Friday the 13th Part III is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, and Richard Brooker. It is the third installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Set directly after the events of "Friday the 13th Part 2", the plot follows a teenage girl (Kimmell) and her friends who go on a trip at a house near Crystal Lake where a wounded Jason Voorhees (Brooker) has taken refuge until reemerging for another killing spree. The film marks the debut of Voorhees wearing his signature hockey mask, which has become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and the horror genre in general.
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Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part III | Introduction
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who played jason voorhees in friday the 13th
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Ari Lehman
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who is this character?
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He is the main character from the "Friday the 13th" movie series.
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does he hide his face?
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Yes he wears a hockey goalie mask in "Friday the 13th Part III".
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how is this date significant in italy?
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Due to Americanization, young people consider Friday the 13th unlucky, even though 13 is generally considered a lucky number.
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is it anyway linked to mishaps on roads?
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A study in the "British Medical Journal" stated that "'the risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident "may" be increased by as much as 52 percent' on the 13th". Subsequent studies have disproved any correlation between Friday the 13th and the rate of accidents.
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what other characters were present in the movie mentioned earlier?
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Chris Higgins, Shelly
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what is the genre of this movie?
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The original storyline was supposed to focus on a post-traumatic Ginny Field who began learning self defense and returned to college after surviving her ordeal in the previous film. After finding Paul's corpse inside her dormitory, she prepares to track down Voorhees and face him in a final confrontation. However, this concept was abandoned when Amy Steel declined to reprise her role. "Friday the 13th Part III" was theatrically released in 3D, and is the only film in the series to be released in that format. The film was intended to end the series as a trilogy, however, unlike many of its successors, the film did not include a moniker in its title to indicate it as such.
Friday the 13th Part III | Introduction
It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Steve Miner. The way the eyeball of one of Jason's victims pops out of his skull and seems to sail over the audience's head is alone worth buying a ticket and putting on funny glasses." Gene Siskel praised the film's "impressive" 3-D effects, particularly in the opening credits, also noting its slowburn approach, as the "heavy-duty slaughter doesn't come until one hour into the film," but criticized it for "lingering over the impending deaths of the young women, who are stalked by the camera so we find ourselves in the revolting position of stalking them too."
Friday the 13th Part III | Critical response
The film scholar Jim Harper has noted "Friday the 13th Part III" for its final girl character, Chris, suffering from childhood trauma resulting from sexual assault, which leaves her unable to engage in intimate relationships, although there is no undisputed evidence of what has really happened to her. In the film, Chris' trauma stems from an attack she survived from Jason Voorhees, which leaves her "mentally scarred." According to Jim Harper's interpretation, in comparison to the final girl characters in other contemporaneous slasher films such as "Halloween" (1978) or "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), Chris' failure to engage in sexual relations is a function of trauma as opposed to "repress[ion] or dysfunct[ion]."
Friday the 13th Part III | Analysis
Initially, one of the earlier drafts for "Part III" was Ginny (Amy Steel) from the previous film being sent to a psychiatric hospital and confined there. Suffering from the events of "Part 2", she eventually finds out that Jason Voorhees survived from his wound and tracks her down to the hospital, murdering the staff and other patients at the hospital. At the time, Steel turned down the role due to her involvement in other projects, resulting in significant script changes. Steel recalled: "They really wanted me for "Part III". They didn't have a script, but they were just going to show me some sort of outline.
Friday the 13th Part III | Development
Chili finds that everyone else is dead and is then impaled with a hot fire poker.
Friday the 13th Part III | Plot
During the film's climax, after his latest host is killed, Jason escapes in the form of a demonic fetus. He eventually ends up inside the cellar where Diana's body ended up and uses her body to completely resurrect himself, as he only requires the body of a Voorhees to be resurrected.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Diana Kimble
When Pam is fleeing from "Jason" she finds Matt's body, his throat slit and pinned to a tree with a railroad spike. Matt is one of four characters from the movie to be killed off-screen, the others being George, Demon's girlfriend Anita and Duke.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Matthew Letter
He accidentally kills another student when he loses his glasses and fires a shotgun at someone he cannot see. He uses his video camera to accommodate for his poor eyesight and encounters Jason who knocks the video camera out of his hand and chases him. During the chase Wayne falls over a body, he realises it is J.J.'s corpse just as Jason grabs him and hurls him into an electrical box, killing him. His body catches fire and sets the events in motion that cause the SS "Lazarus" to sink.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Wayne Webber
just the sort of appreciatively ludicrous interlude that's generally been sorely missing from this pervasively dull series". However, he felt the bulk of the film, while an improvement over the previous two installments, suffered from tedious pacing and a lack of gore. He gave it two out of four stars, the same rating he gave to six out of the series' ten installments.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives | Critical response
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Friday the 13th Part III | Accolades
She is then taken away by the police, severely traumatized. In the opening sequence of "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" (which takes place the day after Part III), a mother is seen consoling her daughter in a hospital waiting room. Since the daughter is only seen from behind, the probable implication is that she is Chris. In an alternate ending of "Friday the 13th Part III", Chris's fate is changed; after hearing her boyfriend Rick's voice while canoeing to safety, Chris follows it to a cabin, only to be decapitated by an unmasked Jason, who is waiting inside.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chris Higgins
At the conclusion of the film, she, a student named Tsunaron and the gynoid Kay-Em 14 he created are the only survivors of Jason's attack, picked up by a rescue vessel while Jason is sent hurtling through the atmosphere of Earth II when the "Grendel" explodes.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Rowan LaFontaine
Shelly later tries to get help from friend Chili, but she thinks that he is pulling another trick, and eventually dies from his wound.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Shelly Finkelstein
Friday the 13th Part III is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, and Richard Brooker. It is the third installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Set directly after the events of "Friday the 13th Part 2", the plot follows a teenage girl (Kimmell) and her friends who go on a trip at a house near Crystal Lake where a wounded Jason Voorhees (Brooker) has taken refuge until reemerging for another killing spree. The film marks the debut of Voorhees wearing his signature hockey mask, which has become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and the horror genre in general.
Friday the 13th Part III | Introduction
McLoughlin wanted something more subtle, with a "Gothic" resonance.
Friday the 13th (franchise) | Music
In "Friday the 13th Part III" (1982), Jason (Richard Brooker) escapes to a nearby lake resort, Higgins Haven, to rest from his wounds. At the same time, Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell) returns to family property with some acquaintances. An unmasked and reclusive Jason kills anyone who wanders into the barn where he is hiding. Taking a hockey mask from a victim to hide his face, he leaves the barn to kill the rest of the group. Chris fends off Jason by slamming an axe into his head, but the night's events drive her into hysteria as the police take her away.
Jason Voorhees | Films
Though one contemporary critic noted that the film is "nearly devoid of blood and gore by '80s slasher standards," several explicit scenes of gore were cut in order to avoid an X rating. Among these were the murder sequences of Maddy, who originally had a sickle jammed through her neck; Ben's death, which showed Jason crushing his head into a bloody pulp; Kate's death revealed the gory aftermath of a party horn to her eyeball; Eddie's head hit the floor; a shot of Russell's face splitting open with a large blood spurt; Dan's original death had Jason ripping out his guts; Amanda Shepard's death originally showed Jason stabbing her from behind, with the resulting blade going through her chest and subsequent blood hitting Dr.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | Post-production
Rick goes outside to search the area. Chris, concerned over the time Rick is taking, goes outside and calls to him; however, Jason has grabbed Rick in one arm with his hand over Rick's mouth. As Chris returns inside Jason crushes Rick's skull with such force one of his eyes pops out of its socket. Rick's body is later thrown through a window that Chris is walking past.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Rick Bombay
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The main villain in the series is Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counselors. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings. Each entry in the series features a different cast of characters, including a final girl who defeats the killer in the end.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Introduction
Screenwriter Popescu said casting was based on looks rather than talent, and recalled that his vision of the characters was at significant odds with the cast chosen by director Steve Miner. Dana Kimmel was cast in the lead role of Chris Higgins after Miner had become aware of her involvement in "Sweet Sixteen", another slasher film she had appeared in with Bo Hopkins and Susan Strasberg. Tracie Savage, who had previously worked as a child actor, was offered the role through her agent. Larry Zerner was discovered by casting directors while walking along a street, and was offered the role of Shelly.
Friday the 13th Part III | Casting
Titles loom toward you. Yo-yos spin. Popcorn bounces. Snakes dart toward the camera and strike. Eventually, the novelty wears off, and what remains is the now-familiar spectacle of nice, dumb kids being lopped, chopped and perforated." Writing for the "Los Angeles Times", Linda Gross wrote: "Ironically, "Friday the 13th Part 3" is so terrible that "Friday the 13th Part 1" and "Friday the 13th Part 2" don't seem so bad." Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" stated that it "would be a little better than "Part I" or "Part II" even without 3-D". In continuing to compare the film to its predecessors, Maslin commented that "it's a little more adept at teasing the audience." Richard Schickel of "Time" magazine wrote: "Maybe all sequels should be made in 3-D...
Friday the 13th Part III | Critical response
After he is spurned by both girls, he turns to smoking pot and watching vintage stag films. After the reel is cut, he stands in front of the white screen looking for Jimmy and is suddenly stabbed in the back of the head through the screen.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ted Cooper
The film features a variety of character parodies:
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th | Parodies
He carries her body away. Chili's bloody sweater is later found by Chris in the bathtub.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chili Jachson
Maltin complimented the film's imaginative direction but criticized the film's running time as being too long.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Critical response
She eventually would tire and drown, which was something that the writers had not seen in this genre. Ultimately they decided to make the death more quick and "visceral".
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chelsea
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, "Friday the 13th Part III" holds an 11% approval rating based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 3.52/10. The consensus reads: “Jason may solidify his iconic wardrobe in this entry, but "Friday the 13th Part 3" lacks any other distinguishing features, relying on a tired formula of stab and repeat.” While criticizing the plot for being derivative, in a mixed review for "The New York Times", film critic Janet Maslin praised the acting of Kimmell, Savage, Rogers, and Parks, in which she called a major improvement to the acting in the predecessors, and wrote that Miner's use of 3-D filmmaking was innovative and the most professional effort when compared to other films released at the time, stating: "As in each of the other recent 3-D movies, of which this is easily the most professional, there is a lot of time devoted to trying out the gimmick.
Friday the 13th Part III | Critical response
When we next see her, she has given herself a makeover, wearing makeup with her hair styled and dressed more provocatively. She ventures out of the house in search of David, but ends up finding the body of Russell, which tumbles out of the tree which he was tied up into. Jason appears and chases Maddy into a small shed like building. She hides, and it appears that she may have given him the slip. Suddenly, Jason's arm comes bursting through the wall directly behind her, grabbing her, followed by his other hand, which is wielding a sickle, which he swings into her neck, killing her.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Maddy Paulson
Rick Bombay is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III", played by Paul Kratka. Rick arrives at Higgins Haven to see girlfriend Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell). They later head into the woods, but Rick's car won't start so they sit down. Chris recalls a story to Rick about an encounter with a deformed man (implied to be Jason Voorhees). She tells Rick she returned to face her fears. On Rick's suggestion he and Chris return to Higgins Haven to find it empty in disarray with no one around. They search for their friends but find only a blood-covered sweater.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Rick Bombay
Christine "Chris" Higgins is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III", played by Dana Kimmell. A teenage girl who lives in the Crystal Lake area, Chris returns to her home three years after a traumatic experience. It is later revealed through flashback that Chris survived an attack by a disfigured man who turns out to be Jason Voorhees. Jason, who is still living in the forest, attacks her again at her summer home and murders her friends. Chris manages to hit Jason in the head with an axe, before suffering a hallucination of Jason's mother dragging her into the lake, similar to the ending of the first "Friday the 13th".
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chris Higgins
Abel is an elderly gentleman portrayed in "Friday the 13th Part III" who picks up where Crazy Ralph left off by warning teenagers who venture into the area of Camp Crystal Lake. He is met briefly as Chris Higgins nearly runs him over with her van as he is lying in the middle of the road. After thanking the teens for their compassion and kindness, Abel claims that "he" (Jason) had given him a token to warn off any who venture into the area. He reveals the gift as a disembodied eyeball, which suddenly frightens the teens who drive off and leave him behind as he continues to proclaim his warning.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Abel
J.J. Jarrett is a character in "", portrayed by Saffron Henderson. She is first seen aboard the SS "Lazarus", playing her guitar while being filmed by her young friend, aspiring film school student, Wayne. After giving him some advice about women, she heads down into the lower decks of the ship in order to take advantage of the superior guitar acoustics the cavernous interior will offer. As J.J. loses herself in a jam session, she fails to notice Jason stalking her until the last minute. Upon seeing him, she panics and runs deeper into the bowels of the ship. After running down a flight of steps, she suddenly stops and lets out a blood-curdling scream, just as Jason, who has gotten in front of her and is wielding her guitar, swings the heavy instrument at her head, smashing her skull.
List of Friday the 13th characters | J.J. Jarrett
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and Ted White. It is the fourth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Picking up immediately after the events of "Part III", the plot follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees (White) who escapes from the morgue and returns to Crystal Lake to continue his killing spree. The film also introduces Tommy Jarvis (Feldman), a young boy who serves as a major foil to Jason and would return as the protagonist of the following two installments.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Introduction
Some have a little more plot, some have a little less. It doesn't matter." Helen Verongos of "The Clarion-Ledger" wrote: ""Friday the 13th Part 2" obviously does not pretend to be any more than it is, a cheapdimestore cheapthriller aimed at the adolescent market... It is designed to be predictable enough to make the average fourth-grader feel sharp-witted." The Dayton "Journal Herald"s Terry Lawson deemed the film a "special effects freak show for an audience immune to violence," and "exploitative and gratuitous." Jacqi Tully of the "Arizona Daily Star" praised the film's special effects, noting Jason as "effectively disgusting sight," and ultimately summarizing: "Gross is a pretty good way to describe it.
Friday the 13th Part 2 | Critical response
Jason smashes through the shower door and slams Doug's head against the tiled wall, crushing his skull. Doug's body is seen a short while later, when Trish finds him impaled to the wall through the back of the neck.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Doug Bell
Jason falls for her plan, and she manages to calm him down before driving a machete into his shoulder. One of the final scenes in the movie is of Ginny being carried away in a stretcher, crying out for Paul, whose fate is unknown. Ginny appears briefly in "Friday the 13th Part III", using footage from "Friday the 13th Part 2". She can be seen on a news report detailing the events of the last film. Ginny is referenced to in the novel "Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs", which states that her claims of finding Jason's shack in the woods went ignored, due to the authorities doubting her sanity.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ginny Field
She is later shown, having found Nick, back at Tina's. Upon hearing their stories, she does not believe them for a second and begins to storm out. She opens the door and standing there is Jason, who proceeds to slam an axe into her head, killing her and throwing her body across the room.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Melissa Paur
Andy handstands his way into the bathroom, asking if she wants a beer, to which she accepts. Andy is killed when Jason slices him in half at the groin with his machete. His halves are soon wedged in the rafters of Chris's room.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Andy Beltrami
In addition to weak box office returns, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | Introduction
Ali is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III", played by Nick Savage. Ali is the leader of a biker gang, consisting of himself, Fox, and Loco. After a tense confrontation with Shelly and Vera at a convenience store, Shelly destroys the gang's bikes in front of Ali. In retaliation, the gang sneaks into Higgins Haven and drains the gas from Chris's van. When Fox and Loco wander into the barn, Ali goes to check on them where he discovers their corpses. Jason then beats Ali unconscious with a pipe wrench. Ali later awakens when Chris is about to be killed by Jason and attacks him.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ali
Jason resurrects himself, but his niece, Jessica Kimble (Kari Keegan), stabs him with a mystical dagger and he is dragged into Hell.
Friday the 13th (franchise) | Plot
They wanted to create a quick, loose Jason. The writing team decided to create a version of Jason "who was actually in the woods surviving off the land", and whose killings are presented as a way of defending his territory rather than randomly murdering whoever came along. The writers did not want to spend a lot of time covering Jason's childhood experiences, which they felt would remove the sense of mystery from the character. They tried to write scenes that would add verisimilitude, like the audience finding a deer carcass lying on the ground as they follow Jason through his tunnels.
Friday the 13th (2009 film) | Writing
Lori manages to knock Jason out a window and rushes outside to finish him off, only to be met at the door by him. Before Lori can attack him again, Jason kills her by splitting her head open with his machete, and proceeds to take her body and Will's to his shack in the woods. Monica Keena has praised the depth of her character, claiming "I think Lori's a very independent and tough character. She has an arc in the film because she learns that Freddy killed her mother and that inspires her to have a need to get revenge.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Lori Campbell
Following the events of the night before, a badly injured and unmasked Jason Voorhees goes to a lakefront store for a change of clothes. While there, he murders the store owner Harold and his wife Edna. Meanwhile, Chris Higgins and her friends travel to Higgins Haven, her old home on Crystal Lake, to spend the weekend. The gang includes pregnant Debbie, her boyfriend Andy, prankster Shelly, his blind date Vera (who does not reciprocate his feelings), and stoners Chuck and Chili. After running into a man named Abel who warns them to turn back, the gang meets Chris' boyfriend Rick at their destination.
Friday the 13th Part III | Plot
"Friday the 13th Part III" has been most noted for its introduction of villain Jason's hockey mask disguise, which was replicated in the following numerous sequels and became an iconic image in American cinema and the horror genre. Film scholar Carol Clover notes that the film has historically been cited as one of the most violent of the series, with a total of fourteen murder sequences. For his appearance in the film, Jason Voorhees was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains as one of the Top 50 Villains. Meslow cites the film's 3-D effects as paving the way for later horror films which also used the technique.
Friday the 13th Part III | Legacy
For the role of Jason Voorhees, Miner cast British stuntman Richard Brooker.
Friday the 13th Part III | Casting
Chili Jachson is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III", played by Rachel Howard. Chili and her boyfriend Chuck (David Katims) are hippy stoners. On the way to Higgins Haven, the police begin following Chris Higgins's van when Chuck and Chili are smoking marijuana in the back. They get their friends to eat the "evidence", but are annoyed when the police pass them. Later that evening, Chuck and Chili are making popcorn when the power goes out. Chili finds Shelly on the doorstep with his throat slit. She thinks it's another prank but soon realizes he's actually dead. As Chili runs through the house, Jason stabs her through the stomach with a hot fire poker.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chili Jachson
Later, using Wayne and his camera, she uses her biology report as a sexual advance toward McCulloch, recording him in a compromising position. She spurns Wayne and lets him out of her cabin before going to take a shower, when she emerges she discovers Jason has entered her cabin and tries to hide quietly in the bathroom. Jason punches through her bathroom door, grabs her by the hair and hurls her into her mirror. She collapses and sobs as Jason smashes her mirror, begging him to let her go. Instead, Jason grabs a large shard of the mirror and kills her with it.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Tamara Mason
Wesley Morris said "Friday the 13th" did have humor; he said the characters continually act the clichéd role of would-be-victim, making it hard to fear for their safety. In his opinion, the 2009 film lacked the "psycho-social" aspecta mother killing out of revenge for her son's deathcrafted by its 1980 predecessor, and ultimately the film is "more hilarious than terrifying".
Friday the 13th (2009 film) | Critical response
Back at Higgins Haven, Shelly scares Vera with a hockey mask and then wanders into the barn, where Jason slashes his throat. Taking his mask to conceal his face, Jason proceeds to murder the rest of the group. Vera retrieves Shelly's wallet from under the dock and is shot in the eye with a speargun. Jason enters the house and bisects a hand-standing Andy with a machete. Debbie finishes her shower and rests on a hammock, where Jason thrusts a knife through her chest from beneath, killing her. When the power goes out in the house, Chuck goes downstairs to the basement only for Jason to hurl him into the fuse box, electrocuting him.
Friday the 13th Part III | Plot
Jason severs Ali's hand and slices him to pieces with his machete. An alternate ending saw Ali and Chris survive and contact the authorities only for Jason's body to be missing when they arrive.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ali
The film marks the debut of Jason Voorhees as the main antagonist, a role which the character would maintain for most subsequent sequels. Originally, "Part 2" was intended to be an anthology film based on the Friday the 13th superstition. However, after the popularity of the original film's surprise ending, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend which would be repeated in every film in the franchise. Like the original film, "Part 2" faced opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America, who noted its "accumulative violence" as problematic, resulting in numerous cuts being made to allow an R rating.
Friday the 13th Part 2 | Introduction
Jane McDowell is a character in "", played by Staci Greason. She is the girlfriend of Michael Rogers, played by William Butler, whose surprise birthday party, thrown by his cousin and their friends, the pair are en route to when their car breaks down, forcing them to walk the remainder of the way through the woods. They decide to take a quick break so that Michael can relieve himself. While Jane waits a short distance away, Jason, having just been resurrected from the depths of Crystal Lake, surprises her. Grabbing her from behind, he covers her mouth to stifle her screams, before pushing her against a tree and ramming a metal tent spike through the front of her throat, killing her and pinning her body to the tree.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Jane McDowell
There, she suffers a nightmare in which Jason's decayed corpse drags her underwater. The police arrive and take Alice to the hospital. When she tells them her story, they explain that they did not find a boy, to which she replies "Then he's still there..." Alice makes a brief reappearance in the opening scene of "Friday the 13th Part 2", where she is stabbed in the temple in her apartment by an adult Jason Voorhees, who evidently survived his childhood drowning and had tracked her down. Later in the movie, Paul explains how Alice went missing and blood was found in her apartment.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Alice Hardy
In addition to the shift in setting, Hedden stated he wanted to examine the character of Jason Voorhees as a child, which appears in the film in the form of hallucinations experienced by Rennie Wickham, the heroine. To conceal the fact that it was a "Friday the 13th" film, the initial working script circulated under the title "Ashes to Ashes."
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Development
Centuries later, in the year 2008, Diane Cavanaugh, while fleeing from Jason Voorhees, unknowingly passes the tree accidentally shot by Ethan, which still has the bullet lodged in it; she also trips on the very rock used to kill him.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ethan
Cort continues to drive while listening to Alice Cooper's "Teenage Frankenstein" on high volume; he spots Jason in the rear view mirror as Jason grabs his head and stabs him in the temple, killing him and causing the mobile home to crash.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Cort Andrews
In his original appearance, Jason was scripted as a mentally disabled young boy. Since "Friday the 13th", Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer. Jason is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series. Exceptions to this include in part 3 when he grunts in pain several times when final girl Chris manages to stab him (once in the hand and once just above his knee), flashbacks of Jason as a child, a brief scene in "Jason Takes Manhattan" where the character cries out "Mommy, please don't let me drown!" in a child's voice before being submerged in toxic waste, and in "Jason Goes To Hell" where his spirit possesses other individuals.
Jason Voorhees | Characteristics
The joke is that in New York, the largest gathering place for weirdos on the East Coast, Jason is just one of the crowd." Malcolm Johnson of the "Hartford Courant" deemed the film a "snoozer" and criticized its implementation of humor, noting: "Possibly, the pubescent lads who somehow manage to slip through the R-rating guardians will discover its humor. To non-cultists, however, "Part VIII" is a clumsy reworking of the formula, the mystique of deep, murky, evil Crystal Lake." Mike Dembs of the "Detroit Free Press" awarded the film a zero-star rating, writing: "Make no bones about it, this is the worst of the bunch.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Critical response
Her body is shown later when Wayne literally falls over her whilst fleeing from Jason.
List of Friday the 13th characters | J.J. Jarrett
Jason" with 13,701,900 tickets. The film also stands as the tenth highest-grossing R-rated film of 1982, the second-highest grossing horror film of 1982, the sixth largest box office opening of 1982, and adjusted for inflation it is the ninth highest-grossing slasher film of all time.
Friday the 13th Part III | Box office
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Friday the 13th (2009 film) | Introduction
Loco is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III". Loco is one of the members of a biker gang consisting of Fox, Ali, and himself. After Shelly accidentally destroys their bikes after a heated confrontation at a convenience store, the bikers arrive at Higgins Haven to drain the gas from Chris's van. When Fox starts fooling around in the barn, Loco goes in after her to tell her to stop fooling around. Loco then discovers her corpse pinned to a beam in the barn, a pitchfork through her throat, Loco, himself, is then impaled in the abdomen with a pitchfork by Jason.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Loco
At a convenience store, Shelly and Vera get into a confrontation with bikers Ali, Fox, and Loco. Shelly gets in the car and knocks down their motorcycles, impressing Vera. Later, the bikers show up at Higgins Haven, where they take the gas out of the van and attempt to burn the barn down to get even. Jason, who has been hiding in the barn, murders Fox and Loco with a pitchfork before beating Ali unconscious. That night, Chris and Rick head out into the woods, where Chris reveals that she was attacked by a deformed man two years prior, which prompted her to leave Crystal Lake in the first place; the main reason that she returned was to confront her fears and escape the trauma.
Friday the 13th Part III | Plot
Alonso Duralde wrote that the film should please slasher fans, but that it added nothing new to the genre or the franchise and would not appeal to people who did not like slasher films. Duralde criticized the film for adding a black and an Asian character in an attempt to "update the movie for the new millennium". He also said the prospect of another "Friday the 13th"crafted by the film's "sequel-friendly" endingdid not leave him with a feeling of dread. Bill Goodykoontz of "The Arizona Republic" said the film accepts the "ridiculousness" of what it is trying to accomplishmainly the "death and dismemberment" of "party-hungry kids", and that audiences would enjoy it if they also recognized that.
Friday the 13th (2009 film) | Critical response
Later, Jack and Marcie have sex in the same cabin unaware that Ned's corpse is laying above them with his throat slit.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Ned Rubenstein
Jared Padalecki describes his character as a real hero, because when his sister goes missing he sets out "to do the right thing", and tends to go about it as this "lone wolf" who wants to take on this responsibility of finding his sister himself.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Clay Miller
When Ash returns home he finds Caroline's body pinned to the wall and her severed head burning on the grill.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Caroline
Make-up artist Tom Savini, who had not returned for "Part 2" and "Part III", agreed to work on the film to help kill off Jason, who he helped create in the original film.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Casting
She falls onto the teens' parked car below and hits it with enough force to blow out all the windows in the vehicle and falls into the darkness. Her body is later discovered by Trish.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Tina & Terri Moore
The film holds a 14% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 critics' reviews (6 negative, 1 positive). Larry Getlen of FilmCritic.com gave the film a negative review, saying that it "drift[s] without a storyline to follow or a character to care about" and was riddled with "infantile sex and fart jokes or gags that are just plain lazy". Allmovie.com gave the film 3½ out of 5, stating: "As joke-a-minute spoofs go, this surprisingly genial, cleverly constructed parody is one of the best of the genre without a Zucker brother or Jim Abrahams in the credits."
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th | Reception
McLoughlin was given free rein on how he would present the story, with the only condition being that he bring back Jason and make him the film's villain. McLoughlin decided to take the film in the direction of an old Universal Monsters movie, specifically the 1931 version of "Frankenstein", which portrayed the monster as a lumbering killer brought to life by electricity. McLoughlin also drew from vampire lore in order to give Jason a weakness, namely being returned to his "home soil"; to achieve this, McLoughlin disregarded the idea presented in "Part 2" that Jason had survived his drowning, instead presenting the idea that Jason has always been some sort of supernatural force.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives | Pre-production and writing
When Jenna and Clay find Jason's lair they find Clay's sister. As Clay attempts to free Whitney, Jenna hears Jason coming and warns Clay to hurry. Jenna, Clay and the now released Whitney attempt to escape and they eventually find an exit. When Whitney and Clay are safe Clay attempts to help Jenna but Jason stabs her in the chest after sneaking up behind her.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Jenna Montgomery
When filming the scene of Tommy hacking at Jason's body, which were two sandbags he was striking at, Feldman pretended the sandbags were Zito. According to the book "Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th", actress Kimberly Beck stated that she does not like the horror genre. In addition to this, she felt that the film was more of a C-movie rather than a B-movie. During filming, Kimberly Beck experienced strange encounters, including a man watching her while she ran in the park and receiving odd phone calls at all hours. This stopped when production was finished.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Filming
Much like "Part III", the film was originally supposed to be the final installment in the series. Mancuso Jr. wanted to conclude the series as he felt nobody respected him for his assisting work on the series regardless of how much the films earned at the box office, as well as wanting to work on other projects. Paramount Pictures supported the decision, as they were aware of the declining popularity of slasher films at the time of its release. As a result, the film was marketed as "The Final Chapter" to ensure it as such. Make-up artist Tom Savini, who worked on the first film, returned because he wanted to help kill off Jason, whom he helped create.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Introduction
The decision to retcon the events of "Part V" resulted in many members of that film's cast—whose characters had survived—having their contracts to return for a sequel terminated. At one point in time when "Jason Lives" was being considered as a direct sequel to "A New Beginning" rather than to "The Final Chapter", the surviving characters Pam and Reggie from "A New Beginning" were to have died in the film's opening moments. Although Mancuso retained control over the film's casting, he deferred to McLoughlin's judgment; the only caveat was that the final girl had to be a "very attractive blonde".
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives | Casting
According to Tom McLoughlin's treatment, the red-haired Elias is depicted as being silent, but quite intimidating. The caretaker of Jason's grave makes sure not to touch Elias's hand when taking his payment and is careful not to look into his eyes. There is a general belief that Elias is quite aware of what Jason is. This evidence stems from the fact that Elias paid for burials of Jason and Pamela rather than a cremation, which would have prevented Jason's resurrection. Additionally, at the end of the film and novel, Elias is seemingly aware of the fact that Jason's body is no longer in his grave (in the deleted scene, he peers into the camera; in the novel, he looks in the direction of the lake where he was left defeated in the film).
List of Friday the 13th characters | Elias Voorhees
He then closes the hatch to the storage room.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Suzi Donaldson
Her body is shown later along with Kate's, Sandra's and Russell's.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Maddy Paulson
Like its predecessor, "Friday the 13th Part 2" had difficulty receiving an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Upon reviewing the film, the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) warned Paul Hagger, an executive at Paramount, that the "accumulation of violence throughout the film" may still lead to an X rating even if substantial cuts were made. A total of forty-eight seconds had to be cut from the film in order to avoid an X rating. This film received a deluxe DVD release in February 2009, but the edited footage was not included. Most noted by censors was the murder scene of Jeff and Sandra, who are impaled by a spear while having sex in a bed (a scene many have compared to a scene in Mario Bava's "A Bay of Blood"), which the censors found particularly graphic.
Friday the 13th Part 2 | Post-production
Later, she puts a blanket on Reggie, who had fallen asleep and goes upstairs to bed. She regrets hurting Jake's feelings and turns over to go to sleep, only to discover Jake's body lying next to her. She screams and tries to get up, but a hand grabs her by the throat while a machete is stabbed through her bed and into her back. Her body, along with Violet's and Jake's are discovered by Reggie a short time later.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Robin Brown
Wayne Webber is young man on the SS "Lazarus" cruise ship bound for New York City with his graduating class in "", played by Martin Cummins. Wayne is close friends with fellow student J.J. he has large glasses and shoulder-length hair and is an aspiring film maker. He rejects helping J.J. with her guitar audio test in the bowels of the ship in an attempt to impress his crush Tamara. He helps her bribe Principal McCulluch so she can secure a high grade by videotaping him with her in a compromising position. When Admiral Robertson and the first mate are found dead in the ship's cabin Wayne joins the hunt for Jason with the other male students.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Wayne Webber
Fox is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III". Fox is part of a biker gang, and attempts to steal Shelly's wallet, harassing Vera when she tries to get it back. After Shelly destroys their bikes, Fox reluctantly joins the others in stealing gas from Chris's van. Fox then walks into the barn and starts fooling around, before being stabbed in the throat by Jason with a pitchfork. Fox is also featured as a playable character in Friday the 13th: The Game.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Fox
Megan Garris is a character in "", played by Jennifer Cooke. A counselor working at the rebuilt and renamed Camp Forest Green, she is also the daughter of the local sheriff. Megan finds herself drawn to Tommy Jarvis, who claims to have brought local killer Jason Voorhees back from the dead while trying to cremate his body. Rebelling against her father's wishes and more than slightly motivated by the fact that she knows Tommy did not commit the murders as he was with her at the time one was being committed, she releases Tommy from jail and helps him track down Jason.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Megan Garris
Original counselors created for the game are A.J. Mason (Marisha Ray), Adam Palomino (Robbie Daymond), Brandon "Buggzy" Wilson (Zeno Robinson), Chad Kensington (Benjamin Diskin), Deborah Kim (Cristina Vee), Eric "J.R." LaChappa (Benjamin Diskin), Jenny Myers (Kristina Klebe), Kenny Riedell (Robbie Daymond), Mitch Floyd (Kirk Thornton), Tiffany Cox (Cherami Leigh), Vanessa Jones (Noveen Crumbie), and Victoria Sterling (Allegra Clark). From the films are "Part III" characters, Sheldon "Shelly" Finkelstein (Larry Zerner) and Fox (Joy Brunson). Also playable is Thomas "Tommy" Jarvis (Thom Mathews), the protagonist of the fourth, fifth, and sixth films, who assists the counselors when contacted from a randomly placed CB radio.
Friday the 13th: The Game | Characters
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, as either the killer or the motivation for the killings. The original film, created to cash in on the success of "Halloween" (1978), was written by Victor Miller and was produced and directed by Sean S.
Friday the 13th (franchise) | Introduction
Nicola Alyssa "Nikki" Parsley is a character in "", played by Darcy DeMoss. Nikki is Cort's girlfriend and while having sex in her RV the power is cut. Upon investigating and finding the power cable cut she agrees with Cort to leave; however, Cort decides to drive the RV recklessly and Nikki is thrown backwards, moments later she is pulled into the bathroom by Jason, her screams for help muffled, and killed when her face is rammed into the mirror leaving an imprint in the wall.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Nikki Parsley
Later, after Jason's murderous activities endanger the ship, an announcement goes out for all students to gather on the bridge. Eva goes in search of Tamara, only to find her friend's mutilated body in her cabin. Horrified, Eva runs out of the room only to come face-to-face with Jason. After a brief chase, she finds herself on the ship's dance floor. Realizing that Jason has followed her, and already terrified, the strobe lighting and pounding music only serve to disorient her further as Jason appears to somehow be in several places at once. Suddenly, he appears right in front of her.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Eva Watanabe
Jeff's body is seen hung up on the door discovered by Vickie in her death scene.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Jeff Dunsberry
She then spots Jason, but thinks it's Shelly until when the killer shoots an arrow at her which lands in her eye. Vera's death had to be re-shot as the original take was too realistic for test audiences. Vera's death is unique since she is the first character to be killed by Jason donning his iconic hockey mask.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Vera Sanchez
Chuck Garth is a character in "Friday the 13th Part III", played by David Katims. Chuck and his girlfriend Chili (Rachel Howard) are hippy stoners, always high when given the chance. On the way to Higgins Haven Chuck, Chili, Andy, Shelly and Vera are forced to eat Chuck's marijuana as the police are behind them. Chuck is unhappy when he realizes the police weren't following them. Chuck and Chili make popcorn that night and Chuck goes outside when the power goes out. As he checks the fuse box, Jason appears behind him and throws him into the fuse box electrocuting him to death.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Chuck Garth
Garris and his men find Cort and Nikki's bodies and he implicates Tommy in the murders believing him to be insane and imagining Jason. Megan helps Tommy escape the jail cell and they head to the camp, Garris and his men are on the way there too. Garris later finds his men dead and comes face to face with Jason. He puts him down with a shotgun shot and unloads bullets into Jason to no effect, Garris runs and hides in the bushes, he hears Megan shout for him and Jason turns to head towards her, Garris shouts "No not her!" and tackles Jason, picking up a rock and slamming it down on to the killer's mask, Jason, unfazed, folds Garris in half breaking his back and killing him.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Sheriff Mike Garris
Chased by Jason back to Camp Tomorrow, Violet and Rich warn the others about Jason, and are attacked by Kevin with a shotgun while trying to flee the camp, after finding the only vehicle has been sabotaged. As two of their co-workers are chased into the woods by Kevin, Violet and Rich are captured by a group of soldiers working for Kevin, who is revealed to be actually named McClintock. Violet and Rich are subsequently taken to McClintock, whose soldiers have captured Jason with liquid nitrogen and who explains that they and the other camp workers were all a part of his plan to capture Jason; they would be the bait used to lure him out into the open, as they lacked families and no one would miss them if they disappeared.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Violet Defalco
Leonard Maltin awarded the film no stars, writing: "A clever title (after... "The Final Chapter") for more gore galore, as gruesome and disgusting as ever."
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | Critical response
He gave it a bomb. Susy Flory of the Santa Clarita "Signal" wrote: "It's Hollywood's idea of every teenager's dream—a bunch of lovely, nubile young girls, a rustic cabin in the woods, a stash of marijuana, and, gore galore courtesy of a zombie superhuman psycho killer." The "Star-Gazette"s Amnon Kabatchnik wrote that the film is "geared to appeal to the viewers' baser instincts, horrific moments of graphic mutilation are interwoven with nude-and-sex sequences," adding: "The offbeat Tina is reminiscent of Stephen King's "Carrie", but unlike Sissy Spacek, Lar Park Lincoln is unable to flesh out a human dimension. Cult devotees of the series probably won't care." John Carl Buechler, the director, who also created the special make-up effects for the film, is credited with creating "the definitive Jason" in the audio commentary of the film from the series' DVD box set.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | Critical response
With her brother's spirit gone, Kelly takes Jason's hockey mask from Big Red's body and buries it, before dying due to the wounds she had obtained during her fight with Big Red.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Kelly Boone
Crews; Dr. Crews's death showed Jason's tree-trimming saw violently cutting into his stomach, sending a fountain of blood and guts in the air; Melissa's original death had Jason cleaving her head in half with an axe with a close-up of her eyes still wriggling in their sockets. The boxed set DVD release of all of the films and the single deluxe edition have all these scenes available as deleted scenes in rough workprint footage; however, the deluxe edition features more additional footage than the boxed set.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | Post-production
Originally in "Friday the 13th Part III" (1982), the storyline was supposed to focus on a post-traumatic Field who began learning self defense and returned to college after surviving her ordeal in the previous film. After finding Paul's corpse inside her dormitory, she prepares to track down Voorhees and face him in a final confrontation. However, this concept was abandoned when Steel declined to reprise her role. She also appears in the "Friday the 13th" expanded universe, appearing in the novelizations and merchandise based on the films. Some scholars regard Ginny as an example of the "final girl" archetype.
Ginny (Friday the 13th) | Introduction
Instead, she creates a virus that reanimates the dead into zombies. The character of Pamela Voorhees returns from the grave in "Carnival of Maniacs", and she searches for Jason, who is now part of a traveling sideshow and about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Friday the 13th (franchise) | Novels
Ginny goes to call for Muffin and an unmasked Jason suddenly bursts through the window behind her. By the time Ginny awakens, Paul has vanished and she gets no response as she calls for him while being placed in an ambulance. Paul's fate is ultimately left ambiguous, though it is strongly implied in the following film that the scene where Jason attacked Ginny unmasked was a hallucination.
List of Friday the 13th characters | Paul Holt