Friday the 13th Series - He's Back! He's the man behind the mask!

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The best Friday the 13th movie?

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Karl_der_Grosse dijo:
I liked the supposedly linked but actually completely unrelated TV series the best. The setup was that two of the main characters' uncle was a diabolist, and he had sold a bunch of devil-cursed items from his store to other people. So they had to go around and find the cursed stuff and bring it back. It was one of the first syndicated shows I remember really noticing.
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I liked that one, too. AFAIK Jason wasn’t supposed to tie in to its story
 
Fromtheblackdepths dijo:
Wasn't there a show like that but with Freddy Kruegar?
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At least Freddy was actually in his series from time to time and would occasionally act as a Crypt Keeper style show host. IIRC, the pilot episode was sort of a prequel of sorts to the first movie.

ISDwarnedus dijo:
I dunno. 1 or 4 are probably the best as actual horror films, but 6 is the one that meets people's expectations of Jason being a lovable pop culture figure who kills like 20 teenagers in every movie. I picked 6 but I could also go with any of the first 4.

Jason Takes Manhattan is underrated. People shit on it because maybe 2% of the film was actually filmed in New York, but it's still trashy fun and has some funny kills.

The worst of the 'traditional' entries for me is part 7. The MPAA butchered that one.
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Not gonna lie, I liked Jason Takes Manhattan (then again, I also liked Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X) despite the fact most of it takes place on a boat. The kills are pretty cool and the final scenes that were in New York perfectly captured the sleazy crime-ridden hellhole vibe NYC had in the 70's and 80's.

Between the part where Jason kills two cholos with a syringe and the part where he scares the punk gang in Times Square by lifting his mask was pretty awesome too.

I kind of have a theory on the ending of Part VIII.
The scene where Jason gets dissolved by the toxic sludge and transforms into a little boy is actually a hallucination that Rennie got from inhaling toxic fumes as she crawled back out of the sewers.

Jason's rampage through Manhattan in Part VIII is also what finally gets the attention of the Feds and begins the nationwide manhunt seen at the start of Jason Goes To Hell. Before it was local cops or maybe some state troopers at best who were looking into the case.
 
Having actually seen Part 3 in 3D (on the original print no less!), I have to say it's my favorite overall. F13 has always been my favorite franchise of the Big Four (F13, Halloween, Nightmare, Hellraiser) and I've met Kane Hodder a few times as well. He's very down to earth and passionate about playing Jason, I was surprised.

I even didn't mind the F13 remake in 2009 so much. It wasn't especially terrible, it was leagues better than the Nightmare remake (I shudder to acknowledge it even exists), and more enjoyable than Rob Zombie's white trash Michael Myers reboot as well. That being said, I'd be super leery of any new entry into the series given how politics infects literally everything these days, even horror movies.
 
I think I've said this before, but I love how unrepentant A New Beginning is in its mean-spiritedness. Every character is an asshole. Every character deserves what they got.



Roy did nothing wrong.
 
In Jason X, I lost my shit during the simulation scene where the two bimbos wanted to smoke pot and have premarital sex. Him clubbing one girl in a sleeping bag with the other in a sleeping bag was pure bliss. "Ow my spine!" And the android commending Jason on his skills was funny.

The entire series is a fun watch for slasher history. And, c'mon, you can't go into Halloween season without someone saying "ki ki ki ma ma ma..." to ruffle some feathers. Michael Myers is the better slasher monster, but the F13 music cue is leaps and bounds better.
 
Schmeckel dijo:
In Jason X, I lost my shit during the simulation scene where the two bimbos wanted to smoke pot and have premarital sex. Him clubbing one girl in a sleeping bag with the other in a sleeping bag was pure bliss. "Ow my spine!" And the android commending Jason on his skills was funny.

The entire series is a fun watch for slasher history. And, c'mon, you can't go into Halloween season without someone saying "ki ki ki ma ma ma..." to ruffle some feathers. Michael Myers is the better slasher monster, but the F13 music cue is leaps and bounds better.
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The sleeping bag kill was really the only good scene in Jason X.
 
Jason Goes To Hell had some nice, ridiculous death scenes too; I think either the cop melting into fleshy gunk after being un-possessed, or the one chick getting her head smushed in the car door. I'm easy to please.
 
I love these movies more than I should, I think the best ones are 4 and 6, with 4 being the better movie and 6 being the better Friday the 13th movie. Jason X is almost the perfect kind of trashy entertainment, you gotta love it.
 
I admire the boldness of having lightning bring Jason back to life. It's so many thousands of times more half-assed than having Jason turn up as an adult in Part 2. Part 5 tried to be clever and write around the fact that he was dead, and they gave up on that entirely. They didn't try to have it make sense at all, or explain it in any way, even though the series didn't have anything supernatural up to that point. And there wasn't even a good reason for Tommy to dig him up, and they don't really linger on the fact that it's all his fault he came back. And after that he's just a zombie and I guess he can teleport and the writers don't bother further than that. Maybe they tried to belatedly come up with something in Jason Goes to Hell, I can't even remember, but basically nobody cared and not even the writers knew what was supposed to be happening or could even remember if he drowned as a kid or what.

Gotta say I'm a little bothered that 2-4 take place consecutively and the date must be up to Monday the 16th or so by the end. YOU HAD ONE JOB.
 
Tor Lugosi dijo:
I agree that the 1st is the worst. Had the series ended there I doubt anyone would remember it; it'd be '80s slasher film #82937, alongside stuff like The Burning. It's pretty generic and bland.

The Final Chapter is my favorite overall, and includes my favorite 'unmasked' Jason look (designed by Tom Savini to actually look like an adult version of the Part I Jason). Ginny from Part II is my favorite final girl of the series. She's not the usual stick in the mud that most final girls are and she's actually intelligent and feels like she earns her win over Jason. I wish we would've gotten the original part III in some form, which was supposed to be about Jason tracking down Ginny.

And I like the remake, if only because the extended cut has a sex scene with the big boobed girl.
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Ginny is awesome and my favorite too. She has sex and drinks beer and lives, so much for the ""rules"". Her and Jason in his shack is my favorite scene in the whole series.
 
I finally watched X from start to finish as opposed to catching twenty minute chunks while I wait for something else to come on, and it actually was pretty enjoyable. It had some dumb parts but it pretty solidly delivered on about all you could hope for from "it's Jason but he's in space!"
 
so this thread wasn'r brought back in the best way but i just wanna say.



A while ago there was a rumor going around the series was going to be given the "all female reboot" treatment. A new film in the series was going to be about a group of women going on a women's retreat to crystal lake in the winter and then teaming up to defeat jason. Now since this was set in the winter not summer like the series tended to be. that meant no skinny dipping and no sex scenes...or at least no hetero ones or ones between two hot chicks. Think less wild things and more last of us 2.


I don't know if this movie is still happening if it ever was, considering the rights to the series are tangled up in a legal kerfuffle that's probably gonna last time Victor Miller and Sean S cunningham finally croak. so far nothing new can come out of the series until the legal despite over the rights and royalties to the series are settled.

But if they ever do get settled as a longtime fan of jason and his machette swinging butchery i really REALLY hope this new film doesn't get made.


anyway here's the misfits, take it away Jerry! (yes this is from the Jerry Only Era)

 
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