Friday the 13th Parts III & VIII — Birth of a Legend, End of an Era

Slasher Season is back, and we're going all the way in on the greatest horror franchise of all time — no, Joel, you don't get a say in that. Jesse pairs Friday the 13th Part III and Jason Takes Manhattan as the alpha and omega of the franchise: the movie that gave Jason his hockey mask, and the movie that sent him packing to the Big Apple. Jeannie watched both for the first time and would like her life back. Sled considers eight the last real Friday the 13th. Joel pulled out a map of New Jersey trying to figure out the geography. And Jesse has been freestyling over that disco opening since COVID. Hockey masks, heroin injections, biker gangs, Franklin Awards, and the hotly debated Mount Rushmore of horror — all that and a body count you have to respect.