Whether that film would be any good is another matter entirely. RELATED: Friday the 13th Game Coming to Nintendo Switch Sam Stone Mar 5, 2019Ĭonsidering that made it into the official cinematic canon, it doesn't seem unreasonable that Jason's demonic video game variant couldn't also get a film of its own. His biggest competition - for both power and weirdness - is Jason X a film version that survives being cryogenically frozen, thawed-out hundreds of years later, blown to bits, reformed into a cyborg and goes on to punch a robot's head clean off. His opponents are even encouraged to avoid Savini Jason entirely rather than engage him. (But, then again, Jason was always pretty unkillable even when he was just human.) In-game, he can take someone down with just three-five moves and the Pitchfork gives him much greater reach than his old machete. He was certainly powerful enough to break through a dimensional barrier and his demonic form suggests he's undead.
RELATED: Jason Voorhees Meets Cheech and Chong? It Almost HappenedĪlso unclear is whether Savini Jason is the most powerful iteration of the character. His choice of weapon is also monstrously upgraded - from a simple machete to the "Devil's Pitchfork." How he came by it is unclear, but the fan fiction practically writes itself. When walking around, he leaves ashy footprints in his wake. Removing his hockey mask reveals his lips have almost been sewn shut by fused skin. His blackened colorization, chains, molten eyes and flecks of ember are all in-line with some kind of cursed abomination. It was created for the 2017 video game, Friday the 13th: The Game and named after legendary special effects makeup artist, stuntman and actor, Tom Savini, who worked on the first and fourth films in the series.ĭesign-wise, Savini Jason has touches of Marvel's Ghost Rider about him. This alternate form imagines a Jason who managed to bust his way out of hell without Freddy's meddling. It's between these two movies that Savini Jason theoretically slots into Friday the 13th's chronology. The film is also a direct sequel to Jason Goes To Hell, beginning with Freddy plotting his escape from the underworld by manipulating his fellow slasher's mommy issues. It would take 10 years before this teased crossover would come to fruition in the form of Freddy vs Jason, which - love it or hate it - became the biggest box office success in both characters' histories. All hell quite literally breaks loose then as Jason is dragged into the undergrowth by supernatural forces, the last of which is a clawed hand accompanied by an evil cackle, both of which horror fans would instantly recognize belonged to Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Kruger. This body-napping cycle continues throughout the rest of the film until Jason's supernatural trail of destruction is finally halted by a mystical blade to the heart.
His remains are taken to a morgue where the coroner, entranced by the heart, eats it and seemingly consumes Jason's soul. Jason Goes To Hell sees Jason lured into an explosive trap set by the FBI at Camp Crystal Lake, leaving his body damaged beyond repair - save for his still-beating heart.
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Following on from the dismal reception of Jason Takes Manhattan in 1989, this was to be the last, bloody hurrah for the machete-waving slasher and it was for the next decade, until 2002's Jason X resurrected the series in a new, futuristic timeline.
Thirteen years after the first Friday the 13thfilm was released, the franchise was ready to wrap up for good on its ninth installment: Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.
To explain what Savini Jason is, we need to go back to 1993. Savini Jason, however, is a Vorhees variant that you probably won't have heard of, but will definitely wish you had. Jason Vorheees has gone through some extreme makeovers, most of which fans of the long-running slasher series will be well familiar with.