‘Friday The 13th’: Your Complete Guide to Streaming All The ‘Friday the 13th’ Movies

This is the film that started it all. Friday the 13th first introduced us to Jason Voorhees via his mother Pamela, who spends the entire movie killing counselors at Camp Crystal Lake in order to avenge her son’s drowning in 1957. Jason’s body has apparently been in the bottom of the lake for decades, but years later on Friday the 13th, he’s resurrected, ready to strike.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th (1980)

Five years after the events of the first film, Jason returns to Camp Silver Lake to murder another class of camp counselors. Friday the 13th: Part 2 introduces us to the Jason we know now, but with one major exception: he hasn’t yet donned the infamous hockey mask, opting instead for an unmasked, creepy look.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

In the third film in the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason Voorhees finally appears in his signature hockey mask, but we learn that it’s not actually his. Instead, Jason takes the mask from a young man who is vacationing in Crystal Lake with his friends. After slashing this guy’s throat, Jason massacres the rest of his friends. It’s not really a spoiler if you already know everyone’s going to die, right?

Where to Stream Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982)

If you thought Jason died at the end of Part 3, you’d be wrong. After reviving from his seemingly life-ending wounds, Jason returns to Crystal Lake to kill some more innocent vacationers. This time, his victims include a family who lives on the lake and a group of teenagers just looking to have a good time. The Final Chapter was intended to be the last Friday the 13th film (hence the title), but like its main character, it just couldn’t die.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning leaves behind Crystal Lake in favor of a new setting: a halfway house where Tommy, the boy who killed Jason in the last installment, lives. As Tommy gets acclimated into the house, the other residents begin disappearing one by one, and they are soon discovered to have been brutally murdered by a hockey mask-wearing killer. Is Jason back, or is it a copycat? Whether Jason Voorhees is alive or dead, one thing is clear: there’s no such thing as a new beginning for the murderer’s many victims.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

People got pretty pissed when Jason wasn’t the main focus of the fifth Friday the 13th installment, so producers brought him back–literally–in Part VI: Jason Lives. A year after the events at the halfway house, Tommy visits Jason’s grave in an attempt to stop his violent hallucinations of the killer. However, when Tommy digs up Jason’s body, the dead murderer is electrocuted, bringing him back to life with superhuman abilities and an even bigger appetite for revenge.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

The seventh installment of the Friday the 13th franchise adds some supernatural elements into the horror/slasher mix. At the beginning of the movie, we’re introduced to Tina, a girl with telekinetic powers who banishes her abusive father to the bottom of Crystal Lake. Years later, Tina starts to feel bad about what she’s done, but when she attempts to bring her father back, she accidentally summons Jason from the depths of the lake instead. Jason again begins torturing the residents of Forest Green (they renamed the city of Crystal Lake in Part VI due to a very clear branding issue), because apparently the dude just can’t get enough.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Jason Voorhees takes the Big Apple! In the eighth installment of the franchise, Jason is resurrected by some faulty underwater cables and makes his way onto a high school graduation cruise to New York. Once aboard, Jason kills many of the innocent graduates, forcing a few remaining survivors to row their way into the city in a life boat (yes, this happens). When they get to the city, Jason is close behind, and he follows them throughout the streets trying to kill them.

Where to Stream Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Apparently Jason partied too hard in Manhattan, because Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is the first film in the franchise that lacks the iconic Friday the 13th name. The ninth installment in the franchise–yes, it’s still part of the franchise–returns Jason to Camp Crystal Lake/Forest Green, where the FBI has set up an elaborate sting operation in order to kill him once and for all. The feds are successful, but when Jason’s body arrives at the morgue, his spirit takes over the coroner’s body, enabling him to escape and continue his years-long murder spree.

Where to Stream Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Friday the 13th Part VII may be science fiction-y, but Jason X is on a whole other level when it comes to its sci-fi influences. The film begins in 2008, when Jason is placed in a frozen stasis by the government in an attempt to stop him from coming back to life and killing more people for, like, the 10th time. 445 years later in 2455, humans have moved to a new planet called Earth Two, but three students venture back to Earth (One) and discover Jason’s frozen body at the Crystal Lake facility. Clearly, humans didn’t get any smarter in those 445 years, as the students bring Jason back to life and he continues murdering once again.

Where to Stream Jason X (2001)

After 23 years of just Jason, Friday the 13th franchise fans got another villain in the series’ first crossover film with the A Nightmare on Elm Street series. When we first meet Freddy Krueger, the Elm Street villain, he’s stuck in Hell and pretty bored because he no longer can terrorize the people of Springwood, Ohio. In order to regain his infamy, Freddy hatches a plan to resurrect Jason and send him to Springwood in his place, which will make citizens think that the town’s OG serial killer has returned. However, Jason does such a good job of killing people that Freddy gets jealous, and it’s not long before the two undead murderers become enemies rather than allies.

Where to Stream Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

In 2009, the entire Friday the 13th franchise came full circle with the reboot of the original 1980 film. Rather than focus on Pamela Voorhees’ murder spree for the majority of the film, the reboot begins with a young Jason witnessing his mother’s beheading, and the events that follow occur 30 years later as Jason exacts revenge. Much like its ancestor films, the 2009 remake is set at Camp Crystal Lake, where Jason massacres a group of friends who travel to the lake in search of marijuana in the woods (some things do change). The film never received a sequel, but just this week, the creators told fans via Twitter that they’ve written a sequel script titled Friday the 13th: Camp Blood — The Death of Jason Voorhees and are ready to get rolling on it, should the situation change. Fingers crossed, Jason fans!

Where to Stream Friday the 13th (2009)