Friday the 13th etc.) of the year. Any month that starts on a Sunday contains a Friday the 13th, and there is at least one Friday the 13th in every calendar year. There can be as many as three Friday the 13ths in a single calendar year; either in February, March and November in a common year starting on Thursday (such as 2009, 2015 or 2026) (D), or January, April and July in a leap year starting on Sunday (such as 2012) (AG). The longest period that occurs without a Friday the 13th is 14 months, either from July to September the following
Friday the 13th (1980 film) in the context of queer studies in a 2017 essay, noting the villain, Mrs. Voorhees, as a reverse of the Norman Bates character in "Psycho": "The effect of her being the killer is queerly destabilizing. For one, we cannot underestimate the import of having a woman be the architect and cause of such gruesomely creative murders. It's a radical departure from other slasher flicks, like "Halloween", which was released a few years before, where the killer is almost always male and perversely hellbent on punishing sexually-active teenagers." Friday the 13th (1980 film) Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher