{"id":33926,"date":"2020-10-12T21:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=33926"},"modified":"2020-10-12T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:35:46","slug":"fan-theory-roy-burns-is-possessed-by-jason-voorhees-in-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/fan-theory-roy-burns-is-possessed-by-jason-voorhees-in-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Theory: Roy Burns is possessed by Jason Voorhees in \u201cA New Beginning\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s some supernatural element in \u201cFriday the 13th<\/sup>\u201d that doesn\u2019t fully reveal itself until \u201cJason Lives.\u201d Before that, Jason was more of a mortal superhuman capable of being killed and he is presumably stopped in \u201cThe Final Chapter.\u201d In Danny Steinmann\u2019s \u201cA New Beginning,\u201d Jason is definitely dead and Tommy has difficulty moving on as he\u2019s haunted by Jason\u2019s image time and time again. Since the fifth film apparently still takes place in the town of Crystal Lake, Tommy is still facing the trauma of battling Jason, even though it\u2019s established he\u2019s buried.<\/p>\n

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Although he\u2019s explained as being long buried in the ground, something awakens when Roy Burns\u2019 son Joey is brutally murdered under the care of the Pinehurst Halfway House. Although most of \u201cA New Beginning\u201d focuses solely on Tommy\u2019s mental fall out from fighting Jason, its explored that someone has put on Jason\u2019s mask and his regalia and has proceeded to murder a lot of teenagers and random characters that pop up out of nowhere to create weird red herrings (What was the deal with Raymond?). Although we know Jason is dead, the writers try to fool us in to thinking Jason has inexplicably returned from the grave.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>However, it also becomes quickly abandoned when director Steinmann stops trying to fool us and shows us a Jason who is being tossed around and hurt while wincing and cringing in pain. To make the situation ever more complicated, Jason\u2019s mask has blue stripes under the eyes rather than the red eyes. My theory is the specter of Jason still looms over Crystal Lake, and so enraged by the death of his son was he, that Roy sought out Jason\u2019s grave and took his only in tact heirloom: his hockey mask. Said mask possessed somewhat magical qualities that didn\u2019t just fuel Roy\u2019s thirst for bloodshed and vengeance but made him a lot more powerful than a normal serial killer. Sure Roy is powered by vengeance, but his ability to take punishment without breaking limbs or losing consciousness makes him much more than a man with a bone to pick.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s curious that Roy doesn\u2019t just use the mask, but that he also mimics Jason\u2019s every move, uses his signature weapons and wears his trademark jumpsuit. And although he has a lot of hatred for the people at Pinehurst, Roy is able to murder the people involved with his son\u2019s death. He even slaughters Dr. Matt Letter and Reggie\u2019s grandfather George off screen. One would assume his thirst for blood would be quenched since he\u2019d murdered just about everyone that couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t help his son. Why else does he target Tommy and Reggie for the finale? They didn\u2019t know who he was until he\u2019d taken the mask off, so he could have just snuck away leaving Reggie and Tommy to hold the bag. Along with digging up Jason and taking his mask, once Roy died, Tommy kept the mask close by with the intent to finally rid the world of Jason Voorhees once and for all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But not before the big fake out final scene where Tommy gets in to the mind of Jason by donning his mask. This sends him over the edge in to a full on breakdown, sending him from the halfway house in to a home for the criminally insane. This also leads in to \u201cJason Lives\u201d where Tommy eventually breaks out, mask in tow, to ceremoniously dig up Jason and cremate him in his grave. But as we see in the prologue, the supernatural element is introduced with other plans for Jason Voorhees as a full on undead killing machine.<\/p>\n

Hell, it turns the pretty good \u201cA New Beginning\u201d in to a so much better horror film. It also allows the pair of sequels to lock together much more fluidly, creating a smoother journey for Tommy Jarvis, when all is said and done. It\u2019s too bad we never canonically learn how Tommy fared after \u201cJason Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of my non-canonical fan theory? Let me Know in the comments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s some supernatural element in \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d that doesn\u2019t fully reveal itself until \u201cJason Lives.\u201d Before that, Jason was more of a mortal superhuman capable of being killed and he is presumably stopped in \u201cThe Final Chapter.\u201d In Danny Steinmann\u2019s \u201cA New Beginning,\u201d Jason is definitely dead and Tommy has difficulty moving on as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[240,378,477,703,737,840,950,1087],"class_list":["post-33926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-pcthugs","tag-crime","tag-friday-the-13th","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-nostalgia","tag-revenge","tag-slasher","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33931,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33926\/revisions\/33931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}