Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is the slasher reduced to ritual. The 1980 original was a Halloween knockoff with a twist ending, but the franchise quickly settled into the machete-wielding constant of Jason Voorhees and rarely deviated for the rest of the Paramount run. The series knows the formula is rigid and mostly leans into it, from the camp-counselor body counts of the early sequels to the gimmick swings of Jason X and the crossover stunt Freddy vs. Jason.
What keeps it interesting beyond the films is the surrounding catalog. The asymmetric multiplayer Friday the 13th: The Game and the mobile Killer Puzzle reframe the kills as play, the tie-in novelizations extend Camp Crystal Lake into print, and the documentaries His Name Was Jason and Crystal Lake Memories chronicle the whole bloody enterprise with unusual thoroughness. Across film, games and books, it is a franchise built on repetition that found ways to comment on itself.
The Friday the 13th franchise spans 3 books, 2 games, 14 films in the CrossBinge catalog.
Films
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
- Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
- Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
- Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988)
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
- Jason X (2001)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (2010)
- Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)