Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. We get things started with today's inaugural episode, as the Now Playing staff is discussing the original Friday the 13th, released in 1980.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. We continue our series by discussing Friday the 13th Part II, released in 1981, where Jason makes his first appearance as the killer at Camp Crystal Lake.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. Our look back continues with Friday the 13th Part III, released in 1982, and originally released in 3-D! Listen in to our discussion and hear what we think of this eye-pooping entry into the series.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we review Friday the 13th -- The Final Chapter. Listen to find out our thoughts on this entry in the series, and if we think they should have actually stopped here.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we review and discuss Friday the 13th Part V - A New Beginning, released in 1985. Listen to see if we think this new beginning is worthwhile, or if we feel they should have left the hockey mask alone.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we discuss Friday the 13th Part VI - Jason Lives, which marks the return of Jason Vorhees to the series. Listen in to see if we have a 'Welcome Back' ready for the man behind the mask.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we are talking about Friday the 13th Part VII-The New Blood, released in 1988. Do we think this new blood infuses some life into this series, or does it make us think watching Weekend at Bernie's 2 would have been a better option? Listen and find out.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we review Friday the 13th Part VIII-Jason Takes Manhattan. Does this series benefit by relocating to The City That Doesn't Sleep, or does Jason in the Big Apple just bite? Listen and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we are discussing Jason Goes to Hell -- The Final Friday, released in 1993. Listen in to see if we are impressed and possessed by Jason's evil or if we felt like we were in hell the whole time we were watching it.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we talk about Jason X, released in 2002. Is Jason's bold space adventure in the future regenerate life into the series, or do we feel Jason was better when he was more down to Earth? Listen and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we are discussing Freddy vs. Jason, released in 2003. Is this the dream pairing of these two horror heavyweights fans were waiting for, or is this movie a nightmare from start to finish? Listen and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This is it! This episode we review the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th! Is this franchise reboot all that we hoped it would be, or do we feel the hockey mask should have stayed in moth balls? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday, February 13th, 2009. This episode we discuss the franchise as a whole, share some more thoughts on the 2009 remake, talk about what is next for Now Playing's retrospective series and more.

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. We kick off our series discussing Star Trek--The Motion Picture, released in 1979. Was the first movie adventure of the crew of the Starship Enterprise worth the wait, or was the gang better off staying in reruns? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we review Star Trek II--The Wrath of Khan, released in 1982. Do we feel this sequel generates life into this lifeless series, or does this episode leave us as cold as space? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we are discussing Star Trek III--The Search For Spock, released in 1984. Is this quest for everyone's favorite Vulcan worth the trip, or do we feel we were better off without this journey to retrieve the pointy-eared one? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek IV--The Voyage Home, released in 1986. Has this time-travelling Trek aged well, or does this whale tale sink like a diving nuclear wessel? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek V--The Final Frontier, released in 1989. Does this entry into the series bless us with a divine experience, or is it unable to see the DeForest from the trees? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek VI--The Undiscovered Country, released in 1991. Does this last Trek movie featuring the original cast leave us wanting more or is it a trial to get through? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek Generations, released in 1994. Is this team-up of the Enterprise Captains the fanboys dream of heavenly bliss, or does the meeting of the Generations ultimately leave us empty inside? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek First Contact, released in 1996. Is resisting this time-travelling Borg adventure futile, or does the plot create a temporal disturbance in our heads? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek Insurrection, released in 1998. Does this Fountain of Youth rebellion story provide a fresh perspective for this series that we can get behind or do we feel this movie still needs a few more nips and tucks? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. This episode we discuss Star Trek Nemesis, released in 2002. Does this final journey for the Next Generation boldly go where no other Trek film has gone, or have we seen all of this B-4? Listen in and find out!

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Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series, where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, 2009. In the final installment of our Star Trek Retrospective series we finally view the reboot of the Trek series. How faithful is it to the original, how do the new actors measure up against the old, and most importantly, is it fun to watch? Listen and find out!

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Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we will be looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Today we start off with the original Terminator, released in 1984. With a blend of sci-fi, action, and horror this movie gripped audiences and made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Does it live up to the reputation? Listen to find out!

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Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we are looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. This time we look at the biggest movie of 1991, and the film that changed special effects forever--Terminator 2: Judgment Day. With the liquid silver T-1000 up against Arnold's T-101, which is now defending John Connor, can this movie surpass the original? And if so, does it set a bar so high no sequel can ever live up? Listen to find out as we discuss this seminal film, and also the Universal Studios show inspired by the movie.

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Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we continue looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Twelve years after Terminator 2 dominated box offices, Arnold is back as the T-101, this time fighting a female Terminatrix to save a grown up John Connor and his future wife from termination. With the threat of nuclear war looming in the background, can John Connor save the world from Judgment Day? And more importantly, is it entertaining watching him try? Listen to find out as we rate this third film and prepare for the release of Terminator: Salvation

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Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we will be looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Today we finish our series watching Terminator Salvation. We have a new director, a new star, and a new, conflicted Terminator model. Is this movie the series' salvation, or should this series now be terminated? Listen to find out!

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In anticipation of Rob Zombie's upcoming movie Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look back at Rob Zombie's initial foray into horror with the films House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Devil's Rejects. Join us as we go into the home of the Firefly family and follow them on the run. We start with Zombie's first film, House of 1,000 Corpses. Where do they fit all those bodies? Listen to find out!

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In anticipation of Rob Zombie's upcoming movie Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look back at Rob Zombie's initial foray into horror with the films House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Devil's Rejects. Join us as we go into the home of the Firefly family and follow them on the run. We conclude with Zombie's second film, The Devil's Rejects. Does the Firefly family leave us on a high note? Listen to find out!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Join us this week as meet The Shape and his infamous Captain Kirk mask, and discuss the movie that frightened a generation, sparked a new genre of slasher film, and made John Carpenter one of the masters of horror.

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Join us this week as we continue with The Shape's pursuit of Laurie Strode, and discuss the film that introduces the family connection that intended to finish the story but instead started the sequel machine.

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Join us this week as we count down the days till Halloween (Silver Shamrock!), and discuss the entry in this film franchise that doesn't include Michael Myers, Dr. Loomis, or anything else that made the series successful in the first place.

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. After the debacle that was a Halloween movie without serial killer Michael Myers, the makers of this new installment want to be sure the Shatner-masked icon is front and center both in this movie and in its title. But does the return of The Shape also mean the return to the quality levels found in the first Halloween movies? Listen to find out!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Michael Myers is back and out for revenge in the fifth installment of the Halloween franchise, but what happened to his neice, and who is the strange mysterious man in the dark trenchcoat? Or the old woman at the barn party? We don't know, but listen anyway as we review Halloween 5!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Michael Myers is back in black...or at least with the man in black from the last Halloween movie, and we learn that Michael is cursed by a thorn and controlled by druids...oh I give up, listen to this podcast to find out if the Now Playing hosts can make sense of this movie, or the Producer's Cut alternate release.

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode, 20 years after the first Halloween, but Michael Myers is back too. Produced and influenced by Kevin Williamson, will this movie make you Scream? Listen to find out!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Ever wonder what happens if you put Busta Rhymes, Karate, The Blair Witch Project, Big Brother, American Pie, and Michael Myers all in a blender? Well, this is it! It's Halloween: Resurrection and despite having his head chopped off in the last movie, Michael Myers is back to eat more rats (with Fennel!) and kill more people. Is this hip reimaging just what the series was calling for? Listen to find out!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. After a series of sequels with widely varying quality, Michael Myers follows Leatherface to have an extreme makeover for the 21st Century audience. Directed by Rob Zombie this film is a hybrid of Zombie's aesthetic previously seen on screens in House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects, and John Carpenter's original vision. It's part prequel, part remake, and all Rob Zombie, with Malcom McDowell taking on the role of Loomis. But does the remake work, or should Busta Rhymes have returned and the old story continued? Listen to find out!

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers' family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten Halloween movies. Knights in White Satin, Sherri Moon Zombie in a white dress, and a white horse all populate Rob Zombie's stylistic but thematically confused sequel to his 2007 remake of Halloween. If, as Loomis says, "Bad taste is the petrol that fuels the American dream" then this movie is a dream come true. Listen to the hosts of Now Playing as we conclude our Halloween retrospective series and find out if a sequel of a remake really can hold a candle to the original.

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When Saw came out in 2004 no one expected it to rapidly become the premiere horror franchise of the 21st century, but since then Saw has laid claim to the Halloween holiday, with each year seeing the release of a new installment in this horror series. It all started with Carey Elwes and Leigh Wannell waking up in a dirty bathroom, chained at the leg, and one is told to kill the other. With Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, and Shawnee Smith rounding out the cast, does this movie deserve to be the modern day epitome of the horror film? Listen to Now Playing to find out!

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With the surprise success of the original Saw, a sequel was inevitable. However who would have guessed it would come out only one year later, or that they would continue being released one-per-year for so long? In this episode, the hosts of Now Playing learn more about "Jigsaw" John Kramer and the vengeance he exacts upon a New Kid on the Block.

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"Jigsaw" John Kramer is dying of a brain tumor, and it's up to Dr. Lynn Denlon to keep him alive while they watch Jigsaw's latest victim Jeff go through a series of tests. Why would Lynn help Jigsaw? Well if Jigsaw's heart stops the bomb strapped to Lynn's head will explode. It's the most intricate Saw movie yet, and we review it on Now Playing!

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