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Fright Site: Blairstown, NJ. “Friday the 13th”

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The next calendar day on which a Friday the 13th will fall will be in March 2015, so this week’s Fright Site is dedicated to Blairstown New Jersey, the original shooting location for the 1980 horror film Friday the 13th. Blairstown, NJ, is located in the north-western part of the state off of route 94. Here you can walk in Mrs. Voorhees footsteps, even eating at the local diner that appeared in the film.

In the movie, the camp’s owner runs in to town for materials and stops for a cup of coffee and a bite to eat at The Blairstown Diner. Meanwhile a sinister maniac dispatches his employees one-by-one back at the camp site.

The night of the murders

The night of the murders

The diner today. (www.remax-nj.com)

The diner today. (www.remax-nj.com)

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Blairstown Diner is an actual place in New Jersey and you can visit it at 186 State Route 94 Blairstown, NJ 07825. With a selection of burgers and desserts, the Diner’s most popular dish is the cheesesteaks. It’s easy to imagine Pamela Voorhees having sat in one of the stools at the bar while planning the demise of the counselors invading her camp.

But your tour doesn’t need to end at the diner. Blairstown is the original shooting location for the original Friday the 13th. Why not walk around the small New Jersey town and try to find the many different shooting locations? This website is a great field guide for all things in the original Friday the 13th filming location.

Blairstown's famous arches. (https://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com)

Blairstown’s famous arches. (https://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com)

Annie are you okay?

Annie are you okay?

And guess what horror fan, your tour of cinema’s most famous campgrounds does not need to end there. If you are lucky enough to have booked a tour at the real Camp Crystal Lake (in reality, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco), you can see the original cabins as well as the lake where a very young Jason pulls Alice down with him into the depths of the water. These tours are generally done around Friday the 13th’s in the calender year; this year one falls in March and the other in November. Unfortunately, the campground is not open to the public unless you were lucky enough to secure a tour.

If you join the Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco mailing list, they will inform you as to when a tour will come available. These tours sell out quickly as you can imagine so it is wise to sign up for alerts. You can also get souvenirs, such as pieces from the original dock and framed log slices from the original cabins on the Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco website. While shopping, check out the “Angry Mother” line of products in honor of Mrs. Voorhees herself.

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(www.nobebosco.org/tour/tour-event)

 

(www.nobebosco.org/tour/tour-event)

(www.nobebosco.org/tour/tour-event)

Sometimes horror movie locations are restricted to just one house or location, but this Fright Site contains a whole town! If you’re in need of a vacation, why not head to New Jersey and re-live the nightmare that is Friday the 13th. As always horror fans, if you plan to visit this Fright Site, be respectful and courteous to those around you to ensure that many other fans will have a great experience when they visit Camp Blood in the future.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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