In the original Friday the 13th (1980), Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer)
stalks and murders a group of camp counselors. She is determined to
make sure Camp Crystal Lake does not reopen, after her son Jason (Ari
Lehman) drowned in the lake while two counselors, who were supposed to
be watching him, were off having sex and not paying attention. The last
girl, Alice (Adrienne King), fends off Mrs. Voorhees long enough to
grab a machete to decapitate her. For Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981),
Jason's death as a boy is retconned, and he gets his revenge on the
girl who decapitated his mother. Afterward, Jason (Steve Daskewisz)
returns to Crystal Lake, guarding it from all intruders. Five years
later, a group of teenagers come to Crystal Lake to set up a new camp,
only for Jason to murder them, one by one. Ginny Field (Amy Steel), the
lone survivor, finds a cabin in the woods with a shrine built around
the severed head of Mrs. Voorhees, and surrounded by mutilated corpses.
Ginny fights back, and slams a machete through Jason's shoulder. Jason
is left for dead as Ginny is taken away in an ambulance. In Friday the
13th Part III (1982), Jason (Richard Brooker) finds his way to Higgins
Haven, Chris' family land at Cystal Lake. At the same time, Chris
Higgins (Dana Kimmell) returns to the property with some friends. 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 seemingly
kills Jason with an axe to his head, but the night's events drive her
into hysteria as the police take her away.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) continues where Part III
leaves off, with Jason (Ted White) found by the police and taken to the
morgue at the Wessex County Medical Center. Once delivered, Jason, not
dead, awakens and kills the coroner and a nurse, and then makes his way
back to Crystal Lake. A group of friends rent a house on Crystal Lake
and fall victim to Jason's rampage. After killing all of the teens next
door, Jason seeks out Trish (Kimberly Beck) and Tommy Jarvis (Corey
Feldman). While distracted by Trish, Jason is attacked and killed by
Tommy. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) tried to move in a new
direction. Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd) was committed to a mental
hospital after the events of The Final Chapter and has grown up
constantly afraid that Jason (Tom Morga) will return. Jason's body was
supposedly cremated after Tommy killed him. Roy Burns (Dick Wieand)
uses Jason's persona to become a copycat killer at the halfway home to
which Tommy was moved. Tommy, supervisor Pam (Melanie Kinnaman), and a
young boy named Reggie (Shavar Ross) manage to defeat Roy. They learn
Roy was motivated to become Jason after witnessing the remains of his
son, whom no one knew about, butchered at the hands of one of the
patients at the institution. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
(1986) had Tommy (Thom Mathews) visiting Jason's grave after being
released from a mental institution. It is revealed that Jason's body
was never actually cremated, but buried in Forest Green cemetery
(formerly Crystal Lake cemetery). Tommy inadvertently resurrects Jason
(C.J. Graham) via a piece of cemetery fence, which acts as a lightning
rod. Jason remains in Forest Green, believing it is Crystal Lake. After
killing the new camp counselors working there, Jason is chained to a
boulder by Tommy, and left at the bottom of the lake to die.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) begins an indeterminate
amount of time after Jason Lives. Jason (Kane Hodder) is resurrected
again, this time by the telekinetic Tina Shepard (Lar Park Lincoln),
who was trying to resurrect her father. Jason once again begins killing
those who occupy Crystal Lake, and, after a battle with Tina, is
returned to the bottom of the lake. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason
Takes Manhattan (1989) sees Jason return from the lake, brought back to
life via an underwater electrical cable. He follows a group of students
on their senior class trip to Manhattan, boarding the Lazarus to wreak
havoc. Upon reaching Manhattan, Jason kills the rest of the survivors,
with the exception of Rennie (Jensen Daggett) and Sean (Scott Reeves);
he chases the final two into the sewers, where Jason is caught and
melted away by toxic waste. In Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
(1993), Jason, through unexplained resurrection, returns to Crystal
Lake, where he is being hunted by the F.B.I.. The F.B.I. sets up a
sting to kill Jason, which proves successful. Through possession, Jason
manages to survive by passing his black heart from one being to the
next. Though Jason is hardly seen throughout the film, it is learned
that he has a sister and niece, and that he needs them to get his body
back. After resurrecting his own body, Jason is finally killed by his
niece, Jessica Kimble (Kari Keegan), and dragged to Hell.
Jason X (2002) takes place in the future, where Jason has again been
inexplicably resurrected. He is being held and experimented upon in a
research facility. It is determined that he has regenerative
capabilities and that cryonic suspension is the only possible solution
to stop him since he cannot be killed. Jason breaks out of captivity
and manages to slice through the cryo-chamber, spilling the cryonics
into the room freezing the only other survivor, Rowan (Lexa Doig). Four
hundred and fifty-five years later, Jason's body is discovered by a
team of students studying Earth. Upon being thawed by the team, he
proceeds to murder everyone aboard the spacecraft, before finally being
blown into space, and landing on Earth 2. The most recent Friday the
13th film was a crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street, entitled
Freddy vs. Jason (2003). Set in the contemporary period, Freddy Krueger
(Robert Englund) has grown weak, as people in Springwood, his home,
have suppressed their fear of him. Freddy, who is impersonating Pamela
Voorhees (Paula Shaw), sends Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to Springwood to
cause panic and fear. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop
killing. A battle ensues in both the dream-world and Crystal Lake. The
outcome is left ambiguous, as Jason surfaces from the lake holding
Freddy's severed head, which winks and laughs.
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