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Friday the 13th is a popular series of American slasher films. All of the films feature Jason Voorhees either as the killer or as the motivation or inspiration for the killings. The original film was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. Afterwards, the franchise was taken up by Frank Mancuso Jr. during its time with Paramount. When it was sold to New Line Cinema, Cunningham returned to oversee the franchise. Victor Miller, the writer of the original film, claims to have never seen any of the sequels.

Although each entry in the series is unique, they share many similar qualities. The setting is consistently in either Camp Crystal Lake or the surrounding suburbs, with three entries in New York City, outer space, and even Elm Street. The victims are usually teenagers or college-aged and frequently partake in recreational drug use and pre-marital sex.

The film series has a famous sound "theme", a repeating echoed noise created by Harry Manfredini, the series' composer, by saying the syllables "ki" and "ma" from the phrase "Kill her, mommy!" three times each through an echo effect.


Film plots

Friday the 13th (1980)
Despite warnings by the superstitious locals of a "Death Curse" Steve Christy hires a group of young people to help him re-open Camp Crystal Lake. Camp Blood is the name given to the camp by local residents as a result of the camp's dark history of tragedy and murder. The innocent roam the area while being stalked by a dark figure in the shadows, and are murdered one by one by an unseen assassin. In the end, the killer turns out to be a woman named Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), who is seeking revenge for the accidental drowning of her physically deformed son Jason, whose death was the result of negligence on the part of the counselors. She is decapitated by the lone survivor, Alice Hardy (Adrienne King). Alice, while waiting for the police to arrive, takes a canoe out to the lake where she is dragged down by a deformed but very much alive Jason. A final scene in a hospital indicates that Jason's re-animated corpse still lives in the lake. Kevin Bacon co-stars as an ill-fated counselor.

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
In the second film, it is retroactively revealed that Jason has actually been living as a hermit in the woods next to the camp for several decades. Having watched his mother's demise from afar, Jason tracks down and kills the heroine of the first film and resumes his mother's work, hacking and slashing through numerous other victims at the nearby camp.

Friday the 13th Part 3 3D (1982)
In the third installment (filmed in 3-D), Jason acquired his trademark hockey mask. In this entry, Jason kills a group of teenagers and a motorcycle gang who are spending time at a farmhouse near a lake. The only survivor, Chris Higgins, (Dana Kimmel) stops Jason by wounding him with an axe blow to the head. As a result, she has a psychotic break.


Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
The fourth installment continues Jason's slaughter before he encounters a young Tommy Jarvis, who is the one to end Jason's life. Part 4, simply titled Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter featured up and coming 1980s stars Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover and did extremely well at the box office.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
The fifth film picks up with a mentally troubled adult Tommy Jarvis at a halfway house when a series of familiar murders start up. However, the killer is not Jason, but a copycat avenging the death of his son. Fans were unhappy with the twist, and the producers decided to bring Jason back in the next film.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
The sixth entry in the series made this clear in its title: Jason Lives. However, since Jason had been supposedly rotting through the years since Part 4, writer and director Tom McLoughlin brought back the monster in a classic Frankenstein approach. Seemingly ignoring the events of the previous film, Jason Lives opens with Tommy digging up Jason's corpse so he could destroy it. When the body is unearthed, Tommy is filled with rage and pulls off part of a nearby fence and stabs the body multiple times, leaving the pole erect in Jason's chest, only to have the pole struck by lightning, bringing Jason back to life. From here on, Jason is now a zombie (though many fans argue that Jason, after his "death" at Camp Crystal Lake, was never human to begin with). The film's use of humor made it slightly more popular with critics and many fans consider it the best in the series. Alice Cooper performs three songs for the movie.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
In this seventh outing in the Friday the 13th series, a telekinetic girl revives Jason again from the bottom of the lake where Tommy had left him imprisoned. The film, which has been dubbed "Jason Vs. Carrie" or "Carrie goes Camping" by fans, featured the first appearance of Kane Hodder as Jason. Hodder would continue to play Jason in all the following entries in the series until Freddy vs. Jason, and would become the most well known of the actors who have played Jason over the years.


Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Takes Manhattan, the eighth film in the series, picks up sometime after the end of the previous film, where Jason is resurrected again, this time by an underwater power cable which gets snagged by a boat anchor. From there he boards the cruise ship Lazarus where he stays for most of the film, slashing its teenaged passengers who are aboard the vessel for their post-graduation senior class trip. Also aboard the ship is the heroine Renne, who is a hydrophobe planning to face her fears on the cruise. After Jason kills the ship's captain, the teenagers make a failed attempt to search for and kill him. This results in a fire inside the Lazarus, leaving Renne, her boyfriend, her uncle, a teacher, and the school athlete out in the middle of the Atlantic. With luck on their side, they all reach Manhattan. Jason finally catches up with the others, and kills the athlete in a boxing match on the city rooftops by taking a furious swipe at his head, resulting in his decapitation. In a later car crash, Renne finally remembers when she became afraid of the water (her uncle tried to teach her how to swim by shoving her into Crystal Lake, where a deformed young Jason tries to pull her down). Jason chases Renne throughout New York, leading them to the sewers, where Jason is drowned by toxic waste. Despite the title, only the last third of the film actually takes place in Manhattan, and the majority of those sequences were filmed in Vancouver. The few brief scenes in Times Square are the only scenes actually filmed in New York.

New Line Cinema buys the franchise
In 1991, New Line Cinema obtained the rights to the "Jason Voorhees" character hoping to make one final attempt at cashing in on the movie with 1993's Jason Goes to Hell. New Line has since obtained the rights to the title "Friday the 13th" but has chosen not to use it; on its 2004 boxset, Paramount had to credit New Line for use of the name.


Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday kills Jason off, and he instead possesses others to continue his rampage. While the film (which only featured Jason in the opening sequence and climactic final fight to the death) is often derided by fans, the final scene of Freddy Krueger's arm grabbing Jason's discarded hockey mask created a great deal of hype towards the possibility of a crossover between the characters.

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