Friday 13th Franchise
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Friday the 13th is an American Horror series which includes not only the 12 slasher movies BUT a TV series, several novels, comic books, video games and tie in merchandise. The series mainly follows Jason Voorhees who drowned as a boy as Crystal Lake which is deemed to be cursed when several mass murders happen there. Jason is in every movie as the means for murder or the murderer. The original movie was written by Victor Miller and was produced and Directed by Sean S. Cunningham.
I'll admit I've not seen all of the movies and media of the Friday the 13th Franchise only seeing 2-3 movies over all, however I do appreciate the franchise as a whole due to it being a pillar in the Horror/Slasher community of which I love being part of. As such I give the franchise an 8.5/10.
In the Original Friday 13th premiered in 1980, Mrs Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) stalks and murders teenagers preparing Camp Crystal Lake for Re-opening. She is determined to ensure the camp doesn't open after her son Jason (Ari Kehman) drowned in the lake due to staff negligence. The last Councillor Alice Hardy (Adrienne King), fends of Mrs Voorhees long enough to grab a machete and decapitate her.
The first is followed by 1981's Friday 13th part 2 which shows, Jason (Steve Daskewisz/Warrington Gillette) to be alive and guarding Crystal Lake after killing Alice Hardy.
Friday 13th part three premiers in 1982 and follows Jason killing off anyone who comes across the barn he's hiding in on the property of Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell). Jason attempts to kill the group of people at Chris's home however is supposedly murdered by Chris who slams an axe through Jason's head. Chris is taken away in hysteria at the end of the movie.
Friday the 13th: the final chapter premiered in 1984 and continues where Part three left off. With Jason found by police and take to a local morgue. Jason awakens at the morgue after the axe is removed, and he returns to Crystal lake after killing the coroner and a nurse. Jason once again kills a pack of teens who've rented a house on Crystal lake before seeking out Trish and Tommy Jarvis (Kimberly Beck and Corey Feldman respectively) who live next door, Jason is ultimately killed by Tommy.
Premiering in 1985, Friday 13th: A New Beginning follows Tommy Jarvis (John Shepard), living in fear of Jason's (Tom Morga) return whilst living in the mental health institution he's been committed to after the events of the previous film. Roy Burns (Dick Wieand) uses Jason's persona to become a copycat killer at Tommy's new halfway house. Tommy along with supervisor Pam (Melanie Kinnaman) and a young by named Reggie (Shavar Ross) manage to defeat Roy and find out that Roy turned to using Jason as a disguise due to the death of his son who was murdered by a mental health patient at the institution.
1986's Friday 13th Part VI Jason Lives begins once again with Tommy, having left another institution an d is visiting Jason's grave. He inadvertently revives Jason through the use of a piece of fence which acts as a lightning rod. Jason immediately returns to Crystal lake and starts killing the people working at the new summer camp. Tommy once again defeats Jason by chaining him to a boulder and pushing him into the lake, however Jason is still alive.
1988 brings forth Friday the 13th part 7: the New Blood, which begins an indeterminate length of time after Part 6, where Jason (Kane Hodder) is resurrected by the Telekinetic Tina Shepard (Lar Park Lincoln) whose attempting to revive her father. Jason once again terrorises Crystal Lake with murdering whoever is there and is returned to the bottom of the lake after a battle with Tina.
1989's Friday the 13th part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason is once again resurrected by an underwater electrical cable. He follows a group of students via a cruise to Manhattan killing most of them and the other people on the cruise in the process. He eventually dies in the sewers of toxic waste after following the last two students, Rennie (Jensen Daggett) and Sean (Scott Reeves) in the attempt to kill them.
In Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday premiering in 1993, Jason through an unexplained resurrection is hunted by the FBI at Crystal Lake, the FBI successfully kills Jason through a sting operation BUT, Jason manages to survive through a possession and passing his Black heart from one being to another. It's revealed he has family, a sister and a niece who are the only ones who can help return him to his body. Jason does return through resurrection But his niece Jessica (Kari Keegan) stabs him with a mythical dagger and he is dragged to hell.
Jason X premiering eight years later in 2001, follows Jason in the future when he's once again resurrected by scientist Rowan LaFontaine (Lexa Diog). Its decided that Cryonic suspension is the only method of stopping him, however Jason breaks free and goes once again on a murder spree,he is tricked into the Cryo-chamber by Rowan but he ruptures the tank which freezes both of them. Jason is found 400 years later and thawed out by a team of students who've taken him into space. Due to his nature Jason once again goes murderous and kills everyone on board. He's seemingly killed but brought back by nanotechnology as a cyborg. He's eventually ejected into space and killed by Earth two's atmosphere, his mask falling to the bottom of a lake.
The Next Friday the 13th was a crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street called Freddy Vs Jason which premiered in 2003. Set in a contemporary period, Freddy Krueger (Robert England) resurrects Jason (Ken Kirzinger) and sends him to Springwood to create fear so he can invade peoples dreams. This goes south and the two battle it out through the Dream-world and at Crystal Lake. The outcome is Ambiguous as Jason resurfaces from the lake holding Freddy's head which winks and laughs.
In 2009, A new Friday the 13th, made to restart the films continuity was released. Having watched his mothers beheading at a young age, Jason (Derek Meyers) as an adult follows in her footsteps and kills anyone who comes to Crystal lake. Jason eventually kidnaps Whitney Miller (Amanda Righetti) who resembles a younger version of his mother. Six weeks after her disappearance, her brother Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) comes for her. The pair reunite and seemingly kill Jason.
When compared to the other Top-grossing American horror series such as Nightmare on Elm's Street, child's play, Halloween. Saw, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Scream AND adjusting for the inflation of 2023 is second at the domestic box office with $908.4 million, following Halloween's highest grossing series at $1.09 billion and followed by Nightmare on Elm Street's series with $793.6 million. The financial success has extended to home release with more than 5million DVDs sold as of 2005.
In December 2006 IGN ranked Friday the 13th as the seventh of the top 25 film franchises. Such Qualifications included having at least three movies released before December 2006 and must be either a commercial or artistic success and have an impact in some form on popular culture. To which Friday the 13th had as the general consensus deemed the franchise the most influential of the 1980's despite fellow horror/slasher franchise Halloween kicked it off. Its pointed out by reporter Gary Kimble of ABC On-line's Arts and Entertainment that Jason's mask which wasn't adopted until the third movie is the franchises most widely recognised image in popular culture. And his conversation with Co-founder of the Fridaythe13thfilms.com Brenna O'Brien, showing that the fanbase of the franchise have taken said franchise into their hearts and minds, creating fan films, latex body suits of Jason AND having Tattoos tied to both Jason and The Friday the 13th franchise on their bodies.
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