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In the original Friday the 13th film, the character is simply named Mrs. Voorhees, her first name not being revealed until Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

The character was portrayed by Betsy Palmer in the first two films. During the character's brief appearance in Freddy vs. Jason, she was played by Paula Shaw. According to the actress herself at conventions, Betsy Palmer was asked to reprise her role as Pamela Voorhees for the Freddy vs. Jason film, but turned the part down when the salary offered proved to be very small.^[5] Betsy Palmer (born November 1, 1926) is an American actress. ... Freddy vs. ... Paula Shaw (born July 17, 1941 in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American actress who is best known for portraying the character of Mrs. ...

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Pamela Voorhees was born in 1930 (revealed in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter). At age 15 Pamela became pregnant by Elias Voorhees, and on June 13th, 1946, at age 16, she gave birth to a hydrocephalic boy she named Jason, as shown in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. Because of his deformity and her antisocial personality, Pamela never sent Jason to school and was the only one who knew him as seen in Friday the 13th Part 2. Hydrocephalus is a term derived from the Greek words hydro meaning water, and cephalus meaning head, and this condition is sometimes known as water on the brain. People with this condition have abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricles, or cavities, of the brain. ... Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. ... Friday the 13th Part 2 is a slasher film directed by Steve Miner, the first sequel to the Friday the 13th (1980) movie. ...

Pamela got a job as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake. During her working hours, she would bring Jason to camp, presumably because she had no one to watch him while she worked. Jason tried to befriend the other children and engage in camp activities, but the children viewed him as a freak because of his deformity. They also pushed him into the water and made fun of him due to his inability to swim.

On a fateful day in 1957, Jason had enough of the teasing and ridiculing that the children gave him. He sneaked out of his cabin late at night to "prove" he could swim and waded into the water. The counselors weren't watching him, as they were at a party in one of the adult cabins, drinking, smoking dope, and having sex. Jason Voorhees was never recovered from the lake and presumably drowned.

After her son's "death", Pamela began hearing voices telling her to kill. In 1958, a year after Jason's death, Pamela brutally murdered two counselors whom she felt were responsible for her young son's death. Camp Crystal Lake was closed after the murders and was given the nickname "Camp Blood" by local residents. When the owner tried to re-open the camp again in 1962, Pamela returned, poisoned the water, and set several fires. The camp was shut down once again and did not reopen until 1979. Pamela lived in a house which bordered the Camp Crystal Lake property; presumably this allowed her to keep a watchful eye to make sure the camp remained unattended.

On June 13, 1979, the new owner of Camp Crystal Lake, Steve Christy (who presumably inherited the land from his family, as it is later revealed the Christy family owned the camp property before the murders occurred and that Pamela was in their employ), and seven young counselors returned to the deadly camp grounds to prepare it for reopening, even after several ominous warnings of a "death curse" by the local residents. Enraged, Pamela went on a savage killing spree, killing Christy and six of the camp counselors.

The survivor, Alice Hardy, discovered two of the murdered victims and later met Pamela. Pamela told Alice about Jason's death, during which she flew into a terrifying rage and attacked Alice and chased her around the camp, saying "Kill her, mommy," mimicking Jason's voice. During the final attack, Alice decapitated Pamela with a machete that Pamela attempted to kill her with.

Two months later, Jason (who had survived his supposed drowning and had been living in the woods as a hermit) carried out his own revenge by killing Alice. Jason had kept his mother's severed head, first to frighten the girl (by placing it in her refrigerator) and then took both her corpse and the head to his shack in the woods. In it, he built something of a shrine to his mother and subsequently placed some victims there. After he is hit in the shoulder with a machete and left for dead at the end of his first killing spree, he leaves his crudely made home and his mother. For other uses, see Hermit (disambiguation). ... Fridge redirects here. ... Shacks are most often used for storage or have been abandoned. ... Shrine is also used as a conventional translation of the Japanese Jinja. ...

Pamela Voorhees was initially laid to rest in a run down cemetery. When Jason was killed by Tommy Jarvis a few years later, it's presumed that she was relocated to Eternal Peace Cemetery along with her son. ^[6] Castle Ashby Graveyard Northamptonshire A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ... Tommy Jarvis is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th film series. ...

Although Pamela does not share her son's unique immortality, she does reappear in later films. The character is seen again in the climax of Friday the 13th Part 2 in which Betsy Palmer reprises her role when Jason sees his mother talking to him while in reality it is one of Jason's potential victims trying to fool him. She is seen again in Friday the 13th Part 3 when lone survivor Chris Higgins has a nightmare that ends with Pamela's corpse (played by the Second Assistant Director, Marilyn Poucher), wearing her blue sweater with head attached, reaching up from the lake to pull her under. She is seen again in Freddy vs. Jason (played this time by Paula Shaw), seen in Hell commanding her son to kill the children of Elm Street; however, it turns out that it is actually Freddy Krueger masquerading as Pamela in order to manipulate Jason for his own needs. The Fountain of Eternal Life in Cleveland, Ohio Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of living in physical or spiritual form for an infinite length of time, or in a state of timelessness. ... The climax (or turning point) of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama in which the solution is given. ... Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D is the second sequel to Friday the 13th. ... Freddy vs. ... Paula Shaw (born July 17, 1941 in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American actress who is best known for portraying the character of Mrs. ... This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. ... This article is about the fictional character. ...

In an interview, John Carl Buechler revealed he had originally intended to have a scene in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood in which heroine Tina Shepard has a surreal vision in which Pamela's severed head was to appear in the arms in Mrs. Shepard, repeatedly yelling the phrase "Help me mommy!"; the scene was never created, due to being dubbed too over the top. ^[7] Reportedly, the character was to make another appearance for Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday in a flashback. ^[8] Jason X was originally meant to feature an appearance of Pamela in the holographic projection of Camp Crystal Lake Jason is distracted by in the film. ^[9] John Carl Buechler Born in Belleville, Illinois, USA[1] is an American director, actor, and special effects and makeup artist. ... The following are minor fictional characters in the series of slasher films Friday the 13th. ... In literature and film, a flashback (also called analepsis) takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ... Jason X is a 2002 science fiction / slasher film, and the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. ...

Literature

The cover of Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale #1, which reveals much of Pamela's early life, such as her pregnancy with Jason.

In Eric Morse's "Camp Crystal Lake" novels, the severed head of Pamela Voorhees is a major player in the first book. There, the hunter Joe Travers finds an unmarked gravestone in the forest and digs nearby to find a wet cardboard box containing the still living head, having been reanimated by Jason's cursed mask. Pamela then gives him directions to the location of Jason's buried hockey mask, which he digs up and puts on, thus becoming possessed by Jason in the process. Carly, the novel's heroine, later discovers the head still in its box, still in the grave. During the final showdown with Pamela and the hunter, she destroys the head with a shotgun blast, killing Pamela. ^[10] Eric Morse is the pen name for author and multi-medium artist William Pattison. ...

In the non-canononical Jason vs. Leatherface comic miniseries by Topps Comics, Pamela is renamed "Doris" for unexplained reasons and appears in two flashbacks, one in the first issue and another in the second; in the first flashback, brought on by Jason being asked his name by Cook, she appears, face obscured, encouraging a young Jason as he writes his name on a chalkboard. ^[11] The second flashback, caused by Jason seeing Hitchhiker abuse his younger brother Leatherface, has her violently killing Elias Voorhees with a machete while he attempts to beat Jason. ^[12] Leatherface is a fictional character in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. ... Topps Comics was a division of the American trading card publisher and gum/candy distributor the Topps Company, Inc. ... Played by Jim Siedow, Drayton Sawyer is the eldest brother of the Sawyer clan which consisted of Leatherface, Chop Top and Edward Sawyer in the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. ... The Hitchhiker, also known as Nubbins, is a character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series, portrayed by Edwin Neal. ...

In the novel Jason X: Death Moon, a character, while in a holographic version of Crystal Lake, stumbles across a recreation of Pamela's grave in the lake and is attacked by a zombified version of her. In the later book Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs, Pamela's battle with Alice from the original Friday the 13th acts as the book's prologue, while the main story has Pamela's severed head as a major plot device, with it acting as the catalyst that allows her ghost to possess others.

In 2007, a two issue comic miniseries entitled Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale, detailing much of Pamela's history, was printed by Wildstorm; the comics take place before the main events of Friday the 13th and feature Pamela picking up Annie, one of the Camp Crystal Lake counselors in-training, and recounting to her her past, revealing Elias abused her while she was pregnant, which caused Jason to be born deformed. Driven by what she believed to be the unborn Jason's voice, Pamela killed Elias with an axe, blew up her trailer and dumped her husbands body in Crystal Lake. After telling Annie her story, Pamela promptly murders her. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm or Wildstorm, is a publishing imprint and studio of American comic book publisher DC Comics. ...

In the six issue comic miniseries Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, also by Wildstorm, Pamela appears in the first issue of the miniseries, in a dream sequence of Jason's, where Freddy Krueger uses her to manipulate Jason into seeking out the Necronomicon. The fifth issue of the series, in which Pamela makes a cameo appearance on a portrait in her old house, also implicates she may have used to Necronomicon in an attempt to resurrect Jason after his drowning as a child. Freddy vs. ... For other uses, see Necronomicon (disambiguation). ...

Other

Pamela also appears in the Friday the 13th video game for the NES. Her decapitated head is a very powerful mini-boss in a hidden cave. It floats around after lifting itself off a pedestal surrounded by candles, reminiscent of the second movie. Just as Jason has to be defeated three times to complete the game, Pamela can also be fought three times, and each defeat earns the player a unique item -- a powerful weapon (usually a machete or axe), then her sweater, and finally the pitchfork. ^[13] Friday the 13th was released by Domark in for the Commodore 64 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1986) and Amstrad CPC (1986) based on the popular slasher film series of the same name. ... “NES” redirects here. ... Axe For other uses, see Axe (disambiguation). ... A jumper from Marks & Spencer A sweater (also called sweatshirt, pullover, jumper, and jersey) is a relatively heavy garment intended to cover the torso and arms of the human body (though, in some cases, sweaters are made for dogs and occasionally other animals) and typically to be worn over a... For other uses, see Pitchfork (disambiguation). ...

Action figures of Pamela have been released by both Sideshow Toys and NECA. ^{[14] [15]} The National Entertainment Collectibles Association or NECA is an American manufacturer of collectibles typically licensed from films, sports, music, and television based in New Jersey. ...

References

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External links

• Pamela Voorhees at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Betsy Palmer on the podcast The Future And You (anecdotes about working on Friday the Thirteenth and the story of how she got her first acting job.)