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Jason Voorhees has died more times than most people can count, and his resurrections are even more legendary. For his birthday, we thought it would be fitting to revisit a long-standing question among fans of the Friday the 13th franchise: When did Jason Voorhees become Undead?
The topic has been the subject of heated debates (Is Jason a zombie?), and the timeline of when exactly he entered the realm of the undead is another point of contention. In this video, we deep dive into some of the most popular Friday the 13th fan theories. (Could it be that our hockey-masked killer was “undead” from the very beginning? Or was A New Beginning the defining moment?
Later films in the franchise, like Jason Goes To Hell, Jason X, and Freddy vs. Jason, attempt to retcon or reshape Jason’s origins, so for the sake of this argument, we are strictly looking at the first six films in the franchise (no Manhattan field trips in this video).
Was Jason dead from the very beginning? Was his rising from the grave in Jason Lives the first time he became an undead revenant? Or was his trip to the morgue in The Final Chapter just one of many times Jason had died, only to quickly resurrect to kill and kill again? Watch the video below, and then decide where you stand.
Jason Voorhees returns in the newly announced Jason Universe maze coming to Halloween Horror Nights.
