8 EXACT Moments Classic Horror Franchises Should Have Come To An End

7. Friday The 13th Ends With Pamela's Decapitation

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Hey, who doesn’t love a bit of Jason Takes Manhattan or a chuckle-heavy re-watch of Jason X?

The Friday the 13th franchise is clearly one of the most iconic in modern horror history. The only problem is, with a sensible head on, the series should have ended at the moment Pamela Voorhees’ own head was lopped off towards the conclusion of the very first film.

To go back to the franchise’s origins, that first Friday the 13th was built around the raw emotion of a mother who felt wronged due to the death of her son. Thus, she channelled her rage and trauma towards a group of teenagers who were in the same position as the counsellors who saw her son die.

It was raw, it was powerful, and it was understandable.

Again, Jason Voorhees is a horror great, a horror icon in fact, but it's not unfair to say that the Friday the 13th franchise shouldn’t have even introduced Jason in any sort of way other than as the dead son Pamela lost.

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