Friday the 13th: The Website

Two years ago I spoke to actor John Otrin regarding his role as Tina’s father, John Shepard, in John Carl Buechler’s 1988 sequel Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Unfortunately, the interview was never published and remained gathering dust until now. Otrin was suspiciously absent from both Making Friday the 13th and Crystal […]

Producer Anthony Masi had already gained acclaim with his Halloween retrospective 25 Years of Terror when he teamed up with Crystal Lake Memories editor Daniel Farrands to create a tribute to the most popular slasher franchise of all, the result being His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th. A true labour of […]

Along with Anthony Masi (Halloween: 25 Years of Terror), Thommy Hutson co-wrote and produced the ultimate retrospective on the Friday the 13th franchise, His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th. Anticipation is high and fans are understandably eager to see the stars of all twelve movies discuss their memories and favourite moments, […]

Along with fellow artists Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman founded KNB EFX in 1988, which would become one of the most successful special effects companies in the world. Having first entered the industry at the age of twenty-one with the cult B-movie Night of the Creeps, Kurtzman first joined forces with Nicotero and […]

Dean Lorey had graduated from New York University in 1989, where he had worked on a screenplay entitled Johnny Zombie. A former classmate, Adam Marcus, introduced Lorey to independent producer Sean S. Cunningham, who was in the process of resurrecting his Friday the 13th franchise with Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. Whilst Cunningham […]

Florida-born Catherine Parks first gained acclaim as runner-up in the 1977 Miss America Pageant and had made her acting debut in Michael Crichton’s 1981 thiller Looker, in which plastic surgeon Albert Finney is suspected of murdering models that he has operated on. Following her role as Vera in Friday the 13th Part 3, Parks would […]

At twenty-six, Paul Kratka was the oldest of the principal cast members of Steve Miner’s 3-D sequel Friday the 13th Part 3. A client of acting agent Judie Savage, whose daughter, Tracie (later a respected anchorwoman), would be cast as one of his fellow victims, Kratka’s first and only role for over twenty years was […]

Despite having missed out on the opportunity of working on George A. Romero’s seminal zombie classic Night of the Living Dead whilst serving in Vietnam, Tom Savini would become a major star within the horror genre for his work on the sequel, Dawn of the Dead, almost a decade later. Following his groundbreaking special effects […]

Zack Ward’s brief-yet-memorable cameo in Freddy vs. Jason, in which he would appear in the nightmare of Mark (Brendan Fletcher) as his older brother, who had supposedly committed suicide some years earlier, would prove to be one of the highlights of the movie. With Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) having taken the form of Mark’s brother, […]

Even before Freddy vs. Jason was released at cinemas, a young rising executive at New Line Cinema was already plotting a sequel. Combining the characters of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees with that of Ash Williams, the reluctant hero of the Evil Dead series, Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash became hot property at the studio […]

Colourist Thomas Mason had been collaborating with artist Jason Craig for some time when they were both brought onboard to adapt Jeff Katz’s highly acclaimed treatment into a comic mini-series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. Along with writer James Kuhoric, the duo worked on bringing the central characters together from the Friday the 13th, A […]

Dick Wieand’s contribution to the Friday the 13th franchise is arguably one of the most controversial. With Jason Voorhees having finally been laid to rest in The Final Chapter, a new spree of gruesome murders begin in much the same vein, but the culprit is eventually revealed as disturbed paramedic Roy, whose son was butchered […]