It's hard to find a serious critic who admires the "Friday the 13th" series, and it's no surprise: the films are cheap, exploitative and artless, made for the express purpose of titillating a few bucks out of undiscerning moviegoers. But no two critics were more vocal about their hatred for the series than Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, who made the films a special target of ridicule both separately and in joint attacks on their long-running syndicated series "At the Movies." To celebrate this very special day, below you can find a brief history of the late critical duo's epic anti-"F13" vitriol. 1980: Gene Siskel takes down the original "Friday the 13th" in a famously scathing review for the Chicago Tribune Calling director-producer Sean S. Cunningham "one of the most despicable creatures ever to infest the movie business," Siskel was so outraged by the film that he spoiled the...
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- by Chris Eggertsen
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