Friday the 13th (film): Difference between revisions

[[File:Jasonf.jpg|frame|Over 150 kills and counting.]]

 

{{quote|''"There's a legend around here. A killer buried, but not dead. A curse on Crystal Lake, a death curse. Jason Voorhees' curse. They say he died as a boy, but he keeps coming back. Few have seen him and lived. Some have even tried to stop him.'' '''''No one can.'''"''|Opening narration of ''Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood''}}

{{quote|''"I told the others, [[Cassandra Truth|they didn't believe me]].'' '' You're all doomed. [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|You're all doomed!]]"''|'''Crazy Ralph''', ''Friday the 13th Part 2''}}

 

 

This [[Villain Based Franchise]] is mainly based around the hockey-masked wearing, machete-wielding, [[Psychopathic Manchild]] of a Zombie named Jason Voorhees. As a child, Jason allegedly drowned at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the teenage camp counselors. Decades later, the lake and surrounding campgrounds are rumored to be "cursed" and are the setting for a series of mass murders staged on or around Friday the 13th (Jason's birthday).

 

This reboot film was created with the intent to give Jason more personality and emphasizing a "menacing survivalist" nature. (Does that mean his kill count gets rebooted, too?) There are plans for a sequel to this film -- which would make it the thirteenth film in the franchise, if one counts ''Freddy vs. Jason'' as part of the franchise -- but said sequel is currently sitting in [[Development Hell]].

 

* [[3D Movie]]: ''Part III'', [[Third Is 3D|naturally]].

* [[Aborted Arc]]: ''Part V'''s [[Sequel Hook]].

* [[Eat the Evidence]]: When the protagonists of ''Part III'' spot two police cars (with blazing sirens and all) behind them, they promptly start eating their drug stash. After pulling over, the police just keep driving onward much to their dismay.

* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: Tina in ''Part VII'' uses her powers to force Jason into a puddle and then breaks one of the power cables to fry him.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Even though he is an undead killing machine, Jason still cares for his mother. He even had a shrine for her!

** It was going to be subverted in ''Jason X'' where he was supposed to kill the image of his mother in the holographic display showing Crystal Lake [[Complete Monster|just to show how evil he has become]]. [[What Could Have Been|The idea was scrapped.]]

* [[Flashback Echo]]: When Tommy sees Jason's corpse in his open grave in ''Part VI'', he flashbacks to the events of ''The Final Chapter'', grabs a pole and starts impaling Jason in rage.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: ''Part 2'''s opening shows Alive having nightmare's from the [[Stock Footage|first film's events]].

* [[Foot Focus]]: The opening of ''Part 2'', which starts with a kid jumping in rain puddles and the starts following Jason's footsteps as he closes in on Alice's apartment.

* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: Used on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEeNb5dO5g&feature=related teaser trailer] for ''Part VI''.

** Subverted with one particular character in ''Freddy vs. Jason'' who takes quite a bit of damage from Jason, before {{spoiler|meeting his doom at the hands of someone else}}

* [[Male Gaze]]: ''Part 2'' and ''The Final Chapter'' have pretty infamous examples.

* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Pamela Voorhees, a psychopathic example.}}

** {{spoiler|Also the most plausible explanation for the otherwise more improbable feats seen in ''Part 1'', such as arrowing a grown man to a door a good six inches off the ground, and hurling a body through a window.}}

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: And how.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: What the hell did Jason do to Paula in ''Part VI'' that would leave an ''entire'' room covered in blood?

* [[Numbered Sequels]]: Parts ''II'' to ''III'' and ''V'' to ''VIII''.

* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: Parts ''IV'' to ''VIII'' have the subtitles ''The Final Chapter'', ''A New Beginning'', ''Jason Lives'', ''The New Blood'' and ''Jason Takes Manhattan''. Sequels after ''Part VIII'' [[Stopped Numbering Sequels|dropped]] the ''Friday the 13th'' moniker and were called ''[[Character Title|Jason Something]]'' for a while until the remake restored the original title.

* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: {{spoiler|''Part V''}}

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Reggie in ''Part V''.

* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: Combined with [[Lightning Reveal]] in ''The Final Chapter'', when Jason kills Terri.

** Sanitation worker's death in ''Part VIII''.

 

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