Well I did it! I completed my Sponsored ‘Friday the 13th Movie Marathon’ challenge and it was a great success I watched all 12 Friday the 13th movies back to back from 9:am Friday 13th to 5:30am Saturday 14th It took 20 and a half-hours to complete raising a total of £265 for Children in Need and every penny goes towards helping disadvantaged children across the UK! My sincere thanks to everyone that sponsored me thank you for your generosity! Thanks to everyone that helped spread the word and posted encouraging messages throughout the day! And a big thank you to my daughter for keeping out of the room and getting me a pizza and Mrs Jones for bringing me cakes from her Children in Need bake sale (of which they raised £200 for Children in Need!). As promised, I posted photographs of my progress during the day on Instagram.
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Friday 13th 9:00am -
Friday the 13th (1980) - 10:40am Friday the 13th Part 2
(1981)
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Friday 13th 12:55pm
Friday the 13th Part III (1982) - 2:30pm Friday the 13th:
The Final Chapter (1984)
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Friday 13th 4:00pm
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) - 6:00pm Friday the 13th
Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
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Friday 13th 7:30pm
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) - 9:15pm Friday the 13th
Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
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Friday 13th 11:00pm Jason Goes to Hell:
The Final Friday (1993) - Saturday 14th 12:30am Jason X (2001)
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Saturday 14th Saturday 14th 2:00am Freddy vs. Jason (2003) - 3:50am Friday the 13th (2009)
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Introduction to the link by Jason
Mohammad and Eggsy rather confused and distracted as they were
dressing up in different items of fancy dress each hour of the show.)
Eggsy: “I love horror movies,
absolutely,love them.”
Jason Mohammad: “ Halloween?”
Eggsy: “Great film!”
Jason: ”Seen them all?”
Eggsy:” Errrr... Yeah, Halloween 3 is
one of my favourites.”
Jason:”It's a great film, the reason
I ask Eggsy because it doesn't matter how much you raise every penny
counts and one horror movie fan in the Llŷn Peninsula is as we speak
in the middle of a fund raising movie marathon to give you a clue
what its all about its a scary bloke called Jason... Lets go over
live to our reporter Brandon, good morning Brandon.”
Brandon Williams:” Good morning
Jason, as if one scary bloke called Jason wasn't enough to cope
with, the man I am with now has to deal with twelve of them back
to back! I'm with Arfon Jones at his home in Nefyn and he's just
over two and a half hours into his movie marathon and the films
he's watching, Well if the evil Jason character wasn't enough just
think of today's date, Friday the 13th. Arfon is watching all
twelve episodes of the Friday the 13th movie franchise back to
back you might be able to hear it in the background. He started at
nine this morning and is just in the middle of part two. Not
everyone's cup of tea Arfon. Certainly not mine so how did you
come up with this idea?”
Arfon Jones:” It's an idea I have
had for some time and then when I found out that Children in Need
was on a Friday the 13th I thought this would be my excuse to do
it. So that's where I got the idea.”
Brandon:” Its coming up to midday
now, when will you finish this marathon?”
Arfon: ”I've worked it out at
around three o'clock in the morning... there abouts.”
Brandon: ”I trust you have enough
popcorn?
Arfon:”Absolutely!”
Brandon: ”Now you are a horror fan
but you haven't seen all of these. Based on what you've seen so
far is this going to be torture? Or are you actually enjoying it?”
Arfon: ”I'm sure I will start to
feel the strain at around eleven o'clock tonight but so far so
good.”
Brandon: "And your wife and
daughter they are out all day to leave you alone to your marathon,
do they think you are mad?”
Arfon: ”They have always thought
I'm mad, I suppose this is just another example of the madness
they have to endure.”
Brandon: ”Your daughter is only
just thirteen so you will have to keep her out of the way of this
one?
Arfon: ” She's had strict
instructions to keep out of the room for the rest of the day!”
Brandon: ”And the burning question
here is how much you have actually raised so far?
Arfon: ”Just under £250 at the
moment but hopefully we will get a lot more at the end of the day!
Brandon: ”You might actually go for
the 24 hour mark as well, you have a documentary to watch at the
end.”
Arfon: ” Assuming I am still awake
at that point I might just push the envelope and try and make 24
hours with it.
Brandon: ” Well, nearly £250 that
is brilliant Arfon, really fantastic- well done. You've got a lot
a long way to go, so I will let you get back to the film and we
will hand back to the other slightly less sinister Jason in the
studio.”
Jason Mohammad: ” Should just say
as well, You know quite a lot about horror movies as well, there
is a big difference between Friday the 13th and Halloween!”
Eggsy: ” Yes that was our producer's
fault!”
Jason: “Never blame it on the
producer!”
Eggsy: “Yeah, Halloween, completely
different to Friday the 13th a massive Friday the 13th marathon going
on there. There is a point when those films to tell him... HE'S GOING
TO GO ON UNTIL THREE OCLOCK IN THE MORING!”
Jason: ”yeah!”
Eggsy: “That's unbelievable! I don't
think I could do it- I mean I like a good horror film but with the
Friday the 13th movies I think at one point he fights Freddy Kruger,
I think that by the time Freddy Kruger comes in...”
Jason: ”Does he make an appearance?
Eggsy: “yeah, I think its 'Freddy vs,
Jason' and its just like, come on! That's just... then there's one
when Jason is in space! I think there is one set in Bradford or
something? They were just running out of ideas quite badly at this
point!”
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