Night Carnage currently beats Friday the 13th 58–42
2025 horror-action outperforms the slasher original.
The Verdict Decades Apart
This matchup has 12 votes — still early. The picture may shift as more people weigh in.
Churchill's Night Carnage connecting over Friday the 13th means the 2025 film's spatial kill-staging is generating more engagement than the original slasher's legacy. Cunningham's film has the lake, the final girl, and forty-five years of franchise familiarity. Churchill's has kill sequences built from the specific constraints of his budget, each one a spatial problem solved with whatever the set provides. The lead says fresh problem-solving outperforms familiar legacy. The film that's inventing now is winning over the one that invented then.
The Numbers
| Friday the 13th | Night Carnage | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 42% | 58% |
| Overall Win Rate | 63% | 53% |
| Championships | 4 | 15 |
The broader numbers favour Friday the 13th: 63% win rate overall vs 53% for Night Carnage. This head-to-head runs against the trend.
Where This Matchup Sits
Against other opponents, both dominate Heads of State on the platform — a shared floor that suggests these two films belong in the same bracket tier.
Friday the 13th is the higher-rated film on TMDB at 6.4 vs 0.0. Bracket voters keep choosing Night Carnage anyway — a sign that critical consensus and head-to-head instinct don't always point the same direction.
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