[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Well, keep in mind that "whoever" was the Hockey Mask Killer, be it Jason Voorhees or some random hillbilly psycho, that guy was hacked to death by Tommy Jarvis at some point in the mid-80s, as presented in "Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter". So that guy definitively died.

BUT, then he - or SOMEONE... as the article I posted points out, there's some chance that the body in the grave marked "Jason Voorhees" that Tommy digs up in Part VI might be someone else entirely; "Voorhees" is a very common name, especially in NJ, and there is a "Jason Voorhees" seemingly buried in almost every cemetery you walk into around here... but anyway - whoever was in that grave got reanimated after being hit by lightning. In turn, the "Jason" that's been around since Part VI is literally a zombie, so I'm pretty sure he's immune to the aging process.

...Although, as we've seen whenever later films unmasked him, NOT the decomposition process. Gross!

I've only seen the Rob Zombie Halloween movies, and the original one like once, a long time ago, so I can't speak much to that whole thing.

You know, I kinda prefer the notion that Tommy becomes the next Jason after the events of parts 4 and 5. It seemed that's the way the series was clearly meant to go if sequels continued, yet all of that groundwork was completely retconned away in part 6.