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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 [...]

Here’s the artwork for the September 20 brand new release excess stock dump of Friday the 13th Uncut, Friday the 13th Part 2, Friday the 13th 3 3D and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter DVDs. I don’t reckon there are too many out there that don’t have these, and if they don’t, they should [...]

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 [...]

The original Friday the 13th has made MSN’s list of Top 50 Summer Blockbusters. Ranking #43 on the speculative compilation, here’s what Microsoft’s entertainment arm had to say: ‘Friday the 13th‘ (Release date: May 9, 1980) The song “The ‘In’ Crowd” states “the original’s still the greatest,” and that’s something that’s by and large true, [...]

If you’re a Friday the 13th fan there are just some things you don’t talk about. Like Kevin Bacon’s visible boner in Friday The 13th (1980). Unaware of the ghastly sight? Repressed the memory? It’s like this: In the daytime scene by the lake, Jack (Kevin Bacon) is standing proudly. A little too proudly. Kinda [...]

One of the undervalued elements of Friday The 13th (1980) is its allusions to larger stories. I believe the reason Sean Cunningham and other members of the part one brigade like Tom Savini were so flabbergasted that Jason’s franchise centricity spawned out of that little film is because Victor Miller’s script was deceptively simple. Just [...]

In this new series of articles entitled The Slashed Script, I’m going to examine scripted scenes that didn’t make it to screen for whatever reason, or not in the way we ultimately saw them. It’s easy to belittle the Friday the 13ths for their dumber, less ambitious movies and moments, but quite often they weren’t [...]

The iconic image of Jason Voorhees has become a staple of popular culture, yet before the hockey mask became a symbol of fear the character was just a scared young boy. In Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 original, Jason had drowned in Crystal Lake in 1957 due to the negligence of a group of camp counselors, [...]

If the Friday the 13th franchise is to be remembered for anything, other than the iconic hockey mask, then it will be the elaborate and graphic special effects, which were created by various different artists and workshops, from the legendary Tom Savini and Stan Winston to the likes of Martin Becker and Greg Nicotero. Twelve [...]

One of the names most associated with the slasher genre is not a director or even an actor, but a make-up artist. Tom Savini became synonymous with gory splatter effects in the early 1980s after his groundbreaking work on the likes of Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [...]