Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Sick, as well as other, older films that you should have seen by now.Scream (1996) opens with a game of life or death.
Ghostface asks the identity of the killer in Friday the 13th (1980) and Casey (Drew Barrymore) answers, her fear turning into anger when the killer taunts the girl.
“Listen, it was Jason! I saw that movie twenty goddamn times!” Ghostface isn’t persuaded.
“Then you should know that Jason’s mother, Mrs.
Voorhees, was the original killer.
Jason didn’t show up until the sequel!” Screenwriter Kevin Williamson, slipping in this trick question, does two things at once.
He warns about Ghostface, that should this killer come calling, you better know your stuff.
And it reveals his love for Camp Crystal Lake, especially the carnage by the hand of Mrs.
Voorhees (Betsy Palmer).
Friday the 13th didn’t only set a template for other slasher movies,
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