On tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, a cursed cupid statue is causing trouble!
Now, I’ll just be honest here. The idea behind the cupid statue is not a bad one. The statue causes people to fall in love with the owner of the statue, with the unfortunate twist being that the owner is then required to kill them. However, the sight of incel Eddie Munroe (Denis Forest) carrying around that statue is often unintentionally funny.
That said, even if this isn’t necessarily the strongest episode of the series, I wanted to share it because it was directed by future Oscar nominee, Atom Egoyan. Friday the 13th: The Series was filmed in Canada and this was an early credit for Egoyan. Later, Egoyan would go on to direct films like The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, and Where The Truth Lies, making him one of the most important Canadian filmmakers not named Cronenberg, Villeneuve, or Arcand.
This episode, the third of the series, originally aired on October 17th, 1987.
Through the Shattered Lens 