It was a bloody beginning to a long tradition.
But noteveryFriday the Thirteenth is unfortunate, no matter how much blood gets spilled.
For example,Friday the 13th: The Final Chapterwas very lucky.
But it wasnt so lucky.
The son of a bitch gave us something to remember him by.
Zito was lucky enough to get two salaries from the movie.
But the film ends with the promise of great and terrible things.
This Is the Film That Really Resurrected Jason Voorhees.
The movie was the fourth part of the plannedFriday the 13thfilm trilogy.
The franchise hacked out seven more installments.
Audiences were suffering slasher fatigue and Paramount Pictures was reportedly embarrassed by helping to start the whole thing.
The film came in at number 26 on the list of the top grossing films of 1984.
Everybody Gets Lucky
Slasher movies are in many ways the ultimate cautionary sex tales.
As they point out intheScreammovies, getting laid in a slasher film will get you killed.
Its one of the laws of physics.
read more: Why Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash Never Happened
Almosteveryonegets laid inThe Final Chapter.
Even Glovers dweeby Jimmy gets it on with the identically-dressed fraternal twins.
John Travolta was recognizable from a PSA he appeared in before he was Vinny Barbarino onWelcome Back Kotter.
David Naughton was a Pepper before he transformed intoAn American Werewolf in London.
Nurse Morgan is slit down her entire chest with a scalpel in the storeroom.
Samantha gets it with a bowie knife.
Paul dies in what sounds like an outtake fromJaws.
Terri gets pinned against a window shutter by a spear.
Mrs. Jarvis doesnt come in from the rain.
Jimmy gets the one-two trust of a corkscrew and a meat cleaver.
Tina gets totaled on top of a station wagon.
Ted is jerked from life by a Teddy Bear.
Dougs post-coital shower is rudely interrupted.
Sara gets what she axed for.
Rob is mowed down with a 3-pronged garden claw.
Corey Feldman Favored With A Nip Slip
Little Tommy Jarvis could have had it all.
The kid is 12 years old.
Feldman reportedly got the last giggle.
Feldman kept it to himself and hoped for retakes.
Crispin also reportedly forced a production shut down so he could fish his toy yellow submarine from Crystal Lake.
as hes getting stabbed and Trish just takes off to save her ass.
while he was being stabbed in New York City and nobody stepped in or called for help.
Lucky to Score Real Drugs
Actors and their methods.
According to reports, life imitated art.
Like sex, doing drugs carries a death penalty in slasher flicks.
While the joint didnt kill Monoson, it killed the performance.
According to reports he got paranoid and couldnt finish the scene.
Lucky Enough to Catch Real Screams
Screams never sound real in oldhorror movies.
Tommy Jervis is Tom Savini.
Tommy wants to be a make-up artist if he grows up.
Hes handy with a screwdriver.
Tommy is the only male and the only child to survive a Jason attack.
But he is changed.
Tommy hacks away at Jason with the machete like hes discovering his own true animal.
Does he become the new Jason?
Or does he turn that newfound bloodlust into a career in cinematic gore?
The end of Jason end coincided with Freddys beginning.
