Friday the 13th 1 & 2 Jason question (spoilers, I guess)

[SlightlyMad]

As we all know, in the original Friday the 13th movie, the killer is Mrs Vorhees who was killing camp councilers because, some years before, other councilers, too busy fornicating & doing drugs failed to notice her son; Jason, drowning.
At the end of the movie, after her decapitation, we see the last survivor get attacked by the boy Jason rising out of the lake.

Forward to part 2 in which the survivior girl, convinced she was attacked by Jason, gets killed early in the movie by an adult Jason.
I get that the child coming out of the lake was probably a hallucination.
So, what I don't get is:

Did Mrs Vorhees know that Jason was still alive?
If so, where was he kept? And why did she think he had drowned?
If not, was he living feral in the woods for all this time?

Or, alternately, was Jason dead & his mother's death caused her rage to be transferred to him & for him to rise from his watery grave?

Or, is there simply no clear answer because they were just a couple of low-budget horror movies with not too much thought given to continuity?

[The Zapper]

I don't think their really is an answer. Probably just a couple of low budget horror movies.

[DWEarhart]

There's never been an explanation in the films, although the only one I have not seen is Jason Goes to Hell, so maybe there's something in there.

I just like how Jason continues to expand in mass throughout all the films until he's nothing but an undead tank with a machete. Kane Hodder is still king.

[david r]

I've always assumed that Jason came back to life, at the moment of his mother's death. Notice the first person he goes after upon resurrection, is the murderer of his dear mother. (Though he doesn't finish the job until Part II.)

I know that when they filmed the end of Friday the 13th the "Jason sequence" was meant only as a dream. It was after the huge success of the first film, that the producers made Jason Voorhees the new killer. And retconned it that he became resurrected when his mother died. He had indeed been laying at the bottom of Crystal Lake dead since the 1950s.

I do not believe that Mrs. Voorhees knew that Jason was alive. He was dead up until her own decapitation. However, if you've seen Jason Goes To Hell, we learn that Jason can possess people's bodies. There is a train of thought that young Jason was possessing his mother, or at least "influencing" her.

Jason could not have been living feral in the woods. He supposedly drowned in the 1950s. His mother went nuts and killed two counselors, and they closed Camp Crystal Lake as a result. Cut then to 1980, and they are re-opening the Camp. And the murders begin again. Jason would have been decades old by that point, and not a young boy, which was clearly shown at the conclusion to Part 1.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

I've always assumed that Jason came back to life, at the moment of his mother's death. Notice the first person he goes after upon resurrection, is the murderer of his dear mother. (Though he doesn't finish the job until Part II.)

I know that when they filmed the end of Friday the 13th the "Jason sequence" was meant only as a dream. It was after the huge success of the first film, that the producers made Jason Voorhees the new killer. And retconned it that he became resurrected when his mother died. He had indeed been laying at the bottom of Crystal Lake dead since the 1950s.

I do not believe that Mrs. Voorhees knew that Jason was alive. He was dead up until her own decapitation. However, if you've seen Jason Goes To Hell, we learn that Jason can possess people's bodies. There is a train of thought that young Jason was possessing his mother, or at least "influencing" her.

Jason could not have been living feral in the woods. He supposedly drowned in the 1950s. His mother went nuts and killed two counselors, and they closed Camp Crystal Lake as a result. Cut then to 1980, and they are re-opening the Camp. And the murders begin again. Jason would have been decades old by that point, and not a young boy, which was clearly shown at the conclusion to Part 1.this is plausible but i think ms voorhees knew jason was alive.i think she was justifying her murderous rampage simply because they ALMOST let him drown.thats my Honest opinion anyway.