Every year, around this time (i.e. approaching Halloween), I have to confront the contradictory facts that I do not like slasher films on a very fundamental level, yet I cannot seem to turn away from them when I come across them on TV. (Whether or not I deliberately seek them out on some subconscious level will have to be a question for my biographers.) Since SyFy is apparently running a Friday the 13th marathon today, I suppose the die is cast. In honor (or shame) of this film franchise, here are some (mostly-non-gory) GIFs culled from Google. Spoiler/NSFW alert, I guess.

The original slasher, Pamela Voorhees:

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An early appearance of George McFly:

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The man himself:

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My dog makes this same basic expression when I’m holding food. Kind of has me worried now:

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Jason sure does love the stabby stabby:

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This scene was actually pretty scary:

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The series is also famous for gratuitous and pointless nudity, but I’m not embedding those GIFs here.

I’ll wrap this up with a GIF from a much, much better horror movie:

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If you’ve read this far, here’s the famous scene from 1981’s Scanners. Head explosion courtesy of Michael Ironside.

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