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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: SCARETOBER 2020: Friday the 13th (1980)
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CONTENT WARNING: Murder, misogyny, “purity” tropes, blood, violent death, mental illness, dissociation, knives and blades, snakes.
The fact that we hadn’t seen the mother of all slasher movies weighed pretty heavy on us, so we finally decided it was time to fix that. And wow were we pleasantly surprised. As was most of the country - in a year where John Carpenter’s The Fog and Kubrick’s reimagining of The Shining were dominating theaters, this tiny film became one of the most profitable...