Instead, he would be starring in the fifth Friday the 13th movie, 1985’s A New Beginning. “I remember then finding out it was a Friday the 13th and being really disappointed,” he recalled.

The answer was Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, which became a very divisive installment because of a major creative swing. It's still polarizing, but it's far better than some of the sequels ...

This is what happened with a film like Terminator: Dark Fate after Terminator Genisys and it’s what happened to Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives after Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning.

The rare three Friday the 13s in a year occurred in 2012 (the same year the Mayan calendar’s 13th Baktun ended, which prompted apocalyptic predictions). The last time it happened was 2015.