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

[Syaoran Li]

So, who else here is a fan of Friday the 13th and the slasher icon Jason Voorhees? I know I am, and so is @horrorfan89

I'll admit, I'm a fan of the movies. I even liked Jason Goes To Hell for doing something unique and Jason X for being a self-parody as I'm a sucker for stuff like that (same reason why I liked Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare and Gremlins 2)

My favorite ones would have to be Part VI, with Part IV in second place and Part IX tied with Part III for a very close third.

Least favorite is the remake, hands down. Freddy vs. Jason wasn't that good either, although the concept was interesting despite its botched execution.

Part VI also gave us the really awesome Alice Cooper song...

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I remember watching the series on a little portable TV when I was a kid. It was a fun show from what I remember. I like a lot of the early movies. If I recall they created the Is the killer here???? HE IS GOING TO BE THERE!!!! Oh good he is not there! OH SHIT HE WAS THERE ALL THE TIME!?!?!?!!?!

It was a good time in movies. Also we got to see Kevin Bacon get impaled so...

Edit to add the glory:

 

[Twinkie]

I feel the same way, 6 is my favorite (probably most people's favorite) and I like 3 and 4 a lot too. I dunno which one I like the least. I tend to not rewarch the ones i didn't like so it's hard to remember. Pretty sure I hated 5.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I watched the first four movies for the first time last year. I really enjoyed them, and I was surprised at how atmospheric they can be when they aren't going for gratuity. As someone who goes camping a lot, the setting really stuck with me, because it really emphasizes how isolated you can be even at populated campgrounds, and that you aren't always aware of what's lurking in the trees.

These movies aren't high art or anything, but they aren't trying to be. They know exactly what they want to be; fun little slashers where you see stupid teenagers get carved up in increasingly ridiculous ways, and sometimes that's all I need. It's also fun watching them because Friday the 13th arguably codified a lot of slasher tropes, like how the teenagers that have sex or do drugs end up getting killed. It's amusing how much Jason hates sex. My two personal favorite moments were from II and IV: in II, a couple literally just finish and then Jason appears the fuck out of nowhere and skewers them both with a spear, and in IV the simple act of two employees getting it on is enough to resurrect Jason to continue his murder spree.

Friday the 13th perhaps isn't as good as Halloween or Texas Chain Saw Massacre; both of those movies have a much stronger sense of atmosphere and dread and are way better put together. However, Friday the 13th is certainly more fun to watch.

I need to watch the rest of the movies.

 

[cypocryphy]

I love 2,3, and 4 the best. I even like the 2009 movie.

 

[Scratch This Nut]

All I know is that in Jason X they were all on a space ship and one girl was twisting her professor’s nipples with gynecological clamps and when he came he screamed “you passed!”

I think that’s all I need to know, really.

 

[Red Hood]

I like 3 the best. First hockey mask Jason, wacky disco theme, and the final girl was pretty cute.

Never seen it in 3D though.

 

[Anja Din]

Why did I think this was about the cursed antique shop Friday the 13th series and not fucking jason

 

[Idiotron]

While none of them is as good as the original Halloween, it's much better as a franchise.

Controversial opinion - the first F13 movie is horrible, easily the worst of the series.
If I had to pick, I would say that the Tommy Jarvis trilogy are the best entries (that's 4,5 and 6, just in case you don't know).
I like 9 because I'm a fan of the movie The Hidden and X is very entertaining.
7, the one where Jason goes up against Carrie, would have been the best one but, for some dumb fucking reason, the studio heavily censored the movie and cut out all the gore.
You can see a kill ending before anything nasty happens.
The deleted scenes are available to watch but they're in what looks like 144p resolution and there's no sound.
That's all, there's no better footage, the studio got rid of the footage because they're geniuses.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

I remember the first time I ever saw Jason and Freddy was through that crossover movie.

 

[The Nothingness]

I even like the 2009 movie.

The unique killings in the remake balanced out the plot of Jason keeping a hostage because she looks like his mother in her youth and him having an underground system to sneak up on his victims (at least for me).

 

[A Grey Cat]

Fun fact you know jack chick? The guy behind the infamous chick tracts? Apparently the man was (probably) quite the fan of the series before he died. I recall reading an interview someone who got a rare chance to see the old coot himself in person at his private compound and one thing he immediately noticed was jack had a few vhs tapes of the first five movies on a shelf along with his usual batch of fundie literature and his own books.

I guess it kinda makes sense after all the rules of a slasher movie state sex+drugs=horrible death

 

[cypocryphy]

While none of them is as good as the original Halloween, it's much better as a franchise.

Controversial opinion - the first F13 movie is horrible, easily the worst of the series.
If I had to pick, I would say that the Tommy Jarvis trilogy are the best entries (that's 4,5 and 6, just in case you don't know).
I like 9 because I'm a fan of the movie The Hidden and X is very entertaining.
7, the one where Jason goes up against Carrie, would have been the best one but, for some dumb fucking reason, the studio heavily censored the movie and cut out all the gore.
You can see a kill ending before anything nasty happens.
The deleted scenes are available to watch but they're in what looks like 144p resolution and there's no sound.
That's all, there's no better footage, the studio got rid of the footage because they're geniuses.

Same, Halloween is quality over quantity for me. The original is my favorite horror movie, and I also love part 2 and the 2018 movie. But I could do without the rest mostly. A bad Friday is more fun than a bad Halloween.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

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.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

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.

Wasn't there a show like that but with Freddy Kruegar?

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Yes, but the Krueger one was really poorly done compared to the Friday the 13th show. The thing that pissed me off was that they cancelled the show really, jarringly abruptly, so it never really had any sort of satisfying conclusion or wrapped up any of the storylines.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

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.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I've always been staunchly on team Freddy, but I still enjoy the Friday movies. IV is probably my favorite, with III being a close second.

Never cared much for Jason vs. Freddy however. This was a movie I had been looking forward to since I was a kid and they teased you with it at the end of Jason Goes to Hell, and it just seemed too much like it was made for a more mainstream audience instead of a love letter to horror fans.

 

[Clones of Alex Jones]

The 3rd and 4th movies were the best in terms of kills and plot (I have a soft spot for Tommy). I actually saw a 3-D re-release of the 3rd one with some friends. The movies don't do it for me as a horror movies and I just ended up enjoying the kills and cheering for Jason.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

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.