New Video Compiles All The Fake-Out Jason Voorhees Scares From ‘Friday The 13th’

After the introduction of Jason Voorhees as a hockey mask wearing killer in the Friday the 13th franchise, fans grew accustomed to seeing the killer regularly pop up to frighten victims. In addition to the iconic killer, the franchise also regularly faked out the audience by implying the killer was lurking in the shadows, only to allow the characters to breathe a sigh of relief when Jason wasn’t there.

YouTube user WatsonTheScot compiled footage from all the Friday the 13th films in which the director faked out audiences, which you can check out in the video below!

Much like the characters in the compilation above, actual audiences have to get comfortable without seeing Jason Voorhees in the near future, as there have been many starts and stops in a planned sequel, with legal proceedings underway to help determine the franchise’s future.

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Victor Miller, writer of the original Friday the 13th, claims that he should partially own the concept and title of the original film, due to the amount of work he put into it. The film’s director, Sean S. Cunningham, says otherwise, and that he’s not entitled to own either the franchise’s name or Jason Voorhees himself.

The key component in the legal matter is whether or not Miller wrote the script under the advisement of the Writer’s Guild of America, in which case his employer, the WGA, has a right to the franchise, as he was merely working for them to write the script. Miller argues, however, that the script wasn’t completed through his WGA work and that he made significant enough changes to Cunningham’s original concept to be entitled to ownership.

Depending on the court’s verdict, it’s possible that new films could be made in the franchise that need to completely remove Jason Voorhees, or films could be made internationally with both the “Friday the 13th” title and Voorhees as a character, but couldn’t achieve domestic distribution.

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Back in January, reports began to surface that the latest installment in the Friday the 13th franchise would begin filming in March, giving audiences hope that they could see the killer return to the big screen. When February rolled around, however, a slate of upcoming release schedules released by Paramount saw the film lose its release date completely, putting the entire project’s franchise into jeopardy.