# Fri.13th -- was Jason ever umasked?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028
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**Created:** [August 13, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028 "2003-08-13T22:54:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/21 "2003-08-15T02:09:33Z")
Wasn’t there also a part in _Manhattan_ where a couple of punks are making fun of Jason, and he lifts his mask at them, and they run away?
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/22 "2003-08-15T02:09:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Walloon \*
> \*\*I remember the young Michael Myers being unmasked at the beginning of the first _Halloween_, but the adult Michael? Are you sure? \*\*
Quite sure. Jamie Lee tugs his mask off, and he brings his face into the light, and we see…that he’s just a regular-looking guy. Could be anyone, really. Anyway, he puts his mask back on, and is shot seconds later.
And I have no idea what **Zap** ’s talking about. Jason didn’t have a mask in the second **Friday the 13th** movie; as mentioned earlier, he wore a sack with an eyehole in it and a rope tied around the neck. He never “lifted” it, but he was unmasked toward the end of the movie.
The only “mask lifting” incident I can recall happened in part 8, when a bunch of folks on the street (a gang?) start following Jason and yelling after him. Jason turns, lifts his mask (the audience can’t see his face), and the gang backs off _fast_. hehehe…
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### Author:  [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/23 "2003-08-15T03:21:21Z")
It has been years since I have seen it, perhaps the scene I am thinking of was in part 3. Anyway, I think the scene in Halloween is much better because as stated, it shows some guy rather than some “monster.”
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/24 "2003-08-15T04:21:00Z")
I found [this page](http://www.reelmoviefx.com/Halloween_Michael_Unmasked.html), which has numerous shots of Michael without his mask at various points during the original **Halloween** movie, including his unmasking at the end.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/25 "2003-08-15T06:41:01Z")
I think the all-time favorite moment in the Jason franchise is when he attacked a camp counselor who was in a sleeping bag by grabbing the sleeping bag and SWINGING it right into a tree. Ouch.
One redeeming part of Jason X was the hologram scene where two cheerleaders appear, take off their tops, and say “We like promiscuous sex!” then climb into their sleeping bags. When they go back to that scene, you see Jason doing the ‘sleeping bag slam’ to one of the hologram girls about FIFTY times.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/26 "2003-08-15T09:39:49Z")
Aren’t some of those frame blowups from **Halloween II** or further?
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### Author:  [@anamnesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anamnesis)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fri-13th-was-jason-ever-umasked/195028/27 "2003-08-15T11:35:14Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Max Torque \*
> \*\*I found [this page](http://www.reelmoviefx.com/Halloween_Michael_Unmasked.html), which has numerous shots of Michael without his mask at various points during the original **Halloween** movie, including his unmasking at the end. \*\*
I think in Halloween 4, there was a scene toward the end where he removes his mask for his niece, a cute little girl he’s also trying to kill, of course. For some reason, he felt motivated to show his face before attempting to kill her, and you can only see half his face in the shadows. I don’t think the picture from that link by Max is from that movie, though. This scene was a little spookier because you can’t really see his expression, only an eye and part of his face.
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