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Guide to the Unknown

257: Friday the 13th

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Friday the 13th is a horror movie like no other..except for its many sequels, tv show, and remake, but who's counting? We're watching the 1980 original and the 2009 version by the illustrious Platinum Dunes! How did Pamela and Jason Voorhees handle getting remade!? And definitely go use code GTTUPOD for 20% off your order at Debbie Draws Funny, an amazing stationary and gift shop with spooky hand-drawn designs perfect for the season! Creator and Guide to the Unknown listener Deb Turcio also has a new Patreon where you can get exclusive art prints and stickers - we highly recommend you go and take a look! For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu257 Support GTTU on Patreon! Depending on the tier you choose, you get one, two, or FOUR full bonus episodes per month, early access to the video version of the show, a private Discord, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/gttupod Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0

They're not like repugnant like the rowdy teens in the reboot.

0:04.1

There's like fine and they're like, they're not loathsome.

0:09.2

Hello. Hello, welcome to guides the unknown. I'm Kristen and I'm her little brother

0:18.2

William. And this week's slash Tober continues. We are taking a trip over to Camp Crystal Lake to talk about Friday the 13th, the original

0:28.0

movie and the remake.

0:30.0

Yes, in 1980, they made Friday the 13th, basically because of the success of Halloween,

0:36.6

which would have come out two years earlier, and they thought, hey, that seemed like an approachable slasher movie.

0:43.6

People liked it.

0:44.4

It didn't seem like it cost a million bucks.

0:46.0

Yeah.

0:46.7

Let's do that too.

0:47.7

I like to get me some of that.

0:49.1

And so weirdly for a movie that like almost was like an also ran or a copycat or something like that at its original premise took off like a shot.

0:58.8

It truly did.

1:00.3

Jason Voorhees became like the face of the slasher genre for a long time. did.

1:03.0

Jason Voorhees became like the face of the slasher genre for a long time, the spooky hockey mask killer.

1:06.0

I still think that he and Michael Myers are like neck and neck for probably like the icons of the slasher genre.

1:13.2

Really?

1:13.7

I think so.

1:14.7

And what of Freddie Krueger?

1:15.7

Um, also yes.

1:17.4

What of him?

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