One of many nice tragedies of horror cinema is that the Friday the thirteenth franchise doesn’t include 13 motion pictures. Worse, it has been caught at 12 entries because the launch of the 2009 reboot movie, merely known as Friday the thirteenth. But when the screenwriters of that film, Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, had their method, we might have had a thirteenth Jason film years in the past.
Talking to ComicBook.com about their present film Ship Assist, directed by Sam Raimi, Swift and Shannon revealed some particulars about their deliberate sequel. “It might have been Friday the thirteenth Half 13. We had huge ambitions for it,” Shannon recalled. “I believe it was known as The Demise of Jason Voorhees. Camp Blood: The Demise of Jason Voorhees.”
That title will definitely increase some eyebrows amongst F13 followers, as a result of Jason Voorhees has died a number of occasions. There was the superb Friday the thirteenth: The Remaining Chapter, which ended with Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) killing the masked assassin, a dying that producers at Paramount meant to stay. After which there was Jason Goes to Hell: The Remaining Friday, which started with Jason getting blown as much as little bits by the FBI… solely to disclose that he’s actually a demon worm that hops from physique to physique. Heck, the entire franchise relies on the premise that Jason is useless, because it was his drowning as a boy at Camp Crystal lake that despatched mama Pamela Voorhees on a killing spree for the primary movie.
Nonetheless, it’s vital to do not forget that, a.) strict continuity has by no means been a part of the Friday the thirteenth franchise; and b.) that Camp Blood: The Demise of Jason Voorhees could be a sequel to the reboot movie. The 2009 film paid homage to the primary three movies by opening with Pamela (performed by Nana Customer of Star Trek: Deep House 9 fame) being beheaded on the finish of her homicide rampage. Then, it went into an prolonged sequence of Jason killing folks whereas sporting a bag over his head, as he does in Friday the thirteenth Half 2, earlier than he will get his hockey masks within the film’s current day, replicating the arrival of the masks within the third movie.
