The Friday 13th movies really got nuts, didn't they?

[The Curmudgeon]

So I'm browsing through the history of the Friday 13th movies, for some reason, on Wikipedia, and what becomes clear after, say, the fourth movie is how batshit crazy they got.

What started off as a pretty typical slasher story (Jason drowns in lake, mother goes nuts and slaughters people, survivor kills mother, oh shit Jason's not really dead, Jason slaughters people) soon turns into all kinds of weird and wonderful nonsense.

So the second one is straight forward enough. Now an adult, Jason hides in the woods and kills campers. OK.
In the third movie, it continues from the second when a wounded Jason retreats to a different resort and kills people there. Still making sense. Sort of.

Then..

Friday 13th IV has Jason "awake" from the morgue with an axe in the head and continue his fun and games for another 90 minutes. The fifth part has a Jason imposter taking over the proceedings, and then in the sixth movie a couple of characters in the last movie to prove Jason is really dead. They dig him up, lightning strikes his body and he becomes alive again. Could happen.

Part VII has Jason at the bottom of a lake, tied up in chains. But, whoops, a telekinetic accidentally releases him by trying to resurrect her dead father. Dumb bitch. Luckily the ghost of her dead father drags Jason back down to the bottom at the end, though.

In Jason Takes Manhatten, a rogue electricity cable zaps Jason underwater, bringing him back to life. There, he chases a bunch of kids into a sewer where he gets hit by toxic waste and turns into a child again. Don't you hate when that happens?

In Jason Goes to Hell, after being literally blown to fucking pieces at the start of the movie, he then turns into a manic beating heart that a guy eats for some reason and then "becomes" Jason, transforming his rotten soul into other random people, before he's eventually fully resurrected near the end of the movie, only to be killed again and for his mask to be pulled into Hell by Freddy Kruegar. He then gets blasted into space. But that one is just silly.

Seriously, has there ever been a stupider horror franchise than this one? It makes the spiralling out of control idiocy of the Saw series look like a documentary. Was it just.. I dunno.. the 80's?

[trashcanman]

Nightmare on Elm Street is much, much worse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpJvp7X1LsM

That's only a small fraction of stupid from ONE film.

[The Curmudgeon]

In theory, though, everything that happens in Freddy movies is in a dream, so you could pretty much have anything happen in those films. Doesn't make them any less stupid or watchable, though. And that is a LOT of stupid shit in one film.

But with the Friday 13th movie, it IS supposed to be set in something resembling reality, and the first couple of movies could, you know, POSSIBLY happen in real life. But then someone somewhere just went "ah fuck it, he's superhuman and he gets brought back to life with electricity and then gets turned back into a kid and then a girl with telepathic powers...

It's weird, I used to love these movies but I could not sit through any of that shit anymore.

[InvisibleWolfMan]

I'd say that 1,2,4 and 6 are the best of them. 6 is lightening in a bottle, the magic works and hasn't been able to be repeated. Let's not speak of the rest...tears will flow.

[Mrs_C]

They should do one one set in the wild west. They haven't done that yet. Or even better a time-traveling one. OOOOOOOOOOOH

[The Curmudgeon]

Jason vs Argonauts. Make it so.