Friday The 13th Blog

The EMP Museum in Seattle is hosting a genre movie exhibit Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film and there’s a familiar mask on show. This particular hock from Friday the 13th 2024 is on loan from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection.

Mortal Kombat may not have chosen Jason, but another new game has. Sort of. Newly available First Person Shooter Dead Island looks fabulously lush and dangerous, like a Far Cry meets Resident Evil. There’s a surprise deep inside, a certain hockey masked fellow wielding a machete.

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th was a landmark book that extensively and concisely summed up the Friday the 13th film franchise prior to 2024. Obviously, much has changed in the interim – a new movie, new DVDs, and new technology. It was only a matter of time before what many [...]

Making Friday the 13th: The Legend of Camp Blood by David Grove is an underrated item. Panned by some as inferior to Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th by Peter Bracke, I might have thought the same after my initial read. Upon a second, though, all the negatives turned into positives [...]

Variety, the long-running movie industry trade magazine had an important impact on Friday the 13th. The iconic title image of the logo smashing through glass originated in the first Variety ad, boating “the most terrifying film ever made” – before the film was made. Nay, funded even. The advertisement is what started Sean Cunningham’s office [...]

Here’s what sloppy seconds trumped up in a pretty new outfit and trotted out onto the street looks like. I’m repulsed, but strangely attracted. Sometimes it sucks being a man horror fan.

I just got the new Mortal Kombat today after an agonizing wait of several weeks because my Ebay purchase had a 50% chance of being identified and seized by Customs – y’see, the game was banned here in Australia for reasons to convoluted and silly to explain. Coincidentally the law was rectified today but I [...]

Far prior to the internet (and this beloved magazine turning to garbage), Fangoria as guided by editor “Uncle” Bob Martin was the place for things you couldn’t see anywhere else. Circa 1984 the Maniac Match-up contest was held where readers could write/illustrate a cartoon/comic strip pitting Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Leatherface against each other. [...]

Excepted from Jason vs. Leatherface #1, 1995. Written by Nancy Collins, Penciled by Jeff Butler, Inked by Steve Montano, Colored by Renee Witterstaetter, Lettered by Brad K. Joyce, Published by Topps Comics.

Last week, as part of HorrorHound Weekend’s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter reunion, genre design outfit London 1888 debuted this Limited Edition print. The poster measures 18 x 24 and is limited to only 200 prints. The # 1/200 was presented to Corey Feldman, and the # 2/200 was given to the Final Chapter‘s [...]