TOP TEN Moments from Friday the 13th

Published on: 7th October, 2009

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Twelve films, thirty years… that’s a lot of kills! Having painstakingly soldiered through each one, we have compiled our list of the TOP TEN moments of Friday the 13th, showing Jason at his most brutal and inventive!

THE NEW BLOOD (1988)
‘Jason vs. Tina’ – With her mother and the kids next door having been brutally slaughtered, tortured telekinetic teen Tina Shepard (Lar Park-Lincoln) is forced to finally come face-to-face with Jason (played for the first time by Kane Hodder). Thanks to the special effects background of director John Carl Buechler and Hodder’s experience as a stuntman, the finale for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood more than makes up for the first sixty minutes by featuring perhaps the most action-packed climax of the entire franchise, with Tina using her powers to set Jason on fire before literally bringing the house down on him.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981)
‘The death of Alice’ – Having defeated the psychotic Mrs. Voorhees in the first film, Alice (Adrienne King) is now attempting to piece her life back together. Still distraught after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, Alice is eventually tracked down by Jason Voorhees (portrayed throughout the movie by various cast and crew members), whose mother was decapitated by the young woman. But, having been startled by the usual red herring of a cat jumping through a window, Alice is suddenly attacked by Jason and has an ice pick stabbed through the side of her temple. With her story finally laid to rest, Part 2 was then free to focus on a new group of sexually active teens.

JASON TAKES MAHATTAN (1989)
‘Jason gives head’ – Cornered on a rooftop and unable to escape, champion high school boxer Julius (V.C. Dupree) is forced to stand his ground against Jason (Hodder) and repeatedly punches him in his face, his knuckles becoming more and more bloodied from the hockey mask. Eventually running out of steam, Jules submits and tells him to give his best shot. In one punch, Jason knocks Jules’ head clean off, sending it over the side of the roof and into a dumpster below.

A NEW BEGINNING (1985)
‘Jason’s eye for detail’ – Horny lovebirds Eddie (John Robert Dixon) and Tina (Debisue Voorhees) are unable to keep their hands off each other and decide to sneak away from the halfway house where they are both residents to make out in a nearby field. Once done, Eddie wanders off to relieve himself, leaving Tina to relax naked in the sun. A moment later, ‘Jason’ (Tom Morga) appears over her and thrusts a pair of gardening shears down into her eye sockets. When Eddie returns he finds her mutilated and backs away in fear against a tree, only for ‘Jason’ to appear once again.

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 (1982)
‘The first appearance of the mask’ – Practical joker Shelly (Larry Zerner) had already played a prank on Vera (Catherine Parks), who had rejected his advances. Soon afterwards, she is sat against the lake looking through Shelly’s wallet when she accidentally drops it into the water. Having finally managed to salvage it, she sees Jason (Richard Brooker) appear from behind the house wearing Shelly’s hockey mask and, without warning, fires a harpoon directly into her eye. The original theatrical release (and recent region 1 DVD) presented this in 3D.

JASON LIVES (1986)
‘The crash’ – Whilst his friends prepare the summer camp for the impending arrival of the children, Cort (Tom Fridley) sneaks off to see his sexy young girlfriend Nikki (Darcy DeMoss). After having sex in her stepfather’s camper van, they drive back towards the camp with Alice Cooper blasting out full blast. But, as Nikki passes the bathroom, Jason (C.J. Graham) bursts out and drags her inside, crushing her face through the wall. He then sneaks up on Cort and stabs him in the side of the head with his hunting knife, causing the van to crash and fall onto its side, sliding down the road and bursting into flames as Jason climbs out.

FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
‘The arrow through the throat’ – The success of both Friday the 13th and Tom Savini can arguably be attributed to one specific moment, in which Jack (Kevin Bacon), having just made love to his girlfriend Marcie (Jeannine Taylor), lies back in his bed and lights a joint. Noticing blood dripping from above, he is about to investigate when a hand reaches up from underneath and pins him down, whilst an arrow is forced up through the bed and straight into his throat, causing blood to gush out like a geyser. These scene would become a landmark in practical special effects and would turn Savini into a star in his own right.

FREDDY VS. JASON (2003)
‘The cornfield massacre’ – After fifteen years of anticipation, 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason was a huge disappointment for both fans of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, with its shoddy script (by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who also wrote this year’s remake of Friday the 13th) and comic book-like direction clashing with the grunge feel of the franchise. But one sequence that proved to be a major highlight saw Jason (Ken Kirzinger) set on fire by a drunken kid (Chris Gauthier), only to begin slicing his way through the partygoers whilst still burning. Although fans would criticize the movie for replacing resident Jason Kane Hodder with Kirzinger (who had appeared in a small role in Jason Takes Mahattan), the cornfield scene would have even made Hodder proud.

JASON X (2001)
‘Smashed head’ – Many of the hardcore fans hate Jason X, mainly because of its tongue-in-cheek humour, its lack of bloodshed and its change of location. Whilst most of the violence is relatively mild, one of the most inventive deaths occurs early on in the movie when scientist Adrienne (Kristi Angus) is accosted by a newly-reanimated Jason (Kane Hodder), who grabs her from behind and forces her head into a sink of liquid nitrogen, freezing it instantly. Removing her head, he then slams her face down onto the table, causing the front of her head to shatter. Once done, he tosses the body aside angrily and searches for his next victim.

THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984)
‘ R.I.P. Jason’ – Having slaughtered almost everyone, Jason (Ted White) sets his sights on Trish Jarvis (Kimberly Beck). But her younger brother, Tommy (Corey Feldman), has been studying news clippings of Jason and decides to disorientate him by shaving his own head to resemble a young Jason. Racing downstairs just in time to save his sister, Tommy confronts Jason and manages to swing his machete into the side of his head, causing him to fall to his knees and topple forward. His face slowly slides down the side of the blade but, when his hand begins to twitch, Tommy removes the machete and begins to butcher him whilst repeatedly screaming ‘Die…’

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