Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th

It's kind of cool how that starts.

The other thing I watched, before we get into the Halloween movies of the week, the other thing I watched, I watched a great documentary.

We were talking about Netflix releasing a ton of great documentaries this month.

On comedy.

They were on Roseanne together.

But he was a very funny guy, very funny actor, dry comedy.

And the funny thing about this documentary, you find out that Bob Saget was directing it.

Five years ago, Bob Saget was doing a sit-down interview with him to record an interview.

I don't remember if we've even watched the fourth one together.

I think we've watched Crystal Lake Memories a time or two.

I think so, yeah.

So you know it from that, by reputation.

That's the best kill.

I know [laughs] I, I, I watched Crystal Lake Memories again just to try and, and rehash my memory, and Betsy Palmer's like, "I'm kind of embarrassed that they let a man's hairy knuckles stand in for her." [laughs] She wanted to emphasize that that was not, those were not her hairy knuckles.

Yeah, you definitely notice that.

[laughs] And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

I didn't notice it until I watched Crystal Lake Memories, and then I, th- then she pointed it out.

I'm like, "Oh, obviously." I've also heard you can see the toothpicks that were holding the head on.

Maybe it's because I, I don't have a, a Blu-ray of this and just have a DVD, but I couldn't see those toothpicks.

Make sure you guys go back and, uh, and talk, check that one out.

And there's definitely this overlap of sex and murder.

um that is just very very quintessentially 80s um we have a lot of rose-colored nostalgia for the 80s but if you were there it was kind of fucked up we were all repressed as hell and constantly being shamed for various urges that we had and I know that Peter Brackey, who wrote Crystal Lake Memories, has always kind of talked about how teenage gay men back in the 80s identified with the final girl archetype as being this outsider character who has to kind of confront this repressed evil force by themselves at the end.

So it sounds like that's very much where Jane is coming from with this film.

uh i i cannot wait to see it i had a lot yeah like i went out of town uh it was just not possible for me to do it and by the time that i got back i didn't even think to look if it was still playing in theaters i feel like kind of a jackass but you should

Jesus.

And it like really, it really, like, freaked Derek Mears out, and Derek Mears in, in Crystal Lake Memories is like, "You're way too committed to this, to this movie than you need to be."

That's cool.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Like, like Brackett?

No, it's, um, na- it was named after Peter Brack, who wrote Crystal Lake Memories.

Oh.