Friday the 13th (2009)

The movie starts off with the climax of the original first installment.

Jason X (2002)

GARBAGE! Slasher Franchise Month ranks among my worse ideas of all time. Thank God I'm done with this series. Yeah, yeah, I know. You all told me so!

Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

As predicted, I'm eager for this series to be over. It is possible to find a review here one day, but not likely.

Friday the 13th: Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

OMG, really?!

Friday the 13th: Part 7: The New Blood (1988)

It is possible to find a review here one day, but not likely.

Friday the 13th: Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)

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Friday the 13th: Part 5: A New Beginning (1985)

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Friday the 13th: Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984)

It is possible to find a review here one day, but not likely.

Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982)

It is possible to find a review here one day, but not likely. I don't even care that this is the movie Jason got his mask in.

Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

Part II sticks to the story of Jason as delivered in its predecessor and satisfies as an entertaining sequel. It follows the same basic format, but adds characters with even more personality and another round of kills.

I did not enjoy the fact that the first ten minutes are spent re-playing the last ten minutes of its predecessor. In fact, I felt insulted. I understand that in its day, the movie was being viewed a year later, but we honestly don't need that much footage to remember that Jason's mother was the killer and our heroine chopped her head off, leaving Jason an orphaned lake-thing. A minute's worth of flashbacks would've been sufficient, which leads me to believe that they needed to kill some running time (the movie still managed to be shorter than the first).

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th has a special place in my heart for being one of the first horror movies I ever watched. It was on TV over and over again during one of the October horror movie marathons, but, at nine years old, I only watched it once. Later in life, I caught bits and pieces of the Jason series, which rekindled my childhood fears, but I never felt prompted to actually sit down and watch them all. Recently, with the start of this blog and inspiration from others out there, my interest has been piqued. So, here are my thoughts on the movie that took me over a decade to get back to.