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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 [...]

This week’s entry isn’t derived from commercially released comics, but Final Girl’s Illustrated Guides to the Deaths in Friday the 13th. One of the fun things Final Girl comes up with are cartoon caption versions of each Friday the 13th bodycount. She illustrates these herself and puts care into reproducing the scenes in panel form. [...]

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 [...]

Ted White’s introduction to the movie industry would be somewhat unconventional. Having played football for the University of Oklahoma in his youth, White served with the Marine Corps and, whilst stationed in San Diego in 1949, was asked to volunteer as an extra during a scene for a movie entitled Sands of Iwo Jima.

When Paramount Pictures announced that they would be bringing their lucrative Friday the 13th franchise to an end with The Final Chapter, the filmmakers were under pressure to deliver a climax that would not disappoint the fans. Throughout the two previous films Jason had impaled two lovers during sex and, perhaps most bizarrely, had crushed [...]

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 [...]

Director: Joseph Zito Writers: Barry Cohen, Bruce Hidemi Sakow Starring: Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Corey Feldman, E. Erich Anderson, Crispin Glover, Alan Hayes, Barbara Howard Producer: Frank Mancuso Jr. Music: Harry Manfredini Special Makeup Effects: Tom Savini

Today we are going to look at two axes that were used during the production of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood. We will explain their uses and where they can be found in the films, but the more exciting news about these axes is that [...]

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 [...]