History Main / HockeyMaskAndChainsaw

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"BART DO YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK?!"'' ]]

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', where the killer is wearing a leathery facemask, and carries an improvised [[MacheteMayhem machete]].

[[caption-width-right:350: ''"BART, DO YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK?!"'' ]]

* ''Film/PoliceAcademy 4'' shows the team putting a scare into some new recruits using Hightower as a voodoo houngan trying to revive his brother, who lies "dead" in a body bag. After some chanting, the brother (played by Tackleberry) awakes, firing up his chainsaw to cut his way out of the bag. And he's wearing a hockey mask, of course.

* Jason Voorhees never actually used a chainsaw at any point in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series, his WeaponOfChoice instead being a {{machete|Mayhem}}. However, the series has featured chainsaws and other power tools at various points.
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', Jason gets a chainsaw used on ''him'' by the FinalGirl, as noted in the page quote.
** The Turkish poster for ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' uses [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3ppxBX5WQTs/UVqTHh5uZXI/AAAAAAAADhs/VLLyi-dRE6M/s200/turkishpart6_poster.jpg this combination.]] [[CoversAlwaysLie He still uses only his trusty machete in the film.]]

** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', Jason gets a chainsaw used on ''him'' by the FinalGirl.

* The Turkish poster for ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' uses [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3ppxBX5WQTs/UVqTHh5uZXI/AAAAAAAADhs/VLLyi-dRE6M/s200/turkishpart6_poster.jpg this combination.]] [[CoversAlwaysLie He still uses only his trusty machete in the film.]]

* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'' is the only movie where Jason uses a gas powered weapon. Even then, it was a hedge trimmer and not a chainsaw.
* ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' has a brief, humorous scene where the heroine yells at the townsfolk to get ready. One of them has a chainsaw and hockey mask. Funnily enough, there's a second guy with a chainsaw right next to him- but he has a catcher's mask, instead.

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''' [[http://thecinemasnob.com/2013/09/05/friday-the-13th-part-2.aspx reviewing]] ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' and watching a girl carrying a chainsaw

While it might seem like a case of ShallowParody, even the people who know a lot about horror films use this trope, so that's not the case. It's just as likely just a CaptainErsatz of the two, since neither of them are [[PublicDomainCharacter in the public domain]]. A related trope is the SackheadSlasher, often drawing on Jason's pre-hockey mask iteration from ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' and combined with aspects of Leatherface's masked rural {{Hillbilly Horror|s}} cannibal archetype and a chainsaw for bonus points.

While it might seem like a case of ShallowParody, even the people who know a lot about horror films use this trope, so that's not the case. It's just as likely just a CaptainErsatz of the two, since neither of them are [[PublicDomainCharacter in the public domain]].

* ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto''

** Also used in ''Libery City Stories'', where Tony has a similar outfit. There's also one mission where he's ambushed and attacked by ''dozens'' of masked maniacs with chainsaws.

* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' has the Strength boss from the second game, who [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chases the protagonists through a maze]] with a chainsaw.

While it might seem like a case of pure carelessness, even the people who know a lot about horror films use this trope, so that's not the case. It's just as likely just a CaptainErsatz of the two, since neither of them are [[PublicDomainCharacter in the public domain]].

* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: Rodrick Rules'' has Greg and Rowley getting chased by a guy with a hockey mask and a chainsaw in the Crossland High School haunted house. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Mom steps in just before he catches them and tells him that chasing people around with a chainsaw is "not nice."]]

* The closest Jason Voorhies ever came to actually using a chainsaw as a weapon was in the novel ''Franchise/{{Friday the 13th}}: Jason's Curse''. A man possessed by Jason (through his cursed hockey mask) kills one of his relatives with a chainsaw.

* In the novel ''Franchise/{{Friday the 13th}}: Jason's Curse'', the man currently possessed by Jason (through his cursed hockey mask) kills one of his relatives with a chainsaw.

A common reference of a SlasherMovie serial killer: a big guy wielding a chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask. Enormously common in parodies and tributes of the genre, which makes this a DeadUnicornTrope.

This is largely a CompositeCharacter between two of the most famous SlasherMovie killers: Jason Voorhees of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series and Leatherface of ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' series.

A common reference of a SlasherMovie serial killer: a big guy wielding a chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask. Enormously common in parodies and tributes of the genre.

* Nike's infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhdE1DiebU chainsaw commercial]] from the 2000 Olympics featured a villain with a chainsaw, and with a [[Main/WhiteMaskOfDoom white plastic mask]] more like Michael Myers' from ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-chainsaw-attack-ad-pulled/ Contemporary news reports]] when the ad was pulled described it as a hockey mask, however, because this trope created that expectation.

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': In the "[[Film/{{Apollo 13}} Apollo the 13th]]: When Jason Takes NASA" sketch, hockey-mask wearing Jason Voorhees invades the moon shuttle and kills people wielding a chainsaw.

* ''Film/PoliceAcademy 2'' shows the team putting a scare into some new recruits using Hightower as a voodoo houngan trying to revive his brother, who lies "dead" in a body bag. After some chanting, the brother (played by Tackleberry) awakes, firing up his chainsaw to cut his way out of the bag. And he's wearing a hockey mask, of course.

* The first [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill & Ted show]] at Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights (1992) gave [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] a chainsaw, which accidentally cut down a balcony on the western set while swinging at the duo.

* [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]] dons these in the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''.