The primary a part of Half 2 (1981) takes place 5 years after the primary movie, with the opening of one other camp. The occasions happen over a few days, with no clear indication of which day it’s. Half 3 (1982) begins the day that Half 2 ends and spans by means of the subsequent night, ending when Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell) seemingly kills Jason in a barn. The fourth movie, The Last Chapter (1984), begins the next morning and appears to solely happen throughout a day. Which day? We’re undecided, however even when it’s Friday the thirteenth, meaning Half 2 and Half 3 happen Tuesday the tenth by means of Thursday the twelfth.
And now issues actually get messy. A New Starting (1985) jumps forward one other 5 years to 1989, to seek out Jason’s killer Tommy Jarvis (performed by Corey Feldman in The Last Chapter, now by John Shepherd) in a youth residence. The occasions of the movie cowl a couple of days, however we will assume that the primary murders—dedicated by some random ambulance driver named Roy (Dick Wieand), pretending to be Jason—happen on Friday the thirteenth. The identical should be true of the occasions of Jason Lives! (1986), which happen a 12 months after the earlier movie, even supposing Tommy Jarvis is now performed by Thom Mathews.
On the finish of Jason Lives!, Tommy and Megan (Jennifer Cooke) lure Jason on the backside of Crystal Lake. The New Blood (1988) occurs seven years later in 1997, when telekinetic Tina Shepard (Lar Park Lincoln) makes use of her powers to unintentionally free Jason, setting him off on a homicide rampage. Tina’s powers summon the ghost of her father to tug Jason again to the underside of the lake. In some unspecified time in the future, the anchor from a yacht touring from Crystal Lake to New York Metropolis by some means electrifies Jason’s corpse and brings it again to life. We’re not even certain of the 12 months at this level, however let’s simply say it’s 1998, since Jason Takes Manhattan launched in 1989.
After the disappointing returns on Jason Takes Manhattan Paramount bought the franchise to New Line Cinema, which implies we will lastly repair the timeline with a reboot. Proper?
New Fridays, Identical Issues
Fallacious!
New Line Cinema launched its first entry within the franchise, Jason Goes to Hell: The Last Friday in 1993—5 years earlier than the earlier film takes place. However on condition that the New Line motion pictures don’t have any overt connections to their predecessors made by Paramount, lets say that Jason Goes to Hell acts as a delicate reboot, and that the film takes place in 1993.
