Screen Deaths

It’s that day again and in our customary recognition of that, here we have Maddy’s untimely demise in the 1988 entry into the Friday the 13th franchise, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

For our customary Friday the 13th piece today, we have crazed killer Jason Vorhees burying the hatchet (well, yes, it’s a full-sized ax) in Melissa’s head in 1988’s Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

To do something a little different with this Friday the 13th piece, here’s a pre-death scene of one of the higher-profile actresses whose character became another notch on Jason’s Voorhees’ machete.

Throughout the Friday the 13th franchise (except for the first one, of course, since it was mom doing the killing in that one), Jason Voorhees has always been an innovative and resourceful murderer. A prime example of that is this

In all of the entries in the original Friday the 13th franchise, Jason Voorhees usually made very quick work of his victims, slaying most without them even knowing what, much less who, hit them. However, in this scene from 2009