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Merge of War!

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Ever dreamed of leading an army? Of guiding soldiers into raids, amassing wealth, and building a...

LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Friday the 13th (1980) in Movies

Jul 14, 2020

Friday the 13th is great to look back on. It's full to the brim of cheesy over-the-top acting, weirdly boring sections and dodgy dialogue, but knowing how the horror and in particular slasher genre developed in the decades following, it's an easy film to love.

Following hot on the heels of Halloween, Friday the 13th is the slasher genre stripped down to it's bare bones - a group of horny teenagers isolated from the rest of the world, a relentless killer hunting them down one by one, until we're left with a lone final girl.
Tropes that have since become iconic, much like the setting of Camp Crystal Lake.
The summer camp setting has been aped and parodied for years following the films release back in 1980.

The practical effects used by the now legendary Tom Savini are still great. They may be showing their age, but I would take it over sub standard CGI any day. Throw in a frantic and memorable musical score courtesy of Harry Manfredini, a gleefully sinister performance from Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees, and one of the greatest "Gotcha!" endings in horror cinema, and you have a title that's deserving of the love it gets.

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Gypsy Boy on the Run

Mikey Walsh

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The incredible sequel to Gypsy Boy GYPSY BOY: ON THE RUN picks up from where Gypsy Boy left off, and...

The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck: Who Were They

Judith Buber Agassi and Sigrid Jacobeit

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Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the...

Martin Carr recommended track It's Tricky by Run-DMC in Essential Run-D.M.C. by Run-DMC in Music (curated)

Essential Run-D.M.C. by Run-DMC

2012 | Rhythm And Blues

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It's Tricky by Run-DMC

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"This is a bit of a sidestep, but in 1987 I went to the States on a Camp America. Me and my mate applied and we got in and he went to work in this really posh Jewish camp in Massachusetts somewhere, with all these lovely kids. I was working with these underprivileged kids from The Bronx, in Carmel in upstate New York. These kids were rough. I was 18 and they were like 12 and some of them were bigger than me. I shared a cabin with a guy called Daryl who was from New York. He just played the Run–D.M.C. album all day. Bigger And Deffer was out then too, the LL Cool J album. I just loved it. That was when I got into hip-hop. I wasn't sold on the music. I always thought it was a bit lumpy, before Public Enemy came out. It was missing a groove really. But 'It's Tricky' is really uptempo. It's really aggressive, which I liked. It's got that 'My Sharona' riff and that's not going to send you wrong is it? It sounded great in the house. It sounded so alien. My mum and dad didn't want to know and when you're that age you want to be freaking out the straights."

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