I worked at a movie theatre during those days and into the early 80s and collected movie posters. I still have original theatrical posters that were used in our lobby for both Halloween and Friday the 13th.
Oh man, talk about cluttering your house, amirite? Best to get rid of those dusty old relics, taking up precious home space. I'll tell you what: I'd be willing to take them off your hands...for a small fee. Just say the word, and I'll take that garbage AWAY!
@@Paper_and_Light You're kind, but I can't let you do that. It's a much bigger mess than I let on. There's also original posters for The Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders, Revenge of the Jedi (yes, a few Revenge posters did escape, and I got two of them), and tons of other movies from the late 60s until about '90.
Sounds like a real health hazard, keeping all that old paper around. So musty. Best let a professional, such as myself, come in for some poster abatement and remove those hazards safely and promptly. Again, for a small fee.
I never comment. This was an outstanding video. Friday the 13th is my favorite horror franchise. The original is one of my favorite horror films, and its poster is also one of my all-time favorites.
I'm so glad you found the video then! Thanks very much, and welcome! I'll be covering some of the other entries in the franchise, when there's another Friday the 13th 👍
A detail to consider from the poster is how the sillouette makes it look like the character IS the woods. This was especally true when Jason takes over the series. But even in the first one, Voorhees seems to be able to teleport through the darkness, is accompanied by thunder storms, and has the killer instincts of an animal. In these movies, the killer is a force of nature.
I've been following this channel for a minute and I have to say that the effort you put into your videos is nothing short of amazing, it's an honor to be here before this channel really takes off in popularity!
Please Please PLEASE cover more movie poster art like this in the future!! There’s so many beautiful horror posters from the 70s/80s that should be covered. I just got an original movie poster for The Howling and the art looks beautiful! Excellent video.
@@Paper_and_Light - They aren’t that expensive from what I’ve seen on eBay. Many listings go around $150 and are in pretty good condition, which is what I paid for. If you are into buying posters around the $400 mark, it’d be worth it lol.
Love this video! This one and the Nightmare on Elm Street were fantastic! I love original movie posters. Years ago I purchased an original 1974 Bryanston Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had Gunnar Hansen sign it. When I brought it to him, he was impressed it was an original and gave me the full background and history on the differences between the posters. He also suggested I get it linen backed (I highly recommend you do also, it’s reversible but protects) which I did. He actually lived close to me and was going to come visit and see my TCM collection and the poster right before he passed. I was proud to show him I listened to his suggestion and show him the rest of my collection. That poster is still one of my prized possessions.
Wow, what an experience, that's amazing you got to meet him. I do have a few linen backed posters, there's a specialist here in Vancouver that does fantastic restorations. I also like the creased and worn nature of some posters, the way they display. Like a patina of sorts.
@@Paper_and_Light Ah, you know exactly what I’m talking about! I collect a lot of different items and conservation is one thing I try to share with others. I could not agree more about the patina! My TCM poster was not snow white, it had a few light stains and some light yellowing on spots. They offered to clean and get rid of stains, but I just had them linen back it to protect the folds from any damage. It still looks gritty and used, which I love. Now my Nightbreed poster has issues too, but like yourself, that just adds to the beauty.
I watched it at home with my movie club friends yesterday (Friday the 13th). Before our gathering, I watched ahead of time and noted what food was either seen or mentioned or simply thought of camp food and even diner/corner store foods. Between the six of us, 2 versions of hot dogs, popcorn, apple pie, chocolate chip cookie/marshmallow s'mores and chips. In consideration of Brenda's vegan diet, I made hummus for chip dip because if you mix the ingredients right, you'll get all the protein you need! My Italian friend brought fried zucchini flowers and this didn't quite match the theme but we gladly accepted them!
@@Paper_and_Light It's how we roll. Fantastic breakdown of the movie poster! There's definitely an influential quality to movie posters. My top movie art would be Salem's Lot.
Your apartment probably costs more than the entire budgets of the first two Friday the 13th movies combined. Very nice. And the poster really brings it all together ...and that view! Wow.
Hah! Adjusting for inflation, not quite :) On the plus side, there's a lot less snakes and severed heads in here. Plenty of Crazy Ralphs around, though.
4:00 Awesome video 👏🏽👏🏽 I never noticed before today, that in the second poster you showed, the one with the axe, there were lines in the axe handle, I counted them…13 lines, that was cool.
I grew up about 30 minutes from the original Camp Blood (Crystal Lake). I think it’s called , at least it used to be called, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. I snuck my cousins in there when they were real young. We watched the movie the night before. Famous words after getting back in the car, “Don’t tell you mom we were here. It’s technically illegal.” It was cool tracking parts from the movie. We also went to Blairstown where there weee some scenes shot in the beginning and I think we went to the diner. I have photos somewhere.
That's amazing!!! I'm jealous, I would love to check out the camp in person. I know they occasionally give tours, but it's a bit of a trek from Vancouver. You should track down those photos!
I could watch your videos all day, from the new information to the lovely voice over, everything is just great! As a fellow german I really laughed at the "Freitag der 13" poster :D
Thanks a lot, man! Yeah, I have no idea what they were thinking with that German one. Maybe the face is supposed to be young Jason, all distorted and ghostly? Bizarre.
OOOOO thank you! When i was a kid i was absolutely freaked out by this poster. I vividly remember seeing it framed outside of the theater on the way in and it scaring me to death.
Many thanks for this! 57-y/o guy here. Saw this in the summer b4 8th grade, & it was Great! The poster summed it up perfectly, I thought, & the movie's structure is the best of the series. Just everything about it. The otrs never came close. Many thanks for the notes about the artist. For #2, the poster by me had the same outline, but the killer held a bloody ax. Still, #1's my fave. Thanks a lot! :-)
@@Paper_and_Light If it helps, today's atmosphere is different. Then, HBO (only 1) started at 6 p.m. & ended ~ 2 a.m. NYC had different pay channels (WHT, etc.), but the gen'l availability of movies wasn't like today, where everything seems kinda the same. So everyone watched TV, which had 30-sec. TV spots (exciting!), & The Movies in theatres were an experience. Flix played for ~1 yr, then went to HBO, then were rereleased for ~1 wk (theatres &/or drive-ins), then came to network TV. Big movies didn't come to TV for a while. The Exorcist played ~2 yrs & came to TV ~Feb. '81? for instance. So going to the movies was different, b/c they weren't around you. Few folks had VCRs to record anything (until '83, which we bought for $400 that summer), so you were a slave to when something aired on TV/HBO. Once VHS came out, direct to video movies dried up the drive-ins, so small movies were gone. In '84-5 the drive-ins showed big movies together to stay in business, & the sleazy movies were out.
And there weren't multiplexes like now. When The Exorcist opened in Boston on 12/26/73, the biggest theatre there was a duplex, where The Sting opened next to it (same day). (The Ex. didn't go "wide" for a few wks later.) Folks now walk into multiplexes w/bags of their own food (popcorn, soda, candy). Not allowed then, b/c that's how theatres make their $. Ticket sales for The Exorcist in that Boston theatre (& the otr 20+ theatres it opened in) went to Hollywood; the theatres made their money on popcorn & soda. My Mom used to smuggle homemade popcorn in a big purse & this was a fun thing to do...&, honestly, it annoys me to hear 20-yr-olds seem entitled to walk in w/a shopping bag of snax while the kid taking their ticket lets them thru. But movies were kinda different then & the atmosphere was different. Now there's a 90-day window b4 a movie appears on pay TV, then perhaps a month b4 it streams free on some pay channel. So everything's different. And for the TV, channels signed off around 2 a.m. & came back on around 5 a.m. (6?). You can see this on UTube, tho I forgot what it's called. So you couldn't watch TV all night b/c A) the networks were off the air, B) there were no VCRs or DVDs, C) few folks had HBO (I forgot when that came out...perhaps '76? You'd have to ck), & D) there was no streaming. It was a much simpler time. Puts things in perspective, no? :-)
@@Laufield I was 13 when it came out. Saw it at drive-in Door County Wisconsin. What a scary great time. Worst part was going home to the creepy farm house in the middle of the woods 😂
Even through the sea of films displayed in Blockbuster Video, THIS cover art of the first Friday the 13th left me rather intimidated and frightened than the other cover arts of other horror films like Hellraiser or Evil Dead as a child. Good art should always leave an impression...that I always hated being alone in the woods at night! Kudos to Alex Ebel for creating such an anxious and frightful poster.
@@Paper_and_Light Yes...coming close was the anime section of the early 90s. Both genres had one thing common at the time...they were explicitly taboo and seemed to be off limits to younger children since it had Parental Warning sticker before rental due to its graphic nature.
Believe it or not, that wasn't a LaserDisc but an even older format called RCA SelectaVision! Similar to LaserDisc, but actually read the disc data with a stylus.
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l was so excited when l moved to a quieter less crazy town but l allmost screamed with joy when l found it to have a crystal lake dispite it being partly filmed in ct (naturally it wasnt the same crystal lake)
Excellent video! I’ve been collecting original posters for years and this was a must for me. I was lucky enough to get one rolled. You’re so right about the original Pt. 2 concept. I’ll be launching my UA-cam channel soon, using my own home theater as well to talk posters and collectibles.
I’m not a Friday the 13th fan so much. But I like to watch Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street on laserdisc every so often. There’s definitely something to the lofi that makes that genre pop.
I think what's lost on today's audience is the "who is the killer?" Theme throughout the movie. You have a few suspects: crazy Ralph, the creepy guy hitting on Alice, the guy shooting the bow and arrow, the cop who comes in on the motorcycle (he acts abit weird like he's trying to scare them) the guy picking up Annie who calls them dumb kids. You didn't know who it was at first. It makes me wonder if it was pam all by herself or did Jason help with a few kills too
Friday the 13th landed in what I call the Van Halen era of horror. Van Halen's original incarnation with David Lee Roth released their first album in 1978 and their last one in 1984 before Dave left. During those six years, we had some amazing horror beginning with Halloween and ending with A Nightmare On Elm Street. I was 15 when that era began, 21 when it ended, and I tell you, it was magical. I too take a bit of issue with the 4K restorations. The grainier film stock made these films feel a bit dangerous, like snuff films or pornography (fitting, since Sean S. Cunningham dabbled in porn production, I believe). Nice video, man.
Great video, man. Really informative, and beautifully shot. I remember my mother looking at the ad in the newspaper way back in 1980, and remarking about the killer's figure looking slightly feminine. Ma was pretty sharp.
It makes sense that Jason's mother was the killer, as the female campers would have been slightly more comfortable at first glance seeing another woman approach them, even though they were still uneasy from the interaction.
Great video on an amazing movie poster. Part 1 is a masterpiece. I have visited the camp from part 1 and it’s an epic surreal experience to say the least it gave me goosebumps. I was actually followed by a jeep wrangler near the camp during that trip that was kinda crazy lol. While I enjoy part 2, 4 and 6 nothing comes close to part 1 for me because of that iconic filming location, a real camp.
@@Paper_and_Lighteven the diner is still open and has characters there around this time of year! Pretty cool. Blairstown NJ is where the camp is to take tours.
Only two mistakes: At 6:20, "foliage" is mispronounced as "FOYL-uhj" (it's "FOE-lee-uhj"), and your captions at 7:57 correctly read "fateful" but don't match the voiceover, which speaks a malapropism common to this phrasing, "faithful." Apart from all that, this is exceptional content that brims with wit, warmth, cleverness and contagiously genuine affection for the subject matter, with production that feels, frankly, beyond generous for a short UA-cam video. Thoroughly excellent. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks very much, I really appreciate the corrections and the high praise! I still can't believe I said 'foilage' 😂 I get swept up in delivering a more emotional delivery, and don't always think of verbal precision.
Funny how in each different country/territory they have a weird slogan regarding Friday The 13th “you’ll only wish it were a nightmare” and the poster from Germany looks like some sort of 70’s slasher horror or Hitchcock film
Jason is probably the best concived slasher character of all time, while with other we got a full with the 1st movie, Freddy, Michael, Leatherface and such, the Jason we know and love was a slower burn to get what he became, 1st we heard the urban legend of the boy that drowned in Crystal Lake, in the 2nd movie Jason took up the mantel of her mother taking his revenge on anyone who dared step into the woods, the 3rd one we got mask, the mask that made the character and the franchise an icon of horror, and the 4th one, for the time being, gave a worthy ending to a monster we saw from it's conception, growth and demise, even at that point you can't help but think of the boy burried in that killing machine.
Thanks very much! I use the Adobe Creative suite, with Premiere being my main editing software, and then Photoshop and After Effects for occasional things.
One thing I can give Sean S Cunningham and Victor Miller props for... They have always admitted that they ripped off of Halloween. We all know without Michael Myers they never would have been a Jason Voorhees.
4:00 13 scratch marks on the axe handle... Edit: upwards of $1000.00? Shit... ill just print a copy and put it in a frame. F13 fan since 1986, here... and that's just too damned expensive! I still watch these films on VHS, for the reasons you listed!
@@Paper_and_Light Wow! Hahahaha. Had no idea. Cool. I found mine in an abandoned house during a canoe trip. It was the only thing left in the house. Sitting in a closet upstairs! I love it. Carried it the entire trip home. Hahahaha.
Way way back when watching the movie for the first time, after all 6 counselors had been introduced but before any had been killed, I remember deducing that there were only 5 counselors in the poster. It appeared that Ned was missing from the group depicted and I thought that was a subtle clue that HE was the killer! But then he ended up being the first of the 6 to be knocked off. 🤷♂
Yeah, Ned's exclusion from the poster is a mystery I wasn't able to solve when researching! Probably just a random omission that no one either noticed or cared much about.
I messed how beautiful the movie posters are work was. VHS covers too back in the day. Nowadays 😂 it can't even compare most of the times. They look cool sometimes 🤷🏾♀️
I remember the second one had the same silhouette but its holding a hatchet. Ive seen it with and adult Jason smashing up through a row boat. However, in all the print adds that came out here (yes, im old enough to remember) the silhouette was just black inside.
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Thanks very much! I've never actually been to Philadelphia, but I know it's always sunny there, so sounds like it's worth a visit. I'm based in Vancouver, and your Film Society sounds way cooler than ours :)
Very cool Video. Instantly hit the follower button. Watched the movie again last Friday of course. We also had versions with the axe in Germany on VHS covers. But the other poster you showed here is really stupid. 😂
Thanks! I would say, for these films, just a 1080p Blu-Ray is great. There isn't much more fidelity to squeeze out of these low light scenes. You can't go wrong with the Scream Factory boxset!
Can you do an episode on the original " Dawn of the Dead" poster, I've always like that one especially the lurid warning of the violence in the movie. All the Italian import horror and gore in the early 80's had it, man when I was a kid I would see these posters for movies coming soon me and my school mates were psyched to see them in are neighborhood grindhouse in the Mission Dist. Of San Francisco. The theater let everyone in as long as you had the cash, good times. Wow 400 bucks for a poster must be nice , I get it. I spent 200 on a Mexican variant of a Toho movie " Prophecies of Nostradamus catastrophe 1999". Great channel. Thanks for sharing.
@@Paper_and_Light that can happen. Too much bickering when they created this format. Woulda faired much better if that didn't happen. Unless the disc is damaged...repeated play ...about 3 times will clear the debris on the disc... hopefully. 😃👍
Once I grew up, I stopped buying into into the idea that all the killing was solely done by Mrs. Voorhees as cool and scary as that idea was and is. I mean, how could it be only her she's a petite middle-aged woman it'd be impossible for her to chase down younger victims let alone hang them on doors, etc. Plus, Jason would've been a grown man at this point and most likely already insane therefore possibly helping her. The first murder sees a man's long legs and a male hand when killing, I think Pamala picked up and drove the girl away and Jason was waiting to follow the unfortunate cook in the woods. Sure, Pamala's death on the beach depicts male hands too that however is accepted by viewers of a certain vintage as merely showing the actor underneath clunching his fists as the head pops off, i.e. movie f/x of the olden days so can't really complain there. But overall, I just don't see her being capable of doing all this alone and right as Part 2 starts Jason's found Alice's apartment showing he's an adult.
That's very true. He's an adult, with a creepy cabin in the woods. Could've been helping out for sure, which would make Mrs. Voorhees' death all the more isolating/enraging for him. Very interesting theory!
Cunningham's and Savini's attempt at making her bulky with the padded sweater, and leaving the stuntman's hands in the final product as her own, shows that, even though it may have been executed poorly, she was the only perpetrator in the film.
@@crazyralph6386 Why wouldn't he, they let him 'drown' after all... She did those early ones, he was just a boy still. Plus, he's actually more crazy than Ralph.
@@TheRickster1Ohhh, are you talking about the one where she's holding the pitchfork out? Yeah, that one is solid. I think it was used for international posters?
they didn't rip off Halloween, they did a lot of different things. Friday the 13th part 2 and Halloween 2 have more similarities ( the hammer to the head kill, Jason in blue, wearing the white sack, very lightly similar to michael's look) then there's Tommy Jarvis in 4,5,6. A nod to Tommy Doyle ( who is in 3 films in the original Halloween timeline *there's only 1*) Friday the 13th is a GOOD slasher. classic and many sequels in the franchise are great, especially 2,3,4, 5 (has more love now) and 6.
I've said for years, if anything, Friday the 13th owes more to Agatha Christie than John Carpenter. This is the greatest version of 'And Then There Were None' ever devoted to film. The basic premise is virtually the same, though the killer's motive is obviously quite different. And I'd say that this was the QUINTESSENTIAL slasher movie. Not just A great slasher movie, but THE great slasher movie...
Ripping off Halloween was the original intention, per Cunningham and Miller themselves, but I would agree that they went in some new and different directions.
@@Paper_and_Light Cunningham says that a lot. I think he'd rather say that than to admit that he actually put some effort into something as humble as a slasher movie.
"Jason didn't show up until the sequel..." is the exact line. I suppose it's how you interpret it? Taken literally, it's incorrect, Jason the drowning boy does show up in the first film.
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A24 has the opportunity to use the original poster's tagline with their logo for A24 Hour Nightmare of Terror
That would be some franchise synergy for sure!
Is this where they got the name??
Yes, as filmmakers it's our current duty to tie nostalgia to everything current because the trough must runith over for the sheeple.
@@joelorozcowe are talking about a franchise here going back to ‘80.
I really hope A24 doesn't do anything with this Franchise. Last thing I need to see is a depressing Friday the 13th film.
I worked at a movie theatre during those days and into the early 80s and collected movie posters. I still have original theatrical posters that were used in our lobby for both Halloween and Friday the 13th.
Oh man, talk about cluttering your house, amirite? Best to get rid of those dusty old relics, taking up precious home space.
I'll tell you what: I'd be willing to take them off your hands...for a small fee. Just say the word, and I'll take that garbage AWAY!
@@Paper_and_Light You're kind, but I can't let you do that. It's a much bigger mess than I let on. There's also original posters for The Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders, Revenge of the Jedi (yes, a few Revenge posters did escape, and I got two of them), and tons of other movies from the late 60s until about '90.
Sounds like a real health hazard, keeping all that old paper around. So musty. Best let a professional, such as myself, come in for some poster abatement and remove those hazards safely and promptly. Again, for a small fee.
That's pretty cool. Don't sell them to this dude
@@Paper_and_Lightcaptincosmo I'll pay double what paper and light offers you 😂🎉😊😅
I never comment. This was an outstanding video. Friday the 13th is my favorite horror franchise. The original is one of my favorite horror films, and its poster is also one of my all-time favorites.
I'm so glad you found the video then! Thanks very much, and welcome!
I'll be covering some of the other entries in the franchise, when there's another Friday the 13th 👍
A detail to consider from the poster is how the sillouette makes it look like the character IS the woods. This was especally true when Jason takes over the series. But even in the first one, Voorhees seems to be able to teleport through the darkness, is accompanied by thunder storms, and has the killer instincts of an animal. In these movies, the killer is a force of nature.
That's some great insight.
I've always wondered how Mrs. Voorhees was able to chuck Brenda through a cabin window. Force of nature, to be sure!
I've been following this channel for a minute and I have to say that the effort you put into your videos is nothing short of amazing, it's an honor to be here before this channel really takes off in popularity!
Thanks a lot, it's a lot of fun putting these together. I love this franchise, it's worth celebrating!
Please Please PLEASE cover more movie poster art like this in the future!! There’s so many beautiful horror posters from the 70s/80s that should be covered. I just got an original movie poster for The Howling and the art looks beautiful! Excellent video.
Oh wow, that's a score! Very effective poster with that screaming face. Love it, wish I had one!
@@Paper_and_Light - They aren’t that expensive from what I’ve seen on eBay. Many listings go around $150 and are in pretty good condition, which is what I paid for. If you are into buying posters around the $400 mark, it’d be worth it lol.
I'll keep an eye out for one!
When movie studios still cared about spoilers
Yeah, they kept this one under wraps pretty well! Probably helped that it was a small indie film that few thought would find the success that it did.
This channel deserves waaaaaayyyy more subs. The production value and attention to detail alone should garner more viewers. Great stuff!
Thanks very much, most kind. Spread the word!!! :)
Love this video! This one and the Nightmare on Elm Street were fantastic! I love original movie posters. Years ago I purchased an original 1974 Bryanston Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had Gunnar Hansen sign it. When I brought it to him, he was impressed it was an original and gave me the full background and history on the differences between the posters. He also suggested I get it linen backed (I highly recommend you do also, it’s reversible but protects) which I did. He actually lived close to me and was going to come visit and see my TCM collection and the poster right before he passed. I was proud to show him I listened to his suggestion and show him the rest of my collection. That poster is still one of my prized possessions.
Wow, what an experience, that's amazing you got to meet him. I do have a few linen backed posters, there's a specialist here in Vancouver that does fantastic restorations. I also like the creased and worn nature of some posters, the way they display. Like a patina of sorts.
@@Paper_and_Light Ah, you know exactly what I’m talking about! I collect a lot of different items and conservation is one thing I try to share with others. I could not agree more about the patina! My TCM poster was not snow white, it had a few light stains and some light yellowing on spots. They offered to clean and get rid of stains, but I just had them linen back it to protect the folds from any damage. It still looks gritty and used, which I love. Now my Nightbreed poster has issues too, but like yourself, that just adds to the beauty.
I watched it at home with my movie club friends yesterday (Friday the 13th). Before our gathering, I watched ahead of time and noted what food was either seen or mentioned or simply thought of camp food and even diner/corner store foods. Between the six of us, 2 versions of hot dogs, popcorn, apple pie, chocolate chip cookie/marshmallow s'mores and chips. In consideration of Brenda's vegan diet, I made hummus for chip dip because if you mix the ingredients right, you'll get all the protein you need! My Italian friend brought fried zucchini flowers and this didn't quite match the theme but we gladly accepted them!
Ummm...your movie club sounds FANTASTIC. Jealousy, teeming with jealousy.
@@Paper_and_Light It's how we roll. Fantastic breakdown of the movie poster! There's definitely an influential quality to movie posters. My top movie art would be Salem's Lot.
@@KahlilDechaine Salem's Lot is a creepy one, for sure!
Your apartment probably costs more than the entire budgets of the first two Friday the 13th movies combined. Very nice. And the poster really brings it all together ...and that view! Wow.
Hah! Adjusting for inflation, not quite :) On the plus side, there's a lot less snakes and severed heads in here. Plenty of Crazy Ralphs around, though.
4:00 Awesome video 👏🏽👏🏽 I never noticed before today, that in the second poster you showed, the one with the axe, there were lines in the axe handle, I counted them…13 lines, that was cool.
Aw, nice catch, I hadn't clocked that!!!
my first exposure to Friday the 13th was seeing that ad/poster (in black & white) in the local newspaper as a kid. I thought it looked terrifying 😮
I can imagine! Black and white half-tone would give it a real grittiness.
I grew up about 30 minutes from the original Camp Blood (Crystal Lake). I think it’s called , at least it used to be called, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco.
I snuck my cousins in there when they were real young. We watched the movie the night before.
Famous words after getting back in the car, “Don’t tell you mom we were here. It’s technically illegal.”
It was cool tracking parts from the movie. We also went to Blairstown where there weee some scenes shot in the beginning and I think we went to the diner. I have photos somewhere.
That's amazing!!! I'm jealous, I would love to check out the camp in person. I know they occasionally give tours, but it's a bit of a trek from Vancouver.
You should track down those photos!
I think they’re in a hard drive. I can send you some if you want.
I could watch your videos all day, from the new information to the lovely voice over, everything is just great! As a fellow german I really laughed at the "Freitag der 13" poster :D
Thanks a lot, man!
Yeah, I have no idea what they were thinking with that German one. Maybe the face is supposed to be young Jason, all distorted and ghostly? Bizarre.
OOOOO thank you! When i was a kid i was absolutely freaked out by this poster. I vividly remember seeing it framed outside of the theater on the way in and it scaring me to death.
It certainly makes an impression, for sure!
Many thanks for this! 57-y/o guy here. Saw this in the summer b4 8th grade, & it was Great! The poster summed it up perfectly, I thought, & the movie's structure is the best of the series. Just everything about it. The otrs never came close. Many thanks for the notes about the artist. For #2, the poster by me had the same outline, but the killer held a bloody ax. Still, #1's my fave. Thanks a lot! :-)
That sounds like a solid core memory! I wish I could've seen some of these older entries in the theater, seems like a great experience.
@@Paper_and_Light If it helps, today's atmosphere is different. Then, HBO (only 1) started at 6 p.m. & ended ~ 2 a.m. NYC had different pay channels (WHT, etc.), but the gen'l availability of movies wasn't like today, where everything seems kinda the same. So everyone watched TV, which had 30-sec. TV spots (exciting!), & The Movies in theatres were an experience. Flix played for ~1 yr, then went to HBO, then were rereleased for ~1 wk (theatres &/or drive-ins), then came to network TV. Big movies didn't come to TV for a while. The Exorcist played ~2 yrs & came to TV ~Feb. '81? for instance. So going to the movies was different, b/c they weren't around you. Few folks had VCRs to record anything (until '83, which we bought for $400 that summer), so you were a slave to when something aired on TV/HBO. Once VHS came out, direct to video movies dried up the drive-ins, so small movies were gone. In '84-5 the drive-ins showed big movies together to stay in business, & the sleazy movies were out.
And there weren't multiplexes like now. When The Exorcist opened in Boston on 12/26/73, the biggest theatre there was a duplex, where The Sting opened next to it (same day). (The Ex. didn't go "wide" for a few wks later.) Folks now walk into multiplexes w/bags of their own food (popcorn, soda, candy). Not allowed then, b/c that's how theatres make their $. Ticket sales for The Exorcist in that Boston theatre (& the otr 20+ theatres it opened in) went to Hollywood; the theatres made their money on popcorn & soda. My Mom used to smuggle homemade popcorn in a big purse & this was a fun thing to do...&, honestly, it annoys me to hear 20-yr-olds seem entitled to walk in w/a shopping bag of snax while the kid taking their ticket lets them thru. But movies were kinda different then & the atmosphere was different. Now there's a 90-day window b4 a movie appears on pay TV, then perhaps a month b4 it streams free on some pay channel. So everything's different. And for the TV, channels signed off around 2 a.m. & came back on around 5 a.m. (6?). You can see this on UTube, tho I forgot what it's called. So you couldn't watch TV all night b/c A) the networks were off the air, B) there were no VCRs or DVDs, C) few folks had HBO (I forgot when that came out...perhaps '76? You'd have to ck), & D) there was no streaming. It was a much simpler time. Puts things in perspective, no? :-)
Beautifully put together. Ki ki ki up the stellar work!
Hahahah, will do!
Perfect video, perfectly scheduled. Thank you sir! (may I have another) Keep up the great work on this channel! 🙌🏻
Plenty more F13 movies to cover in the future!
Friday the 13th 1980 scared me hell as I was a kid
It's scary stuff at times!
@@Laufield I was 13 when it came out. Saw it at drive-in Door County Wisconsin. What a scary great time. Worst part was going home to the creepy farm house in the middle of the woods 😂
Now it's just campy, but at the time in a crowded theater as a teenager, it was pure fun.
Great video! I like the Part 2 version with just the silhouette and typography.
It's not my favorite, but certainly better than just the plain text.
Even through the sea of films displayed in Blockbuster Video, THIS cover art of the first Friday the 13th left me rather intimidated and frightened than the other cover arts of other horror films like Hellraiser or Evil Dead as a child.
Good art should always leave an impression...that I always hated being alone in the woods at night!
Kudos to Alex Ebel for creating such an anxious and frightful poster.
Yeah, it always seemed to stick out. For me it represented 'those movies I'm not allowed to watch'.
@@Paper_and_Light Yes...coming close was the anime section of the early 90s. Both genres had one thing common at the time...they were explicitly taboo and seemed to be off limits to younger children since it had Parental Warning sticker before rental due to its graphic nature.
Seeing that laser disc brought back memories. I remember we had Tron, The Shining, The Wizard of Oz, Close Encounters. So many good memories
Believe it or not, that wasn't a LaserDisc but an even older format called RCA SelectaVision! Similar to LaserDisc, but actually read the disc data with a stylus.
Awesome insightful video review, My Dude. Didn't help that I binge watched your channel when I should be sleeping but... I couldn't help it. Your videos are amazing. Subscribe 150%. Can't wait for your next video, Boss.
Thanks very much, and welcome aboard! Next episode will be out the first week of October 👍 lots to film until then
@@Paper_and_Light: Can't wait, Chief. Til then. Hurry up, October and get here already.
The crt tv with the noisy picture brings back so many memories.
Very nostalgic, low that lo-fi feel.
l was so excited when l moved to a quieter less crazy town but l allmost screamed with joy when l found it to have a crystal lake dispite it being partly filmed in ct (naturally it wasnt the same crystal lake)
They actually filmed 'Freddy vs. Jason' not far from where I live, it's cool to go visit the lake that Jason walked out of at the end!
Excellent examination of one of horror's great posters!
Thanks, I was so excited when I managed to pick this one up at auction! Plenty more to try and grab, but so very pricey :)
Great scheduling haha!
Had to do it! Anytime there's a Friday the 13th in September or October, just feels right.
Excellent video! I’ve been collecting original posters for years and this was a must for me. I was lucky enough to get one rolled. You’re so right about the original Pt. 2 concept. I’ll be launching my UA-cam channel soon, using my own home theater as well to talk posters and collectibles.
Wow, a rolled one, amazing score! Be sure to send over your channel link when you launch it, I'd love to see your collection.
@@Paper_and_Light Thanks, you bet!
I’m not a Friday the 13th fan so much. But I like to watch Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street on laserdisc every so often. There’s definitely something to the lofi that makes that genre pop.
Yeah, the lo-fi vibe is tangible. It's like there's a pleasing texture to the image and the sound.
I think what's lost on today's audience is the "who is the killer?" Theme throughout the movie. You have a few suspects: crazy Ralph, the creepy guy hitting on Alice, the guy shooting the bow and arrow, the cop who comes in on the motorcycle (he acts abit weird like he's trying to scare them) the guy picking up Annie who calls them dumb kids. You didn't know who it was at first. It makes me wonder if it was pam all by herself or did Jason help with a few kills too
Beautiful informative video. just Subscribed...
Thanks very much, and welcome!
Friday the 13th landed in what I call the Van Halen era of horror. Van Halen's original incarnation with David Lee Roth released their first album in 1978 and their last one in 1984 before Dave left. During those six years, we had some amazing horror beginning with Halloween and ending with A Nightmare On Elm Street. I was 15 when that era began, 21 when it ended, and I tell you, it was magical. I too take a bit of issue with the 4K restorations. The grainier film stock made these films feel a bit dangerous, like snuff films or pornography (fitting, since Sean S. Cunningham dabbled in porn production, I believe). Nice video, man.
Thanks very much! It was a grittier era, for sure. Those films did indeed feel a bit dangerous.
Great video, man. Really informative, and beautifully shot.
I remember my mother looking at the ad in the newspaper way back in 1980, and remarking about the killer's figure looking slightly feminine.
Ma was pretty sharp.
Ma was sharp indeed! Did she let you see the movie?
@@Paper_and_Light Oh yeah, man. She took my sisters and I. That movie scared the crap out of all of us! LOL
Hahahah, that's a great memory then 😄
It makes sense that Jason's mother was the killer, as the female campers would have been slightly more comfortable at first glance seeing another woman approach them, even though they were still uneasy from the interaction.
~slap~ Jason should have been _WATCHED!_ ~slap~
There was more effort put into both of Ebel's posters than the entire series of movies!
Some beautiful, intricate artwork, for sure. I really like the poster for Part 3 as well though.
Great video on an amazing movie poster.
Part 1 is a masterpiece.
I have visited the camp from part 1 and it’s an epic surreal experience to say the least it gave me goosebumps.
I was actually followed by a jeep wrangler near the camp during that trip that was kinda crazy lol.
While I enjoy part 2, 4 and 6 nothing comes close to part 1 for me because of that iconic filming location, a real camp.
That would be a memorable trip, I didn't know the camp is still operating!
@@Paper_and_Lighteven the diner is still open and has characters there around this time of year! Pretty cool. Blairstown NJ is where the camp is to take tours.
The original Friday the 13th poster is a work of art 🎨. 😀👍
Agreed, it's been really fun staring at it the last few weeks!
One of the most iconic horror movie posters of all time.
Indeed it is, Crazy Ralph!
great job with this, really entertaining.
Thanks a lot for watching!
I really really enjoyed this video about the poster. I learned a lot ,very cool. Thanks for maki g this .
You're welcome! Always fun talkin' posters.
This is an excellent video! The first movie is one of my personal favorite movies ever
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video. It's a classic slasher film, for sure!
Only two mistakes: At 6:20, "foliage" is mispronounced as "FOYL-uhj" (it's "FOE-lee-uhj"), and your captions at 7:57 correctly read "fateful" but don't match the voiceover, which speaks a malapropism common to this phrasing, "faithful."
Apart from all that, this is exceptional content that brims with wit, warmth, cleverness and contagiously genuine affection for the subject matter, with production that feels, frankly, beyond generous for a short UA-cam video. Thoroughly excellent. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks very much, I really appreciate the corrections and the high praise! I still can't believe I said 'foilage' 😂 I get swept up in delivering a more emotional delivery, and don't always think of verbal precision.
It was more fun back in the day when you had to sneak into the theater to see an R-rated film. Ah, nostalgia. 😎
Did you ever get caught?
Never.
VERY well done, man!!
Thanks very much! This was a fun one to put together.
The RCA SelectaVision disc of Part 2 has a cover half-different. Includes the outline of Jason with a closeup of Sandra during the spear scene.
Yeah, I've seen that pitchfork artwork on some of the international posters for Part 2.
4:29 "Martes 13"- in Argentina Tuesday the 13th is the unlucky day.
Interesting, I didn't know that! Great detail.
I was ready to laugh at your video and turn it off as soon as I smelled noob.
Instead, you just earned another subscription.
Very well done, my dude.
So you're saying you didn't laugh when I showed the velvet Elvis? F%ck.
@@Paper_and_Light I loved the reveal. Didn’t see that coming.
Great video man. Love it. Big poster collector here.
Great! Do you have a particular era you focus on collecting?
Great video!
Thanks!
Funny how in each different country/territory they have a weird slogan regarding Friday The 13th “you’ll only wish it were a nightmare” and the poster from Germany looks like some sort of 70’s slasher horror or Hitchcock film
It kinda resembles the yellow poster for 'The Shining', but...way worse.
I had a second hand store for years. Ever time that we'd get a black velvet painting = wouldn't last the week. Very popular.
I'd love a velvet Elvis!
Jason is probably the best concived slasher character of all time, while with other we got a full with the 1st movie, Freddy, Michael, Leatherface and such, the Jason we know and love was a slower burn to get what he became, 1st we heard the urban legend of the boy that drowned in Crystal Lake, in the 2nd movie Jason took up the mantel of her mother taking his revenge on anyone who dared step into the woods, the 3rd one we got mask, the mask that made the character and the franchise an icon of horror, and the 4th one, for the time being, gave a worthy ending to a monster we saw from it's conception, growth and demise, even at that point you can't help but think of the boy burried in that killing machine.
Yeah, it was a slow reveal from film to film, over those first 4. Can't think of another franchise that's ever done that!
Enjoyed this. Unsure if you’ve done anything on the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET posters, but that would be dope AF to see! Those are very detailed.
It's on the schedule, for sure! They are very detailed, I have the first one but need to grab a few others.
Hey what software do you use for video editing? This is incredible work
Thanks very much!
I use the Adobe Creative suite, with Premiere being my main editing software, and then Photoshop and After Effects for occasional things.
One thing I can give Sean S Cunningham and Victor Miller props for... They have always admitted that they ripped off of Halloween. We all know without Michael Myers they never would have been a Jason Voorhees.
Yes, extremely upfront about it! Makes me curious how Carpenter feels about these movies?
4:00
13 scratch marks on the axe handle...
Edit: upwards of $1000.00?
Shit... ill just print a copy and put it in a frame.
F13 fan since 1986, here... and that's just too damned expensive!
I still watch these films on VHS, for the reasons you listed!
Yeah, some people prioritize having the original paper, brings back that feeling of heading to the movie theater.
I have that laserdisc! I hang it on the wall every Halloween. 🎃🤓
This is actually an RCA SelectaVision disc, sometimes known as CED. A little older than LaserDisc, way worse picture quality and sound.
@@Paper_and_Light Wow! Hahahaha. Had no idea. Cool. I found mine in an abandoned house during a canoe trip. It was the only thing left in the house. Sitting in a closet upstairs! I love it. Carried it the entire trip home. Hahahaha.
@@christophernunn77 That's a great keepsake!
I have finished the movie to it . But, not the tv shows.
Way way back when watching the movie for the first time, after all 6 counselors had been introduced but before any had been killed, I remember deducing that there were only 5 counselors in the poster. It appeared that Ned was missing from the group depicted and I thought that was a subtle clue that HE was the killer! But then he ended up being the first of the 6 to be knocked off. 🤷♂
Yeah, Ned's exclusion from the poster is a mystery I wasn't able to solve when researching! Probably just a random omission that no one either noticed or cared much about.
I messed how beautiful the movie posters are work was. VHS covers too back in the day. Nowadays 😂 it can't even compare most of the times. They look cool sometimes 🤷🏾♀️
They were great back in the day, for sure!
I noticed when I was a kid that both the camp director and Ms Vorhees use the same jeep, I thought the camp director was the killer for min, lol
Yeah, I think that was a misdirect? Def seemed like it could be Crazy Ralph as well!
I remember the second one had the same silhouette but its holding a hatchet. Ive seen it with and adult Jason smashing up through a row boat. However, in all the print adds that came out here (yes, im old enough to remember) the silhouette was just black inside.
Your fantastic!! Thanks so much for posting!! I work with the Philadelphia Film Society, and can't wait for our October curated films! If your near Philly look us up! Would you be happy to get you some tickets to pay it forward and meet a fellow film fanatic!
Definitely subscribing to your cool channel!!!!
Thanks very much! I've never actually been to Philadelphia, but I know it's always sunny there, so sounds like it's worth a visit. I'm based in Vancouver, and your Film Society sounds way cooler than ours :)
Very cool Video. Instantly hit the follower button. Watched the movie again last Friday of course. We also had versions with the axe in Germany on VHS covers. But the other poster you showed here is really stupid. 😂
It's certainly an artistic choice, I'll put it that way.
Thanks, and welcome to the channel!
Great video.
Where’d you get the poster light box from?!! That’s very cool
Thanks! I managed to score the lightbox from a local theater here in Vancouver that closed down, the Empire 7.
@@Paper_and_Light good stuff! I love it. Quite jealous
“Where’s Mr. Christy?”😮
"I'm an old friend of the Christy's..." :)
“Oh…hi….what you doing posting out in this mess.” 😅
The face he makes, is just...I don't know, it makes me laugh :)
@@Paper_and_Lightlol like he stepped in dog doo doo lol.
Keep up the good work
"You're all doomed!"
I like just the text poster. It's got a creep factor that pictures can't bring sometimes. And I'm a visual artist.
Awesome video dude.
Thanks very much! 🙏
Beautiful Video :)
I have all the 8 Original movies on DVd and Blu-Ray :)
Not a big fan of 4K .. at least not yet :)
Thanks!
I would say, for these films, just a 1080p Blu-Ray is great. There isn't much more fidelity to squeeze out of these low light scenes. You can't go wrong with the Scream Factory boxset!
Can you do an episode on the original " Dawn of the Dead" poster, I've always like that one especially the lurid warning of the violence in the movie. All the Italian import horror and gore in the early 80's had it, man when I was a kid I would see these posters for movies coming soon me and my school mates were psyched to see them in are neighborhood grindhouse in the Mission Dist. Of San Francisco. The theater let everyone in as long as you had the cash, good times.
Wow 400 bucks for a poster must be nice , I get it. I spent 200 on a Mexican variant of a Toho movie " Prophecies of Nostradamus catastrophe 1999".
Great channel. Thanks for sharing.
'Dawn of the Dead' is absolutely on the schedule! I picked one up a few years back, can't wait to talk about it. One of my favorite posters for sure.
i've got that rca selectavision video disc that you showed a couple of times. the player broke many years ago, but i kept the disc.
I'm on my 2nd player! Thoughts and prayers are keepin' her going.
Well, I know what I'm watching tonight!
It's an absolute must! Part 4 is one of my favourites, nothing beats dancin' Crispin Glover.
It's a dance in Indictnation!
-Michael J. Fox on Chrispin Glover randomly dancing with a Broom on set of Back to The Future.
Besides the dvd set I have, I also have the RCA CED (which still works).
You can really appreciate the artwork.
Yes, love that big artwork! Impressive yours still plays. Mine does, as you saw, but there are certain scenes where it skips quite a bit.
@@Paper_and_Light that can happen.
Too much bickering when they created this format.
Woulda faired much better if that didn't happen.
Unless the disc is damaged...repeated play ...about 3 times will clear the debris on the disc... hopefully. 😃👍
@@cedfan1 I'll give that a try, thanks!
Really cool!
The original was great...but Part 2 really scared me as a youngster!
Part 2 has some big scares for sure! That creepy cabin at the end!?!?
Also, notice the axe handle in the Warner Brothers release poster has 13 notches in it.
Yep, good catch!
I have finished All of the Friday the 13th. But, I didn't watch the tv shows to it
The tv show doesn't really tie in to the films, so I'd say you're all good 😄 you could always play the video game!
The very best of them, for me, all are the very first, Jason Rising, The Final Chapter, A New Beginning, and Jason X. 😉👍
Final Chapter RULES!
Once I grew up, I stopped buying into into the idea that all the killing was solely done by Mrs. Voorhees as cool and scary as that idea was and is. I mean, how could it be only her she's a petite middle-aged woman it'd be impossible for her to chase down younger victims let alone hang them on doors, etc. Plus, Jason would've been a grown man at this point and most likely already insane therefore possibly helping her. The first murder sees a man's long legs and a male hand when killing, I think Pamala picked up and drove the girl away and Jason was waiting to follow the unfortunate cook in the woods. Sure, Pamala's death on the beach depicts male hands too that however is accepted by viewers of a certain vintage as merely showing the actor underneath clunching his fists as the head pops off, i.e. movie f/x of the olden days so can't really complain there. But overall, I just don't see her being capable of doing all this alone and right as Part 2 starts Jason's found Alice's apartment showing he's an adult.
That's very true. He's an adult, with a creepy cabin in the woods. Could've been helping out for sure, which would make Mrs. Voorhees' death all the more isolating/enraging for him.
Very interesting theory!
Cunningham's and Savini's attempt at making her bulky with the padded sweater, and leaving the stuntman's hands in the final product as her own, shows that, even though it may have been executed poorly, she was the only perpetrator in the film.
But what would Jason’s motive be for killing the counsellors, especially if his mother was alive at the time?
@@crazyralph6386 Why wouldn't he, they let him 'drown' after all... She did those early ones, he was just a boy still. Plus, he's actually more crazy than Ralph.
The alternative poster for Friday the 13th part 2 is interesting too.
I'd say it pales in comparison to the original artwork.
@@Paper_and_Light Better than the black and white part 2 ax poster
@@TheRickster1Ohhh, are you talking about the one where she's holding the pitchfork out? Yeah, that one is solid. I think it was used for international posters?
excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
they didn't rip off Halloween, they did a lot of different things. Friday the 13th part 2 and Halloween 2 have more similarities ( the hammer to the head kill, Jason in blue, wearing the white sack, very lightly similar to michael's look) then there's Tommy Jarvis in 4,5,6. A nod to Tommy Doyle ( who is in 3 films in the original Halloween timeline *there's only 1*) Friday the 13th is a GOOD slasher. classic and many sequels in the franchise are great, especially 2,3,4, 5 (has more love now) and 6.
I've said for years, if anything, Friday the 13th owes more to Agatha Christie than John Carpenter. This is the greatest version of 'And Then There Were None' ever devoted to film. The basic premise is virtually the same, though the killer's motive is obviously quite different. And I'd say that this was the QUINTESSENTIAL slasher movie. Not just A great slasher movie, but THE great slasher movie...
Ripping off Halloween was the original intention, per Cunningham and Miller themselves, but I would agree that they went in some new and different directions.
@@Paper_and_Light Cunningham says that a lot. I think he'd rather say that than to admit that he actually put some effort into something as humble as a slasher movie.
6:20 FOILAGE
Ahhhhhh good catch :) FOL-I-AGE, gotta work on that one.
@@Paper_and_Light Aw, I'm just being annoying. Great video, solid work as always!
@@Paper_and_Light ua-cam.com/video/iBYvk1IGPZg/v-deo.htmlsi=0GJEx4PKxrM9xgcr
Nice job! How about analyzing all the unmurdered counselors in Part 2? I wonder what China Chen has been doing since.
Hah! Rumour has it that Ted is still at the bar in town, afraid to ever leave.
No comment about the 13 notches in the axe's handle in the international version?
Yeah, good catch, I hadn't noticed it! I don't own that particular poster, I'd only looked at it online
the first 4 Friday the 13th films are the only ones I can watch
I have soft spots for F vs. J, and the '09 reboot, but I'm totally aware they're trash :)
The original Part 2 is amazing.
Yeah, it really is. Such a shame!
I had the movie poster, my jackass homeboy got rid of em.
That's a tragedy!
Nice video
Thanks!
The original part 2 poster was modified for the VHS release.
Yeah, they went with the axe carrying silhouette, and the text in the middle. Not terrible, far from great.
@@Paper_and_Light I actually liked it. It stood out when I was a kid in the old video stores. It was direct and menacing.
You would think Jason would have received some therapy by now.
He just needs a friend to go swimming with.
Liked and subscribed 😊
Much appreciated, welcome aboard!
Nice! Very informative. P.S, It's 'foliage', not 'foilage' 🙃
Yeah, someone else caught that too. Foil-age is more fun to say! 😂
@@Paper_and_Light 😅
We’re going to have to take a closer look at that NUDE BOMB movie.
Apparently it's a Mel Brooks written 'Get Smart' movie?
4:10 You didn’t even mention the 13 notches in the axes wooden handle representing victims.
How did you miss that?
Great catch! I did indeed miss that detail. I don't own that particular poster, so i hadn't noticed the number of notches.
@@Paper_and_Light No worries. Great review. I enjoy watching your channel.
They just needed take the girl and Jason and the canoe out of the picture of part 2's poster then replaced it with some counselors in the water.
Yeah, that might've worked!
Love your channel and videos - please do the exorcist if you haven’t already!
Thanks, I'll definitely add it to the list!
Jason is Shown In The Movie But As The Victim Not As The Killer Who Was Momma,So Scream (1) Is Correct 👍
"Jason didn't show up until the sequel..." is the exact line. I suppose it's how you interpret it? Taken literally, it's incorrect, Jason the drowning boy does show up in the first film.
good lookin out on the pantie shots
LOL
I certainly love the uh…foilage.
It's great for wrapping leftovers!
@@Paper_and_Light Yes!!!