog"" underneath, the writers wanted Dean to be the opposite. Dean secretly desires a normal family, so"
"an island with a group of death row convicts—placed there by television executives running a reality game show—while a scientist attempts to create an age-retarding ""super drug"" from Jason's DNA. Instead, she creates a virus that reanimates the dead into zombies. The character of Pamela Voorhees returns from the grave in ""Carnival of Maniacs"", and she searches for Jason, who is now part of a traveling sideshow and about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Since New Line Cinema's acquisition of the franchise, several ""Friday the 13th"" comic books have been published by Topps Comics, Avatar Press, and"
"making their mark on the character's design, including makeup artist Stan Winston. Tom Savini's initial design has been the basis for many of the later incarnations. The trademark hockey goalie mask did not appear until ""Friday the 13th Part III"". Since """", filmmakers have given Jason superhuman strength, regenerative powers, and near invulnerability. He has been seen as a sympathetic character, whose motivation for killing has been cited as being driven by the immoral actions of his victims and his own rage over having drowned as a child. Jason Voorhees has been featured in various humor magazines, referenced in feature"
"killer once more. The following morning, Tina and Nick are taken away in the ambulance. While someone finds Jason's broken mask in the wreckage, the screen fades to black while Jason's whispers can be heard from far away. After the previous installment, """", which reintroduced the Jason Voorhees character, ""Part VII"" was originally intended to be a crossover film between Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. With each ""Friday the 13th"" sequel, the box office profits were diminishing, with the films in the ""Nightmare on Elm Street"" series grossing nearly twice the amount of the ""Friday"" films. Paramount Pictures proposed the"
"Kane Hodder Kane Warren Hodder (born April 8, 1954) is an American actor, stuntman, and author. Hodder is best known for his portrayal of Jason Voorhees (five times) in four films from the ""Friday the 13th"" film series: """", """", """", ""Jason X"" and the video game """". He is also known for his role as Victor Crowley in the ""Hatchet"" series. He also played Leatherface during the stunts of """" and Freddy Krueger's clawed glove hand in """". Hodder was born in Auburn, California in 1954. Early in his career, during an interview he offered to show the interviewer"
"Friday the 13th (1980 film) Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, and written by Victor Miller. It stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson, and Robbi Morgan. The film tells the story of a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned summer camp. Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's ""Halloween"" (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in ""Variety"" in early 1979, while"
"Taso N. Stavrakis Taso Nicholas Stavrakis (born July 12, 1957) is an American film and television actor and stunt performer best known for his appearances in the George A. Romero films ""Dawn of the Dead"", ""Knightriders"", and ""Day of the Dead"". Recruited by his good friend and Carnegie-Mellon University classmate Tom Savini, Stavrakis assisted with stunts and special makeup effects on several seminal 1980s horror productions, including the original ""Friday the 13th"", in which he portrayed ""The Prowler"" (as the unidentified killer was initially referred to in Victor Miller's screenplay). Romero frequently joked that Stavrakis should be included in the"
"a young age. Six weeks after her disappearance, her brother, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki), comes to look for her. The pair reunite and work together to seemingly kill Jason. The original ""Friday the 13th"" was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously worked with filmmaker Wes Craven on ""The Last House on the Left"" (1972). Cunningham, inspired by the success of John Carpenter's ""Halloween"" (1978), wanted ""Friday the 13th"" to be shocking, visually stunning, and ""[make] you jump out of your seat"". Distancing himself from ""The Last House on the Left"", Cunningham wanted ""Friday the 13th"" to"
"Jason were heavily abused by Elias, culminating in Pamela murdering her husband. When questioned by the police on the murder, Pamela claims that she did on Jason's urging. The tapes also feature a brief, friendly exchange between Pamela and Dr. Malcolm Jarvis, the father of Jason's future nemesis Tommy Jarvis, who sympathizes with Pamela. Action figures of Pamela have been released by both Sideshow Collectibles and NECA. Pamela Voorhees Pamela Voorhees is a character from the ""Friday the 13th"" film series. She first appeared in Sean S. Cunningham's original film as the vengeful mother of Jason Voorhees, simply known as"