10 Precise Moments Horror Icons Stopped Being Scary

Friday the 13th is a lucky day for some, but for those camping at Crystal Lake? Not so much. Any misguided teens looking for some fun will instead meet a grisly end, and in the first movie, it all made perfect sense.

Drowning due to ignorant camp counsellors, Jason Voorhees's legend still terrifies locals, who advise anyone against going there for fear of something terrible happening. Roughly 20 years after the accident and a brutal double homicide that caused the camp to close, Crystal Lake reopens for business, and brings back a deadly vengeance tale with it. As much as Jason is the heart of the Friday the 13th franchise, it's Pamela, his mother, that serves as the antagonist of the first movie: and this is the sole reason that causes him to stumble before ever gaining traction.

Pamela's revenge fitted well, served up some grisly deaths, and made a spooky legend come to life in an entirely real setting; her death should have been the end of it. Bringing Jason to life as a grown man in Friday the 13th Part II is never assimilated with his death as a child in the first movie, making his origin confusing and ineffective, and resulted in years of monster resurrection that removes all peril from the films.

Yes, they're good fun and provide plenty of wonderful horror genre fodder - but the disparity between its own timeline is the stumbling block for the scary.