Jason's Mask

Origin: a lighting test, not a design

The mask was never designed for Jason. It was grabbed off the floor during a camera test around December 1981, and it stuck because the director liked what he saw.

The Part III script, by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson, called for Jason to wear a mask but did not say what kind. During a test with actor Richard Brooker, nobody on the effects crew wanted to spend hours on his prosthetics, so Martin Jay Sadoff, the film's 3-D effects supervisor and a hockey player from Buffalo, suggested, half-joking, that they just put on his goalie mask and skip the makeup. It was the mask the crew used for pickup games during breaks. Director Steve Miner liked the look but wanted something that fit Brooker's head, so the effects team built their own enlarged version from a 1970s Jacques Plante mask.

Sadoff was only on set because Paramount's Frank Mancuso Sr. had hired him to shoot the film in 3-D, a format Sadoff had experimented with and pushed for. No 3-D gimmick, no hockey bag, no mask.

Why change the mask at all? Peter Bracke, who wrote Crystal Lake Memories, says the Part 2 sack had a problem: Paramount's own The Elephant Man (1980) had made a man with a bag on his head read as sad rather than scary. Sean Cunningham later said the sack "just really didn't have much of a future."

Who did what

Miner called it a team effort. The claims on record:

Person	Role on Part III	Claim
Martin Jay Sadoff	3-D effects supervisor	Supplied the goalie mask; credited Marty Becker's team with the molds and art director Robb Wilson King with "various versions"
Doug White	Makeup effects	Says he made the original mold from a life-cast, pulled and painted the copies, and finished them with Krylon crystal clear
Terry Ballard	Crew	Per White, added the red chevrons (acetate glued on), punched the holes and changed the markings so the mask differed from a stock one
Robb Wilson King	Art director	Says the masks were painted off-white with a slight aged patina and an almost automotive satin finish for night shooting
Marty Becker	Special effects	Per Sadoff, his team made the molds

Larry Zerner, who played Shelly, the prankster the mask is stolen from, put it best: everyone on the movie has taken credit for the idea, and nobody consulted him.

Which mask did Sadoff bring? Most retellings say a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask. Den of Geek, citing Crystal Lake Memories, calls it a replica of Terry Sawchuk's mask. Zerner told ESPN in 2009 that he had heard Sadoff was a Buffalo Sabres fan. A Buffalo-born player owning a Red Wings-painted mask is plausible, but no photograph of the mask has ever surfaced, and Sadoff's job title drifts across retellings too (The Hockey News called him the film's editor). Cunningham has also floated that the hockey idea came from Miner's years cutting hockey documentaries; Miner has never confirmed it.

The real goalie mask underneath

Almost every quirk fans obsess over, the soft vent holes, the lumpy nose, the wide rim, comes from how a commercial fiberglass mask was copied, not from a design choice.

Jacques Plante, the Montreal Canadiens goalie, made the fiberglass face mask standard equipment after wearing one in an NHL game on November 1, 1959, the day after Halloween. He later founded Fibrosport in Magog, Quebec, which made masks from the late 1960s until it closed in 1976. The medium-size "Elite" model the film copied was catalog number 653602, was also sold through the American brands Cooper (as the HM7) and Rally, came in white or beige, and retailed for about $50. Collectors note the Elite line had several hole-placement variants, so a single "correct" model number is still argued about.

The Part III masks were not vacuum-formed straight off a stock mask. The team enlarged the shape over at least a couple of generations, clayed up the rim so it covered the whole face, then pulled copies in very thin clear acrylic, brittle where the fiberglass original was thick and padded. Chipping in the mold around the eyes is part of what makes a screen mask recognizable next to a real Fibrosport.

ReelFX kept the Part III masks and molds, and for each Paramount sequel cast new blanks from old finished masks rather than from the source. Every recast added warping, and every vacuum pull softened detail. By Part VI and Part VIII the masks are wide, round "salad bowls" with bulbous noses, still descended from the original but three copy-generations away. After Jason Goes to Hell (1993) the studio lineage broke: the Freddy vs. Jason crew got their mask by recasting a fan-made copy of a Part VI mask, and only Jason X has no confirmed link to the original mold.

Goalie mask painters know the secret the public does not. Painter Greg Harrison put it this way for InGoal Magazine: everyone calls it the Jason mask, but it is basically an early store-bought Plante mask, marked up and distressed to look sinister.

Trivia: the Cooper HM7, the street-hockey plastic cousin of the same design, is the mask Edward Furlong wears in Pet Sematary Two (1992).

How Jason gets the mask, in every timeline

Jason never buys, finds or builds the mask. Every time, he takes it off a victim who was using it for a prank.

Before the mask

Friday the 13th (1980): the killer is Pamela Voorhees. Jason appears only as a drowned boy at the end, in a scene that may be a dream.

Part 2 (1981): adult Jason kills with a burlap sack over his head, one eyehole cut on the right because his left eye is deformed. Stuntman Steve Dash wore the sack for most of the film; Warrington Gillette played the unmasked reveal. The look echoes the Phantom in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976).

The original timeline

Part III (1982): Shelly brings the mask to Higgins Haven as a prank prop and uses it to scare Vera at the lake, about 56 minutes in. Jason kills him off-screen in the barn, walks out wearing the mask, and takes his speargun. Chris Higgins buries an axe in Jason's forehead at the climax, splitting the mask.

The Final Chapter (1984): the same mask, now cracked.

A New Beginning (1985): Jason is dead. Copycat Roy Burns wears a different mask with two blue chevrons; Jason appears only in Tommy's dreams, in his own cracked mask.

Jason Lives (1986): Tommy Jarvis tries to cremate the mask with the body. Lightning resurrects Jason, who puts it back on. Megan's boat propeller chips the edge at the end.

The New Blood (1988): the same chipped mask, until Tina Shepard destroys it telekinetically when she exposes his face.

Jason Takes Manhattan (1989): the film explains the new mask and most fans miss it. In the houseboat prologue, Jim pranks his girlfriend Suzi with a hockey mask made to look like Jason's; the revived Jason takes it and kills them both. A second stolen prank prop, exactly echoing Shelly. What the film does not explain is why the new mask already has Part III's axe crack.

Jason Goes to Hell (1993): the mask survives the FBI ambush and rides along with Jason's possessed hosts; a smaller, fused-looking version returns for the finale and is dragged into hell with him.

Jason X (2001): a sharper, angular mask in the year 2455, replaced by a metal face plate when nanobots rebuild him as Über Jason.

Freddy vs. Jason (2003): an undamaged mask with all three chevrons, later raked by Freddy's glove.

The reboot

Friday the 13th (2009): Jason starts in a sack again, kills Donnie in the barn and takes his mask. Producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form said the point was to show him finding it and give him a reason to put it on, where Part III has him walk out of the barn already wearing it.

Fan theories, none confirmed by any film: that he keeps the mask because it hides the face his mother told him people mocked; that a goalie's job of guarding the net mirrors his guarding Crystal Lake; that the three chevrons echo the triangles on Pamela's sweater. Derek Mears, who played him in 2009, read it as protection: a shield between Jason and the society that hurt him.

Film by film

No two films use the same mask, and the continuity of damage is honored about half the time. Each production remade the mask, which is why the shape, the chevrons and the color drift.

Part III (1982)

Richard Brooker

Off-white with a slight aged patina and satin finish; wide rim; three bright red chevrons cut from acetate and glued on. Clean until Chris's axe splits the forehead. Three masks are known from production: a hero mask, a stunt mask and a third "TV spot" mask, all pulled in thin clear acrylic. Two prosthetic faces were made for Brooker underneath: a full unmasking makeup of about eleven appliances that took roughly six hours, and a simpler one for masked shots.
The Final Chapter (1984)

Ted White

Same mask, dirtier. The center chevron peels on its right side and the cheek chevrons wear away to outlines, which is what glued acetate does. Axe crack in the forehead. The Part III stunt mask was worn for the whole film; the Part III hero mask appears in the opening credits and on the poster.
A New Beginning (1985)

Tom Morga as Roy Burns and Jason

Roy's mask is rounder, with straps under the rim and two large blue chevrons pointing inward under the nose, no top chevron. David Miller recast the Part 4 mask, filled the axe split, and vacuum-formed both the Roy masks and the dream-sequence Jason masks from the same buck, which is why a ghost of a forehead chevron shows on Roy. Paramount collected every mask after the shoot; Miller kept only the mold.
Jason Lives (1986)

C.J. Graham

Rounder and more bloated, cream over a Krylon "Summer Wheat" base with yellow and brown oil washes. Only the top chevron remains, in a new shape reused in VII and IX. Twelve masks were pulled by Gabe Bartalos and painted by Bill Forsche, eight clean and four with a forehead bullet hole, plus one made after production for the title shot. The propeller footage was mirrored on screen, so the mask was really struck on the right side even though it reads as the left.
The New Blood (1988)

Kane Hodder

Whiter and more oval, cut down so more of the face appliances show, with a darker top chevron and a chunk missing at the lower left to match the propeller. Only two masks were made: the hero, worn for the whole shoot, and an effects mask for the split. Black mesh was glued into the left eyehole. The hero mask got scratched around the mouth when a falling ceiling lamp hit Hodder, and because scenes were shot out of order the damage visibly comes and goes.
Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Kane Hodder

A wide "salad bowl" in yellow ochre with three painted red chevrons, leather straps and extra air holes; the Part III axe crack is painted in. Prop Store's listing says five were made. All were cast from the front of a Part VI mask, which is why they share a horizontal crack across the mouth holes: the Part VI buck had cracked under vacuum pressure and the flaw was copied forward. A third, melted mask was built for the sewer ending.
Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

Kane Hodder

Smaller, scarred, and made to look fused to the face, with one triangle and bullet holes. At least nine masks: vacuum-formed heroes for the opening chase and finale, and resin post-explosion masks by Bill Hunt. They were recast from a leftover Part VII promotional pull, with its propeller damage clayed in and then disguised with weathering.
Jason X (2001)

Kane Hodder

Angular and diamond-shaped, sharper at the edges, with the top triangle, the axe crack and a subtle lower crack. Resin, and the only Jason mask with no confirmed link to the original mold. The Über Jason plate that replaces it is fiberglass, designed and built by makeup effects supervisor Stephan Dupuis, with "Kane's Baby" written inside the chin.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Ken Kirzinger

Back to the classic shape in brown-tinted cream, three red chevrons in Part III placement, no axe crack, then raked by Freddy's glove. Not a new sculpt: makeup chief Bill Terezakis's crew recast a fan-made Part VI copy bought from a small company called Horror Hockey Masks (HHM), itself a recast of Justin Mabry's 1990s casting of a production mask. A moved right-cheek vent hole and a faint ghost of a forehead chevron give the lineage away.
Friday the 13th (2009)

Derek Mears

Oval, scuffed and dirty, three peeling chevrons, eye holes set closer together. Makeup effects supervisor Scott Stoddard started from an original mold, then customized it and made six versions with increasing wear so the mask could age through the film; he kept the forehead and cheek markings but broke them up. Resin.

Continuity breaks worth knowing

Part 4 to Part 6: Part 4 leaves the center chevron peeled and the cheek chevrons worn to outlines, yet Part 6 has an intact top chevron of a different shape and no cheek chevrons at all.
Part 7 to Part 8: Tina destroys the mask; the replacement Jason steals on the houseboat somehow already carries Part III's axe crack.
Part 8 to Jason Goes to Hell: the undamaged Part 8 mask becomes a shrunken, scarred mask in the next film's opening, before the FBI fires a shot.
Chevron color drifts from bright red (III) to dark red (VI–VII) to near-orange (VIII), because every film repainted a new pull.
Freddy vs. Jason drops the axe crack the character had carried since 1982. The 2009 mask is a reboot, so it legitimately starts clean.

Lineage of the masks

Every Paramount-era mask is a copy of a copy. This is the family tree, as reconstructed by prop historians from mold flaws that were carried from film to film.

The reconstruction follows the prop historian who blogs as Jasonlivessince1980, cross-checked against Prop Store lot descriptions. About 31 production masks were pulled across the Paramount films and Jason Goes to Hell; 19 are known to have appeared on screen and roughly 16 survive in collector, Planet Hollywood or Hollywood Museum hands.

The 13-hole mask (2025 onward)

The current official Jason wears a new mask with exactly thirteen holes. It was designed in-house at Horror Inc. before an effects artist was hired, and it is the first redesign in the franchise's history to be booed by fans on arrival.

For the 45th anniversary, Horror Inc.'s Jason Universe brought in Greg Nicotero, of KNB EFX and The Walking Dead, whose team had also worked on Jason Goes to Hell. The company came to him with the mask already drawn; the thirteen holes are a nod to the date. Nicotero's brief was to build a full new Jason around it, a living man rather than a rotted zombie, landing, in his words, somewhere between Part 2 and Part 3. He delivered the design and twenty physical masks and sculpted a bust nobody has seen, and that ended his involvement; he had no hand in the short film that debuted it.

The design was unveiled in May 2025 and first appeared on screen in Sweet Revenge, a thirteen-minute vignette made with Angry Orchard, directed by Mike P. Nelson, with Schuyler White as Jason, released August 13, 2025. It was Jason's first canonical screen appearance since 2009. The mask is also the Jason Universe logo, subtly redrawn, and it is on the merchandise.

Reception split: the body and costume were mostly liked, the mask widely disliked, with the two lower stripes the usual complaint. Nicotero said he was surprised by the negativity. It is the only Jason mask that was designed as a brand asset first and a prop second.

Screen-used masks and what they sold for

Until 2022 almost no production mask had changed hands publicly. Then the largest private collection was sold at auction, and the market reset.

Mask	Films	Where it is	Price
Part III hero mask	Part III; Part 4 credits, poster and TV spot; Part 5 posters	Nailed to a wall outside ReelFX, rotted and was thrown out in the late 1980s, per Tom Savini	Lost
"Holy Grail" (Part III stunt mask)	Part III finale, all of Part 4, Part 5 hospital and mirror scenes	Given to stunt coordinator Dick Warlock; sold in 2011 to Croatian collector Dario Latinovic with the Part 5 dream hood	Undisclosed
"TV spot" mask	Part 5 (one scene, 1985–86 TV spot); cast master for Part 6	Hollywood Museum, Los Angeles	Not for sale
Part VI hero mask (C.J. Graham)	Jason Lives; on the FX puppet for the propeller hit	Mario Kirner collection, sold at Prop Store London, November 3, 2022	$98,000
Part VIII hero mask (Kane Hodder)	Jason Takes Manhattan; one of five made	Hodder's own, then Kirner; Prop Store London, November 2022	$98,000
Freddy vs. Jason mask and cowl (Ken Kirzinger)	Screen-matched battle damage	Kirner collection; Prop Store London, November 2022	$98,000
Jason Goes to Hell opening mask (K.N.B. Effects)	Screen-matched to the SWAT ambush	From effects artist Tom Bellissimo; Prop Store, June 29, 2021; estimate $20,000–30,000	$225,000 with premium
Part VII hero mask (Kane Hodder)	The New Blood, the whole film	Hodder, then Kirner; Prop Store Los Angeles, June 2023; estimate $60,000–120,000	Not published
Part VIII production mask (Martin Becker)	Jason Takes Manhattan stunt scenes	From producer Randy Cheveldave; Prop Store Los Angeles, August 2024	$44,100 with premium
Über Jason mask (Kane Hodder)	Jason X	Kirner collection; Prop Store London, November 2023	Not published
JGTH explosion-head mask	Jason Goes to Hell	Metallica's Kirk Hammett	Private
2009 screen-used mask and costume	Friday the 13th (2009)	Profiles in History, April 30–May 1, 2026	Result unconfirmed

The Kirner sale

Mario Kirner, a German collector who ran the private Friday the 13th Props Museum and wrote a book about it, began selling the whole collection through Prop Store in 2022. On the first day three masks, from Part VI, Part VIII and Freddy vs. Jason, each sold for $98,000 including premium, and a demon dagger from Jason Goes to Hell went for $49,000. Lots were still appearing in the summer of 2026. Prop Store's listings are now the best public record of how the masks were built: which pull had "7" or "9" written inside, which one was rigged with a detonator for a head shot that went unused, and which one was scanned in 2017 by the makers of Friday the 13th: The Game for color matching.

Buying: what to watch for

Ask for screen-matching, unique scuffs that line up with frames, not a certificate. The $225,000 mask sold on a match to one scene.
A signature proves a signing, not screen use. Many "Jason Goes to Hell" masks online, some signed by Kane Hodder, are of unknown origin.
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas displayed a Part VIII costume with genuine screen-used shirt, pants and shoe and a replica mask made to complete the display. The set sold in 2018 for $10,000.
Paramount collected every mask after A New Beginning; a screen-used Roy mask deserves hard scrutiny.
Prop Store's hammer prices sit behind a login; the figures above come from the auction house's announcements and fan-press reports.

Who owns the mask

Nobody owns all of Jason. Three parties hold pieces, and any new film needs two of them to agree.

The hockey-masked adult Jason belongs to Horror Inc., the company founded by Sean S. Cunningham and now run by Rob and Robbie Barsamian. The 1980 screenplay and its characters, including the name Jason Voorhees, belong to writer Victor Miller in the United States. The Friday the 13th title trademarks for films and merchandise belong to Warner Bros. subsidiary New Line.

It split in court. In 2016 Miller served copyright termination notices, the mechanism that lets authors reclaim a work 35 years after a grant unless it was made for hire. Horror Inc. sued; a federal court in Connecticut ruled in 2018 that Miller had not been an employee, and the Second Circuit affirmed in 2021. The trial court noted that Horror Inc. likely retains the hockey-masked adult Jason developed in the sequels, since Miller's script had only a drowned boy. Miller's recapture applies in the United States only; Horror Inc. keeps international rights to all the films.

The practical effect was a seventeen-year gap with no new movie: the Paramount license expired in 2018 just as the lawsuit landed, and every project using elements of the first film needed both sides to sign off. In 2024 they formed a joint label, Jason Universe, which deliberately avoids the Friday the 13th title because New Line holds it. Through 2025 it put Jason into Halloween Horror Nights, Call of Duty and Fortnite, commissioned the redesign above, and announced a thirteenth film and a new console game.

Crystal Lake, the A24 prequel series with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees and Callum Vinson as young Jason, releases all eight episodes on Peacock on October 15, 2026. The trailers show a sack-masked teenage Jason, which puts the series near the Part 2 look. Expect the sack, not the hockey mask.

Common errors: a Paramount or New Line logo on a licensed mask is a license, not ownership. Warner Bros. does not "own Jason"; it owns the title. And the mask shape itself was never a studio design; it descends from a commercial goalie mask, which is why unbranded blanks of the same shape are sold freely.

Myths, half-truths and open questions

Most facts about the mask that circulate online are half right. Here is where each one stands.

Settled

Jason wears no hockey mask in the 1980 film or in Part 2. It arrives in Part III.
It is a real goalie-mask design, not a Halloween-shop invention.
The three red chevrons and the changed holes were added by the Part III crew. A stock Fibrosport has neither.
Part V's killer is Roy Burns, and his blue-chevron mask was made different on the director's orders.
The mask Jason wears from Part VIII on is a replacement, in the story, because Tina destroyed the original.
The Part III chevrons were acetate cutouts, which is why they peel in Part 4.

Contested

Which mask Sadoff brought: Red Wings, Sawchuk replica, or a Buffalo player's own. No photo exists.
Who built it: White, Ballard, Becker's team and King all have partial claims. "Team effort" is the only safe summary.
Whether the Elephant Man comparison is the reason the sack went: Peter Bracke says so on record; the script still only said "a mask."
Whether the Part III hero mask was larger than the stunt mask. Kitrosser recalled molds of different sizes.
Whether Steve Miner's past editing hockey documentaries mattered. Cunningham suggested it; nobody else corroborates it.

Wrong

"It was a modified Cooper SK-1." Repeated on merchandise pages; contradicted by every crew account. The Cooper link is real but different: Cooper sold the same Plante design as the HM7.
"It's one continuous prop across the series." Only Part 4 reuses the previous film's hero mask.
"Freddy vs. Jason was a brand-new sculpt." It is a recast of a fan-made Part VI copy.
"Jason's mask is why goalies wear masks." Backwards by 23 years.
"Part 2's sack was original." A sack-masked killer was already a slasher trope in 1976.
"There's a canonical chevron color." It drifts from red to orange because every film repainted a new pull.

Beyond the films

Games

The 1989 NES game drew Jason purple with a teal mask, an accident of the console's palette; NECA later sold a glow-in-the-dark wearable replica of that exact mask. Mortal Kombat X (2015) made him a playable fighter with alternate masks tied to film eras. Friday the 13th: The Game (2017) modeled every mask from Parts 2 through 9 and Jason X separately, added a Tom Savini-designed post-hell Jason with a blackened mask, and brought Larry Zerner back to voice Shelly. The 2018 lawsuit froze new content, the license expired on December 31, 2023, and online play ended December 31, 2024. In 2025 Jason Universe licensed a Jason outfit for Fortnitemares and a "Slasher Deathmatch: Jason" mode for Call of Duty's The Haunting.

Licensed and brand merchandise

NECA's Part 3 prop replica is the standard licensed wearable; Trick or Treat Studios reissued the 1993 Illusive Concepts Jason Goes to Hell latex mask from its original master; Rubie's sells the cheap foam version every Halloween. In August 2026 Horror Inc. and Pabst Blue Ribbon released a 12-pack whose packaging tears out into a wearable mask. Licensed masks now come in two families: film-accurate, and the 13-hole design.

The replica scene

Independent artists sell blanks and painted masks keyed to specific films: "P3", "P4", "Roy", "P6", "P7", "P8", "JGTH", "FvJ", "remake". A "movie mold" blank traces back to a production mask; a "sculpt" is an artist's original. Most replica blanks sold from 2007 to 2011 were cast from the Hollywood Museum's TV-spot mask, and a tiny paint spatter near the left eye identifies that lineage. David Miller still owns the Part 5 mold and sells pulls from it; Bill Forsche sold blanks from C.J. Graham's title-screen mask in 2012.

Paint recipes are documented per film. Part III: white base, scuffed with a blade, then an amber patina varnish, which is why the same mask reads white in some shots and yellow in others. Part 5: sponge-applied acrylic washes of burnt umber and burnt sienna over off-white, with a final thin wash of raw sienna. Part 6: Summer Wheat with yellow and brown oil washes and an epoxy spray called Zynolyte.

Hockey's side

The Hockey News ran the mask in its 2008 "Greatest Masks of All Time" issue under a headline calling it the hockey mask the NHL would rather not be associated with. NHL goalie Jason Bacashihua wore Voorhees on his Colorado Avalanche mask. The scary-mask tradition predates the film: Doug Favell's orange Great Pumpkin mask for a Halloween game in 1971 was the first painted NHL mask, and Gary Bromley's skull started the skeleton-mask run around 1980.

Sources

Everything above is drawn from the pages below. Where sources disagree, the disagreement is in the text.

Jasonlivessince1980: A Visual History of the Hockey Masks — production mask counts, lineage, paint, owners; crew quotes.
Jasonlivessince1980: The original mask, by Jacques Plante — the Fibrosport Elite and the Cooper HM7.
Jasonlivessince1980: A Study of the Freddy vs. Jason Mask — the fan-recast lineage.
Jasonlivessince1980: The Origin of the Part 8 Mask — the copied buck crack.
Jasonlivessince1980: How the Part 3 Masks Were (Probably) Painted
Peter M. Bracke, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (book, 2005; documentary, 2013) — the crew interviews every article cites.
Collider: The Elephant Man and Jason's look — Bracke and Sadoff quotes.
ESPN: A Buffalo Sabres link to Jason's mask — Larry Zerner interview.
Den of Geek: How a real hockey team led to Jason's look
Friday the 13th: The Website: Larry Zerner interview
MoPOP: The story behind Jason's mask — Cunningham on Miner and the sack.
Friday the 13th: The Franchise: Making the Franchise, Part 3 — the 3-D decision.
Friday the 13th: The Franchise: The Holy Grail mask
Friday the 13th: The Franchise: Kirner props sell big
Bloody Disgusting: JGTH mask sells for $225,000
Prop Store: Friday the 13th lots — construction notes in each listing.
Prop Store: Mario Kirner Q&A
The Hockey News archive: Jason Voorhees (2008) — Derek Mears interview.
InGoal Magazine: Halloween, horror and the goalie mask
Wikipedia: Goaltender mask
Wikipedia: Jason Voorhees; Friday the 13th (2009 film); Part VIII; Crystal Lake
Western New England Law Review: Horror, Inc. v. Miller
LegalClarity: Who owns the rights to Jason Voorhees
Horror Dork: The confusing history of the Friday the 13th rights
Jason Universe: About
Bloody Disgusting: Nicotero on the Jason Universe mask; JoBlo: Nicotero on the reaction
Dread Central: Crystal Lake's teenage Jason
Delisted Games: Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th Wiki: Savini Jason; Horror Film Wiki: Jason's hockey mask
Sip Magazine: Pabst Blue Ribbon and Horror Inc.