Pamela Voorhees

Pamela Voorhees is a serial killer from the movie Friday the 13th, a horror film. She is a devoted mother who kills anyone at Camp Crystal Lake because her son Jason drowned back in 1957 due to 2 camp counselors having sex instead of doing their job and thus they got killed in 1958, making it Pamela’s first ever murders and it earning the nickname Camp Blood, and every attempt of reopening year after year has failed due to Pamela doing things in her will such as starting fires and poising the water.

her signature weapons are a Bowie Knife, Machete, Bow And Arrows and an Axe.

her first appearance was in Friday the 13th (1980), and has appeared in at least 2 and 3, and more artistic medium.

in a 2021 book released November 18, 2021, which might then be adapted into a “episode”, all 4 of the PowerPuff Girls are sent to the camp in a crossover where distress calls lead them to fight the woman killer (though Bubbles is missing throughout most of the story).

She also appears in the crossover book’s sequel which has not yet been produced.

Pamela was originally portrayed by the awesome and well-known Broadway actress Betsy Palmer, who only did it to by herself a new car after her Mercedes broke down on a turnpike for 5 hours. She afterwards proceeded to get a sirocco.

Estelle Parsons and Shelley Winters were 2 other choices for playing her, but both declined for fear of their careers being ruined.

Appearance
Pamela has dirty blonde hair which is short and has wavy curls and her eyes are brown. She wears, typically, an Irish blueish grey sweater and black pants and matching boots, complete with a sheath for storing her Bowie knife in. She also wears a brown plaid shirt, and then other accessories in the minor category.

Personality
Pamela’s a real broken down psycho mom, a crazy serial killer who targets at camp counselors and a real nut. She can talk in her son Jason’s voice usually telling to “Kill Her/Him/Them Mommy”. As a serial killer, her destiny is to rid people she feels are trying to reopen Camp Crystal Lake again or become counselors since now she trusts no counselors because of what happened with her son from the 2 irresponsible ones having sex instead of watching him, thus letting him drown. As a mother, she cares and loves Jason with all she can bare and the mother and son were very close to one another, especially since Jason had such a hard life. She is a loving and seemingly obsessed mother who goes on nonstop thinking benders of her son. Pamela is always proud of her son for doing things and loves him no matter what, even with his handicap. She was, after all, his only friend and companion in the whole world. It is currently unknown if Pamela was completely normal really and truly prior to her son’s drowning in 1957 and especially when she became the serial killer she is in 1958. the only time she is really happy and upbeat is when she annoys people by rambling on and on about happier times she had with her son. Pamela never kills kids and the whole reason she kills is for her son and for saving other kids from ending up like her son. She seems to both hate and dawdle on Friday the 13th, for it being her son’s birthday and for it being the most prone day for trouble at the Camp. She will only risk fighting a kid if it looked like they were fighting her first for various reasons (like with the PowerPuff Girls in the crossover). She doesn't seem to care much for other killers either and will usually fight them.

According to Betsy Palmer herself as stated in a video, as per quote on quote, she didn't try to play a bad lady, but a good lady who had gone a little wrong, all because she didn't want anymore children to die like her son at the cursed camp.

Trivia

 * Movie wise, besides the obvious, she appears in part 2 and 3 (but Betsy Palmer only played her in 2 movies).
 * Betsy Palmer only played the role for a new car.
 * Pamela is Betsy’s perhaps #1 role remembered.
 * She owns 4 known weapons. Bowie Knife, Machete, Axe, and Bow and Arrows. However her favorite signature weapon appears to be the Bowie Knife.
 * Pamela died only once when she lost her head by Alice in Friday the 13th, but how of her resurrection and when exactly she came back is unknown.
 * She had a seemingly unofficial crossover appearance in Murder, She Wrote (under a different name) played by Betsy Palmer once again where she killed a woman named Harriet Lundgran with a meat thermometer (of course she wouldn’t have her usual weapons).
 * She also appeared in another earlier episode, but never killed anybody there and she didn't have a really fine role.
 * Buttercup dressed up as Pamela at the end of the PowerPuff Girls vs Pamela Voorhees November 2021 crossover book (Spoiler if you hadn’t read it. Don’t read this part if you’d hadn’t if you hate spoilers). Similar to how Bliss dressed as her son in the not so likable state (but she didn’t know who she was dressing as she just wanted a random costume try out).
 * Pamela is the best recognized female serial killer in the horror movies.
 * Mrs. Voorhees was the camp’s cook before and during the drowning.
 * she became a serial killer in 1958 starting with the irresponsible camp counselors who made love while her son was left to perish.
 * she owns a cj 1966 model teal Jeep with black insides and white wheels, possessing a cb radio. Her Jeep is the same as Steve Christy’s, except for the license plate difference.
 * She left her victim Annie in her Jeep for a certain time.
 * Estimated to be the very first actress to play Pamela but turned it down was the actress known for playing Rosanne's mother on Rosanne, Estelle Parsons (and the only one left alive). The 2nd to be offered but turned it down was actress Shelley Winters (who also was on Roseanne as Roseanne’s grandmother, and voiced Rankin/Bass’s Frosty the Snowman's snow wife, Crystal). That is where Betsy Palmer came in, and was only selected to play to get her new car for the money which she did following the movie.
 * Estelle is the only Pamela selected actress to still be alive, as Betsy died in May 2015 and Shelly died around 9 years before in 2006.
 * it is unclear is to who actually was offered the role first, but it seems like it was Estelle, then Shelley.
 * A New "Trend" surfacing is that the Magician Illusionist Harry Houdini died one day before Betsy Palmer was born. Lots of people know he died on Halloween, but only some may know of him dying in 1926, and then the actress coming along one day later after he died, which was on November 1st. This is the first known case of a situation "called the birth after death by one day" scenario.
 * The PowerPuff Girls vs Pamela Voorhees Crossover is the first time we get to see Pamela's shirt full on. We never really saw her brown plaid shirt full on in the movie, but saw several parts of it enough to know what it was.
 * Buttercup got herself a puff-sized costume she now carries around due to her new fixation with fighting the female killer. She uses it for her own entertainment or to play scare her sisters.
 * Pamela's sweater is one of her more famous relics.
 * Betsy Palmer actually held a Pamela action figure.
 * the figurine used in Robot Chicken season 9 episode 6 during a court themed skit scene was different from the one Betsy Palmer held.