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It's slightly glossed over. People tend to forget the biggest component of it: the hockey mask. The facelessness is the key. There've always been elementals and facekillers in folklore, but in this case, they modernized it and punked the image up wonderfully. Now, instead of stealing people's breath at night, you have something tangible with a machete. He also kind of embodies the sexual element of the serial killer, which still felt like a new phenomenon for people to grasp by then. Every kind of disease that can come to bear occurs in the 80s slasher movie. If you read up on medieval slavic vampire folklore, you'll find a lot of stirring resemblances and that we still use the same kind of magical thinking. Revenants of drowned children and those who died of disease return to bring vengeance down on anybody who gets in their way, and the genotype of the creature shows what it eats. There are undead infants for example, that drink blood from a mother's breast, or criminals who return to their families. Jason's perfectly with type: Q: what killed Jason? A: sexual irresponsibility. Q: who killed Jason this way? A:teenagers. Q: who does he kill? A:teenagers. It's the same cycle of accountability and victimhood that slavic revenants have, but in this case the modern scapegoat is sexual irresponsibility.
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