Friday the 13th

The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the more popular horror franchises in the world, starring the infamous Jason Voorhees, easily one of the most popular horror characters of all-time.

The franchise started in 1980, the first film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller.
Friday the 13th (1980) is considered to be one of the first slasher horror films, and it produced $59.8 million at the box office.

The movie starts off with young Jason Voorhees, a special needs boy with facial disfiguration who attends a camp called Camp Crystal Lake.
He is bullied at the camp because of his deformities to a point where he gets pushed into the lake and ends up drowning.

Jason’s mother finds out about his death  and seeks revenge on all the camp counselors, blaming them for the death of Jason. Jason’s mother kills all the counselors but eventually she gets killed by one of them, getting her head cut off by a machete. Jason, presumably dead, is actually alive and witnesses his mother getting beheaded and vows to kill everyone at Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason Voorhees took Manhattan in Friday the 13th Part VIII, and also faced the infamous Freddy Kruger, the main antagonist from The Nightmare On Elm Street franchise, in Freddy vs. Jason.

The Friday the 13th films have been deemed the best horror films of all time by Watch Mojo.  Jason Voorhees is also regarded as one of the leading cultural icons of American pop culture.

The most notable films in the franchise are the original Friday the 13th, Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. If you haven’t seen the films and are looking for a scare you may consider looking into them this Halloween.