Darius Pogue

Darius Pogue was the main antagonist from "Scarlet Cinema," episode 2.16 of Friday the 13th: The Series.

He was played by Jonathan Wise.

Darius Pogue was a college student who had an obsession with werewolves, even wanting to become one. He later enters a pawn shop and is drawn towards a vintage film camera, which Taylor McDougall (the pawn shop owner) refused to sell. Darius stole the camera, which he was using as a test to film McDougall, but shortly afterwards, the camera operates and plays the transformation scene from the 1941 classic, The Wolf Man. The actual werewolf from the film crash through the shop and mauled McDougall to death, much to the shock of Darius.

It was shortly afterwards that Darius learned that he had one of the many cursed objects from Curious Goods, and he was informed via the camera that three deaths would get him his wish. Darius used the camera to make Blair Westlake (who had been bullying him) as his second victim, but failed to complete the goal when Ryan Dallion managed to escape. Darius later used the two deaths as his film project, which drew immense scorn from Professor Schwartz, who became Darius' third victim.

After Schwartz's murder, Darius ended up facing the Wolf Man, and allowed him to bite him and transfer the curse. after which he shoots and kills the Wolf Man with silver bullets. As a series of clips from the classic movie were shown, Darius turned heel and gradually transformed into a werewolf, and glanced at his newly clawed hands as Ryan and Micki Foster were at the door. However, Darius escaped just as the pair entered, while howling at the full moon, completing Darius' heel turn.

In the episode's climax, Darius went after his crush, Carissa, as he planned to make her a werewolf so they could be together. However, he was pursued by Micki, Ryan, and Jack Marshak, with Ryan firing silver bullets at  Darius. The trio took Carissa to Curious Goods, only for the evil Werewolf Darius to track them and subdue Jack before taking Carissa. Realizing that the film was made of silver nitrate, Jack strangled Darius with the film, resulting in Darius reverting to his human while dying.