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Crystal Lake's population control is back. Again.

Kill-kill-kill, die-die-die. Cue the whisper music, run all ye fornicating campers and watch out for human machete holsters. Camp Crystal Lake's number one cause for really hating the folks for sending you to camp is back with a new movie, and a slightly new look. Jason Voorhees, the ultimate badass mama's boy, lends his many variants to our popular Many Looks of feature. Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader. So check out our list below, and then be sure - as always - to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is!

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Boy in the Lake Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th (1980)

The Look: As we all know, Jason isn't actually the murderer in the original Friday the 13th. In fact, the identity of the killer is kept a mystery for most of the film's running time, with the filmmakers offering us only POV shots of the murderer's hands and the such. These POV shots are hilarious in retrospect because when the identity of the villain is finally revealed to be Jason's loony mom Pamela, it's obvious that those previously seen hands -- and some of the feats they were capable of -- didn't belong to little old Mama Voorhees. But Jason does show up very briefly at the end of the film when he lurches out of the famed Crystal Lake and drags an unsuspecting camper down back into the murky depths with him. Dream or real? Who can say, though this is certainly one of the creepiest Jason moments ever put on film. The malformed boy-thing spotted here also served as a template for the many unmasked adult Jasons we would see in the future. It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Hillbilly Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

The Look: Jason finally got down to some proper killing in the second film of the series, though his mom was still very much present too. Or rather, his mom's head was still around… what with Jason making it the centerpiece of his weird little place of worship or whatever you call that shack of his in the woods.

This is a Jason look that you either love or hate. The famed hockey mask is not yet present, so the guy uses the next best thing for a disguise… a sack over his head. And it's a one-eyed sack at that, which just adds a whole other level of dread to this look. Why, one wonders, aren't there two eye holes?

Jason strikes a hillbilly fashion in this film, which actually makes a lot of sense. He is an uneducated slack-jawed yokel who lives in the woods, right? So the overalls and flannel shirt are spot-on. And the unmasked Jason, when we finally see him, is totally out of Deliverance… though fortunately there's no Ned Beatty lovemaking going on here.

We would be remiss if we didn't also point out Jason's physical awkwardness and comparative slight of build in this installment. Whereas the Jason in later films was usually a hulking behemoth, this Jason is sort of a regular-sized semi-big guy. He's also quite clumsy, like when he falls off a chair in a very odd scene. And he actually gets scared at times, running away from things like mere chainsaw attacks!

It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Classic Hockey Mask Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982)

The Look: Here we begin Jason's long and fruitful career as a hockey-mask-wearing psycho. It's been an amazingly successful look for our boy over the past 26 years, and one that is certain to continue in the new Friday the 13th reboot that's coming next year.

The funny thing about the hockey mask is how nonchalantly Jason goes about acquiring it (some idiot victim is walking around with it and Jason "borrows" the mask -- and a spear gun -- halfway into the film). There's no great legend or mythology to why he wears the mask. He just does. Also of note is the body type of Jason in this film. The character has been played by so many different actors over the years, and this version (stuntman Richard Brooker) is one of the most physically imposing. Even though Brooker was only around 28 when he made the film, he carries himself like he's in his 50s… which is quite off-putting and troubling, really. It works quite well to make Part 3 a great one.

Of course, we also get to see an unmasked Jason during the finale of this film. It's a convention of the series that we almost always catch a glimpse of what's under that mask in the final minutes of running time. Interestingly, this Jason looks very little like the one from the previous film -- he's bald, for one thing, and less Deliverance than Toxic Avenger. Does that count as a compliment? It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Melted Face Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

The Look: This Jason looks more or less like his counterpart in the third film, with the green jacket, hockey mask, and poor posture (though he was actually played by a different actor/stuntman). Aside from a hole in his mask from an axe wound that occurred at the end of part three, the main difference here is in his unmasked visage, which again departs greatly from what we'd seen before. This difference in his looks could be attributed to the many injuries Jason suffers during the film, one supposes (he was apparently pronounced dead and brought to the morgue at the start of the film, and then chopped in the hand with a machete, hit in the head with a hammer several times, stabbed in the neck with the claw of the hammer, and smashed in the head with a TV). Or maybe the make-up guys just wanted to do something new with our favorite camp-counselor killer. It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Zombie Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part VI -- Jason Lives (1986)

The Look: We have no Jason look from the fifth film in the series, because that picture actually featured a copycat Jason killer as opposed to the genuine article. But such a horrendous oversight could only happen once, and so the powers-that-be decided to bring Voorhees back in the sixth film, 1986's Friday the 13th: Part VI -- Jason Lives.

While the character was "officially" dead at the end of the fourth movie, a zombie Jason is resurrected at the beginning of the excellent Jason Lives. It's the old metal stake through the heart trick, with a bolt of electricity thrown in for good measure.

During these opening moments we also get to glimpse the decayed corpse of Jason, as well as the somewhat less decayed reanimated version.

Once Jason is back in action, he grabs his treasured old hockey mask from one of his inadvertent saviors. A nice continuity note here is that the mask still has that axe-mark in it that he suffered in the third film. The Crystal Lake murderer also makes use of a pair of yellow work gloves that these guys left at the scene of his revival.

And even though this Jason is now a zombie apparently, he still functions in the same manner more or less as always. As a matter of fact, he even takes it upon himself to utilize the utility belt that he procures from a paintball-playing victim -- keeping his various knives and blades neatly and tidily sheathed when not in use.

It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! James Bond Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part VI -- Jason Lives (1986)

The Look: This is sort of a cheap one, but Jason does do a very good 007 impersonation at the top of the sixth film. The opening, pre-credits sequence mirrors those found in the James Bond movies because of its pulse-pounding excitement, and just like in a Bond film the sequence ends with a memorable gimmick. As the credits start to roll, the camera quickly cuts to an extreme close-up of Jason's eye, which suddenly resembles the opening sequence of the Bond films. Jason calmly walks across the eye and then turns and faces the camera, swinging his machete at the audience ala Bond… with blood covering the camera lens along the way. The name is Voorhees. Jason Voorhees.

It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Rotting Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part VII -- The New Blood (1988)

The Look: Just as the toll of reaching his seventh film began to weigh on the quality of Jason's movies, the toll of being an undead zombie also began to rear its decomposing head. The Jason in The New Blood is so far gone, in fact, that you can sometimes see his bones sticking out from under his rotting flesh and torn clothing.

He also wears a chain around his neck throughout this film, a gentle reminder of the time he spent at the bottom of Crystal Lake between this and the previous movie, weighted down and floating inertly, just waiting for some lame-ass character, ripped off from Carrie, to show up and use her telekinesis to raise him from the lake floor.

The masked mutilator actually has his face piece destroyed this time out (boo!) when said Carrie-girl uses her TK to cause Jason's head to start to expand or something. The mask cracks into pieces as a result, and we see the sorta lame, possibly animatronic face that lurks underneath. Remember when Jason, as a misshapen dead boy, was actually scary? Those were the days. It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Manhattan Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th: Part VIII -- Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

The Look: In the most disappointing film in the series, Jason famously didn't take Manhattan. Sure, he showed up long enough to shoot a couple of minutes worth of footage in Times Square, where he proved not only ineffective in destroying the denizens of the Big Apple, but seemingly not even interested in same. But really, we all know that most of the scenes supposedly shot in New York City here actually were done on some soundstage in Canada… and even then, 75% of the movie takes place on a boat anyway. Which, one supposes, is why Jason always seems to be wet in this film.

Yeah, there's also the fact that Voorhees spent another between-movies spell at the bottom of Crystal Lake. But whatever the technical reason for his wetness, really what's going on here is the filmmakers were attempting to incorporate Jason's "drowning" origin into the story. Hence, we get to see some dream-like flashbacks, or something (it's hard to say what exactly, the writing and direction are so poor), from the film's heroine as she witness the boy Jason drowning. For some reason, he appears completely normal and bears no resemblance to the stricken Jason child seen in the first film.

This little boy Jason also shows up again at the end of the movie, after the psycho is apparently killed (by a blast of toxic waste that apparently floods the New York subway tunnels every night... don't get us started). The unmasked and deformed Jason, who is really in bad shape at this point, is "washed away" and the young boy Jason remains. None of it makes sense, but right before this transformation the deformed Jason vomits water and calls for his momma in a child's voice. Ain't that just weird?

It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Embedded Mask Jason First Appearance: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

The Look: Jason dies, again, at the start of this film when he's lured into a trap by the authorities and blown to pieces. From that point on the traditional Jason is not seen in the film (until the climax), and instead his ghost or some nonsense takes to possessing regular folks and gets them to do his killing. Regular folks just like you!

Still, what little we do see of Jason here makes a lot of sense. At this point he is so ravaged by time and injury (and poor hygiene) that his mask has become completely embedded in his face. His head has also grown around the mask, and he even has grown some of his hillbilly hair back from part two. Rogaine, man, Rogaine! It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Hellbaby Jason First Appearance: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

The Look: This is a not very well-remembered version of Jason, and for good reason. In that same film, where Jason is possessing people, he finally gets his act together and figures out how to be reborn into a physical body of his own. Suffice to say, it involves something called a Hellbaby. Yeah, Jason is the Hellbaby. Please can't we reboot soon? It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Future Jason First Appearance: Jason X (2002)

The Look: The reboot was not coming quite yet, but fortunately the Hellbaby fiasco was not revisited in the love-it-or-hate-it Jason X. Yes, that's the one where he goes into outer space!

The filmmakers redid the basic Jason design with this film, which gives us a bullet-ridden and chained Jason whose mask is no longer embedded in his face, alas. But it's the nanotechnology-rebuilt "Jason X" (a.ka. Uber-Jason) of the far future who is most interesting. He is leaner, meaner, and more shiny than ever before, but he still wears a hockey mask! Sort of.

A very brief, dark, upside-down (flipped here for the reader's convenience) glimpse of Jason's unmasked face is also offered in this film. You think those nanites redid Jason's good looks too once they got a hold of him? It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Anti-Freddy Jason First Appearance: Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

The Look: When the two behemoths of 1980s horror finally met one another in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, it didn't make any sense to continue with the Uber-Jason look of the previous film. Plus, this movie took place in the present anyway, long before Jason would be launched into space! (Yes, we know we pay more attention to the continuity of this series than the guys making the actual movies do.)

So what do you want in your Jason when you're sending him off to fight Freddy Krueger? Apparently not Kane Hodder, the guy who had made a career of playing Jason ever since The New Blood. Instead, director Ronny Yu cast Ken Kirzinger in the role, reportedly for his mournful eyes. Whatever the reason, this Jason must've found the air on Elm Street to be chilly, because he took to wearing a coat again. Also, note the black, tough-as-leather skin on his head, as if the guy's been beaten, buried, burned, and drowned over and over again and somehow still walks around to show off the scars.

Freddy Vs. Jason is another film that revisits the boy Jason, once again in a dream sequence. This version of the kid seems to track better with the original variation, possessing a semblance of the malformed head from the first film (even if he looks something like a young Clint Howard!). Kid Jason also wears the hockey mask at one point. What, no machete too?

It's Halloween week, which means IGN Stars has got our scare on. All week long we'll be exploring our favorite horror-movie characters, starting today with the ultimate bad-ass mama's boy -- Jason Voorhees! Whether you like your Jason hooded or zombified, unmasked or beheaded, there is a Jason look for everyone. So your dutiful IGN gorehounds have been researching the many Friday the 13th films to find every variation on Jason fashion that's ever been put on celluloid. Consider it our bloody valentine to you, the reader, only, you know, not on Valentine's Day. So check out our list below, and then be sure -- as always -- to comment at the bottom of the page and let us know what your favorite Jason look is! Reboot Jason First Appearance: Friday the 13th (2009)

The Look: The face under the mask looks like something only a psycho mother with a murderousness craving could love. It's a bit more graphic, and a bit more tragic, visage then we are use to. But the many toe tags who do feast their eyes on the Voorhees usually see the hockey mask first, and if the new film got anything right, it's Jason's signature outer wear. This Jason is awfully pissed off: He can push himself harder, faster (Run, Jason, Run!) than any previous incarnation could. And it seems that this mask has endowed him with both the capacity for strategy (using half-dead victims as bait for the ones still alive) and for being choosey about who, and how, he MDKs. Some get bitch slapped, others get impaled upon tow trucks. But either way, it makes for good conversation to say that you got your ticket punched by the big JV. What's your favorite Jason look? Comment below and let us know! And be sure to keep checking back at IGN Stars all week long for more Halloween-themed Many Looks of features…