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   Jason Voorhees was born in the small town of Crystal Lake on June 13, 1946 to Elias Voorhees and Pamela Voorhees. Though his age is often disputed, as the actress for Pamela created a backstory for her character that put Jason's birthdate in 1944. Jason was afflicted with severe facial deformities, Hydrocephalus, an abnormally large head, and mental disabilities. Raising Jason on her own, Pamela kept her son isolated from the community, not letting him attend school and educating him in their home on the outskirts of Crystal Lake. Due to his mental deficiencies, his education was quite limited, but he learned never to question his mother. He obeyed all his mothers orders, grasping the concept that his life was going to be difficult, if not impossible, without her guidance. His extreme obedience for his mother would manifest itself in a strange way after puberty. Even after she died, Jason could imagine her talking to him from beyond the grave.

   In 1957, Pamela was hired by Mr. & Mrs. Christy as a cook for their summer camp. Having no living relatives to board Jason with and unable to afford a nanny, she took him to the camp with her. Jason had actually been with his mom most of the time instead of other kids, leading to them thinking he wasn’t very smart, so they started bullying him. While being bullied by the other campers, Jason attempted to escape from his tormentors, but the cruel children caught up to him on the dock and threw Jason into the lake where he presumably drowned. His last words were for his mother, then for anyone in earshot to help him. The counselors were supposed to be on the lookout for this type of misbehavior, but were distracted by casual sex.

   The Christys ordered the camp closed. Police combed the lake but failed to find Jason's corpse. Interrogation of the counselors led the authorities to conclude Jason's death was accidental and no one was charged with his death. In 1958, it was again open on schedule. Pamela, who was mad with grief, murdered Barry Jackson and Claudette Hayes, the counselors she blamed for Jason's drowning. Pamela was never suspected of the murders, but unlike Jason's drowning, autopsies of the two teenagers clearly showed they died as a result of homicide, and the camp was promptly closed again.

   The Christys reopened the camp in 1962, but discovery of arsenic in the water reserves on camp property caused the summer season to be canceled. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, there were random fires on the property, and the fire department could not come up with a plausible reason. It was never proven, but strongly suggested, that Pamela lived close to the camp and had engaged in these acts of sabotage in order to ensure the camp remained unattended and that no child suffer the same fate as Jason. All of these tragedies led to the abandoned summer camp being nicknamed "Camp Blood" by the locals who came to believe the area was cursed. Despite struggling in the lake from the prank, he did not drown. By some means Jason managed to make it to land safely. Having no idea how to seek help, he seemingly decided his only action was to wait for his mother to find him. He either built a home or managed to occupy an abandoned shanty in the woods. During these years, Pamela never found out where he was, nor did they see each other again until her death. Presumably Jason came to believe that his mother had died and that he was on his own. He managed to live off the land, subsiding on edible plants in the forests surrounding Crystal Lake or hunting small animals, or pilfering food where he could. He also made use of the abandoned summer camp to strip it for makeshift goods, or made very limited forays into civilization to procure supplies. Jason had managed to achieve independence from his mother and survive on his own as a full-grown man, albeit in a crude and very haphazard manner.

   Steven Christy, the son of Camp Crystal Lake founders David and Louise Christy, tried to re-open the camp. In 1978, he had plunked down $25,000 hiring various carpenters, electricians, masons and plumbers to go to the Camp Crystal Lake property and renovate it. He also hired several teenagers from out of town to assist him in the refurbishment, with a deadline that by the time the summer of 1979 came to be, the camp would once again be open for business. Steve went to urban areas and made contact with community centers, offering lower class inner-city families a chance for their children to enjoy the great outdoors for a summer. Enraged by Steve's actions, Pamela murdered him and almost all of his employees with only Alice Hardy surviving. Ultimately, Alice decapitated Pamela with a machete after a brief struggle on the lake's shore. After killing Pamela, Alice collapsed from exhaustion and stress into a canoe, and fell asleep as it drifted out onto the lake. The following Saturday morning, police cars came onto the camp property to investigate the murders, only for Alice herself to be pulled into the water by a revenant form of Jason's prepubescent self. Alice had indeed nearly drowned, but this was in fact due to the capsizing of the canoe. She awoke in a hospital bed and was greeted by Sergeant Tierney, who said that they found the corpses on the property, and that Officer Dorf and another of his men rescued her from drowning. Alice was then admitted to the hospital and treated for hypothermia. When Alice asks about Jason, Tierney chalks it up to hallucination from her recent ordeal and replies "Ma'am, we did not find any boy" causing Alice to remark that Jason is still out there.

   As there are supernatural things involved with Jason, he does however have a personality being that of a child along with being very wrathful. Jason was also known to grunt when injured heavily. He loved his mother dearly as she was the only person that showed him true love in his childhood. After her death, he constructed a crude altar in the shack where he lived with his mother's head at the center to which he placed his victims at the foot of it, as though it were a way of showing his mother the victims he killed to please her. Ginny Field, knowing the story of him and his mother used the child persona by pretending to be his mother against him to trap him in order to stop Jason to protect herself from further harm. Tommy Jarvis as a child also used the child persona against him by making himself look like Jason did as a child, in order to trap him like Ginny had once done to save his sister. Both attempts to use the child persona against him were successful as he mentally shuts down upon seeing the two perform these actions.

   As a mortal human Jason never really enjoyed killing as one would think and wasn't very sadistic, as he was quite silent, but one could tell that he was an angry, vengeful man as he made countless grunts when he was chasing his victims out of revenge for his mother's death and the rage he held within him after nearly drowning in the waters of Camp Crystal Lake. Jason was also very childlike mentally as he mainly did everything he could to please his mother with the deaths of those who wronged both of them, but also he ransacked the barn out of frustration when he couldn't find Chris as if he were throwing a tantrum. Once he became one of the undead, Jason lost many of his human limitations he once had, but retains most of his emotions such as his everlasting hatred towards people for the way the world treated him and his mother, Pamela but he didn't harm the kids who were staying in one of the cabins at Crystal Lake in Jason Lives

   Jason stalked his victims cunningly, quietly, and sometimes grudgingly as with Tommy Jarvis and Tina Shepard at one point, but not recklessly, and luring them to their deaths. After killing his victims, he usually hid the bodies to prevent others from raising the alarm and to create more terror when his next intended victim would find it. If Jason had any virtues left, it would be that he never killed children under the age of eighteen or pets (The novel Hate-Kill-Repeat implied that he was responsible for the deaths of two children in a family, but the murders were never witnessed and they may have simply been unintentional collateral damage), and when he killed, it was always quick and their suffering was not long unless they struggled against him. Another possible virtue of Jason is shown when he saves Lori Campbell twice from becoming Freddy Krueger's victim after she saved him from getting killed by the dreamstalker himself; though it is not actually known if he saved her on purpose. Jason truly hated Freddy Kruger for tricking and using him. However, in Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, he was shown to be willing to cooperate with him, in return Freddy used the Necronomicon to boost his intelligence.

   Many have given suggestions as Jason's motivation for killing. Ken Kirzinger refers to Jason as a "psychotic mama's boy gone horribly awry...very resilient. You can't kill him, but he feels pain, just not like everyone else." Kirzinger goes on to say that Jason is a "psycho-savant," and believes his actions are based on pleasing his mother, and not anything personal. Andrew O'Hehir has stated, "Coursing hormones act, of course, as smelling salts to prudish Jason, that ever-vigilant enforcer of William Bennett-style values. Todd Farmer, writer for Jason X, wrote the scene where Jason wakes from cryonic hibernation just as two of the teenagers began making love. Farmer liked the idea that sex acts triggered Jason back to life. Whatever his motivations, Kane Hodder believes there is a limit to what he will do. According to Hodder, Jason might violently murder any person he comes across, but when Jason Takes Manhattan called for Hodder to kick the lead character's dog, Hodder refused, stating that, while Jason has no qualms against killing humans, he is not bad enough to hurt animals. Another example from Jason Takes Manhattan, involves Jason being confronted by a street gang of young teenage boys one of whom threatens him with a knife, however, Jason chooses not to kill them and instead scares them off by lifting up his mask and showing them his face. Likewise, director Tom McLoughlin chose not to have Jason harm any of the children he encounters in Jason Lives, stating that Jason would not kill a child, out of a sympathy for the plight of children generated by his own death as a child. Superhuman Strength: In Part 2, Jason was shown to have some sort of enhanced strength capable of impaling victims with ease and was capable of breaking out a window with a single shot and his fist was barely formed and within Part III was capable of crushing someone's head while lifting them and later throwing said 100+ pound man through a window, and finally in Part IV he was able to twist a man's head around along with a hacksaw, crushing a teenager's skull against a wall, being able to break through a window and throw girl out of said window with ease, and was able to smash through a door completely demolishing it. Thus making it his default strength, for when he was alive as he was rarely overpowered by normal individuals. Pain Resistance: Jason as a human still has a human personality and he has felt pain the same as humans but had shown an exceptional amount of tolerance for it as shown in Part III and Part IV he still shows human reactions when being stabbed and slashed by Chris and Tommy. Jason withstood fatal injuries that would kill or cripple a normal person under normal circumstances such as being hanged, an axe to the head, a machete through the shoulder, and being impaled through the head. As an undead, Jason no longer responds to pain and can generally function in situations where pain would disable a normal person. However, in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Jason can be heard groaning in pain while being shot at by the FBI. Stealth (Stalk/Super Speed): Jason can seemingly appear near his victims through means of walking; he can easily slip in and out of areas undetected. This is best seen in Part VIII when Jason kills Charles. He can swim at incredible speeds, completely unrestricted by water resistance. He can make himself go unnoticed in his surroundings, allowing him to freely act without being noticed, essentially allowing himself to slip into the shadows to go unnoticed and reappear behind his victims for a quick and easy elimination. Intelligence: Jason is shown to be extremely intelligent and high-functioning while possessing some tactical sense and strategic planning despite his hydrocephalic deformities. He lays traps for his victims as seen in Part 2, can be seen restraining victims to avoid detection, and he carefully arranges the bodies of his victims, occasionally using them as blockades or projectiles. His sense of direction is perfect, as he is always able to go wherever he wants to go, usually back to Crystal Lake even from long distances. He can escape all manner of bonds. Every one of his kills is unique, and he always finds creative ways to get to his victims as well. Beyond this, though, his intellectual capabilities are unclear and not clarified for the duration of the series, only being shown in his tactical malice towards camp counselors and his never ending objective to kill anyone that wanders into the territory of Camp Crystal Lake. Revenant Zombie Physiology: After being resurrected from a lightning bolt strike caused by Tommy Jarvis stabbing his corpse with a metal rod, Jason was accidentally brought back to life as an Undead but unlike the usual Zombies, Jason doesn't want to eat human flesh like usual zombies but instead Jason Voorhees has kept his human personality and kept his former memories intact meaning now he is just a Zombie with intelligence. Supernatural Strength: After becoming a revenant zombie, Jason's superhuman physical strength has become titanic, and immediately demonstrated his newfound power by punching right through Tommy's friend's body and gouging his heart out with a single punch. Jason is capable of sending his victims flying through the air. His feats of strength include going through concrete, decapitating someone with a single punch, freeing himself when he was pinned by a fallen tree and can break humans in half as well as rip limbs from their bodies just small portion of his new zombie strength, as he tossed a man with a single thrust and ripped his arm off in the process and then proceeded to decapitate three people with a single machete slash, smashed a girls head against a metal wall protruding her facial expression through it, and is able to twist a girls head off without any effort, and is able to break Officer Mike Garris in half by bending him backwards Immortality: After becoming a revenant zombie in Part VI (Part 6), Jason has become functionally immortal, which means he does not age and physical injuries or illness that would have killed a normal human would eventually heal and won't truly affect him. Regeneration: Jason after becoming a Revenant Zombie now possesses a unique ability to regenerate any lost and damaged tissue at an accelerated rate. As a result, he can sustain bullet and knife wounds and be essentially unaffected by them. This ability allows him to recover from any fatal injuries that are physically caused to him. So in the logical sense, he can only be incapacitated by being chained to the bottom of Crystal Lake but even still he will be almost and always be restored to "perfect" health, his constantly changing state of deformity can be attributed to his constant regeneration. This regeneration, however, is not perfect, as Jason still possesses an undead, desiccated appearance of exposed bones and deteriorating tissue. Technically being undead, his body is not affected by existing detrimental contaminants. He has complete immunity to all kinds of poison, virus, disease, bacteria, etc. (However, it's not fully known how he can still be sedated as proven when Freddy had possessed Freeburg was able to render him unconscious with two syringes, and at some point, in the future, Jason was kept imprisoned via a combination of chained restraints and some unknown sedative substance administered to him by an I.V.) Resurrection: When Jason is "defeated" as shown at the end of Part 6 he is kept in a hibernating state and only outside forces such as the supernatural or human forces such as Tina Shepard telepathically and accidentally reviving him from his watery prison and Freddy Krueger who resurrected Jason due to the fact Jason doesn't decay like the regular dead and was capable of returning Jason when entering his dream. Supernatural Durability: As an undead Jason now has beyond superhuman durability able to endure and tank virtually anything thrown at him from taking revolver shots and even surviving a motorboat propellor to the face. Teleportation: Jason seemingly possessed this ability in Friday the 13th Part VIII, but it hasn't been confirmed if he did. Weapons Proficiency: Jason can use anything at his disposal as a weapon, he can create improvised weapons and instantly use them effectively Hunting Skills/Tracker: Jason can track down, trap, and pursue a person/group relentlessly for miles, He can adapt to his surroundings instantly, and will not stop until his target(s) are dead as seen in Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Lives, and Friday the 13th Part 2. Intimidation/Overwhelming: Due to his overwhelming presence for those who enter his territory, the constant stories of his death/his killing sprees, and constant times when victims thought he was dead just for him to instantly recover; Jason can induce fear into anyone even with his name and causing many to try to flee when he appears. Some are even unlucky enough to accidentally remove his mask, revealing the decaying/deformed face of Jason, scaring them even more. His Intimidation can cause his victims to become desperate in their attempts to escape/defeat him, make mistakes for him to take advantage of, and even cause them to be clumsy when scared.

   Halloween, a teenaged Laurie Strode dropped off a key at the Myers house for her realtor father and was immediately recognized by her brother. Michael proceeded to stalk her and her friends Annie and Lynda throughout the afternoon. He also stole Judith's gravestone from the local cemetery, and broke into Nichol's Hardware Store to acquire knives, rope, and a Halloween mask. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis had followed Michael to Haddonfield and warned town sheriff Leigh Brackett of the danger he posed.

   That night, as Laurie and Annie were babysitting across the street from each other, Michael watched them from the shadows. He murdered Annie first, strangling her in her car as she left to meet her boyfriend, before slitting her throat.

   Later, Lynda and her own boyfriend Bob showed up, only to fall victim to Michael as well. Worried about her missing friends, Laurie crossed the street to investigate, only to find Annie's body arranged under Judith Myers' gravestone, and Lynda and Bob hidden in the closets. Michael lunged at his sister, catching her on the arm with his knife, and she ran for help. Michael followed her across the street, and Laurie was forced to stab him with both a wire hanger and his own knife. As Michael rose to resume his attack on Laurie, only to get his mask yanked off and giving her a chance to see his face, Dr. Loomis appeared and shot him six times, causing him to fall off the balcony. When Loomis went to check the body, Michael had vanished.

   The injured Michael fled into the back alleys of Haddonfield. He killed teenager Alice Martin before breaking into the elementary school and scrawling "Samhain" onto the chalkboard in blood. As news of the murders spread, chaos erupted in Haddonfield, with citizens rioting and teenager Bennett Tramer being killed in the confusion. Learning Laurie's location from a news report, Michael resumed his search for her at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she had been taken for her shoulder wound. Michael systematically murdered Laurie's protectors at the hospital, including a security guard, two paramedics, doctor, and four nurses (Virginia Alves, Jill Franco, Karen Bailey, and Janet Marshall). Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis, who was continuing his search for Myers with the help of the Haddonfield police, was told by Marion Chambers of Michael's sibling connection to Laurie Strode. Loomis, realizing why Michael had come home, tracked him down to the hospital and saved Laurie's life a second time. Loomis and Laurie worked together to cause an explosion in the hospital operating room, which engulfed Michael in flames.

   Michael suffered severe burns and was left in a coma. He was sent to Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium until October 30, 1988, when he was arranged to transfer back to Smith's Grove. However, upon hearing that his sister Laurie Strode had died and her daughter Jamie Lloyd — his niece — lived in Haddonfield, he woke up from his coma and murdered those with him in the ambulance. After the vehicle crashed off a bridge, Michael escaped and began his journey back to Haddonfield. He stopped at Penney's gas station and murdered the employees, stealing new overalls from one of the mechanics. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis, who had heard of Myers' escape and was tracking him once more, encountered him at the diner and begged him to leave the people of Haddonfield alone. Michael responded by driving off in a stolen truck, burning the station to the ground in the process and leaving Loomis stranded.

   In Haddonfield, Jamie was suffering regular nightmares about her uncle. When taken shopping for Halloween costumes by her adoptive sister, Rachel Carruthers, she briefly saw him as he was stealing a new mask from the discount store. When Loomis finally arrived in town, he contacted new sheriff Ben Meeker with the news of Michael's return. The pair of them went out searching for Jamie, who was trick-or-treating with Rachel. Meanwhile, Michael had begun his attack on Haddonfield, destroying the town's power supply and single-handedly wiping out the entire police force but Meeker and Deputy Logan. When word got around that Myers was back, a group of vengeful townsfolk began patrolling the streets with shotguns. Meeker and Loomis finally caught up with Jamie and Rachel, and they all took refuge in Meeker's house. However, when Michael found a way in and began killing their protectors, the two girls escaped via the roof and were eventually rescued by the people hunting Myers. Jamie and Rachel were driven out of town to safety as the State police arrived to deal with Michael Myers. However, Michael had secretly hitched a ride under their truck, and Rachel was forced to take the wheel when he killed their driver.

   She drove erratically as Michael clawed at her from the roof, eventually throwing him off the roof and hitting him straight on. Jamie went over to check her uncle's body, and as he rose once again, Meeker and a team of armed police showed up and shot him relentlessly until he fell down a nearby mine shaft.[5] The police threw a stick of dynamite into the mine to finish him off, but Michael crawled out just in time and was swept away by a river. When he finally escaped the current, he fell back into his coma and was discovered by a hermit who nursed him back to health.

   Michael possesses superhuman strength, stealth, endurance and durability of an unknown limit. He has been known to be able to lift a large tombstone out of the ground and carry it for long distances by hand, penetrate an adult human skull with his thumb easily, lift, hold and strangle an adult human male with one arm effortlessly, impale an adult human male through a solid wooden door with a blunt object, and rip apart a human male limb by limb with his bare hands, among other feats. He can sneak up on his victims without attracting attention or making noise. He can survive injuries that would result in death for a normal human, such as being shot and/or stabbed multiple times in internal organs (brain and heart included), along with any other form of impalement, high voltage electrocution, or severe scalds over his body. He might have a healing factor that would enable him to regenerate tissue and even vital organs, such as his skin and eyes.

   It seems possible that fire or decapitation could kill him. Since the H20 Timeline ignores the Curse of Thorn and the Cult, his ability to withstand injuries is never really explained. His superhuman abilities could be granted to him by the magical nature of the Curse of Thorn, as the cult members assert that evil never dies, but this remains unconfirmed. However, it is supported by Samuel Loomis when he declares that Hell will not accept Michael, meaning that Michael cannot die, be killed or enter the afterlife in any way.

   In the 2018 Timeline, Michael is able to withstand severe injuries such as multiple gunshot wounds. He seemingly has supernatural strength because, despite being 61 years old, he is still able to fight and kill a much larger, decades younger man, and lift a female reporter in the air with one arm. He also displays extreme durability: He is shot in the shoulder by a handgun, shot by a rifle in the neck, struck across the head with a crowbar, hit by a SUV at full speed, and gets some of his fingers blown off, but still continues unabated. He also displays a preternatural tolerance to pain, and is able to escape a burning house.

   'Teleportation': it may be argued that Michael has some unnatural form of movement, an example being that he always has the capability of sneaking up on people that are running, even though he does not run himself. He usually ends up outpacing people even though he only walks, and can also catch up to people by appearing to them without expending any effort. The extent of this ability is unknown, but he has been known to travel far distances in limited time. His middle name is "Audrey", making his full name: Michael Audrey Myers. This was first revealed in the novelization, in a scene where Michael is publicly sentenced to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. New scenes shot for the 1981 TV version had a similar scene which took place at a courtroom with only Dr. Loomis present. This may indicate that such a scene was in the original script. Unlike the 2007 incarnation of him, this Michael does not have a Social Security Number. Michael is intended to be personification of malice and evil, an unstoppable force of death and despair.

   Following his escape, Michael's usual attire consists of a mechanic jumpsuit that can vary in colors such as dark blue, black, gray and spruce green, and black work boots. He also steals a pale white Halloween mask to hide his face and terrify his victims.

   Michael's weapon of choice is a simple, large kitchen knife used for stabbing, slashing and impaling his victims. He also employs a rope for strangling people and hanging their bodies on display.

   Despite being institutionalized since the age of 6, Michael knows how to drive and operate vehicles. Dr. Loomis theorizes that he learned these skills from another inmate during the fifteen years was incarcerated. Michael's full set of weapons consists of: kitchen knife, hammer, mowing scythe, cords/rope, and various other objects/items.

   Sidney is going through a rough time throughout the film, dealing with problems such as the anniversary of her mother Maureen's murder, as well as her boyfriend wanting to lose their virginity to each other. She has a rivalry with the obnoxious news-reporter Gale Weathers due to her writing a book filled with lies and rumors about her mother's murder trial. Along with Gale, Sidney manages to defeat the killer at the end of the film.

   Gale Weathers: An obnoxious news-reporter that will do almost anything to get a story. She has a rivalry with Sidney Prescott due to Gale writing a book about Sidney's mother's murder trial that is presumably filled with lies and rumors. Gale also has a love interest with Dwight "Dewey" Riley. At the film's ending, she proves not to be too heartless helping Sidney defeat the killer

   Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: A kind, yet dopey police officer who is the older brother of Sidney's best friend, Tatum Riley. He helps Sidney sort her life out and has a love interest with the news-reporter, Gale Weathers. At the end of the film, he manages to make it out alive.

   Tatum Riley: Sidney's best friend, Stu Macher's girlfriend and younger sister of Officer Dewey Riley. She is later killed off during Stu's party, having her head crushed with an automatic garage door after attempting to escape from the killer when getting beer from the garage.

   Billy Loomis: Sidney's boyfriend and one of the two actual killers in the film. He can easily project fear into people, such as Sidney, Stu and Randy, the latter of whom he threatens for implying that he's the killer. Billy was driven insane because his mother had left him due to the affair between his father and Sidney's mother. He is later killed by Sidney when she shot him in the head.

   Stuart "Stu" Macher: Tatum's boyfriend and Billy's best friend. Stu is one of the two killers in the film. He is weak-willed, pathetic, and stupid, the combination of these three leading him to be easily persuaded to help Billy murder people. He is later killed by Sidney after she pushes a television screen on top of him causing electrocution in a form of self-defense. When asked for a motive, Stu claims he committed the murders because of peer pressure, claiming he is "too sensitive".

   Randy Meeks: Randy is a friend of Sidney, Tatum, and Stu, but not Billy. He is a big horror movie buff and even works in a video store. He is the only one out of Sidney's "gang" not to be dating anyone which he appears to be happy with. Randy was the one who explained the rules of a horror movie at Stu's house. It is shown that Randy wants to date Sidney and is notable that he survives the film.

   Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker: The false protagonist who is murdered in the opening of the film. Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface. C.W Morgan as Hank Loomis: the father of Billy Loomis. Henry Winkler as Principal Arthur Himbry (uncredited): The school principal. He expresses concern for the insensitivity of two students who mock Casey and Steve's murder, until he himself is killed by Ghostface. Lawrence Hecht as Neil Prescott: Sidney's father. He is away on business and the suspicion of the killings is being heavily suspected upon him. The real killers, Billy and Stu abduct him and show him to Sidney during the film's near end. W. Earl Brown as Kenneth "Kenny" Brown: Gale Weather's cameraman. He has his throat slashed by the killer. However, he saves Sidneys life by informing her of the door at the back of the news van. His last word was door as he points to the back of the van. Joseph Whipp as Sheriff Burke: The police sheriff who is continuously trying to track down the killer. He is shown to have a friendship with Dewey Riley.

   Leonora Scelfo as Cheerleader in Bathroom: A girl who disparages Sidney in the bathroom. Nancy Anne Ridder as Girl in Bathroom: The cheerleader's friend who calls her pathetic. Lisa Canning as Reporter with Mask: a reporter who reports on the use of the Ghostface costume. Carla Hatley as Mrs. Becker: the mother of Casey Becker. David Booth as Mr. Becker: the father of Casey Becker. Frances Lee McCain as Mrs. Riley: Dewey and Tatum's mother. Linda Blair as Obnoxious Reporter (uncredited): A cameo by Linda Blair (famous for the horror classic The Exorcist) who tells Sidney they have a right to know about her attack. Wes Craven as Fred the Janitor: Credited cameo by the director of the Scream franchise as well as other horror classics. His attire is a homage to Freddy Kruger in the movie he directed and the horror classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

   Filming took place over eight weeks. To keep Drew Barrymore looking scared and crying, director Wes Craven kept telling her real life stories about animal cruelty. She is a keen animal lover in real life. Barrymore shot all of her scenes in the first five days of production. William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying (1930) features a character named Skeet McGowan (Scream features actors Skeet Ulrich and Rose McGowan) and a character named Dewey just as Scream does. The opening with Drew Barrymore lasts for twelve minutes. At one point when filming the opening scene, someone forgot to unplug the phone that Casey used to try and call the cops. This resulted in real, puzzled 911 operators hearing Drew Barrymore screaming for her life on the phone. Wes Craven discovered the Ghostface mask while scouting for filming locations in California. Craven was walking throughout a possible filming-house, and inside one of the rooms, he saw the mask hung on a wall. He sends a photo to Dimension Films and they told him to have the prop department make a mask similar to the mask in the bedroom, as they did not own the rights to the mask. During production, Ghostface's signature black robe was going to be white, to make him appear even more like a ghost. This was changed in fear of people comparing the costume to those that the Ku Klux Klan wear. When the killer smashes his head through a window and Casey hits him in the face with the phone, Wes Craven is actually wearing the costume and was really hit in the face. When Bob Weinstein watched parts of the first scenes filmed, he said that the mask used was idiotic. He asked the producers to film one scene with seven different masks and let him choose the one he liked the most. Producers didn't agree and threatened to shut down production. They told him to wait until the first sequence (Drew Barrymore's) was completed and then he could decide. After watching it, he happily agreed to the mask used and didn't make another complaint for the rest of the filming. Rose McGowan discovered that she could actually fit through a pet flap. Jamie Kennedy was chosen for the role of Randy because he would often improvise humor into his lines, which made Director Wes Craven laugh. Drew Barrymore was originally cast as Sidney Prescott. But Barrymore insisted that if she played Casey then it would make the audience think anything could happen. On the movie cover which shows the cast, Skeet Ulrich has a mustache and goatee, although he is completely clean shaven in the film. Drew Barrymore and Neve Campbell did not meet Roger Jackson, the actor who played The Voice, before shooting commenced. Whenever they are talking on the phone to the killer, they are actually talking to him. Melissa Joan Hart, Brittany Murphy, Alicia Witt, Melanie Lynskey, and Melinda Clarke all auditioned for the role of Sidney Prescott. The special effects artists used about 50 gallons of blood. Tatum's house is right across the street from the house in Santa Rosa, California used in Pollyanna. It is also across the street from the house used in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. The house in the opening scene was next door to the house used in Cujo. On The Directors in 2007, David Arquette revealed that he presumptuously turned down the role of Billy in favor for playing Dewey, which was originally written as a hunky, leading man part. As revealed on The Directors in 2007, Wes Craven originally turned down Scream because it was too violent, but reconsidered making one more gory movie for the hungry fans who continually told him that his best movie was The Hills Have Eyes. The film was sent to the MPAA over nine times for reconsideration, as they were going to give the movie a NC-17 rating. With each time the MPAA made Wes Craven cut out more of the films gore heavy shots. Bob Weinstein eventually had to step in, which secured the films R-rating. Wes Craven wanted to know what Bob Weinstein had said to the MPAA to get them to give the film its R-rating, and he told them to view the film as a comedy and not a horror film. This completely changed the MPAA's viewpoint. Being a favorite of the writer Kevin Williamson, Molly Ringwald was offered the role of Sidney Prescott, but turned it down, saying she'd rather not be playing a high school student at the age of 27. Casey claims, that all of the sequels to A Nightmare on Elm Street sucked. Wes Craven sold the rights to sequels before the film was released and became a success and disliked many of the sequels. The mask is based on the painting Scream by Edvard Munch. Skeet Ulrich is four days older than Matthew Lillard; both were born in January 1970. The cheerleader in the washroom scene was played by one of Skeet Ulrich's girlfriends. Matthew Lillard ad-libbed the line Ah...Houston, we have a problem when he discovered that the gun was gone. David Arquette's sister Patricia Arquette starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors written and produced by director Wes Craven. The Jiffy Pop popcorn in the first scene acts as a clock. It goes from normal to out of the control as does the scene. During the scene where Sidney drops a TV on Stu's head, Neve Campell (Sidney) and Matthew Lillard (Stu) ad-libbed the lines, "I always had a thing for ya, Sid!" (Matthew) and "In your dreams" (Neve). At the end of the first movie, Billy hitting Stu with with the phone in anger was unintentional, as the phone accidentally slipped out of Skeet Ulrich's hands due to the fake blood. Stu screaming "You hit me with the phone, dick!" was actually Matthew Lillard's reaction. In the scene, where Sidney attacks Billy with an umbrella, Billy's actor, Skeet Ulrich got legitimately injured. When he was hit by the umbrella, the stuntwoman playing Sidney couldn't see where she was aiming and wounded up hitting a wire in his chest he had gotten during surgery at a young age. Touching it ends up causing him some pain. The party scene near the end of the film runs forty-two minutes long. It was shot over the course of twenty-one days from the time the sun set to the time it rose. After it wrapped, the crew had t-shirts made that read " I SURVIVED SCENE 118" (which was the name of the scene during shooting). The cast and crew jokingly called it "The longest night in horror history." Courteney Cox and David Arquette met and fell in love on the set of this movie. They eventually married but divorced in 2013. Dewey (David Arquette) is specified as being twenty-five-years-old, approximately seven years older than most other lead characters, who are in high school. However, Arquette is roughly the same age as most of his co-stars, and is slightly younger than Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, and Jamie Kennedy, who all play high schoolers. All the killer's phone calls were all done by Roger Jackson on-set with a cell phone. At one point, the crew were contacted by the police demanding to know who they were because they thought there was a real killer making phone calls. The rare slasher franchise, where the original director directed every movie in the franchise. That's never happened before or since. After filming was completed, Wes Craven spent two months editing the final product. Henry Winkler was not credited as the producers wanted the attention to be focused on the young actors and actresses. Neve Campbell, the star of the movie, isn't even in the front or the center of the promotional poster for the movie. Within the group of actors depicted in the poster Drew Barrymore is in front, then Skeet Ulrich is behind her, then Neve Campbell, then Courteney Cox, and then David Arquette. For the penetrating effect of knives, the production used collapsible blades to prevent injury. The scene where the killer is sneaking up behind Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is the only one where the person in the costume is actually one of the actors rather than a stuntman. Skeet Ulrich specifically asked if he could wear the costume for one scene. The only film in the franchise where both killers are previously suspected of being the killers. Kevin Williamson confirmed that 261 Turner lane will return in Scream (2022).

   A signature device, started in Scream and continued in future films, was the typical "rules" for the slasher subgenre of horror movies being stated by the characters. In Scream, those rules (as described by Randy) are:

   You may not survive the movie if you have sex. You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs. You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back", "Hello?" or "Who's there?" A similar set of "rules" was used for the movie's trailer:

   Don't answer the phone. Don't open the door. Don't try to hide. But most of all don't scream.

   Freddy can enter the dreams of anyone on Elm Street in Springwood (provided that there is enough fear of him), and whatever injuries he inflicts on them in the dream world will cross over into the real world. This is how he kills his victims. He usually uses his clawed glove, but often manipulates the dream world around him, usually in accordance to a person's personality or fears. (For example, he turns Debbie, who hates bugs, into a cockroach and crushes her; injects Taryn, who has a history of abusing drugs, with heroin; smashes Jennifer's face against the TV, when Jennifer wanted to be an actress and appear on TV). He cannot be killed while he is in the dream world. In the dream world he has displayed various capabilities which include the ability to regenerate lost body parts, shapeshifting and telekinetic powers. Even when he is pulled out of the dream world and into the real world, he has enhanced physical capabilities, is quite adept with his metal claws and can withstand an incredible amount of damage that no living human can take.

   Weaknesses Freddy cannot spread his influence beyond Springwood, unless he uses his daughter to get there. If he is killed, he cannot return if no one remembers him or is afraid of him. He can also be pulled out of the dream world, in which case, he is mortal, cannot use most of his powers (although he retains some of them like climbing up the ceiling or shapeshifting into his unburnt self, as evidenced in Freddy's Dead), and can die (though, as shown in Freddy's Dead and Freddy vs. Jason) he can withstand slightly more than regular humans do, as he suffers multiple injuries by Maggie and Jason and survives, when anyone else might have been killed by such injuries, but apparently can be killed by injuries serious enough as explosions or decapitation. Despite the fact that he sometimes uses it to kill his victims, Freddy appears to be afraid of fire (as it was by fire that caused his mortal death). Should an incident occur between Freddy and his dream demon masters, the demons have the capability of taking away Freddy's powers, rendering him in a weakened state. As stated and shown in The Dream Master, as he is a literal nightmare, he is also adversely weak against mirrors and reflections, as they come to recall his pain and torment that he has long inflicted on others.

   Quotes: "This... is God." "Hey, Nancy! No running in the hallway." "Come to Freddy." "Nancy, help me, please. Save me from Freddy!" "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy." "Gonna get you." "I'm gonna cut you in two!" A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge "You've got the body. I've got the brain." "Go ahead, Jesse. Try it on for size. Kill for me!" "You are all my children now." "Help yourself, fucker!" "There is no Jesse! I'm Jesse now!" A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors "This is it, Jennifer. Your big break in TV! Welcome to prime time, bitch!" "What's wrong, Joey? Feeling tongue-tied?" "I said, 'where's the fucking bourbon?!'" "Let's get high. What a rush." "Sorry, kid. I don't believe in fairytales!" "Yes. The souls of the children give me strength. Always room for more." "Sorry to keep you waiting. Perhaps if there was more of me to spread around."

   Freddy is the only antagonist to be shown in so many and in every single sequel in its franchise. (A Nightmare on Elm Street to Freddy vs. Jason) Robert Englund is the only actor to play Freddy in every Nightmare related movie and the television show, (excluding the 2010 reboot). David Warner was slated to play Freddy. Make-Up tests were done, but Warner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts and Robert Englund was cast as a replacement. Along with being a serial killer Wes Craven also wanted Freddy to be a child molester, but this being straight out stated was soon dropped. However, it was still strongly implied in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. It was, however, straight out stated in Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series and the 2010 reboot. Also, in the 2010 reboot, there are no references to him having killed anyone before being burned to death. This doesn't necessarily mean he didn't. His father is one of the unknowns residents in sanitarium. It's highly possible that he is based on SUNDS (or Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome), a disease that, coincidentally, also involves a nightmare that would kill the victim... Another coincidence is that both use fear (Freddy uses it for power and SUNDS uses it to kill). The only difference between the two is that Freddy actually murders the victims while SUNDS simply "scares them to death"... In 2003, Freddy Krueger was named the 40th greatest film villain on American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th greatest villain,[3] the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th,[4] and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" list.[5] In 2010, Freddy won an award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards. Wes Craven says his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep.[15] Additionally, Craven's original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the "worst thing" he could think of. The decision was made to not straight out state this, though it is still implied, instead making him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production.[16] Craven's inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970s pop song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said, "When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, 'Yes, I'm still looking at you.' The man walked towards the apartment building's entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone."[17]

   Freddy's back story is revealed gradually throughout the series. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the protagonists learn that Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger, was a nun who worked in Westin Hills mental hospital caring for the inmates. Freddy was conceived when she was accidentally locked inside over the Christmas holiday and gang-raped by a group of the inmates, thus making him "the bastard son of 100 maniacs". Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare depicts Freddy's traumatic childhood; he displayed sociopathic behavior at a young age and was often teased by classmates. He was adopted as a child by an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood, who teaches him how to torture animals and inflict pain on himself. Freddy eventually murders him, with no apparent consequences, and becomes a serial killer. The film also reveals that when Freddy reached adulthood, he married a woman named Loretta, with whom he fathered a daughter named Katherine. After the birth of his daughter, he tried to lead a normal life, but his murderous nature eventually overcame him, and he murdered 20 children on Elm Street between 1963 and 1966. He later murdered his wife after she discovered the evidence of his child killings, which Katherine witnessed. Freddy was arrested for the murder of his wife and the Elm Street children. In 1968, he was put on trial, but released on a technicality, leading to his death at the hands of the parents of his victims. In his dying moments, the Dream Demons came to him to offer him immortality in exchange for being their agent, which Freddy accepted. His daughter, Katherine, was later moved out of Springwood, adopted, and renamed Maggie Burroughs. In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient, and is given more stature and muscles.[18] Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character. The original script had Freddy's blades being fishing knives.

   Throughout the series, Freddy's potential victims often experience dreams of young children, implied to be some of his pre-death victims, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" with the lyrics changed to "One, Two, Freddy's coming for you", often as an omen to Freddy's presence or a precursor to his attacks.

   Freddy has killed 45 victims onscreen.

   The future Collector was the son of an entomologist and a museum proprietor. The father slaughtered his family, stuffed them, put them at the Thanksgiving table, and ate with them as if they were still alive one day after ingesting chemicals intended for taxidermy that caused him to go mad. Only his son lived, but the ordeal changed his outlook.

   The man, known as "the Collector" by the authorities and his victims, would target entire families and kill all but one member. That member would have the misfortune of becoming a part of his "collection," and would either be killed through gruesome experiments (after which his or her body parts and bones would be preserved), or would be kidnapped and used in grisly experiments. The exhibits were housed in a run-down motel that was outfitted with traps to catch any would-be escapees or intruders.

   The Collector is his aka, real name (possible) is Asa Emory. Age 30s Occupation Collector Serial Killer Exterminator Family Unnamed Father First Seen The Collector (2009) KILL COUNT Last Seen The Collection (2012) KILL COUNT Status Alive Nationality American

   It begins in 1974 as Trudy Sinclair, a famous wax sculptor, is sculpting while her son is eating breakfast in his highchair. They are then interrupted by the father, Victor Sinclair and another son who is kicking around in his father's arms and is soon strapped into a highchair.

   He kicks the table, causing her sculpture to fall onto the floor, then he scratches his mother's hand. She ends the commotion by slapping the misbehaved child across the face.

   Several years later, in present day, 6 teenagers are at a highway diner at night. One of the two girls, Carly Jones, is having a discussion with her friend, Paige, about getting an internship at In-style magazine in New York. Along with them is Carly's boyfriend, Wade, who has just emerged from the restroom, Carly's narcissistic twin brother Nick and his friend Dalton. Outside, Paige's boyfriend, Blake, is freestyle rapping and typing into his car's GPS the route to Memorial Stadium for the college football team's biggest game of the year.

   The group departs soon after and are later convinced by a complaining Paige to pull in and set up camp in the local area, claiming she'd just fall asleep during the game if she didn't get any rest.

   At camp, they are interrupted by a mysterious man in a truck who has headlights on at them. The mysterious man soon takes off after Nick shatters one of the truck's headlights.

   The following morning begins with hustle as Blake desperately tries to get the group to depart immediately for the game. However, as Wade checks his car, he finds his 15-inch fan belt cut and tampered with. Blake says that they all can ride in his car and pick up a fan belt in a nearby town. However, Wade detests, thinking the person who did this was the man from the truck that came by last night.

   During the commotion, Carly ventures with Paige into the woods, trying to locate the source of the smell. She trips, falling into a roadkill pit which was the source for most of the bad smell that caused the scent from the night before. Upon hearing the girls shouting in panic, the guys quickly arrive, sliding down the steep area of grass.

   As they help Carly up, Lester Sinclair appears and begins dumping dead deer into the pit. He offers to give Wade a lift to a nearby gas station in a supposed town called Ambrose, where the local gas station attendant may have one. Hesitantly, Wade agrees, saying that he'll meet the others at the game. Though, Carly insists on going with him and tags along while the others wait at camp.

   They soon find themselves as passengers in Lester Sinclair's truck. But not long after, they decide to abandon the redneck and walk the rest of the way, suspicious of the route and thinking that he had malicious intent.

   Meanwhile, Paige, Blake, Nick and Dalton get stuck in a traffic jam on their way to the game, missing the biggest game of the year. So, the quartet then retreat back to the campsite.

   Meanwhile, at Ambrose, Carly and Wade, upon reaching the town, look for a gas station along with an attendant who does not seem to be at his shop. They decide to look for him, but accidentally end up discovering him at a church where a funeral is taking place. Though, the two quickly leave and are followed outside by the gas station attendant. Upon being told that he would be with them after, Wade and Carly both walk around the town to explore, and soon stumble upon the House of Wax attraction in town.

   Inside, they find frighteningly realistic wax figures of people who appear not to be celebrities like usual sculptures. As they continue to look around the wax museum, Carly sees the reflection of a freaky man outside the window, watching them. She tells Wade, who goes to investigate, leaving Carly inside, who soon freaks out after bumping into a deformed maid dummy and runs out, taking Wade back to the gas station.

   Back at the gas station they are reintroduced to Bo, whom they met at the church. Bo informs them there are no 15-inch fanbelts at the gas station, however there are some at his house.

   They reach Bo's house, who offers Wade and Carly a ride back to their campsite. Wade has to use the restroom and once he is finished, he begins investigating the house, where he stumbles upon a weird medical room.

   Carly waits inside Bo's truck but soon comes out anxiously waiting. While waiting, she notices one of the truck's headlights is missing, just like the truck she saw last night.

   Meanwhile inside, Wade finishes using the toilet but soon takes a look around a medical room he discovered while inside the house. Suddenly, the lights go off inside and the bathroom door is locked. Wade calls out with no answer. Wade's Achilles is then severed with scissors by Vincent Sinclair. Wade is attacked again afterwards by being cut to the chest. His face his then kicked, knocking him unconscious.

   Outside, Carly discovers the truck has a broken headlight and realizes it's the same truck from last night. Bo appears heading out, returning to his truck where Carly is waiting for Wade. She then locks herself in his truck and reveals that she knows he was the man from the camp.

   He then breaks the window, and a chase ensues.

   Meanwhile, back at camp, Blake sends Nick and Dalton to fetch Carly and Wade while he and Paige have sex.

   The film then flashes back to Wade being dragged by Vincent into an underground room where his clothes are stripped off. The freakish man then injects a drug, making his body go numb. The cuts received by the stranger when they were in the bathroom are stitched up. His eyebrows and facial hair are then waxed off.

   He is then strapped to a chair and pumped with hot wax burning his flesh.

   Carly runs to the local church where she tries to get help. Strangely enough, all the people she saw earlier during the funeral are nothing but wax sculptures. Looking around, she notices a tape recording of the funeral and a folder addressing the name Trudy Sinclair. Leaning onto a wax figure, she snaps the figure's arm off revealing flesh and bones inside. Bo catches up to her at the church and searches for her. He soon finds her, drags Carly to the gas station where he straps her to a chair and glues her mouth shut.

   In the meantime, Nick and Dalton have arrived in Ambrose and start searching for Wade and Carly. Carly tries to poke her finger through a gutter shaft, but has it snipped off with plyers by Bo. Carly however rips her mouth open and calls Nick who then saves her and wards off Bo.

   Meanwhile, Dalton enters the House of Wax and finds a wax figure of Wade sitting by the piano. He then begins trying to save Wade by peeling his wax skin off but then is attacked by a now revealed Vincent Sinclair. Dalton is pushed down the stairs in the following room and is decapitated by the freaky man, Vincent with his two dragon knives.

   Carly then informs Nick of the whole wax people situation. Back at the campsite, as Paige strip dances for Blake, their background music is abruptly turned off. As Blake goes to switch it back on, he finds the missed call on his mobile. He answers it and listens to Carly's voice from earlier about the man in the truck from earlier and then hears a window smash. Flash to Paige dressed in a blue jacket inside the tent.

   Vincent slips in and attacks Paige. Paige escapes the tent only to trip and find Blake suffocating on his own blood with a knife in the side of his neck. Paige continues running and Vincent then kicks the knife further into Blake's neck, killing him. Paige then runs to a large metal warehouse not far away. However, once inside and hiding, Vincent enters and switches the lights on. Paige then runs upstairs and grabs a metal pole. She is stabbed in the heel through the holes in the platform only moments afterwards and then hops her way to an open blue car where she hides in the backseat. Vincent soon opens it and is stabbed in the face. Paige deserts the pole in the car and then runs and hides behind another vehicle. Vincent takes the pole and then throws it as Paige looks up at the car window and is speared to the head by the pole, which then pushes out the back of her head. Vincent then takes the pole out and video cameras it.

   Back at Ambrose, Carly and Nick discover Trudy's Town of Wax and then are chased through a cinema where Nick squares off against Bo with a crossbow which hits him twice. Shotgun armed, Bo stumbles back to his house where Nick and Carly are hiding. Vincent then returns home with the towed vehicle of Paige and Blake's bodies. Carly and Nick then slip into the secret tunnel within the house and then accidentally alert Vincent and Bo to their presence by flickering with the electrical box switches for the basement and whole town.

   A battle ensues within the House of Wax after the twins find Wade and Nick pulls Carly away after wanting to help him, Carly beats Bo in the face to death with a baseball bat. Vincent, enraged over his brother’s death, then chases Carly upstairs.

   Nick makes his way upstairs and holds Vincent's knife on him, allowing Carly to stab him in the back. Vincent then falls through the floor and lands on top of his dead brother. The place is now in flames and melting fast. Carly and Nick then resort to digging their way out of a wall and escapes the melted wax building.

   When they drive away in the ambulance, we cut over to the cops saying there was a third brother, Lester Sinclair. We then cut back to Carly and Nick in the ambulance driving away, and they see none other than Lester petting a black and white dog while waving to them as they drive off.

   Harry Warden was a miner for the Hanniger Mines. On the night of Valentine's Day, two of the Hanniger Mines' supervisors were so eager to get to the Valentine's day dance, that they forgot to check the methane gas levels. As a result, Harry and five other miners were trapped inside the Hanniger Mines due to an explosion caused by methane gas. Harry went insane after being forced to eat the other miners to survive. One year after being rescued, he murdered the two supervisors with a pickaxe, placing their hearts in boxes of Valentine's chocolates, along with a warning to never hold another Valentine's day dance. He was committed to Eastfield, where he died 15 years later.

   Tom accidentally reveals himself to be the killer after mentioning the message found with Megan's corpse. He believes it to be proof that Axel is the killer but he wasn't ever told about the message nor had he seen the body unlike the killer himself. Tom gets stressed and suddenly, he sees Warden appear. He tries to warn Alex and Sarah but they don't see anything. Even when he is almost nose to nose with Tom, the others are unable to see him. After Sarah comments "Harry's not here, Tom." Axel realizes what is really going on and replies: 'Oh, he's here, aren't you Harry? You livin' inside Tom?'

   It is revealed that after being attacked by Harry Warden, Tom couldn't cope with the traumatizing experience. He created a second personality (Multiple Personality Disorder), based on Harry Warden. When he returned to the village, this second personality gained dominance and behaved like he was really Harry Warden. As soon as he returned to the village, he dug up the corpse of the real Harry Warden and stole his gear. After a brief confrontation with Axel and Sarah, Tom manages to gain control again for a few moments, long enough to convince Sarah to shoot him. She does as he turns back into Warden and shoots him through the side and also hits a gas tank, blowing up the tunnel.

   Tom is found unconscious by an oblivious rescue worker. The man tells Tom he will be fine before the latter kills him. Dressed as a rescue worker Tom Hanninger escapes the mine but Tom Hanninger's persona no longer exist. Only Harry Warden is left.

   Harry Warden in all incarnations was a very strong man, capable of lifting people in the air with a pickaxe. He was able to hold his own against several attackers and could inspire great fear. But unlike most other slasher killers, he was just human, capable of being killed by normal means and didn't return from the grave. Nevertheless, his legend grew as his acts broke the spirit of a man (Axel Palmer in the original story and Tom Hanninger in the remake), which led them to take up his mantle.

   In 1997, Harry Warden and five fellow mineworkers are trapped in a cave-in inside a mine of the Hanninger family on Valentine's Day. After six weeks, rescue workers find the mine workers but what they see is horrifying. In a selfish act of self-preservation, Harry Warden killed the others so they would stop using oxygen. Harry himself is comatose and brought to a hospital.

   A year later, his condition hasn't changed much but on Valentine's Day, he regains consciousness and goes on a killing spree through the hospital. He removes the heart of one nurse and puts it in a Valentine's box. After the hospital massacre, he returns to the location of his first murders. At the mine, a party is happening and Warden wastes no time and kills a boy by impaling his head with a pick-axe, with the pike of the pick-axe leaving through the eye socket. A girl named Sarah witnesses this gruesome act and flees, only to find more death in her path. As he leaves the mine, he throws a second pick-axe through the windshield of a car, the car of Sarah and a friend of Sarah, Axel. In blind panic, Axel flees with Sarah but leaves Tom Hanninger behind. Warden sees this as a chance to kill the boy responsible for what happened to him the year before, as it was Tom who failed to prevent the cave-in. Tom was supposed to vent methane gas but forgot, with the terrible accident as a result. But before Warden can kill Tom, he is shot by police sheriff James Burke and his partner, Ben Foley. He flees into the mine but dies soon after. He was buried by the two police officers. The encounter with Harry Warden traumatizes Tom who leaves the village soon after.

   10 years had passed before Tom returns after his father died. But he isn't only one who's back. With Tom's return, the kills start over. The first victim is a trucker who he impales through the skull with a pick-axe, before he chases a naked women named Irene who witnessed him killing the trucker. She tries to hide from him, under the bed and for a moment, she appears to be successful. But unlucky for her, the motel owner, a small women named Selene enters the room to find Warden. He quickly kills Selene by impaling her on the lights above her. Irene accidentally gives herself away as she shrieks in horror. He realizes where she is now and pins her to wall with the bed before painting the wall with her blood. It is later revealed that he cut her heart out afterwards. The blame for the kills ends up with Tom, who was residing at the same motel that night.

   Warden sends the heart to the police in a candybox like he had done in the past before revisiting the mine. He finds Tom who he traps in a cage and goes after William 'Red' Kirkpatrick who is called with a man named Ben. Warden swings his pick-axe and pierces the lower arm of Kirkpatrick before killing him. As the rest of the crew arrives they find the deceased Kirkpatrick and young Tom who is immediately suspected despite the fact he's trapped in the cage. When Burke reveals the truth about Warden, he brings Tom, Sarah and Axel to the burial spot only to find the grave empty. It appears like he has indeed returned. Later that day, Foley hears a noise in his house. His investigation was inconclusive and he returns to his house, only to fall victim to Warden who impales the head of his former killer. Warden brought the corpse to the initial burial spot and cut open his chest. This inspires great paranoia in the village.

   Warden invades a supermarket and targets the two cashiers, Megan and Sarah. The killer forces them to take refuge in the office room, trapping them. Warden uses his pick-axe to break open the door and Megan tries to escape through a window. The window is small however making it an uneasy escape. Concentrating on the escape proves to be a grave mistake, as in the moment they stopped paying attention to the killer, he disappears. As Sarah realizes their mistake it is already too late, and Warden grabs Megan from the other side. The mutilated body of Megan is found later in the alley by Axel and Sarah. Above the corpse they find the message: Be Mine 4 Ever, written in blood on the wall. It is revealed that Warden is taking out people who have connection with the Hanninger Mine, direct or indirect. His next target is the son of Axel and Sarah, Noah. He breaks into the house and makes short work of the babysitter, Rosa: killing her with a pick-axe and dumping her body in the washing machine. But before he can go after the child, Burke and deputy Ferris go check the house. Ferris quickly learns that Warden has killed Rosa as she found the body in the washing machine and tries to warn Burke but fails. Warden impales his jaw and tears it off before ending his life.

   Meanwhile the discussion continues about the identity of Warden. They don't believe that the real Warden is the actual killer as he died all those years ago. Tom believes it is Axel and is strengthened in this belief when Axel accuses Tom of being the killer, as Tom has been held in an asylum for 7 years to help him overcome his PTSD. For a moment, Sarah really believes Tom is the killer and asks him to drop her off at her home. As he refuses to stop at her house, she sees this a conformation and forces him to crash, knocking him out. After fleeing to the house of Axel's father, she finds hundred of candy boxes, indicating that Axel could be the killer. She flees into the mine after stealing Axel's gun. Axel finds her and tries to convince her that Tom is the real killer. Tom appears and blames Axel for the murders. Unsure who to believe, she points her gun at both.

   ChromeSkull is a man who wears a black coat, black pants and gloves. He also has a chrome-plated mask in the shape of a skull. ChromeSkull also has a mini camera recorder on his shoulder. His occupation is Snuff filmer in the darkweb. ChromeSkull was the name attributed to a psychopathic killer who preyed upon innocent young women in the Southeastern United States in the late 2000s. Little is known about this man, but it is possible that his true name might have been Jesse Cromeans, a resident of Jacksonville, Florida. ChromeSkull was a mute who wore a disguise consisting of a black coat, pants and gloves and a chrome-plated mask in the shape of a skull. He enjoyed videotaping his victims as he tormented them and utilized a shoulder-mounted mini-camera to record their final moments as well as audio samples of their voices. Since he was mute, ChromeSkull would keep all of his collected audio samples on a mini-recorder and played select tracks to communicate his thoughts and desires to others. Immensely strong, ChromeSkull's preferred weapons of choice were a pair of twin hunting knives.

   In 2007, ChromeSkull had an arrangement with funeral director Mister Jones and used the coffin construction building adjacent to the Jones Funeral Home to conduct his murders. One of ChromeSkull's potential victims, an unidentified prostitute (who was later named Amy, or be called as Princess Gemstone), managed to escape from him. He pursued her across the Florida countryside, claiming several more victims including the town sheriff, but Amy managed to escape from him. ChromeSkull was incapacitated when a man named Steven switched out the adhesive he used to apply his mask to his face with a highly corrosive acid.

   He later returned in the sequel Laid to Rest 2. It takes place not long after the first movie where the mysterious organization he apparently runs nurses him back to health. One of the assistants tries to take his place throughout the film and is killed as a result. After brutally murdering at least three cops, during the climax he is shot and thought to be dead by a detective and one of his recent would be nearly blind victims. However, he is revealed to be alive and well due to wearing a bullet proof vest. The ending scene shows him entering some city apparently on Halloween ready to start yet another rampage after talking to what appears to be mistress/known assistant. The last scene of the film (Post Credit) shows ChromeSkull's supposed wife who is nearing the end of her pregnancy. She finds out about his killings and shoots herself in an interrogation room.

   Known Victims At least 31 prior victims Mr. Jones Cindy Smith Johnny Jamie Russell A. Bates Unnamed Girl Unnamed Store Clerk Anthony Steven Tucker Smith Allie Tiny Preston Knight Cochern Fraser Trost

   (The Prowler (released internationally as Rosemary's Killer) is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, written by Neal Barbera and Glenn Leopold, and starring Vicky Dawson, Farley Granger, Lawrence Tierney, and Christopher Goutman. Set in a small New Jersey town, the film concerns a group of college students holding a graduation spring dance, 35 years after a double-murderer occurred. Unbeknownst to them, they are targeted by a masked assailant dressed in World War II G.I. fatigues who begins a murderous spree as a result of the graduation's continuation. The film has developed a cult following over the years.)

   He was a former World War II veteran who was dumped by his girlfriend in 1945. Enraged, he dressed in his combat uniform and impaled his ex-girlfriend and her new lover with a pitchfork. He was never caught for this and 35 years later, he would resurface to kill again after the town unknowingly triggered him.

   At some point, George Fraser and Rosemary Chatham met and began a relationship. However, Fraser was a military man and spent most of his time away from her. During World War II, Rosemary had enough of waiting and wrote George a Dear John letter, effectively ending their relationship. In 1945, Rosemary attended a graduation dance with her new boyfriend Roy. After moving away from the party, the couple began making out in a gazebo when George, dressed in US World War II gear impales them both with a pitchfork and leaves a rose in her hand. As a result of the unsolved double homicide, the town of Avalon stopped holding graduation dances. Fraser moved on with his life and went onto become a Sheriff in the town.

   35 years later, Avalon decided it was safe to host dances again. That night, in a bedroom, a teen named Carl is getting undressed to have "a little fun" with his girlfriend Sherry before leaving. Suddenly, a stranger attacks and brutally impales Carl through the head with a bayonet until it emerges through his neck, making Carl's eyes roll back and killing him. Sherry, who is taking a shower, sees a figure approaching through a curtain and thinks it's Carl, but the intruder, wearing a military helmet and a gas mask to hide his face, immediately pulls back the curtain and kills a shocked Sherry by plunging a pitchfork into her stomach. The killer then hides both teens bodies in the shower, while also leaving a rose on Sherry's head.

   Later, another student named Pam MacDonald comes back to get something and, unaware of Carl and Sherry's deaths and not seeing their bodies in the shower, is chased by the killer. However, she manages to escape the killer and find the police deputy Mark London. The duo go to the dance to warn all the attendants of the mysterious prowler and tells them to stay inside.

   However, one teen named Lisa previously went out for a swim in the pool before the dance attendants got the message. As she's getting out of the pool, the Prowler appears and kicks her in the face and knocks her back into the pool. Lisa regains her composure and attempts to get out of the pool again, but the Prowler sneaks up behind her and slits her throat with his bayonet. One of the chaperones comes looking for Lisa and sees the blood in the pool. As she's running away, the Prowler grabs her from the bushes and stabs her in the throat. Lisa's body is later found inside a coffin by Mark and Pam.

   When Pam and Mark go to Major Chatham's house to tell him about the murders, they find it dark and empty, as the Prowler has already killed Chatham and watches them from upstairs. When Ms. Allison, the student's teacher, tries to find Lisa, she instead sees her blood and tries to flee, but the Prowler ambushes her and impales her through the neck with his bayonet.

   After failing to contact the local Sheriff, Mark and Pam go back to the Major's house. When they briefly split up, the Prowler knocks Mark unconscious. Meanwhile, Pam find Rosemary Chatham's necklace - and skeleton - in the fireplace and tries to find Mark but runs into the Prowler instead. After a while of hiding under a bed, she confronts the Prowler and manages to disarm him of his pitchfork and holds it defensively. At that moment, Otto, a store clerk, appears and shoots the Prowler with a rifle. The Prowler retaliates by shooting Otto dead in turn with a shotgun. Before the Prowler can shoot Pam, she stabs him from behind with the pitchfork and while struggling with her, he pulls off his mask and reveals his identity: the Sheriff George Fraser. As George continues to fight, Pam, although shocked, grabs the shotgun and shoots the former military man in the head, destroying it and killing him for good.

   Victims: 1-2: Roy and Rosemary Chatham - Impaled through their torsos with a pitchfork. 3: Carl - Impaled through the head with a bayonet. 4: Sherry - Impaled through the stomach with a pitchfork. 5: Lisa - Throat slit with a bayonet. 6: Allison - Stabbed in the throat with a bayonet. 7: Otto - Shot in the chest with a sawed-off double barrel shotgun.

   After having his name chanted by the town's people who murdered him as a human, he returns as a medium and has the power to harm and kill people. Many murders occur over time that have been committed after individuals have called his name five times in the mirror.

   The myth of Candyman says that if his name is called five times in the mirror, he would then appear behind the person and murder them with a bloody hook which has replaced his hand that was cut off by Caroline's father.

   Quotes Be my victim - Candyman

   Candyman is an American slasher media franchise about the legend of the Candyman, the ghost of an artist and son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century by a lynch mob after falling in love with and impregnating a white woman. The specter will kill anyone who dared to say his name five times while looking into the mirror.

   The franchise began as a short story, "The Forbidden", by Clive Barker and found the big screen with the movie adaptation Candyman in 1992, which grew out to be a true cult classic. A novelization and a comic adaptation of the film were released in the same year. It was followed by two sequels, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and Candyman 3: Day of the Dead in 1995 and 1999 respectively, and it set to be completed with a fourth "spiritual sequel" Candyman, which will be released on August 27, 2021.

   Helen Lyle was a graduate student in Chicago that was researching the urban legends heard about a local legend that was known as the Candyman. The legend claimed that the Candyman could be summoned by saying his name five times while the summoner was facing a mirror where he would murder the summoner with a hook that was jammed in the bloody stump of his right hand. She encountered the two cleaning ladies who told her about the murder of a woman named Ruthie Jean who was a resident in the notorious Cabrini-Green housing project who they claimed that she was the Candyman's victim. Helen's research turned the other 25 murders up in the area that are similar to Ruthie Jean's. In the evening, Helen and her friend named Bernadette Walsh who are skeptical about the Candyman's existence called the Candyman's name into the mirror that was in Helen's bathroom. Nothing happened.

   Helen learned from Professor Philip Purcell that the Candyman was the slave’s son who became prosperous after developing a system for mass-producing the shoes during the Civil War. He grew up in a polite society and he became a well-known artist and he was sought for his talent in producing the portraits. After falling in love with and fathering a child with a white woman in 1890, the Candyman was setted on by a lynch mob that was hired by his lover's father. They cutted his painting hand off and they replaced it with a hook. He was smeared with the honey that was stolen from an apiary by prompting the locals to chant "Candyman" as the hungry bees stung him to death. His corpse was burned in a pyre and his ashes are scattered across the area where Cabrini-Green stood.

   Helen decided to write a thesis on how Cabrini-Green's residents used the Candyman’s legend to cope with the hardships of living there. Helen and Bernadette entered the housing project to visit the scene of Ruthie Jean's murder. As they are there, they met Anne-Marie McCoy who was one of the residents and a young boy named Jake who told her the disturbing story of a child who was castrated by the Candyman in a public restroom. While Helen explored the run-down restroom, she was attacked by a gang leader who carried a hook and he took the Candyman’s moniker as his own in order to enhance his "street cred". Helen survived the assault and she was able to identify her attacker to the police who believed him to be responsible for the killings that are attributed to the Candyman. After that, Helen told Jake that the Candyman was a made-up character and he was no different than Dracula and he was not real.

   As she was in a parking garage, Helen was confronted by the real Candyman who explained that since Helen discredited his legend, he must "shed innocent blood" to perpetuate the belief in himself and continue his existence. Helen blacked out and she woke up in Anne-Marie's apartment and she was covered in blood. Anne-Marie whose Rottweiler was decapitated and baby named Anthony was missing attacked Helen. As she was in the midst of defending herself, the police arrested Helen. Trevor who was Helen's husband bailed her out of jail, but the Candyman appeared to Helen again and he cutted her neck by causing her to bleed to the point of unconsciousness. Bernadette appeared at the apartment and she was murdered by the Candyman who framed Helen for the murder. Helen was sedated and she was placed in a psychiatric hospital.

   After a month's stay at the hospital, Helen was interviewed by a psychologist in preparation for her upcoming trial. While she was restrained, Helen attempted to prove her innocence by calling the Candyman. The Candyman appeared, killed the psychologist and he allowed Helen to escape. She returned home and she briefly confronted Trevor who was living with Stacey who was one of his female undergraduate students. Helen fled to Cabrini–Green to confront the Candyman and locate Anthony by finding the murals that are depicting the Candyman's lynching. She found the Candyman in his makeshift lair and he told Helen to surrender to him to ensure Anthony's safety. After offering Helen immortality, the Candyman opened his coat to reveal a ribcage that was wreathed in bees and he kissed her. After the Candyman vanished with Anthony, Helen found a mural of the Candyman alongside a woman (Presumably the lover that he fathered a child with) who happened to bear a striking resemblance to her with the message that was called "It was always you, Helen." by implying that Helen was the Candyman's lover's reincarnation.

   The Candyman promised to release Anthony if Helen helped him incite fear among Cabrini-Green's residents. In order to feed his own legend, the Candyman reneged and he attempted to immolate them in a community bonfire when it was lit by the residents. Helen managed to save Anthony while the Candyman was destroyed in the fire, but Helen was fatally burned and she died from her injuries. The residents including Anne-Marie and Jake paid their respects at Helen's funeral and Jake tossed the Candyman's hook into her grave. After that, Trevor stood before a mirror that was in their former apartment's bathroom where he said Helen's name five times in grief. As a result, Helen's vengeful spirit was summoned and she killed Trevor with the Candyman's hook. Stacey screamed in horror when she found Trevor's body. As it was in the Candyman's lair, a new mural of Helen that was dressed in white and she was consumed by the flames with her hair that was ablaze was seen on the far wall by showing that she entered the folklore and she became a legend herself.

   Red Pyramid Thing, more colloquially known as Pyramid Head, is a humanoid monster in the Silent Hill franchise first appearing in Silent Hill 2. His red helmet and butcher's attire echo the executioners of the town's past, who worshipped the angel of rebirth Valtiel. He is a manifestation of James Sunderland's guilt and desire for punishment, existing to keep him human and help him remember his past actions. The monster wields the Great Knife and the Great Spear, instruments of James' inner torment. By the end of the game, a second Pyramid Head manifests.

   Despite criticism from Masahiro Ito and Tomm Hulett, the character was reimagined in Silent Hill: Homecoming as The Bogeyman aka The Shadowed One, a creature of vengeance and justice who inflicts punishment on those who deserve it. The films and novels have extended his role to that of a protector and servant of Valtiel.

   Since its creation, Pyramid Head has become one of the most well-known and iconic monsters in the franchise, turning into something of a mainstream and flagship figurehead for the series. Apart from Silent Hill 2 and Homecoming, Pyramid Head has made his main appearances in the spin-offs Silent Hill: The Arcade and Silent Hill: Book of Memories, with cameo appearances in Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Downpour. He also appears in the films Silent Hill and Silent Hill: Revelation, the comics, the novel Silent Hill: Betrayal, and the Silent Hill pachislot.

   Pyramid Head is a figure of James Sunderland's guilt and inner torment, manifesting from the part of his mind that desires punishment. He is described as a "distorted memory of the executioners" by Takayoshi Sato, who also explains that Silent Hill was once a town of executions. Most of the people living there were either executioners themselves or family to an executioner.

   A reflection of James, the monster is a masculine humanoid who takes an appearance similar to the executioners of the town's cult, with a red rusted pyramid-shaped helmet over his head, donning butcher's wordrobe, leather boots, and white executioner's gloves. James and Pyramid Head's shoulders stand at the same height. There is a mark on the back of his garment where the cloth is stitched together, which is a similarity he shares with Valtiel. Exposed from the back-end of the helmet is a bubble-shaped protrusion, the purpose of which is to seal the gap between his neck and helmet. Both the protrusion and the right side of his helmet are made of a substance similar to a dried canvas. Some action figures have depicted it as inhuman flesh lining the bottom of the helmet, but this design is not accurate. Ito has elaborated, "Gecco's PH statue did the underneath [of the helmet]. I just put the bulge on the back of the neck of SH2's PH, not the underneath, it's so annoying.

   The front of the helmet is an iron plate. Underneath it is tongue-like flesh that Pyramid Head uses when attacking James and other monsters. The bottom left corner of the plate will peel up, allowing for the tongue to slither out of the helmet. Ito used this to subtly convey that the monsters are James' delusion, since it is impossible for iron to bend. The helmet itself represents James' torment, with the sharp corners suggesting the possibility of pain. Action figures and Silent Hill: Book of Memories have portrayed the helmet with a hole on the bottom left corner. This too is erroneous. The hole only appears on the designs of the white-helmeted versions of Pyramid Head seen in Fukuro and White Hunter, which are not connected to James or Silent Hill.

   The front of the helmet is an iron plate. Underneath it is tongue-like flesh that Pyramid Head uses when attacking James and other monsters. The bottom left corner of the plate will peel up, allowing for the tongue to slither out of the helmet. Ito used this to subtly convey that the monsters are James' delusion, since it is impossible for iron to bend.[102][103][104][105] The helmet itself represents James' torment,[106] with the sharp corners suggesting the possibility of pain.[107] Action figures and Silent Hill: Book of Memories have portrayed the helmet with a hole on the bottom left corner. This too is erroneous. The hole only appears on the designs of the white-helmeted versions of Pyramid Head seen in Fukuro and White Hunter, which are not connected to James or Silent Hill.[108]

   Ito designed Pyramid Head with the "In Water" ending of Silent Hill 2 in mind.[109] His Great Knife does not manifest until after James picks up the knife that Angela Orosco was planning to kill herself with, taking the shape of half of a pair of scissors. The intention was for James to find the other half of the scissors (a second Great Knife) in the Labyrinth, symbolizing the connection between him and Pyramid Head. However, Ito did not have time to insert a distinct version of the Great Knife into the game for James, so the player is only able to obtain the knife that Pyramid Head was using. Ito's drawings of Pyramid Head outside of Silent Hill 2 have featured a differently shaped Great Knife because of this.

   Pyramid Head exists to keep James human and help him realize that he is guilty, often attacking other monsters to fulfill his role.[113][114] The scene where James hides in the closet from Pyramid Head abusing the Mannequins represents the conflict in his mind. His fear of facing his inner demons manifested itself as Pyramid Head attacking other monsters to remove the visions from his psyche.[115]

   Pyramid Head's abuse of the monsters was made intentionally erotic by the development team. As Sato explains, "Psychological horror has to shake human's heart deeply. Shaking people's heart deeply means uncover people's core emotion and their core motivation for life. Everybody is thinking and concerning about sex and death. Everything. If we want to scare, shake, or touch the users or spectators, then we have to think about sex and death deeply. To make like a death scene, somebody died or monsters died, we tried to mix erotic essence. This is kind of a visual and a core concept. Pyramid Head's constant murder of a reincarnating Maria is also his attempt to wake James up from his delusion and force him to remember his past actions. Pyramid Head kills himself because his purpose for existing has been finished. In Silent Hill: Homecoming, Double Helix Games wanted to explore the nature of Pyramid Head. The Bogeymen are the embodiment of a myth that parents used to control their children. Jason Allen also referred to the Bogeymen as the "accretion of the activities going on in the town of Shepherd's Glen." The myth is perpetuated by a nursery rhyme, warning children that if they do not obey their parents, the Bogeyman will inflict punishment onto them. Throughout the game, the Bogeyman never attacks Alex Shepherd, targeting his sinful parents instead.

   It is unknown what Pyramid Head looks like underneath the helmet. Masahiro Ito stated that he never designed Pyramid Head's face, but had an idea of "a binded someone's head with many frames" at the time of creating him. He clarified that "hidden face" does not mean "without a face", and that he hopes that players see him as an "other James". However, he has refused to reveal what the character truly looks like underneath the helmet, believing that it is more effective to leave it to the player's imagination. He added that he knows what the character looks like underneath the helmet, even though he chooses not to reveal it. An ending in Homecoming depicts two Bogeymen transforming Alex Shepherd into one of them, indicating that the "Bogeyman" iterations of Pyramid Head could be those who were wronged in the town's history. However, Ito has stated that the Pyramid Heads are not men, but creatures.

   n the film universe, Red Pyramid wears a basin with sharper corners and has a significantly stronger, more superhuman musculature than James' Pyramid Head. He wears an apron made of human skin with no top covering his upper torso. Christophe Gans, the director of the first Silent Hill film, had tried to give him a more game-accurate appearance, but the shape of the helmet was impractical. They also wanted to update his appearance so that he appeared more powerful, rather than the grotesque humanoid with bad posture seen in Silent Hill 2. This was an homage to Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death. The psyches of the female characters influenced his shape, dress, and physicality. Gans consulted composer Akira Yamaoka and Konami before moving forward with Red Pyramid's final design. Rather than merely being influenced by the executioners of the town's past, the film iteration is stated to have literally been one of the executioners by Gans. He believes that "there is not one particular or exclusive manifestation of [Red Pyramid] as an entity."[131][132][133]

   Revelation director M.J. Bassett said of the character, "one of the big things is that people compaling that Red Pyramid belongs in game number two. But he was in the first film, so I couldn’t just ignore this amazing character in the sequel. He’s our Pinhead, our posterboy. But he needed to make sense within the story." Whereas the first film was about a parent searching for a daughter, the second film is about the daughter searching for her father. This impacted Red Pyramid's role in the film, who is seen as a symbol of the power of masculinity and how it can simultaneously protect and oppress.[134][135] The second film expands Red Pyramid's role to be not just that of a former executioner,[136] but also as a monster created as a guardian to Alessa and her reincarnation, Heather.[137]

   In Silent Hill: Betrayal, Pyramid Head is once again reinterpreted, this time as a servant of Valtiel, a guardian, and a bringer of righteous vengeance and justice. As Shaun Jooste explains, "It is not the same PH that is in any of the games, but rather a new antagonist that is within that helmet. I might be able to tell the story without PH, but not without the person portraying him inside that helmet. As such, PH becomes an essential plot character rather than an obstacle [the protagonist] needs to bypass. I had read somewhere that those who serve Valtiel wear objects to represent the way his face is hidden too. Whether or not that is actually what is accepted, that stuck with me and I loved it. And since my series takes a much closer look at Valtiel as my favourite deity of the series, I wanted the same guardians in the novels."[138] Tom Waltz, who wrote some of the IDW Silent Hill comics, later regretted including Pyramid Head in Sinner's Reward. He was not aware that the monsters manifest from the subconscious of the characters at the time, and included Pyramid Head because of his design. He said, "In hindsight, I know better."

   There is a supernatural power that surrounds Silent Hill, Maine that has the ability to manifest elements of the unconscious mind. In the early history of the town, Native Americans used this to seemingly communicate with both nature and their dead relatives. Their land was eventually stolen from them by European settlers.Because of the town's power, a mysterious cult began to form that took control over much of its infrastructure. One of the deities they worship is Valtiel, who serves as an angel of rebirth and a being close to God who has appeared in many forms throughout the town's history. The cult began performing ritualistic executions, wearing red hoods and an executioner's outfit modeled after him.

   Right before Mary Shepherd-Sunderland contracted a lethal disease, three years before the events of Silent Hill 2, she and her husband James visited the town of Silent Hill on vacation. One of the locations they visited was the Silent Hill Historical Society, which contained paintings and artifacts relating to the executioners of the town's past. One such painting in particular, "Misty Day, Remains of the Judgement" (a stylized portrayal of an executioner standing among caged corpses), stuck in James' mind.

   In the final stages of her disease, Mary fell into a state of agony and became verbally abusive towards James. It was during this that James smothered her with a pillow to relieve her of her pain and because of his growing resentment towards her. He instantly fell into a state of regret and denial, later receiving a letter from someone claiming to be Mary telling him to find her in Silent Hill. With the memory of killing her having been repressed, he traveled to Silent Hill to find her. As he arrived, he found himself in a dream-reality state where the darkest elements of his subconscious were manifested into twisted monsters and scenarios.

   In his search for Mary, he made his way to the Wood Side Apartments where he encountered Pyramid Head, a monster similar to the painting he had observed in the Historical Society years earlier. He hid in a closet as the creature abused and slaughtered two monsters known as Mannequins. Having evaded Pyramid Head, James encountered it again in the apartment building next door, slaughtering a monster known as a Lying Figure. Locked in the room, James fought the monster in self-defense as it proceeded to attack him. After outrunning the assault, James watched as Pyramid Head fled the encounter upon hearing a siren blare, descending a water-filled staircase. At the apartments, James interrupted a suicidal Angela Orosco, taking her knife before she has a chance to use it, and met Eddie Dombrowski, an often bullied man who was self-conscious about his weight.

   After going through the buildings, James followed the letter's instructions and made his way to Rosewater Park. While Mary was nowhere to be found, he met a woman strongly resembling his wife named Maria, who begged him to escort her through the dangerous town. After searching through the area, they came to Brookhaven Hospital where the town cycled to an even deeper part of the nightmare known as the Otherworld. When they entered the hospital basement, Pyramid Head chased behind them as they sprinted to an elevator. James managed to make it to safety, but Maria was slaughtered for moving too slowly. The elevator took him to the first floor of the hospital, where a distraught James found a note instructing him to go to the Historical Society, which he had visited years prior.

   Upon arriving, he descended down a long stairway and kept jumping down mysterious dark holes until arriving in a Labyrinth in an even deeper part of the nightmare. Finding his way through the Labyrinth, James found Maria mysteriously alive and alternating between Mary's personality and her own. She tells James of the time he and Mary spent at the Lakeview Hotel, and he leaves to navigate his way through the Labyrinth. Pyramid Head can be found in this area, but he does not pursue James unless directly approached. When James finds Maria again, she has once again been murdered.

   James makes his way to the Lakeview Hotel, where he finds a video tape recording of himself killing Mary, suddenly recalling his past actions and coming face-to-face with his guilt. In the lobby, he encounters Pyramid Head again, this time with a second Pyramid Head by his side. One of them proceeds to kill Maria in front of a distraught James. James realizes that his subconscious created them because of his guilty desire for punishment and decides that he no longer needs them. After a conflict, the two Pyramid Heads kill themselves, having fulfilled their purpose.

   Although unseen, the Bogeyman makes himself known to Alex Shepherd in the game's introductory level, Alchemilla Hospital. His first action is the murder of the doctor who wheels Alex into the operation theater. As the player progresses through the hospital, a grinding noise can be heard periodically. Presumably, this is the Bogeyman dragging his knife across the floor. As the first level ends, Alex enters an elevator, following his brother. As it comes to a stop, the Bogeyman's knife plunges through the still-closed elevator door toward Alex. The scene then transitions to a truck cab and an awakened Alex, revealing that he was dreaming. Later, he is first encountered in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill; seen dragging his knife down a hallway and being trailed by insects (similar to the film), he turns to face Alex, who has hidden himself behind a pile of rubble. The Bogeyman turns away and continues walking down the hall.

   Much later, within the Church of the Holy Way, he appears a final time and executes Adam Shepherd, cutting him in half lengthwise right before Alex's eyes.

   n the Judgement ending, obtained from not mercy killing Lillian Shepherd, not forgiving Adam, and not healing Wheeler, Alex awakens to find himself strapped to a chair. Two Bogeymen come out of the darkness, holding two halves of the helmet they wear. They stand over Alex and place the two halves on his head, transforming him into one of them. This could possibly symbolize the "evil" choices made by Alex throughout the game, showing that he has potential to be an apathetic punisher as well, embracing the darkness within him that the Bogeyman represents.

   IDW Publishing Pyramid Head has been featured in several of the comics published by IDW Publishing:

   Dying Inside - In Issue 5, the character Whately is seen with a horde of Pyramid Head-like silhouettes standing behind him. Paint It Black - As Ike Isaacs helps a squad of cheerleaders escape Silent Hill, they are chased by a trio of Pyramid Head-esque monsters. Dead/Alive - Numerous Pyramid Heads wander the streets of Silent Hill, Maine as the Real World is invaded by the Otherworld. Sinner's Reward - When Finn Conway is about to kill Jack Stanton in retaliation for attempting to run off with his wife and allowing her to be killed, a Pyramid Head runs him through with the Great Knife. Novels Pyramid Head appears in the officially licensed[84] novel Silent Hill: Betrayal by Shaun M. Jooste, released in 2016.

   In the 2006-2012 film universe, Pyramid Head was adapted as the monster Red Pyramid played by Roberto Campanella.

   In Silent Hill, he arrives to attack Rose Da Silva and the inhabitants of Silent Hill, West Virginia when the town transitions into the Otherworld. His arrival is heralded by swarms of Creepers. After a few failed attempts to kill Rose and Cybil Bennett, Red Pyramid pursues the protagonists to a church where they manage to escape. A member of the town's cult, Anna, falls behind and Red Pyramid brutally murders her with a skinning after undressing her.

   The sequel Silent Hill: Revelation reveals Red Pyramid to be the protector of Alessa Gillespie, who had now been reincarnated as Heather Mason. Heather first sees Red Pyramid in a dream. Later on, she finds herself trapped in Brookhaven Asylum, with hundreds of prisoners trying to drag her into their cells. Frightened, she screams for help, and Red Pyramid comes and chops at the arms to stop them from hurting her and then departs. He later appears on the carousel at Lakeside Amusement Park, where he is chained to the carousel and turns it manually.

   When he senses that Heather is being threatened by Claudia Wolf, he breaks his chains and rushes to her aid. He fights with Claudia's monster form, who stabs him in the stomach and rips his helmet. Finally, Red Pyramid decapitates Claudia with his Great Knife, takes a lingering glance over to Heather, then wanders away. The last scene of Red Pyramid occurs after the credits, in which he is briefly seen dragging his Great Knife.

   As an attempt of escaping her abusive boyfriend back in the United States, Greta accepts a job as a temporary nanny to an English family by the name of the Heelshires. She is then introduced to the married couple's son, Brahms, who turns out to be a life-sized porcelain doll. Supposedly, the real Brahms perished in a fire 20 years ago, and he had apparently rejected several nannies prior to being introduced to Greta. As Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire leave for their vacation, Greta is given a list of rules to follow in regard to their son.

   Greta predictably ignores the rules, and as a result, mysterious events start to happen. Brahms would seemingly move on his own, and he would disappear and reappear anywhere in the house. She eventually starts to believe that Brahms' soul is inhabiting the doll after she is given a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. Malcolm, the Heelshires' grocery boy, tries to convince Greta into leaving the house by telling her that the real Brahms presumably murdered his childhood friend by the name of Emily Cribbs back in 1991 before dying that very night, but she refuses. Meanwhile, the Heelshires write a goodbye letter to their son, and then drown themselves by walking into a river.

   One evening, Cole, Greta's ex-boyfriend, makes his way to Heelshire household, fully intent on getting Greta to return to Montana, by force if necessary. To help deal with Cole, Malcolm decides to stay nearby, while Greta appeals to Brahms for help. Cole finds a message in blood telling him to leave. Believing either Greta or Malcolm did it, Cole angrily snatches the doll and destroys it.

   Immediately afterwards, the house begins to shake, and the lights flicker. Cole investigates a mirror in the room, which shatters open. An adult human Brahms, wearing a porcelain mask, then comes out of the wall. It is then revealed that Brahms has been alive all along, and has been living within the house's walls. Enraged at the destruction of the doll, Brahms attacks the group and kills Cole, stabbing him with one of the broken shards of the doll. Malcolm and Greta then flee with the angry Brahms following them.

   After escaping to the attic, they finds photographs of Brahms' childhood friend, as well as her missing dress and jewelry. Greta learns that Brahms was actually moving the doll to give the illusion that it was alive. To her horror, she figures out that the Heelshires had offered her as a sacrifice to Brahms for his "keeping" as they did with previous nannies. Greta and Malcolm attempt to escape through a small passage, but only Greta succeeds when Brahms knocks out Malcolm with a baseball bat. He threatens to kill Malcolm if she leaves, forcing Greta to come back.

   After arming herself with a screwdriver, Greta uses Brahms' strict rules against him and coerces him to go to bed.

   He asks for a good night kiss, which she begrudgingly accepts.

   Brahms then tries to pull Greta in and make out with her, at which point she stabs him. Brahms then gets out of the bed and attempts to strangle her. Greta stabs Brahms further until he lets go and drops to the floor, the stabs presumably killing Brahms. She escapes the estate with Malcolm, leaving the gate doors open in the process. The film then ends with a hand rebuilding the doll, implying that Brahms is still alive.

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