Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th (1980):
Mother angry with the fact her son drowned. Jason comes back alive (from hell) and begins his revengeful killing rampage with mother at the helm of the operation.
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981):
Jason is revealed to be alive, and fully grown. After killing the counselor who decapitated his mother, Jason returns to Crystal Lake to guard it from all intruders. Five years later, a group of teenagers arrive at Crystal Lake to set up a new camp, only for Jason to murder them, one by one.
Friday the 13th Part III (1982):
Jason finds his way to Higgins Haven, Chris's family land at Crystal Lake. At the same time, returns to the property with some friends. An unmasked and Jason kills anyone who wanders into the barn where he is hiding. Taking a hockey mask from a victim to hide his face, he leaves the barn to kill the rest of the group.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984):
Continues where Part III leaves off, with Jason found by the police and taken to the morgue at the Wessex County Medical Center. Once delivered, Jason, not dead, awakens and kills the coroner and a nurse, then makes his way back to Crystal Lake. A group of friends rent a house on Crystal Lake and fall victim to Jason's rampage.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985):
Tommy Jarvis was committed to a mental hospital after the events of The Final Chapter and has grown up constantly afraid that Jason will return. Jason's body was supposedly cremated after Tommy killed him. Roy Burns uses Jason's persona to become a copycat killer at the halfway home to which Tommy was moved.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986):
Begins with Tommy visiting Jason's grave after being released from a mental institution. It is revealed that Jason's body was never actually cremated, but buried in Forest Green cemetery (formerly Crystal Lake cemetery). Tommy inadvertently resurrects Jason via a piece of cemetery fence, which acts as a lightning rod.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988):
Begins an indeterminate amount of time after Jason Lives. Jason is resurrected again, this time by the telekinetic Tina Shepard, who was trying to resurrect her father. Jason once again begins killing those who occupy Crystal Lake.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989):
Sees Jason return from the lake, brought back to life via an underwater electrical cable. He follows a group of students on their senior class trip to Manhattan. Upon reaching Manhattan, Jason kills the rest of the survivors, with the exception of Rennie and Sean.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993):
Jason, through unexplained resurrection, returns to Crystal Lake, where he is being hunted by the FBI. The FBI sets up a sting to kill Jason, which proves successful. Through possession, Jason manages to survive by passing his black heart from one being to the next. Though Jason is hardly seen throughout the film, it is learned that he has a sister and niece, and that he needs them to get his body back.
Jason X (2002):
Takes place in the future, where Jason has again been inexplicably resurrected. He is being held and experimented upon in a research facility. It is determined that he has regenerative capabilities and that cryogenic suspension is the only possible solution to stop him since he cannot be killed. Jason breaks out of captivity and manages to slice through the cryo-chamber, spilling the cryonics into the room and freezing the only other survivor, Rowan. Over four hundred years later, Jason's body is discovered by a team of students studying Earth. He proceeds to murder everyone aboard the spacecraft.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003):
Set in the contemporary period, Freddy Krueger has grown weak, as people in Springwood, his home, have suppressed their fear of him. Freddy, who is impersonating Pamela Voorhees tricks Jason into going to Springwood to cause panic and fear. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop killing. A battle ensues in both the dream-world and Crystal Lake.
The new Friday the 13th was released in 2009:
This film starts the continuity fresh, acting as a re-make of the original film. In this film, after witnessing his mother being beheaded, Jason follows in her footsteps and begins killing anyone who comes to Crystal Lake. Almost thirty years later, Jason kidnaps a young woman who reminds him of his mother. Six weeks after her disappearance, her brother Clay Miller comes looking for her.

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