Friday The 13th (Franchise)

The Friday The 13th franchise, might be the most iconic slasher franchise of all time! It is known for creating horror icon, Jason Voorhees and the iconic location, Camp Crystal Lake.

Creation
The series was created by Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller, in 1980. Although filming started in 1979. The project was funded by Paramount, on a shoe-string budget. In all honesty, it was originally a blatant rip-off of Halloween! Despite this the first movie came out and scarred audiences everywhere, even having the headline "THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER MADE"! Although, critics where initially divided on the project. Fun Fact (that everybody knows at this point): Jason wasn't actually the original killer! He wasn't even supposed to be in any films, outside of the second one! Instead, the franchise was going to be an anthology series of sorts. Despite this, Jason appeared in the second film, and then appeared again in the third film, this time getting his iconic hockey mask.

More and more sequels began getting produced, and the rest is slasher film history!