Yes, they indeed live in a very real county. Prestonburg, Kentucky. They themselves recently called it on a show “the middle of nowhere”. So they are almost appilations.

However, as Jasonsfury noted, please don’t let that deter you from downloading past shows and givin’ them a listen, and staying witht hem currently. They’re deadpit on the read segments on YouTube every week are also well worth paying attention to.

Gotta admit at first the accents on them were a bit thick if you will, and I’m from the mid-south (have lived mostly in a west Tennessee county named Jackson, a fine subburban city, and my mother’s rural towns in south east Missouri of Kennett and Caruthersville, and I was taken aback by they’re accents at first).

Was just noting. Stay cool …

I’m grown to seriously love the good ol’ rule Prestonburg, Kentucky boys on over at DeadPit.com, listening to they’re latest every weekend after recently being posted, they’re MpSpace halfhour mini shows sometimes (even though I’m not on MySpace), and of course I subscribe to they’re YouTube page (Wesvance).

They’re hardcore original Cashamount era F13th lovers like all of us, and they almost always have a Friday the 13th annual podcast that is well worth listenin’ to. This year it’ll no doubt be the remake, Friday the 13th (2009) as it shall be forever written I guess, centric, Which is more then okay with me, but I hope even with Uncle Bill’s very bad luck (he claims on the most recent show that with e-mailing out requests for recent interviews, too many North American convention hoppin’ assholes & bitches want money for a breif interview), I doubt he’ll have an old school original series writer/director and or actor/actress this year. Ah well *playful shrugs*

Gotta say my favorites of the original series are actually 2 (the scariest and soe of the best characters dispite massively trimmed gore set pieces that ultimately hurt the film), 3 (another good Steve Miner directed sequel), and then 4 & 5. For me I feel 5 was the last Exploitation-era feeling one, with it being shot in late ‘84 which was one of the last years stuff like that was even shot & produced, and loaded with (admitedly) censored FX but it’s still hilariously mean spirited kills, tons of tits (including our favorite, Debi-sue Voorhees) and overall the best attractive cast right up there with Parts 2 & 4 (gootta love Tiffany Helms; look for her breifly in Reform School Girls saying basically nothing), and it’s just so eccentric, ect.

I also love this Black Sheep of the series. Been talkin’ about it a lot on the IMDB boards on it’s pages under this screen name (again I post as captian_brandon1980). I’ve also never understod the hate myself. Hell, the ones that came after this are just way too PG-13 ish for my tastes anyway. Although I would like to see that orignial, over 2 plus hour cut form Rob Heddon of Part VIII with uncut deaths. People forget that was the one hit hardest along with part VII. After that, people can keep New Line’s shit.

Oh and that DeadPit show was a classic. I saved it and listen to it frequently over the months. A very good one. The one with Amy Steel and Adrienne King is very sweet ‘n cute and friendly as well. Super nice ladies.

Glad to see DeadPit gettin’ some love ‘around here …

All this aside, there are some examples of pure sloppiness in part 5: like the fact that mentally unstable people have access to axes; the fact that Tommy is transported to the halfway house in a vehicle with a partition but is apparently allowed to keep a hand knife; when the guy is killed in the woods after sex, there are two shots of the killer twisting the stick/leather strap tighter clockwise, and then suddenly he’s twisting in the opposite direction, etc.

I don’t ask for perfection in a movie that is the 5th in a series, but some basic continuity and logic always help with the suspension of disbelief.

I look at A New Beginning as the go between of the origianl 4 and the Jason we know today. So the movie holds a special place in the Friday franchise.