The Creative Deaths Of The Friday the 13th Series: A Pictorial
NOTE: All pics courtesy of Body Bags Count. Also, some are kinda gory, so therefore potentially NSFW. If your work is totally LAME!!!
Party Horn Through The Eye - Friday the 13th Part VII
One of my all-time favorite slasher movie kills, if for no other reason than the horn actually honks when it's jammed in her eye. That's just... god, that's just genius. The perfect blend of cathartic violence and absurdist humor. The only way you could improve on a kill like this would be to substitute one of those party favors that unfurls when you blow on it, and then have it do so when it's stabbed home. Of course, you'd have to set up a pretty elaborate backstory as to why the stabbee has a strong air flow coming out of his or her eye socket, but I think that's a small amount of effort to expend for quite possibly the funniest gross thing ever.
The 3D Eyeball - Friday the 13th Part 3
Not so much noteworthy for the kill itself, but for the filmmaking techniques surrounding it. The third Friday the 13th movie was filmed in 3D, which means that the eyeball came flying at the audience as it was popped out of the dude's skull. Now, granted, the effect was achieved in as cheap a manner as possible... as you can see from the picture above, the fake head was extrememly fake-looking, not to mention the fact that you can see the wire attached to the eyeball, pushing it towards the camera. Still though, they get an "A" for effort.
Bare-Handed Head Crush - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Okay, so maybe I don't technically remember much about this particular kill. The reason I've included it here is because... well... I just really like the screen shot. I mean seriously... OUCH! That's a head crunch if ever there was one, and I really like that you can see the detail work on Jason's grody fingernails. It's nice to see that the make-up people were paying attention. But I just like this movie anyway... Feldman!!! (Corey, not Marty)
Head Punched Off - Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Haha... whatever. I love how Jason went from being just your average, vengence-minded retarded kid to a supernatural demon that can punch people's heads off and teleport like Hayden Christensen in that new movie they've been flogging that looks just awful. Though I'll give the filmmakers this... totally the best use of a mannequin since Mannequin.
Face Frozen in Liquid Nitrogen - Jason X
Oooh, how futuristic! I forget exactly why the spaceship they're all on has big dunk tanks full of liquid nitrogen just sitting around but, considering this is Jason X we're dealing with, I guess it doesn't really matter. The most hilarious part of this sequence is when, post-freezing, he shatters her head on the table like Wesley Snipes at the end of Demolition Man. So was this the most creative death in the Friday the 13th series? Possibly. If so, that's quite an achievment, especially when you consider that it's also the dumbest.
Bonus:
The main titles from every Friday the 13th movie ever made...
Party Horn Through The Eye - Friday the 13th Part VII
One of my all-time favorite slasher movie kills, if for no other reason than the horn actually honks when it's jammed in her eye. That's just... god, that's just genius. The perfect blend of cathartic violence and absurdist humor. The only way you could improve on a kill like this would be to substitute one of those party favors that unfurls when you blow on it, and then have it do so when it's stabbed home. Of course, you'd have to set up a pretty elaborate backstory as to why the stabbee has a strong air flow coming out of his or her eye socket, but I think that's a small amount of effort to expend for quite possibly the funniest gross thing ever.
The 3D Eyeball - Friday the 13th Part 3
Not so much noteworthy for the kill itself, but for the filmmaking techniques surrounding it. The third Friday the 13th movie was filmed in 3D, which means that the eyeball came flying at the audience as it was popped out of the dude's skull. Now, granted, the effect was achieved in as cheap a manner as possible... as you can see from the picture above, the fake head was extrememly fake-looking, not to mention the fact that you can see the wire attached to the eyeball, pushing it towards the camera. Still though, they get an "A" for effort.
Bare-Handed Head Crush - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Okay, so maybe I don't technically remember much about this particular kill. The reason I've included it here is because... well... I just really like the screen shot. I mean seriously... OUCH! That's a head crunch if ever there was one, and I really like that you can see the detail work on Jason's grody fingernails. It's nice to see that the make-up people were paying attention. But I just like this movie anyway... Feldman!!! (Corey, not Marty)
Head Punched Off - Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Haha... whatever. I love how Jason went from being just your average, vengence-minded retarded kid to a supernatural demon that can punch people's heads off and teleport like Hayden Christensen in that new movie they've been flogging that looks just awful. Though I'll give the filmmakers this... totally the best use of a mannequin since Mannequin.
Face Frozen in Liquid Nitrogen - Jason X
Oooh, how futuristic! I forget exactly why the spaceship they're all on has big dunk tanks full of liquid nitrogen just sitting around but, considering this is Jason X we're dealing with, I guess it doesn't really matter. The most hilarious part of this sequence is when, post-freezing, he shatters her head on the table like Wesley Snipes at the end of Demolition Man. So was this the most creative death in the Friday the 13th series? Possibly. If so, that's quite an achievment, especially when you consider that it's also the dumbest.
Bonus:
The main titles from every Friday the 13th movie ever made...
posted by Clinton at 8:52 AM
6 Comments:
I'm sorry... for my money it gets no better than the scene in Jason X when he beats the girl in the sleeping bag to death with the OTHER girl in a sleeping bag.
I can watch that scene over and over and never not laugh.
Oh, word... that was a silly one. But does it count since it didn't *actually* happen (it was part of the VR holodeck thingy)?
nerd
Pretty much, yeah.
Man, Scott beat me to it. That one scene for me basically revived the entire series for me, especially because the last few films have been so utterly craptastic.
At the same time, lets not forget that this is a villain that killed not only the Feldman, but Kevin Bacon as well.
i like the one where jason wraps up a slut in a sleeping bag and bangs her ass against a tree... awesome!
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