Is Jason a Zombie?

[Darkgod]

Not a zombie, he doesn't eat brains, he doesn't spread his disease. he has conscience thought. How many zombies can fire a harpoon gun.

[Joker]

I've seen one shoot a gun.

[koolmike]

Mike's obsession with Romero and zombies is making him look for zombies in non-zombie films now

Don't worry Fright...I plan on making a thread with you in mind:

Is Jason an Asian Ghost?

I was against the idea of Jason being a zombie by the way dopey

[koolmike]

Jason is hardly a ghost...

I was making a joke.

[Darkgod]

I've seen one shoot a gun.

But was it a harpoon gun

[Joker]

If he is a Zombie then Frankenstein's monster is a zombie too....but wait wasnt Jason shot in the head a few times. I dont know.

[Wally The Cannibal]

I've seen one shoot a gun.

Bub for the win. Someone also said before that he "doesn't eat brains to survive", which to refer to Day of The Dead again, we're told zombies do not eat them to survive either.


From websters.com:
zom⋅bie
1. (in voodoo)
a. the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose.
b. the supernatural force itself.

[Sutter Kane]

Is Jason an Asian Ghost?

[CagedFreak]

His body is being kept alive by his own vengeful spirit. He also has supernatural strength and agility. This is starting to sound like top trumps...

[koolmike]

@ Sutter

Put long black hair on him and Fright would think so.

[KING]

I just like him as an unstoppable killing machine doing the only thing he knows.

[koolmike]

absolutely

[HEKTIK15]

I just like him as an unstoppable killing machine doing the only thing he knows.

good point , he can't die ( unlike a zombie )

[koolmike]

The author also went as far as saying the monsters in JC's "The Fog" could very well be considered zombies too.

To me they're ghosts.

[FrighT MasteR]

@ Sutter

Put long black hair on him and Fright would think so.

He would have to be Asian for starters

[koolmike]

He would have to be Asian for starters

:straightface2:

[FrighT MasteR]

:straightface2:

[CagedFreak]

This discussion is totally insensitive. He's already a little bald white kid, why label him further?

[koolmike]

CF = funny.

All kidding aside, Slayer made some good points. Seems like he was once a pissed of slasher - human, that turned into a super zombie slasher after part 5...that didn't eat his victims :starefreak:

[strtfghtr]

I have that book too mike, havent made it through it though, I'm on another zombie book at the moment.

I am not as narrow minded as many are on this forum because after watching a lot of zombie movies you realize you can't constrain or define a zombie as a

"brain craving undead human that moves slow and can be put down with a shot to the head."

This is of course what we all think of at first when the word zombie is mentioned but as you said it bears no relation to the Hatian zombie or many number of other flicks that are considered "zombie movies"

Night of the living dead
Return of the living dead
Plague of the Zombies
Dead Alive (Braindead)
White Zombie

Without a doubt all the movies I just mentioned are zombie movies but not a single one conforms to the "definition" above. That tells me the definition is incorrect and you have to broaden it.

I think without a doubt Jason in Friday 6-FvJ is a zombie though they are certainly not zombie movies.