Friday 13th franchise

The original Friday the 13th film was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously worked with filmmaker Wes Craven on the film The Last House on the Left (1972). Cunningham was inspired by John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and films by Mario Bava. Friday the 13th did not even have a completed script when Sean S. Cunningham took out this ad in International Variety magazineThe first film was meant to be really scary and at the same time make the audience laugh. Friday the 13th began with the title "Long Night at Camp Blood" but Cunningham believed in his "Friday the 13th" name and rushed to place an ad in International Variety. Worried that someone else owned the rights to the title and wanting to avoid potential lawsuits, Cunningham thought it would be best to find out immediately. Cunningham commissioned a New York advertising agency to develop his concept of the Friday the 13th , which consisted of big block letters bursting through a pane of glass.

Following the success of Friday the 13th in 1980, Paramount Pictures began plans to make a sequel. The initial ideas for a sequel involved the Friday the 13th title being used for a series of films, released once a year, that would not have direct continuity with each other, but be a separate scary movie of their own right. Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, believed in the idea and would go on to direct the first two sequels, after Cunningham opted not to return to the director's chair. Miner would use many of the same crew members from the first film while working on the sequels.[20]

After the success from the friday 13th, the sequel had to be a little different with something that would grab the audiences attetion so they would come back and watch the film. The directer thought of filming the film in 3-D. It was also able to have the most recognisable image in cinema histroy, the hockey mask. In the 8 th film, the setting changed as they moved Jason New York City.

when Jason Takes Manhattan failed to be successful, Sean Cunningham moved to new line cinema and chose to start work on Freddy vs. Jason. The New Blood. After Jason Takes Manhattan was released in 1989. Jason and freddy finally met in 2003 as the two horror icons clashed together.Potential stories varied widely from Freddy having molested and drowned Jason as a child, to a cult of Freddy worshippers called the "Fred Heads", before settling on the story actually used.