Betsy Plamer doesn't get enough credit for this performance. It may be a little hammy, but she's able to go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye, and you really sympathize with her plight.
I have to disagree. Everyone knows the franchise would’ve been dead without her (no pun intended). Hell, she’s been immortalized with little Mrs. Vorhees dolls, and the memory lives on. If you mean she didn’t make enough money for this performance , and everyone else got rich instead, then you’ve got a good point.
“A little hammy” is exactly how I felt watching her for the first time (I’m a newcomer to the franchise, just so you know) but honestly, it’s grown on me. A hammy performance is fitting for a character who is this deranged and homicidal. Almost like someone who lives their lives within a movie, unable to connect with reality
Doctor Feinstone - She only made $10,000. That might have been more than the other actors. But considering how many millions has been made off the franchise since, I’d say Betsy Palmer was a bit underpaid.
I never realized how Mrs. Voorhees is like Norman Bates from psycho. She is sometimes herself and then sometimes Jason. Just like bates was sometimes himself and then his dead mother.
Pierre Black Yes she is, just like Norman Bates she is insane and starts acting as Jason, she even mutters in a high pitched voice “Kill her mommy! Kill her!”
@Hanzo Agreed, but wish they would've showed her in a casual way or mentioned her offhand, so when shes revealed as the killer were shocked cause we'd saw her a few times and she seemed harmless. Then again, I don't think they could really afford Betsy most of the time so 😂.
In all seriousness, I can understand why she went insane. A mother losing her son is one of the worst things anyone could go through. It would drive any parent to grief and insanity.
I met Betsy Palmer at a convention some years ago. What a classy, warm and gracious lady she was. Still to this day, she is my favorite actor I’ve ever met at an event. Her story about how she thought the movie would bomb is hilarious. She always looked enormous and intimidating to me as a kid watching the movie. In reality, she was so tiny and not any bigger than Adrienne King. That’s the work of an experienced stage actress.
You’re so lucky that you met her !! She was a brilliant actress!! As a child I was scared of her!! But I’ve seen interviews with her and she seemed the nicest lady ever .
Mya Hollandia - Yes, she was a great actress and a wonderful lady. She caught hell from many of her fellow stage actors for taking this role. And she originally hated the script herself. What I loved most was the way she eventually learned to embrace her part in this film. She decided to spend time getting to know her fans, and to understand exactly why they loved her character. As we talked, she said to me with a big smile: “Who wouldn’t want to have a mom that would kill for them??”
I remember seeing an interview with her some years back where she talks about meeting fans at conventions and how they’d always wanna talk to her about Friday The 13th and Mrs Voorhees, she said one particular gentleman told her he loved the character of Mrs Voorhees and she was surprised by that. When she asked him why he said cause I understand her, she’s a grieving Mother who lost her only son due to pure negligence and that’s enough to drive anybody mad. She said she’d never really thought of it that way
The first movie is the best. Not only because it is the first. It feels alot more real and grounded in reality. Mrs Voorhees being a demented serial killer is alot more scarier than the famous, imortal Jason ever was. The real thing taken from real life is always scarier than things that can only exist in fiction. Great movie. Just about everything works. The camping setting, the sound, the killings, the mystery of Jason and when Mrs Voorhees reveal herself as the killer. Especially the acting from Betsy Palmer works in this movie. I love the first Friday the 13th. Seen it several times. I like part 2 also, even though Mrs Voorhees is a better character imo than Jason. The rest of the sequels doesnt do it for me. Infact by making Jason imortal makes him boring. Mrs Voorhees is mortal with a vengeance and looks like a regular person. Just like real serial killers mostly do. Mrs Voorhees creepy smile and glossy eyes is scarier than a hockeymask ever can portray. Its the terror underneath that scare. Not what you can see at first glance. She greets you with a smile and says goodbye to you in a gory mess. Mrs Voorhees works also because very rarely is a woman a serial killer in real life. That makes the reveal in this film even better.
Nah. Part 4 is the best. The first is boring, with A LOT of bad acting and nothing really shocking about it. They expect us to be surprised about who the killer is? It's the one woman who doesn't show up till the very end who doesn't seem to be afraid or amiss about anything... Lmao.
Crave88evarC in my opinion, I think the first movie is amazing plot because of the first movie, the killer continues the Friday series is her own son that died. Also, the guy saying "stfu idiot" was a real idiot himself! It would be smarter to at least disagree politely to show your opinion. Everyone here have different opinions, and I do too.
Would be fun, but would it require a completely different rule set to work, being Pamela was completely mortal and relied fully on cunning/stealth over brute strength. She would be a great alternate option if they could pull it off, but I'm at a loss on how they could do it adapted to the current setup they have.
Making her playable was a part of Kickstarter goal, but unfortunately they didn't receive enough money to reach it, though there is still hope that we will see her in the future, at least as a payable DLC.
Anybody else get kind of emotional when she’s talking about how Jason was just a sweet and innocent boy and he drowned and we see Jason drowning while pleading for help? Very sad.
To me what makes Mrs voorhees work as a villain it clear she blames the camp and the people who run it to look after her Son when she was working than taking any real blame on herself for not having someone be more trustworthy or at least more mature to make sure Jason was okay as the moral Behind Mrs Voorhees is taking some blame for your actions and Knowing your at fault for some part for your child safety
I wish that Betsy Palmer was still alive and was in the Friday the 13th game. I wish she could've been alive to at least voice Pamela Voorhees once more for the game. R.I.P. Betsy Palmer you will be missed. :(
@@petergresh516 that’s kind of how I feel about Maureen Prescott from Scream. I wanna see a prequel and see all the events that led up to the first three Scream movies and the Ghostface killer personas, since Billy Loomis, Stu & Roman all conspired to kill her. I want to see how her life was like from her POV. But yes I’d also like to see Pamela Voorhees POV in her own solo origin film too!
You guys knkw they are making a prequle tv series about pamela and jason showing what leads up to this movie i think it would be better for a movie showing what happens befire jason drowned ans what his life was like before all this began.
@@germanempire5941 Every decent mom would...but not everyone has a decent family ya know. My mother called the cops on me just because she didnt wanna see me. No other reason Some people are assholes and when you're struggling in life be it medical or finantial issues. family always show their true colors trust me. I thought my mother would always be there for me lol
0:43 i love the way she says “his name was Jason “ and you can hear the famous sound effect he makes, in a way it is foreshadowing the rest of the trilogy
Betsy Palmer is incredibly compelling. She's amazing. It's a pity she had to deal with so much shit from playing this role, one critic was so offended he gave out her address so people could send her hate mail :(
+cometandcupids Well He didn't, He thought He did but He actually ended up getting the address wrong by accident, so for many years Betsy Palmer had no idea people sent her hate mail or that Gene Siskel tried to give out her address, She explains this on the dvd commentary for the first movie.
"Look what you did to him, look what you did to him!!!" always loved that line because its so eerie. Also, you almost sympathize with Mrs. Voorhees she has been living with the death of her only son for over 20 years. It's no wonder she went insane.
Sympathy isn't the word to describe her. She's killed teenagers, kids who are trying to enter into adulthood lives, who were possibly not even around at that point in time when Jason drowned in the lake, so it doesn't justify her becoming a Sadistic, serial killer. The word you're probably thinking of is Pity. Like I pity her for her loss, but she chose not to heal in the right way, so I don't have any empathy for her.
2:12 One thing that doesn't get enough credit is that when she lifts up her sweater, it not only reveals the knife, but reveals she's wearing the brown plaid shirt that The killer has worn through the entire movie. I think it's very chilling!!
she had good reason for what she did. the camp counselors were supposed to be watching the kids and they were fucking instead of doing their job and look what happened.
Thomas Baron there are theories going around that the two counselors that got killed in the opening were responsible for Jason's death, and what led Mrs. Voorhees down this dark path.
Joshua Nelson well, when you look at the reviews and opinions, most of the people say it's mediocre, characters with pretty low development (Mrs Voorhees is the best developed in the movie, maybe one of the best from the entire series)
Betsy Palmer is so freaking great in this. The series would never have take off unless the first film's pay off was flawless and she's the reason why it was.
One of the most underrated movie villains and more interesting then Jason A woman who went insane after losing her son and went in and out of sanity since then. Jason is still a pretty well-made character. Someone who’s original motivation was avenging his mother but continued kill because that’s all he knew how to do. I could imagine the reason he has no regard for human life is due to the fact he lived as a hermit in the woods since he was 11 and before then had no friends and was bullied for his deformity
It's more grounded but the movie itself isn't great however it is a good slasher film but it cribs too much from other stuff the killer is pretty much a reverse Psycho Overall though this is a good solid movie the sequels are mostly more entertaining and Jason, while not grounded in reality, is still more intimidating and cooler and scarier than his mother because of the intimidation factor. This movie is a good entertaining fun slasher but nothing more it doesn't even come close to the heights of Nightmare or Halloween but it's a good movie most of the Jason flicks are just far more entertaining than this one heck Friday 2 is more entertaining than this movie because of the Jason factor.
In the retrospective I find Mrs. Voorhees killing-spree kind of legitimate. She lost her only son due to stupid bullies and camp guardians who did not do their job - my mum always told me she would go on a killing spree if someone would've hurt me - love you mum! x
I never noticed Alice saying "Oh God" at 1:30 as Mrs Voorhees goes into a trance talking about Jason, thats scary af if you imagine being in that situation. All of your friends are dead, someone comes to save you, you think your safe, then out of the blue they start talking about how one of their family members was murdered and then goes into a hallucination talking to thsir dead family member before snapping out of it to blame YOJ for their death!!!!!
She was a panelist on I've Got A Secret in the 1950s and 1960s. Her disposition was completely different as a panelist. She was so sweet. As an actress she played the role that I never thought would show her in that light. It makes an incredible actress. May she rest in peace.
Betsy Palmer doesn't get enough credit. She was fantastic here. At first you really think she's nice. Then, as she starts to tell her story about Jason you can slowly see her shift from reassuring to straight up crazy. When she grabs Alice and then stops and gives that little smile, you then know shit is about to get real. Her facial expressions and mannerisms were flawless. The series might not have been more iconic if she was the main antagonist over and over, but it arguably would've been better quality.
She has this weird, old-school, stagey style of acting-- like she's reciting a Shakespeare soliloquy-- and yet, somehow, it's perfect for this role and this moment. She elevates garbage material and actually makes it into something-- does something with it, gives it some kind of depth and magic. (The script is absurd: "They were making love while that young boy drowned!") In its own crazy way, it is a brilliant performance. P.S. The way she crookedly opens her lips to reveal that toothy, predatory smile at 1:03 is, in itself, brilliant.
I was literally frightend by Mrs Voorhees really cause she seems like an Innocent nice lady at first then goes mad and kills everyone its like a wolf in sheeps clothing
this movie can legitimately be creepy, good music, relies on suspense at times, and the best thing for me is the fact that they don't even show the killer until near the end when there's only one left!!! hell they do POV's from the killers prospective...which is also cool imo....hell I can guaranteed most memorable kill in this movie is Kevin Bacon's
There's another character, in Friday The 13th, named Demon. And he looks a lot like Michael Jackson. He's a cool character, but he died off early in my opinion.
I agree that Kevin Bacon's death is definitely the most memorable, but I'd like to add that there's something so creepy and disturbing about Annie's daytime death in the woods. It's the isolation of this film's characters that makes it so scary. And then add to that the brutality in which they're dispatched. On top of that, audiences in 1980 never saw it coming that a middle aged woman would turn out to be the one creating all the carnage. You can tell that the producer and director really were setting out to make a film that truly frightened people.
As horrible as Adrienne aka Alice acting was, this scene was EVERYTHING because how strong of an actress Betsy Palmer was. She took this scene to so many levels. 🔪
I've got a bit of a theory, or elaboration, on why Jason came back when it's been made clear that he drowned. As some of you guys deep in the lore might know there was rumour about a Friday the 13th and Evil Dead crossover where it's revealed Pamela used the Necronomicon to bring him back. Though I guess that does seem a little 'out there' I'd love to get a new Friday movie that focuses on Pamela's psychosis. Anyway it goes like this: Jason did die, and Pamela distraught with grief found a way to bring him back. But what returned wasn't the little boy she knew and loved, he no longer spoke and played but seemed distant, held together by only a few memories of his mother. I'm sure you can imagine the crushing disappointment, it must have been like losing him a second time. So she became obsessed with the ideal image of her son, the innocent little boy he once was. Someone had to be to blame, someone had to be responsible for what happened to him, so in her madness towards the counsellors that neglected him and herself for improperly performing the resurrection, she began a killing spree. The line "look what you did to him" takes on a whole new meaning. Maybe it would work better as a fan film since the franchise is in development hell, but it sure would clear up a few things like Jason's supernatural qualities, like the ritual Pamela did gave him the ability to gradually regenerate from each injury, going from a deformed but otherwise normal man to a grotesque zombie.
Yeah. Picture this: you're the only survivor of a carnage. All of your friends have been offed. You meet someone, a friendly, nice, pleasant someone. He\she helps you out and gives you shelter. And then, he\she begins talking to you about a certain loved one who passed away or was killed by bullies and some adult schmuck's lethal neglect. He\she goes in a trance. He\she has visions of said loved ones hopelessly and uselessly begging for help with no one to see nor hear them before meeting their makers. And so, the nice, pleasant and friendly person who helped you out is now completely gone, and in his\her place there's just a stark raving madman\madwoman accusing YOU of what happened to his\her loved one and now chasing you with a freaking dagger with your head written over it. False reassurance of safety that turns into dawning horror (you can hear Alice saying "Oh, God..." as Pamela is in her trance) and then into a life-or-death situation. Shudder...
@@tylongkicks8821 If Jason and his mom lived on Elm Street when he was a kid he would've been one of Freddy's victims and I can see Mrs Voorhees as part of the mob who burns Freddy for hurting her little boy.
Well maybe because Jason is so easy to spotted but Mrs.Voorhes? Bro she so easy to assimilated to she very look like normal middle age woman and that’s one of effective Killer,killer that assimilated to the society and look like Norma people
What made Pamela arguably more terrifying than Jason is not only from a realistic standpoint, the idea of a grieving parent going on a killing spree for the death of their child while having nothing to lose isn’t too far out field, but also how good she is at hiding her murderous intentions through a façade to gain her victims trust before eventually slaughtering them. Crazy to think Betsy performance here was perfect despite her admitting that she phoned her acting just so she can buy a new car.
What makes this film creepier is when the camera does a close up of Mrs. Voorhees face, it just makes you jump and get extreme chills. I mean, wouldn't you be if you ever encountered her? Personally, she scares me more than a hockey mask wielding dude.
I know I would. This lady scared the crap out of me when I first saw this film. I keep wondering what would become of her character if they ever did a remake about her.
What i say,it's true right?? Jason kills everyone not for Revenge,but he killing all survivor,because he lost everything!😔 We still love you jason,no mather if you are great killer
Not quite. Before, he was just accustomed to surviving in the wilderness in hopes his mother would eventually find him. When Alice killed his mother, aside from his revenge against her, he vowed to finish her work, to make sure no one set foot in the campgrounds again.
As a mother of a boy, the scene of Jason fighting to keep his head above the water while screaming “Help me! Help! Help, Mommy!” is 10x more heart wrenching. 😭
Lol The problem is they introduced her so late in the movie.If she'd been there at the start with Mr. Christie then I would had been oh yeah her they kinda did the same thing in F13th A New Beginning.
Actually they were brilliant with this. Every clue to her identity is a rewatch bonus. The opening scene, had her POV shot looking after sleeping children before she killed the counselors. When the first Counselor was killed, she picked her up in a Jeep that was later shown here. And even after she's revealed to be the killer, she shows she has great strength and determination. Hence why she's able to throw that woman in the window and Alice over a table.
Even though she killed all those teens I still can’t help but feel sorry for her because Jason was her only son and he was constantly bullied for how he looked till he drowned. I mean what mother wouldn’t go through such grief from the loss of her child?
Mrs. (Pamela) Voorhees is my favorite Horror Villain/Killer. She's so underrated cause Jason gets all the love..But Pamela started it all without her there would be no Jason. Wish she got more love as a Horror Villain.
It was alright. The new guy as Jason was fantastic but the people who died in the remake were terrible actors and made the movie kind of a big joke. The two girls and the actor Jared were the only good actors. The movie was okay. This movie was absolubalty the best and very well acted.
Friday the 13th movie series is one of the few franchises where you are openly rooting for the bad guys to win because they have sympathetic motivations compared to the so-called "heroes". The first film perfectly encapsulates this feeling well despite how messed up Pamela and Jason can be.
What's also chilling about this scene is how you see can the DUALITY of interacting with your own gender that we dont learn about right away as a kids. Like for example, Pamela is presented as being ''motherly'' to Alice so therefore Alice thinks she's getting a mother figure who'll save her right away. However, she doesn't realize that mothers can also despise their daughters for being prettier than them so therefore, Alice doesn't get a mother but an enemy and I think that's genius how these social dynamics play out in films without us realizing it.
This movie originally had no intentions to have sequels or become a franchise. Until it made a lot of money for Paramount and at the Box Office in The Spring of 1980. Around the early fall of 1980 filming began for Friday The 13th Part 2 in Connecticut.
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Betsy Plamer doesn't get enough credit for this performance. It may be a little hammy, but she's able to go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye, and you really sympathize with her plight.
I have to disagree. Everyone knows the franchise would’ve been dead without her (no pun intended). Hell, she’s been immortalized with little Mrs. Vorhees dolls, and the memory lives on. If you mean she didn’t make enough money for this performance , and everyone else got rich instead, then you’ve got a good point.
“A little hammy” is exactly how I felt watching her for the first time (I’m a newcomer to the franchise, just so you know) but honestly, it’s grown on me. A hammy performance is fitting for a character who is this deranged and homicidal. Almost like someone who lives their lives within a movie, unable to connect with reality
@@finster1968 actually she made more than the other actors. She was the only one people had heard of. Everyone else was a newcomer
Doctor Feinstone - She only made $10,000. That might have been more than the other actors. But considering how many millions has been made off the franchise since, I’d say Betsy Palmer was a bit underpaid.
@@finster1968 10 grand in 1980 was a tidy sum.
I never realized how Mrs. Voorhees is like Norman Bates from psycho. She is sometimes herself and then sometimes Jason. Just like bates was sometimes himself and then his dead mother.
Angel Baker she's never Jason
Pierre Black no he’s talking about the moments when She starts talking like him.
Yeah she's like Norman Bates but in reverse.
Pierre Black Yes she is, just like Norman Bates she is insane and starts acting as Jason, she even mutters in a high pitched voice “Kill her mommy! Kill her!”
I wouldn't say she "is" Jason but instead speaks out loud what she hears him say. I guess it's just a matter of interpretation.
Mrs. Voorhees is awesome. I hate that the remake wasn't about her. They should make a new movie about her and her killing spree.
Yep, rumors saying that the sequel will have a more detailed origin history of Jas
May Briana alot of movies that shouldn't have got remakes....hell Footloose did, and that sure as hell shouldn't have
Albert Floriano Aaanndd cancelled
And just recently Dirty Dancing got one...............I'm no fan of Hollywood when it comes to making movies
...you shoul d have said this a while ago..sadly she died 2 years ago in march of 2015
R.I.P Pamela Voorhees/Betsy Palmer
This was such a brilliant twist. Jason or not this is a great movie.
How was this a twist..?
I Am Too Lazy To Come Up With A Name are you that dumb? Everyone assumes Jason was the killer in the first one.
@@a916LEX It's only a twist in the retroactive sense, because this scene is the first time Jason is ever seen or mentioned by name.
@Hanzo Agreed, but wish they would've showed her in a casual way or mentioned her offhand, so when shes revealed as the killer were shocked cause we'd saw her a few times and she seemed harmless. Then again, I don't think they could really afford Betsy most of the time so 😂.
He was 11, not 10.
I wish my mother loved me as much as Pamela loved her son, Jason.
She's just a mom doing mom stuff
I'm sure she does Have you ever asked her about it?
She loves Jason so much that she killed people
My mother said she would make a party in front of my grave.
Liam Boardman yeah AND F*****G GIRL STAB ME IN HEART MAKE ME GO TO HELL !!!
This is the Scariest part of the movie
Agreed.
Mya Hollandia yeah I agree
OF ALL OF THE MOVIES!!
Mya Hollandia yeah Pamela was a mother gone mad in grief
True💯💯💯💯
In all seriousness, I can understand why she went insane. A mother losing her son is one of the worst things anyone could go through. It would drive any parent to grief and insanity.
Universal pictures 1980
@@alexgalanopoulos3305 Paramount*
Add to that her back story. A beaten wife of a coal miner. Only got worse when Jason was born deformed.
Losing the person you love most can make you suicidal.
thats cool but doesnt really explain killing people who had nothing to do with it
I met Betsy Palmer at a convention some years ago. What a classy, warm and gracious lady she was. Still to this day, she is my favorite actor I’ve ever met at an event. Her story about how she thought the movie would bomb is hilarious. She always looked enormous and intimidating to me as a kid watching the movie. In reality, she was so tiny and not any bigger than Adrienne King. That’s the work of an experienced stage actress.
You’re so lucky that you met her !! She was a brilliant actress!! As a child I was scared of her!! But I’ve seen interviews with her and she seemed the nicest lady ever .
Mya Hollandia - Yes, she was a great actress and a wonderful lady. She caught hell from many of her fellow stage actors for taking this role. And she originally hated the script herself. What I loved most was the way she eventually learned to embrace her part in this film. She decided to spend time getting to know her fans, and to understand exactly why they loved her character. As we talked, she said to me with a big smile: “Who wouldn’t want to have a mom that would kill for them??”
I wish I could’ve met her. Heard she was the nicest lady.
Mine is Billy Dee Williams, the guy who played Lando Calrissian. He was such a sweet and nice man, and even answered my question!!
I remember seeing an interview with her some years back where she talks about meeting fans at conventions and how they’d always wanna talk to her about Friday The 13th and Mrs Voorhees, she said one particular gentleman told her he loved the character of Mrs Voorhees and she was surprised by that. When she asked him why he said cause I understand her, she’s a grieving Mother who lost her only son due to pure negligence and that’s enough to drive anybody mad. She said she’d never really thought of it that way
The first movie is the best. Not only because it is the first. It feels alot more real and grounded in reality. Mrs Voorhees being a demented serial killer is alot more scarier than the famous, imortal Jason ever was. The real thing taken from real life is always scarier than things that can only exist in fiction. Great movie. Just about everything works. The camping setting, the sound, the killings, the mystery of Jason and when Mrs Voorhees reveal herself as the killer. Especially the acting from Betsy Palmer works in this movie. I love the first Friday the 13th. Seen it several times. I like part 2 also, even though Mrs Voorhees is a better character imo than Jason. The rest of the sequels doesnt do it for me. Infact by making Jason imortal makes him boring. Mrs Voorhees is mortal with a vengeance and looks like a regular person. Just like real serial killers mostly do. Mrs Voorhees creepy smile and glossy eyes is scarier than a hockeymask ever can portray. Its the terror underneath that scare. Not what you can see at first glance. She greets you with a smile and says goodbye to you in a gory mess. Mrs Voorhees works also because very rarely is a woman a serial killer in real life. That makes the reveal in this film even better.
I too prefer her over Jason.
Alice Angel fuck off, fuck you but have a nice day 🖕🏻😇
Im not Reading That shit
Nah. Part 4 is the best. The first is boring, with A LOT of bad acting and nothing really shocking about it. They expect us to be surprised about who the killer is? It's the one woman who doesn't show up till the very end who doesn't seem to be afraid or amiss about anything... Lmao.
Crave88evarC in my opinion, I think the first movie is amazing plot because of the first movie, the killer continues the Friday series is her own son that died.
Also, the guy saying "stfu idiot" was a real idiot himself! It would be smarter to at least disagree politely to show your opinion. Everyone here have different opinions, and I do too.
"I think we should wait for Mr. Christie." the reply... "ohh ha ha ha.. that's not necessary." LMAO!
Mr Christie hangs on a tree Lol
I’m sorry, we can’t wait for him my dear. Mr. Christie is busy blocking a bridge. 😂😂
Lol
Lol
I know that was hilarious 😂
I don’t understand.
Kinda proud to say my Mom would do the same for me.
Max Frankow u shouldnt be proud
RedChaosify Reviews martha Wayne also snapped when bruce died!
Max Frankow same
I own a hockey mask too, so watch out lol. Come on, any mother would.
Same here
who else is hoping she'll be made playable in the game? she was badass in the film
Would be fun, but would it require a completely different rule set to work, being Pamela was completely mortal and relied fully on cunning/stealth over brute strength. She would be a great alternate option if they could pull it off, but I'm at a loss on how they could do it adapted to the current setup they have.
Roland Tubman me
Making her playable was a part of Kickstarter goal, but unfortunately they didn't receive enough money to reach it, though there is still hope that we will see her in the future, at least as a payable DLC.
That is my dream!!!!
Mr Esturk instead of pamelas voice youd hear jasons voice telling you to kill the teens
Anybody else get kind of emotional when she’s talking about how Jason was just a sweet and innocent boy and he drowned and we see Jason drowning while pleading for help? Very sad.
No tbh……..because knowing what we know now Jason never drowned.
We never saw what the true relationship between Pamela and Jason was either. I think Pamela might have been worse than what even saw.
Well they are making a tv series about friday the 13th and its a prequle to this movie so we just have to wait and see.
@@c.j.carney8432 According to the comics, She was not abusive to jason, But enabled his violent urges.
To me what makes Mrs voorhees work as a villain it clear she blames the camp and the people who run it to look after her Son when she was working than taking any real blame on herself for not having someone be more trustworthy or at least more mature to make sure Jason was okay as the moral Behind Mrs Voorhees is taking some blame for your actions and Knowing your at fault for some part for your child safety
I wish that Betsy Palmer was still alive and was in the Friday the 13th game. I wish she could've been alive to at least voice Pamela Voorhees once more for the game. R.I.P. Betsy Palmer you will be missed. :(
shaun griffin Gotta give credit where it’s due though, the new one does an excellent job
Her VA does a good job, but it is a shame Betsy Palmer couldn't reprise her role :c
shaun griffin she most likely would’ve been too old to do a voice over
She would of refuesed
She refused to be in: Friday Parts 6, 8, Jason goes to hell and Jason X
@@jesusramirezromo2037 and Freddy vs Jason
She's the heart and soul of the franchise I think she needs her own movie.
This is her own movie
@@kailewis6520 I think he meant like a prequel movie
@@petergresh516 that’s kind of how I feel about Maureen Prescott from Scream. I wanna see a prequel and see all the events that led up to the first three Scream movies and the Ghostface killer personas, since Billy Loomis, Stu & Roman all conspired to kill her. I want to see how her life was like from her POV. But yes I’d also like to see Pamela Voorhees POV in her own solo origin film too!
You guys knkw they are making a prequle tv series about pamela and jason showing what leads up to this movie i think it would be better for a movie showing what happens befire jason drowned ans what his life was like before all this began.
@@petergresh516I’ve been saying the same as well
I know my mom would do the same for me. Love you mom!
lol
DJ CUMULUS Every mom would do it
@@germanempire5941 Every decent mom would...but not everyone has a decent family ya know. My mother called the cops on me just because she didnt wanna see me. No other reason Some people are assholes and when you're struggling in life be it medical or finantial issues. family always show their true colors trust me. I thought my mother would always be there for me lol
@@MrFreefonix420 oh. I'm....i'm really sorry. Hopefully things are looking up
Sweet but dark
So young...so pretty...
Professor Emil Kill them all, Jason.
Make them pay for what they did to us!
Rape those modefockssssss!!!
Joseph Demacia Joke ruiner
@Children Summerville after one year,think I'm gonna just delete it? Make me then.
0:43 i love the way she says “his name was Jason “ and you can hear the famous sound effect he makes, in a way it is foreshadowing the rest of the trilogy
The first 4 were the best. They feel the same.
Betsy Palmer is incredibly compelling. She's amazing. It's a pity she had to deal with so much shit from playing this role, one critic was so offended he gave out her address so people could send her hate mail :(
+ cometandcupids
The critic's name was Gene Siskel.
+cometandcupids
Well He didn't, He thought He did but He actually ended up getting the address wrong by accident, so for many years Betsy Palmer had no idea people sent her hate mail or that Gene Siskel tried to give out her address, She explains this on the dvd commentary for the first movie.
Sounds like the liberal idiots
The critic thought this role was so beneath her talent but Betsy Palmer still approached this with an academy award winning style performance.
What an immature asshole
She's a good classic villain.
"Look what you did to him, look what you did to him!!!" always loved that line because its so eerie. Also, you almost sympathize with Mrs. Voorhees she has been living with the death of her only son for over 20 years. It's no wonder she went insane.
The venom in her voice as she says that and draws her dagger is positively terrifying.
I don’t sympathise with her she’s not being very rational/logical blaming/killing people who weren’t even born when Jason drowned
Sympathy isn't the word to describe her. She's killed teenagers, kids who are trying to enter into adulthood lives, who were possibly not even around at that point in time when Jason drowned in the lake, so it doesn't justify her becoming a Sadistic, serial killer. The word you're probably thinking of is Pity. Like I pity her for her loss, but she chose not to heal in the right way, so I don't have any empathy for her.
She seemed like such a sweetheart until she pulled out the knife
She probably *was* until her son died
Lol
The biggest sweethearts can be the biggest killing machines
The way she delivers as a grieving mother in a malice way is so chilling!💜💜
I’ve noticed when she said He wasn’t a very good swimmer you can tell she deep down knows he was mentally challenged but couldn’t come to say it
Proud to have a "Camp Crystal Lake" t-shirt on right now.
2:12 One thing that doesn't get enough credit is that when she lifts up her sweater, it not only reveals the knife, but reveals she's wearing the brown plaid shirt that The killer has worn through the entire movie. I think it's very chilling!!
The whole ending of part1 with mrs Voorhees is iconic....
This lady scared hell out me as little boy
she had good reason for what she did. the camp counselors were supposed to be watching the kids and they were fucking instead of doing their job and look what happened.
Thomas Baron there are theories going around that the two counselors that got killed in the opening were responsible for Jason's death, and what led Mrs. Voorhees down this dark path.
Thomas Baron So murder is a-ok? What?
@@thomasbaron5367 not an excuse to kill innocent people who had nothing to do with it lol
ME TOO !!!
Alice: We should wait for Mr. Christy.
Pamela: Oh that's not necessary.
Me: That's what killer's say *RUN*!
i am real
@@theghostface6748 Who doesn't?
Classic movie & underrated
How is it underrated? Friday the 13th is a revered classic in the horror genre.
Joshua Nelson well, when you look at the reviews and opinions, most of the people say it's mediocre, characters with pretty low development (Mrs Voorhees is the best developed in the movie, maybe one of the best from the entire series)
It's far from underrated, maybe underrated by you but my movie fanatics? No heck it's not even underrated by horror movie standards.
maybe this movie in particular on its own and not counting the sequels
The Friday the 13th Franchise is far from overrated.
Betsy Palmer is so freaking great in this. The series would never have take off unless the first film's pay off was flawless and she's the reason why it was.
One of the most underrated movie villains and more interesting then Jason A woman who went insane after losing her son and went in and out of sanity since then. Jason is still a pretty well-made character. Someone who’s original motivation was avenging his mother but continued kill because that’s all he knew how to do. I could imagine the reason he has no regard for human life is due to the fact he lived as a hermit in the woods since he was 11 and before then had no friends and was bullied for his deformity
It's more grounded but the movie itself isn't great however it is a good slasher film but it cribs too much from other stuff the killer is pretty much a reverse Psycho Overall though this is a good solid movie the sequels are mostly more entertaining and Jason, while not grounded in reality, is still more intimidating and cooler and scarier than his mother because of the intimidation factor. This movie is a good entertaining fun slasher but nothing more it doesn't even come close to the heights of Nightmare or Halloween but it's a good movie most of the Jason flicks are just far more entertaining than this one heck Friday 2 is more entertaining than this movie because of the Jason factor.
In the retrospective I find Mrs. Voorhees killing-spree kind of legitimate. She lost her only son due to stupid bullies and camp guardians who did not do their job - my mum always told me she would go on a killing spree if someone would've hurt me - love you mum! x
For such a short time onscreen, Betsy's acting is some of the best I've ever seen in a horror film!
"Bill's out THERE!" LMAO! I LOVE this film.
That was funny hahahaaaa, mrs voorhees knows where bill is. Xd
🤣
It's sad for Jason it was not his fault he was drowning he should have been loved Jason saved people and they did not notice :(
Wait, what.
Who the hell did Jason save?
@@925263 He saved that little? I don't know.
Eh?? According to his history, Jason butchered animals for fun.
what the fuck are you talking about? Jason has never saved anyone.
It was probably annoying as hell to watch Jason, he was at the wrong kind of camp.
Jason's mom, what a great villian!
They were taking it up the ass while my son drowned. And she was to lol 😂
I never noticed Alice saying "Oh God" at 1:30 as Mrs Voorhees goes into a trance talking about Jason, thats scary af if you imagine being in that situation. All of your friends are dead, someone comes to save you, you think your safe, then out of the blue they start talking about how one of their family members was murdered and then goes into a hallucination talking to thsir dead family member before snapping out of it to blame YOJ for their death!!!!!
So scary
Holy shit, I never noticed it. Nice attention to detail they gave Alice there.
But Jason was still alive that time.
Jason gets all the credit but no one can deny his mother was the original baddie
the remake shouldve been the first movies killings from mrs.Voorhees perspective.
Gilly Mejias They made that as the film's opening though
@@joewhitehead3 And it truly was all downhill from there 😂.
Friday the 13th series should’ve ended with the first film. Classic
She was a panelist on I've Got A Secret in the 1950s and 1960s. Her disposition was completely different as a panelist. She was so sweet. As an actress she played the role that I never thought would show her in that light. It makes an incredible actress. May she rest in peace.
I’m surprised she didn’t act like a homicidal maniac on I’ve Got a Secret.
40 years ago tonight...June 13th 1979- June 13th 2019.
Betsy Palmer doesn't get enough credit. She was fantastic here. At first you really think she's nice. Then, as she starts to tell her story about Jason you can slowly see her shift from reassuring to straight up crazy. When she grabs Alice and then stops and gives that little smile, you then know shit is about to get real.
Her facial expressions and mannerisms were flawless. The series might not have been more iconic if she was the main antagonist over and over, but it arguably would've been better quality.
Betsy Palmer is legend
Hell yeah!!!
This is what I call a real mother! Love u mommy :)
This was an excellent twist. I still watch every Halloween 😆
She has this weird, old-school, stagey style of acting-- like she's reciting a Shakespeare soliloquy-- and yet, somehow, it's perfect for this role and this moment. She elevates garbage material and actually makes it into something-- does something with it, gives it some kind of depth and magic. (The script is absurd: "They were making love while that young boy drowned!") In its own crazy way, it is a brilliant performance. P.S. The way she crookedly opens her lips to reveal that toothy, predatory smile at 1:03 is, in itself, brilliant.
I was literally frightend by Mrs Voorhees really cause she seems like an Innocent nice lady at first then goes mad and kills everyone its like a wolf in sheeps clothing
That's what made it so scary because she wasn't playing it like a crazy woman.
Like Most of Real-Life Serial Killers
Just like every serial killer. Friendly and jovial they may be, but the moment you get in their way, you're mincemeat.
this movie can legitimately be creepy, good music, relies on suspense at times, and the best thing for me is the fact that they don't even show the killer until near the end when there's only one left!!! hell they do POV's from the killers prospective...which is also cool imo....hell I can guaranteed most memorable kill in this movie is Kevin Bacon's
hell.
Chet Walters ?
Starr Smith hell
There's another character, in Friday The 13th, named Demon. And he looks a lot like Michael Jackson. He's a cool character, but he died off early in my opinion.
I agree that Kevin Bacon's death is definitely the most memorable, but I'd like to add that there's something so creepy and disturbing about Annie's daytime death in the woods. It's the isolation of this film's characters that makes it so scary. And then add to that the brutality in which they're dispatched. On top of that, audiences in 1980 never saw it coming that a middle aged woman would turn out to be the one creating all the carnage. You can tell that the producer and director really were setting out to make a film that truly frightened people.
As horrible as Adrienne aka Alice acting was, this scene was EVERYTHING because how strong of an actress Betsy Palmer was. She took this scene to so many levels. 🔪
I agree ! Alice wasn’t a good actress, she doesn’t look scared at all to me
Her Performance seems average to me I don’t see how it’s horrible
But Alice and Pamela Voorhees are like the only characters that I care about besides the others who got kill
I dont know what youre talking about. I think Adrienne King did a great job.
She was amazing. One of the best villains of all time. 💜
LOOK WUT U DID TO HIM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 🔪
Crazy that the first one doesn’t even have Jason.
You see him at the end .
I just love Jason’s mom acting
“You don’t understand.” No. YOU don’t understand!
This was an Oscar worthy performance by Betsy Palmer, but it was shunned by the academy for being a horror film.
Mrs Voorhes: "What monster could of done this."
Me: "Lady u should see ur son today, he makes what ever did that look a like sweet old lady."
So she's like a reverse Norman Bates?
A little bit
I've got a bit of a theory, or elaboration, on why Jason came back when it's been made clear that he drowned. As some of you guys deep in the lore might know there was rumour about a Friday the 13th and Evil Dead crossover where it's revealed Pamela used the Necronomicon to bring him back. Though I guess that does seem a little 'out there' I'd love to get a new Friday movie that focuses on Pamela's psychosis. Anyway it goes like this:
Jason did die, and Pamela distraught with grief found a way to bring him back. But what returned wasn't the little boy she knew and loved, he no longer spoke and played but seemed distant, held together by only a few memories of his mother. I'm sure you can imagine the crushing disappointment, it must have been like losing him a second time. So she became obsessed with the ideal image of her son, the innocent little boy he once was. Someone had to be to blame, someone had to be responsible for what happened to him, so in her madness towards the counsellors that neglected him and herself for improperly performing the resurrection, she began a killing spree.
The line "look what you did to him" takes on a whole new meaning.
Maybe it would work better as a fan film since the franchise is in development hell, but it sure would clear up a few things like Jason's supernatural qualities, like the ritual Pamela did gave him the ability to gradually regenerate from each injury, going from a deformed but otherwise normal man to a grotesque zombie.
I love Jason and his mom.
It’s scary cuz Alice has no clue how much danger she is in here. This is still my favorite from all the Friday The 13th movies.
Yeah. Picture this: you're the only survivor of a carnage. All of your friends have been offed. You meet someone, a friendly, nice, pleasant someone. He\she helps you out and gives you shelter. And then, he\she begins talking to you about a certain loved one who passed away or was killed by bullies and some adult schmuck's lethal neglect. He\she goes in a trance. He\she has visions of said loved ones hopelessly and uselessly begging for help with no one to see nor hear them before meeting their makers. And so, the nice, pleasant and friendly person who helped you out is now completely gone, and in his\her place there's just a stark raving madman\madwoman accusing YOU of what happened to his\her loved one and now chasing you with a freaking dagger with your head written over it. False reassurance of safety that turns into dawning horror (you can hear Alice saying "Oh, God..." as Pamela is in her trance) and then into a life-or-death situation. Shudder...
Yep! She needed some serious therapy! One of the scariest horror antagonists ever! RIP Miss Betsy Palmer!
UNDERRATED performance by Palmer. Genuinely sympathetic and terrifying too
Am I the only 1 who felt sorry for Jason
Krypted Ghost i do to
Krypted Ghost I do
Not at all
Team Jason 13th Street. Bump Freddy
@@tylongkicks8821
If Jason and his mom lived on Elm Street when he was a kid he would've been one of Freddy's victims and I can see Mrs Voorhees as part of the mob who burns Freddy for hurting her little boy.
I love mrs voorhees so much. It’s simple. Her character
Much better than Jason himself. She was creepy as hell
Jason’s mum was scarier than Jason to me lol
More scary than me dad
Well maybe because Jason is so easy to spotted but Mrs.Voorhes? Bro she so easy to assimilated to she very look like normal middle age woman and that’s one of effective Killer,killer that assimilated to the society and look like Norma people
The franchise began 40 years ago TODAY! Happy Birthday F13!
I feel a bit bad for Pamela because of Jason's "death".
He never died
What made Pamela arguably more terrifying than Jason is not only from a realistic standpoint, the idea of a grieving parent going on a killing spree for the death of their child while having nothing to lose isn’t too far out field, but also how good she is at hiding her murderous intentions through a façade to gain her victims trust before eventually slaughtering them.
Crazy to think Betsy performance here was perfect despite her admitting that she phoned her acting just so she can buy a new car.
I'm one of the few people who prefer Pamela over Jason. Friday 1 is the best film and Pamelas grief and motive is believable
What makes this film creepier is when the camera does a close up of Mrs. Voorhees face, it just makes you jump and get extreme chills. I mean, wouldn't you be if you ever encountered her?
Personally, she scares me more than a hockey mask wielding dude.
I know I would. This lady scared the crap out of me when I first saw this film. I keep wondering what would become of her character if they ever did a remake about her.
R.I.P Betsy Palmer, 1926-2015.
R.I.H Getsy Lalmer, 1926-2015.
Mom of the year 😈🖤❤️
I agree
What i say,it's true right??
Jason kills everyone not for Revenge,but he killing all survivor,because he lost everything!😔
We still love you jason,no mather if you are great killer
Mamoon Pocky's thanks finally someone understand
Tom Savini Jason thanks,,my brain really smart right??
Not quite. Before, he was just accustomed to surviving in the wilderness in hopes his mother would eventually find him. When Alice killed his mother, aside from his revenge against her, he vowed to finish her work, to make sure no one set foot in the campgrounds again.
“What monster could’ve done this?”
“Bill’s out there.”
There were actually dial-up tones going off in my head by the time I got that exchange. 😅
As a mother of a boy, the scene of Jason fighting to keep his head above the water while screaming “Help me! Help! Help, Mommy!” is 10x more heart wrenching. 😭
😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢💔💔💔💔
Lol The problem is they introduced her so late in the movie.If she'd been there at the start with Mr. Christie then I would had been oh yeah her they kinda did the same thing in F13th A New Beginning.
Actually they were brilliant with this. Every clue to her identity is a rewatch bonus. The opening scene, had her POV shot looking after sleeping children before she killed the counselors. When the first Counselor was killed, she picked her up in a Jeep that was later shown here. And even after she's revealed to be the killer, she shows she has great strength and determination. Hence why she's able to throw that woman in the window and Alice over a table.
She showed she is a weakling. Made no sense she threw someone through a window.
The big reveal means nothing. She was hardly mentioned.
She shows amazing strength during the movie but at the end she’s weak asl lmfao
The fact you dont see her in the entire movie until the ending is very chilling
Even though she killed all those teens I still can’t help but feel sorry for her because Jason was her only son and he was constantly bullied for how he looked till he drowned. I mean what mother wouldn’t go through such grief from the loss of her child?
G1 Keitorin
Jason doesn't look ugly he looks beautiful.
Lmao, that ending when she hits her in the back, and the video ends. *_THAT WAS HILARIOUS!_*
Mrs. (Pamela) Voorhees is my favorite Horror Villain/Killer. She's so underrated cause Jason gets all the love..But Pamela started it all without her there would be no Jason. Wish she got more love as a Horror Villain.
Betsy could really channel crazy lady so well!! A brief yet memorable performance, my favorite 80s slasher movie!!
It was alright. The new guy as Jason was fantastic but the people who died in the remake were terrible actors and made the movie kind of a big joke. The two girls and the actor Jared were the only good actors. The movie was okay. This movie was absolubalty the best and very well acted.
The dialogue was just so dumb and the acting was so stupid in the remake.i prefer the teens in the original they just seemed more like us and fun. Lol
what do you mean like us you've been in a real life situation with a camp counselor killer?
Gaming Life Hey smart ass I'm pretty
Sure he's talking about personality wise
This movie is 40 years old today!!! Wow!
I remember i have watched Jason vs Freddy and they flash back the story about Jason
Friday the 13th movie series is one of the few franchises where you are openly rooting for the bad guys to win because they have sympathetic motivations compared to the so-called "heroes". The first film perfectly encapsulates this feeling well despite how messed up Pamela and Jason can be.
Betsy palmer should had won a Oscar for Friday the 13th
Betsy wasn't a shallow insecure ego maniac, she didn't need a dumb little statue to validate her awesome work. Leave that to the "A listers"
One of the most incredible monologues in horror movie history. It's this movies version of dr loomis speech in Halloween 🙌🙌
What's also chilling about this scene is how you see can the DUALITY of interacting with your own gender that we dont learn about right away as a kids. Like for example, Pamela is presented as being ''motherly'' to Alice so therefore Alice thinks she's getting a mother figure who'll save her right away. However, she doesn't realize that mothers can also despise their daughters for being prettier than them so therefore, Alice doesn't get a mother but an enemy and I think that's genius how these social dynamics play out in films without us realizing it.
This movie originally had no intentions to have sequels or become a franchise. Until it made a lot of money for Paramount and at the Box Office in The Spring of 1980. Around the early fall of 1980 filming began for Friday The 13th Part 2 in Connecticut.
I agree ! Only part 1 and 2 should have been made ( 2 for Jason ) rest was bad and unnecessary.
Part 2 is bad. Most all of them are bad except for this one.
Part 5 is kinda funny. Besides Part 1 and Part 5, they all suck.
2:16 makes me laugh every time xD that voice
This may sound weird but i want pamela as my mother
Grumpy heh
So do I.
Pamela was driven mad when kids bullied Jason, and thrown him in lake, with no one there to save him. That’s why she went on a killing spree.
Really impressive and scary the way she goes from friendly woman to murderous fuck, kudos to Betsy Palmer and may she rest in peace.
Pamela Voorhees is my favourite character. She always has and always will be.
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Friday the 13th is my favorite horror franchise of all time
Movie: (Concern) "So young. So pretty. What monster could've done this."
Game: (Creepy/Anger) "So young. So pretty. *KILL THEM ALL, JASON!"*
Holy cow, Betsy knocks it out of the park with this scene!!! She is so awesome
So if Jason survived this whole time, why didn’t he attempt to track down his mom and be like “I am still alive .. heyyy!” Lol
i agreed
Because the sequels are dumb. That isnt what this movie is. Just forget about the sequels and watch this movie fresh.
This one of the greatest reveals top 3