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The Souls of the Children have spoken and TGIF13 is moving!!! We have joined forces with the HORRORPHILIA NETWORK OF PODCASTS - Episode 25: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors (1987) is the first episode to drop! Although you can still listen to the podcast on Podbean for now, it's new permanent home will be Horrorphilia: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Christian and Vince will continue to dream you until a beautiful dream. All information on the change will be on our Facebook page as well! A new iTunes feed will be coming... Horrorphilia link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast-episode-25-nightmare-elm-street-3-dream-warriors-1987/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision For all your Friday the 13th news: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com A Proud New Member of the Horrorphilia Network of Podcasts: http://www.horrorphilia.com

A Suicidal dog, Gorier than usual kills, and an Iconic Running Jason... Christian Luciani and Vince Franco return after a long hiatus, for an ALL NEW revisit of one of their fave slasher flicks Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984). New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ From the VHS/DVD/BluRay description: The body count continues in this vivid thriller. the fourth - but not final -story in the widely successful Friday the 13th series. Jason, Crystal Lakes least popular citizen, returns to wreck further havoc in Fiday the 13th - The Final Chapter. After his revival in a hospital morgue, the hockey-masked murderer fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers. Young Tommy Jarvis is an aficionado of horror films with a special talent for masks and make-up. Has the diabolical Jason finaly met his match? Don't forget to rate us on whatever you listen on, and check out the following links: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision For all your Friday the 13th news: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com And Check out: http://www.lairofhorror.com

Exploding Budgies; A less shadowed Fred Krueger; A Final Boy; And Homoerotism Galore... New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Join Friday the 13th and Slasher Film fanatics Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for their 23rd Episode of TGIF13 as they PROBE into A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge! From the VHS/DVD/BluRay Description:  Jesse hasn't been himself lately. Every night, he's been haunted by dark, overpowering visions of an evil presence trying to possess his body. And it isn't just a case of bad dreams. It's a nightmare come true. For Jesse has just moved to Elm Street - into the house where Freddy Krueger "lives". A monstrous, local child-murderer, Freddy was burned to death long ago by an avenging vigilante mob. But his evil is still very much alive in Jesse's house. And Freddy is very much alive in Jesse. And once Freddy's hell-spawned soul takes complete possession of Jesse's body, he can return from the dead to do what he so desperately longs to do. He can kill again. And again. And again. Don't forget to rate us on whatever you listen on, and check out the following links: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision For all your Friday the 13th news: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com And Check out: http://www.lairofhorror.com

Join Friday the 13th fanatics Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for their 2nd Anniversary of TGIF13  New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ On this special occasion, the duo revisit the slasher classic, and personal favourite: Friday the 13th Part 2!!! Clarice Starling revisits the show; the boys wax intellectual about whether it's Ginny piss or rat piss that summons Jason; and they talk about the new video game and lack of a new movie. Don't forget to rate us on whatever you listen on, and check out the following links: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision For all your Friday the 13th news: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com And Check out: http://www.lairofhorror.com

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Happy Friday the 13th!  Here's a special "Best of" episode of TGIF13 chronicling: The Paramount Ear. For those of you new to the podcast, TGIF13 is a: Comedic Podcast chronicling our nostalgia for the Friday the 13th Franchise and other slice n' dice flicks. Enter Vince Franco. Brock University Graduate in Film Studies and post-grad in Public Relations. Hot. Single. Gay. Horror film fan and long time friend of Christian...although he often wonders why? Enter Christian Luciani. Brock University Graduate in Film Studies; Sheridan College Graduate in Film Production. Husband. Father of 3. Horror Film Fanatic and Amateur Filmmaker. The duo met at Brock U and instantly bonded over their love of horror films. In third year they became housemates, and dragged two unsuspecting female housemates into the mix! When not playing Dragon's Lair, The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy, or attending class, they were watching or making horror movies. "Fatal Friends" and "Director's Cut" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrsbtjYiCvI) were just 2 examples of the terror they unleashed!  Cut to: 18 years later and the idea to launch a podcast aiming to recapture that nostalgic feeling for the Friday the 13th film series, and other slasher films of the 70s and 80s (with a few from the 60s and 90s thrown in as well).  You say that there are plenty of podcasts already out there? Well, what separates this duo from the batch is their take on the sub-genre. As Vince pointed out, you get a gay perspective, and then you get Christian's (which is a "tinge" on the loud and obnoxious side). Together, their goal is provide a comedic take/memory of these films. However condescending they may sound, it is still out of love for the genre. Please listen regularly and feel free to comment.  Friday the 13th teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLauukV320&list=UUXk55RPKN9Kdk1ALSFzyuag Twitter fans, join us at: https://

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Totally join horror hosts Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for their 21st episode of Thank God It's Friday the 13th - this one chronicling John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). From one of the many VHS/DVD desciptions:  The most successful independent motion picture of all time...A horror classic that will scare you out of your wits! Michael Meyers (this is how it is spelt (incorrectly) on the VHS!!!) escaped from the Illinois State Mental Hospital after 15 years of treatment for the brutal murder of his sister and has returned to Haddonfield to relive his crime. What follows is a reign of terror. He came for Halloween and may return. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision Check out: http://www.lairofhorror.com And for all Friday the 13th news: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com

Welcome to Crystal Lake...and Episode 20 of TGIF13! Join Summer Camp Slasher fanatics Christian Luciani and Vince Franco as they tackle the Platinum Dunes' reboot "my balls"/revision: Friday the 13th (2009). New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ From the DVD/Bluray: Witness the rebirth of the legend in this retelling of the infamous horror film that terrified audiences everywhere. After the supposed death of her son at Camp Crystal Lake, a mother begins to take vengeance into her own hands by slaughtering the teenage counselors who let him drown. After her death at the hands of one of the teens, herson returns to continue her bloody legacy. They were warned. They are doomed. And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them! Check out our Friday the 13th 2016 teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLauukV320 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision Check out: http://www.lairofhorror.com And of course, for all of your Friday the 13th news, check out: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ After almost 3 months of silence comes a Super "Double" Episode of TGIF13.  Join Friday the 13th fanatics Christian Luciani and Vince Franco as they dissect Wes Craven's Supernatural Slasher Spectacular: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). And stay (awake) for their Bonus Birthday episode of Happy Birthday to Me (1981). From the VHS/DVD: Nancy is having nightmares. Something in her haunted sleep wants to kill her. Something monstrous. Something unstoppable. But she has more to fear. Much, much more... Her high school friends, she discovers, are having the same fiendish dream. And they are being butchered -systematically slaughtered in their sleep by the predatory monster of their shared nightmare. When baffled investigating police ignore her chilling explanation, Nancy prepares to transverse into the hellish realm of nightmares to wage her own extraordinary battle with the ghastly killer. There, she confronts the dark, decade-old secret of the very real Nightmare on Elm Street! Writer/Director Wes Craven has composed an innovative horror-fantasy that will expose your deepest, primal fear. But you caan tell yourself "it's only a dream." Can't you?? Happy Birthday to Me: Here is a psychological mystery-shocker that will keep you at wit's-end and poised anxiously on the edge of your seat. Virginia Wainwright is a spirited young high school senior who has returned to school having survived a freak accident and regenerative brain surgery which has blocked her memory. Virginia is welcomed into the "top Ten" - the school's uninhibited inner circle-and attempts to resume a normal life. But her friends are mysteriously murdered, one-by-one, and soon there will be one no left to attend her eighteenth birthday party. Check out our Friday the 13th 2016 teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLauukV320 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision Check out: 

A Kane-less Jason; A Hammier-than-usual Freddy; WWE meets Looney Tunes style fight sequences; and a huge box office take... Join horror fanatics and fellow Friday the 13th fans Christian Luciani, Vince Franco and a Special Guest Star for their 18th episode of TGIF13; This one tackling "The Ultimate Battle of Evil VS. Evil" - Freddy VS. Jason (2003). New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ From the DVD: Freddy Krueger is in hell - literally! And like an inmate with a life sentence, Freddy's been plotting a fantastic revenge...all he needs is a little help. In comes Jason Voorhees, the equally iconic madman and perfect means for Freddy to once install fear on Elm Street. As the bodies begin to pile up, it becomes clear that Jason isn't willing to step aside. Now, with a terrified town in the middle, the two titans of terror enter into a terrifying and gruesome showdown. Winner kills all! Check out our Friday the 13th 2015/2016 teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLauukV320 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision And for all of your Friday the 13th news, check out: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Calling all Friday the 13th fans!!! Join Christian Luciani and Vince Franco for the 17th Episode of TGIF13: Friday the 13th Part 5 A New Beginning (1985) 30th Anniversary Edition! This is our second go at this classic piece of cinematic history which features a Big Body count, Bigger Boobs; Dudley in a One-Piece; And a Paramedic named ROY.  From the VHS / DVD box description: Jason is back. hockey mask and all. And he's up to his old maniacal tricks in Friday the 13th Part V - A New Beginning. This time he seems to have his sights on the young patients at a secluded halfway house. And more than a few of his teen targets end up in half, in quarters...you name it. Jason does it. This is the fifth scary installment in the Friday the 13th saga. If you liked the first four, and think you're up to getting back on Jason's bloody trail, you'll love Friday the 13th Part V - A New Beginning. Also watch our TGIF13 Promo Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyxMQDaDGXU Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th And Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision And also check out: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Moosehead beer galore; A spectacular mine setting; and a town called Valentine's Bluffs; please join fellow Friday the 13th / Slasher Film fans Christian Luciani and Vince Franco for their 16th episode of TGIF13, featuring: My Bloody Valentine (1981) in all it's uncut glory! From the VHS / DVD Description: Twenty years ago, a tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine's Day took the lives of five miners. The disaster occurred while supervisors left their post to attend the town's annual Valentine's Day dance. The only survivor, Harry Warden, was confined to a mental institution after the ordeal. On the disaster's first anniversary, he returned to the town for bloody revenge. That was nineteen years ago, and memories have dimmed. Young lovers T.J. (Paul Kelman) and Sarah (Lori Hallier) and friend Axel (Neil Affleck) are among the townspeople attending another Valentine's party. Then, a box of Valentine candy arrives, containing an ominous message and a blood-soaked heart. Before the night is over, terror will strike again and again and again...

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ A Shelved, Friday the 13th in Space; Beautiful Cinematography, Sets, and Costume Design; A mundane Manfredini score; And Uber Jason; Join Friday the 13th Fanatics Christian Luciani and Vince Franco for the 15th episode of TGIF13 - This one featuring JASON X (2001). From the DVD description: If you're looking for terror, here comes a perfect ten. In the year 2455, on a routine training mission, a team of students is about to learn a terrifying lesson. Through the years, Jason Voorhees has claimed over 200 victims. Now, the legendary killer from Crystal Lake is back, hurtling through space and hunting new prey. Jason X is a nerve-shredding thriller loaded with spectacular special effects, hi-tech weapons, and new ways to die.  

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ A Canadian Holiday Slasher; a pre-Superman (and Manic Depressive) Margot Kidder; and a killer who's calling from inside the house; please join Horror fanatics Christian Luciani and Vince Franco for their 14th episode of TGIF13. This one featuring the Bob Clark Holiday Classic: BLACK CHRISTMAS. From the DVD description: ' Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, a creature was stirring. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, but it was hardly St. Nicholas soon to be there. In the college town of Bedford, several unsuspecting people are about to receive Season's Greetings- of terror. Black Christmas is a stark and stylish exercise in suspense that turns everyone's favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house. Predating Halloween and Friday the 13th by several years, Black Christmas effectively laid the groundwork for the murder thrillers that would follow through it's clever interplay of tension, shocks- and humor. Producer/Director Bob Clark earned his reputation as a hitmaker for the first two Porky's films, and the celebrated  Sherlock Holmes caper Murder by Decree. Ironically, after bringing us the terror of Black Christmas, Clark  went on to take a lighter look at the holidays with the hilarious film, A Christmas Story. So have yourself a scary little Christmas, It's not like the ones you used to know. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision And please let us know what you think!

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Welcome to TGIF13 Fan Podcast's 1st Anniversary Episode. To mark this special event and the 13th Episode - Christian Luciani & Vince Franco REVISIT the 1980 staple slasher sensation: FRIDAY THE 13TH. This is an all new episode. So sit back, relax and join the duo as they watch one of their fave flicks #Fridaythe13th - This time UNCUT. Be sure to check out our Friday the 13th 2015 teaser/trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLLauukV320 And our super cool TGIF13 Promo Video is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyxMQDaDGXU Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision And please let us know what you think!

Join horror fans Christian Luciani and Vince Franco in a Comedic Podcast chronicling their nostalgia for the Friday the 13th Film Franchise and other slice n\' dice flicks. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThankGodItsFridaythe13th Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lucianivision

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ A Miramax Production; Elaborate teen hijinks gone awry; Some of the worst Day for Night shooting ever put to FILM; And a "Where's Waldo" Holly Hunter? Join Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for the second film in their August  Summer Camp Slasher Spectacular - TGIF13 Episode 11: The Burning (1981).      From the VHS description: On a moonlit evening many years ago, a group of young campers played a trick on Cropsy, the camp caretaker. The trick backfired, and Cropsy became a horribly disfigured maniac, a mutilated killer with a thirst for revenge... THE BURNING is the suspenseful, terrifying account of the demented Cropsy's return to summer camp, and of the trail of blood he leaves in the dark woods. His sinister presence shadows the sunny, sexy fun of the campers, and Cropsy stalks his victims, ruthlessly pursuing his macabre revenge. Great performances, frightening special effects, and the spectre of a crazed killer combine for a horror feature that's a spectacle of shocks.

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ It's Meatballs meets Dangling Balls; Baldys meets Beauties; As one character exclaims: Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop... Join 40 year olds, Vince Franco and Christian Luciani, as they take a break from the Friday the 13th series to tackle a few other slasher gems (this one complete with the family jewels). With the dog days of summer upon us, the TENTH episode of TGIF13 features none other than the 1983 Campset, cult classic, SLEEPAWAY CAMP. From the VHS description:  Dear Mon and Dad,  You've got to get me out of here right away!!! There's a crazed killer on the loose and kids are being scared to death and a girl was brutally stabbed while taking a shower - and nobody is doing anything about it!!!  Your "peaceful, perfect place to meet girls" has become a slaughtering ground for a bloodthirsty, murdering monster.  Wait a minute, I think I hear someone coming up b.....

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ A four year hiatus; A fantastic opening sequence; A Heart munching Coroner; A Body-Hopping, Roaring Jason; A bunch of stupid plot points; and some of the goriest Friday kills ever (if seen UNRATED that is). Join Friday the 13th fanatics Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for the 9th Episode of Thank God It's Friday the 13th (TGIF13) Fan Podcast - This one chronicling: Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday. From the VHS / DVD/ BluRay description: Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling. Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everyone assumes wrong. Jason has been reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. The terrifying truth is he could be anywhere. Or anybody. In this shocking, blood-soaked finale to Jason's carnage-ridden of terror, the horrible secret of his unstoppable killing instinct is finally revealed.

New Feed Link: http://www.horrorphilia.com/horrorphilia-network-of-podcasts-i-z/t-g-f13-friday-13th-fan-podcast/ Titanic-esque disaster storytelling; Disney-like bloodshed; Idyllic VANhattan locales; and death by sewer flooded Toxic Waste. As one fateful cast member sputters: This voyage is doomed! Join slasher flick fanatics Christian Luciani & Vince Franco for their 8th Episode of Thank God It's Friday the 13th (TGIF13) Fan Podcast - This one focusing on Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. From the VHS/DVD description: The Big Apple's in big trouble, as indestructible psycho-fiend Jason Vorhees hits the road to New York City - and paints the town "red."  After a shocking return from beyond the grave, the diabolical Jason ships out abroad a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned. Then one of his terrified victims escapes into the nightmarish maze of Manhattan's subways and sewers, only to confront Jason one final time.

November 4, 2013 marked the official birth of TGIF13 Fan Podcast.  Vince Franco & Christian Luciani recorded their first 2 podcasts - Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). With a bit of red wine left in the bottle, they decided to tackle Part 3. A mere 31 minutes later they call it quits, as they admittedly have run out of steam. This bonus "LOST" episode is that original recording.  Happy Friday the 13th!