film: friday the 13th
beer: lakefront pumpkin lager

since it's officially wednesday the 13th, today we're going to take a look at a film named for the day's evil cousin--1980's friday the 13th. it's the first in a horror film franchise that has since spawned twelve films & gone on to become one of the best known names in the horror genre. despite its prominence, i've somehow never seen any of the films. sean s. cunningham directed the original & basically created the friday the 13th franchise, coming up with the idea after being inspired by halloween, which was released two years earlier. while all the actors in the film are virtually unknown, it is one of the first films that kevin bacon appeared in, so if you're playing "six degrees of kevin bacon," you can link, um...robbi morgan to jack nicholson in only one step.