"His name was Jason, and today is his birthday..." Happy Friday the 13th!

It's Friday the 13th -- a horror fan's Thanksgiving and New Year's wrapped into one! I just wanted to take a minute to wish you a very Happy Friday the 13th and ask you to check out the latest article I wrote for PopHorror - Jason vs. Jason: Famous Friday the 13th Set Feuds!

It was a lot of fun to write. I hope you enjoy reading it! Oh, and if you're bored, you can also check out the article I wrote for Jason's last birthday: Ranking Jason's Final Girls on Friday the 13th!

This was a fun one to write, too. Enjoy!

Finally, if you get a chance, check out the Friday the 13th Fan Film "Never Hike Alone" from Womp Stomp Films. It releases tonight, 10/13/17, at 11:15pm EST on their YouTube Channel. I didn't have anything to do with it, other than I backed their kickstarter at the Junior Counselor level. Paramount can't seem to get their shit together, so this might be the best we can hope for for a while! Fingers crossed it's as great as I think it will be!

Thank God it's Friday!  Stay out of the woods...

UPDATE: The "Only Watch Movies You've Never Seen In 2015" Challenge

I'm two months in to this new year and so far I've kept my pledge to only watch films I've never seen before in 2015.  It's been difficult, in some ways, but I think the fact that being the father of a toddler has me watching less movies in general, so it's not the arduous torture I originally thought it was going to be.

This past weekend was pretty tough, though.  I have a longstanding tradition of watching FRIDAY THE 13th films on Friday the 13th and this year I wasn't able to.  I had to settle for watching a FRIDAY fan film on YouTube.

I honestly can't see I would recommend it, but at least the tradition was somewhat kept alive...and fairly.

Valentine's Day was tough, too, because I generally watch MY BLOODY VALENTINE or the MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D remake on February 14th.  Nope.  No dice.  I did, however, manage to watch a couple of old animated Disney movies that I'd surprisingly never seen because they were running on Disney channel over the weekend.

There's a website I found called Letterboxd that allows you to review and rate and track the movies you watch and I've been keeping a log there.

You can check out my Letterboxd profile at:
http://letterboxd.com/hoekstradamus/

It's a pretty nifty website.  I recommend it.