10 Movies That Couldn’t Have Happened without Friday the 13th
6.) Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
It’s nice to see Jason doing his job, but it’d be nicer to see him finish it. He goes off and dies again.
7.) Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
In this movie Jason is summoned by a psychic and sent back after he kills her friends. Seriously.
8.) Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
First he skips a whole movie in the fourth installment, and now he’s going on vacation. The life that man leads.
9.) Jason X
And then it turns out he hates working so much he hibernates for 445 years and goes to space to avoid working. Instead of teenagers, now he kills space teenagers. The link to Friday the 13th is getting kind of tenuous at this point, to be totally honest.
10.) Freddy vs. Jason
This movie copped the setting and the most frequently recurring character from the Friday the 13th franchise and had him fight his greatest enemy: one that won’t let him sleep on the job. Not a good look for a bum. But lazy bones always get what they deserve.
Almost Made the List:
Friday the 13th (2009)
I can see that some readers may argue this film belongs on here because of the sameness of setting, character, and storyline, but it was really bad, and most of us would rather just forget it exists.
