Why is Jason's face deformed?

Jason Voorhees' story starts with his deformed face. Voorhees has these severe deformities due to the fact that he was born with hydrocephalus and an abnormally large head, which, as you can imagine, was the bane of his existence growing up. And eventually, he was bullied, thrown in the lake and drowned.
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What was Jason's deformity?

Jason Voorhees was born with Hydrocephalus, which is a real condition that forms from an abnormally large accumulation of fluids in the skull. These fluids put pressure on the skull, and as a result, Jason had a large, disfigured head.
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Why does Jason hide his face?

Jason was born with hydrocephalus and mental disabilities, and in order to hide his deformed face, he covered it all the time before adopting the hockey mask he's well-known for now.
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Why is Jason immortal?

Jason Vorhees isn't your run-of-the-mill biblical demon

In the movie, Jason's demonic soul keeps passing from person to person via a grotesque "hell baby" who takes over and destroys his host's body. The hosts don't last long because Jason needs to possess someone from his bloodline to once again become immortal.
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Was Jason Voorhees deformed as a child?

Jason survived and became a hermit, living in the woods and feeding off plants, bugs and animals. (Some claim he did drown but came back to life to avenge his mother's death). He grew to be a large, deformed and uneducated man who never said a word. Jason's mother blamed irresponsible counselors for her son's death.
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Who can beat Jason Voorhees?

Pinhead from Hellraiser

Physically imposing and hideously evil, Pinhead would utilize every evil trick in the book, ripping into Jason with chains, siccing his fellow cenobites on him, and just tearing Jason Voorhees a new one before dragging him into his realm.
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Was Jason's mom the killer?

Pamela Voorhees was a vengeful psychotic serial killer mother. her son is known as Jason Voorhees.
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Why can't Jason Voorhees talk?

Some suggest it could be due to a mental illness, or his low IQ. Or maybe there is another reason as to why Jason Voorhees remains one of the silent killers. No matter his reason for quiet…he does a great job hacking and slashing and remains the horror movie killer with the highest body count.
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How did Jason survive drowning?

It was implied in some of the early sequels that Jason was only thought to have drowned. In reality, he survived, and lived in the woods until adulthood, when he witnessed the killing of his mother. Jason only became the immortal zombie that he's known as in part 6, when he was brought back to life by lightning.
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Was Jason alive the whole time?

Part II is the first time it's revealed that Jason is in fact still alive. He's now a fully grown adult man living in a shack in the middle of the woods, yet the sequel doesn't go into detail about this sudden reversal.
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Why does Jasons mask change?

Due to an encounter with a motorboat, the left lower side of the mask was destroyed, revealing part of Jason's disfigured face.
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Do we ever see Jasons face?

Usually saved until the climactic final act, Jason's face is revealed and over the course of eleven movies, each unmasked Jason is unique to each film.
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Does Jason look like under his mask?

Under the sack-mask, Jason rocks a full head of Hagrid-esque hair and a bushy beard that covers much of his face. His over all appearance looks equally inspired by The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance.
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Is Jason Voorhees mentally challenged?

Though his age is often disputed, as the actress for Pamela created a backstory for her character that put Jason's birthdate in 1944. Jason was afflicted with severe facial deformities, Hydrocephalus, an abnormally large head, and mental disabilities.
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How did Jason get his powers?

At the climax of the story, Jason battles his nemesis Tommy Jarvis and his great-niece Stephanie Kimble; Stephanie impales him before Tommy decapitates him with a shard of glass. Jason's soul is then absorbed by Freddy, who uses it to increase his own power.
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What disorder does Jason Voorhees have?

Jason was born with Hydrocephalus, which is a real condition that forms when there's an abnormally large accumulation of fluids in the skull. This is what gave Jason his deformed head and compressed his brain which resulted in decreased intellectual abilities.
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Did Mrs. Voorhees know Jason was alive?

The theory that Mrs. Voorhees knew that Jason was alive all along posits that Jason nearly drowned at the lake, but she found his near-lifeless body. She hid him away in the woods and vowed to never let the camp reopen. The lack of oxygen caused severe brain damage, affecting his speech and explaining why Mrs.
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Is Jason Based on a true story?

Is Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees Based on a True Story? Friday the 13th creators denied taking inspiration from real-life events; however, a Finland massacre bears an eerie resemblance to the franchise.
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How old was Jason Voorhees at death?

At age 11, he seemingly drowned in Crystal Lake, but survived and killed people who trespassed at Crystal Lake though he killed Alice Hardy in revenge after witnessing said camp counselor kill his mother, Pamela Voorhees, who had previously killed several camp counselors.
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Why is Jason Voorhees scared of water?

For the majority of the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason had almost no weaknesses. However, later films chose to give him a crippling fear of water. This was due to the circumstances of his death when he drowned in Crystal Lake as a child.
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Is Jason's weakness water?

Jason has established that Jason's weakness is water, since he died by drowning (although he was shown in water in some films).
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What is the IQ of Jason Voorhees?

Jason Voorhees [IQ: 69]
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How did Jason Voorhees have a son?

While Professor Claude Bardox was working on one of the two moons belonging to Earth II, he ran a genetic experiment on fellow geneticist Sarah Jefferson. It was during this experiment that she was impregnated with Jason's genetic material, and eventually gave birth to a boy named Free Jefferson.
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Who won in Freddy vs Jason?

The battle ends with both villains exhausted, but Jason uses one of Freddy's own severed limbs to seriously wound him, before collapsing into Crystal Lake. However, this leaves Freddy open to be beheaded by Lori, the film's final girl.
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Why does Jason make that sound?

In a revelatory 2015 interview with Gun Media, the composer explained he conjured the sound for the purpose of giving a presence to the film's real killer, Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) — the mother of her more infamous son, Jason — who isn't seen until late in the bloody action.
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