HOw many Friday 13th movies are there

[socalled]

Have been asked to do an indepth article on the franchise and am a bit lost on what should be included.

Does Jason X fit into Part 1, 2, 3 ,4 ,5 et al. Should l include Jason vs Freddie etc????

TIA for responses.

Saw most of them in theatre release, but am sure l am missing some of the later ones. And before you ask yes enjoyed 1 and 2, thought 3 was a rehash, and have vague memories of 4 and 5 being not too bad.

[whizeguy69]

Friday the 13th
Friday the 13: Part 2
Friday the 13: Part 3
Friday the 13: Part 4, The Final Chapter
Friday the 13: Part 5, The New Begining
Friday the 13: Part 6, Jason Lives
Friday the 13: Part 7, The New Blood
Friday the 13: Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan
Jason Goes to Hell
Jason X
Freddy Vs. Jason

That should be all of them, and I would include them all together. They all deal with Jason in one way or another, even part 5 I guess...but thats open to debate.

[XCoRyX]

yup, this is all about covered now... and I also consider FvJ part of the series.

[Duke Nukem]

FvJ is not part of the F13 series, just as it isn't part of the Nightmare series. It's simply just a spinoff. The film doesn't intercept into any of the storylines of the two series and wasn't met to, so it's nothing but. There are 10 offical Jason/Friday The 13th movies.

[Mr. Fred Krueger]

I find it funny that people say FvJ isn't a part of either series, yet it takes place after the events in Nightmare 6 and JGTH.

There are 11 F13 movies and 8 Nightmares.

[socalled]

NO offense to anyone but l don't see FvJ in the same series, as it would complete blow any time lines established by Jason X (which l'm hoping to exclude as that one sucked imho) :)

[IamNoOne666]

I consider Freddy vs. jason a NOES movie with jason throwen into it.

[XpatrickX]

Originally posted by IamNoOne666
I consider Freddy vs. jason a NOES movie with jason throwen into it.

yeah thats how i saw it too actually.

[socalled]

I'm now hoping l can cut this down to the first four :eek: No one actually mentioned how many movies were involved....

[PhantomOfTheParadise]

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, FvsJ does not exclude the storyline established in Jason X...in fact, SPOILER:







The big fight at Crystal Lake towards the end of FvJ takes place at a construction site which a huge sign proclaims to be the future location of the Crystal Lake Research Facility (or whatever the hell it was called) that appears in the opening of Jason X.

[countchocula]

FVJ is a continuation of each series. It picks up where Freddy's Dead and The Final Friday left off, and serves as a prequel to Jason X.

[ERIN_LoJ]

Originally posted by socalled
I'm now hoping l can cut this down to the first four :eek: No one actually mentioned how many movies were involved....

Right under your first post is the complete listing by a schmoe.

And yes, I agree FvJ belongs in both series

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by ERIN_LoJ
FvJ belongs in both series


Yeah that's pretty much how I view it as well.

[socalled]

Originally posted by ERIN_LoJ
Right under your first post is the complete listing by a schmoe.

And yes, I agree FvJ belongs in both series

Was aware of that which is why l want to just do the first four, though they are telling me it will have to be all nine excluding X and FvJ :(

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by socalled
Was aware of that which is why l want to just do the first four, though they are telling me it will have to be all nine excluding X and FvJ :(

Well let me be unlike "they" and say for ya:

11
:)


The first four were to me, the better ones, but it was pre-zombie type Jason. He was more of your Michael Myers serial killer.

However, starting with VI: Jason Lives, he's the Jason we all know to be now, super strength with the ability to rip off limbs and stand instantly from shotgun blasts.

Then, after the filmmakers grew bored with that, they kept him superstrong and had him fight a Carrie Ripoff in 7, made him go to manhattan in 8, then really ripped us off by not showing the 'true' Jason form in 9 for 3/4 of the film. He was brought back for Jason X, which was another of the "Let's find someone new for Jason to fight or Voorhees Field trip #3 " which turned out to be the absolute worst by taking him into space. The prequel to that was of course Freddy Vs. Jason, giving us the showdown well past its prime, though most genre fans didn't care.

If you're going to report on the franchise, it may be interesting to note that it seemed like past part 6, they really ran out of ideas. Everyone wanted to see Freddy Vs. Jason, but it couldn't happen then, so they just really gave him a bunch of other cheesy chores. Before that he was fine, he was a great killer but a better stalker, and thats what was loved about him, and why I like the final chapter the best.

[socalled]

So far am in the midst of

1 - Excellent movie.

2 - Oh dear

3 - Guess it must have looked cool in 3D cause it sure as hell is a bad picture on DVD. That's got to be the worse group of bikers in cinema history.

4 - Some nice things happening there. Simply loved the revenge dude who is gonna take Jason out, and goes down within a minute of meeting him :)

And that's where l am at the moment.

[XpatrickX]

why oh dear?

[ERIN_LoJ]

Anyone else but me growing slightly confused?

Or is it just because it's Monday and my brain only half works on Mondays?

[Romero&Juliet]

Has anyone here ever ventured into the world of Friday fanmade movies?? There are literally eight ZILLLLLLIONNNN of these things kicking around and there are bootleggers on the net who sell/trade them.

Some of them actually seem pretty cool..!

[socalled]

Originally posted by XpatrickX
why oh dear?

Cause it sucked.

[XCoRyX]

Pt. 2 is one of the better sequels in the series if you ask me...I was confused at the 'oh dear' statement as well, but glad its cleared up now.

[Murderous Squad]

Originally posted by socalled
Cause it sucked.


I agree

[TheDeadWalk]

A lot of us, (myself included) never truly got to experience the growth of Friday the 13th. We likely started in the midst of the series, back in a day when they were called "Jason movies". To see a "Jason movie" without Jason, or pre-hockey mask we tend to find as shit.

Much the same reason that 5 never garnered the success that it did, and why a hell of a lot of people call Halloween 3: Season of the Witch the worst of its series.


I started on VI: Jason lives. I never thought the first two sucked, but they certainly don't get as much love from me as VI and IV.

[darchangel]

Originally posted by socalled
Cause it sucked.


i liked part 2...i actually remembered more of the character names than part 1, and Ginny is a strong heroine. also many people forget that part 2 was one of the first movies to experiment with killing off a 'main character' early on...alice bit it in the first five minutes, which seems to have been forgotten in the likes of the Scream trilogy. in addition,

<SPOILERS>

i thought it took mad balls on behalf of the scriptwriters to kill crazy Ralph...nobody expected that. also, nobody expected the killing of the dude in the wheelchair (at least i didn't) until it was pretty much inevitable.

<END SPOILERS>

the 'Mrs. Voorhees flashbacks' were also bomb. Betsy Palmer owns!

the pillowcase mask was also incredibly terrifying to me for some reason. i have no idea why.


as a side note, did anyone else think at the end that the end of the movie when it shows Mrs. Voorhees' decapitated head that they eyes were going to open? for some reason i thought they would, just in the vein of '80s cheese, but they didn't.


case in point: part 2 sucks less than part 8 :D



Death to Beth

~darchangel~

[Duke Nukem]

Funny story, Darchangel. The original ending of Part actually had that head opening its eyes in the last frame of the movie. I think Paramount ditched that last frame, for being lame or something.

I also liked Part 2. Those first 4 Jason movies have this magic that none of the following sequels had. It was when Jason was still quasi-human and kinda scary. In all those films, I had a liking for all those poor, ill-fated characters, I was just able to connect to them, especially the wheelchair guy and the girl who liked him in part 2 (poor guy, he was about to get laid!). I think all thess Jason characters in these 4 films deserve a better rap than "one dimensional." I did get something out of almost all of them before their great deaths.

[XpatrickX]

ditching that last frame was a good call =)

[BorderEevilIII]

tosses in useless trivia that the series WAS supposed to go as 13 installments under Paramount. Guess that never happened after the Jason Takes Manhattan flick :(

Since Jason found a NEW home w/ New Line is it gonna fullfill the 13?

[Duke Nukem]

Originally posted by BorderEevilIII
tosses in useless trivia that the series WAS supposed to go as 13 installments under Paramount. Guess that never happened after the Jason Takes Manhattan flick :(

Since Jason found a NEW home w/ New Line is it gonna fullfill the 13?

I'm personally hoping that Jason fulfills his "destiny" and does three more single "Friday The 13th" films. Now that New Line has given life back to the reps of both Freddy and Jason with FvJ, they should do separate films for each. I mean, they have all the power to put the two, Jason, back on track with decent sequels.

Here's what I expect from new "Friday The 13th" films.

1) They all would take place ONLY in Crystal Lake. Jason's been on enough field trips.
2) They would all be back-to-back storywise like F13's 2-3-4.
3) Tommy Jarvis would return, out of his own paranoia, that Jason still dead at the bottom of Crystal Lake...of course, he wouldn't be!
4) One of the films be set around Chrismas time with SNOW all over the place. The snow would mix so well with the blood! Then again, this might cancel #2.
5) In the last film, the 5 main remaining heroines of the series return to face Jason once and for all.
-Ginny from F13 2
-heroine of part 3 who went crazy at the end; she'd be real fucked up here
-Tommy's sister from "The 'Final' Chapter"
-Tina Shepard, the telepathic, from "The New Blood"
-The troubled surviving heroine from "Jason Takes Manhatten"

[moviemorgan2]

I've only seen Friday the 13th part 6 and 7 and FvJ so I don't know......

I hated part 7........

[Cyclonus]

I like writing these lists, so here are all ten films, and the year they came out:

Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Jason X (2001)