The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 29- Friday The 13th (1980)

Being the first of the popular horror franchise, the successful formula hadn't been established yet. Hence the first Friday the 13th movie contains certain elements that we don't find in the other films. We have quirky characters at a diner, the funny sheriff and likeable teens whose characters are fully fleshed out. We don't wish …

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Book/Publication of the Week- Fangoria Magazine

It was in 1986 when I discovered Fangoria Magazine. A comic book store in a beat up shopping arcade in York in the UK had started stocking it on import from the US. I instantly began buying it and fell in love with the publication.  There was a brief time after that that Fangoria couldn't …

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Top 10 Horror Movies From The 1980’s

There's a video for this list here. 10. Monkey Shines When an athlete (Allan) is hit by a truck and left a quadriplegic, a scientist friend recruits a monkey that has been trained to help assist disabled people to fully carry out their lives. Ella, the monkey, starts to bond well with Allan, but soon, …

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Friday the 13th Films Original Leeds Newspaper Ads

Happy Friday the 13th! I've been digging through copies of my local newspaper The Yorkshire Evening Post and have exhumed some amazing ads for some of the exploitation films that perverts like me love so dearly. One series of movies that played well in Leeds was Friday the 13th. And the newspaper ads certainly don't …

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My Life With Jason Voorhees

I feel like I've grown up with the Friday the 13th movies. Jason and his lovingly psychotic mother feel like friends to me. Through the many twists and turns of life, they have remained a constant. Even if that constant is stalk, kill, repeat. Yet it would seem that the British Board of Film Classification …

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