Some fans have backward-engineered the events of “Friday the 13th Part 2” (1981) to take place on Friday the 13th … in June of 1984, when there actually was a Friday the 13th. There are, however, no on-screen chyrons indicating that “Friday 2” takes place three years in the future, and the on-screen fashions definitely point to it being set in 1981. That means, technically, the second film doesn’t take place on Friday the 13th.
But even if it did, the immediate sequels, “Friday the 13th Part 3 3-D” (1982) and “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” (1984) wouldn’t. Those two films seem to follow the events of “Friday the 13th Part 2” directly, meaning audiences would be witnessing the events of Sunday, July 15th through Wednesday, July 18th, 1984. It’s frustrating that none of the characters allude to the actual date in any of these films. It kind of defeats the purpose of the title.
The fifth film, “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning” (1985), is said to take place five years after “Final Chapter,” putting it square in 1989. There was a Friday the 13th in October of 1989, but there’s nothing on-screen to say that “A New Beginning” is set in October.
If we’re to extrapolate the five-year time-jump, though, then the sixth film “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” (1986) takes place in July 1990 … which, finally, had a Friday the 13th. The seventh film, “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,” by that same timeline, jumps ahead to the teen years of a character named Tina, implying that seven years had passed since “Jason Lives.” That means it’s set in July of 1997 — which also had a Friday the 13th.
Of course, holding to that timeline would have to push the events of “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Take Manhattan” (1989) to the year 1998, and the events of “Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday” (1993) to 2003. And by now, things are getting farfetched.
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