Looking back at the fabulous FRIDAYS

I was just about to go into sixth grade, my first year of middle school. I had just turned eleven years old. I remember seeing the television advertisements for FRIDAY THE 13TH PART THREE—in 3-D this time!—and thinking how badly I wanted to see it. I didn’t get to. Growing up, we very rarely got to go to the movies, and when we did it was usually because it was something my father wanted to see. (E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, also released the summer of 1982, was a notable exception. Ironically it was Jason who bumped E.T. from the number one spot at the box office when it released in August that year!) R-rated flicks were off-limits, and remained so until I was older and we got our first VCR. Then I made up for lost time by renting and watching every Horror flick I could get my hands on. The VHS copy of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART THREE, however, was not in 3D.

This past Friday the 13th, some 36 years after its initial release, I got to see, thanks to the Full Moon Cineplex in Nashville, Tennessee (www.fullmooncineplex.com), the movie on the big screen, in glorious primitive 80s 3-D! Was it worth the wait? Absolutely.

The first FRIDAY film I got to see in the theaters was FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 7: THE NEW BLOOD when it released on Friday May 13, 1988. It remains one of my favorites to this day.

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By The Evil Cheezman

Purveyor of sacred truths and purloined letters; literary acrobat; spiritual godson of Edgar Allan Poe, P.T. Barnum, and Ed Wood; WAYNE MILLER is the head architect of EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS, serving up the finest in entertainment and edification for the stage, the page, and the twain screens, silver and computer. He is the axe-murderer who once met Andy Griffith.

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