Why did they keep the Camp at Crystal Lake open for 13 consecutive summers, even if Jason killed everyone?

Question

Seems that after the third consecutive year of bloody death and mutilations, any one who took a job there got what they deserved!


(ref. "Friday the 13th" movie series)

Answer 1

The camp was a big cash cow. Although lawsuits were filed year after year, they hired Johnny Cochran and he got them off every summer....plus it was good pay for college kids.

Answer 2

That is a humourous question, but I need to point out that it wasn't just the Camp at Crystal Lake where Jason strikes. He was at the Camp when he was a boy and the counselors let him drown . . . but it seems like surrounding Crystal Lake there is a big community of rural dwellers. It includes the rehab clinic where Tommy is getting his Jason-phobia treated, and the peaceful cabins where teenagers who are fodder for Jason like to party. The lake itself is like a magical spot around which is always changing throughout the ages (and apparently in Freddy Vs. Jason is within a reasonable distance to drive in there from Elm Street). Your assumption that there is 13 consecutive summers of death in the Friday the 13th movies is somewhat faulty. There aren't actually 13 movies in the series and neither does the true grown-up Jason Voorhees appear in all of them. Even if your point is that there were repeated death and mutilations, it is also notable that Jason Voorhees was generally the subject of legends in the movies who was never believed to be real. Logic takes a backseat in the Friday the 13th universe!

Answer 3

A. The people in this community never read the newspaper
B. The people who do read the newspaper have poor memories
C. The characters who run the camp have all the integrity of the
people who keep the beaches open in the Jaws movies
D. These are what Siskel and Ebert used to call "idiot
movies"--in the sense that if virtually every character in the
movie WASN'T an idiot, the movie would last about five
minutes (because SOMEONE with an ounce of common
sense would call the police, turn on a light, not go in the
house, or in this case shut down the camp for good).

Answer 4

Jason's mother was the killer in the first movie and then there was a copy cat killer in #5 so he wasn't the killer in all of them. But I don't think it was at the same exact camp but it was on the same Lake. Considering didn't Jason drown back in the early 60's so he'd be kind of old now to be hacking people up and living in a shack. Shouldn't he have arthritis by now.

Answer 5

Its all about continuity. People are used to the camp being open. It helps the sequal to have people already familiar.

The other thing that keeps it open is momentum. If something works... keep it. Don't fix it unless its broken.

And in the end... its all about money. Follow the money. When something sells and makes money, keep doing the same thing. Until the critics yell for something new, expect the camp to remain open.

Answer 6

It wasn't open all 13 consecutive summers. Go back and check the movies and you'll hear the kids/campers/counselors mention how the camp had been closed at different times and someone was reopening it etc.

Answer 7

He could decapitate the Jonass Sisters and save their heads on his wall as a trophy! the certainty under The Starrs will Anthony Hopkins play Hannibal Lectar in that action picture lol.

Answer 8

People kept buying tickets so the camp remained. I saw one that was in space, maybe they are on the moon now,crystal crater, jason XXXVII

Answer 9

Ha! Seems it's just because of greed and the money Crystal Lake brings in each time....

Answer 10

Too much money invested in the place to just walk away