Daily Times (Primos, PA)

Returns to theaters for 40th anniversar­y

- MediaNews Group

Fathom Events presents a 40th anniversar­y screening of Paramount Pictures’

1980 horror film classic “Friday the 13th” on Sunday at 7 p.m., Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 and 10 p.m. in select theaters.

In addition to watching a remastered version of “Friday the 13th” on the big screen, attendees will view a bonus feature, “Secrets Galore Behind the Gore

— Friday the 13th,” in which revolution­ary special-effects and makeup artist

Tom Savini (“Friday the 13th,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Creepshow,” etc.) details some of the groundbrea­king, gory and great moments of the original “Friday the 13th.”

“Friday the 13th” follows a group of young counselors preparing for the reopening of Camp Crystal Lake, where a boy drowned years earlier. One by one, the counselors are stalked by a mysterious and violent killer.

The film spawned one of the longest-running and most successful horror franchises in film history with 11 subsequent movies and, 40 years later, the iconic machete-wielding killer continues to haunt, fascinate and terrify new generation­s.

Tickets for “Friday the 13th 40th Anniversar­y” are available at FathomEven­ts.com and participat­ing theater box offices, which include AMC Fairground­s 10,

Reading; AMC Neshaminy 24, Bensalem; AMC Plymouth

Meeting 12; Fox Berkshire, Wyomissing; R/C Reading Movies 11; Regal King of Prussia Stadium 16; Regal Oaks Stadium 24; and Regal Oxford Valley 14, Langhorne.

For a complete list of theater locations, visit www.fathomeven­ts.

com/events/friday-the-13th/theaters.

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