Blog Posts about Friday the 13th

"King of Underground Cinema" Eric Stanze is a huge SKINspiration to all of us here at Skin Central. A lifelong cinema devotee, Eric knew from a very young age that he wanted to become a filmmaker.

And with an independent spirit that would make his childhood idol, Dawn of the Dead (1978) legend and creator of the modern zombie film George Romero, proud, that's exactly what he did. Eric founded his own production company, Wicked Pixel Pictures, when he was in his early twenties, and has gone on to direct six films and produce many more under the Wicked Pixel imprint.

Though he's best known among horror fans for transgressive films that push the limits of cinematic violence and sexuality, Eric's films span a wide variety of horror and exploitation genres from atmospheric ghost stores (Deadwood Park, 2007) to rape-and-revenge films (I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave, 2001) to brutal serial-killer flicks (Scrapbook, 2000).

His newest film is Ratline (2011), starring his frequent leading lady Emily Haack as a fugitive who stumbles into the dangerous world of Nazi occultism while on the run from a botched drug-money heist. Ratline has been praised by critics for its unique vision and intense thrills; Popmatters.com calls it "One of the most original horror experiences of the past decade".

We caught up with Eric at Wicked Pixel HQ in St. Louis, where he talked with Skin Central about his cinematic inspirations, the state of indie filmmaking in the Internet age, and what's coming next.

Read Skin Central's interview with Eric Stanze after the jump!

Horror remakes are like pubes: there are so many variations on the basic idea that no matter what your taste, there's bound to be something you like. Some are faithful to the point of obsession, like Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Psycho, which recreates the Alfred Hitchcock classic shot for shot. Some take certain liberties with the story, like 2009's My Bloody Valentine 3D, which takes the nudity-free original and adds a full 90 seconds of full frontal from Betsy Rue.

Play a stimulating game of com-bare and contr-ass after the jump!

The 1980s were a golden age of skin-filled slasher flick franchises like Friday the 13th and Halloween, many of which included an equal mix of flesh and blood.

With the skinthusiasm around the Mr. Skin office for retro rackage, and even more, flashback furburgerage (complete with the fur), we always like to take another look at the classics when they come out on DVD to see if there's anything we missed.

In the case of Friday the 13th Part 2, it paid off. When we see the lovely Lauren-Marie Taylor taking off her pants through a window at the 57-minute mark, a zoom-in with Skin-vision reveals a nice peek of bush. Dam, that's good beaver.

Did Your Favorite Make the Cut?

1. Eva Amurri in Californication
Episode: “Verities & Balderdash”

Her teenage brothers may have been embarrassed, but the rest of the world was all smiles when busty beauty Eva Amurri doffed her top and showed off her full, natural boobs on the October 11th episode of the Showtime series Californication.

Partially to thank for the eye-popping scene is Eva’s skin-happy mother, Susan Sarandon, who told her daughter “it would be a blast” to get naked on TV. Thanks Mom!

Read the rest after the jump.

Retro Skin is a regular look back at outrageous, obscure, and even unknown films from the wild world of skinema history that broke naked ground in their day and now live forever at MrSkin.com.

THE NEW YORK RIPPER (1982)
DIRECTOR: Lucio Fulci
NUDES: Alexandra Delli Colli, Daniela Doria, Zora Kerova, Cinzia de Ponti
DVD/BLU-RAY: Blue-Underground.com

In the annals of “spaghetti splatter” gore films from Italy in the 1970s and ’80s, the name Lucio Fulci ranks high among the most revered.

From his breakthrough shocker A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) through his signature classic Zombie (1979) to his meta-horror freak-out Cat in the Brain (1990), Fulci established an over-the-top style in which flesh and blood exploded with orgiastic abandon.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week
The Last House on the Left (2009)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Universal
NUDE: Riki Lindhome (breasts), Sara Paxton (butt)
The Last House on the Left (2009) is a remake of Wes Craven's notorious 1972 exploitation film of the same name, itself a purported remake of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring (1960). When her parents (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potts) take her to their lake house on vacation, young Mari Collingwood (Sara Paxton) quickly ditches them to hang out with her free-spirited friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac). Soon the two girls find themselves smoking pot in a hotel room with seemingly harmless and shy Justin (Spencer Treat Clark) when his escaped-convict father Krug (Garret Dillahunt) comes back unexpectedly, accompanied by Justin's uncle Francis (Aaron Paul) and Krug’s girlfriend Sadie (Riki Lindhome).

A Tender Moment

“A new star graces that firmament we can’t quite reach,” porn star Georgina Spelvin wrote in response to the news of her friend, 56-year-old porn legend Marilyn Chambers, nude in dozens of movies, who died Easter Sunday.

It takes a special kind of lady to make a box of soap dirty. And that lady was the one and only Golden Age porn star Marilyn Chambers, formerly the face of Ivory Soap and later the star of the X-rated classic Behind the Green Door and David Cronenberg’s fright flick Rabid.

When the wholesome, spokesmodel-esque Marilyn walked into the audition for the 1972 flesh-flick Behind the Green Door, she had already acted in the Barbara Streisand comedy The Owl and the Pussycat and the skin-filled 1971 hippie movie Together, directed by Friday the 13th’s Sean S. Cunningham.

Originally, she was to have a non-sex role in Green Door, but the Mitchell Brothers, who directed the movie and were later the subject of the biopic Rated X, talked her into doing her first hardcore scenes, leading to a career of sizzling, taboo-busting, on-screen sex acts.

And she never looked back (unless it was to reach for more lube).

Read more after the jump.

On with the Body Count!

If you look at your calendar for March, you’ll notice that there’s another Friday the 13th coming up in a couple of weeks. And that’s lucky, because it keeps everybody’s mind on the nude knockouts of the Friday the 13th movie franchise, especially recent additions to the fold Americo Olivo, Willa Ford, and Julianna Guill.

This month’s issue of Maxim features Willa and Julianna posing on a couch together in some skimpy lingerie, seemingly without fear of eminent attack by a hockey-masked serial killer or much in the way of clothing.

Read more after the jump.