The first film in the series is easily the best. What is clear is that Friday the 13th, just like Jason Vorhees and Camp Crystal Lake, will never die no matter what new hands touch this franchise. Related: Jason Kills 83 Victims in Gore-Soaked Friday the 13th Supercut VideoĪs I ranked these films I had to wonder what the future of this franchise is going to be? Would they eventually get to a 13th film and then take a bow? Might they try and restart the series as they attempted unsuccessfully back in 2017? Unlike the upcoming Halloween reboot which acts like the other films after the first one didn’t happen (lord knows where the Rob Zombie films fall in that canon), it is unclear just where the starting off point for a new Friday the 13th redux would be.
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Lets be honest, do we really watch a Friday the 13th movie because we want to see a good movie? Heck no! We want blood, gore, hot guys and girls, and if a good movie emerges out of that all the better. Now, they’re not It Follows but they’re unique and interesting in their own way. Oddly enough, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Jason X aren’t as outrageous as they sound. Don’t even get me started on the abysmal Friday the 13th reboot in 2009 that had the chutzpah to, among other things, show Jason living in an underground bunker with a bed and what looked like a hot plate and books! (Okay, I am embellishing but you see my point.) Movie-goers have followed Jason Vorhees and this franchise all the way down the rabbit hole, knowing that they are getting diminishing returns with every passing film. That is pretty darn impressive when you think about it.
In fact, the following list goes goes in order until the 5th film. Have you ever heard people lambast how the first movie in a series is the best one and all the others pale in comparison? Well, that is the case with ranking every Friday the 13th movie. So vast is the canon of Friday the 13th that ranking them was surprisingly straight forward.