The announcement that the game would no longer support
new content is a bummer, but after hearing the news I
realized I had put in several hundred hours logged in over
the last year, and wanted to honor the game with this fanfiction
script. And since I had a couple weeks before my
next real-life project was to begin, I decided to do it.
My first idea was to set this before Part 2, with
Jason's first "rebirth", in order to keep it in the 80s. But
I really wanted the hockey mask. And more importantly, I
wanted the vast wealth of mythology to draw from as explored
in all the other films.
So I decided to follow this mythology:
After part IV, Jason was given a proper burial. This
allowed his body to lay at rest. However, the Death Curse
upon Crystal Lake remained.
His mother's restless spirit, still haunting the land,
corrupted ROY BURNS, using the kernel of anger he felt from
his son's murder to fully infest his spirit, offering
vengeance in a sort of Faustian pact. In reality, Pamela's
motivation was to get to Tommy - her son's killer, though
she would ultimately fail, and Roy would perish.
In Part VI, Tommy dug up Jason, allowing the Death
Curse to resurrect Jason, as he was no longer properly laid
to rest. But Tommy was able to defeat him again by drowning
him in the same location as his original death.
TINA screwed that up in part VII, but summoned the
spirit of her father to drag Jason back to hell, where he
remained until his body was again disturbed in the beginning
of part VIII.
At the end of VIII, when Jason's body was completely
dissolved by the toxic waste in New York city, his spirit
was laid to rest once more, this time for good (hence why
RENNIE had a psychic vision of the "boy Jason" lying dead).
Since his body had been destroyed far from the cursed land
of Crystal Lake, Jason was not able to be resurrected...
...until the demonic force known as FREDDY KRUEGER tore
Jason's soul from hell, resurrecting his body from the
corrupted earth of Crystal Lake like a perversion of the
CREATION OF ADAM, and sent him on a violent rampage (the
"new body" is why he has hair and both eyes again), as seen
in the events of FREDDY VS. JASON.
Jason was not destroyed at the end of that titanic
battle with Krueger, and so remained in Crystal Lake where,
over the years, the connection with that cursed land slowly
regenerated his body, until he was again a "living" being,
similar to his look in parts 3 & 4.
The land surrounding Crystal Lake was off limits to the
public over the course of these many years (the reason why
explained in this script), though Jason would slay the
occasional straying hunter or hiker who foolishly wandered
into his territory (and thus the events of the fan film
NEVER HIKE ALONE).
This script takes place some time after that fantastic
fan film, in the present day, which means his mask would be
the same as seen there (see previous page).
(For full continuity, 9 and 10 happen sometime after
this script.)
Now, with all of that being said, even though this does
not take place in the 80s as the game does, I've done my
best to emulate the same tone, pacing, and character
development/dialogue as those classic films, rather than go
for some modernized re-imaging or rebooting of the
franchise, so it still feels like it's part of the same
canon and vibe. Those original 80s movies, though dated and
no longer representative of what would sell in today's
Hollywood, are still my favorites, so it would follow that I
would want to write a script that feels in keeping with that
tradition. (Parts IV and VI are my favorites of the
franchise.)
At the end of the day, this is why I've enjoyed this
game so much. It isn't necessarily for the game play, but
rather because it feels like I'm participating in the films
that I've enjoyed so much since I was a young child. The set
pieces, the music, the attention to detail - if for no
other reason than those, I will always be grateful that this
game was made, and I sincerely hope I get to enjoy it for
years to come.
-Smitty Voorhees
June 2018
You can download or view the script at either of the following links:
Media Fire: file/16cffdz2gobjaco/FRIDAY THE 13th THE GAME THE
Google Drive: drive/folders/1alhxDgb-ev9LmokPUGVv-ZBgzLfxU_yP?usp=sharing
