Thursday, March 31, 2016

Friday the 13th


Friday the 13th

Over the past week, I have watched every single Friday the 13th film except for the 2009 remake, which I saw previously.
These movies are awful, so awful that they are amazing.  The Friday the 13th franchise started as a way to capitalize off of Halloween's success, and the series has turned into a recurring box office success.  It is one of the most profitable franchises ever, grossing more than $460 million across all of the films with a cumulative budget of approximately $81 million.

I have no idea why these films are so profitable.  The standards for the franchise are extremely low, and even the best movies in the franchise are mediocre at best.  Despite this, I watched 11 of the films in the course of one week.

I would rate the films, in order from best to worst, as follows:

  1. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  2. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
  3. Friday the 13th Part III
  4. Freddy vs. Jason
  5. Friday the 13th (2009)
  6. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
  7. Friday the 13th Part 2
  8. Jason X
  9. Friday the 13th (1980)
  10. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
  11. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
  12. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
I would not recommend any of these films apart from my the top two.  You're wasting your time if you decide to sit through of of these films.
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  1. JonathanApril 3, 2016 at 10:00 AM

    Not a big fan of scary movies, but I think it's cool what you did here. I would definitely be interested to see rankings of other popular series of movies, or maybe of the top 15 or so movies on imdb or something like that

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