Tag: Betsy Palmer

  • How This Giallo Slasher Influenced ‘Friday the 13th’

    How This Giallo Slasher Influenced ‘Friday the 13th’

    With eight films released in ten years, the Friday the 13th franchise was the king of the 1980s slashers. Though the first film excelled as a mystery with the reveal of Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) as the killer, it was the sequel and the introduction of Jason Voorhees that turned the movies into a pop…