Friday the 13th (film)/YMMV

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The movies

  • Awesome Music: Harry Manfredini's score for the first film seems like "generic" slasher film music today thanks to Seinfeld Is Unfunny, but that's because it was arguably as memorable and inspirational as John Carpenter's Halloween theme.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: Jason shaves the beard of one of his victims before possessing him in Jason Goes to Hell. No explanation is given.
    • Obviously Jason didn't want to get tickled while forcibly squirming down the guy's throat.
      • According to the two-disk DVD set His Name Was Jason, which covers the making of the series over thirty years, it was an attempt to insert a homoerotic element in a series that had a great double standard in its sexual exploitation.
    • The two fight scenes in Friday the 13th part V where Tommy beats up Eddie in the first scene and Junior in the second scenes. Surprisingly for a person who spent the rest of his childhood in an insane asylum he knows some pretty decent MMA style moves. However there is the odd question: How and when did he learn them? Was there a JKD class in the asylum he was in. Did Dan Inosanto stop by during visiting hours or is Tommy really that crazy? Though the latter is most likely since most media crazies like the Joker and Freddy know some fancy moves themselves; but after each of these fight scenes despite Tommy going from Jason killer to power ranger (Seriously there is a Jason and Tommy in that show too.) nobody ever speaks of it again. Not even in a brief scene. Hell, Pam or Reggie could have had a brief moment and just walked up to him and say. "Oh hi Tommy how is it going? Oh by the way how the hell did you do that!?" Finally, I know part VI was trying to stay as far away from V as possible but did his ability to channel Bruce Lee all of the sudden ran away in fear when Jason came back? True Jason was stronger in that movie, but it would have at least helped Tommy put up a fight.
  • Critical Research Failure: Jason sails a boat to the local harbor... from a lake. He sails a boat... to the ocean... from a closed body of water in the middle of a forest.
    • Actually, unless it was a manmade lake, most bodies of water are connected to a larger source.
    • In part VIII, apparently the sewer system in New York city get flooded with toxic waste every night.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Believe it or not, it's been done to Mr. Voorhees. He has an astonishing amount of fanfiction where he falls in love with the one girl who he doesn't kill. Frequently going through Wimpification and becoming a literate mentally sound gentleman who just happens to go on mindless merciless killing sprees now and then.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: A few minor characters proved quite popular among fans. Some examples would be Crazy Ralph from Part 1 and 2, and Violet from A New Beginning.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Shavar Ross, who plays Reggie (who becomes orphaned, you couldn't guess how!) in Part V, went to play an orphan called Reggie in the pilot episode of MacGyver.
    • In Part VIII, Jason (played by Kane Hodder) chases the protagonists to a diner, where a huge chef tries stop him and gets thrown across the room for his trouble. Actor playing that huge chef? Ken Kirzinger, a stuntman who would later replace Kane Hodder as Jason in Freddy vs. Jason.
  • It Was His Sled: The killer of the original film is probably known to most people who are familiar with the series. Though to those unfamiliar with the series, they still might be surprised to see Jason's lack of appearance.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: Jason's leitmotif.
  • Narm: Part III's disco theme.
    • "He had a knife, and he attacked me with it!!!"
    • Crispin Glover's Dance Scene in Part IV.
      • Rob's death in the above film.
    • Safe to say the narm was intentional after the fifth film. At least until the remake.
    • Interestingly, averted with the death scenes in Part V, which can verge on disturbingly realistic. Especially Robin's death rattle.
  • Narm Charm: Arguably, the majority of Jason X, if not the series as a whole.
  • Nightmare Fuel: What happens to Jason's victims after he leaves from their bodies in Jason Goes to Hell.
  • Nightmare Retardant: Jason has become one over the years.
    • Kind of ironic, really. Think about it: if, in Real Life, you found yourself being pursued by a relentless, pissed-off, virtually indestructible mass murderer who was built like a pro athlete and wanted nothing more than to bury a machete in your head, wouldn't you be just a little bit scared?
  • Rooting for the Empire: With protagonists like these, who wouldn't want Jason to kill them all off?
  • Sequelitis: Oh my.
  • Squick: Jason tries to possess the body of his baby grand-niece in Jason Goes to Hell.
    • When that fails he possesses his dead sister instead. Through her private parts.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks: A New Beginning, Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell, and Jason X are often victims of this.

The NES video game

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