Movie Masks

The Jason Mask in the Friday the 13th Films

Jason Vorhees Mask
Jason Voorhees in the 2009 Friday the 13th. Warner Bros.

The cinematic influence of the Jason Vorhees hockey mask is incalculable. So many films reference Jason Vorhees’ crude face-covering that it is practically expected every time a bank robbery is depicted on screen.

Fascinatingly, the mask that would become the trademark of Friday the 13th — and slasher movies in general – didn’t make it to the screen until Friday the 13th Part III, released in 1982.

The hockey mask is a cheap yet effective symbol of dread that won’t be disappearing from the zeitgeist anytime soon.

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