09/02/2021 7:00
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Updated 09/02/2021 7:00 AM
Friday the 13th
, the original film that later became
Tuesday the 13th
, became one of the horror films that spooked more than a generation, starring the heartbroken Pamela Voorhees, and then her son,
Jason.
The inspiration for
Friday the 13th (1980)
, by Sean Cunningham, for many was
Halloween,
by John Carpenter, which the director
wanted to copy and take advantage of the wave of success.
With the
original
Friday the 13th
, which later
had its franchise in several countries
, Cunningham took the
American slasher
to a new level of brutality and had unprecedented success.
In addition to the Carpenter film, there would be a crime that Cunningham would have been inspired by that
happened, before the film's release, in Finland.
Friday the 13th. The original poster of the first film in the series.
Photo / file
What crimes would have inspired the "Tuesday 13" saga
The antecedents of Jason's crimes took place in Finland and were known as the "Lake Bodom murders", although over the years they were also called
"the real Friday the 13th".
On June 5, 1960
, at
Lake Bodominsky
, 15-year-old girls, Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki, and 18-year-old Seppo Antero Boisman,
were killed while sleeping in their tents.
The cause of the murders was a
head injury caused by a stone.
The original 1980 film is about Pamela Voorhees terrorizing - and murdering -
a handful of teenagers at Camp Crystal Lake to avenge her son's drowning.
Here, not for revenge, there is a point of contact with the crimes of Finland.
Later films
reveal that Jason is alive and a homicidal maniac continuing the murder spree his mother started.
The films of the saga spanning more than three decades you, which makes them
one of the franchises most durable and highest -
grossing horror the world
.
They have also spawned a television series, novels, video games, and comics.
The tents where the teenagers were from Lake Bodominsky, in Finland.
Photo / Wikipedia
Victor Miller
, who created this horror movie icon, combined the names of his two sons, Ian and Josh, and
a girl he met at school whose last name was Van Voorhees
.
This is how he baptized these criminals.
Although Jason is supposed to be a fictional character,
there are striking similarities in the film to the grisly murders in Finland in the summer of 1960.
As noted above, there three teenagers were beaten to death while camping at Lake Bodom.
The sole survivor, who escaped with a broken jaw
and a concussion, was arrested and later acquitted.
Finnish police questioned a handful of suspects
, including a local kiosk named
Karl Valdemar Gyllstorm
, who had frequently expressed irritation at the campers.
Although there was insufficient evidence against him, Gyllstorm took his own life by drowning in the lake in 1972
and, on a suicide note,
confessed to the crime.
Police later dismissed the claims
, as his wife said he was asleep in bed at the time.
The murdered teenagers in Finland.
His crimes could have inspired "Tuesday the 13th"
Another suspect was Hans Assman, a KGB spy
who had recently flown to the area from Germany, and who was rumored to have turned up at a hospital covered in red spots after the killings.
Investigators were unable to find the murder weapon but found several puzzling objects around the area
that were missing from the store, including the keys to the teens' motorcycles.
Criminals who may have been inspired by the "Friday the 13th" saga
The movie Cunningham would also have inspired
a North Wales cinema owner Peter Moore,
who stabbed and maimed four people in 1995.
In the book "
The Man in Black Peter Moore: Wales's Worst Serial Killer,"
written by Moore's former lawyer, Dylan Rhys Jones, he lays out the details of the case.
Initially, Moore confessed to the crimes, but later pleaded not guilty,
blaming the murders on a fictional lover, and restaurant worker, named Jason.
This man
was linked by both Jones and the prosecution to
Jason Voorhees
because of his brutal characteristics.
According to an article in the MailOnline newspaper, Jones said: "
Moore certainly knew a lot about cinema and would have known the" Friday the 13th "franchise,
and one of the films in the series had been released shortly before the murders began.
It is possible that has been an inspiration to Moore
. "
Lord Carlile de Berreview, the lead prosecutor in the case, told the MailOnline: "There were a number of movies that Moore would have seen or shown, one was episodic and it showed someone killing people
the way Peter Moore carried out these murders.
".
Moore was eventually found guilty and is serving a
life sentence.
Do horror movies like
Tuesday the 13th
inspire killers?
Jason.
The mask worn by the protagonist of the highest grossing horror franchise in history.
Photo / file
In 2017, an article in The Washington Post
addressed the debate over whether horror movies incite violence off-screen
.
The text cites a study that recognizes that
copycat violence is possible.
However, economists Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna conducted an analysis indicating that
these films tip the crime rate in another direction
.
Dahl and DellaVigna hypothesized that
people capable of committing criminal acts are attracted to the cinema when a violent film is released
, which discourages them from committing assault.
Nothing is confirmed around these criminal references.
However, during a panel at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, director John Carpenter stated: "
Real life causes these brutalities and violence, fake life does not. The reason for many of these
horror films
is the culture in which we live
, the events that have happened in our world ".
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