By 2009, there was a re-make of Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980). Directed by Marcus Nispel, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", (2003), and produced by Cunningham and action producer Michael Bay, the beginning of the movie is a reversal of the original horror classic. This time, Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, (Nana Visitor), chases Alice through the woods, ending in her death. Then her son, Jason, (Derek Mears), dons the famous hockey mask, and puts it on his face. The film then is cuts into two parts: the first section is about Clay Miller, (Jared Padalecki), from television's cult horror series 'Supernatural', who is looking for his abducted sister, Willa Miller, (Amanda Righetti); as a new group of teenagers head to a house of Trent, (Travis Van Winkle), who is the son of rich parents, as they stay for the weekend to indulge in making out, do drugs, and partying, near the haunted Camp Crystal Lake. Other teenagers are killed off in the campgrounds, as the second section begins.
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Travis is with Jenna, (Danielle Panabaker), who meets Clay at the Gas Station earlier on as they buy alcohol. The other teenagers are: Chewie, (Aaron Yoo), an Asian-American friend of Trent's; Wade, (Jonathan Sadowski); Bree, (Juliana Guill); Richie, (Ben Feldman), and other actors. Like the previous movies, the old adage of have sex=death is on display in "Friday the 13th". Jason Voorhees also has time to kill a man in town, as well as stalking everyone in the campgrounds. Daniel Pearl, who was the cinematographer on the movie, works his magic. After a fight with Trent, Jenna and Clay uncover a shack in which housed Jason when he was a child. Jason Voorhees attacks them, and the last twenty minutes ends in they rescuing Clay's sister. The movie remains a cult horror classic, and didn't spawn more movies in the series.
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A blog about horror movies.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)**.
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Cross promotion horror movies don't usually work.
By 2003, producer Sean S. Cunningham, and director Ronny Yu, "Bride of Chucky", 1998, attempt to create a fusion between two horror franchises: "Friday the 13th", and "A nightmare on Elm Street", which links Cunningham with Wes Craven again, but for different reasons. The movie stars Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Ken Kirzinger as "Jason Voorhees", replacing Kane Hodder. It also stars musician Kelly Rowland as Kia Waterson; Jason Ritter, as Will Rollins; and other actors. In the '00's, horror movies became self-referential thanks to Kevin Williamson in the 1990's onwards, that bordered on the comedic, and annoying. "Freddy vs. Jason", is such a movie. It would be another six years before the re-make of the original film was released in 2009.
Cross promotion horror movies don't usually work.
By 2003, producer Sean S. Cunningham, and director Ronny Yu, "Bride of Chucky", 1998, attempt to create a fusion between two horror franchises: "Friday the 13th", and "A nightmare on Elm Street", which links Cunningham with Wes Craven again, but for different reasons. The movie stars Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Ken Kirzinger as "Jason Voorhees", replacing Kane Hodder. It also stars musician Kelly Rowland as Kia Waterson; Jason Ritter, as Will Rollins; and other actors. In the '00's, horror movies became self-referential thanks to Kevin Williamson in the 1990's onwards, that bordered on the comedic, and annoying. "Freddy vs. Jason", is such a movie. It would be another six years before the re-make of the original film was released in 2009.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Jason X (2001)**.
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In the 1990's, the generation of horror movie public who lived through the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties, on movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", (Tobe Hooper, 1974); "The hills have eyes", (Wes Craven, 1977); and "A nightmare on Elm Street", (Wes Craven, 1984), created a sense of fear that was diluted across America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia; by nineteen ninety-one to nineteen ninety-five, there was the rise of horror books and movies like "Ringu", ("The Ring", (1998), and the phenomenon of Japanese terror films dominated the decade, which were re-made in America during the '00's.
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Casey Becker, (Drew Barrymore), is terrorized by a phone caller who likes horror movies...Wes Craven's "Scream", 1996, written by Kevin Williamson.
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Jason X, written by Todd Farmer, and directed by Jim Issac, is set in the future. When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), and another woman are cryogenically frozen in time, they're thawed out of their prison, and the killer continues going on a rampage. The film has its share of robots and scientists with characters' names from Sir Ridley Scott's cult science fiction/horror hybrid second movie called "Alien", (1979); David Cronenberg also has an acting role as "Doctor Wimmer", who is killed. The actors are: Rowan, (Lexa Doig); Kay-Em-14, (Lisa Ryder); Professor Lowe, (Jonathan Potts); Dallas, (Farmer)*Actor Tom Skerritt plays 'Dallas' in 'Alien*; Azreal, (Dov Tiefenbach); Janessa, (Melyssa Ade); and Tsunaron, (Chuck Campbell). There's a VR section of the movie in which the scientists go back to 1980, where several girl campers make out before Jason attacks them. In short, the scene ends with Jason being killed, and ending in him being re-made as "Uber-Jason".
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The new version of Jason Voorhees in the 25th century, (sorry, no Buck Rogers to save the day), limps along with the end. If fans thought it was The End of the saga they were wrong.
In the 1990's, the generation of horror movie public who lived through the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties, on movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", (Tobe Hooper, 1974); "The hills have eyes", (Wes Craven, 1977); and "A nightmare on Elm Street", (Wes Craven, 1984), created a sense of fear that was diluted across America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia; by nineteen ninety-one to nineteen ninety-five, there was the rise of horror books and movies like "Ringu", ("The Ring", (1998), and the phenomenon of Japanese terror films dominated the decade, which were re-made in America during the '00's.
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Casey Becker, (Drew Barrymore), is terrorized by a phone caller who likes horror movies...Wes Craven's "Scream", 1996, written by Kevin Williamson.***
Jason X, written by Todd Farmer, and directed by Jim Issac, is set in the future. When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), and another woman are cryogenically frozen in time, they're thawed out of their prison, and the killer continues going on a rampage. The film has its share of robots and scientists with characters' names from Sir Ridley Scott's cult science fiction/horror hybrid second movie called "Alien", (1979); David Cronenberg also has an acting role as "Doctor Wimmer", who is killed. The actors are: Rowan, (Lexa Doig); Kay-Em-14, (Lisa Ryder); Professor Lowe, (Jonathan Potts); Dallas, (Farmer)*Actor Tom Skerritt plays 'Dallas' in 'Alien*; Azreal, (Dov Tiefenbach); Janessa, (Melyssa Ade); and Tsunaron, (Chuck Campbell). There's a VR section of the movie in which the scientists go back to 1980, where several girl campers make out before Jason attacks them. In short, the scene ends with Jason being killed, and ending in him being re-made as "Uber-Jason".
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The new version of Jason Voorhees in the 25th century, (sorry, no Buck Rogers to save the day), limps along with the end. If fans thought it was The End of the saga they were wrong.
Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)*.
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Alas, as the 1990's arrived, it was cheaper to hire soap and television actors to be in horror movies. Before Scream, (Wes Craven, 1996), arrived, Sean S. Cunningham returned to the "Friday the 13th" franchise to produce "Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday" in 1993. It was 1991 when Freddy Krueger, (Robert Englund), made the last "A nightmare on Elm Street" movie, and The Silence of the Lambs, (Jonathan Demme), won five Academy Awards. The return to Crystal Lake, directed by Adam Marcus, was supposed to be The End of the series. It wasn't. The movie begins with a female FBI Agent Elizabeth Marcus, (Julie Michaels), who uses a lot of firepower to shoot Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), to hell and back. When his body is taken to the Morgue, his spirit is transferred to an African-American coroner, (Richard Gant). The 'body swapping' theme isn't new. The movie is similar to Jack Sholder's 1987 cult science fiction/action-thriller hybrid classic "The Hidden". Then the new campers arrive at Camp Crystal Lake: Joey B. (Rusty Schwimmer); Josh, (Andrew Bloch); Ward, (Adam Crammer); and Vicki, (Allison Smith). Part 9 has its mix of sex and violence. The other part of the story concerns Steven Freeman, (John D. LeMay), who is involved with Jessica Kimble, (Kari Keegan), and Diana Kimble, (Erin Gray), who is related to Jason Voorhees. Steven then meets an African-American bounty hunter named Creighton Duke, (Steven Williams), who breaks his fingers to force information out of him concerning Jason Voorhees.
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Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), returns for the last "Friday the 13th" horror movie in 1993. Sadly, he was proved wrong, with another sequel ten or so year's later, and a re-make in 2009.
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Steven meets Sheriff Ed Landis, (Billy Green Bush), and Officer Randy Parker, (Kipp Marcus), who has to deal with more people who are invaded by the spirit of Jason Voorhees, including Robert Campbell, (Steven Culp), three-quarters through the movie. Sean S. Cunningham enlisted Harry Manfredini to do the music, as he produced the successful "House" horror-comedy series with Steve Miner in the nineteen eighties, and nineteen nineties, and other films. Lastly, Jason Voorhees' body is released from the 'bodies', and he is dragged to Hell in the exploding finale, as the movie ends.
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The horror of the simple titled "House", 1986, re-united Sean S. Cunningham and Steve Miner, in the mid-1980's, that wasn't as extreme as "Last house on the Left", (written and directed by Wes Craven), 1972; and "Friday the 13th", (1980), (produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham).
Alas, as the 1990's arrived, it was cheaper to hire soap and television actors to be in horror movies. Before Scream, (Wes Craven, 1996), arrived, Sean S. Cunningham returned to the "Friday the 13th" franchise to produce "Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday" in 1993. It was 1991 when Freddy Krueger, (Robert Englund), made the last "A nightmare on Elm Street" movie, and The Silence of the Lambs, (Jonathan Demme), won five Academy Awards. The return to Crystal Lake, directed by Adam Marcus, was supposed to be The End of the series. It wasn't. The movie begins with a female FBI Agent Elizabeth Marcus, (Julie Michaels), who uses a lot of firepower to shoot Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), to hell and back. When his body is taken to the Morgue, his spirit is transferred to an African-American coroner, (Richard Gant). The 'body swapping' theme isn't new. The movie is similar to Jack Sholder's 1987 cult science fiction/action-thriller hybrid classic "The Hidden". Then the new campers arrive at Camp Crystal Lake: Joey B. (Rusty Schwimmer); Josh, (Andrew Bloch); Ward, (Adam Crammer); and Vicki, (Allison Smith). Part 9 has its mix of sex and violence. The other part of the story concerns Steven Freeman, (John D. LeMay), who is involved with Jessica Kimble, (Kari Keegan), and Diana Kimble, (Erin Gray), who is related to Jason Voorhees. Steven then meets an African-American bounty hunter named Creighton Duke, (Steven Williams), who breaks his fingers to force information out of him concerning Jason Voorhees.
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Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), returns for the last "Friday the 13th" horror movie in 1993. Sadly, he was proved wrong, with another sequel ten or so year's later, and a re-make in 2009.***
Steven meets Sheriff Ed Landis, (Billy Green Bush), and Officer Randy Parker, (Kipp Marcus), who has to deal with more people who are invaded by the spirit of Jason Voorhees, including Robert Campbell, (Steven Culp), three-quarters through the movie. Sean S. Cunningham enlisted Harry Manfredini to do the music, as he produced the successful "House" horror-comedy series with Steve Miner in the nineteen eighties, and nineteen nineties, and other films. Lastly, Jason Voorhees' body is released from the 'bodies', and he is dragged to Hell in the exploding finale, as the movie ends.
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The horror of the simple titled "House", 1986, re-united Sean S. Cunningham and Steve Miner, in the mid-1980's, that wasn't as extreme as "Last house on the Left", (written and directed by Wes Craven), 1972; and "Friday the 13th", (1980), (produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham).Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)*.
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By 1989, the end of the decade meant the seventh "Friday the 13th" sequel written and directed by Rob Hedden, was only released on VHS video. In the beginning Jim Miller, (Todd Shaefer), tells his girlfriend Suzi Donaldson, (Tiffany Paulsen), about Camp Crystal Lake, and the murders on a boat! When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), is revived, he kills them with a spear, (mirroring the deaths from Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", 1981). The rest of the movie is absurd. When a group of teenagers head to New York on a cruise liner, lead by Charles McCulloch, (Peter Mark Richman), and Colleen Van Deusen, (Barbara Bingham), Jason Voorhees somehow boards the ship, and attacks everyone before the survivors reach the city that never sleeps.
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The film begins with Rennie Wickham, (Jensen Daggett), whose mother takes her on the cruise. Other teenagers are: Sean Robertson, (Scott Reeves), whose father is Admiral Robertson, (Warren Munson), Miles Wolfe, (Gordon Currie); J. J. Jarret, (Saffron Henderson); and a Deck Hand, (Alex Diakun). Part VIII limps though the sex and violence of other sequels. When the survivors of the deadly cruise leave by life raft, they head to New York only to meet drug pushes, and other crime riddled areas of the city that never sleeps. Three decades ago, crime was rife, before the "Zero Tolerance" policy happened. In short, Sean, Rennie, and Toby the dog, (Ace)!, fight Jason Voorhees in the sewers, resulting in the end of the movie with the killer turning into a small boy, (Timothy Burr Mirkovich), that leads to his drowning again like he did back in 1957 as an eleven year old. They leave New York, and the movie ends.
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Fred Mollin's music, and Kane Hodder can't save the movie from being a flop. In the end, producers didn't rush out another "Friday the 13th", by the 1990's.
And they were right not to.
By 1989, the end of the decade meant the seventh "Friday the 13th" sequel written and directed by Rob Hedden, was only released on VHS video. In the beginning Jim Miller, (Todd Shaefer), tells his girlfriend Suzi Donaldson, (Tiffany Paulsen), about Camp Crystal Lake, and the murders on a boat! When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), is revived, he kills them with a spear, (mirroring the deaths from Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", 1981). The rest of the movie is absurd. When a group of teenagers head to New York on a cruise liner, lead by Charles McCulloch, (Peter Mark Richman), and Colleen Van Deusen, (Barbara Bingham), Jason Voorhees somehow boards the ship, and attacks everyone before the survivors reach the city that never sleeps.
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The film begins with Rennie Wickham, (Jensen Daggett), whose mother takes her on the cruise. Other teenagers are: Sean Robertson, (Scott Reeves), whose father is Admiral Robertson, (Warren Munson), Miles Wolfe, (Gordon Currie); J. J. Jarret, (Saffron Henderson); and a Deck Hand, (Alex Diakun). Part VIII limps though the sex and violence of other sequels. When the survivors of the deadly cruise leave by life raft, they head to New York only to meet drug pushes, and other crime riddled areas of the city that never sleeps. Three decades ago, crime was rife, before the "Zero Tolerance" policy happened. In short, Sean, Rennie, and Toby the dog, (Ace)!, fight Jason Voorhees in the sewers, resulting in the end of the movie with the killer turning into a small boy, (Timothy Burr Mirkovich), that leads to his drowning again like he did back in 1957 as an eleven year old. They leave New York, and the movie ends.
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Fred Mollin's music, and Kane Hodder can't save the movie from being a flop. In the end, producers didn't rush out another "Friday the 13th", by the 1990's.
And they were right not to.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)-Part 2.
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John Travolta plays a bad guy in Brian De Palma's "Carrie", with Sissy Spacek. The theme and plot of a girl who uses her powers to create chaos, which is used in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", twelve year's later, became a horror staple in the 1970's, and 1980's.
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The movie resumes with the latest group of teenagers heading to Camp Crystal Lake: Nick, (Kevin Blair); Melissa, (Jennifer Susan Sullivan); Sandra, (Heidi Kozak); Michael, (William Butler); Jane, (Staci Greason); Russell, (Larry Cox); Eddie, (Jeff Bennett); Maddy, (Diana Barrows); Robin, (Elizabeth Kaitan), and others actors and actresses. Nick sees Tina, and befriends her. He invites her to a party, when she causes problems, as Jason Voorhees goes on a rampage. Like the other sequels, the adage have sex=death harks back to Mario Bava's 1971 classic from Italy called "A bay of blood", to John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978). By 1988, there's a shift in the "Old Jason"; the new Jason is now a zombie, like out of George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", (1968), the indie horror classic. As the deaths happen, the murders are off-screen, or edited out, as the MPAA made a lot of cuts to the movie which lessens the impact. The eventual showdown between Tina and Jason is memorable, and in the end Jason Voorhees lifts in the air, and his hockey mask lifts off, that makes him into zombie meets The Phantom of the Opera. Doctor Crews, MD, also dies in the woods, as Tina and her mother knows that he never intended to help Tina in the first place. Lastly, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is scarier and shows a new phase in the horror saga. The next sequel is another matter altogether.
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Tina and Nick struggle to survive Jason Voorhees.
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John Travolta plays a bad guy in Brian De Palma's "Carrie", with Sissy Spacek. The theme and plot of a girl who uses her powers to create chaos, which is used in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", twelve year's later, became a horror staple in the 1970's, and 1980's.***
The movie resumes with the latest group of teenagers heading to Camp Crystal Lake: Nick, (Kevin Blair); Melissa, (Jennifer Susan Sullivan); Sandra, (Heidi Kozak); Michael, (William Butler); Jane, (Staci Greason); Russell, (Larry Cox); Eddie, (Jeff Bennett); Maddy, (Diana Barrows); Robin, (Elizabeth Kaitan), and others actors and actresses. Nick sees Tina, and befriends her. He invites her to a party, when she causes problems, as Jason Voorhees goes on a rampage. Like the other sequels, the adage have sex=death harks back to Mario Bava's 1971 classic from Italy called "A bay of blood", to John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978). By 1988, there's a shift in the "Old Jason"; the new Jason is now a zombie, like out of George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", (1968), the indie horror classic. As the deaths happen, the murders are off-screen, or edited out, as the MPAA made a lot of cuts to the movie which lessens the impact. The eventual showdown between Tina and Jason is memorable, and in the end Jason Voorhees lifts in the air, and his hockey mask lifts off, that makes him into zombie meets The Phantom of the Opera. Doctor Crews, MD, also dies in the woods, as Tina and her mother knows that he never intended to help Tina in the first place. Lastly, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is scarier and shows a new phase in the horror saga. The next sequel is another matter altogether.
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Tina and Nick struggle to survive Jason Voorhees.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)***.
In 1987, there wasn't a sequel to add to the "Friday the 13th" horror saga. David Cronenberg's "The Fly", re-make in 1986, with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, and Chuck Russell's "A nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors", co-written by Wes Craven, made sure Freddy Krueger, (Robert Englund), gave teenagers having bad dreams three decades ago, were Box Office hits; Russell followed up with "The Blob", re-make in 1988, while Cronenberg's next movie, "Dead Ringers", with Jeremy Irons, caused controversy in Canada, and was an art-house success in Australia. "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", directed by special effects wizard John Carl Buechler, was written by Daryl Haney, and Miguel Fidello, became the most cut sequel since Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981), seven year's before. Miner that year produced and directed the historical/modern horror hybrid movie "Warlock", was a success, while the seventh movie in the franchise was released only on VHS video.
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Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), became the latest actor/stuntman to play the hockey masked killer, made his screen debut in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", (1988), that was only released on VHS in video stores across Australia in the late 1980's.
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Part VII is a cross between Stephen King's "Carrie", (1974), Brian De Palma, 1976, (movie), and John Farris's "The Fury", (1976), also directed by De Palma in 1978, that deals with telekinetic children, (and teenagers), that was popular in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties. The movie concerns a young Tina Shepard, (Jennifer Banko), whose gifts are exploited her mother, Amanda, (Susan Blu), and her husband John Shepard, (John Otrin); when she grows up, she, (now played as a teenager by Lar Park Lincoln), is seventeen year's old, and is also exploited by Doctor Crews MD, (Terry Kiser), who thinks he is able to control her. With the voice-over of Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), from the first two "Friday the 13th" movies, that deals with the previous deaths. In a 'fit of anger', she storms out of a session with the doctor, she heads to the bridge of Camp Crystal Lake, and uses her rage to bring back Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), to life through the use of her powers, as a result the killer begins to attack the new campers, (and counsellors), in the process. With music by Harry Manfredini and Fred Mollin, the sixth sequel is more terrifying, even if the source material covers other horror books and movies as well.
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Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), became the latest actor/stuntman to play the hockey masked killer, made his screen debut in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", (1988), that was only released on VHS in video stores across Australia in the late 1980's.***
Part VII is a cross between Stephen King's "Carrie", (1974), Brian De Palma, 1976, (movie), and John Farris's "The Fury", (1976), also directed by De Palma in 1978, that deals with telekinetic children, (and teenagers), that was popular in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties. The movie concerns a young Tina Shepard, (Jennifer Banko), whose gifts are exploited her mother, Amanda, (Susan Blu), and her husband John Shepard, (John Otrin); when she grows up, she, (now played as a teenager by Lar Park Lincoln), is seventeen year's old, and is also exploited by Doctor Crews MD, (Terry Kiser), who thinks he is able to control her. With the voice-over of Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), from the first two "Friday the 13th" movies, that deals with the previous deaths. In a 'fit of anger', she storms out of a session with the doctor, she heads to the bridge of Camp Crystal Lake, and uses her rage to bring back Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), to life through the use of her powers, as a result the killer begins to attack the new campers, (and counsellors), in the process. With music by Harry Manfredini and Fred Mollin, the sixth sequel is more terrifying, even if the source material covers other horror books and movies as well.
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