The newest movie villain to haunt your nightmares is a pasty demonic spirit who looks like Voldemort and dresses like the Grim Reaper. Stalking his victims, he jumps out of closets and photobombs their pictures, making them see things that aren't real, until they go mad with homicidal rage.
The origin of why Friday the 13th is considered such an unlucky day goes back hundreds of years and is shrouded in mystery. 1. For a start there is October 13, 1307, the date from where the modern basis for the Friday the 13th superstition is most likely to come from.
Though its origins are murky, the number 13 still has ominous overtones, especially when it pops up on a Friday. Some cultures cast Friday the 13th as a superstitious perfect storm, a combination of two already "unlucky" things, Fridays and the number 13. There are many theories to when fear of that number first originated, said David Tabb Stewart, associate professor and department chair of religious studies at Cal State Long Beach.
Though its origins are murky, the number 13 still has ominous overtones, especially when it pops up on a Friday. Some cultures cast Friday the 13th as a superstitious perfect storm, a combination of two already "unlucky" things, Fridays and the number 13. There are many theories to when fear of that number first originated, said David Tabb Stewart, associate professor and department chair of religious studies at Cal State Long Beach.
Jessica Lange, left, and Susan Sarandon, who star in the upcoming FX series "Feud," speak at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena on Jan. 12. Jessica Lange, left, and Susan Sarandon, who star in the upcoming FX series "Feud," speak at the Television Critics Assn.
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A still from "Friday The 13th, Part 1," filmed in and around Blairstown, shows then fledgling actors Kevin Bacon and Jeannine Taylor. BLAIRSTOWN -- Every Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees returns to the scene of his grisly 1980s crime spree, decked in his signature hockey mask and ready to terrify the hapless counselors at Camp Crystal Lake.