The 'magic teen” horror movie became an increasingly common sight throughout the ‘80s for several reasons. A flop largely hated by fans, this was the first Friday the 13th movie to not feature Jason Voorhees since the original, and the Friday the 13th sequel soon became the last to attempt this stunt. Giallo-style whodunnits that kept their killer's identity a mystery like The Dorm That Dripped Blood, Happy Birthday to Me, and My Bloody Valentine had proven popular among slasher fans, so the Friday the 13th franchise was quick to cash in on this trend with Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. The Friday the 13th movies could have continued to send new camp counselors to Crystal Lake and sat back as Jason killed them off in inventive ways (and indeed, that is what later sequels did), but the fourth film in the series instead felt the need to add an element of mystery to proceedings.

The Whodunit SequelĪs soon as the underrated Friday the 13th Part III provided Jason Voorhees with a perfect template for future sequels, the franchise immediately threw out this formula in exchange for a more on-trend style. This resulted in viewers getting a whodunit-style sequel that dropped Jason entirely, a sequel that forced Jason to face off against telekineses, and even a truly misjudged space-set sequel.

After the first few Friday the 13th movies established the basic setup of the series, almost every subsequent sequel took a leaf from other franchises and borrowed elements of other successful slashers in an attempt to cash in on their success. However, for better or worse, the Friday the 13th movies were at least consistent in the franchise’s creative copying. Related: Freddy Vs Jason Almost Recreated Nightmare On Elm Street’s Worst Twist In others, like 2001’s misguided trip into space, Jason X saw the formula almost sink the entire Friday the 13th franchise for good.

In some cases, like Friday the 13th’s surprisingly good 2009 reboot, this approach paid off. As far back as 1980’s original Friday the 13th, the franchise’s own creators admitted that the saga of Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake began life as a knock-off of 1978’s Halloween.Īfter its initial success, the Friday the 13th franchise never gave up on stealing ideas from other successful series. The Friday the 13th movies have never been prized by horror fans for their originality. Although the Friday the 13th franchise never hid the fact that the series was open to copying other successful slashers, the amount of genre trends that the series followed is still almost impressive.

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