SLASHERS Pt 7: Friday the 13th (1980)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week Mike is joined by Rob Watts to discuss the most beloved horror franchise of all time. As well as taking an in-depth, spoilerific review, the pair run through the ten sequels that follow and discuss some of the best and worst aspects of the Friday the 13th series.

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Rob Watts is a film blogger and writes for Outside Of A Dream outsideofadream.wordpress.com
You can find him on twitter (@RobWatts88)

Mike Muncer is a podcast, producer and film journalist. You can find him on twitter (@TheMovieMike) and he does another podcast with Rhianna Dhillon called Back Row (https://backrowpodcast.net) which is on Twitter (@BackRowFilms)

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0:00.0	The 1980 Camp Crystal Lake A teenage boy relaxes in his bunk and lights a cigarette. Suddenly he feels a
0:27.6	drip of liquid hit his forehead and realizes that there is blood seeping
0:32.4	through from the top bunk. Before he has time to even
0:36.4	comprehend this, he is suddenly speared through the neck by a psychopath hiding under his bed.
0:44.3	After the huge success of John Carpenter's Halloween, a small budget independent movie that went on to become
0:55.1	one of the most profitable movies of all time.
0:58.3	Paramount Studios took notice.
1:00.8	They realized that there may be serious money to be made from psychopaths dismembering misbehaving teens.
1:07.0	Friday the 13th took the most successful aspects of Halloween but ramped them up
1:18.2	adding the one thing that Carpenter's movie lacked. Gore.
1:23.0	With makeup artist Tom Savini coming up with grotesque and inventive ways of killing off teenagers,
1:29.0	Friday the 13th seemed to create an ideal formula to drive young audiences into cinemas.
1:36.4	While John Carpenter's movie was born from ideas and is considered a piece of filmic art, there
1:42.2	are many who accused Friday the 13th of being no more than a simple
1:46.2	cash-in, a franchise opportunity. Is this the case or is there more to Friday the 13th than meets the eye?
1:55.0	Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the slasher and review Sean Cunningham's
2:00.5	1980 classic Friday the 13th.
2:07.0	You see, Jason was my
2:15.0	my son and today is his birthday.
2:16.0	Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.
2:19.0	If you're joining us for the first time then welcome in this podcast
2:22.0	we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre
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