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Friday the 13th Part 2


Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut and the second installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. It is a direct sequel to "Friday the 13th" (1980), picking up five years after that film's conclusion, where a new murderer stalks and begins murdering the camp counselors at a nearby training camp in Crystal Lake. It stars Amy Steel as Ginny Field and both Steve Daskawisz and Warrington Gillette as Jason Voorhees. The film
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Friday the 13th Part III


Friday the 13th Part III (stylized onscreen as Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D) is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner and produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. It is the third installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series and stars Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Paul Kratka, Larry Zerner, and Tracie Savage. Set after the events of "Friday the 13th Part 2", the plot concerns a teenage girl and her friends on vacation at a house on Crystal Lake, where a wounded Jason
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter


Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Corey Feldman, Ted White, Kimberly Beck, and Crispin Glover. It is the fourth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Picking up immediately after the events of "Friday the 13th Part III", the story follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees brought to the morgue, where he spontaneously revives and escapes. He then returns to Crystal Lake to continue his killing
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood


Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American slasher film directed by John Carl Buechler and starring Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Blair, and Susan Blu. It is the seventh installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series, and the first film with Jason Voorhees portrayed by Kane Hodder, who would continue to portray the character in three subsequent installments. The film follows a psychokinetic teenage girl who inadvertently unleashes Jason from his grave in Crystal Lake, where she and her friends are staying. The film
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


version of "Friday the 13th" was released in a 4-disc DVD collection with the first three sequels. It was again included in two Blu-ray sets: "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection", released in 2013, and "Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection", in 2018. Contemporary scholars in film criticism, such as Tony Williams, have credited "Friday the 13th" for initiating the subgenre of the "stalker" or slasher film. Cultural critic Graham Thompson also considers the film as a
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Friday the 13th Part 2


also features the return of Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer and Walt Gorney to the series, who respectively portrayed Alice Hardy, Pamela Voorhees, and Crazy Ralph in the prior installment. Originally, "Friday the 13th Part 2" was not intended to be a direct sequel but rather part of an anthology series of films based on the Friday the 13th superstition; however, after the popularity of the original film's surprise ending where Jason Voorhees attacks the heroine Alice, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and the mythology surrounding Camp
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


trailer was released along with a theatrical poster. On Friday, February 13, 2009, "Friday the 13th" was released in 3,105 theaters in North America. The 2009 film was given the widest release of any "Friday the 13th" film, including the crossover film with "A Nightmare on Elm Street". It was released in nearly three times as many theaters as the original 1980 film and exceeded "Freddy vs. Jason" by 91 theaters. "Friday the 13th" was also released in 2,100 theaters in 28
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musical score from the previous "Friday the 13th" films because the producers recognized its iconic status. "Friday the 13th" was released in theaters on Friday, February 13, 2009. It received mainly negative reviews and earned approximately on its opening night and $40 million during its opening weekend, when it broke two records; the highest-earning opening day for the film franchise and the highest-earning opening weekend for any horror film. , it is the second-highest grossing film in the "Friday the 13th
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as Jason is also nowhere to be seen. Following the success of "Friday the 13th" in 1980, Paramount Pictures began plans to make a sequel. First acquiring the worldwide distribution rights, Frank Mancuso, Sr. stated, "We wanted it to be an event, where teenagers would flock to the theaters on that Friday night to see the latest episode." The initial ideas for a sequel involved the "Friday the 13th" title being used for a series of films, released once a year, that would
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Alice (Friday the 13th)


Alice Hardy is a fictional character in the "Friday the 13th" series, created by Victor Miller. She first appears in Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th" (1980) as a camp counselor, with a brief appearance in the prologue of Steve Miner's 1981 sequel "Friday the 13th Part 2". Alice is portrayed by Adrienne King in both films. In addition to film, the character has a supporting role in the "Friday the 13th" expanded universe, appearing in the comic books and novels
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2005, FAB Press published their book containing interviews with the cast and crew of the "Friday the 13th" series of films. David Grove, a film journalist who has written for "Fangoria", "Cinefantastique", and various other British magazines detailing the creation of the "Friday the 13th" films, wrote the comprehensive book, "Making Friday the 13th: The Legend of Camp Blood". Grove interviewed over 100 "key personnel involved in making the films" to collect "detailed production histories of each of
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Ginny (Friday the 13th)


currently the last "Friday the 13th" film that Ginny appears in. Ginny makes her first literary appearance in the novelization of "Friday the 13th Part 3" (1982), which states that she is in "serious condition" and is suffering from "severe hysterical shock" because of her battle with Jason Voorhees. She subsequently appears as the lead protagonist in "Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel", a novelization of the 1981 film "Friday the 13th Part 2", which was released seven years
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Tommy Jarvis


it's finally over... Jason's home." as the two stare off at the lake where Jason remains trapped. Thom Mathews also reprised the role of Tommy in the unofficial "Friday the 13th" fan film "Never Hike Alone" released in 2017. In the novelization of "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives", it is revealed what happened between Tommy and Pam at the end of "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning"; the book explains that Pam had managed to return Tommy to his
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


where to go from there. The movie begins to sag in the middle and the expectations he has built up begin to sour a bit." Lou Cedrone of "The Baltimore Evening Sun" referred to the film as "a shamelessly bad film, but then Cunningham knows this. This is sad." Many critics compared the film unfavorably against John Carpenter's "Halloween", among them Marylynn Uricchio of the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette", who added: ""Friday the 13th" is minimal on plot,
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Jason Voorhees


the sequel to "Friday the 13th", including making the title part of a serialized film series, where each succeeding film would be its own story and not related to any previous film under the "Friday the 13th" moniker. It was Phil Scuderi, one of the producers for the original film, who suggested bringing Jason back for the sequel. The director Steve Miner felt it was the obvious direction to take the series, as he felt the audience wanted to know more about the child who attacked Alice in the
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""Friday the 13th" has not just been critically positioned as intellectually lacking, it has been othered and devalued in line with the conventional aesthetic norms of the academy and official film culture, said to lack originality and artfulness, to possess no nominated or recognized auteur, and to be grossly sensationalist in its focus on Tom Savini's gory special effects." The film was nominated in 2001 for AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills. In April 2018, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, where the film
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13th". "Friday the 13th" was released internationally, which was unusual for an independent film with, at the time, no well-recognized or bankable actors; aside from well-known television and movie actress Betsy Palmer. The film would take in approximately $20 million in international box office receipts. Not factoring in international sales, or the cross-over film with "A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Freddy Krueger, the original "Friday the 13th" is the highest-grossing film of the film
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


. Picking up after the events of the "Jason X" film, Jason is now on Earth 2 where a bioengineer, Kristen, attempts to subdue him in hopes that she can use his regenerative tissue to save her own life and the lives of those she loves. In February 2006, Avatar published their final "Friday the 13th" comic, a two-issue miniseries titled "Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X". The series was written and illustrated by Mike Wolfer. The story takes place after the
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning


. When Pam rushes in, Tommy appears from behind the door wearing Roy's hockey mask and wielding a kitchen knife. John Hock appeared as Jason Voorhees in the opening dream sequence because Morga was unavailable when the scene was shot. He also performed the stunt where Roy fell off the barn. "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" was cast under a fake title, "Repetition", and many of the actors in the film were not aware it was a "Friday the 13th" installment until after they were
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List of Friday the 13th characters


the "Friday the 13th" films. Jason Voorhees's hockey mask has become one of the most recognizable images in popular culture. Jeff is a character in "Friday the 13th Part 2" played by Bill Randolph. Jeff and girlfriend Sandra Dier (Marta Kober) visit Camp Crystal Lake in the Summer of 1984 on a counselor program. One night they go to the bedroom to have sex. Jason Vorhees enters the house and grabs a spear, he walks upstairs and enters the room where Jeff and Sandra are in bed
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning


Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (stylized onscreen as Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning) is a 1985 American slasher film directed by Danny Steinmann and starring Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, and Shavar Ross. It is the fifth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series, after "" (1984). Narratively, "A New Beginning" departs from the Camp Crystal Lake setting and Jason Voorhees-themed mystery of the previous four installments and instead acts as a psychological horror film set at
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original film "Friday the 13th", a performance where she was praised as one of the more "likeable" characters in the film. She also appeared in the soap opera "Another World" as recurring character Karen Campbell, and in two episodes of the 1972 TV series "Emergency!", although she was credited as "Laurie Brighton". Finally, she also had an uncredited appearance in the 1974 horror film "The House of Seven Corpses" as Debbie. After "Friday the 13th", Bartram directed
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." Dimare regards the film as a "cautionary tale that succeeds in warning against the sexual impropriety even as it fetishizes violent transgression." Film critic Timothy Shary notes in his book "Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen" (2012) that where "Halloween" introduced a "more subtle sexual curiosity within its morbid moral lesson," films such as "Friday the 13th" "capitali[zed] on the reactionary aspect of teen sexuality, slaughtering wholesale those youth who deigned to cross the threshold of sexual awareness."
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


) for the best 3-day weekend opening of any horror film. When comparing the 2009 film's opening weekend to that of its 1980 counterpart in adjusted 2009 US dollars, the original "Friday the 13th" film earned $17,251,975. Although the 2009 film made more money, when factoring in the number of theaters each film was released in, the 1980 film earned an average of $15,683 per theater, compared to the 2009 film's average of $13,066. "Friday the 13th" saw a significant drop in attendance in
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives


Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (stylized onscreen as Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI) is a 1986 American slasher film and the sixth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. It was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin. Although the original concept called for Tommy Jarvis, the protagonist of "" and "", to become the new villain, the poor fan reception of "A New Beginning" prompted the producers to bring back Jason Voorhees as the series' antagonist. In resurrecting
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Friday the 13th: The Series


away viewers and instead took the name "Friday the 13th" to deliberately draw in audiences. Despite this title, the series has no story connections to the film series of the same title, as Jason Voorhees does not make an appearance, nor does any character connected to the films. In the United Kingdom it was allegedly listed on TV schedules as "Friday's Curse" though when going to advertisement breaks on ITV it was titled "Friday the 13th: The Series". The series and the films have several cast
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Friday the 13th: The Series


Coven of Darkness"). His name, "Vendredi", is French for "Friday". "Friday the 13th: The Series" was created by Frank Mancuso, Jr. and Larry B. Williams originally under the title of "The 13th Hour"; the series ran for 71 episodes. Mancuso, Jr. never intended to link the television show directly to the "Friday the 13th" film series, but utilize "the idea of "Friday the 13th", which is that it symbolizes bad luck and curses"
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


the 1975 film "Jaws", where the shark is not seen for the majority of the film, but the motif created by John Williams cued the audience as to when the shark was present during scenes and unseen. While listening to a piece of Krzysztof Penderecki music, which contained a chorus with "striking pronunciations", Manfredini was inspired to recreate a similar sound for "Friday the 13th". He came up with the sound "ki ki ki, ma ma ma", based on the line "Kill her
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Friday the 13th Part 2


-ray sets: "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection", released in 2013, and "Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection", in 2018. In 1982, Gramavision Records released an LP album of selected pieces of Harry Manfredini's scores from the first three "Friday the 13th" films. On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Manfredini's scores from the first six films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. Waxworks Records released the
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film is a reboot and the twelfth installment of the "Friday the 13th" film series, which began in 1980. This film follows Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), who is captured by Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake. The 2009 film was originally conceived as an origin story, but the
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


markets outside North America. The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Apple TV on June 16, 2009. The DVD and Blu-ray releases contain the theatrical release and an extended cut of the film. The film was re-released on September 13, 2013 for "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection", a box set features of all twelve films in the franchise. On its opening day, "Friday the 13th" grossed $19,293,446, and immediately exceeded the individual box office grosses
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


was shot, held "Crystal Lake Tours," an event dedicated to the making of the film which brought attendees to nine of the filming locations on the property. The event was attended to actress King, who recounted the making of the film to fans. As of 2018, "Friday the 13th" has spawned ten sequels, including a crossover film with "A Nightmare on Elm Street" villain Freddy Krueger. "Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981) introduced Jason Voorhees, the son of Mrs. Voorhees,
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


characters on screen. Rob Nelson of "Variety" also praised Panabaker and Yoo's performances. In contrast to the film's detractors, "The New York Times's" Nathan Lee said "Friday the 13th" managed to "reboot the concept" of the original films with style. Lee said the film takes pleasure in killing off each of its characters, that there is a desire among cinemagoers for this type of material, and that "Friday the 13th" satisfies that desire. Adam Graham from "The Detroit News
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filmmakers made tweaks to provide freshness. Changes involved an addition to the title—as opposed to a number attached to the end—like "" and "", or filming the movie in 3-D, as Miner did for "Friday the 13th Part III" (1982). One major addition that would affect the entire film series was the addition of Jason's hockey mask in the third film; this mask would become one of the most recognizable images in popular culture. A reboot to "Friday the 13th" was
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


began plans to make a sequel and immediately acquired the worldwide distribution rights. According to Paramount Pictures' Chairman and CEO Frank Mancuso, Sr., "We wanted it to be an event, where teenagers would flock to the theaters on that Friday night to see the latest episode." Initial ideas for a sequel involved the "Friday the 13th" title being used for a series of discontinuous films, released once a year, and each would be a separate "scary movie" of its own right. Phil Scuderi—
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Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th


Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th is a 2000 American direct-to-video horror slasher parody film directed by John Blanchard. The film stars Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Tom Arnold, Coolio and Shirley Jones. Several mid and late 1990s teen horror films are parodied, as are the slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the "Scream" films (1996, 1997, and 2000), "Friday the 13th" (1980), "Halloween" (1978), "A
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million in both Italy and Germany. According to Paramount, this was the largest opening outside North America of any of the "Friday the 13th" films. The film finished its North American box office run with $65,002,019; coupled with its earnings of $27,688,218 outside North America, the film has accumulated $92,670,237 worldwide. The film earned $10,344,904 in domestic video sales. Based on 170 reviews collected by review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, "Friday the 13th" has a 25% approval rating from critics with an average
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


13th" was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously worked with filmmaker Wes Craven on the film "The Last House on the Left". Cunningham, inspired by John Carpenter's "Halloween", wanted "Friday the 13th" to be shocking, visually stunning and "[make] you jump out of your seat." Wanting to distance himself from "The Last House on the Left", Cunningham wanted "Friday the 13th" to be more of a "roller-coaster ride."
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Friday the 13th Part 2


Jason Voorhees and went with long red hair and a beard while following the facial deformities established in the original film in the make-up designed by Tom Savini for Jason as a child. Fullerton's look for the adult Jason was abandoned in the sequel, "Friday the 13th Part 3", despite the fact that the film took place the following day and was helmed by the same director, Steve Miner. Some fans have theorized that the sequence where we see Jason with a beard and long hair reflects a "dream
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


Krueger from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series. Under New Line Cinema, thirteen novellas and various comic book series featuring Jason were published. Although the films were not popular with critics, "Friday the 13th" is considered one of the most successful media franchises in America—not only for the success of the films, but also because of the extensive merchandising and repeated references to the series in popular culture. The franchise's popularity has generated a fanbase who have created their own "Friday the 13th" films
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


culture, that of Jason's hockey mask. Producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. eventually decided to kill Jason for good, after he experienced problems finding new films to produce that were more than just horror movies, because his name brought constant association to the "Friday the 13th" film series. Jason would not stay buried for long, as the success of "The Final Chapter" ensured another "Friday the 13th" film. Mancuso, Sr. stated, "Quite simply, the public still wanted to see these films.
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the first six films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. A bidding war over distribution rights to the film ensued in 1980 between Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and United Artists. Paramount executive Frank Mancuso, Sr. recalled: "The minute we saw "Friday the 13th", we knew we had a hit." Paramount ultimately purchased domestic distribution rights for "Friday the 13th" for $1.5 million. Based on the success of recently released horror films (such as "Halloween") and the
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Mrs. Voorhees saw it as a chance that what happened to her son could happen again. Her murders were against the counselors, because she saw them all as responsible for Jason's death. A number of scenes from the film were recreated in "Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale", a two-issue comic book prequel released by WildStorm in 2007. In 2016, the book "On Location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th" was released detailing the planning and filming of the movie. Film scholar
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Friday the 13th Part III


film's soundtrack, and according to Manfredini, became popular at disco and gay clubs at the time. Upon the release of the third film in 1982, Gramavision Records released a LP album of selected pieces of Manfredini's scores from the first three "Friday the 13th" films. On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Manfredini's scores from the first six films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. "Friday the 13th Part III" was released theatrically
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


project evolved into a re-imagining of the first four "Friday the 13th" films. The character Jason Voorhees was redesigned as a lean, quick killer with a backstory that allows the viewer to feel a little sympathy for him, but not enough that he would lose his menace. In keeping with the tone of the film, Jason's mask was recreated from a mold of the original mask used for "Part III"; though there were subtle changes. "Friday the 13th" includes some of Harry Manfredini's
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Ari Lehman


role of a child Jason Voorhees in "Friday the 13th", appearing in Pamela Voorhees's flashback and Alice Hardy's dream - the final scene of the film. Lehman also appears in archive footage, uncredited, in "Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981) and "" (1984). Since "Friday the 13th", Lehman has appeared in a number of independent films and short films. In 2004, Lehman formed his punk metal band whose name, First Jason, is based upon his role as
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


of John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978), wanted "Friday the 13th" to be shocking, visually stunning, and "[make] you jump out of your seat". Distancing himself from "The Last House on the Left", Cunningham wanted "Friday the 13th" to be more of a "roller coaster ride". The first film was meant to be "a real scary movie", and at the same time make audiences laugh. The concept for "Friday the 13th" began as
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and could not film his scenes immediately. As soon as Yoo was ready for filming, Nispel immediately hung him upside down from some rafters, exposing the staples over his surgical wound for the character's post-death shot. Fuller and Form said the casting process for "Friday the 13th" was more difficult than that for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" because thirteen young actors were involved in "Friday the 13th", as opposed to five in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The pair continually recast roles to find
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ranked seventh-highest earning of all horror remakes, and is the seventh-highest earning slasher film in unadjusted dollars. In addition to its North American box office gross, "Friday the 13th" earned over $9.5 million in foreign markets on its opening weekend. The film's biggest markets were the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Spain, and Germany. "Friday the 13th" took in approximately $1.7 million in both the United Kingdom and Russia, an estimated $1.1 million in Spain, and $1
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter


spree, targeting a family and a group of neighboring teenagers. Much like "Friday the 13th Part III", the film was originally supposed to be the final installment in the series. Mancuso Jr. wanted to conclude the series as he felt nobody respected him for his assisting work on "Friday the 13th" regardless of how much the films earned at the box office, as well as wanting to work on other projects. Paramount Pictures also supported the decision, as they were aware of the declining popularity of slasher films at
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series. To provide context with the box office gross of films in 2014, the cost of making and promoting "Friday the 13th"—which includes the $550,000 budget and the $1 million in advertisement—is approximately $4.5 million. With regard to the US box office gross, the film would have made $177.72 million in adjusted 2017 dollars. On July 13, 2007, "Friday the 13th" was screened for the first time on Blairstown's Main Street in the very theater which appears shortly after the opening credits.
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan


Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a 1989 American slasher film written and directed by Rob Hedden, and starring Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman, and Kane Hodder. It is the eighth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series and follows Jason Voorhees stalking a group of high school graduates on a ship en route to, and later in, New York City. It was the final film in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States until 2009, with
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its second weekend at the box office. On its second Friday, the film earned $2,802,977a decrease of 85.5% from its opening Friday. By the end of its second weekend, the film had earned $7,942,472a decrease of 80.4% from the previous weekend. As a result, the film went from first place to sixth in the weekend box office chart. By its third weekend, "Friday the 13th" had left the top ten, earning $3,689,156a 53.6% decrease from its second weekend. By the end of
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New Line and Crystal Lake Entertainmentthe latter run by "Friday the 13th" creator Sean S. Cunningham. Paramount executives gave Platinum Dunes producers a license to use anything from the original films, including the title. Paramount was given the rights to distribute the film internationally and New Line retained U.S. distribution rights. Fuller and Form said they did not want to make "Friday the 13th Part 11" or "12", but wanted to rework the mythology. They liked elements from the first four filmssuch as plot points and ways particular
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


but Manfredini contends that the final cut of "Freddy vs. Jason" was "just the same thing". The "Friday the 13th" films generally received negative reception from professional critics, in contrast to other slashers like "Halloween". Critics disliked how the series favored high body counts over plot and character development and how each film was almost indistinguishable from the last. Nevertheless, the films were a financial success, prompting Paramount to release more sequels contingent on the box office appeal. When comparing "Friday the 13th"
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives


The Man Behind the Mask)" had an accompanying music video, combining clips from the film with new footage featuring Cooper. It is not present on any home video release of the film, but may be viewed on YouTube. On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Manfredini's scores from the first six "Friday the 13th" films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" opened on August 1,
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's U.S. release. Scholar Richard Nowell has observed that the poster and marketing campaign presented "Friday the 13th" as a "light-hearted" and "youth-oriented" horror film in an attempt to draw interest from America's prime theater-going demographic of young adults and teenagers. Warner Bros. secured distribution rights to the film in international markets. "Friday the 13th" opened theatrically on May 9, 1980 across the United States, ultimately expanding its release to 1,127 theaters. It earned $5,816,321 in its opening
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)


Street" broke the record for midnight openings for a horror film that was previously held by the "Friday the 13th" remake in 2009 that grossed $1 million. Ultimately, the film finished its opening with $32,902,299, placing first for the weekend ahead of "How to Train Your Dragon" (6th week in release), "Date Night" (4th week in release), "The Back-up Plan" (2nd week in release), and "Furry Vengeance" (1st week in release)
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away from "the new world that we were trying to create". The decision to name the show "Friday the 13th" over the original title was made because Mancuso, Jr. believed a ""Friday the 13th"" moniker would better help to sell the show to networks. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "Friday the 13th: The Series" initially aired in first-run syndication in a late-night spot; the success of the series as a late-night show prompted some
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didn’t believe that it was a sustainable script, a sustainable series. It was a very good pilot, but not a sustainable series." Six of the 12 films have been adapted into novels—"Friday the 13th 1 – 3", "Jason Lives", "Jason X", and "Freddy vs. Jason"—with "Friday the 13th Part 3" being adapted twice. The first novel was Michael Avallone's 1982 adaptation of "Friday the 13th Part 3"; Avallone had previously adapted "Beneath the Planet of the Apes
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Friday the 13th Part III


entertainment-trade magazine "Variety" provided a general consensus stating, ""Friday the 13th" was dreadful and took in more than $17 million. "Friday the 13th Part 2" was just as bad and took in more than $10 million. "Friday the 13th Part 3" is terrible, too." The magazine added, "There are some dandy 3-D sequences, however, of a yo-yo going up and down and popcorn popping." Similarly, "TV Guide" awarded the film
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List of Friday the 13th characters


shoulder. One of the final scenes in the movie is of Ginny being carried away in a stretcher, crying out for Paul, whose fate is unknown. Ginny appears briefly in "Friday the 13th Part III", using footage from "Friday the 13th Part 2". She can be seen on a news report detailing the events of the last film. Ginny is referenced to in the novel "Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs", which states that her claims of finding Jason's shack in the woods went
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List of Friday the 13th characters


Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" leads up to this, although due to the negative reaction to that film, the idea was dropped. The producers of the 2009 "Friday the 13th" reboot considered using the Tommy character, but decided not to because they wanted to create their own mythology. Mezco Toyz has released a statuette of both Tommy and Jason, depicting the scene of the two grappling with each other underwater from "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives". Trey Leblanc is a character in the
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on their body. S. T. Karnick, editor of "American Culture", wrote an article for the "National Review" detailing the impact "Friday the 13th" has had on the slasher genre and noting that the reasons critics have deplored the films are the same reasons why the franchise has had such a strong influence. Karnick explained that "Friday the 13th" did not try and recreate the same "clever" film that John Carpenter made in 1978, but instead "[codified] the formula" of "Halloween
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Adrienne King


of the film's lead heroine, Alice Hardy, and he cast her in the film. Shot in New Jersey in the summer of 1979, "Friday the 13th" went on to become a massive box office success, grossing nearly $60 million worldwide. The following year, she reprised her role as Alice Hardy in the sequel "Friday the 13th Part 2", in which the character meets her demise, and starred in a Downy commercial. After the success of "Friday the 13th", King was pursued
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Alice (Friday the 13th)


, in a flashback depicting Jason's attack on her from the first film. The second issue of the comic miniseries "Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale" by Wildstorm also features a cameo appearance by Alice, depicting the scene from the first film when she first meets Mrs. Voorhees. In the original script for "Friday the 13th", Alice was written as a more flawed and less sympathetic character. In early drafts, she was having an affair with a married man on the West Coast, which was the reason
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mask, whereas in "Friday the 13th Part III" he obtains the mask off-screen and comes out of a barn already wearing it. Unlike both horror remakes, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003) and "The Amityville Horror" (2005)which were also produced by Bay, Form, and Fullerit was decided that "Friday the 13th" would not be a period piece. Form and Fuller said the film was not strictly a remake so there was no reason they could not set the story in the 2000s
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Tommy Jarvis


Tommy Jarvis is a fictional character in the "Friday the 13th" franchise, portrayed by Corey Feldman, John Shepherd and Thom Mathews. He appears in three of the twelve "Friday the 13th" films, making his first appearance in "". Tommy is the most prominent of three "Friday the 13th" protagonists, the others being Alice Hardy and Ginny Field, to appear in more than one film. Originally, the ending for "A New Beginning" intended to have Tommy Jarvis become the antagonist in subsequent sequels
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning


25, 2001. In 2009, Paramount reissued its "Friday the 13th" films on DVD in "Deluxe Editions," reissuing "A New Beginning" on June 16, 2009. This release featured several newly-commissioned bonus materials, including an audio commentary and interviews with the cast and crew. On September 13, 2013, Paramount and Warner Brothers co-released the "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection" Blu-ray box set, featuring each of the twelve films; this marked the first Blu-
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


events of the film "Jason X", where a salvage team discovers the spaceship Grendel and awakens a regenerated Jason Voorhees. The "original" Jason and Über-Jason, a version of Jason with mechanical limbs, are drawn into a battle to the death. In June 2006, a one-shot comic titled "Friday the 13th: Fearbook" was released, written by Mike Wolfer with art by Sebastian Fiumara. In the comic, Jason is captured and experimented upon by the Trent Organization. Jason escapes and seeks
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TNT (American TV network)


, such as "Friday the 13th Part 2" and "Wes Craven's New Nightmare". During the wraparound segments within each film, Briggs provided a running commentary, trivia, off-color jokes, and a drive-in total, as well as jokes at the expense of TNT's Standards & Practices department regarding the heavy censorship of the featured movies. This running joke culminated in a "Friday the 13th" all-night Halloween marathon in 1998, where it was implied that Ted Turner was out to kill
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Final girl


the film. Williams also observes that "" does not have a final girl, despite Trish Jarvis surviving at the end. Additionally, Williams notes that final girls often survive, but in the sequel they are either killed or institutionalized. A notable example is Alice Hardy who survives "Friday the 13th" (1980) only to be killed in the beginning of "Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981). Derek Soles argues that the tragic destiny of such final girls represents an expression of patriarchal society where capable,
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


the producers decided that "Friday the 13th" would not be an origin story, they said that they wanted to work out a logical origin story for Jason that would provide a sense of history as the film progressed. Form and Fuller explained that the audience gets to see how Jason attains his famous hockey mask, and is given a reason for why he puts it on. Jason would transition from wearing a bag over his head—similar to the one seen in "Friday the 13th Part 2"—to finding and wearing his hockey
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its box office run, "Friday the 13th" earned an estimated $65 million at the United States box office, but failed to regain a top ten spot after its third weekend. , the 2009 film is the fifth-highest earning President's Day weekend with $45,033,454. It is the eighth-highest grossing weekend in the month of February, and the eighth- highest-grossing weekend for the winter seasonthe period from the first day after the New Year weekend until the first Thursday of March. "Friday the 13th
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Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series" by Alyse Wax, a retrospective focusing on the 1987 television series, was released in October 2015 by BearManor Media. In December 2006, IGN ranked "Friday the 13th" seventh in the top 25 film franchises. Qualifications included: the franchise must have at least three films released before December 2006; the franchises must be either a commercial or artistic success; and the franchise must have had some form of impact on popular culture. Three senior editors, the
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


editor-in-chief, and IGN's entertainment editorial manager judged the various film franchises. In commenting on "Friday the 13th"s seventh-place ranking, the general consensus among the reviewers was that even though the "Halloween" franchise started the slasher genre, "Friday the 13th" became one of "the most influential franchises of the 1980s" and that its commercial success through 11 films, novelizations, comic books, and other collectables is proof of its legacy. ABC Online's Arts and Entertainment reporter, Gary Kemble
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood


Jason" in the audio commentary of the film from the series' DVD box set. The film is later mentioned in the novels "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis and "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. The Deluxe DVD Edition of Friday THE 13TH PART VII was released September 15th, 2009. This package included a ten-minute documentary "Mind Over Matter: The Truth About Telekinesis" (2009). In the original "Friday the 13th part VII", Jason met his match in
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


faultless movie macabre? No way." Scott Meslow of "The Week" reviewed the film in 2015, assessing its original critical reception in a contemporary context: "Before it became an absurdly prolific franchise, "Friday the 13th" was a cynical, one-off attempt to make a fast buck on a sleazy slasher movie that accidentally ended up spawning a decades-spanning, multimillion-dollar phenomenon ...   What's most striking about "Friday the 13th" is how little regard anyone but its fans seem to have for
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning


a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Harry Manfredini's scores from the first six "Friday the 13th" films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" opened on March 22, 1985, on 1,759 screens. The film debuted at number 1 on its opening weekend with a gross of $8,032,883, beating the teen sex comedy sequel "Porky's Revenge", the biopic "Mask", Berry Gordy's martial-arts action musical "The Last Dragon" and the
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13th" films. For their 2009 film, they immediately had the studio attain the licensing rights to the music, which was composed and originally performed by Harry Manfredini. They did not plan to use the score in its entirety, but they used Steve Jablonsky to compose a score that was reminiscent of Manfredini's and created the atmosphere for the 2009 film. Nispel contacted Jablonsky to score "Friday the 13th" after having worked with him on the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Nispel told Jablonsky he wanted him
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


the 11 films", not including interviews with other film professionals like Wes Craven. Grove's book also includes previously unseen production photos which were acquired from private collections. Eight months after the release of Grove's book, Titan Books, in association with Sparkplug Press, released a detailed history on the "Friday the 13th" series. Peter M. Bracke released "Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th" on October 24, 2005. The book chronicles the creation of the series up to the release of
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Friday the 13th (franchise)


busy with a Broadway production. Jack Tillar pieced together portions of the score from the first two films to fill the remaining time for "Part 3", while Michael Zagar composed an opening and closing theme. Manfredini and Zagar met at the latter's apartment, where Zagar rescored the original opening theme using a disco beat. Manfredini returned for "The Final Chapter", and although there were similar elements to the score, everything was newly recorded for the fourth "Friday the 13th". When he began work on the
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they made during filming. It also features interviews with journalists and other filmmakers who offer their opinion of the series. In September 2013, Farrands wrote and directed a second documentary film on the "Friday" franchise, "Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th", this time directly inspired by Bracke's book of the same name. This documentary discusses each of the twelve films, from the original to the 2009 remake, as well as the television series. It is narrated by Corey Feldman, and
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Elizabeth Kaitan


6" as Candy, and in the cult movie "Beretta's Island" (1994) as Linda. She made her final film appearance in 1999. In 2009 she appeared in 3 Friday the 13th related documentaries as herself: "His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th", "Makeover by Maddy: Need a Little Touch-Up Work My Ass" & "Jason's Destroyer: The Making of Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood". In 2013 she appeared in another Friday
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter


a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Manfredini's scores from the first six entries of the film series. The release was sold out in less than 24 hours of availability. The song "Love Is a Lie" by Lion is featured in the film, but not on the soundtrack. "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" opened on Friday, April 13, 1984, on 1,594 screens to weekend box office gross of $11,183,148; this was the sixth-highest of the year. The film would ultimately take in
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan


-ray sets: First in 2013's "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection", which included every film in the series, along with the 2009 remake; and again in 2018 in "The Ultimate Collection", which included the first eight Paramount-owned films only. In 2007, "Entertainment Weekly" labeled "Jason Takes Manhattan" the eighth-worst sequel ever made. In 2018, Scott Meslow of "GQ" wrote that the film was among the "most stylish" in the "Friday the
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Ginny (Friday the 13th)


she brazenly dresses up as Jason's dead mother and starts barking orders at the confused serial killer." In "Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle", Richard Nowell said "The shift in characterization of the female leads was also trumpeted during Ginny's self-confident entrance (Amy Steel) in "Friday the 13th Part II". Where the makers of its predecessor introduced Alice as she prepared cabins while dressed in denim jeans and a shapeless lumberjack shirt, the sequel's conventionally attractive lead
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood


additional footage than the boxed set. On , BSX records released a limited edition CD of Fred Mollin's "Friday the 13th Part VII" and "VIII" scores. "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood" opened on Friday, May 13, 1988 in 1,796 theaters, debuting at number 1 and earning $8.2 million its opening weekend. Ultimately, the film would go on to gross a total of $19.2 million at the U.S. box office, placing it at number 53 on the list of the
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'Pataphysics


Gregorian calendar. The "Collège de 'Pataphysique" created the calendar in 1949. The pataphysical era (E.P.) started on Jarry's birthday, 8 September 1873 vulg. When converting pataphysical dates to Gregorian dates, the appendage (vulg.) for "vulgate" ("common") is added. The week starts on a Sunday. Every 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd is a Sunday and every 13th day of a month falls on a Friday (see Friday the 13th). Each day is assigned a
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the seventh-largest drop for a film that opened as the top-earning film in the United States. With its $65 million revenue at the North American box office, "Friday the 13th" is the highest-grossing film among the recent slasher remakes, which comprise "When a Stranger Calls" (2006), "Black Christmas" (2006), "Halloween" (2007), "Prom Night" (2008), and "My Bloody Valentine 3D" (2009). The film is
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday


"Friday the 13th" films, negotiated with New Line Cinema over the rights to the series, and ultimately granted New Line rights to the Jason Voorhees character, but retained control of the "Friday the 13th" title. New Line placed Cunningham's idea for a Freddy-versus-Jason film on hold, prompting him to generate a different script to precede that plot line. Cunningham's original idea would later manifest as "Freddy vs. Jason" in 2003. The film marked Adam Marcus's debut feature; having just
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Russell Todd


High Mountain Rangers" "Another World", "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "The Young and the Restless". He left acting in 1997 and now runs an agency for steadicam operators and "A" and "B" camera operators. He reunited with various cast members from the "Friday the 13th" films to take part in the documentaries "His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th" (2009) and "Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th" (
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Friday the 13th (2009 film)


were at least 25 years old. Alonso Duralde wrote that the film should please slasher fans, but that it added nothing new to the genre or the franchise and would not appeal to people who did not like slasher films. Duralde criticized the film for adding a black and an Asian character in an attempt to "update the movie for the new millennium". He also said the prospect of another "Friday the 13th"crafted by the film's "sequel-friendly" endingdid not leave him with a feeling of dread. Bill
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Friday the 13th Part III


confrontation. However, this concept was abandoned when Amy Steel declined to reprise her role. "Friday the 13th Part III" was originally released in 3D amongst other horror films such as "Jaws 3-D" and "Amityville 3-D", and is the only film in the series to be released in 3-D. The film was intended to end the series as a trilogy, however the film did not include a moniker in its title to indicate it as such. The film was theatrically released on August 13, 1982, grossing over
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Jason Voorhees


art by Sebastian Fiumara. The comic has Jason being captured and experimented upon by the Trent Organization; Jason escapes and seeks out Violet, the survivor of "Friday the 13th: Bloodbath", who is being contained by the Trent Organization in their Crystal Lake headquarters. The "Friday the 13th" novella storyline was not connected to the "Jason X" series, and did not continue the stories set forth by the films, but furthered the character of Jason in its own way. "Friday the 13th: Church of
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List of Friday the 13th characters


original script, but was cut when it was decided that the film would not be a direct sequel to "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning". Pamela Voorhees is the mother of Jason and the main antagonist in the original "Friday the 13th". She was beheaded by Alice Hardy. Paula is a character in "" played by Kerry Noonan. Paula arrives at Forest Green to help her friends Megan, Sissy and Cort run a summer camp for young children. Paula is the most sensible counsellor at the camp
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Friday the 13th (1980 film)


out an advertisement to sell the film in "Variety" in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the screenplay. After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the summer of 1979, on an estimated budget of $550,000. A bidding war ensued over the finished film, ending with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film for domestic distribution, while Warner Bros. secured European distribution rights. Released on May 9, 1980, "Friday the 13th" was a major box office success, grossing
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" finished as the fourth-highest grossing film of any February with $59.8 million, just behind "Taken" with $84.3 million, "He's Just Not That into You" with $77.2 million, and "Madea Goes to Jail", with $60.9 million. "Friday the 13th" was the fifteenth-highest grossing R-rated film of 2009. Because of the significant decrease in box office revenues in its second weekend, the film had the sixth-largest second-weekend drop. It is
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The Initiation (film)


Friday the 13th" (1980) and "Sleepaway Camp" (1983), but added: ""The Initiation" may be a little better than similar features, if only because it is a little less bloody." In a subsequent review, Cedrone characterized the film as a ""Friday the 13th" clone," and added: "Vera Miles and Clu Gulager are performers caught in this hapless mess." Candice Russell of the "South Florida Sun Sentinel" awarded the film one-and-a
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Friday the 13th: The Series


. The creators wanted to tie-in Jason's trademark hockey mask to the series, but the idea was discarded so that the show could have a chance to exist on its own. Mancuso, Jr. was afraid that mentioning any events from the films would take the audience away from "the new world that we were trying to create". The decision to name the show "Friday the 13th", over the original title, was made because Mancuso, Jr. believed a ""Friday the 13th"" moniker would
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