[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

We're getting off topic here, but I don't actually like almost any of the Friday the 13th movies. The first was alright, but they're all just more violent slashier, less actual terror versions of Halloween. Halloween was good, but all of the sequels were less than good because they made Michael into a superhuman killer, it was scarier when he was a more realistic serial killer rather than another movie monster.
Also why is Jason a full grown zombie dude? He died when he was a kid so how did he become a grown adult.

AHEM...In comes the resident Friday The 13th geek.

To answer your question, Jason never died as a little boy. While in the first movie he did, when the sequels were penned, they were penned in a manner to show that he somehow survived the drowning (perhaps his body was never recovered from the lake), and actually saw his mother beheaded by Alice as his mother took her revenge for what she perceived to be, her dead son.

Jason grew up to become a full sized man, one of incredible athletic prowess (i.e. freakishly strong,) and cunning and instinct, but is still somewhat unintelligent and in need of guidance (think of the character "Lenny" from "Of Mice And Men.") He kills Alice in the beginning of the second movie, avenging his mother, and is tricked by Ginnie at the end, who finds an altar of Jason's mother with her head and sweater on it displayed on it, further confirming that Jason was indeed alive and witnessed his mother's death.

Jason survives his encounter with Ginnie in part two, and becomes more and more bold, coming out of hiding, and taking revenge on anyone who steps into the campsite, be they counselor or not. He takes an axe to the head at the end of part three, which stops him, but miraculously does not kill him, as he wakes up in the morgue of a nearby hospital in part 4 stunned and very pissed off. It is then that he (finally) meets his maker from young Tommy Jarvis at the end of part four, who tricks Jason into letting down his guard, and hacks him to death in a fit of rage with his own machete.

Friday 5 was a copycat killer, so Jason returned in part 6 as a zombie. The director of that film (Tom Mcloughlin) was a huge fan of the Universal Studios version of Frankenstein, and wanted his version of Jason to be "a monster born out of hatred and electricity." (Jason is resurrected by a pole in the chest struck by lightning, and he becomes quite passive around young children, choosing not to harm them and maybe even look after them.)

The director also attempted to make part 6 a movie that would later become the foundation for Wes Craven's scream...a movie with a good looking cast, comedy, action sequences, lots of jumps and scares and a high body count. He also wanted to make Jason an almost larger than life superhero type, not all that indifferent from Freddy, hence the "utility belt" he sports in the film and the creative means he uses it to dispatch his prey.

Way off topic I know..., but I just wanted to chime in and answer the question. Don't hate me mods!