Friday the 13th - Watch Order: Release Order

1980 - 200912 Films18h 26m2.9 Average

The complete Friday the 13th franchise chronicles the murderous legacy of Crystal Lake and its infamous killer Jason Voorhees across nearly three decades of horror cinema. Beginning as a straightforward revenge tale, the series evolved Jason from a vengeful human into an unstoppable supernatural force, cementing his status alongside Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger as a horror icon.

This theatrical release order shows the evolution of filmmaking techniques and the character's development through different creative teams and studios, culminating with the 2009 reboot that reimagined the origin story.

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Friday the 13th

19801h 35m3.5
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Friday the 13th Part 2

19811h 26m3.4
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Amy Steel, Adrienne King, John Furey, Betsy Palmer, Steve Dash

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

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Friday the 13th Part III

19821h 35m3.1
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Dana Kimmell, Catherine Parks, Richard Brooker, Tracie Savage, David Wiley

An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

19841h 31m3.3
Director: Joseph Zito
Cast: Judie Aronson, Kimberly Beck, Joan Freeman, Barbara Howard, Corey Feldman

After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

19851h 32m2.7
Director: Danny Steinmann
Cast: Tiffany Helm, John Shepherd, Juliette Cummins, Melanie Kinnaman, Richard Young

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters.

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

19861h 26m3.4
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Cast: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, Darcy DeMoss, Ann Ryerson, Renée Jones

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

19881h 28m2.8
Director: John Carl Buechler
Cast: Lar Park Lincoln, Kane Hodder, Terry Kiser, Kevin Spirtas, Susan Jennifer Sullivan

Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

19891h 40m2.3
Director: Rob Hedden
Cast: Jensen Daggett, Sharlene Martin, Scott Reeves, Tiffany Paulsen, Alex Diakun

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

19931h 28m2.1
Director: Adam Marcus
Cast: Kane Hodder, John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Steven Williams, Steven Culp

Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

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Jason X

20011h 31m2.3
Director: James Isaac
Cast: Kane Hodder, Jeff Geddis, Lexa Doig, David Cronenberg, Markus Parilo

In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!

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Freddy vs. Jason

20031h 37m3.3
Director: Ronny Yu
Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland

Freddy enlists Jason to kill on his behalf on Elm Street, after realizing that he can't haunt dreams because people no longer fear him.

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Friday the 13th

20091h 37m3
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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