Friday The 13th Blog

I was very happy to complete this interview with Spencer as his scenes in Freddy vs Jason were some of the few moments that gave the film a feeling of a Friday the 13th movie. Blake had interviewed Spencer back in 2004, but even Spencer admits that his answers were a little short. Please read [...]

Cathryn looked over some of your comments from Part 2 of our report last week and was nice enough to email me answers to some of those comments as well as offer a few more tidbits about the production that she recalled since her and I spoke a couple weeks back. She also offered some [...]

Last week, our Part 1 report on the “A New Beginning” shooting location revealed a bit of the history of the Ranch. We talked about some of the famous shoots on location, how the Ranch was chosen for filming the fifth film in the Friday the 13th franchise and the three stages the filming location [...]

When Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was released in 1985, there was a lot of interest and also much speculation to what the movie would be about as Jason was effectively killed in the previous movie, The Final Chapter. After its release, fans criticized the movie for the missing component that had resided in [...]

I would first like to start off saying that this is not the ”A New Beginning” report I teased last week. That will be coming soon! Today we have an exclusive interview with Bob Desimone from that very same movie. I must point out that Christian Sellers interviewed Bob for this website a few years ago, but [...]

It is well known that Alice Cooper contributed numerous songs to Jason Lives which helped make that movie one of the most memorable in the franchise. Another great contribution he made to horror was his role in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare in 1991. In that movie he played an abusive guardian that evenually pushes Freddy [...]

Since Larry is in the entertainment law business, he was interviewed by the Legal tabloid website, Above The Law, about the legal ramifications of the Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno fallout. I think the topic is interesting and also am happy to see Larry recognized as someone with real input into such a hot button [...]

Comedian Doug Benson invited Larry to be part of his I Love Movies Podcast this past week. Larry and the other guests had a fun time discussing movies, among other things. Check out the podcast at iTunes.

I missed this one back in the middle of December, but John sat down with the producers of the Never Sleep Again doco to talk about his involvement in the special effects for A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. This is a another interview I am excited to hear as it is [...]

Some fans may not be aware but Tom actually was a part of the Freddy universe at one point in the 80’s.  After he directed Jason Lives in 1986, he went on to direct TV and other movies. In 1988, he was enlisted to direct the Freddy’s Nightmares  episode, It’s a Miserable Life.
In that episode [...]

Hey everyone, if you know Deadpit.com and their online radio show then you should check out their review of their special Friday the 13th shows. They have great interviews with various actors from the movies in the series and are very informative.
Click the image to listen to the show or, if you want to save [...]

In a very recent interview conducted by Mark Morton that was posted this past Friday the 13th at www.examiner.com, Harry discusses his evolution of composing going from the original Friday the 13th to Swamp Thing to Deep Star Six to Jason X and then to more recent movies like Choker.
Thanks to Mark for sharing his [...]

I missed the broadcast Friday night, but Derek sat down with Anthony Timpone and Debbi Rochon to help observe Jason’s special day by giving the skinny on what he’s up to—including some info on PREDATORS and FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2. If anyone listened to the broadcast let us know what they talked about as [...]

Daniel Farrands is hard at work on his new documentary, Never Sleep Again: The Nightmare Legacy. According to the productions Twitter page, they recently interviewed Kane Hodder. I am assuming the interview had to do with the long in development Freddy vs Jason movie. I will have to look for that interview when the doco is [...]

Steve De Roover of www.moviepulp.be / www.dvdinfo.be is back with an all new interview with original Final Girl, Adrienne King. Steve discusses her new part in the movie Walking Distance, her involvement in the two Friday the 13th movies, her good and bad memories of shooting her scenes on those two movies and what made her [...]

In the reboot of Friday the 13th this year, Julianna was given a great number of compliments about her…. assets by Trent in the movie. Now she is playing a spoiled brat in MTV’s Super Psycho Sweet 16, a retro type of slasher movie that airs this Friday on MTV. Although the movie was made [...]

Mario has posted the second part of his interview with Prop Master Koen Wooten. If you recall, you the fan had an opportunity to submit your own questions for Koen to answer. Well, a few did manage to get into the interview. The second part of the interview touches upon the number of axes that [...]

Mario Kirner is currently conducting Part 2 of his interview with Prop master Koen Wooten. If you read Mario’s first interview, posted on this site this past weekend, you found out some interesting information about the props that were used in the making of the reimagining of Friday the 13th.
Now, Mario has been nice enough [...]

Mario Kirner recently posted his interview with Koen Wooten, who was the prop master on the new Friday the 13th movie that was released this past February. Koen also has been responsible for props on other recent horror movies such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and the 2007 remake of The Hitcher. Koen has [...]

Arlen Escarpeta, who played Lawrence in the new Friday the 13th, is a very down to earth guy. During his interview, he explains how he got parts in multiple movies, such as We Are Marshall and Friday the 13th, by playing in the Entertainment League where  he met McG and Andrew Form (Producer of Friday the 13th). I [...]