Still, the movie manages to give Jason one incredible kill, early in the film. After having sex with his girlfriend Gibb (Katharine Isabelle), meathead Trey Hutch (Jesse Hutch) leaves to clean off. Like the most bro-tastic of bros, Trey immediately cracks into a brewski, but he’s interrupted by Jason, who starts stabbing away. When the bubbling beer can in Trey’s hand indicates that he’s still alive, Jason grabs both sides of the bed and folds it closed, bending Trey backwards in the process.
3. Death by Enchiladas (A New Beginning)
As this list shows, characters in Friday the 13th movies don’t act like normal people. That’s especially true of the fifth movie, A New Beginning. After the death of Jason in The Final Chapter, A New Beginning tries to reboot with another whodunnit involving someone dressed like Jason. The mystery isn’t interesting, but there’s enough strangeness involved to elevate the film, as seen in its best kill.
Like most Friday the 13th couples, biker Demon (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.) and his girlfriend Anita (Jere Fields) like making out. However, their makeout session comes to an abrupt end when Demon’s stomach starts gurgling, sending him running to the outhouse while complaining about “damned enchiladas.” Undeterred, Anita stands outside the outhouse and starts singing, prompting Demon to continue the duet from inside the campground outhouse. Their stinky serenade comes to an end when the killer arrives to slit Anita’s throat and then starts stabbing into the outhouse, eventually impaling Demon.
2. Sleeping Bag Beatdown (The New Blood)
As a horror series set at a campground, Friday the 13th has a lot of sleeping bag deaths. The best of all came in one of the weaker entries, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Directed by the great John Carl Buechler, The New Blood goes for a sort of monster mash, pitting Jason against Tina Shepherd (Lar Park Lincoln), a girl with Carrie-like telekinetic powers. The match makes for some absurd fight scenes, none of which drive the best kill scene.
Unlike others on this list, Judy (Debora Kessler) does not have sex with her boyfriend Dan (Michael Schroeder). Instead, she sends him off to find firewood first, and slips into her sleeping bag to prepare for her return. That’s when Jason returns, cutting open her tent and yanking her sleeping bag outside. He drags Judy into the woods and slams the sleeping bag against a tree, dropping her bloody body onto the ground. It’s a nasty kill, ironically made worse by the MPAA’s insistence that Buechler cut the shot down to a single slam.
1. Frozen Face (Jason X)
Jason X is easily the dumbest movie in the Friday the 13th franchise. To be clear, I mean that as a compliment. Writer Todd Farmer and director James Isaac completely ignore good sense and good taste to tell a bizarre story set in 2455, when a group of space-traveling archeology students recover Jason’s cryogenically frozen body. Jason stays dormant at first, that is until a professor and a student sneak off for a tryst, the sounds of extramarital sex pulling him back to life.
