FRIDAY 13th JASON VOORHEES

We just had another Friday 13th's come and go less than a week ago, that's the date not another movie that I'm taking about, so i thought I'd mark the occasion (slightly late) with a drawing of my favourite Jason, the one from the 3D Friday the 13th the final chapter.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD JOHNNY (1990)

I did wondered whom the fantastic actor portraying the Chop-Top with such relish in TEXAS CHAINSAW 2 was -- for a long time  I even believed that the role of Otis B Driftwood in HOUSE of a 1000 CORPSES and DEVILS REJECTS was actually played by Rob Zombie,  and I was always warmed into the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD by Johnny's antics in among the cemetery grave stones while he mocked his sister Barbara with those famous words "They're coming to get you Barbara"

Imagine the surprise when I discovered all these iconic roles were filled by the same person!
Somehow Bill Moseley completely losses  himself in his crazy kooky roles and in each of these performance  he had me fooled that these were three separate people I was watching!

  The drawing above has been signed by the wonderfully affable Bill with the words
" They're coming to get you GURCH! They're horny; they've been dead a loooong time! R. Moseley. Johnny. "
As an added bonus the bottom caption box is signed by the director of this enjoyable remake of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Tom Savini , he's added the equally funny
     "I did this one...'IN COLOR' Tom Savini"


Bill loved the drawing and noted that I had even captured the chip in his front teeth perfectly, he explained the damage to his tooth was caused by his brother striking him in the face with a bat when they were little.

I had wondered if the fall might have clipped his tooth some more during the opening sequence of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1990 , when the ghoul staggers up, grapples with Johnny and then looses his footing and thus making poor Johnny crack into the corner of a stone monument, that moment might have been responsible for some serious tooth chipping , but then again I do clearly recall that opening sequence being marred by that fall ,  it  being an all too obvious foam rubber dummy and as convincing as Bills acting skills may be I'm sure he wasn't playing that part of a shoddy falling prop.

"THEY"RE COMING TO GET YOU"

SHOCKIN' --- FRIGHTENING!
CLAUSTROPHOBIC --- HOPELESS!
TRAPPED & OUTNUMBERED,  THEIR SITUATION IS DIRE!
Besieged with only a gun while outside, frightful ghouls lurk!
Things that are all messed up are coming to get them!

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Nope, that ain’t the synopsis for the one-night stand that pops up in both Night of the Living Dead movies.. but it could be. Because shocked, frightened, claustrophobic, and hopeless is exactly how they must both be feeling. 

BEN (yeah, him with the gun), played by Duane Jones in Romero’s 1968 classic, and HARRY COOPER (the guy glued to the telly), resurrected by Tom Towles in Tom Savini’s 1990 remake,  they’re both here, trapped again. Not in a creaky old farmhouse this time, but inside this very blog… sealed within the digital walls of the object you’re reading right now. 

And outside?

 Out there, beyond the screen — it’s almost worse.... It's 2025

First night and second night jitters 

BATH TIME BRINGS OUT THE INNER CHILD

Here's a cartoon I knocked out quite quickly after hearing Tom Savini explain about the ending of the very first FRIDAY THE 13TH .

After seeing a similar shock tactic used at the climax of Carrie (the hand bursting out of the grave) It was Tom himself who came up with the suggestion of having little Jason leap out of the water and grab the lady on the lake.
Friday the 13th  was one of the first ever 'modern' horror films I'd had the chance to experience since the late night Universal Monster stomped, flapped and bound across my television , now those films of old were big on atmosphere, possessed a sense of creepiness and had roles filled with fine established actors, they had an air of worthiness about them.   FRIDAY the 13 was a world apart from what I was used to -  fraught with tension and graphic kills this film frayed my nerves , it was a roller coaster and  the end with the unexpected  lunge out of the lake turned out to be a cardiac arrest worthy fright. Misters Frankenstein, Dracula or the Wolfman never repaid me for sitting through their movies with a punch in the heart like Jason Voorhees managed.

 Of course there's NO way that a drowned boy could actually live under the lake, so what actually happened?  The physiological stresses of the nights on Alice had caused the hallucination,  it was all Alice's traumatised head as bore witness by the cops who attend and found no boy.
As the Friday13 series isn't strong on a sense of continuity we were treated to the full blown Jaze stalking through the many sequels without a valid explanation for his existence....but I for one don't care about that little technicality I just enjoyed the follow up movies just as much as the first because Jason was my introduction to the new wave of slasher films and as such he holds a special place in my shaken up heart.

Proof, it's not only blood baths that Jason enjoys! 

When Tom first looked through my little Moleskine sketch pad he was really taken by some of the drawings in there and to my delight started to rummage around in his bag for a long long time desperately trying to find his camera to take some photos, but as he couldn't lay his hands on his camera he kindly wrote his email in the back pages and asked me to email him some copies of the drawings.
So the next time I saw him I gave him a copy of this newly drawn cartoon as a thanks for making me feel so flattered.

TOM SAVINI

Here's an weird entry --  of the forth wall being broken by the forth wall....erm at least I think its something kinda along those lines.

If you focus in onto the very smallest drawing you'll see my  depiction of my moleskine book displaying an inked drawing of effects maestro TOM SAVINI on early slasher duties around 1981 , it's actually suppose be showing him in the days of THE PROWLER movie dealing with one of his trademark gore effect.

 In turn this page is being held up by a TOM SAVINI  in his role as the biker Sex Machine from the amazing DUSK TILL DAWN vampire flick released 1996 complete with a fabulous quote from that movie written and signed by Tom  -  it reads  " Now lets kill that F**king band!!"

Zooming out from that we find modern Tom himself echoing the same pose.

 My sketch book along with the inner drawing of the sketch book both have central fold lines down the middle of them,  now by freaky perchance if you look behind the big Tom there, look just to the side of his head and you will notice lurking paradoxically ..... a real life central fold line!!

It seems that we were actually photobombed by a fold line!

Drawing inspiration from Tom Savini