Friday The 13th 10 Worst Kills Of The Franchise

Friday The 13th: 10 Worst Kills Of The Franchise

The Friday the 13th series has come up with many creative ways of killing people, but what are the worst kills in the classic horror franchise?

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When it comes to Friday The 13th, it’s not the atmosphere or the story fans come for. Every person goes into a Friday The 13th for the exact same reason: the kills. Even the filmmakers know this, which is why there have been a plethora of inventive ways to kill someone incorporated throughout the series. And usually, the best kills are saved for the most unlikable of characters.

With twelve movies in the series, Friday The 13th has some iconic kills. However, there is also the opposite side of the spectrum; the kills that are so poorly conceived or executed that they come off as bland or a waste of potential.

10 Disgusting Possession – Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes To Hell gets rid of the hockey mask killer in the first five minutes. So how does Jason Voorhees kill people? His slug-like spirit transfers from body to body, possessing them. In the second act, Jason swaps from a police officer to a news reporter. What happens to the officer’s body is disturbing.

The officer’s body gradually melts in a body horror scene straight out of a David Cronenberg movie. The practical gore on display is impressive but much like with the possessions themselves, the melting feels out of place in a Friday The 13th movie.

9 The Worst Fake Head – Friday The 13th Part 3

Catering to the already annoying 3D gimmick was bad enough when characters were unnaturally throwing and pointing things at the camera. Friday The 13th Part 3 even has kills that play with the 3D. Most of them range from okay to pretty good except for one. Jason squeezes Rick’s head so hard that his eyeball pops out.

This could have been a good kill, but the fake head is too fake, with the string attached to the eyeball being really noticeable. Finally, the eyeball popping out at the screen has no blood and the way the eyeball freezes in mid-air is enough to make anyone laugh.

8 First Blood – Friday The 13th (1980)

Though it may have started the series, the original Friday the 13th did not age well. The very first kill of the movie is a watered-down copy of the first kill from John Carpenter’s Halloween. From the point of view of the killer, the audience sees two teenagers being killed by the mysterious person.

However, instead of an effective shock as in Halloween, the first kill is done below the camera. Meanwhile, the second kill is done in a freeze-frame and the audience never sees the aftermath. If a film is going to imitate Halloween, at least do what made that opening so effective.

7 Stabbed By Camera Man – Friday The 13th (1980)

This one is similar to the opening kill but somehow even lazier. The killer catches Steve’s attention out in the rain. The man approaches and it stabbed below the camera. Unlike in the opening, there was at least a shot of the counselor with the wound. With Steve, it instantly cuts away as he gets stabbed.

Off-screen kills are always a cheap and easy way to get the audience to roll their eyes. Plus, the way the kill is executed, it looks like Steve just walked into the killer’s knife.

6 Someone’s At The Door – Freddy VS Jason

When Jason Voorhees follows the Elm Street kids to Westin Hills in Freddy VS Jason, Jason kills a guard. This kill has a great setup with the guard approaching a large door being bashed from the other side. However, the kill is all off-screen and the viewers never see the guard get crushed.

Now, off-screen kills can be made up for with a good aftermath shot. This kill does show the guard crushed underneath the door, but it’s ruined by a puddle of CGI blood. The CGI blood looks so fake that it makes it even worse than having no aftermath.

5 “He’s Killing Me!” Part IV: The Final Chapter

It’s sad when one of the most beloved entries has a bad kill. After all the build-up throughout Part IV: The Final Chapter of Rob being this rival that is going to fight Jason, he’s killed off way too quickly. He goes into the basement to fight Jason and is pushed into the shadows to be slashed.

Though the character’s death is sad since he was a nice guy, it’s his screams that ruin it. He yells out the words, “He’s killing me” multiple times to the point that it becomes unintentionally comedic. It’s also very clear that Jason is not even touching him, even with the shadows trying to hide it.

4 Jason Takes His Time – Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

This kill from Jason Takes Manhattan is from the prologue, and it’s not a great way to start the body count. Stabbing the boyfriend with the speargun itself is a nice touch, but it’s the girlfriend’s death that is poorly done. Jason finds her hidden in a compartment and uses the spear to do what spears do.

For whatever reason, Jason lowers the spear as slow as a slug for way too long. During that time, the girlfriend just lies there screaming and shaking when she could have easily fought back or escaped. It’s so overly drawn out that it kills any tension that was already lacking.

3 The Smiley Face – Part VI: Jason Lives

Jason Lives embraced a dark horror-comedy tone akin to the Evil Dead movies. This ended up making Jason Lives one of the more memorable and beloved sequels. However, it did go a little overboard with the comedy with one kill.

Most of the comedic deaths of the paintballers are fun to watch. But when Jason throws one misogynistic paintballer into a tree, leaving a perfect smiley face into the tree? That’s not funny, it’s just cartoonish and out of place, even for Jason Lives. It also features a lack of gore that could have redeemed it.

2 What Happened To Mrs. Jarvis? – Part IV: The Final Chapter

As mentioned, off-screen kills are not fan-favorites. This one from Part IV: The Final Chapter is the epitome of bad off-screen kills. A character like Mrs. Jarvis should have been killed on-screen since she was such a likable character; it would have made the audience even more scared of Jason Voorhees.

However, the fact that the kill was off-screen is not the only issue. There is also the fact that all that Mrs. Jarvis is out in the open and from her position, she would have easily seen Jason long prior. Then she screams at nothing then it cuts away: not even a shot of Jason grabbing her to boost the scene.

1 Jason Melts Away – Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Jason Voorhees has died multiple times, and usually in effective ways. Jason Takes Manhattan on the other hand features the worst death of Jason. After an already disappointing unmasking, Jason chases the remaining characters through the sewers until a river of unexplained toxic waste hits him.

Rather than a visually impressive melting scene, Jason’s death is just silly. It gets even worse when she transforms back into a human child for reasons also unexplained. How fitting that the movie that was considered already the worst of the series would end on such a low note.

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