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"His name was Jason... and today is his birthday."
- Jason's face; the designs have run anywhere from unsettling to disgusting in the originals, but they outdid themselves in this one.
- This version of Jason is something you'd never want you serial killer to be: fast! A lot of characters in this film get the axe (or machete, or arrow) simply because Jason is able to outrun them.
- The Reveal that this incarnation of Jason has created a system of tunnels underneath Crystal Lake. Paranoia Fuel doesn't even begin to describe it.
- In general, Jason seems a lot smarter here, and that intelligence is used to terrifying effect at several points. When he discovers Clay's backpack, he activates flood lights and begins tearing through the area as he searches. Even though Clay and Jenna manage to escape, they run through a tripwire, revealing that Jason has alarm bells in place in his tunnel system.
- The page image comes from a shot of Jason near the end of the movie. He looks downright hateful. This occurs while he's preventing Bree from screaming and the whole build up to it is quite tense. All Bree can do is futilely struggle against him while Jason just sorta... stands there staring off into space. Then he delivers that look and you can almost feel the anger radiating off of him. Credit to Derek Mears for managing to convey that much emotion into one look.
- Wade's panicked screaming when he encounters Jason. Even though we don't actually see his death, his reaction alone is extremely effective in showing just how terrifying it would be to see a 6'5 masked stranger sprinting towards you with a machete.
- The sleeping bag kill from the beginning of the movie just might be one of the most brutal kills in the entire franchise. To elaborate: Amanda is stuffed inside a sleeping bag, which is then hung from a tree right above a campfire. Complete with shots of her terrified reactions from inside the bag before the sleeping bag tears open and her corpse falls out, parts of her face burned off. Brrr...
- The soundtrack
during this is panic inducing. - There's also her boyfriend who is Forced to Watch this happen and being unable to do anything about it because he got caught in a bear trap trying to save her.
- Speaking of said bear trap, the film doesn't shy away at all from showing the exact damage it does to poor Richie's ankle. We get explicit close-ups of the metal teeth digging into Richie's skin and ripping it wide open with his bone marrow peaking out. And this before we see Jason come charging up to him and slam his machete deep into his skull.
- As James A. Janisse pointed out in his recount of the film for The Kill Count when he named Amanda's death the best kill in the film, she had been pouring baby oil on her skin beforehand to tease her boyfriend, which probably made the subsequent roasting that much worse.
- The soundtrack
- Chelsea getting struck by the boat that Nolan was driving before Jason killed him with his archery skills is arguably more brutal than the killing strike under the dock later. Imagine receiving a MASSIVE blow to your head by a boat in the middle of a lake, unable to get to the surface because of a hockey mask-wearing stranger holding a machete with his eyes set on YOU, all the while you're still struggling to swim with the pain from that impact.
- Originally, Chelsea's death was going to expand on her being too scared to get to the surface, with Jason simply waiting at the edge of the lake until she ran out of energy and drowned. It's an effective way to show just how clever this incarnation of Jason is, using fear to kill Chelsea without even laying a finger on her.
- Lawerence's death is a great summation of just how different Jason is here compared to his previous depictions, sprinting after him and hurling an axe into his back, and then waiting to try and use his screams to lure the others out.
