It’s so weird that people try to use this as a point against the show when Jason quite literally is the cockroach of horror slashers. He has been beaten and abused throughout the entire franchise more than any other slasher yet no matter how extreme his damage is and how definitive his death/defeat is he always comes back like a cockroach. Him having cockroach dna isn’t a disrespect to the character it’s a direct nod and acknowledgement of Jason’s entire history throughout the entire series yet people act like it’s something that comes out of absolutely no where. If the ending of any Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, or Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie was to end with the killer having a nuke dropped on him you’d leave that movie with the assumption that series will be going on a hiatus and the next time it returns it will be a restart. If a Friday movie was to end with Jason having a nuke dropped on him you’d leave that film with the assumption that the franchise be back in 5 years max and show us what a nuked and pissed off Jason would be like. Cockroach Jason isn’t a disrespect to the character or the lore it’s a direct acknowledgment of Jason’s history and confirmation that if Crystal Lake is the timeline all the new movies follow that he will be facing punishment like never before and yet always come back. It truly is nothing more than a reference to the franchises history.

New Blood was the first Friday the 13th movie I ever watched as a kid. I was about 5 or 6 and I had to admit I was a little terrified of Jason face revealed, but when I was about 10 years, JGTH was on BET, most of the stuff was edited, but I was still disturbed by some of the stuff that was shown it was not like any other Friday the 13th movie at all.

Ghosts in the Fog: An Animated Friday the 13th Fan Film - Final Trailer (2026)

Streaming begins FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2026.

Set four years before the first Never Hike Alone, the story follows a group of hikers who get lost in a mysterious fog and stumble into the cursed grounds where the Ghost of Crystal Lake awaits. Will they escape the wrath of Jason Voorhees, or become the latest in a long list of lost victims?

This all-new Friday the 13th fan film from Womp Stomp Films and Mako Animation brings Camp Crystal Lake to life in haunting 2D animation.

STARRING:
Chelsea Rebecca as LANA
Zoran Gvojic as BRANDON
Diego Valenzuela as DOM

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE:
Thom Mathews as THE NARRATOR

DIRECTED BY: Juan Rivera & Vincente DiSanti

Someone did one of these for Jason Takes Manhattan the other day and Jason Goes To Hell is my favourite of the whole series so I thought I’d do one of these appreciation threads for it. Curious to see if anyone loves this film as much as I do? I love how different it is to the main series, I love Jason being a demonic, soul snatching monster rather than just a zombie in a hockey mask, I love the nod to the necronomicon, I love Creighton Duke, the characters are actually characters with personalities and relationships rather than all being dumb teenagers who’s sole purpose is to die, when Jason does eventually show up it’s the best he’s ever looked, the blood & gore effects are the best in the series by a mile, it’s just a surreal, ballsy film that wasn’t afraid to do something different and it deserves more love in my opinion.

So one thing the series confirms is that Pam and Jason both Simultaneously were killing around the same time and at the same place. I think this is a great way to connect a lot of things.

People have been saying that “it’s only about his mom” “not about Jason” the ending debunks that i swear critics don’t even watch the series they like to criticize

(Mis spelled isn’t when i said” is”)

Didn't know this. Im on vacation and was planning on watching the show on the 13 hour car ride tomorrow. I subscribed to the cheapest option because Crystal Lake is the only thing on Peacock i want to see. Nope. Locked behind a second pay wall. Now Peacock wants me to pay a full 12.99 to upgrade instead of charging me the difference. Screw it. I guess ill just pirate it when I get home. Im not paying 21.00 to Peacock for one show.

Crystal Lake

I am not very deep in the Friday the 13th lore, i just saw the show and watch some guys played the game on stream. But never watched the movies.

The iconic noise has an origin? Like it's literally just a soundtrack or something that it's being heard in universe? Is Jason doing it? Just got curious since it's such a classic noise

So, is there a chance Jason already had some resistance to damage/injury even before the tests by Bellflower?

He's not the only baby that was born deformed, but from the info we have he was the only baby who survived, and every other mother/fetus had the same tests.

Also possibly a dumb question, but was baby Jason briefly dead after the bathtub incident?

Elias checks him and says, "He's gone, he's gone, what did you do?!" and then begins to comfort a distraught Pamela.

A few seconds later baby Jason who showed no signs of life begins to wail. Was that a small sign of what he will become, or was Elias just panicked in the moment?

Use the TV scene with Grace as the intro kill & fast forward a couple years to the Alice story

Or put a new twist on it, with Jason we saw at the ending helping out his mom

This is all I can think about when I see sack head Jason without it on. The whole cockroach DNA tie in now has me seeing The Fly.

Where I get this idea from is the ending we see Jason meet up with his mother and as we know the stories inside the main movies, they tell us a different story. Jason’s mom was the killer first because they let her boy drown in the ocean or lake whatever you wanna specify it as and then jason became the new killer as we continued the movie series it seems completely different to from we know at the moment

I could be wrong. Because shows do like to be different with their continuitys like dragon ball they like vegeta going ssj god against goku black he didn’t do that in the anime actually the whole anime he never used ssj god and still end up being cannon by confirmed by the creators

Since Pamela never divorced Elias , her name should still be „Wittering“…. Not Voorhees… wouldn’t that mean that legally, her son, Jason, isnt called Voorhees but „Jason Wittering“? Doesn’t sound so threatening now…. Surely this will be addressed in Season 2 , right?

Good show overall, could've done without the creepypasta style origin story for Jason and Pamela. But man that sheriff is so clueless. But man that sheriff is the spitting image of Carl Weathers like holy cow. Everyone gave a great performance. Best Friday the 13th since Jason Lives. 7/10

I should know this for certain, having seen the original film as many times as I have, but I don’t believe that at any point there is any specific reference to any real place in the state of New Jersey in the original film nor is there any discernible signage that would indicate a real place in New Jersey. The only thing that I can really think of is the “Elston Oil” truck which had a real 973 area code phone number on the side which was correct for the time period in that part of the state. It was actually is/was a real company and people still call the number from time to time:

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/2017/01/who_answers_if_you_call_nj_num.html

In any event, I’ve counted numerous references in Crystal Lake which have been neat:

-A mention that the Chief was a police officer in the city of Newark-the state’s largest city then and now. The Chief leaving the city and heading west to sleepy little Blairstown/Crystal Lake in the early 1970s which was post the Newark Riots is perhaps a plausible sub plot, though his sister mentioned something about corruption and bribes.

-The two would be kidnappers/assassins claiming to be NJSP Troopers-I knew right away it was either poor costume/casting or that they were not actually NJSP. They are always square jawed and clean cut with a high and tight–plain clothes or not.

-Their car being found in Middlesex County-probably supposed to be New Brunswick judging by the urban setting whether it actually was or not.

-A resident of Crystal Lake/Blairstown lamenting the “limp dicks in the state capital” for banning bear hunting. After being decimated in the late 1800s/early 1900s the bear population was so low in New Jersey from the 1940s until the late 1990s bear hunting stopped entirely. Since the 1990s, their numbers have absolutely exploded and the last four governors have taken various stances on bear hunting which is always a controversial topic pitting largely conservative residents of the Northwestern part of the state who actually have to deal with their problems against others who do not believe that their numbers should be culled.

-I thought I heard something about a prize winning pumpkin at a fair or festival in Trenton. The capital city of Trenton did host the state fair during that time period.

-Reference to the “M.E. in Newton.” Newton is the county seat of Sussex County, which is adjacent to Warren County. In present day, Warren County (which is still sparsely populated by NJ standards) shares a medical examiner with Morris County, which is further east and much more populated. Back then it could have been plausible that Warren County and Sussex County, both very rural and partially populated could have shared a medical examiner.

-I just caught a post about a character named “Harmony” - I must have missed her name somehow while watching the show. There is a real town not far from Blairstown/Crystal Lake called Harmony which is also in Warren County.

I’m only three episodes in so I’m sure there will be more. Did I miss any so far?

It seems pretty likely there will be a Season 2.

Jason wasn’t the only baby being experimented on. There were at least a dozen that we saw. If we get more seasons, do you think we’ll see other killers borne from the Bellflower experiments? Perhaps that one who was covered with a cloth/blanket? It’s naive to think Jay was the only one who sprouted from that.

I'm just curious. To people who are older, when the series became popular?

It was since the first movie or second movie? Or it was when Jason got this mask in the third one?

I'm curious about how popular was the series during the 80s

The way he delivered the “What did you do?” In the bathtub scene.

His expressions when he looked at Jason’s accomplishments—conveying that as evil as he was, a father still loves his son.

His conversation with Jason. Even if on paper, maybe the dialogue or the setup was arguably cringe, he still made it work with his delivery and nuances.

He was amazing in this role. If anyone has a chance at an Emmy nomination for this it’s probably him.

Oooh big scary guy in a sack