[hello,danny]

Okay. So, Friday was Friday the 13th, and like the silly loser I am, I rented the first two films of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise.

And then today I'm innocently browsing IMDB.com, and they have spotlighted FRIDAY THE 13TH as the "movie of the day."

That's all fine and dandy, until they began to talk about it (and I quote):

"Forever imitated and duplicated (with nine sequels -- ten if you count the recent Freddy Vs. Jason), the genre-defining Friday the 13th popularized a number of horror flick themes and techniques that are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will ultimately find yourself at the hands of some whacked-out psycho."--by Mark Englehart, IMDB.com, Saturday (1-14).

Um, it is the opinion of THIS movie fanatic, that in fact FRIDAY THE 13TH is actually IMITATING and DUPLICATING a franchise that kicked off a couple years before Sean S. Cunningham spilled blod: HALLOWEEN, anybody?

In fact, it is THIS movie (dir. John Carpenter, 1977) that was "genre-defining" and layed the pavement for all slasher films to come. Basically, HALLOWEEN created the cookie cutter, NOT FRIDAY THE 13TH.

And, in fact, if you want to get REALLY fanatic, you could go as far back as PSYCHO, although HALLOWEEN is really the defining milestone of the modern slasher sub-genre of film.

Or is just me? Anybody else have it figured this way? Any criticisms?

Adios!