Friday the 13th (the original - 1980) - The Original one that I hope everyone has seen. Sets up the stage for the story of how Jason drowned while at camp while all of the camp counselors were off having sex. But the twist is that the person wearing the man boots and actually killing everyone is Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees. So no hockey mask in this one! It also was one of the early movies for Kevin Bacon. I don't make this stuff up - he's actually in there! He was 22 at the time. And yes, the only time you see Jason is in the classic final scene when he rises out of the water (but doesn't kill her.... yet)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) - Turns out Jason was alive the whole time and unfortunately watched Alice behead his mother in the first movie. Now Jason wants revenge and the first person he takes out? Of course it's Alice! 5 years later the camp next door is opened but Jason (wearing a potato sack, still no hockey mask) is the one doing all the killing.
Friday the 13th Part III (1982) - Originally in 3D in the theatre (with eyeballs popping out of the screen), this one is also one of the "shitty ones". Girl takes friends to the camp, they all die. Shocker! Jason has a mask though... and it's a hockey mask.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) - Yes, this is the one with the famous child actor Corey Feldman. And who saves everyone in the end? Yes, Corey Feldman. Young Tommy "kills" Jason with a Machete... something nobody else obviously thought of before.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) - Ok, this is the weirdest one in my opinion (and the worst). Tommy has grown up and goes to a halfway house for troubled teens. Everyone still ends up dead, but turns out it was the camp counselor dressed up with a hockey mask the whole time!! So no Jason. Then we see Tommy grab the hockey mask in the final scene and kill what we thought would be the only survivor! No Jason... lame! So now we're 2 of 5 that have "Jason" wearing a "hockey mask".
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) - should be titled "The last one was a mistake".... no flashback to the prior movie as was tradition in the prior flicks. They start out immediately with Jason getting dug up, then a rod is inserted inside just in time for lightning to bring Jason back to life!! And it's the real him this time! Rest of the movie's the same... lots of camp counselors are killed by Jason. Tommy drowns Jason at the end by sinking him to the bottom of Crystal Lake.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) - Of course now we get a telekinetic girl who accidentally killed her father at the same lake years before. Now she's conveniently a teenager brought back to cure her fears but the psychiatrist is more about exploiting her abilities to move things. This theory goes wrong and instead of bringing her dad back to life as she was hoping, it's Jason. Jason kills lots of other people, but Tina's dad mysteriously helps at the end to take Jason back under water. Note that the final 15 minutes are of Jason without a mask at all.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) - I definitely did not see this one as a kid... pretty horrific but a teenage boat trip to NYC accidentally picks up Jason who of course kills everyone aboard. But he accidentally makes it to Manhattan where he starts going crazy, till some acid from the sewer gets a hold of him and turns him back to the little Jason, pre-drowning. Then it ends.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) - this one is horrible.... Jason turns into this black blob that goes from person to person and you cannot kill. The only one that can kill him is another Voorhees so of course a sister is found. She kills him (thankfully before he overtakes her body) and at the end we assume that Jason "goes to hell". No other references to a firey place as was inferred. Also, for some dumb reason we see Freddy Kruger's hand and scissor fingers come out of the ground to consume Jason.... or it could have been Edward Scissorhands, hard to distinguish between the two.
Jason X (2001) - aka Jason goes to Space. They're turning into Curious George titles. Next movie will be Jason and the man in the yellow hat!! This one's pretty dumb too (common theme in my endeavour) - Jason gets frozen and then unthawed while in space in the year 2455. Cyborg person beats him up, but then he of course wins that one too. Then he gets the silver mask and a new stronger body on accident. Go figure.
There is of course also the newer Jason vs. Freddy that I didn't like, but I won't cover that here. Next up for me is all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Followed by Halloween movies. There are 8 of them total (including the Freddy vs. Jason one). There is also a new one coming out in 2008 which is a "prequel"... similar to the new 007 movie and Batman Begins.
Song of the Day - While I type this on Tuesday night, The 40 Year Old Virgin is on in the background. My favorite part is the ending when he finally "experiences heaven" and immediately breaks out singing Aquarius from Hair! Too funny!
Video of the Day - I watched John Tucker Must Die which was a typical teenage flick, but not nearly as funny as Mean Girls. Luckily it was short so I didn't lose too much of my life watching it.
Webpage of the Day - Complete body count of the Friday the 13th series... pretty pathetic that someone actually has a webpage dedicated to the Jason movies, but then again, I wasted your entire morning with my version of the webpage!!!
2 comments:
I've only seen parts of the Friday the 13th movies, but now after reading your blog, I don't think I'll ever need to waste my time watching any more of them.
Hey Adam, remember back in highschool when we stayed up on Halloween one year and watched a bunch of those Halloween movies in a row, I think on the USA network? The movies were sort of boring all the way through until the very end when someone (Jason or whoever) would leap out of the water! Ah, the memories!
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