Jason's Grave

Lore & Background

The grave serves as the site of Jason's resurrection in *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*. Tommy Jarvis, released from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane, returns to Crystal Lake (renamed Forest Green) to confront his fears. He and Hawes dig up Jason's corpse; Tommy experiences a flashback of his last encounter with Jason. As Tommy impales the body with a metal fence post, two lightning bolts strike the post, restoring Jason as a revenant with superhuman strength. After killing Hawes, Jason dons a hockey mask that Tommy has brought. The grave is later covered up by caretaker Martin, who buries Hawes' body in Jason's place to deny responsibility for the grave being robbed.

In Their Own Story

The wind dies down over the pine trees as the moon casts long, skeletal shadows across the overgrown clearing. A single shovel lies abandoned near a fresh mound of dirt, the wood splintered and stained with dark earth. The ground above shifts slightly, not from an animal, but from something heavy pushing upward from below. Roots snap under immense pressure as pale fingers break through the soil, gripping the grass with a strength that defies time. From the darkness beneath, a muffled groan rises, echoing the promise of blood and terror.

Reader's Guide

Located deep within the treeline surrounding Crystal Lake, Jason's Grave is depicted as an overgrown, unmarked mound hidden by dense foliage and fallen branches. In *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*, Tommy Jarvis and Allen Hawes visit the grave during a thunderstorm. After digging up Jason's corpse, Tommy impales it with a metal fence post; two lightning bolts strike the post, restoring Jason as a revenant. The grave is later covered up by caretaker Martin, who buries Hawes' body in Jason's place. The site is central to the plot, as Tommy attempts to warn Sheriff Mike Garris of Jason's return, but is arrested and jailed. The grave's location is revisited when Tommy makes a run for it while being escorted out of town by Garris.

Did You Know?

• In *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*, Tommy Jarvis and Allen Hawes dig up Jason's grave intending to cremate the body, but two lightning bolts strike a metal fence post impaled in the corpse, resurrecting Jason as a revenant.
• After the resurrection, caretaker Martin covers up the grave and buries Hawes' body in Jason's place to deny responsibility for the grave being robbed.
• The film's director Tom McLoughlin drew inspiration from the 1931 version of *Frankenstein* for Jason's resurrection by electricity.
• This was the first film in the series to depict Jason as an explicitly supernatural force, an undead and more powerful superhuman.
• The film grossed $19.5 million at the U.S. box office on a budget of $3 million.