Bob Clarke’s Black Christmas was essentially a giallo with a Canadian feel. Initially the slasher film, with its roots firmly taking its cues from Hitchcock’s Psycho and the Italian giallo films of Mario Bava, Sergio Martino and Dario Argento were more interested in the mystery and fear factor. Without doubt one of the most influential in the whole slasher cycle is Friday the 13th, which has spawned more imitators than any other franchise in the history of horror. As the seasonal anomaly, which is a third Friday the 13th within the same year, rolls towards us (I seriously haven’t watched as much Jason Vorhees any other year so far as this one) I thought i would take a look at the thing that sells the franchise more than anything else, the gore and more importantly, the censorship history of this long running series of films.
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