On tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th, a cursed electric chair gives its own the power to shock his enemies.
This episode was written and directed by Rob Hedden, who would later direct Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan!
This episode originally aired on April 23rd, 1988.
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series is considered by many to be one of the best episodes of the series.
In this episode, the antique is a gold compact. It causes men to fall in love with whoever owns it. Unfortunately, the men usually become so obsessive that the owner of the compact has no choice but to kill them. Hey, it happens.
In Vanity’s Mirror, the compact has fallen into the hands of an awkward teenager named Helen, who is poignantly played by Ingrid Veninger. As is often the case with the best horror stories, Helen is as much a victim as a villain.
This episode originally aired on March 5th, 1988.
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series explores what happens when Jack and Chris retrieve an antique but the owner doesn’t feel like letting them have it. This certainly isn’t the scariest episode of Friday the 13th: The Series but I like it because it’s Micki-centric and yes, I totally relate to Micki.
This episode originally aired on February 27th, 1988!
On tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, Micki and Ryan go back to Victorian-era London and deal with a vampire.
Who doesn’t like a good vampire story?
This episode originally aired on February 20th, 1988.
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th is all about fake faith healers but, even more importantly, it was directd by none other than David Cronenberg!
Be sure to keep an eye out for Robert Silverman, a Cronenberg regular who had important roles in The Brood and Scanners and who has appeared in a host of other Cronenberg films over the years. He also appeared in Prom Night, playing the creepy janitor who is briefly used as a red herring before the identity of the real murdere is revealed.
This episode originally aired on February 13th, 1988. (Originally, I got excited when I saw that date but, checking with a calendar, I saw that this show aired on a Saturday the 13th and not an actual Friday the 13th.) Unfortunately, due to budget cuts after the show’s first season, Cronenberg would be Friday the 13th‘s last celebrity director.
(Cronenberg would, however, go on to appear in Jason X.)
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th The Series finds Micki and Ryan tracking down a cursed scarecrow. The scarecrow guarantees a good crop but only after three people have had their heads chopped off. AGCK!
Listen, folks, scarecrows are scary enough even when they aren’t chopping off people’s heads. I’ve lived around farms. Scarecrows are scary as Hell!
Enjoy!
On tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, Ryan is convinced that an old comic book monster has come to life and is now killing people! Could it all be connected to a cursed pen that was sold to the creator of the comic book?
Watch and find out!
Tonight’s special guest star is Ray Walston, who played embittered comic book creator Jay Star. From what I’ve recently learned about how the comic book industry treats its artists and writers, I can’t really blame him for being bitter.
Enjoy!
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series finds Micki, Ryan, and Jack investigating a series of slashings that might be connected to a renowned surgeon named Vincent Howlett (played by Cliff Gorman, who also played an actor based on Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz). Howlett has a 100% success rate and he owes it all to his antique scalpel. Unfortunately, it turns out that there’s a deadly and bloody price for Howlett’s success in the operating room….
This episode was written by Marc Scott Zicree, who also wrote the definitive guide to the original Twilight Zone. The plot — with its theme of a man doing great evil so that he can do great good — certainly feels like it wouldn’t have been out of place as an episode of Rod Serling’s classic anthology series.
This episode originally aired in 1987, on November 9th (hey, that’s my birthday!)
Enjoy!
Tonight’s episode of Friday the 13th: The Series is a Halloween episode!
For some reason, Ryan and Micki decide that it would be a good idea to throw a Halloween party in a cursed antique store. Unfortunately, their evil Uncle Lewis is determined to return from Hell and what better time to do that than on the greatest holiday of them all!?
This episode is distinguished by the presence of the great character actor R.G. Armstrong, going totally over-the-top as Lewis and having a lot of fun while doing it! Something to keep an eye on during the Halloween party are the costumes. You’ll see a lot of sheets and leotards. You won’t see many familiar characters, largely because it would have cost money to feature any of them. That’s not a complaint, though. Personally, I like it when people make their own Halloween costumes, as opposed to just copying whatever’s popular.
This episode originally aired on October 26th, 1987.
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.
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