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It isn't made clear. The scene seems to imply that the heart glamoured him in some way. He stares at it and you can even see him drooling. He continues to stare and then runs at the heart and eats it.

Alternatively, he was secretly a cannibal and liked to eat hearts.

It is probably a continuity error, product of bad directing. Alternatively, you could say that Deborah got more than one condom from the bag and that she dropped one of them outside.

The filmmakers attempted to provide an original supernatural explanation for some of the weaker continuity elements of the series (why "Mrs. Voorhees" killed to avenge her son's death yet he was not dead, why "Roy" in Part V became a killer, and why Jason was superhuman before dying, able to appear suddenly despite always moving slowly, and was resurrected as a zombie post-mortem). It was also an attempt to take the series in a new, more original direction, though many critics noticed the resemblance to another New Line Cinema film, "The Hidden".

Some fans have interpreted items throughout the film confirmed by the filmmakers' on their DVD Audio Commentary as being "homages" and "nods" to other films, as being part of an elaborate mythology. This has some credence because the most elaborate nod to another film is the cliffhanger featuring Freddy Krueger which did 10 years later lead to a follow-up. An example is the "Necronomicon Ex Mortis" prop from "Army of Darkness" (made the year before) is featured in the film, largely because KNB Effects worked on both films (they also later placed same said book in the witch's house in the next-year's "Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings"). However, because the Necronomicon (not the fictional and oft-referenced H.P. Lovecraft "Necronomicon", but the "Ancient Kandarian Book of the Dead" from Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" trilogy) is featured in the Voorhee's house (seen for the first time in the series in this film), some fans believe this suggests the book was used by the Voorhee's family for dark and esoteric purposes.

Also featured in the Voorhee's cellar is a crate labelled "Arctic Expedition - Horlicks University", which is a prop from George A. Romero's Creepshow (some of KNB had worked on that 10 years before). The "Jungle Gym" from "The Birds" is also outside the house, and some dialogue is more or less lifted from "Halloween" ("a house near the old Myers' place") which is a nod to the unstoppable killer of that series.

A further extrapolation some fans have suggested is that, in light of Freddy's appearance at the end and what that entails for the continuity of both film series, that the snake-like monster that leaps from body to body in the film is the same kind of serpent-demons that gives Freddy his powers in that series companion "final" chapter made two years before ("Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare"). When Jason dies in this film, pale blue lights escape from his chest and some assume, as with Freddy, that these are souls escaping.

So far, there are 12 movies in the Friday the 13th series. Beginning with Friday the 13th (1980) (1980), following are Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (1981), Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982) (1982), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) (1984), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) (1985), Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) (1986), Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988) (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) (1989), Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) (1993), Jason X (2001) (2001), Freddy vs. Jason (2003) (2003), and Friday the 13th (2009) (2009). A fan film, The Cold Heart of Crystal Lake (2003), was also released in 2003. A documentary about Jason, His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (2009), was released February 10th 2009.

The ninth installment of Jason's shenanigans experienced a theatrical released in 1993 in a version rated R bei the MPAA. The available DVD releases by Warner also contain the unrated version which gets more graphic in the obligatory violence scenes. Another report compares the unrated version to the Workprint. Aside from some changes in the plot the Workprint contains differently edited sequences or even misses some violence.