
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 · MovieJason is back at Crystal Lake and the family renting a house next door is going to have a very bad weekend.
Foam latex. Animatronics. In-camera blood rigs. The techniques behind curated practical FX in horror are half the story. These films are on this list because the craft holds up, sometimes better than anything a render farm could produce. Watch the making-ofs. You'll never see these the same way.

Jason is back at Crystal Lake and the family renting a house next door is going to have a very bad weekend.

A machine designed to stimulate a hidden sense in the human brain opens a door to something that has always been nearby and was never meant to be seen.

A Mogwai named Gizmo arrives as a Christmas gift with three very specific rules. All three get broken on the same night.

Guillermo del Toro personally selected eight horror stories from filmmakers he admires, each rendered in a completely different visual style.

Kirsty Cotton is in a psychiatric hospital and the horror from the first film has followed her there. A new doctor is very interested in the puzzle box.

Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.

Pinhead ends up trapped inside a sculpture at a nightclub. A journalist and a reckless club owner make decisions that let him out.

Tommy Jarvis tries to cremate Jason Voorhees's corpse to finally exorcise his own nightmares. A stray lightning bolt has other plans, and Camp Crystal Lake gets its killer back permanently.

Amity Island has a problem in the water and a mayor who won't close the beach. Three men eventually go out on a boat to solve it themselves.

Alien creatures shaped like circus clowns land in a small town and start harvesting the population using cotton candy cocoons. Two teenagers try to warn people.

Seymour Krelborn works at a Skid Row flower shop and nurtures a strange plant that arrived after a solar eclipse. Audrey II grows quickly once she finds her preferred diet.

Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.

The most celebrated directors in horror each take a full hour to make exactly the kind of horror film they want, with no restrictions and no compromises.

Dr. Susan Tyler engineered an insect to wipe out a disease killing New York children, but years later the species has been surviving and changing in the subway system.

Farmer Vincent runs a roadside motel and sells smoked meats locals swear by. The production process is what makes this a horror film.
Alien parasites, college comedy, zombies, and one perfectly exhausted detective.

The dead are rising and a group of survivors locks themselves in a farmhouse. Fear does as much damage as what's outside.

Strange things are happening in the Freeling house. Then the youngest daughter disappears into the walls.

Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic University with a glowing reagent and complete certainty about his work. His experiments work, which turns out to be the actual problem.

A teenager uses a military experiment to bring his girlfriend back after she dies in an accident. She comes back, but not entirely as herself.
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