Friday the 13th: Top 13 WTF Moments
Steve Barton
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4. It’s almost like you guys aren’t really trying … (All movies)
With the exception of Jason Lives, which saw pro-active and (largely) intelligent police, the rest of Crystal Lake’s finest seem to enforce the law with the least amount of effort possible.
From their refusal to check on the kids in Friday 3 (despite the unsolved killing spree the night before) and then again in Friday 4 (where now there have been two bloodbaths and a missing killer) – their ineptitude is staggering. In Friday 5, Sheriff Tucker suspects Jason Voorhees is behind the murders but does’t do a damn thing until the post-climax epilogue.
How many lives might’ve been saved if he’d done the detective work to connect Joey and Roy? I guess we’ll never find out.
3. The rape theory… (Friday the 13th part III)
One of the most interesting discussions to come out of the series is the rape theory from Friday 3. When Chris recalls her earlier encounter with Jason, she admits to blacking out while being dragged into the woods. But she doesn’t remember anything more.
So what happened? Was Jason scared away by a search party? Did the “frightened retard” have his way with an early victim before deciding that he liked murder better? Why wouldn’t Chris’ parents talk about what happened? What are they hiding?
I honestly don’t know how I feel about this theory, but I appreciate that it exists. It gives Jason an extra dimension of creepiness and certainly makes for conversation.
2. Who took that picture!? (Friday the 13th – A New Beginning)
In the ultimate example of someone just not thinking, we have a semi-recent picture of Jason taken up close and personal. But how? Of the lucky few people to have survived one of Jason’s killing sprees, no one ever took his picture.
Maybe (and this is a HUGE maybe), you can rationalize this as security camera footage from the hospital. But considering the angle, that doesn’t really work.
So what we have is a massive head scratcher. A moment where the filmmakers (I love you, Danny Steinmann) tried to pull a fast one and hoped no one would notice. The end result? One of my favorite WTF moments in the entire franchise.
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