Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1984 · FILM

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

When a group of carefree friends rents a remote lakeside house, they must fight for survival as the resurrected killer Jason Voorhees stalks them with relentless vengeance.

“Three times before you have felt the terror, known the madness, lived the horror. But this is the one you've been screaming for.”

Directed by
Joseph Zito, Tony Bishop
Written by
Victor Miller, Ron Kurz
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
91 min
HorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

After being revived in a hospital morgue, Jason turns his vengeful focus toward the Jarvis family and a group of previously carefree teenagers.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 163+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joel GoodmanShot by Joao FernandesScored by Harry ManfrediniDesigned by Shelton H Bishop IiiSound by Joseph D CitarellaStunts by John Sherrod

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 13× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$33.0M

Budget$2.6M
Worldwide gross$33.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $33.0M — 100% of worldwide · International: $4K (0%)

Versions & cuts

  • uncut· 97 min

Also known as

  • Freitag der 13. – Das letzte Kapitelde
  • Freitag, der 13. Teil 4 - Das letzte Kapitelde
  • Friday the 13th: Part 4: The Final Chapteren
  • Vendredi 13: Chapitre finalfr
  • Venerdì 13 parte IV: capitolo finaleit
  • (premiere title)Sexta-Feira 13: O Capítulo Final
  • (Bulgarian)Петък 13-и: Част IV: Последната глава
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • TürkiyeApr 13, 1984
  • United StatesApr 13, 1984
  • United KingdomJun 15, 1984
  • FranceJul 11, 1984
  • NetherlandsJul 12, 1984

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Paramount PicturesGeorgetown Productions Inc.Sean S. Cunningham Films

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).