Halloween just changed everything, y’all. Blumhouse’s new entry into the franchise slaughtered the box office this weekend, proving that the slasher genre is, unlike the majority of its ensemble, alive and well. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, however, as horror has become a reliable commodity in these dark…
For some, today’s date marks the unluckiest of days, a terrifying commingling of date and weekday that portends terrible things. But for one small, passionate community on Reddit, this is a day for celebration. That’s because today is one of the two times this year that the subreddit r/IsTodayFridayThe13th can proudly…
The Friday The 13th franchise taps into any number of common fears—random violence, archery accidents, hockey goalies with unnecessarily large machete collections—but draws some of its most primal terrors from water. That’s where Jason Voorhees (supposedly) drowned, that’s where he periodically emerges to slay the…
It’s the human condition: Rich or poor, healthy or unwell, one of these days, we’re all going to die, probably because a serial killer hid under a bed somewhere and then jammed an arrow through our throats. (Statistically, it’s America’s third-most common form of arrow-based death, right behind Hunger Games …
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A recent scheduling change from well-known horror production slate Blumhouse has invited some spoooOOOOoooky speculation this week, with horror fans wondering whether the move of an untitled project from Sept. 6, 2019, to December 13—i.e., Friday The 13th—means the company is gearing up to put its own spin on Jason…
According to Consequence Of Sound, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are planning to release a cover of John Carpenter’s iconic Halloween theme, but in what seems to be an embarrassing movie mix-up, the track is apparently going to be released tomorrow, October 13—a.k.a. Friday the 13th. As everyone but Reznor and Ross is…
Presumably after laughing off the warnings of Crazy Ralph, the operators of Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick, New Jersey have decided to open the grounds to the public and offer rare tours of the property. Beyond a chance to see what sort of things Boy Scouts get to do while camping these days, this is also notable…
Video games based on movies don’t come along very often these days, and when they do, they’re nowhere near as ambitious as Friday The 13th: The Game. Ever since its run on Kickstarter, this multiplayer take on the slasher classic has had the attention of several horror-loving A.V. Club staffers. Now that it’s finally…
Despite a relatively warm reception and continued popularity on sites like Twitch and YouTube, the new Friday The 13th game has had a rough first couple of weeks. It was buggy as hell, has been hacked to shreds, and, worst of all, connectivity problems made it difficult to even match up with other people and play it.…
2013’s World War Z was one of the biggest hits of Brad Pitt’s career, but Variety is reporting that Paramount has just pulled its long-in-the-works sequel from the release schedule. The film was supposed to open this June against Tom Cruise’s The Mummy, so there’s a chance Paramount got scared off, but the fact that…
The slate of media getting dumped onto Hulu’s streaming service in December contains some dark gifts. To help horror fans gird their dirty loins for the upcoming Friday The 13th reboot, the entire franchise (or at least the films that actually have “Friday The 13th” in the title) is arriving on December 1. That covers…
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The 1980s were good to horror fans. Sure, not everything was up to snuff: Halloween and Friday The 13th inspired waves of generally disposable slasher fare, flooding multiplexes with bad twentysomething actors playing expendable teenage victims. But the genre also flourished during the Reagan years. Future masters…
London real estate can be a cutthroat business, with even tiny, oddly situated houses going for millions upon millions of dollars. One U.K. seller, however, is apparently trying to make things even more cutthroat, as evidenced by this Zoopla listing.
Since the 1980s, horror nerds have been arguing about who would win in a head-to-head match between the razor-gloved Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and the machete-wielding Jason Voorhees of the Friday The 13th films. Apparently, some film executives caught wind of this controversy and thought…
Apparently the only masked man with superpowers The CW doesn’t want to deal with is Jason Voorhees. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the network has passed on both its Little Women reboot and its Friday The 13th spinoff series Crystal Lake Chronicles (calling it a ”working title” seems kind of cruel at this…
The second reboot of Friday The 13th keeps lumbering around over at Paramount like a mindless killer on the hunt for teenagers. The latest news from Camp Crystal Lake is that Brett Eisner—who dipped his toes in the remake waters with his take on George Romero’s The Crazies—is currently in talks to direct the 13th …
“Ki…Ki…Ki…Ma…Ma…Ma…”
The new book Scored To Death collects 14 interviews with composers primarily known for their sonic contributions to horror cinema, including members of the band Goblin, Harry Manfredini—the guy who came up with “ki, ki, ki, ki, ma, ma, ma, ma” for Friday The 13th—and the man behind arguably the most memorable horror…
