Happy Friday the 13th!
Never once have I ever shied away from the fact that I'm a fan of horror movies. And while Halloween may be the biggest day of the year for we horror fans, I've also always been really fond of Friday the 13th. And if you haven't been paying to the calendar, that would be today. While the only thing that connects Friday the 13th to horror movies is the Friday the 13th movies, that's all I need to consider the day another horror holiday.
I've loved the Friday the 13th movies since I was a little kid. I remember being 11 years old and begging my dad to take me to see Jason Goes to Hell, only to get shot down because of my age. I guess the only reason my parents would let me get away with watching them on TV is because they were the edited versions that MonsterVision and USA Up All Night ran. (Though that doesn't explain why they'd regularly allow me to rent them from the local video store. Such are the quandaries of life, I guess.)
I'm not sure why I fell in love with the Friday the 13th movies. It's been so long hat I can't remember the details. But I can certainly recall spending my weekends glued to the television whenever a channel dared to run the movies. I'm actually quite sad that I've been channel-surfing for a few hours now and haven't seen a single one of the movies yet. (I own all of the DVDs, so it should be no big deal, but it's the principal of the thing.) Nobody's even showing that Friday the 13th TV show that nobody remembers. I guess not even the remake a few years back could reinvigorate Jason.
That's a damn shame too, because the franchise has always been something I've had a ton of affection for. I'd always hoped that when they ran on TV, someone would see them and become hooked like I did. That's half the fun of these movies with cult followings: sharing them with people and creating new fans.
But perhaps I've rambled on long enough. This has been a heck of a way to spend what is, in all honesty, the 1000th post on the blog you're reading right now. You read that right, after ten and a half long years, I've finally hit 1000 posts. Took me long enough, didn't it? But I guess I'll wrap this up with a simple request: Have a happy Friday the 13th, and stay away from Camp Crystal Lake. It's got a death curse!
I've loved the Friday the 13th movies since I was a little kid. I remember being 11 years old and begging my dad to take me to see Jason Goes to Hell, only to get shot down because of my age. I guess the only reason my parents would let me get away with watching them on TV is because they were the edited versions that MonsterVision and USA Up All Night ran. (Though that doesn't explain why they'd regularly allow me to rent them from the local video store. Such are the quandaries of life, I guess.)
I'm not sure why I fell in love with the Friday the 13th movies. It's been so long hat I can't remember the details. But I can certainly recall spending my weekends glued to the television whenever a channel dared to run the movies. I'm actually quite sad that I've been channel-surfing for a few hours now and haven't seen a single one of the movies yet. (I own all of the DVDs, so it should be no big deal, but it's the principal of the thing.) Nobody's even showing that Friday the 13th TV show that nobody remembers. I guess not even the remake a few years back could reinvigorate Jason.
That's a damn shame too, because the franchise has always been something I've had a ton of affection for. I'd always hoped that when they ran on TV, someone would see them and become hooked like I did. That's half the fun of these movies with cult followings: sharing them with people and creating new fans.
But perhaps I've rambled on long enough. This has been a heck of a way to spend what is, in all honesty, the 1000th post on the blog you're reading right now. You read that right, after ten and a half long years, I've finally hit 1000 posts. Took me long enough, didn't it? But I guess I'll wrap this up with a simple request: Have a happy Friday the 13th, and stay away from Camp Crystal Lake. It's got a death curse!
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