By now, most of us are probably familiar with Jason Voorhees, legendary badass teenybopper-chopper and terror of the great outdoors. He’s been called everything from a crusty little kid to a walking morality play and everything in between.

But one thing you have to say about Jason Voorhees is that his history is complex, deep, and frequently contradictory, as was a similar observation from Stacie Ponder over at the AMC Monsterfest blog.

This is, let’s remember, a guy who started out life in “Friday the 13th” as a kid who very nearly drowned at the bottom of Crystal Lake, and his subsequent disappearance caused his mother to go on a killing spree in search of revenge. Jason followed up mama’s work following the death of Pamela Voorhees, and spent several movies running amok as a bag-headed backwoods yokel, kinda like Cletus from The Simpsons only much, much more stabby.

Part Six is where the Jason mythos goes off the rails and into the land of sheer spectacle, as Jason, dead and buried, is reanimated by local teenagers. His corpse emerges from the ground to go on a super undead juggernaut killing spree, and has done so pretty much ever since.

At least, until Michael Bay’s upcoming train wreck remake, where all of this carefully laid insanity will be summarily spat on and you’ll be charged eight bucks to see Bay wipe his proverbial tukhus on the history of horror.

Thus, I exhort you all to go and play the Friday the 13th trivia on Kwanzoo, the TRUE Friday the 13th.

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