What is the best order to watch the Friday the 13th movies?

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(Pocket-lint) - Friday the 13th is 1 of the astir iconic fearfulness franchises. Starring the hockey mask-wearing, machete-wielding Jason Vorhees, it spans 12 films.

Many of you person astir apt watched a mates of the slashers erstwhile you were successful the temper for inexpensive leap scares. But if you're funny astir Jason's full story, from commencement to finish, past you got to ticker each the movies. After all, astir of the franchise occurs successful chronological order, with 1 movie starting close erstwhile the past 1 ended. The last 2 films are the exception, and we'll explicate wherefore successful this usher that details the champion bid to ticker the Friday the 13th movies.

We’ve included a bulleted, spoiler-free mentation of this usher astatine the bottom, positive a theatrical merchandise day bid and a peculiar Freddy vs. Jason order.

Every Friday the 13th movie successful chronological order

NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BELOW.

Friday the 13th (1980)

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Friday the 13th (1980)

The archetypal Friday the 13th movie debuted implicit 30 years ago, starring Adrienne King arsenic Alice and Betsy Palmer arsenic Mrs Vorhees. It was directed by Sean S Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. (Mikler precocious won a ineligible conflict awarding him the rights to the franchise and Jason Vorhees character).

The communicative follows a radical of teenage campy counselors who person begun moving astatine Camp Crystal Lake, preparing it for kids who are coming for summertime camp. Unfortunately, idiosyncratic doesn’t privation the campy to unfastened again. You’ll announcement a young Kevin Bacon pops up successful this movie arsenic an unsuspecting counsellor arsenic well.

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Friday the 13th Part II (1981)

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Friday the 13th Part II (1981)

The 2nd film, directed by Steve Miner, introduces Jason Vorhees arsenic a killer, but he’s missing his classical hockey disguise and machete. You larn helium survived his drowning arsenic a kid someway and spent his beingness surviving successful the woods adjacent Camp Crystal Lake. Witnessing his mother’s decapitation drives him to kill. Luckily, for Jason’s newfound bloodlust, a caller Camp Counselor Training programme has precocious opened up close adjacent his home.

Adrienne King reprise her relation arsenic Alice from the archetypal film. It besides stars Amy Steel and John Furey arsenic immoderate of the counsellor trainees.

Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

The 3rd Friday the 13th picks up the time aft the 2nd film. It sees Jason terrorising a radical of teens, again. They're visiting a friend's location connected Crystal Lake this time. One notable happening astir this installment is it introduces the hockey disguise that Jason volition deterioration for the remainder of the Friday the 13th films.

Steve Miner returned arsenic manager aft doing Part II. The movie stars Dana Kimmell arsenic Chris Higgins, who is forced to look disconnected with Jason.

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

The adjacent film, directed by Joseph Zito, is again acceptable the adjacent time aft the 3rd film. Jason’s assemblage is recovered from the country of the massacre the nighttime earlier and taken to the morgue, wherever helium spontaneously comes backmost to beingness and murders the coroner. Jason past returns to Crystal Lake, wherever different radical of teens person headed to enactment contempt ample groups of teens being murdered determination the past 2 nights.

Also, staying adjacent doorway to the teens is simply a household with a teenage girl named Trish Jarvis. She has a younger brother, Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman). The quality of Tommy is 1 of fewer who look successful aggregate Friday the 13th films.

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

The 5th Friday the 13th movie is simply a spot of a enigma film, arsenic we spot an older Tommy Jarvis - who spent the years since his brushwood with Jason Vorhees institutionalised - transferred to a caller lakefront installation called the Pinehurst Halfway House. Soon, the bodies commencement to heap up, and portion immoderate fishy a once-again resurrected Jason Vorhees, radical besides fishy Tommy owed to his transportation to Jason’s past sidesplitting spree.

John Shepherd stars arsenic the older Tommy Jarvis, portion Melanie Kinnaman and Shavar Ross prima arsenic teens. Danny Steinmann directed this entry.

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Jason Lives sees Jason live, again, acknowledgment to Tommy Jarvis (now played by Thom Mathews). Tommy has been precocious released from a intelligence institution. He heads backmost to Crystal Lake to spot Jason’s sedate and pain whatever’s near of his remains. Seeing Jason’s dormant assemblage triggers a spot of a freakout successful Tommy. He stabs Jason’s assemblage with a metallic obstruction post, which is struck by lightning and someway brings backmost Jason arsenic an undead sidesplitting machine.

This movie is regarded arsenic 1 of the champion extracurricular of the archetypal movie. It was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin.

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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

The New Blood picks up a fewer years aft the decision of Jason Lives, with the undead and seemingly unkillable Jason Vorhees chained to the bottommost of Crystal Lake. Jason has been freed by Tina Shepherd (Lars Park Lincoln), a teen with psychic powers who’s struggling with her father’s death.

Lucky for Jason, it conscionable truthful happens determination are teens partying successful the location adjacent doorway to Tina’s.

The New Blood was directed by John Carl Buechler. It stars Kane Hodder, too, successful his archetypal of 4 appearances arsenic Jason Vorhees.

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Contrary to the title, Jason doesn't really walk overmuch clip successful New York successful this installment, which is 1 of the reasons it is 1 of the worst-reviewed films successful the series. Jason is resurrected by a vessel anchor that deed a powerfulness enactment moving crossed the bottommost of Crystal Lake. He past boards a luxury liner filled with teens heading to New York City. The bulk of this movie is past spent connected the boat. Maybe it should've been called Jason Takes a Boat to Manhattan.

The movie was written and directed by Rob Hedden. It stars Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, and Barbara Bingham.

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Presumably dead, what’s near of Jason is transferred to a coroner's bureau for an autopsy. But erstwhile a coroner sees Jason’s achromatic heart, helium decides to devour it, allowing Jason to power his body. From there, Jason goes connected a body-switching sidesplitting spree successful an effort to find himself a imperishable body.

Jason Goes to Hell was directed by Adam Marcus and stars Kari Keegan arsenic Jessica Kimble - Jason’s last-living relative.

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Freddy vs Jason (2003)

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Freddy vs Jason (2003)

This movie was decades successful the making. It's a showdown betwixt 2 of the scariest fearfulness slashers of each time.

The communicative starts with Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund), who has been forgotten astir by people, which makes it truthful helium tin nary longer participate the children of Springdale's dreams. So, instead, helium appears to Jason Vorhees arsenic his dormant parent and gets him to spell to Springdale to termination and animate fear. This volition punctual radical of Freddy and resurrect his power. Their statement works good until the 2 stars get successful the mode of each other's sidesplitting sprees.

Eventually, the teens successful the movie realise that their champion stake is to bring Freddy retired of their dreams to look Jason successful the flesh.

Freddy vs Jason was directed by Ronny Yu. It stars Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, and Jason Ritter arsenic the teens moving from Freddy and Jason.

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Jason X (2002)

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Jason X (2002)

So, this movie was released the twelvemonth earlier Freddy vs Jason. However, chronologically, it comes past successful the franchise.

It sees Jason captured by the authorities and a scientist, named Rowan Lafontaine (Lexa Doig), who wants to frost him aft galore failed attempts to termination him. Well, Rowan manages to frost him, but she does the aforesaid to herself. Flash 450 years to the future, and a radical of students - led by prof Brandon Lowe (Jonathan Potts) - sojourn a now-polluted Earth, wherever they find Jason and Rowan's bodies and enactment them connected their spaceship bound for Earth 2.

Spoiler-free version: The implicit Jason Voorhees timeline astatine a glance

Every Friday the 13th movie successful chronological order

OK, truthful present is the at-a-glance mentation of the usher above, lone escaped of spoilers:

Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part II (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (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)
Freddy vs Jason (2003)
Jason X (2002)

Theatrical merchandise order

Here is each Friday the 13th movie successful the bid they released successful theatres - again, escaped of spoilers:

Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part II (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (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 (2002)
Freddy vs Jason (2003)

Freddy vs Jason order

Here's an bid for however to ticker the Friday the 13th franchise with the Nightmare connected Elm Street franchise - starring each the mode up to Freddy vs Jason.