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Calling All Jasons: Tombstone Pizza Celebrates Halloween with a Ghastly Giveaway
Last year, Tombstone Pizza got into the Halloween spirit with A Nightmare on Elm Street themed giveaway for those that lived on an Elm Street. This year, the Official Pizza of Halloween embraces October’s Friday the 13th with a ghastly giveaway open to those that share a first name with Jason Voorhees.
That’s right, anyone named Jason can enter to win free pizza. And few things pair as well with horror than pizza.
One lucky grand prize winner will receive a spooky weekend trip plus free TOMBSTONE® Pizza.
From the press release, “Participate at your own risk by entering online at tombstone.com/pizzaforjason. Through Oct. 31, those named Jason can enter for a chance to win. Despite its frightful associations, Jason has been consistently popular for decades with more than 900,000 individuals1 going by the name.”
If you’re not named Jason, fret not; the official rules also state that entrants must have a legal name of “Jason,” “Pamela,” or “Crystal” to enter. So it’s not just Jason Voorhees that Tombstone pays tribute to, but Voorhees’ mommy dearest and the Camp Crystal Lake setting.
“Watching scary movies and eating pizza continues to be one of the best Halloween traditions,” said Neil Morrissey, Marketing Brand Manager at Nestlé. “This year, we’re having some fun with the fright factor, and encouraging everyone to spend Halloween watching classic horror movies.”
How do you enter to win? Starting on Sunday, October 1 through Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET, fans can enter online at https://tombstone.com/pizzaforjason for a chance to win.
Recent comments from producer Jason Blum suggested that a retool was in order when last year’s The Exorcist: Believer wasn’t as successful as Blumhouse and Universal hoped. That certainly seems to be the case, as Deadline reports tonight that Mike Flanagan is in talks to direct the next Exorcist movie.
Director David Gordon Green was initially on board to direct an entire trilogy of new movies in the franchise, with The Exorcist: Believer intended to be only the first film in that three-film sequel series. Originally set to hit theaters on April 18, 2025, sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver was delayed when Green left the project.
If talks come to fruition, Flanagan will take over, likely steering the franchise in a new direction.
The first film in the trilogy was released theatrically on October 13, 2023, with Leslie Odom Jr. starring alongside a returning Ellen Burstyn from the original classic.
In Believer, “Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.) has raised their daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own.
“But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum) disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before.”
The final moments of The Exorcist: Believer brought Linda Blair’s Regan MacNeil back into the fold, seeming to suggest that the legacy character could return in future installments.
As for Flanagan, the horror filmmaker has Life of Chuck on the way. Flanagan previously helmed Stephen King adaptations Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, and he’s also known for titles including Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus, along with the Netflix horror shows The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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