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There have been some great horror characters over the years that have captured the public imagination. Many horror films and particularly horror series have relied upon a well-developed villain character in order to draw in audiences and keep them coming back for more. This trend was most noticeably developed within the slasher genre where the horror heavyweights of the eighties battled each other for fans. In recent years there has been a distinct lack of inspiring new slasher villains and in a climate of remakes and sequels the memorable slashers of yesteryear continue to be the biggest box office draws however there have been a couple of notable new kids on the block.

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One of the most famous horror characters was Jason, from Friday The 13th. Jason was a more sympathetic slasher killer, bullied as a child and drowned in Crystal Lake he returned years later to avenge himself and his mother. He did not put on his trademark hockey mask until part three in the series but the vision of a hockey mask killer has become synonymous with slasher killers ever since. Jason preferred to wield a machete but again he was no stranger to improvisation and as the endless slew of sequels continued, he murdered teens using anything that was to hand from a pitchfork to a party hooter.

The physical design of Jason Voorhees has gone through many subtle or radical changes. For Friday the 13th, the task of coming up with Jason's appearance was the responsibility of Tom Savini, whose design for Jason was inspired by someone Savini knew as a child, whose eyes and ears did not line up straight. The original design called for Jason to have hair, but Savini and his crew opted to make him bald, so he would look like a “hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead”, with a dome-shaped head. Savini created a plaster mold of Ari Lehman's head, and used that to create prosthetics for his face.[ Lehman personally added mud, from the bottom of the lake, all over his body to make himself appear "really slimy."

Stephen Dupuis was given the task of redesigning Jason for the tenth Friday the 13th film. One concept brought into the film was Jason's regenerative abilities. Dupuis gave the character more hair, and more of a natural flesh appearance, to illustrate the constant regeneration the character goes through; Dupuis wanted a more "gothic" design for Jason, so he added chains and shackles, and made the hockey mask more angular.

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