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Some of the ‘Friday the 13th’ Films Took Place in the Future?! (Video)
Before you immediately cry out, “Well duh! ‘Jason X’ took place in the future, so what’s the point of this?“, do me a favor and hear me out and watch the below video. There’s something really cool happening here that I don’t think anyone, except for this guy, realized.
While watching the Friday the 13th films, it’s easy to forget that these movies, although released sometimes years apart, operate on a timeline that is not connected to their theatrical release date. Rather, the films operate within their own universe, creating backstories and a mythos that spans a longer period than one might realize.
For example, at the end of Friday the 13th and beginning of Friday the 13th: Part II, Alice needs to go to a psychiatric hospital where she stays for two months to recover from Mrs. Voorhees’ horrific attacks. However, once she’s released and goes home, she is killed by a mysterious figure. It’s only five years after that event that Crystal Lake camp is once again being reopened by Paul Holt. That means that while only one year has passed since theatergoers got to see a Friday the 13th film, over five years elapsed in that universe. But remember in Friday the 13th: Part 3 when Chris Higgins is talking about her run-in with Jason? That took place in 1982, two years prior to the events of the second through fourth entries in the franchise!
Look, I know this is getting confusing, so I’m going to stop trying to explain it and let YouTuber Intermittent Thoughts, who analyzed the franchise, lay out the timeline in a simple, easy to understand manner.
What makes analysis this really fascinating for me is that because of these jumps in time (such as Tommy Jarvis growing from a young boy to a man), it ends up that several of the Friday the 13th films actually took place in the future upon their release! Now, as we all know, that doesn’t really mean anything in how the films are presented. There are no laser guns, flying cars, or anything like that. Well, not until Jason X, but you know what I mean. Instead, the fact that it’s the future has absolutely no bearing on how the events occur. It simply proves that Jason is indeed an unstoppable, timeless killer.
Check it out below and tell us your favorite Friday the 13th moment in the comments!
Hollywood is serious about landing the next Backrooms. Hot on the heels of a Siren Head feature announcement, Deadline reports that a new movie based on viral YouTube series The Mandela Catalogue is in development.
It also has some Hollywood heavy hitters behind it.
Amblin Entertainment’s Steven Spielberg, United Artists’ Scott Stuber (Frankenstein), and Amazon MGM Studios are set to produce, emerging victorious after a highly competitive 11-studio bidding war.
Launched in 2021, the YouTube series is set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin which is “invaded by shape-shifting, nearly immortal creatures called Alternates. The Alternates are led by a false depiction of the Archangel Gabriel and their aim is to wipe out the human race by psychologically torturing them to the point of suicide. The Alternates are known for manipulating AV media, TVs, computers and GPS systems.”
The movie will be directed by the series’ creator, Alex Kister, based on a screenplay he adapted with Tyler Clifton.
The Mandela Catalogue has racked up an impressive 100 million views across its official episodes alone, solidifying it as one of the largest original analog horror franchises on YouTube.
Spielberg and Holly Bario are producing for Amblin Entertainment alongside Aaron B. Koontz for Paper Street Pictures and Stuber and Nick Nesbitt for United Artists. Kister and Clifton are also producing. Annie McCreery will oversee the project for United Artists. Maria Fortese will oversee for Amblin.
Get acquainted with The Mangela Catalogue below while we wait to learn more.