You're Goin' To Camp Blood, Ain'tchya?

The first one is the best.

Scores of cutie patooties that I look up on IMDB to see what happened to them or what they look like now.

Well, one of the hottest, the wheelchair guy from Part 2, was gay and died of AIDS.

Here's a recent semi-recent video of Andy from Part 3 who gets sliced in half walking on his hands. He's a doctor now.

Thank you 4! Hard to believe how much he's changed.

My favourite is part 3

As Andy (Jeffrey Roger)

Hotties in the Fri franchise

How many actors and actresses from the series were also soap opera stars? I think EVERY final girl also did soaps.

Even the creator of the series, Victor Miller, would go on to become a big Emmy's winning daytime soap opera writer. Writing for Another World, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, General Hospital and All My Children.

The final girl in the first film was Tenielle from Captain and Tenielle.

R10 ha ha!

FriGAY the 13th The New Blood with Carrie ......... I mean Tina ............ and her gay final boy, his gay cousin and the gay black friend who got his head squished outside the van (I think) ,,,,,,,,, not sure if there were others in that sequel.

R12 yup! Kevin Blair Spirtas who played the male lead Nick in Friday VII was Dr. Craig Wesley on Days of Our Lives from 1997-2003.

Larry Park Lincoln who played the telekinetic final girl Tina, was on the nighttime soap opera Knots Landing as the villainous Linda Fairgate from 1987-1991.

Betsy, Mrs. Voorhees, Palmer was also on Knots Landing during the same time as Lar, from 1988-1990.

Tom McBride who played the wheelchair bound victim Mark in part 2 died of AIDS in 1995.

Renee Jones (ex Lexi on Days of Our Lives) was in Part VI: Jason Lives

R15 yup. And Jennifer Cooke, her costar and the final girl of Part VI Megan Garris, had already found some fame on the "soap scene" playing Morgan on Guiding Light from 81-83, she even made the cover of Soap Opera Digest in 1983 with her GL love interest John Wesley Shipp.

Adrienne King the final girl from part 1 was on Another World and The Edge of Night, after F13 opened and was a big hit she signed a contract role for another soap opera All My Children, but quit after a crazed fan stalked the AMC set in NYC.

Amy Steel from part 2, she played Ginny, was on All My Children as Peggy Warner and Guiding Light as Trudy in the 80s.

Dana Kimmel, Chris from part 3D, was Dawn Marshall from 80-82 on the Now canceled soap Texas and from 83-85 played Diane Parker on Days Of Our Lives.

Kimberly Beck from The Final Chapter played Julie Clegg on the Now canceled soap Capitol on the early 80s. She later showed up in a recurring role on the huge 80s nighttime soap opera Dynasty as Claire Prentiss from 86-87.

Melanie Kinnaman, who played Pam in Part V was a regular on General Hospital for 2 years in the late 80s and also had roles on Another World and Santa Barbara

Scott Reeves (DOOL and YR) survived when Jason Took Manhattan.

The original soap opera victim was Kevin Bacon who was on GL.

Estelle Parsons was originally offered the role of Mrs. Voorhees but she turned it down. That would've been a hoot.

I LOVE the first three. Early 80's goodness.

Betsy Palmer only did it because she needed money for a new car and she thought no one would ever see it. Wrong.

Betsy Palmer used to go conventions to make money off horror nerds.

Betsy and her lip liner were the best part

There was lots of tension on the Final Chapter set between the director and actors and the guy who played Jason and Corey Feldman. In the scene toward the end when Jason breaks through the window and grabs Corey, that's a real scream. Corey thought the stunt didn't work and was genuinely scared when Jason finally grabbed him. The guy who played Jason did it to get back at Corey. I don't remember what the actual problem was between them though.

I have a book on the F13 series and Barry Moss, one of the casting directors of the original, said that they PURPOSELY went after soap opera actors from the NYC soap opera scene to cast because "soap actors can memorize a lot of dialog in a short period of time, know how to hit their marks and have a bit of a fan base since the producers couldn't afford big name actors".

Soaps were HUGE back in the late 70s/80s.

I know the series wasn't known for its good acting performances, but this atrocious scene with "Chili" from part 4 always makes me laugh because of her awful acting.

I thought Ned the wise-ass prankster from the first installment was cute. I would have liked to see him in just those tighty whities, but still cute with all the wrapping. He was played by Mark Nelson who is a gayer and I think pretty handsome still.

R26, it's actually from Part 3. They had to shoot that scene like 25 times because of that horrible actress. I can't imagine what the earlier takes were like if that was the best they could get.

I didn't know Mark Nelson was gay, R27.

Her trot through the house when she's supposed to be terrified...hilarious!!!

A short interview with Bill Randolph from Part 2. He mentions Tom McBride.

Marta Kober, that played Randolph's girlfriend Sandra in part 2, has had one of the saddest lives after becoming a heavy meth addict. She's only 52, but looks much, much older.

I sent Melissa to camp when she was a kid.

Camp Joan Crawford.

Where, instead of short-sheeting, they tie you into the bed.

The acting in the first 2 Friday films was actually pretty good for low budget horror. I think partly because they were shot on the East Coast in New Jersey and Connecticut and they were able to cast actors from the NYC theatre scene and NYC soap opera scene as well.

Even Leonard Maltin, who panned the original, praised Betsy Palmer's performance.

In part 3D the series moves out to the West Coast and it suddenly gets really cheesy and the acting becomes pretty bad

No more NYC theatre actors being cast.

Mark is totally going to be turned on by my poop brown panties!

The best thing about part 3 was the wonderfully cheesy disco theme song.

They had some actual character development in the first two also. Starting around part 5 they usually had several characters killed within a few minutes of being introduced.

Whoever made this video of Demon and Anita from part 5 is a genius. Always get a laugh out of watching it.

While part 5 is considered one of worst sequels, it had a few very memorable characters. Character actress Carol Locatell is hilarious and makes the most her small part of backwoods redneck Ethel.

Betsy Palmer (Mrs. Voorhees), Jeanine Taylor (Marcie) and Peter Brower (Steve Christie) were all cast members of the NYC taped Proctor and Gamble soap opera As The World Turns from 82-83.

Palmer played hot to trot divorcée Suze Becker. Taylor played Maureen Durfee and I don't know the name of Brower's ATWT character

I agree, R34. The group in the first film is a rather likable group of people (per-archteypes) set against a backdrop that does feel isolated (Note how black those woods are- no blue lighting.) You really can tell when it switches over to California.

Tom McBride was so hot and they stuck him in a wheelchair.

Marta Kober is frightening looking. She was squatting in empty apartments several years back in Hancock Park stealing people's mail and writing bad checks.

Bill Randolph looks like Jim Bob Duggar.

I love that quiet, post credits sequence when the first modern day victim is walking through the quiet town. It's not a great movie but not as bad as critics made it out to be in 1980.

I like the opening to the Final Chapter - the aftermath of part III with all the police activity. Then they all leave and it's pitch black for like 5 seconds. So creepy.

I loved that part 3 theme song.

So, is Victor Miller gay or something, r9?

Parts 6 and 7 were two of the best movies in the franchise, OP. Much more than "watchable."

So go machete yourself.

r2 would enjoy Crystal Lake Memories, the epic, 7-hour documentary about the making of the franchise, with interviews of over 150 cast members!

Susan Blu, the spritely actress who played Tina's mom in Part 7, has voiced numerous cartoons, including Finding Nemo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and my favorite: Arcee from The Transformers!

@ the 12:10 mark:

I don't find the Part 3 theme song "cheesy" at all, r36.

I consider it most bangin!'

I love Kevin Bacon's belly flop in the first film.

R50, she was also the voice of Stormer on Jem!

Susan Blu is one of us!

Nearly, if not all of the guys in Part 7 were supposedly gay.

How many actors and actresses of the series are gay?

Kevin Spirtas is now an openly gay man. He had a recurring role in Sebastian La Cause's "Hustling" series, which isn't half bad.

R57 rumor has it that Kevin is also returning to Days of Our Lives as Dr. Craig Wesley. His daughter on the show, the big boobed Chloe and wife Nancy, played by zatfig character actress Patrika Darbo, have already been CONFIRMED to be returning to the soap.

I was just a 14-year-old, virgin gayling when Kevin Spirtas walked on to the silver screen and stole my breath away:

I think he's the only final girl who hasn't made a horror movie convention yet.

FYI, the Mortal Kombat franchise keeps adding '80s movie monsters to its video games.

You can now fight as Jason or Freddy:

Any update on the new remake?

The entire franchise has been put on hold because of a lawsuit between Sean Cunningham, the original producer, the studios and Victor Miller, the original writer.

AMC is doing marathons of FRIDAY THE 13th MOVIES all weekend long for Halloween!