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Friday the 13th is a 1980 slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, admittedly made to cash in on the success of Halloween, the film's theme was to take "mom and apple pie and turn it on its head." It became one of the most popular slasher films in history and spawned a long series of sequels. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
The slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror genre. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Michael Myers, unstoppable psycho-killer The Halloween films are a series of horror movies, of which the first film is considered one of the most important and influential of the genre. ...
The slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror genre. ...
As of 2004 there have been eleven films in the franchise and all of them involve the character of Jason Voorhees, either as the near-unstoppable killer who racks up most of the movie's body count, or as an inspiration or motivation to another killer. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th films. ...
After the original film, the franchise was taken up by Frank Mancuso Jr. during its time with Paramount. When it was sold to New Line Cinema, Cunningham came back to take up Mancuso's role of overseeing the franchise. Victor Miller, however, has not returned and claims to have never seen any of the sequels because he does not like the fact that Jason, who was essentially the victim in the original, has become the killer/villain of the series. The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 1995. ...
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Plot Summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The first trilogy plus the "Final Chapter" In the first movie, a group of teenagers return to a summer camp, Camp Crystal Lake, to prepare it for reopening. Many years earlier, a young boy named Jason Voorhees had drowned at the camp, and shortly thereafter, the two counselors responsible were murdered by an unknown assailant, after which the camp was closed. One by one, the new counsellors are brutally murdered, it transpires, by Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees. A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ...
Summer camp, principally a North American phenomenon, is a common destination for children and teenagers during the summer months. ...
A Counselor is a general definition for a person who advises. ...
Pamela Voorhees is the mother of the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. ...
Part 2 - Main article: Friday the 13th Part 2
In the second film, it's retroactively revealed that Jason did not drown in the lake and had been living as a hermit in the woods next to the camp for the last couple of decades. Having watched his mother's death from afar Jason tracks down and kills the survivor of the first film and resumes his mother's work, hacking and slashing through numerous other victims at the camp in the traditional first-person POV that was common in the slasher genre of the time. When he is finally seen, Jason is portrayed as a red-headed hillbilly who wears a white sack over his head to disguise his deformed face. The film, along with another Paramount slasher released at the time called My Bloody Valentine, both made news when they were rated X by the MPAA. As a result, most of the film's murder sequences were cut by the studio, including a lurid murder sequence where a couple are impaled while in the process of making love. Friday the 13th Part 2 is the first sequel to the Friday the 13th movie. ...
Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to adding new information to historical material, or deliberately changing previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. ...
X-rated, X certificate, X classification or similar terms are labels for movies implying strong adult content, typically pornography or violence. ...
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...
Part 3 In the third installment (filmed in 3-D), Jason acquired his trademark hockey mask and found himself slaying a group of hippies and bikers who decide to come around a lakeside resort. The film's ending would be the subject of much controversy though, as the horror movie magazine Fangoria published photographs of the film's ending, which had Jason triumphantly killing all of his victims in a twist ending. Because of this, a new ending was quickly filmed that homaged the ending of the first film with the surviving girl dreaming that Jason's mother jumped out of the lake so as to drag her out of her canoe and drown her. For 3D computer graphics and related software, see 3D computer graphics. ...
Fangoria is a nationally-distributed US film fan magazine specializing in the genres of horror, psycho and exploitation films, in regular publication since 1979. ...
The Final Chapter 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 80s stars Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover and did extremely well at the box office--so well that it immediately caused Paramount to go back on their plan to have the film serve as the ending to the Friday the 13th franchise. Tommy Jarvis is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th film series. ...
// Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
Corey Feldman (4th from the left) with the Goonies Cast 2004 Reunion Corey Feldman (born July 16, 1971 in Chatsworth, California) was a popular child actor in the 1980s. ...
Crispin Glover as Willard Stiles Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is a multifaceted American artist. ...
The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ...
A New Beginning The fifth film picks up with a mentally troubled adult Tommy at a halfway house when a series of familiar murders start up. However, the killer turns out not to be Jason, but a copycat avenging the death of his son. Fans were not happy about the false Jason, and the reported approach to continue the series in this way was dropped and the producers realized that they had to bring the real Jason back. The term copycat (also written as copy-cat or copy cat) refers to the tendency of humans to duplicate the behavior of others, as expressed in the saying, monkey see, monkey do. ...
Jason Lives - Main article: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
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, only to have the body struck by lightning, which brings Jason back to life. From here on, Jason is now a zombie (though many fans argue that Jason was never completely human in the previous films). The film's use of humour made it slightly more popular with stuffy critics and many fans consider it the best in the series. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ...
An artistic interpretation of a zombie A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. ...
The New Blood In Part 7, a telekinetic girl revives him again from the bottom of the lake where Tommy had left him imprisoned. The film, which has been dubbed "Jason Vs. Carrie" by fans, featured the first appearance of Kane Hodder as Jason. Hodder, who would resume playing Jason consecutively in Part 8, Jason Goes To Hell, and Jason X, would become the most well known of the numerous actors who have played Jason over the years. In the eyes of many fans of the franchise, Hodder's version of Jason is the definitive characterization. Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ...
Kane Warren Hodder (Born: April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California, USA) is an American actor and stuntman. ...
Friday the 13th Part 7 also gained infamy due to the numerous edits ordered by the MPAA regarding the film's graphic murder sequences. Also fueling the fire of controversy was that the film originally was pitched as a "Jason vs Freddy Krueger" film but neither Paramount or New Line Cinema could come to an agreement over doing the film at the time.
Jason Takes Manhattan Jason Takes Manhattan picks up sometime after his questionable defeat at the end of the previous film, where Jason is resurrected again, this time by a cable tow. From there he boards upon the cleverly named cruise ship Lazarus where he stays for most of the film. Despite the title, only a third of the film actually takes place in New York. [Interesting fact: The man that Jason tosses in the diner is Ken Kirzinger, who would later go on to play Jason in Freddy Vs. Jason.] Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ...
Resurrection of Lazarus by Juan de Flandes, around 1500. ...
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New Line Cinema purchases the franchise In the early 1990s, New Line Cinema acquired the rights to the Friday the 13th franchise and quickly rushed out plans to revive Jason Voorhees. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday controversially opted to reinvent Jason, taking him from a hockey-mask-wearing mass murderer to a wormlike demon who could possess people. While the film (which only featured the hockey-masked Jason in the opening sequence and in the film's final fight sequence) is largely forgettable, the film's cameo appearance of Freddy Krueger's glove pulling the hockey mask off Jason's head into the ground created a great deal of hype towards the possibility of a crossover between the two slasher giants. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
The Road to Freddy vs. Jason The road to this crossover was filled with problems. The biggest was the numerous scripts which sought to come up with a logical way to have these two monsters meet. Several of the scripts that were written featured Freddy Krueger retroactively inserted into the origin of Jason, including scenarios where Jason was molested as a child by Freddy, who then "drowned" Jason to keep him from telling the authorities. Other scripts featured Jason as the hero of the film, recasting Jason as a tragic figure instead of the monstrous killing machine that he is associated as being.
Ultimately two scripts were written for the film. The first one had Jason being raised from the dead by a teenage girl using the heart of her dead boyfriend, to save her sister from a cult of psychotic teenagers who worshipped Freddy Krueger and were seeking to raise him from hell via a ritual sacrifice. The second film featured the main male and female leads from Jason Goes to Hell and the "Alice" character from A Nightmare on Elm Street Parts 4 and 5 teaming up on the eve of the year 2000 to rescue their kids from Freddy and Jason, who seek to kill the children so as to bring Satan (who is revealed to be Jason's father) to Earth.
The second script (which involved Satan) was deemed unfilmable due to costs and the first script was greenlighted (and underwent several additional rewrites) but ultimately was abandoned due to the massacre at Columbine High School, which made the film's main plot point about a murderous teenage cult be considered too controversial in the wake of the school shooting. Meanwhile, Sean Cunningham was tired of waiting on the series to stand still, so he ordered a film to be made in the meantime. The idea was developed to set it in the future so as not to hamper the continuity of Freddy vs. Jason. When it was proposed that Jason being alive in the future would reveal who won, Jason X writer Todd Farmer claimed "There are three things in life that are constant: death, taxes, and Freddy and Jason will always come back." In Western culture, skeletons are often the symbol of death. ...
A tax is a compulsory fee paid by individuals or businesses to a state, or to functional equivalents of a state, including tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements. ...
Jason X - Main article: Jason X
Taking place both in the future and in space, Jason X followed the cryogenically frozen Jason being thawed out in the ship Grendel where he wakes to draw blood. The film went further by climaxing with Jason being turned into what has been dubbed "Uber-Jason" - a part cyborg/metallic combination and fairly indestructible (well, more so than he was before). Jason X is the Tenth film in the Friday the 13th series starring Kane Hodder as the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. ...
Cryopreservation, also cryogenically freeze, is a process where cells or whole tissues are preserved by cooling to low sub-zero temperatures, such as (typically) -80°C or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen). ...
Grendel is a monster in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, feared by all save Beowulf himself. ...
The film was put on the shelf for over a year due to studio politics, as many at New Line felt that the film would flop at the box office and potentially hurt the box office chances of Freddy Vs Jason. Ultimately the film was released and while it did not do well, gained favorable reviews. Helping the film gain a respectable cult status was the fact that the film featured actresses Lisa Ryder and Lexa Doig. During the time in which the film sat on the studio shelf, the two actresses were cast in the syndicated sci-fi series Andromeda in roles that were opposite of the roles that the actresses played in Jason X. Lisa Ryder (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actress best known as Beka Valentine on the science fiction television series Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda. ...
Lexa Doig as Rommie on Andromeda. ...
Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda is a science fiction television series, a posthumous creation of Gene Roddenberry. ...
Freddy vs. Jason - Main article: Freddy vs. Jason
 Movie poster for Freddy vs. Jason (2003) Two years later Freddy vs. Jason was finally released. Living out his killings in Hell, Jason "wakes up" in order to kill the children on Elm Street for his mother, who is actually Freddy Krueger needing the large lug to spread fear so that he can regain his powers lost due to a new drug the children are taking. But Jason won't stop killing Freddy's "children," and the two finally duke it out, ending the film with a fairly ambiguous image. Movie poster for Freddy vs. ...
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Further films? The film's success has been the conductor for a possible sequel. As of now, rumours have circulated about the character of Ash joining the fray (due to the Necronomicon and dagger from The Evil Dead trilogy making an appearance in Jason Goes to Hell), but Sam Raimi has denied this, and the film seems to be set as a direct sequel with no further monster team-ups. Reports in March 2005 suggested that Quentin Tarantino was in talks to direct a twelfth "Jason" film. Tarantino later denied the rumors. Hail to the king, baby! Ashley J. Ash Williams is the main character in the Evil Dead franchise, played by actor Bruce Campbell. ...
The Necronomicon (Greek: ÎεκÏονομικόν) is a fictional book of magic, invented by H. P. Lovecraft and frequently featured in his Cthulhu mythos tales. ...
Film poster The Evil Dead The Evil Dead (AKA The Book Of The Dead, Sam Raimis The Evil Dead, or The Evil Dead, the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror) is a 1981 horror film directed and written by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell. ...
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Actors who appeared in the series before going on to bigger roles include Kevin Bacon, Steven Culp, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Kelly Hu, Allison Smith, and Miguel A. Núñez Jr.. Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film actor who has starred in Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among others. ...
Steven Culp as Jeff Haffley on NBCs The West Wing. ...
Corey Feldman (4th from the left) with the Goonies Cast 2004 Reunion Corey Feldman (born July 16, 1971 in Chatsworth, California) was a popular child actor in the 1980s. ...
Crispin Glover as Willard Stiles Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is a multifaceted American artist. ...
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The film series - Friday the 13th (1980) US Gross - $39,754,601
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) $21,722,000
- Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) $33,985,198
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) $32,600,000
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) $21,930,000
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) $19,472,057
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) $19,170,001
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) $14,335,525
- Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)* $15,572,267
- Jason X (2002) $12,610,731 (Budget of $11,000,000)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003) $82,490,748, WW Gross - $114,190,748 (Budget of $25,000,000)
- 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 also owns the title "Friday the 13th" but has simply not chosen to utilize it; on its 2004 boxset, Paramount had to credit New Line for use of the name.
Friday the 13th Part 2 is the first sequel to the Friday the 13th movie. ...
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Jason X is the Tenth film in the Friday the 13th series starring Kane Hodder as the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. ...
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See also Friday the 13th: The Series was a television series that ran for three seasons, from September 1987 to May of 1990. ...
A screen capture of Friday the 13th for the NES. Friday the 13th was a game released by LJN in April 1987 for the Nintendo Entertainment System based on the popular slasher film series of the same name. ...
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