How to Watch the Friday the 13th Movies in Chronological Order

For 30 years, lumbering lunatic Jason Voorhees -- whether helium was a backwoods psycho oregon an undead maniac -- terrorized New Jersey's scenic Crystal Lake (and occasionally Manhattan and aboriginal Outer Space). By the 3rd Friday the 13th film, successful 1982, the murderous Jason yet acquired what would go his signature look, with a hockey disguise covering his misshapen face, transforming him into a fearfulness villain icon for the ages.

There hasn't been a Friday the 13th movie since the 2009 Platinum Dunes reboot (during the decennary of 70s/80s fearfulness reboots). In the 2010's, ineligible battles implicit the film's rights drove the franchise to different platforms. With Horror, Inc.'s announcement of a caller "Jason Universe," it looks similar we'll beryllium seeing the iconic villain backmost connected the large surface successful the adjacent future.

For now, determination are inactive 12 Friday the 13th movies to binge-watch during Spooky Season (yes, the Halloween franchise got to 13 movies earlier Friday the 13th) and we've got a rundown of the close bid to marathon them. It each starts reasonably casual arsenic astir of the saga is numbered, but past it gets a spot dicier since the movies conscionable commencement having Jason successful the rubric (and 1 movie takes spot successful a distant cosmic future). So if you're into checking these celebrated slasher movies retired successful chronological order, we've got you covered.

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How Many Friday the 13th Movies Are There?

There are 12 movies successful the Friday the 13th/Jason fearfulness movie franchise, with 8 of them, from 1980 to 1989, representing the classical Paramount Pictures Friday the 13th collection. Following this, New Line took implicit the rights and gave fans 4 precise different, chiseled Jason movies, including 2003's Freddy vs. Jason which took implicit 15 years to afloat develop.

The Friday the 13th Movies successful (Chronological) Order

1. Friday the 13th (1980)

John Carpenter's Halloween whitethorn beryllium credited arsenic kicking disconnected the '80s slasher/horror craze but genuinely it was 1980's Friday the 13th, which itself was a somewhat evident replication of Halloween, that truly lit the spark. So overmuch truthful that the film's landmark gore and precocious assemblage number brought astir (and changed the code of) Halloween's ain sequel. Almost immediately, slasher movie clones, each with a "mystery killer," loads of dormant teenagers, and (often) an attached vacation oregon celebratory lawsuit followed and the decennary of slashers and slasher sequels was born. For those unaware, Jason is not the slayer successful the archetypal movie, helping Friday the 13th basal isolated from the remainder of the franchise portion besides starting the craze of having a whodunnit? murderer connected the loose, harboring bitter resentment implicit a past incident/tragedy. Summer campy was besides present a spot of dread, everlastingly more.

This movie is acceptable successful 1979 (though the 2009 reboot has the events happening successful 1980).

2. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Set five years later, which would marque it 1984, Friday the 13th Part 2 brings Jason Voorhess into the fold arsenic the killer, covering his look with a burlap sack (and 1 oculus hole) for the last enactment of this rampage. Thought to person died successful a Camp Crystal Lake drowning accident, Jason fundamentally lived unsocial successful the surrounding woods, going huffy implicit the years, and becoming a section myth. Part 2 moves better, pacing-wise, than the archetypal movie and has a famous, formidable "final girl" successful Amy Steel's Ginny.

3. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

Going from numbers to roman numerals, and shifting from 2D to "early '80s craze" 3D, the 3rd Friday the 13th movie picks up close wherever Part 2 leaves off, truthful these 2 movies fundamentally instrumentality spot implicit the people of 2 days. Jason gets his infamous trademark hockey disguise with the reddish triangles arsenic the communicative shifts distant from summertime campy scenarios and campy counsellor victims to conscionable immoderate young adults trying to walk the play with friends successful a abrogation cabin. No 1 is harmless now, not adjacent regular townsfolk, arsenic Jason's murderous appetite is afloat awakened.

4. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Truly designed to beryllium the final Friday the 13th movie, aft a 2 twelvemonth interruption (and with the slasher roar dying disconnected successful 1984), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, erstwhile again, extends Jason's termination spree a fewer much days. Taking spot conscionable a mates days aft Part III -- truthful inactive acceptable successful 1984 (the merchandise day present matches the events of the past 2 movies) -- Jason survives his injuries and goes connected to slaughter much charismatic young people. Only to beryllium taken down, successful the end, by 12-year-old Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) successful a machete-wielding onslaught that outright kills the illustrious Mr. Voorhees for good. Yup, helium dead.

5. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

But Jason's dead, right? What the heck? Friday the 13th: A New Beginning -- 1 of the grodiest, sleaziest Friday entries (the manager came from the realm of hardcore porn) -- recovered a mode to bring "Jason" backmost successful a somewhat inexpensive way. Set successful 1989, a present 17-year-old Tommy Jarvis indispensable woody with a caller execution spree astatine the secluded younker attraction halfway he's tribunal ordered to beryllium astatine owed to his lingering trauma. Considering what happens next, A New Beginning is really skippable if request be. The completionist successful you mightiness triumph out, though.

6. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Taking spot aft A New Beginning, successful 1990, if you take to judge A New Beginning happened astatine all, a grown Tommy Jarvis inadvertently brings Jason Voorhees' corpse backmost to life, starting the authoritative zombie epoch for Jason. Yes, he's present an existent reanimated corpse, implicit with a rotting undead look underneath the hockey mask. Jason Lives is simply a wild, amusive Friday flick that embraces the sillier aspects of the ongoing communicative portion giving america Jason vs. Tommy 1 last time.

7. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood keeps the craziness going with not conscionable a zombie Jason but besides a telekinetic last miss (Jason vs. Carrie was however the movie was conceived). At this point, 8 years into the run, the timeline wasn't yet each that important. Basically, this movie takes spot after the others, with 17-year-old Tina (Lar Park Lincoln), and her quality to determination s*** with her mind, having had a traumatic lawsuit hap to her astatine Crystal Lake erstwhile she was 10. Since this movie is acceptable successful 1997 (the future!), her puerility atrocious clip would person happened successful 1990, not excessively agelong aft the events of Jason Lives.

8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Set aft The New Blood, by possibly a twelvemonth (so 1998), Jason Takes Manhattan took our lad retired of the woods and into the Big Apple (eventually, aft a agelong vessel thrust that takes up 2 acts of the movie) and the alteration of scenery is each worthy it for the 1 large on-location 360 changeable of Jason successful Times Square. The Friday the 13th franchise, this acold in, conscionable wasn't acrophobic with details. The young victims successful the movie fundamentally cognize an municipality fable astir "a kid who drowned years agone who present mightiness beryllium retired determination sidesplitting people" and, honestly, that's each the filmmakers wanted radical to cognize too. Jason was a portion of the pop-culture cloth present and this is what astir mean moviegoers knew astir him. And though we wouldn't spot Jason connected the large surface for 4 years aft this, the biggest interruption truthful far, the extremity of Jason Takes Manhattan does acceptable up the events successful Jason Goes to Hell since the FBI really notices each the murders by the extremity of this movie.

9. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

The lone '90s Jason movie was an insane affair, featuring the slightest magnitude of Jason since the archetypal movie. Absolutely obliterated by an FBI task force, Jason's evil essence, successful the signifier of demonic achromatic blood, escapes and possesses others, making this mostly a assemblage snatcher movie. With 1 of the biggest supernatural near turns successful the franchise, Jason Goes to Hell, acceptable 5 years aft Jason Takes Manhattan, so 2003, is 1 of the astir polarizing films successful the franchise's multi-decade run. The movie besides marks Kane Hodder's 3rd clip arsenic Jason (he'll get 1 more) portion besides allowing him to don the Freddy mitt astatine the extremity (a tease for a movie we'd spot 10 years later).

11. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Their ain reboots aside, this is the past clip we'd spot some Jason and chap slasher fable A Nightmare connected Elm Street's Freddy Krueger successful their O.G. timeline forms. And what a past basal it was. Freddy vs. Jason was an implicit blast that delivered connected the committedness of a hard-hitting heavyweight bout betwixt these 2 icons. Hong Kong cinema's, and Bride of Chucky's, Ronny Yu directed the hellhole retired of this arsenic Freddy vs. Jason was a tremendous nonstop disconnected (if this was genuinely it for some of them) for these movie monsters, adjacent transforming Jason into a de facto leader to basal for implicit Freddy. The Jason movies, timeline-wise, are present benignant of islands unto themselves, with nary existent connective tissue. So it's dealer's prime with these past three. They're each precise antithetic experiences.

See our usher to the Nightmare connected Elm Street movies successful order.

12. Friday the 13th (2009)

At this constituent you whitethorn beryllium longing for the woods again, nostalgic for Jason's aged stomping/slashing ground, truthful deed up 2009's afloat Friday the 13th reboot, from manager Marcus Nispel who recovered occurrence with his Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot successful 2003. CW stars Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and Danielle Panabaker (The Flash) took the pb roles present successful a movie that portrays Jason arsenic a murderous survivalist-type (he's got tunnels, traps, floodlights, etc) who conscionable maybe besides has a monolithic marijuana workplace tucked distant successful the wood truthful that helium tin lure young adults into his lair. Now, getting into logistics here, this isn't a remake of the first Friday the 13th movie, which arsenic you cognize didn't person Jason arsenic the killer. This is much similar Part 2, successful a way, since the events of the archetypal movie already happened and they've driven Jason into a revenge-bent mindset.

10. Jason X (2002)

We whitethorn arsenic good prevention the astir outrageous Jason movie for last, right? And - hey! - it adjacent lines up successful a chronological consciousness since Jason X not lone takes spot successful abstraction but besides over 400 years later. In this Friday film's reality, Jason was captured and really enactment connected proceedings (so then...not a zombie?) and was yet cryogenically frozen. Hundreds of years later, with the Earth uninhabitable, a cosmic subject tract travel leads students to our wasteland wherever Jason gets picked up, unfrozen, and...yup, you guessed it. Not lone is Jason a defrosted abstraction maniac aboard a elephantine spaceship successful this movie, but the 3rd enactment has him augmented with cybernetic parts and nano-technology. Jason X was made due to the fact that Freddy vs. Jason had stalled truthful it exists due to the fact that New Line wanted to support Jason successful the nationalist consciousness (since it had been astir a decennary since Jason was connected screen).

How to Watch the Friday the 13th Movies by Release Date

If you're looking to ticker each the movies successful theatrical merchandise order, the close database is below:

1. Friday the 13th (1980)
2. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
3. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
4. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
5. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
6. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
7. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
9. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
10. Jason X (2002)
11. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
12. Friday the 13th (2009)

The Future of the Friday the 13th Franchise

After years of entanglements implicit rights, Friday the 13th is officially entering a caller era. Per an exclusive IGN report, Horror, Inc. is launching the "Jason Universe." Upcoming projects see Crystal Lake, a prequel bid with Horror, Inc.'s President, Robert Barsamian, connected committee arsenic enforcement producer. Victor Miller, the archetypal film's writer, is besides progressive successful the project.

At SDCC 2025, a "Jason Universe" sheet confirmed that different sequel movie arsenic good arsenic a caller Friday the 13th video crippled are some successful development. Details astir these projects are sparse, but for present it seems the franchise is headed successful a coagulated direction.