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Well, everyone, I have been posting these Friday Conversations for well over a year now, at the request of a few visitors. The idea was to give the visitors to this website a chance to discuss and debate topics relating to the series on a weekly basis. Every Friday a new topic would be posted and [...]

In lieu of the announcement that David Grove will be creating a comprehensive retrospective on the original 1980 film, Friday the 13th, we thought we would find out what our visitor’s thoughts were on what they would like to see in this type of book. There is so much that can be included in retrospectives. [...]

Hidden within the Friday the 13th franchise are two trilogy storylines that helped drive the Paramount films of the 1980′s. The first trilogy centers around the events of Friday the 13th Part 2 through Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. These three films not only introduce Jason Voorhees as the maniacal killer of Crystal Lake, [...]

The Friday the 13th film series is well known for nudity, elaborate deaths and gore. The iconic symbol of the series is the hockey mask and the anti-hero/monster is Jason Voorhees. These are all common knowledge among the fans and genre enthusiasts, however, has anyone really stopped to think about the vehicles that have defined [...]

We have covered at great length how the filmmakers of original five films of the series, from the 1980′s, loved to incorporate the dream sequence into the ending of the story to throw the audience off balance. In the case of Friday the 13th Part 2 and A New Beginning, the audience is left without [...]

In the 1980′s, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger were the kings of horror. Each character in their repspective franchises commanded the attention of the fans and censors alike. Marketing and merchandising was at an all time high and profits were through the roof. So, many in the film industry as well as the [...]

Survivors or Final Girls always end up finding the dead bodies of their friends towards the end of Friday the 13th films. Finding these bodies really is one of the foundations of the franchise as well as any good slasher movie. Every film in the Friday series has these “discovery” moments and they really are [...]

Many fans know that there was a brief moment that Director Steve Miner contemplated bringing the character Ginny Fields back for Friday the 13th Part 3. The idea was to pick up with the character after the events of Part 2 with Ginny in a hospital and for the new film possibly taking place in that environment [...]

One of the more tense scenes in all of the Friday the 13th series takes place in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. The scene we speak of is when Trish and Rob venture over to the party house to see if Jason has indeed arrived. When the pair notice the axe hole in the [...]

During Friday the 13th Part 2, Deputy Winslow is driving his car when he sees Jason run across the road in front of him. Winslow then proceeds to chase Jason through the woods, eventually finding Jason’s shack, and ultimately meeting his demise via hammer time. The question that is posed is what happened to the Deupty’s police [...]