Pro-Life Perspective Behind Friday The 13th



 The horror movie franchise, Friday The 13th,  is about a disfigured and mentally challenged little boy who, according to the movie-game adaptation, was conceived in rape. Pamela Voorhees, Jason’s mom,  loved her son  very much, in spite of how the world viewed him. She brought him to the Lake for the camp councillors to babysit him because no one else would help her out. While he was there, Jason ran away because he was being bullied; the young and irresponsible councillors didn’t know he was missing because they were too busy getting into trouble. 

He supposedly drowned that day, but we find out years later that he had come back to life and was still at the Lake living off the land with a little shack as his shelter. 

A year after , Pamela was still  riddled with grief and plagued by Jason’s voice in her head telling her to kill the councillors. She sets out to avenge his death,  her first two victims being Barry and Claudette (two people she blamed for her son drowning).

Jason did not see his mother until 20 years later when she was killing some councillors and was killed by a girl named Alice. It was at that point that he took her head , made a shrine in his shack, and continued the killing. 

I love watching horror movies and this Christmas I got Friday The 13th movie-game adaptation. One of the perks of the game was finding tapes of Pamela. The last tape I found was her saying Jason’s father had raped her. It’s still not confirmed if it’s actually part of the movie , the comics, or just the game, but hearing that as a pro-lifer bothered me so much I started to cry and had to turn off the game. All I could think about was my very dear friend, Jennifer Christie’s precious son Josh , who was conceived in rape. All I could picture was that little boy being pushed around by bullies, hurling the insults of “demon seed” and “monster’s child”.  The feeling that this game was further exploiting an already vulnerable people group made me sick to my stomach. 

Then a pro-life friend of mine, Skye Pearce,  gave me a different perspective when she said to me:

“All I see is how much his mother loved him. He didn't become a serial killer because he was conceived in rape; he became a killer because people were not watching him when they should have. Even though he was conceived in rape and was disfigured, his mother still loved him to the point that when that beautiful child (the one that she decided to keep through it all) died her heart was filled with so much grief that she sought out those councillors and killed them. Her love for that child was also so strong that it brought him back to finish what she started. So even though this serial killer was conceived in rape, it has nothing to do with how he turned out but with how much he was loved by the one person that society tries to convince us would not be able to love him.”






Look beyond the surface of shows/movies that you watch, games that you play, and people that you meet.  There is where you will find what your emotions cannot meet.


Written by Feleica Langdon, Founder and President of 


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