On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

* Friday the 13th: The Series

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

Sean Cunningham made Friday the 13th ( 1980 ).

The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) and the hugely successful Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

Among the many remakes or " reimaginings " of other popular horror films and franchises are films such as Friday the 13th ( 2009 ), A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 2010 ), Children of the Corn ( 2009 )., Prom Night ( 2008 ), My Bloody Valentine ( 2009 ) and The Wolfman ( 2010 ).

Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

On Friday, October 13, 1307 ( a date sometimes spuriously linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition ) Philip ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested.

Beck starred in such movies as Massacre at Central High, Roller Boogie, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

* Fictional mass murderer from the Friday the 13th film series, Jason Voorhees, uses a machete as his weapon of choice, on his victims.

The handheld also appeared in the movie Friday the 13th Part 2.

Paramount's successful run of pictures extended into the 1980s and 1990s, generating hits like Airplane !, American Gigolo, Ordinary People, An Officer and a Gentleman, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Footloose, Pretty in Pink, Fatal Attraction, the Friday the 13th slasher series, as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

Author Karl F. Friday refutes that by saying that before the 13th century there are no written references or drawings etc that show swords of any kind were actually used while on horseback.

Meanwhile, Paramount, long successful in syndication with repeats of Star Trek, found itself with several first-run syndicated series by the turn of the 1990s, in Entertainment Tonight, The Arsenio Hall Show, Friday the 13th: The Series, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Among the most popular were the A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Hellraiser and Poltergeist ( Film Series ) franchises.

** Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190. 58 points, or 6. 91 percent, to close at 2, 569. 26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.

* October 13 – Friday the 13th: All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into " confessing " heresy.

Triskaidekaphobia ( from Greek tris meaning " 3 ", kai meaning " and ", deka meaning " 10 " and phobia meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is fear of the number ; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.

* Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th, which is considered to be a day of bad luck in a number of western cultures.

* Who's Afraid Of Friday The 13th?

The format was used in Australia in the form of Friday Night Live from Series 5 until Series 8.

* The Summer Concert Series features live local music each Friday and Saturday in Downtown East Lansing.

( Episode 1. 5 – " The Outsider "); The Devil Wears Prada ( Although it is uncredited an instrumental version of the song is played at nearly every pivotal moment in the film, as well as during the end credits ); One Tree Hill ( Episode 1. 17-" Spirit in the Night "); Duane Hopwood ; Friday Night Lights ( TV Series ) – song provides inspirational back-drop in scene where back-up Matt Saracen takes the field and excels

* Friday the 13th: The Series ( 1 episode, 1988 )

The NASCAR Nationwide Series will move from Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis to the Brickyard to run a Saturday race while both the Rolex Sports Car Series and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge will run races on Friday.

Season 1 Episode 4 of Friday the 13th: The Series ( episode entitled " A Cup of Time ") features the song as sung by sinister elderly lady come rock star " Lady Die " played by Hilary Shepard Turner.

* The television series Friday the 13th: The Series featured an episode titled " The Mephisto Ring " about a cursed 1919 World Series ring that killed whoever wore it, allowing its owner to view the future outcome of a sporting event in return for supplying it with victims.

Sometime after appearing in The Chris Isaak Show in 2001, she landed the female lead role in the horror film Jason X in 2002, the 10th installment of Friday the 13th: The Series.

The Bynum Front Porch Music Series still runs every Friday evening rain or shine, May-September at the Bynum General Store.

* Friday Night Movie Series

NASCAR brought pony cars to its second-tier Nationwide Series at the Subway Jalepeno 250 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida, on Friday, July 2, 2010.

The arena has been the site of several WWF / WWE pay per view events, such as SummerSlam ' 96, No Mercy ' 99, Invasion ( 2001 ), Survivor Series ' 04, and Unforgiven ' 08, as well as numerous episodes of Raw, Friday Night SmackDown !, ECW on Sci Fi, WWE Superstars, and NXT.

* Series 1 ( 13 ) 30 December 1977 – 24 March 1978 · Friday 7pm ( London Weekend Television )

* The songs " Try " and " Heart Like Mine " are played in the episode " Cupid's Quiver " of the TV show Friday the 13th The Series.

Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication.

Like other sci-fi / horror shows in syndication in the late 1980s ( such as War of the Worlds and Freddy's Nightmares ), Friday the 13th: The Series constantly pushed the limits of " acceptable content ", regularly featuring violence on par with that of the R-rated horror movies of the time.

Friday the 13th: The Series was created by Frank Mancuso, Jr. and Larry B. Williams originally under the title of The 13th Hour ; the series ran for 72 episodes.

Friday the 13th: The Series aired in first-run syndication, initially in a late-night spot ; the success of the series as a late-night show prompted some broadcasting stations to move it to primetime.