10 Most Paused Slasher Movie Moments

8. Franchises Collide - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

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How do you make a really, really, really bad Friday the 13th movie? Why, you take the franchise's main attraction and remove them from 90% of the film.

That was bizarrely the case for Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, with the picture's titular Voorhees being taken out of the equation after just a few minutes. Lured into a SWAT team trap that resulted in him being blown into a million pieces, Jason as we know it is off the table for the majority of The Final Friday.

Instead, audiences got a turd-looking 'essence' of Jason that was passed orally from person to person.

Famously, Jason Goes to Hell's final shot was the hand of Freddy Krueger pulling Jason's iconic hockey mask to Hell. While that was at least one intriguing part of a stinker of a movie, the part that really had viewers pausing The Final Friday was a tie-in with another famed horror property.

Freddy and Jason had long been talked about being on a collision course way before Jason Goes to Hell - meaning that final shot tease wasn't all that surprising - but the major freeze-frame moment of this ninth Friday the 13th film was an appearance from the Necronomicon and Kandarian dagger of the Evil Dead franchise. In fact, it's the Kandarian dagger that ends up leading to Jason's 'death' at the movie's close.

To see the Necronomicon, though, that was a hugely shocking moment upon a first watch of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. And while it would ultimately lead to nothing in a cinematic sense, this was intended to be the seed that would eventually give audiences Freddy vs. Jason. vs Ash.

Thankfully, we at least got that three-way crossover in comic book form, even if several attempts to get the film version up and running were unsuccessful.

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