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Kevin Bacon, Adrienne King, Ari Lehman, Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, and Jeannine Taylor in Friday the 13th (1980)

Betsy Palmer: Mrs. Voorhees

Friday the 13th

Betsy Palmer credited as playing...

Mrs. Voorhees

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  • Mrs. Voorhees: Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.
  • Alice: Who are you?
  • Mrs. Voorhees: Why I'm... I'm Mrs. Voorhees, an old friend of the Christys'.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: [high voice] Kill her, Mommy! Kill her! Don't let her get away, Mommy! Don't let her live!
  • [normal voice]
  • Mrs. Voorhees: I won't, Jason. I won't!
  • Jason: [in flashback] Help me! Help! Help, Mommy! Help! Help, Mommy! Mommy, help!
  • Mrs. Voorhees: I am, Jason. I am.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: You see, Jason was my son, and today is his birthday...
  • Mrs. Voorhees: You let him drown! You never paid any attention. Look what you did to him.
  • [pulls out a large hunting knife]
  • Mrs. Voorhees: Look what you did to him!
  • Mrs. Voorhees: She can't hide; no place to hide.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: Kill her, Mommy, kill her. She can't hide, no place to hide.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: Come, dear. It'll be easier for you than it was for Jason.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: [seeing Brenda's dead body] Oh, my Lord! So young. So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this?
  • Alice: Bill's out there.
  • Mrs. Voorhees: Oh, God, this place! Steve should never have opened this place again, there's been too much trouble here!

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