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Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise.The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who was thought to have drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff.
- 1980–present
- Victor Miller
- Friday the 13th (1980) There is a certain campy (no pun intended) charm to watching the original Friday the 13th. This tale of a mysterious killer taking out horny teens one by one seems downright quaint decades after it came out in 1980.
- Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981) If you haven't streamed the series in a while, you may be surprised by how long it takes for the central villain to become a fully-formed horror icon.
- Friday the 13th: Part III (1982) Though Jason's hockey mask is one of the more iconic slasher images in horror history, we don't actually see it on screen until the third film.
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) Depending on who you ask, some gorehounds insist that Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is as good as the franchise ever got.
- Join the murderous Jason Voorhees as he goes New York, Hell, Outer Space, and more!
- How Many Friday the 13th Movies Are There?
- 1. Friday the 13th (1980)
- 2. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
- 3. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
- 4. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 5. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
- 6. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
- 7. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
- 8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
By Matt Fowler
Updated: Oct 13, 2023 3:51 pm
Posted: Oct 7, 2023 1:15 am
For 30 years, lumbering lunatic Jason Voorhees -- whether he was a backwoods psycho or an undead maniac -- terrorized New Jersey's scenic Crystal Lake (and occasionally Manhattan and future Outer Space). By the third Friday the 13th film, in 1982, the murderous Jason finally acquired what would become his signature look, with a hockey mask covering his misshapen face, transforming him into a horror villain icon for the ages.
Sadly, there hasn't been a Friday the 13th film since the 2009 Platinum Dunes reboot (during the decade of 70s/80s horror reboots) and legal battles over the rights, between the original film's director and writer, still keep the property maddeningly tied up. But there are still 12 Friday the 13th movies to binge-watch during Spooky Season (yes, the Halloween franchise got to 13 movies before Friday the 13th) and we've got a rundown of the correct order to marathon them.
It all starts fairly easy as most of the saga is numbered, but then it gets a bit dicier since the movies just start having Jason in the title (and one film takes place in a distant cosmic future). So if you're into checking these famous slasher movies out in chronological order, we've got you covered.
There are 12 movies in the Friday the 13th/Jason horror film franchise, with eight of them, from 1980 to 1989, representing the classic Paramount Pictures Friday the 13th collection. Following this, New Line took over the rights and gave fans four very different, distinct Jason movies, including 2003's Freddy vs. Jason which took over 15 years to fully develop.
Currently, a Crystal Lake prequel series, from Hannibal's Bryan Fuller, has been picked up by Peacock.
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John Carpenter's Halloween may be credited as kicking off the '80s slasher/horror craze but truly it was 1980's Friday the 13th, which itself was a somewhat obvious replication of Halloween, that really lit the spark. So much so that the film's landmark gore and high body count brought about (and changed the tone of) Halloween's own sequel. Almost immediately, slasher movie clones, all with a "mystery killer," loads of dead teenagers, and (often) an attached holiday or celebratory event followed and the decade of slashers and slasher sequels was born. For those unaware, Jason is not the killer in the first movie, helping Friday the 13th stand apart from the rest of the franchise while also starting the craze of having a whodunnit? murderer on the loose, harboring bitter resentment over a past incident/tragedy. Summer camp was also now a place of dread, forever more.
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Set five years later, which would make it 1984, Friday the 13th Part 2 brings Jason Voorhess into the fold as the killer, covering his face with a burlap sack (and one eye hole) for the final act of this rampage. Thought to have died in a Camp Crystal Lake drowning accident, Jason basically lived alone in the surrounding woods, going mad over the years, and becoming a local myth. Part 2 moves better, pacing-wise, than the first film and has a famous, formidable "final girl" in Amy Steel's Ginny.
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Going from numbers to roman numerals, and shifting from 2D to "early '80s craze" 3D, the third Friday the 13th movie picks up right where Part 2 leaves off, so these two movies basically take place over the course of two days. Jason gets his infamous trademark hockey mask with the red triangles as the story shifts away from summer camp scenarios and camp counselor victims to just any young adults trying to spend the weekend with friends in a vacation cabin. No one is safe now, not even regular townsfolk, as Jason's murderous appetite is fully awakened.
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Truly designed to be the final Friday the 13th movie, after a two year break (and with the slasher boom dying off in 1984), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, once again, extends Jason's kill spree a few more days. Taking place just a couple days after Part III -- so still set in 1984 (the release date now matches the events of the past two movies) -- Jason survives his injuries and goes on to slaughter more attractive young people. Only to be taken down, in the end, by 12-year-old Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) in a machete-wielding attack that outright kills the illustrious Mr. Voorhees for good. Yup, he dead.
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But Jason's dead, right? What the heck? Friday the 13th: A New Beginning -- one of the grodiest, sleaziest Friday entries (the director came from the realm of hardcore porn) -- found a way to bring "Jason" back in a somewhat cheap way. Set in 1989, a now 17-year-old Tommy Jarvis must deal with a new murder spree at the secluded youth treatment center he's court ordered to be at due to his lingering trauma. Considering what happens next, A New Beginning is actually skippable if need be. The completionist in you might win out, though.
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Taking place after A New Beginning, in 1990, if you choose to accept A New Beginning happened at all, a grown Tommy Jarvis inadvertently brings Jason Voorhees' corpse back to life, starting the official zombie era for Jason. Yes, he's now an actual reanimated corpse, complete with a rotting undead face underneath the hockey mask. Jason Lives is a wild, fun Friday flick that embraces the sillier aspects of the ongoing story while giving us Jason vs. Tommy one final time.
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood keeps the craziness going with not just a zombie Jason but also a telekinetic final girl (Jason vs. Carrie was how the film was conceived). At this point, eight years into the run, the timeline wasn't ultimately all that important. Basically, this film takes place after the others, with 17-year-old Tina (Lar Park Lincoln), and her ability to move s*** with her mind, having had a traumatic event happen to her at Crystal Lake when she was 10. Since this movie is set in 1997 (the future!), her childhood bad time would have happened in 1990, not too long after the events of Jason Lives.
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Set after The New Blood, by maybe a year (so 1998), Jason Takes Manhattan took our boy out of the woods and into the Big Apple (eventually, after a long boat ride that takes up two acts of the movie) and the change of scenery is all worth it for the one big on-location 360 shot of Jason in Times Square. The Friday the 13th franchise, this far in, just wasn't concerned with details. The young victims in the movie basically know an urban legend about "a kid who drowned years ago who now might be out there killing people" and, honestly, that's all the filmmakers wanted people to know too. Jason was a part of the pop-culture fabric now and this is what most average moviegoers knew about him. And though we wouldn't see Jason on the big screen for four years after this, the biggest break so far, the end of Jason Takes Manhattan does set up the events in Jason Goes to Hell since the FBI actually notices all the murders by the end of this movie.
Jun 16, 2023 · 1 Friday The 13th (1980) The original Friday The 13th movie followed a group of camp counselors setting up for summer at Camp Crystal Lake when they are picked off one-by-one by a mysterious killer. The film begins with a sequence depicting murders at the camp in 1958, but the main story is set in June 1979.
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- Friday the 13th (1980) Prime Video Max Walmart (8 film DVD collection) Best Buy (4k UltraHD Blu-ray) The first Friday the 13th film debuted over 30 years ago, starring Adrienne King as Alice and Betsy Palmer as Mrs Voorhees.
- Friday the 13th Part II (1981) Prime Video Best Buy (DVD) Max. The second film, directed by Steve Miner, introduces Jason Voorhees as a killer, but he’s missing his classic hockey mask and machete.
- Friday the 13th Part III (1982) Prime Video Best Buy (Blu-ray SteelBook) Max. The third Friday the 13th movie picks up the day after the second film.
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) Prime Video Walmart (DVD) Max. The next film, directed by Joseph Zito, is again set the next day after the third film.
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Friday the 13th. 1980 1h 35m R. 6.4 (158K) Rate. 22 Metascore. A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer. Director Sean S. Cunningham Stars Betsy Palmer Adrienne King Jeannine Taylor. 2.
