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Friday the 13th persists as a pillar of the horror movie genre in spite of itself. Unlike Wes Craven with Elm Street and John Carpenter with Halloween, there aren’t any beloved filmmakers making their marks here. Even so, yearly releases during the 1980s established Jason Voorhees as one of cinema’s scariest killers, but thanks to a whole pile of battles over who actually has the right to make more Friday the 13th flicks, we haven’t had a new movie in the series since the very (commercially) successful 2009 reboot. That’s a bummer, but the franchise is still one of our favorites to revisit every spooky season because there’s just something about that guy and his hockey mask–and, fortunately, there’s a prequel TV series in the works that will hopefully exist someday.There are 12 movies overall in the Friday the 13th…
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