Friday the 13th

13 movies, 1 other in this series

Camp Crystal Lake is open year-round at Now Playing Podcast. From the scrappy 1980 original through hockey masks, psychic showdowns, Manhattan detours, body-hopping mayhem, a space-bound slasher, and a Nightmare of a crossover, we’re covering every chapter of the Friday the 13th saga. Which films deliver genuine shocks? Which are pure ’80s cheese? And how does the 2009 reboot stack up against the blood-soaked legacy? Join Arnie, Stuart, and Brock as they revisit the kills, the camp counselors, and the ever-growing body count to find out which entries deserve to live… and which should stay buried at the bottom of the lake.

Movie Reviews

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

It would have worked, too, if it weren't for those meddli...

Reviewed Jan 23, 2009
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Jason X

Aliens called. It wants its plot back.

Reviewed Feb 10, 2009
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives! Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

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