When life imitates art, things can get a little strange. Read on:
While attending a Friday the 13th movie event on Friday the 13th, the release date of same, Warrington Gillette, the original Jason Voorhees (though not the best–that’s reserved for Kane Hodder), came out in full costume (with hockey mask, though I’m not a hundred percent sure he ever actually wore the hockey mask), wielding an axe and terrorizing the audiences. The terror got a little too out of control when a woman rushed the stage, seized the axe, and immediately began wailing on Jason. Jason took a wound to the hand and quickly ran off to find a hospital.
I don’t know what to say at this point. It’d be nice to know what this woman was thinking when she tangled with Gillette, and I hope somebody puts out that chunk of news post-haste. All I can say is that I’m extraordinarily disturbed by this. Not only has a man been seriously injured, but it also puts the entire horror community at risk. People have been making an unfair target of horror movies for years, and this is just the kind of rare piece of ammunition that does so much damage to normal horror buffs like me.
It’s horrible that we have to think in those kind of terms, especially while a man recovers from what might have been a fatal injury if things had been a little different, but sadly, such is the case.
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