Friday the13th again

Just realised what today is, so I drew a quickie sketch in recognition.

Now just as I'm posting this up I realised that this is the third incarnation Jason so it's from FRIDAY THE 13th part III, this takes place after the events of the first two movies which means this movie actually occurs on the following 2 days ...so its really Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th! Doh! I could have saved rushing it and taken my time drawing this.




                               What do victim shout when pursued? ---STOP Jason me!!

Thank G its Friday Ch Ch Ch Ah Ah Ah

For todays sketch I offer up this quickly drawn Friday 13 homage.
Funnily enough if you watch any of the Friday the thirteen movies in reverse Jason is actually reviving dead people with his magic machetes.

Jason on a hot date... (date is Friday 13th)

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.

JASON VORHEES - FRIDAY 13 PART 2

At the climax of FRIDAY THE 13 PART 2  we're treated to one of those window smashing jumps that occurs in just about each one of the Friday 13th movies, a franchise filled with horror movie tropes.
Its a slow motion window crash that always catches out the first time viewer, a more effective and cinematic scare than the initial plan which was to have Jason leap out from behind a piece of furniture.
This technique, which has become a budget horror film staple is known as the Lewton Bus, because it was first employed by Val Lewton in the 1942 CAT PEOPLE where a loud bus hissing was used to add an forceful jolt.
 Here towards the final few minutes of Friday The 13th part2 the flow slows to a idyllic calm, theres even a cute puppy padding into the room to help lower your guard, the background music eases into a quieter tone, the  stress levels drop the waters are calm...then SMASH!  Jason in all his snarly ugly glory, shattered glass showering everywhere,  intrudes with such the impact of a killer hissing bus.

 I don't know if it was intentional but Jason's look in this movie was strongly reminiscent of the burlap hooded sack killer from the TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, unmasked when he launched himself through the glass it was the only time in any of the movies he had hair (except that is until the 2009 Michael Bay produced remake which gave his look a respecting nod to the many different Jason visages from the original Fridays)

I haven't posted any Jason art up yet, so I thought I'd start by throwing in up an old drawing of mine of the above mentioned Friday part 2 sequence.

Jason should buy a Mac , he's terrible with windows. 

This also seems as good a spot as any to jump in with a photograph of my FRIDAY THE 13th double bill poster.

 I'm not that struck by the look of this double presentation, and thats the reason that this poster never dressed my wall for long.  Compared to my other posters the artwork and design lacks lustre and action plus the overall colour palette I find a little too restricted. But in fairness the iconic hockey mask hadn't been endorsed by the killer yet so that staple item to sell the movie isn't in the poster designers toolbox.  Most wasteful indeed for some reason the design has a useless blank white band across the top section, all the space of a movie poster surface area is prime real estate to brag about your movie so a white strip amounts to nothing less than a criminal waste of good space.
 I must point out that the segment on the left hand side does give a hint to the identity of the  killer in the first Friday the 13th as the hand holding the bowie knife does look rather ladylike! (The knife in the movie used by Mrs Vorhees was a Sabre Monarch 171 Bowie Knife) again the weapon most associate with Jason nowadays , his machete,  hadn't stuck as his calling card in these first two movies. 

 I could also argue that the other half of the poster is even more ladylike in that its just an outline filled with words, giving me the impression of some kind of medical drug advertisement and judging by the fact that the bottom words are dripping with blood it might well be for some kind of menstrual product! 

Friday the 13th x 2 = Friday the 26th