Our boy Jason was never supposed to be the star. “It’s evident just a few minutes in to movies like Jason Lives and Jason X that Mr. Voorhees is the star of the show. Horror audiences aren’t so much rooting for the generally unlikable victims to survive as they are looking for increasingly thrilling and inventive kills. It’s a very specific type of cinematic escapism, to be sure. But originally, Friday the 13th was intended to be an anthology series. Each movie would have taken place, presumably, on Friday the 13th”.

10 Jason Voorhees Facts You Never Knew Until NowRYAN J. DOWNEY, MOVIEWEB.com

“But not only did Jason become the series star after his terrifying reemergence at the end of the first film, but the date in the title became something of a moot point. The first two movies take place on Friday the 13th, but Part III takes place the following day, Saturday the 14th (not to be confused with the 1981 horror comedy.) Part IV takes place on Sunday and Monday. After that, it seems like the series’ producers mostly abandoned the device. We did ultimately get a Friday the 13th anthology series on television. Unlike the anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares, which featured Freddy as host and occasional star, 1987’s Friday the 13th: The Series was Jason free. I mean the dude doesn’t talk”.

Wish I knew who was behind the mask for this pic. Horror fans will totally get this. Monsters have hearts too.DREW EDWARDS, @HalloweenMancom