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Thad Just boon tried by a film Td seen whilst curled ‘pin frat ofthe television set; it was film ke a0 other I'd ever seen before, The name of the fim was Friday the 13h Friday the 13h wasn’t the stil that had 3 big effect on me: my earliest film memories were of seeing Star Wars and Superman, However, Friday the 13h ws the ist fin that seared the hell ot of ‘me and the memory of that wonderfl feeling has stayed with me to this day. What was i that eared sme so much? I was seared by the sight of the camp ‘counselors being slaughtered one by ne i the kind of inventive ways I'd never seen before (the sight of Harry Crosby pinned 1 the door with arrows is «vision [tll can’ shake). hadn't seen Halloween ‘or the films of Argento and Bava, Friday the 13th asi, Si ‘What really seared me the most hough was the sppearance of Mrs. Pama Noothoss, Friday dhe 13i's cackling and totally demented bill with those black eyes and that deranged smile that suggested such dark madness. now have to emind myself at the hockey mask hadn't yer become apart ‘of Americana when Friday che 13h made its dabut in 1980. Jason was just a drowned dead twinkle in his psychotic mother's eyes. He was dead. wasnt he? ‘This was 1980, Things sure changod fer tha It’s almost hard to believe, giver: what was to follow in the next twenty-pus years, that the Friday the 13th series began with real_ suspense and genuine tension, «wo qualities that were eradely tbandoned in the course of nine increasingly dishevelled sequels. 1 remombor. Camp Crystal Lake was avery seary place once, fll of ghosts. IF only the Christy family ~ the camp's doomed benefactors and founders = had known ofthe horror that was to follow, they might well Rave blown the area to bis. How could they have known though? And how could horror fans have known what was to to be spawned by the orginal Friday the 13h? Between 1980 and 1984, the Friday the 13th films changed wot only the horror landscape, but also the way that Hollywood conducted business The Legend of Camp Blood This was a period when these films reigned at the box office, a definable cra that would see the spawning of an entre sub-gence of Friday the 13h clones, many of which struggled atthe box office Friday the 1305 however lived on. Of cours, the endless Friday the 13th copycats (the Burning, Final Exam, Graduation Day, Happy Birthday 10 Me, etc) that began to appear at the beginning of 1981 are legion, al trying to repeat he ‘commercial success of their role mnde!, and all failing, W's notable thay, in 1981, every studio in Hollywood bunkrlled its own slasher move, its ‘own Friday the 13thifyou will The boom period for ‘his type of gonre film was short-ived, but the Friday the 13th series hada lie ofits own and, indeed, it went on to experience even more post: Pana Veron ty Palme asin ote a, urdous engzans ot heering ns ty st fom Fy re i, tr iar Teas tect rack cn er sen Votes Ken ange Fey Vi “esc ee reroretleee, muster ourey lias)ety Pane asses udscs poe Pater ase ay te Ele Parton ures fom pat tits Imagee anyone se shrgie re Popularity. between 1982 and 1984, The cycle seemed like i was never ping o end Hike a magical summer vocation befe a dreaded school semester. This book documents the making Priday the 130h snd its popular sequels, but the ‘making of heer phenorbeon = ote that eppeared to have ded iowards he end of 1984 withthe release ot Friday the 130h: The Final Chapter, for many years the last commercially successful Friday the ih film. Prior tothe release of the phenomenally Popular Fredy Vs. Jason in 2003 the ere Frida the 130 franchise had been caught in downward Spiral ushered in by the appearance, in 1985, of Friday the 30h Part VA New Beginning. W only The Final Chapter ba ive upto is tla promis, pethups it would've boon a fting end to a spevifie and unique ea in film history. However, ater 4 New Bening, fans lst interest, weary oF ired plots and watered-down shocks. A monster by the name of Freddy Krueger might have had something to do with it as well, Times had changed. By the mid 1980s, Friday the 13th wasn0 longer he only horror ‘game in town. Elm Soot was the place to be. This book might well have been called 180 1984: Birth of @ Slasher Nation, «reference (0 4 specifi place and time inthe movie business when everyone and their sister were making horror fils, slasher films, all tying 10 copy the Friday the 13th formula (the artistic belie of John Carpenter's Halloween was most likely regarded as an unattainable goa for these filmmakers). 1 started siting this book whilst visiting the set of Fredy Fs Jason, an atempt to resurrect not just the Friday the 13h series but the Nighimare on Elm Sree franchise as well, which after dethroning the Friday the 130k series at the top of the horror landscape had als found isl in steep decline by the end ofthe decade, But resurrection is sweet and paybacks are hel, especially when they happen om a Friday the thirteenth, Pm standing on thee Camp Crystal Lake even though this place is ell located near the small ‘own of loco, British Columbia, up near an isolsed Pach of forest known as Buntzen Lake. I's abou ffeen minutes away from my house, Lused 9 30 £0 camp around hero, t Camp Howdy. Safety. You can hear trate though the tees, but the place is sil haunted. This is Camp Crystal Lake, but omilions of Friday the 13h fins around the would ths place wil forever be known as Camp Blood «the Fon nickname given to the lakeside sting inthe original ‘Friday the 13h He, This is where tall began, Camp Blood, As listen closely, I ean almost make out the Screams ofa child The ghosts are everywhereHumble Beginnings he rots af Friday the 13th, indeed ofthe modern oer gene ite, can be traced back 10 the dain of the 1970s and a group of obscure Boston- bused businessmen whose names will protably be unfamiliar to most Friday the 13th fas, Stephen “Minasian and Philip Scuderi ae, unbeknownst 10 legions of horor fans around the world, two ofthe ‘most important figures inthe history of horror ims it wren’ for them, the work of Mao Bava might never ave been discovered by American avdiences and genre filmmakers such as Wes Craven, Sean 8 Cunningham and Stove Miner might never have burst onto the see, Minasian and Seuderi were partners with Rober ‘Barsmian (whove own daughter, Lisa Barsamian, ‘would later produce several Friday the 13th sequels) ina New Englané-based theatre chain called Esquie Theatres of America, Friday the 13th would, ultimately become the defining achievement oftheir carers, but that was stil a decade away, twas 1970 and Minasian and Scuderi were on the verge of rewriting horor history with the help of some talented filmmaker, the most important of whom ‘would be, in tenn ofthe limate birth ofthe Friday ‘he 13th franchise, Sean S. Cunningham. Cunningham, bora in New York on December 31, 1941, had graduated from Stanford Univesity with @ Masters Degree in Drama and Film only after giving serious consideration to attending ‘medical school withthe intention of becoming & Doctor. However, he soon decided that he loved fm and the thestre more than medicine, “I knew that I didn’t want to practice medicine.” says (Cunningham, “Theatre and later Film, seemed like 4 great way 19 make a living; a jb you could have fun wi ad be creative in ‘Cunningham spent the early part of his profes- sional career as a stage manager on theatrical productions. Anxious to make his mark in the world of filmmaking, he moved into a West 45th Steet Building in New York to set up a Medgling production company. Cunningham stated out by producing commercials, industria ns, anything keep himself live, then in early 1970, he made bis feature filmmaking debut by directing and without giving himself any son of 4 sex-edacaton film eatited The Art producing seroen credit The Legend of Camp Blood of Mariage. Later that same year, Cunningham got together ,with then-production partner Roger Murphy to make another pseude-documentary sex film, this time entitled Togeser, and featuring an early staring role by one other than Marlyn ‘Chambers, who was destined to become one ofthe first major American por superstars ‘Cunningham shot Togeter in and around bis home town of Westport, Connectieut, and financed the production by selling shares in the film. By all sccounts the eaiting process was nightmarishly iffclt, ut bythe end of 1970 he had assembled 8 finished cut ofthe film and immediately st about looking for a distributor. 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