It's Friday the 13th: Enjoy It!

I've stated several times that I thoroughly dislike the slasher genre. I mean, how stupid do these movies get? Not only do they work with a blueprint that got old by the mid-1970s (as the Italian giallo peaked with Deep Red), they also bend all movie logic to produce the prerequisite number of kills while disregarding any kind of message even at the most basic level. One can understand why kids fly to this kind of crap given the sheen of antiheroes such as Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees but for anyone past high school a large chunk of the subgenre should be idiotic and, more importantly, boring. That said, the original films of the Halloween and Friday the 13th franchises are rather good for what they are, particularly the former. Since today is Friday the 13th, however, the treat that we got here is a trailer for the first of many films that scared the shit out of audiences throughout the 1980s starring the unlikely tug with a hockey mask. Bonus: a clip of Jason appearing as a guest at the Arsenio Hall show. Enjoy!

Open late...

These are a couple of months old and I'm not 100% sure they are real ads but none of that matters as the concept is pure genius. "Open late"? Why, of course, you just drop by once your shift ends!

Friday the 13th Posters

The art work for Friday the 13th may not be the best thing since sliced bread but there is something oddly attractive about it, whether it's the reliance on text for the earlier films or the implicit belief that the title and the iconic hockey mask are enough to get the cinemas filled. Probably what I like the best about the posters here, though, is that there is a clear rhythm to them, which gives out the feeling that Friday the 13th is really a kooky TV show or even an animated series. Funny enough, there is a kooky TV show titled Friday the 13th, which has nothing to do with the films except for the producers and the oddly similar poster/DVD art, and Jason Voorhees has made quite a few comic book appearances. Of course, this is not the complete set of posters for the film series, but then again, would you really miss anything to do with that moronic crapfest called Jason X? Yeah, that's what I thought.