13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday 13th: The Final Chapter

In The Final Chapter, Erich Anderson’s Rob Dier is camping in the area, supposedly hunting bear. In reality, he’s hunting Jason Voorhees: he’s on a mission of vengeance.

You see, Rob’s kid sister Sandra was one of Jason’s earlier victims - she was one half of the notorious double impalement coitus interruptus scene from Friday The 13th Part 2. There’s just one problem: The Final Chapter is the third part of a run-on storyline beginning with Part 2.

Now, you know by now how inconsistent the timeline of these movies is. However, one thing you can be sure of: by the time the events of the fourth film roll around, Sandra’s been dead for two or three days. How on earth has he mobilised this quickly?

Trish’s reaction to his story makes sense: she’s local, after all, so she’s heard about all the killings, but as far as she’s concerned the police and news have reported that the murderer is dead.

But it’s stretching credulity to suggest that the backwoods police of the era could have identified the body and informed the family so quickly. It’s shredding it to then say Rob could arrive in town at a moment’s notice (with no car), collect decades of backstory from newspaper clippings, decide that a serial killer he only heard of five minutes ago is still alive and then figure out where he’s heading, buy a machete and a ton of camping gear and hitchhike out to find him...

It defies all reason.