Jason Voorhees is coming to The Last Drive-In. This is not a drill! That’s right, Mutant Fam. AMC has revealed its full schedule for FearFest 2024, the network’s annual celebration of all things horror, and as part of this year’s festivities, Joe Bob Briggs will be hosting a Friday the 13th double feature. So sharpen the machetes and pop the popcorn, as the double feature will be taking place on Wednesday, October 9. Mark your calendars and plan accordingly.
The double feature kicks off at 8 pm ET with the original 1980 slasher classic Friday the 13th, followed by 1981’s Friday the 13th Part 2. So, the only real downside is that we don’t get Jason in the hockey mask as he doesn’t don that look until Part III, despite being the look most commonly associated with the beloved slasher. But that is neither here nor there.
There is more Friday the 13th on deck as part of this year’s full FearFest lineup (which you can find here). AMC is hosting a marathon of the films on Saturday, October 5, as well as a second Voorhees-centric marathon on Friday, October 25. Jason will also be heavily featured during the Fear the 80s Marathon on Sunday, October 13, and the Slasher Sunday block on Sunday, October 20.
The Last Drive-In season 6 recently came to an end, with Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl hosting a super-sized, six-movie marathon to bring it home. Luckily, AMC and Shudder aren’t making us wait too long to get the band back together. The big thing here is that this will be a return to the double feature format, which was how Briggs handled the show for the first five seasons. For season 6, they went to a single-feature, bi-weekly format.
“There are a lot of people who miss the doubles and they would rather us do the double features,” Briggs told us in a recent interview in honor of The Last Drive-In returning for season 7 on Shudder. “I would say there are more that are either okay with the singles or prefer the singles, and so we’ll probably stay with singles.”
Meanwhile, the horror world is still waiting for the return of Jason Voorhees. We haven’t had a new movie since 2009, and a new Friday the 13th movie isn’t happening any time soon. A24 and Peacock, however, are putting together a TV show titled Crystal Lake, which has had its share of development troubles along the way. After losing Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), it was recently revealed that Brad Kaleb Kane (Fringe) has been brought on board as the new showrunner.
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs returns with a Friday the 13th double feature on October 9. For more, get the details on Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter returning to theaters this month.
