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Divers Find Life Size Jason Voorhees Statue In A Minnesota Lake

It just doesn’t get any better than horror fans. Time and again they prove not only to be dedicated but some of the most awesome people out there. One fan, Curtis Lahr took his love of Friday the 13th to the next level. Lahr created an underwater scene straight out of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Let me refresh your memory. At the end of the film, Tommy Jarvis stops Jason Voorhees by chaining him to the bottom of Crystal Lake putting him back in the same spot where he died as a kid. The image of Jason floating there chained is one of the most iconic horror images out there. In 2014 Lahr brought the scene to life and constructed a life-size statue and installed it at a popular diving location in Crosby, Minnesota. The statue has just now been discovered by divers and it has gone viral. Take a look.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 28, 2018
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Friday the 13th Gets Lucky

A Few Words From Our Ms. Palmer “What a piece of shit! No one’s gonna see this crap!” — Actress Betsy Palmer aka Pamela Vorhees The late, esteemed critic, Roger Ebert, coined the phrase “Dead Teenager Movie” and I have stated several times that Jaws 2 arguably gets technical credit as the first one. While teenagers in peril was a long standing theme and used over and over again, it’s the sequel to Spielberg’s game changing shark movie that lined them up one after another for the monster to pick off. Jaws 2 gave the designer sheen to killing off teens. It wasn’t a grainy “B Movie” that played part of a double bill at the drive in. This was wide screen Panavision and a 50 million budget. While there was no nudity, the underlying “have sex and die” motif was there with a killer in the form a pissed off female Great White Shark. The original 1978 Halloween fine

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Capt McNeely
Jan 11, 2016
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An Open Letter to New Line “Cynema”: Take A Stab At Something Different

To: New Line Cinema From: B Harrison Smith Re: Friday the 13th: Tommy Jarvis vs. Jason Vorhees Make Tommy vs. Jason. You’re sitting a goldmine. I am told the rights to Friday the 13th are a mess. Paramount owns some, you own some. Some are parceled out to TV while the films retain others and the characters. I’ve heard one tale that both studios share custody over the franchise like a divorced couple. I have no idea if this is true. What I do know is that the ownership of rights has become so convoluted that no one seems to have a definitive answer. The legal octopus is strangling you from making another killing and I’m willing to bet it could be straightened out. At the risk of shooting myself in the foot and giving away my thoughts for someone to steal, here is a proposal to get Jason out of development hell. I attended two meetings in Los Angeles

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Capt McNeely
Oct 6, 2015

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Divers Find Life Size Jason Voorhees Statue In A Minnesota Lake

It just doesn’t get any better than horror fans. Time and again they prove not only to be dedicated but some of the most awesome people out there. One fan, Curtis Lahr took his love of Friday the 13th to the next level. Lahr created an underwater scene straight out of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Let me refresh your memory. At the end of the film, Tommy Jarvis stops Jason Voorhees by chaining him to the bottom of Crystal Lake putting him back in the same spot where he died as a kid. The image of Jason floating there chained is one of the most iconic horror images out there. In 2014 Lahr brought the scene to life and constructed a life-size statue and installed it at a popular diving location in Crosby, Minnesota. The statue has just now been discovered by divers and it has gone viral. Take a look.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 28, 2018
Horror Fuel

Friday the 13th Gets Lucky

A Few Words From Our Ms. Palmer “What a piece of shit! No one’s gonna see this crap!” — Actress Betsy Palmer aka Pamela Vorhees The late, esteemed critic, Roger Ebert, coined the phrase “Dead Teenager Movie” and I have stated several times that Jaws 2 arguably gets technical credit as the first one. While teenagers in peril was a long standing theme and used over and over again, it’s the sequel to Spielberg’s game changing shark movie that lined them up one after another for the monster to pick off. Jaws 2 gave the designer sheen to killing off teens. It wasn’t a grainy “B Movie” that played part of a double bill at the drive in. This was wide screen Panavision and a 50 million budget. While there was no nudity, the underlying “have sex and die” motif was there with a killer in the form a pissed off female Great White Shark. The original 1978 Halloween fine

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 11, 2016
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An Open Letter to New Line “Cynema”: Take A Stab At Something Different

To: New Line Cinema From: B Harrison Smith Re: Friday the 13th: Tommy Jarvis vs. Jason Vorhees Make Tommy vs. Jason. You’re sitting a goldmine. I am told the rights to Friday the 13th are a mess. Paramount owns some, you own some. Some are parceled out to TV while the films retain others and the characters. I’ve heard one tale that both studios share custody over the franchise like a divorced couple. I have no idea if this is true. What I do know is that the ownership of rights has become so convoluted that no one seems to have a definitive answer. The legal octopus is strangling you from making another killing and I’m willing to bet it could be straightened out. At the risk of shooting myself in the foot and giving away my thoughts for someone to steal, here is a proposal to get Jason out of development hell. I attended two meetings in Los Angeles

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Oct 6, 2015