Friday the 13th pt. 2 – Paul’s Campfire Tale
“I don’t want to scare anyone but I’m going to give it to you straight about Jason…”
This is one of my favorite scenes from Friday the 13th pt. 2. I’ve always been a big fan of creepy, old fashioned ghost stories told around the campfire.
Old School Horror Game End Screen: Friday the 13th – NES
Here we go again, another old school, horror video game end screen. This time around in honor of today being Friday the 13th, we take on Jason Voorhees and Friday the 13th on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
During the first day of scrambling around Camp Crystal Lake when not dodging zombies, ravens and wolves you’ll periodically have to duck into random cabins to stave off Jason as he attempts to attack the campers within.
If you damage him enough and manage to survive with at least one counselor you’ll be treated to this screen:
That being said, you’ll start up on day two. Which is more of the same: kill the zombies, wolves and ravens, fight the reanimated, decapitated head of Pamela Voorhees and again go one on one with Jason.
Take him out during day two and you’ll be treated to the following. This time around there’s a picture! Jason, after having been soundly beaten, truly looks like a defeated man. Head hung in shame, mask deformed and askew, shoulders slumped and gut hanging out. He looks like Homer Simpson dressed up as Jason. But then….
Jason looks straight ahead, his piercing gaze searing your very soul. His shoulders squared and gut sucked in, (legs however, still splayed) he’s ready to take on day three.
Day three holds more zombies, ravens and wolves, one more throw down with Pamela and if you make it that far, your final confrontation with Jason.
After all of the rocks, knifes, machetes, pitchforks and torches you hurled at the undead bastard, Jason finally dies. In defeat he is again reduced to a frumpy, broken down heap and as a completely dissatisfied gamer we’re left with another cliched “is he really dead?” end screen.
This time around, unlike the movies, Jason really did stay dead as there hasn’t been another officially licensed Friday the 13th game since. So I guess, congratulations, as a gamer you have succeeded in doing what ten movies worth of protagonists failed to do: Put Jason down and keep him down.
The 8-Bit Jason Project
In honor of the Friday the 13th at the end of this week and inspired by the abysmal yet still endearing 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game as well as THIS killer shirt at Mini Cassette Tees we here at Jack’s Attic decided to commemorate the occasion by putting together an art piece we’ve been calling “The 8-Bit Jason Project”.
We always thought it was odd and a bit irritating that in the game Jason was running around in a purple jumpsuit and a blue hockey mask. But what would have happened if the game designers had created 8-bit character sprites for Jason as he appeared in Fridays 3-8? Well, we think it might have looked a little something like this:
Friday the 13th Blu-ray Art and Specs
Here is the final cover art for the eagerly awaited debut of Friday the 13th on Blu-ray. It’s pretty classy if you ask me. It’s a reworking of sorts of the original Friday poster art. A nice update with a tip of the hat to the original. I especially like the knife being the “1″ in 13. Very nice indeed.
Horror in HD Update 1.3
Updated the list with the following additions:
February 3, 2009
Friday the 13th (1980) (Paramount)
January 6, 2009
The Absolute Best of Ghost Hunters (Image)
January 13, 2009
Mirrors (Fox)
February 10, 2009
Donnie Darko (Fox) (Not technically a horror movie, but it has many horror elements and any movie that has it’s characters watching Evil Dead belongs on this list.)
February 24, 2009
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Blue Underground)
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November 11, 2008
Black Christmas (1974) (Koch Distributing)
November 25, 2008
Flesh for the Beast (Shriek Blasters)
Shadow: Dead Riot (Shriek Show)
December 02, 2008
Day of the Dead (2008) (First Look)
Assault on Precinct 13 (Image Entertainment)
December 09, 2008
I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector’s Edition) (Warner)
December 16, 2008
Death Proof (Weinstein)
Planet Terror (Weinstein)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal)
The Mummy Three Pack: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal)
December 30, 2008
Event Horizon (Paramount)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (Sony)
January 6, 2009
Dexter: The First Season (Paramount)
The Absolute Best of Ghost Hunters (Image)
January 13, 2009
Mirrors (Fox)
January 27, 2009
Dead & Buried (Blue Underground)
February 3, 2009
Friday the 13th (1980) (Paramount)
February 10, 2009
Donnie Darko (Fox)
February 24, 2009
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Blue Underground)
