Name your favourite Friday the 13th death scene.

Rony

Although I really love the “stab from under the bed through the persons neck” I think the one that made me happy and laugh for the longest time was when Jason used one kid in a sleeping bag as a bat and beat another kid (also in a sleeping bag) to death, DOUBLE KILL!!!! SWEET!

Bill Cunningham - DisContent

I’ve always been partial to to the wonderful scene in Friday the 13th 3-D where Jason shoots the speargun right into the audience then into the camp counselor’s eye. I remember ducking as the spear flew out into the audience…

(sorry for the lack of detail, but it was a long time ago)

Louis - Damaged 2.0

I like the one where Jason takes the machete and cuts that guy in half. But seriously…

I love death of the space marine commander-type in JASON X: Jason impales the dude on a metal corkscrew thing, and he says “You think that’s gonna kill me?” Ever the jokester, Jason tightens the screw, and then the guy says “Yep, that’ll do it.” It’s an extremely funny scene from–oh my God, blasphemy–the best entry in the entire series.

Billy

I’m quite partial to the scene with the guy driving around on the motorcycle screaming at his mom who’s in the kitchen making super. I forget what exactly he was yelling about, but it was just so nice to have him shut up on a permanent basis with a machete to the neck.

Jeff O’Brien

The head-crushing, eye-popping kill in Friday the 13th 3D !

Warren - 150 Days of Sodom

Clearly the ones in Part 2 that are ripped off from Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood. I can only imagine that this would be everyone’s answer.

The spear through the bed most specifically, I first heard about that scene at my little brother’s birthday party when I too was a very young kid. “Jason sticks a spear through a boy and a girl on a bed” said one of the cool kids at the table, the one with the least responsible parents. Of course I imagined the boy and girl lying parallel on the bed as I did not yet know what sex was.

Don May, Jr. - Synapse

My favorite F13 death scene is “double love skewer” sequence from FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2… Yeah, I know, it rips off TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE, but I still like it…

Kevin

Without a doubt, the one from Part VIII, where he chops that dude’s head off and it rolls into the dumpster. Must have rewatched that 100x as a kid. I think there was a nudie scene somewhere thereabouts, as well.

Paul Corupe - Canuxploitation

The one I always remember is Demon (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.) getting spiked in the outhouse in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (yes, Jason purists, I know). It’s not so much for the rather vanilla kill itself, but everything that leads up to it–the bad burritos that give Demon a bad case of gut rot, his girlfriend Anita’s “hilarious” prank of shaking the outhouse walls while he’s doing his business, and his later singing to Anita while on the toilet. It’s probably the most brainlessly juvenile scene in the whole series, but at least it imparts a valuable lesson: if a homicidal maniac is on the loose, remember to eat sensibly.

Curt - Groovy Age of Horror

Ah, so many to choose from! A lot of fans might look askance at me for
making a selection from such a late entry, but I think the one in Freddy vs.
Jason when he totally stabs that kid to death before folding him up
backwards inside that bed is pretty awesome . . .

Brainbug - The Celluloid Cesspool

The machete-to-the-face kill from Part 2 has always been my favourite. It gets bonus points because the guy was in a wheelchair.

Honorable mentions: Kevil Bacon getting an arrow through the throat (Part 1), the sleeping bag slam (New Blood), and the tent whore split (unrated Goes to Hell).

Gary Wintle

“What’re ya gonna do? Knock my block off!?”

My memories of Friday the 13th are slowly fading, but that scene from Jason in Manhatten where he punches the dude’s head off was brilliant. I never laughed at decapitation so much as a kid.

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

I have to take the dumbass walking on his hands who gets a nice upside down shot of a hockey mask and falling machete.

SHLOOP…and then we get a fun shot of him stuffed away to freak out his girlfriend.

What a doofus!

Casey - Cinema Fromage

Thanks to Steven’s handy dandy youtube link, my favorite is #53. I believe it was not Jason, but the ambulance driver in Part IV? (I’ll turn in my geek card if I’m wrong!) It’s where the kids frolicking in the woods, from behind a tree, he wraps a leather belt around the victim’s eyes, places a stick in the strap behind the tree, and starts twisting! Such innovation! Original use of materials at hand, and the creative use of leverage on the tree! The sounds of caving bones & such on the victim was pretty awesome too!

JA - My New Plaid Pants

Definitely the chick who gets her face frozen and smashed off in Jason X. Yeah. Or the kid in the wheelchair pushed down the stairs in… whatever one that one’s in. Or the head-squished eye-popping in 3-D! Or the guy walking on his hands who gets the machete in the crotch. Or Kelly Rowland smashed against a tree. I do like the hitchhiker girl squeezing the banana in her death throes too. Lord I don’t know.

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

The character Judy being bashed in her sleeping bag against a tree. This occurred in FRIDAY THE 13TH VII and was later parodied in JASON X.

Stacie - Final Girl

For pure outrageousness, there’s a few kills that stick out in my mind: in Part 3, Jason squeezes some dude’s head until the dude’s eyeball flies out at the camera in three glorious dimensions; in Part VIII, Jason punches some dude’s head clean off on a New York City rooftop; and of course, the infamous repeatedly slam the sleeping bag into the tree gag from Part VII.

One of the more disturbing kills (which means I feel funny calling it a “favorite”…maybe I’ll call it “effective”) to me comes early on in the first film- it’s Annie, the hitchhiker. Really, it’s the first non-flashback kill of the series. We actually learn a bit about Annie as she attempts to get to Camp Crystal Lake- we follow her to the diner, etc. The audience is led to believe that Annie will be the lead character in the film- in 1980, the “kill off the first character” formula wasn’t used very often- and then suddenly she’s chased through the woods and her throat is slashed. Of course it’s an explicit sequence, but it was also shocking in its very unexpected abruptness. Suddenly all bets were off.

Kimberly - Cinebeats

When the kid in the wheelchair gets hacked in the head in Friday the 13th Part 2. It combines two of the most nasty bits from Bava’s Bay of Blood (a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve) which are a wheelchair bound victim + a machete in the face. Too damn nasty! And I loved it of course.

Nothing brings ‘em out of the woodwork like a little Camp Crystal Lake mayhem. This Roundtable is brought to you through Final Girl’s Friday the 13th Blog-A-Thon. Make sure you check out all the participating posts. Thanks to all the mooks for this week’s edition of the Horror Roundtable, and as always, please leave a comment below.

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