It comes to pass yt every woman or man that runs a website, and will occasionally find joy in reviewing a bad movie, eventually they will come upon this thought:
“I really ought to sit down and watch the whole Friday the 13th series.”
Of course, it’s never, ever true that any person in the world ever ought to watch any Friday the 13th movie. Which is the conclusion that every one of those same bad movie website runners comes to right around the point that the prospect of having to watch Jason Takes Manhattan rears it ugly head.
Well, I’ve never been aught but a holy fool, and that is why I will spend my summer watching not just the Friday the 13th films, but also the Nightmare on Elm Street films, culminating in a glorious Labor Day extravaganza of the single movie that brought those two series together.
My expected schedule looks a little bit something like this:
5/5 – Friday the 13th (1980)
5/12 – Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981)
5/19 – Friday the 13th, Part 3 (1982)
5/26 – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
6/2 – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
6/9 – Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
6/16 – Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
6/23 – Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
6/30 – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
7/7 – Jason X (2001)
7/14 – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
7/21 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
7/28 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
8/4 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
8/11 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
8/18 – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
8/25 – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
9/1 – Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Why? Because I can. And I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise to each and every single reader of this blog in advance. It’s going to get pretty nasty before it’s over.
COMING SOON: A brief history of the slasher film prior to 1980.