When we think of great horror franchises, Friday the 13th is definitely one of them. The first film, released in 1980, Sean S. Cunningham takes us to 1957, when a young boy named Jason drowned at the Crystal Lake Campground.
The following year, two leaders of the camp were killed. Crystal Lake is closing. But in 1980, Steve Christie decided to reopen it on Friday the 13th, the anniversary of his death, which happened twenty-three years ago. While preparing for the opening of the camp, the counselors of the center disappear one after another at night…
From this series of slashers, which includes twelve, will be born one of the most famous boogies of cinema: Jason Voorhees, whose helmet alone is enough to make us tremble with fear. But did you know that the movie was partly inspired by a scary story?
That’s what we’re telling you in this new episode of It’s a True Story, in which we re-open a more than 60-year-old unsolved case… the triple murder of Finnish teenagers who came out for a night out. Friends by the lake. Be warned, you won’t want to go camping after listening to this episode…
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