Tag: Friday the 13th

Where were we?

Don’t be misled by the title.

We’ve now reached the back half of the Friday the 13th series released as of 2023, and the franchise’s commitment to gimmicks keeps increasing.

The sixth Friday the 13th offers a massive course correction from Part 5.

It’s an obvious joke to point out that Friday the 13th: A New Beginning came out just 11 months after the supposed series-ending Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

Friday the Thirteenth: The Final Chapter has a title so inaccurate that Lionel Hutz would pursue restitution.

Though a mere two summers had passed since Friday the 13th debuted and turned slashers into the de-facto teen film of the nascent 80s, the trend was on the verge of burning out in 1982.

I am not a historian on the matter, but as far as I can tell, slasher franchises did not exist before Friday the 13th.

I find the origin story of Friday the 13th to be poetic.