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Celebrate Friday The 13th By Watching The Entire Franchise

Friday the 13th is a date held dear by every horror fan. To help celebrate the day, as well as the classic horror franchise we’ve got a list of all the places you can stream it today and all weekend, so grab your PJs, a bag of popcorn, a friend or sweetheart, and binge the crap out of the legendary franchise! Sean S. Cunningham directed 1980’s Friday the 13th that starred Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The movie centers on a group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before. The entire franchise consists of 12 films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and a ton of merchandise. You also might want to check out our interview with the creator Victor Miller who wrote Jason Voorhees into

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021
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Robert Altman & Popeye vs. Cynema

To Clear A Few Things Up A few myths need to be dispelled about the 1980 Robin Williams film, Popeye. It was NOT a boxoffice failure. It was made for 20 million and grossed well over 60 million. While deemed a “disappointment” by Paramount Pictures, it hardly failed. 2. It is NOT Robin Williams’s worst film. I will argue it is his best, hands down. Like Williams and its director, the film paid a price for breaking away from formula. Popeye is fucking art, so there, I said it. Popeye fought Cynema and lost the first few battles, but I think it won the war. It was Robin Williams’s first film, and almost his last. It’s been called a mess, incomprehensible, a misfire, a disaster and a bomb. Bear with me as I show how this unique film stands up against Cynema. I’ll also lay out how this film reflects the present attitudes between industry and audience. Years after I

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Capt McNeely
Sep 19, 2015

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Horror Fuel

Celebrate Friday The 13th By Watching The Entire Franchise

Friday the 13th is a date held dear by every horror fan. To help celebrate the day, as well as the classic horror franchise we’ve got a list of all the places you can stream it today and all weekend, so grab your PJs, a bag of popcorn, a friend or sweetheart, and binge the crap out of the legendary franchise! Sean S. Cunningham directed 1980’s Friday the 13th that starred Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The movie centers on a group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before. The entire franchise consists of 12 films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and a ton of merchandise. You also might want to check out our interview with the creator Victor Miller who wrote Jason Voorhees into

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 13, 2021
Horror Fuel

Robert Altman & Popeye vs. Cynema

To Clear A Few Things Up A few myths need to be dispelled about the 1980 Robin Williams film, Popeye. It was NOT a boxoffice failure. It was made for 20 million and grossed well over 60 million. While deemed a “disappointment” by Paramount Pictures, it hardly failed. 2. It is NOT Robin Williams’s worst film. I will argue it is his best, hands down. Like Williams and its director, the film paid a price for breaking away from formula. Popeye is fucking art, so there, I said it. Popeye fought Cynema and lost the first few battles, but I think it won the war. It was Robin Williams’s first film, and almost his last. It’s been called a mess, incomprehensible, a misfire, a disaster and a bomb. Bear with me as I show how this unique film stands up against Cynema. I’ll also lay out how this film reflects the present attitudes between industry and audience. Years after I

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Capt McNeely
Sep 19, 2015