Seven classic horror films for Friday 13th: spine-tingling, blood freezing
Here is a selection of Asian and Hollywood horror films from 1980 to the present. Many of these classics have spawned remakes and sequels. Be warned: few may be too much for those who are scared of clowns, ghosts, trees ...
Today is Friday the 13th and that means a lot of fear. But why does superstition regarding the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia) and Friday the 13th (paraskevidekatriaphobia) originate from? There are many theories. Some say it’s because there were 13 present at Jesus’ last supper and crucifixion. Others say the Thomas W. Lawson’s 1907 novel, Friday, the Thirteenth, is behind the superstition (in the novel, a broker creates a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th).
Nobody really knows; it’s very confusing.
So to help any confusion we recommend with the weather man forecasting storms this weekend it seems like a good excuse to stay in and scare the crap out of yourself with this smorgasbord of horror.
An obvious one to kick-start the list, this 1980 classic – originally pitched as A Long Night at Camp Blood – follows a winning formula: take a bunch of teenagers to a summer camp with a dark past, add some axe scenes, a few close ups of screaming mouths, some skin-tingling knife jabbing music and voila, scary movie.
But what is just as scary is how big this film has become, the original Friday the 13th planting the seed for a franchise that would yield 12 slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and all that scary merchandise.
