- Friday the 13th was first released in 1980 and then remade and released again in 2009
- It is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comin books and various merchandise
- It mainly focuses on a fictional character of Jason Vorhees, who died by drowning at camp crystal lake due to the negligence of the teenage counselors
- There are a number of different sequels and Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings
- The success the success led Paramount pictures to purchase the full rights to the Friday the 13th franchise.
- Franchise was sold to new line cinema, this is when the crossover of Freddy vs Jason came about.
Summary of the film and its sequels:
Friday the 13th (1980): Jason's mother doesn't give permission to the counseller to reopen the lake where her son drowned. This then leads to the killing of his mother by counsellor Alice kills who murders her with a machete. Entrepreneur Steve Christie (Peter Brouwer) re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been cursed by murders and bad luck. The young and nubile counselors all begin to die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer during a rainstorm which isolates the camp.
Friday the 13th part 2 (1981): Two months after the events of the original Friday the 13th, Alice meets a grisly end in her city apartment. Five years later, a new group of co-eds converges near Camp Crystal Lake, scene of the original massacre and the drowning of Jason Vorhees that preceded it. Jason seems to be alive and his first act of violence is to kill the counsellor who killed his mother as revenege. The ending of the film shows Jason left for dead with a knife through his shoulder.
Friday the 13th part 3 (1982): Immediately after his mysterious escape at the end of Friday the 13th part 2, Jason returns to crystal lake once again, this time to terrify rich girl Chris and her band of summer-cottage guests. Jason finds a hockey mask which he uses to hide his identity and to disguise himself. He waits in the barn for anyone to dares to enter it, killing all the guests at the cottage. However Chris using an axe as a weapon is convinced that Jason is dead once again.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984): Thought to be killed by the sole survivor of the last Crystal Lake Massacre, Jason kills his way back to the lake to once again murder its inhabitants. Chris confirms that Jason is dead, his body is then removed and taken to the Wessex County Morgue. Mysteriously he comes back to life carrying out a few killings and making his way back to the famous set of 'Crystal lake'. Six teenagers rent a cabin next to the Jarvis' in Crystal Lake, which Jason soon finds his way to eliminate all who trespasses his way. Leaving two survivors, a girl and her little brother, Tommy Jarvis.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985): Tommy Jarvis, one of the survivors from the previous movie is moved into a home for mentally disturbed children as he is haunted by Jason coming back to life. Tommy witnesses a murder by Vic, which convicts Vic to put him behind bars, however the murders continue to take place.
Friday the 13Th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986): The name of crystal lake has changed to camp forest green. This movie see's the return of the relentless killer Jason Voorhees, this time as a supernatural zombie. Tommy Jarvis accidentally resurrects Jason when he impales the killer's corpse with a metal pole during a lightning storm, numerous murders follow. However Jason is still left to die.
Friday the 13Th Part VII: The New Blood (1988): Jason is released from his watery grave by a telekinetic girl. The teenage residents of Crystal Lake have something more to fear than Tina's powers as she accidentally frees Jason Voorhees from his watery grave. And Jason's really in the mood for a good ol' teenage massacre.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989): Jason is once again, brought back to life from his grave in the lake via an underwater electrical cable. He ends up on a cruise with the class of a local high school killing everyone on it apart from a school group, who head out to manhattan. long battle with Jason ensues until Jason is washed away in the New York sewers by a midnight flooding of toxic waste.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993): Jason is again bought back to life but is now being hunted down by the FBI. He possess the body of a medical coroner to help him carry out his deadily attacks. However in this film Jason is killed by his own neice.
Jason X (2002): Finally captured in the year 2008, Jason is held inside a government research facility whose scientists try to answer the question that keeps eluding them. His body freezes over and is then later discoveed by a group of teenagers who decide to bring the masked character home. The kids end up re-animating Jason using anotechnology unaware that it is enough to resuscitate Jason and reawaken him.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003): The two biggest icons of the slasher genre finally meet in Freddy Vs. Jason, it is in hell that these two first meet. Freddy resurrects him and commands him to start terrorizing Springwood, hoping to instill enough fear that the name Freddy Krueger gets out again so that the ensuing panic makes Freddy strong enough to return a seventh time. Freddy soon finds out that Jason is taking over and killing all his victims, so he decides to come up with a plan to kill Jason. However a small group become aware of what is happening and decide to help Jason become victorious.
Friday the 13th (2009): This is the remake of the movie that was first released in 1980.
Overall as it can be seen from above, there have been a number of different changes that have occured, from the setting of the movies to the different weapons used to kill Jason. This reflects the change and development of the technology available to produce the films.
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