10 Horror Movie Sequels That Started In Surprising Ways

3. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

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With any long-standing horror franchise that has a particular villain constantly at its core, the big question of any sequel tends to revolve around how exactly this bad guy or gal will be brought back after having been stopped at the end of the previous picture.

In the case of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the big opening moment surprise wasn't how Jason Voorhees was resurrected, but more how he was shockingly killed off. Well, sort of.

Having ended Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan in the form of a young boy following a run in with some New York toxic waste - yep, it makes zero sense - 1993's The Final Friday opens up with Jason very much alive as a hulking adult who's stalking an unsuspecting female in a Camp Crystal Lake cabin.

While there's zero explanation as to how Jason reverted to his adult self and departed the bright lights of NYC following Part VIII, even more surprising is how Voorhees is blown to smithereens mere minutes into Jason Goes to Hell.

You see, the aforementioned unsuspecting female was really an FBI agent who was tasked with luring Jason into an ambush from a SWAT team that shoot the sh*t out of the serial killer and blow him up. From here, The Final Friday devolved into an odd movie about the spirit of Jason - which looked like a turd - being passed from person to person, with the physical form of Voorhees absent for the vast majority of the film.

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