Friday the 13th is one of those holidays that is not really a holiday, except in the very specific way that it is. The woods get a little louder in your head. Every lake looks like it is holding a grudge. And somewhere, someone is tightening the straps on a hockey mask and hoping the machete doesn’t look like a party-store letter opener.

Jason Voorhees is catnip for cosplayers, and for once that makes complete sense. The silhouette is instant. The assignment is clear. And the good ones do not just buy a mask and lean on a tree. They build a version of him: Part 7 rot, Part 4 muscle, a pink glam remix, a genderbent bishojou take that should not work and then absolutely does.

This is not a lab-coat ranking, and we are not going to pretend we watched every Jason in existence. These are ten people whose work we could actually verify, with real Instagram accounts, and who we think are worth your follow. Five women, five men, plus an honorable mention. If your favorite is missing, that is what the comments are for. Try not to machete anyone about it.

Each entry below includes a verified photo of that person in the look, credited to the cosplayer and photographer, with a link back to the original post. Go give the likes to the people who did the work.

Top 5 Women

1. Danielle Vedovelli — @danievedo

If you have spent any time in fighting-game or pro-cosplay circles, you already know Danielle. EventHubs has featured her work more than once, her official site points to this Instagram, and she keeps a dedicated cosplay grid at @danievedo_ for the costume work. Buried in that career is a real Jason: Kirei Cosplay hosts a 15-photo Friday the 13th set under her name, and she sold a 2017 Halloween Jason set through her own Storenvy shop.

https://www.instagram.com/danievedo/

2. Liz Myky — @lizmyky

If you have been on the Friday the 13th side of Reddit in the last couple of years, you have probably already met this one. In December 2024, Liz posted a bishojou Jason that made people do a double take: stylized, precise, and finished enough that commenters were arguing over whether they were looking at a photograph or a 3D model. She credited photographers @bernardp.portrait and @ntxawghaam, and she has listed this Instagram handle herself on more than one of her own posts.

https://www.instagram.com/lizmyky/

3. Abby Dark-Star — @abbydarkstar

Abby has been a convention-circuit guest for years, including a Wizard World Sacramento spotlight with her costuming partner Keith Zen, and she puts the handle above on her official site. The Jason that landed her in this list is not a maybe: Geeks are Sexy photographed her as Voorhees on the floor at San Diego Comic-Con in 2014.

https://www.instagram.com/abbydarkstar/

4. Karrigan Taylor — @thekarrigantaylor

Karrigan is an Orlando cosplayer, writer and musician who has been putting her own spin on characters for years, and Jason is in the pile. A 2019 set made the rounds on Reddit as a straight-up “Jason Voorhees Cosplay by Karrigan Taylor.” The handle is the one on her official website, not a guess.

https://www.instagram.com/thekarrigantaylor/

5. Sydney Nicole Addams — @sydneynicoleaddams

Not every Jason has to crawl out of Crystal Lake looking like he lost a fight with a boat propeller. Sydney’s is pink. On purpose. She has reposted the look for Friday the 13th, complete with a blinged-out fake machete and the kind of commitment that separates a bit from a costume. It is glam, it is loud, and it still reads as Voorhees, which is harder than it sounds when you take the mud and the moss out of the equation.

https://www.instagram.com/sydneynicoleaddams/reel/DDh5Do-vnZz/

Top 5 Men

1. Travis Jason 13 — @travisjason13

Some people collect Jason. Travis builds him. One of his Part 7 posts breaks down the homework: silicone for the chest, back, hands and undermask, clothes and boots credited to himself, and a hockey mask from @masksbylance. That is not a Spirit Halloween run. That is a full-body monster with the part-seven rot baked in, and the photo that does the talking is the back — because if you are going to do Part 7, the spine has to show up.

https://www.instagram.com/travisjason13/p/B8VSIUqlYh4/

2. Brian Lee Smith — @bleedingbrian

ScreenRant put this one on a billboard in May 2024, and they were not being subtle about it: Brian “exclusively wears the iconic hockey mask of Crystal Lake’s psycho killer.” The shot that got the write-up is a crossover with All-Star Cosplay’s Batman, photographed by @horrorhound and edited by @pixelens._, with Brian as a Freddy vs. Jason Voorhees — machete out, Freddy’s head in the other hand, a fire raging around them like the two of them wandered off a comic-shop wall. The photo below is from his own June 13, 2026 post: a Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan look he wore last October, with the city background edited in himself.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZieIyUmRSd/

3. Doz One — @doz_one

Halloween 2022, Doz showed up as Part 7 Jason and was not shy about the “made by me” credit. The post tags Kane Hodder and Tom Savini, which is either extremely confident or extremely correct, and looking at a homemade New Blood Jason is usually how you find out which. This is the “I spent the year in the garage and I would like you to be afraid of me now” entry.

https://www.instagram.com/doz_one/p/CkZy05IDrN4/

4. Brian Emenheiser (South Jersey Jason) — @southjerseyjason

If you have been to a New Jersey horror con, a Blairstown event, or the Mays Landing Halloween parade in the last few years, you may have already been snuck up on by this man. Brian, better known as South Jersey Jason, has been at this since 2017, starting with a Part 4 look — Dark Side Studios undermask, Monsters for Hire mask, the human, pre-zombie Jason that still walks like he can catch you — and later adding a Part 7 build from J3 Jason Costumes. When Worlds Collide Cosplay has him as a featured horror specialist, and he has used the costume for charity appearances in the actual hometown backyard of the first movie.

https://www.instagram.com/southjerseyjason/

5. Jason Todd Voorhees — @jasontoddvoorhees

Yes, that is the name he works under. Yes, he is committed. Jason Todd Voorhees has spent years documenting Part 6, 7 and 8 builds, including a Part 7 that assembled work from J3 Jason Costumes, a Joshua Dedman / Dedman’s Grave mask, and silicone from Kyle Huculak — the kind of credits you only bother listing when the seams have to disappear. The costume work is all over his DeviantArt and the Friday the 13th fan community.

https://www.instagram.com/jasontoddvoorhees/

Honorable Mention: Steel City Jason — @steelcityjason

We could not let this one sit in the comments. Steel City Jason (@steelcityjason) as Part 4 Jason, with @carriedawaypgh as the camp counselor, photographed by @yinzerghost at Peters Lake Park on September 5, 2023. The caption does the warning for us: “That camp has a death curse!” Hockey mask by @f13_hocks_by_jarvis, undermask by @darksidepaul, and the shirt weathering and gore by @j3costumes. Full credits, and the photo, are in the original post.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw1WaWDMnjn/

The bottom line

Ten Jasons, ten Instagrams, plus one honorable mention, and zero excuses to spend Friday the 13th looking at the same three official stills on a loop. Go follow the ones who got the mask right, the ones who made it weird on purpose, and the ones who spent a year on silicone they will wear once and sweat through. If we missed a ringer, drop the handle in the comments. We’ll be in the woods, obviously.