Our Constitution seems to be working better than The Constitution of the United States, Bleys. Either that, or we're just a better country.
Freddy vs. Jason One year later Freddy vs. Jason was finally released. Living out his killings in Hell, Jason "wakes up" in order to kill the children on Elm Street for his mother. In actuality, Jason is being manipulated by Freddy Krueger to spread fear so that he can regain his powers, lost due to a fullscale-coverup that the parents of Elm Street orchestrated to ensure that Freddy was forgotten. But Jason will not stop killing Freddy's "children," and the two finally battle one another, ending the film with a fairly ambiguous image.
Jason X Taking place both in the future and in space, Jason X followed the cryogenically frozen Jason being thawed out in the ship Grendel where he wakes to draw blood. The film went further by climaxing with Jason being turned into what has been dubbed "Über-Jason" - an indestructible metallic cyborg.
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday kills Jason off, and he instead possesses others to continue his rampage. While the film (which only featured Jason in the opening sequence and climactic final fight to the death) is often derided by fans, the final scene of Freddy Krueger's arm grabbing Jason's discarded hockey mask created a great deal of hype towards the possibility of a crossover between the characters.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Jason Takes Manhattan, the eighth film in the series, picks up sometime after the end of the previous film, where Jason is resurrected again, this time by a cable tow. From there he boards upon the cruise ship Lazarus where he stays for most of the film, slashing its teenaged passengers who are aboard the vessel for their post-graduation senior class trip. Despite the title, only the last third of the film actually takes place in New York, and the majority of those sequences were filmed in Vancouver. The few brief scenes in Times Square are the only scenes actually filmed in New York.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood In this seventh outing in the Friday the 13th series, a telekinetic girl revives him again from the bottom of the lake where Tommy had left him imprisoned. The film, which has been dubbed "Jason Vs. Carrie" by fans, featured the first appearance of Kane Hodder as Jason. Hodder would continue to play Jason in all the following entries in the series until Freddy vs. Jason, and would become the most well known of the actors who have played Jason over the years.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives The sixth entry in the series made this clear in its title: Jason Lives. However, since Jason had been supposedly rotting through the years since Part 4, writer and director Tom McLoughlin brought back the monster in a classic Frankenstein approach. Seemingly ignoring the events of the previous film, Jason Lives opens with Tommy digging up Jason's corpse so he could destroy it, only to have the body struck by lightning, which brings Jason back to life. From here on, Jason is now a zombie (though many fans argue that Jason, after his "death" at Camp Crystal Lake, was never human to begin with). The film's use of humor made it slightly more popular with critics and many fans consider it the best in the series.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning The fifth film picks up with a mentally troubled adult Tommy at a halfway house when a series of familiar murders start up. However, the killer is not Jason, but a copycat avenging the death of his son. Fans were unhappy with the twist, and the producers decided to bring Jason back in the next film.
Friday the 13th: "The Final Chapter" (Or so we thought) The fourth installment continues Jason's slaughter before he encounters a young Tommy Jarvis, who is the one to end Jason's life. Part 4, simply titled Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter featured up and coming 1980s stars Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover and did extremely well at the box office--so well that it immediately caused Paramount to go back on their plan to have the film serve as the ending to the Friday the 13th franchise.
Friday the 13th Part 3 In the third installment (filmed in 3-D), Jason acquired his trademark hockey mask, and machete. Jason found himself slaying a group of teenagers and a motorcycle gang who are spending time at a farmhouse near a lake, the only survivor (Dana Kimmel) stops Jason by wounding him with an axe blow to the head. As a result, she goes insane in one of the most surreal endings in the series.
