Art by David Murdoch from Deviantart.com
Bay Of Blood aka Twitch Of The Death Nerve is considered Mario Bava’s most influential film and foreshadows Friday The 13th and the whole “slasher” film genre.
In the words of Bava’s biographer Tim Lucas Twitch is “the acknowledged smoking gun behind the ‘body count’ movie phenomenon of the 1980s, which continues to dominate the horror genre two decades later with such films as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and their respective sequels.”
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, was filmed under the fake name ”Ashes to Ashes” while in New York City to avoid fan interruptions. The fake title was also used in the script to prevent auditioning actors from knowing and revealing what film they were making. In the fake-titled script, Jason was renamed “Ethan”.
Many of the Friday the 13th films were given fakes names during filming and production to help preserve the plots. David Bowie songs were used for the following:
Friday the 13th Part III — Crystal Japan
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning — Repetition
Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives — Aladdin Sane
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan — Ashes to Ashes
