Film Theory: Can Jason Voorhees Teleport? (Friday the 13th Series)

Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory, the show that slowly follows you as you run away, but then appears in front of you with the machete of science, it's October and you know what that means Halloween has already been canceled due to the relentless kick in the face. the balls, that's 20 20. Honestly, it makes me very sad since Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, but you know, I don't revel in what we don't have, I revel in what we do have and This cloud has a On the bright side, sure we may not be able to gorge on free candy given to us by strangers this year, but we can still dress up and scare ourselves all month long by spending time inside watching classic horror movies when it comes.

For Halloween horror staples, I've already covered Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger on the channel, but there's still one man missing from this horror trifecta. Everyone knows who I'm talking about. Released on May 9, 1980, the spookiest season of them all, Friday the

13th

was the smash hit that would launch one of the most iconic horror franchises in history. It would be the

film

that would introduce the world to the unstoppable murderer Pamela Voorhees, the vengeful mother who killed the extremely hormonal camp counselors in her quest for revenge, yes, yes. I have never seen the original Friday the

13th

.

Jason isn't actually the killer in that movie, and yet his iconic hockey mask isn't introduced until the third one. Anyway, when the

series

begins, his mother Pamela is the one who commits all the murders because she. His son Jason drowned in the lake years earlier, when the lecherous camp counselors were too busy being stereotypical horror characters to save him after his death. Pamela lost her mind and did everything she could to keep the camp closed permanently, but during the finale of Friday the 13th, she literally loses. her head by decapitation and this is where things get weird, just before the closing credits of that 1980

film

, Jason, still 11 years old, leaves Crystal Lake and supposedly drags Alice, the heroine, into the water .

Alice survives this attack and Friday. the thirteenth part two no one believes his story there is no corroborating evidence instead we meet

jason

now a grown man who wears a sack over his head chasing more counselors this confusing revelation means one of the two things

jason

became a massive threat overnight or since Jason's body was never found in the lake in 1957, it means that he has been living an idyllic life in the woods and only emerges again because his mother was murdered in the first place, regardless of which of these two scenarios is true, a legend.

Then a legend was born that eventually travels to double hockey sticks and space before establishing itself as a farmer of five-leaf plants that will seriously demonetize us. The 2009 remake of Friday the 13th goes to some very strange places throughout the 12 installments. released between 1980 and 2009 jason became a pop culture icon his recognizable hockey mask the ridiculousness kills his infamous music and especially his mastery of the element of surprise, one would think that someone as big and strong as jason would be super slow and He is most of the time, but then there are those moments throughout the

series

where he seems to appear somewhere unexpectedly;

It's an impressive scare, to say the least, but also an impressive feat of movement in which he seemingly

teleport

s from one point to another. b like, how else could he have made that move without being seen? In reality, it's a debate that has been raged by fans of the series for decades. Can Jason really

teleport

because outside of the regenerative abilities that make him basically immortal and being actually very strong, he doesn't? He has no other supernatural powers. He has become such that on Friday the 13th 2017, the game introduced a teleportation option, but is it true that Jason Voorhees is just a strong guy with an iron will to live or does he actually have magical powers that are helping him?

On your wave of revenge, my fellow theorists, this is what we aim to prove today by coming to the definitive answer as to whether Jason Voorhees can teleport from Friday the 13th. The franchise has such a loyal fan base and we didn't want Jason to be blamed. Looking for obvious missed moments, we scoured the f13 message boards to put together a list of moments that potentially include teleportation. We then re-watched the entire series to make sure we didn't ultimately miss anything in the 12 franchise films we finished. with five key moments that absolutely deserved a closer look, the first being a moment from the fan-favorite part 6, Jason Lives, this is the movie that introduced the world to Super Jason, a Jason who maybe was dead but then He woke up when lightning struck the stabbed metal bar. via his body in the scene, a couple is driving toward Camp Crystal Lake when Jason stops them in their tracks, annoyed that the obviously menacing masked killer won't clear the way for them to pass.

The male character Darren does what any sane person does. he would force his girlfriend to move forward almost hitting the pedestrian before pulling out his gun and waving it around like an idiot needless to say he dies quickly his girlfriend elizabeth tries to escape and on the real

friday

the 13th she falls on her own feet in a puddle and chooses to stay there while in the puddle, she frantically reaches into her wallet and pulls out some cash to bribe Jason so she can buy a machete or a new monkey I guess, however when she looks up, he's gone seconds. then Jason lands behind her and finishes her, was it teleportation or something else?

What makes this easy to debunk is something we'll see a lot throughout this episode. Elizabeth takes her eyes off of Jason for eight seconds while she reaches for her wallet, this gives Jason plenty of time. to run around a tree and surprise the impaler from behind, why do I know that's enough time for proof? I walked in a straight line for eight seconds covering over 40 feet without any problems. Also, in Friday the 13th Part 2, we learned that Jason is totally capable. From fast trots and in part 7 new blood, he has the ability to explode through windows with surprising agility.

Jason Voorhees is just an athletic guy who only chooses to hustle when he wants to get that sweet, sweet death. Not surprisingly, Jason runs up to the tree to Elizabeth's right, knocks her off guard, and then leaps into the air to deliver that brutal blow. Is it absolutely unnecessary? Yes, but remember that this is also a man who climbed a tree only to fall from it and perform a brutal triple decapitation. In the end, Jason covered at most 10 feet and Elizabeth would never have seen him since she was searching through her wallet the entire time. Friday the 13th Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan gives us our next teleportation moment, it begins with Jason waking up once again, this time later. upon being electrocuted underwater looking for new victims, he sneaks onto a ship called the ss lazarus haha, nice name guys, and immediately starts killing high school graduates.

One of those victims is Miles, who meets Jason on the upper deck of the Lazarus ship after a failed attack. Miles runs and climbs a ladder. Normally running away without tripping is a smart move in a horror movie, and yet, when Miles reaches the deck below Jason is already waiting, many point this out as Jason teleporting, I point this out as Jason not jumping his leg. On the day this drawing shows the ride in red that thousands took as they descended the ladder, Jason in yellow could have easily jumped to the deck below like he has done countless times in previous films.

The good thing about being a supernatural assassin is that you have supernatural powers. knees that can absorb supernatural impacts, as well as noticing Jason's heavy breathing after that scene, suggesting that he ran while Miles simply ran. Jason just did some solid cardio. No, that's not what's inexplicable about the scene, what defies explanation is why Miles in a completely open-air location. Boat decides that the only option he has is to escape directly up a ladder. He never considers running back to where he came from or, you know, jumping off the boat into the water. Do not climb the stairs.

I'm sure that makes more sense. I love how Jason just stands there and watches the miles go up just thinking I can't believe that worked now my friend James from Deadmeat says the last climb here shows off Jason's ability to teleport guys did we mention that Jason He can definitely teleport now, but I disagree, there are seven seconds? when Jason is off screen, more than enough time for him to climb the ladder after his victim, he watches the miles slow down and finally stop when he reaches the middle of the ladder. Jason loves to hide in barns.

He loves to climb trees so he can jump and nail some. impressive triple deaths he is a professional climber no, the much more difficult to explain moment of this movie comes before with eva watanabe in her good girl eva is chased without falling again by jason in what I affectionately call the disco once there, she she runs and learns that all the other doors in the room are closed and when she looks back to where she came in, Jason bursts in, this is where things start to get really teleporting as Eva starts looking around the room and sees Jason everywhere, At first glance it seems undeniable that Jason is teleporting across the room and is using his supernatural abilities to taunt and scare Eva.

However, upon further inspection and investigation, I don't think teleportation really explains what we're seeing here. The f13 fandom page suggests that Eva might be hallucinating. to distress the panic over the sudden blindness and the fact that she circled the room seven times before Jason walked in, I'm actually inclined to agree with this interpretation, but for more detailed reasons, you'll see 15 minutes before that she meets her untimely end, we see Eva doing drugs with her friend Tamara, although she initially refuses, Eva finally gets hit, this leads me to believe that what we are seeing in the nightclub is a hallucination that is a mixture of fear and drugs.

Notice that there appear to be two Jasons in this scene. the first is the one we see burst through the door and then approach the stage, we see Jason breathing heavily and awkwardly turning his head towards something, that head turn honestly doesn't make any sense based on his position relative to her in the room nor He's not even looking at where he was supposed to move to interrupt her, it's very strange, but anyway it's a Jason who is in a very active search for his prey, although the second Jason is simply standing in front of the glass panel and not once . he moves as if nothing is happening he's not even breathing hard he's also standing under a purser sign now a purser is someone on a ship who is responsible for all the money handling administrative tasks accounting which is strange considering a purser probably I'd hate to do her bookkeeping in a nightclub full of bad 80s music, but anyway it seems to me that the way this scene was filmed is for Eva to unconsciously read the sign as a pursuer, which is why she's hallucinating seeing the guy who Jason, the sign, the constant spinning of the room, his being in a life-threatening situation, the added sensory overload of the loud music and flashing lights, and all of that for about an hour. after she took hard drugs.

I think this is just a confusingly filmed hallucination scene and now we go from jason on the high seas to jason jason x rejoins the jason saga in the year 24-55, but before we get there we stop in 2010 to see jason as a prisoner of the glass. lake research facility for some reason, after decades of murder and full knowledge of his superhuman strength, the facility's bosses think it's totally fine to have just one guard watching over him 24 hours a day. Surprise, Jason escapes and ambushes the soldiers who entered his chamber to transfer him to another. facility while he murders him, the film's main protagonist, Dr.

Rowan, stands outside the room listening to the economic carnage. Finally, a soldier breaks down a door in front of Rowan and as she tends to him, the camera captures Jason standing behind her breathing like him. I just ran to a store that offered free machetes and self-help books on how to deal with mom issues, so how could Jason throw a man through a door and then a few seconds later appear behind the person? sitting there blocking said door, so she asks the team to teleport and thus answers the theoretical matpat two exits observe this scene closely after attending to the soldier thrown through the door.

Rowan looks straight into the room.that once held Jason captive, but before, when we saw the soldiers entering that room, there was an alcove. I looked behind the soldiers as they marched. In the room there was no door behind them to enter. They had to go through a door and then turn left to walk towards Jason. This means very clearly that it is not the same door that Rowan looks through later. This is less of a teleportation moment. and more of Jason finding another way out to escape her and then stopping to see that, there's another living witness so I have to go kill her too.

I guess the job of a hulking killer monster is never done and she would have gotten away with it too if she hadn't. He got too arrogant and tried to mock him in his idiotic cryogenic cell, so with four possible teleportation moments sufficiently debunked we arrive at the granddaddy of them all, the most infamous moment that team teleportation supporters point to as the definitive moment of Jason's inexplicable physics for the entire franchise in

friday

the 13th part 8 jason takes manhattan again wait is a third scene of jason takes manhattan three of our five examples count of this movie man maybe that's why this one tends to top the worst everyone's Friday the 13th list oh wait No no it's definitely because it ends with toxic waste being dumped on him causing him to melt until he goes back to being the scared kid he was when he died yeah that's like this one. ends and you wonder why I made a

theory

about teleportation instead of the story of these movies talking about teleportation in our final and hardest to explain moment in the movie we're not just dealing with one teleportation we're actually dealing with two In less than a minute in it, Jason while chasing a man down the street apparently teleports to the second floor of a building to throw him out a window and then teleports back to street level to finish him off in this scene, Charles will soon learn the definition of defenestration glances. behind him to presumably confirm how far away he is from Jason before entering an abandoned building, seven seconds later we see Charles thrown out of a window faster than a religious official in Prague, yes, that's a deep reference from the european history in his video about 80 slasher victims welcome to the channel anyway Jason looks out the window and in another seven seconds he is standing over his target before drowning him in toxic sewage that is apparently just found in convenient barrels around the city from New York, so how did Jason do it? up and down the building without us seeing him enter or leave the door we saw Charles go through and how he beat Charles to climbing those stairs like Jason.

I'm going to cut to the chase, similar to what we just saw with Jason. x there is clearly a second entrance to the building, the biggest clue to this is when Jason appears seven seconds later to finish the writing, if you pay attention to the camera angle, Jason is coming from another direction relative to where Charles first enters the building. building, look at the In the cutscene, the entrance to the building is behind Charles to his right. Jason enters from his left. There is clearly a second entrance to the abandoned building. We even see Jason come out of the window in that direction.

If Jason had been using the same staircase and entrance as Charles, he would use it. He's gone out of the window into the left frame, but instead he goes to the right, presumably to use the entrance that got him there in the first place, so this is what's happening in the scene. Charles checks where Jason is, he doesn't see him, he goes inside. The building behind Jason enters through a second entrance to block his path on the second floor. Seven seconds is enough time for him to run up the stairs, and we know Charles is constantly stopping and looking behind him to make sure Jason is gone. around, jason reaches the second floor just before the fast charles charles sees his pursuer in front of him and decides to do a trish jarvis of friday the 13th, the final chapter, he is going to escape from a hail by throwing himself out of the window and watch how his The silhouette in the window is seen frame by frame, we can see that there is never a change in his momentum and when his body leaves the window, both arms block his face in all other window jumps throughout the series and there are many of them.

When a character is thrown through a window, he does not actively defend himself against the broken glass. You will also notice that there is no second shadow on the window. If Jason was really the one who threw Charles, you'd expect to see the massive body of him. He is also silhouetted somewhere against the glass in the scene. No, Charles runs up the stairs and sees his pursuer jump out the window, misjudging how painful it will be to jump from a second-story window, and is left helpless until Jason steps in to finish the job. The biggest question I have now is why Charles ran into the building and had a perfect alley to run into.

Personally, I've never been chased by an immortal hockey mask with a killer, but locking myself in a building seems like a terrible idea, no matter how similar it is with Eva and Miles. I guess the fear of Jason is enough to cloud your judgment, and you see, I think that's the point of this entire episode. I know a killer like Jason Voorhees seems mythical, but when you objectively look at the actions he takes, he is relatively human. He's a bit of a bullet sponge and is definitely strong enough to bash a man's head clean off his body, but other than that, he doesn't have any magical abilities.

We've made up these epic stories of Jason giving him teleportation powers that he simply doesn't have. He doesn't have the ability to kill people, not because he is a supernatural beast that appears and disappears at will, but because his victims make mistakes, they see him and panic, instead of just running and not tripping, they run into corners like thousands and charles. cocky like Rowan panic like Eva or just don't run in the first place like Elizabeth in the end Jason's deadliest weapon isn't his machete it's his intimidation factor and his machete and the supernatural healing factor you get everyone's point ways, that's all. just a

theory

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