Since I'm watching a Friday the 13th marathon right now on AMC I have a question:

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Since I'm watching a Friday the 13th marathon right now on AMC I have a question:

Is Jason Voorhees technically a zombie or is he just a really pissed off hick with strong regenerative properties?

Pros for zombie: 
1- He has died, and come back to life (weird that he died as a child and came back to life as an adult, though)
2- He can take a beating, but nothing seems to kill him
3- His clothes are all ratty

Pros for being a really pissed off hick with Wolverine-like healing:
1- He lives in the backwoods of New Jersey -- alone.
2- Bad hygiene (I'm guessing)
3- Doesn't talk a lot
4- Ratty clothes

I'm sure there's more to consider but I really don't want to put too much brain power into this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees

Comments

Ryan “IT Lab” Drewrey said…
He is a cursed undead - not exactly a Romero zombie, but I'd say type of zombie
October 30, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Jason ON said…
Watching "Goes to Hell" right now. I can't believe all the 'smei-famous' actors in this one!
October 30, 2012 at 6:57 PM
Amanda Rachelle Warren said…
I"m with Ryan Drewrey ..."Goes to Hell" explains a lot of it. Jason can switch bodies, so less a zombie than some sort of thing reanimating dead flesh. 
Also, "Jason Vorhees reminds me of a little girl trying to put a hotdog through a donut." (Best line in "Goes to Hell," trying to type it from memory, so forgive me if it's off a bit.)
October 30, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Alan Gerow said…
According the Zombie Movie book I have, he's considered a zombie after Part IV because he is explicitly shown coming back to life from the grave at the beginning of Part V. Though then again, none of his victims come back to life, so he's not contagious.
October 30, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Jason ON said…
Amanda Rachelle Warren, that's the line. ;)
Alan Gerow, you make a good point about being contagious. I wonder if that's a requirement for zombies or if that's just a pop-culture thing to scare people.
October 30, 2012 at 7:32 PM
Amanda Rachelle Warren said…
In "A New Beginning" it isn't even Jason doing the killings. Then the zombie resurrection in "Jason Lives" via lightning strike, but then he's brought back to life by the telekinetic in "The New Blood," and then by electric shock again in "Takes Manhattan" before the demon heart thing in "Goes to Hell." Then Freddy Kreuger resurrects him in "Jason v. Freddy." So...sometimes zombie, sometimes mystical whatnot, sometimes...who knows? 

Then, far in the future, he's frozen and reformed by nano-bots in "Jason X."
October 30, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Jason ON said…
In the first one it isn't Jason doing any killing either, so taken with "A New Beginning" and the lack of "Jason" those don't really count towards the Jason mythos.
October 30, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Amanda Rachelle Warren said…
So, technically, since he is drowned prior to the end of one ...he is zombie-esque, because he is a reanimated corpse, although how does he "grow up" under water? Because he's a kid when he dies. (Headscratching!)
October 30, 2012 at 7:40 PM
Jason ON said…
That was my thought, too. He dies as a kid but comes back to life as an adult?
October 30, 2012 at 7:41 PM
Amanda Rachelle Warren said…
Is there any indication of how much time has passed between his death and his mom's killing spree? I can't remember. 

And apparently in the books (who knew?) people who put on the hockey mask are possessed by Jason.

There are continuity issues.
October 30, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Jason ON said…
The possession idea is what pushes the Jason Goes to Hell movie.

Unless stated in the individual movies, I have no idea how much time passes between resurrections.
October 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Amanda Rachelle Warren said…
This spurred a big discussion at our house. We've decided that every script was just "eff it, who cares" about what came before it...for the most part.
October 30, 2012 at 9:54 PM
Jason ON said…
There is that possibility. Imagine: (1) random writer submits script for hack and slash movie, (2) studio exec thinks it's needs a hook, (3) wants known character in it to draw fanbase, (4) rewrite script to add Jason Voorhees.

Very plausible.
October 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM
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