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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Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)***.
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After the failure of Part V, Jason Voorhees, (C J Graham), is in his grave in the old Crystal Lake cemetery. Nineteen year old Tommy Jarvis, (Thom Mathews), and his friend Allen Hawes, (Ron Palilo), doesn't think that the hockey masked killer is alive. As a consequence, Jarvis becomes totally irrational in his thinking. When they head into the cemetery during a lightning storm, some teenagers head to Jason's grave. They dig the body up, and are killed when Jason opens his worm-filled mask, and eyes. And using his machete. Then he attacks Allen. Tommy flees, as Jason walks through the dark woods, and sets up the movie.
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Part VI was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, who creates a sense of humour in the movie. Also, with the birth of VHS videocassettes in the nineteen eighties, and early nineteen nineties, (before DVD, Blue Rays, and 4k movies were invented, and the Internet, with Netflix), as well as You Tube, the sixth "Friday the 13th" movie wasn't released in Australian cinemas. And with a heavy metal soundtrack by Alice Cooper, the movie succeeded in Jason Voorhees attacking more teenage and child campers in the process, and other adults as well.
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When Tommy storms into the Sheriff's office stating that Jason Voorhees is alive, Sheriff Garris, (David Kagen), and the Deputy Sheriff Rick Cologne, (Vincent Guataferro), decide to shove him into the jail cell to 'cool off'. Also, Camp Crystal Lake has been re-named "Camp Forest Green", because of the murders. The Sheriff's teenage daughter Megan Garris, (Jennifer Cooke), is one of the camp counsellors, with her friends: Sissy, (Renee Jones); Paula, (Kerry Noonan); Cort, (Tom Fridley); and Nikki, (Darcy DeMoss), who are bewildered at the news of Jason Voorhees. In short, Megan awaits for the group of campers who arrive by bus, as the killer stalks them.
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When the Sheriff lets Tommy go, he tells them that Jason really is alive in the cemetery. But the Deputy Sheriff aims a red laser gun at his head. Tommy leaves town, and heads to the campgrounds, to search for Jason with the help of Megan. At night, a couple named Darren, (Tony Goldwyn), and his girlfriend Lizbeth, (Nancy McLoughlin), makes light of horror movies when they see Jason in the middle of the road. But it's no joke when he damages the car, and kills them. Afterwards, he heads to the woods. Cort then tells the campers about different types of rocks, and other things. Then three paintball players, Larry, (Alan Blumenfeld), Stan, (Mathew Faison), discuss not being splatted with paint, when Katie, (Ann Ryerson), hits them. They are enraged, then are killed by Jason. Afterwards, at night time, Cort and Nikki make out in the van. Jason attacks the couple as they make out, as the song 'Teenage Frankenstein', is played on the soundtrack. Suddenly the van is torched, and set alight. Jason then heads back to camp where a girl is scared of Jason. Sissy and Paula tell her to close her eyes, and he would leave the cabins. In the end, as they're also attacked, it is up to Megan and Tommy to battle Jason Voorhees in the lake, while the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, and other Crystal Lake police officers die in the process.
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Harry Manfredini returns to do the movie's score, (like the other five "Friday the 13th" movies). In the end, Tommy battles Jason on the lake, as he wraps a chain around his head. And, as the water burns around them, Jason is strangled, then falls downward into the dark, deep waters. Tommy struggles to breathe, as Megan performs CPR. Then they flee with the campers, unaware that Jason has opened his eyes, and setting up for yet another sequel.'
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After the failure of Part V, Jason Voorhees, (C J Graham), is in his grave in the old Crystal Lake cemetery. Nineteen year old Tommy Jarvis, (Thom Mathews), and his friend Allen Hawes, (Ron Palilo), doesn't think that the hockey masked killer is alive. As a consequence, Jarvis becomes totally irrational in his thinking. When they head into the cemetery during a lightning storm, some teenagers head to Jason's grave. They dig the body up, and are killed when Jason opens his worm-filled mask, and eyes. And using his machete. Then he attacks Allen. Tommy flees, as Jason walks through the dark woods, and sets up the movie.
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Part VI was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, who creates a sense of humour in the movie. Also, with the birth of VHS videocassettes in the nineteen eighties, and early nineteen nineties, (before DVD, Blue Rays, and 4k movies were invented, and the Internet, with Netflix), as well as You Tube, the sixth "Friday the 13th" movie wasn't released in Australian cinemas. And with a heavy metal soundtrack by Alice Cooper, the movie succeeded in Jason Voorhees attacking more teenage and child campers in the process, and other adults as well.
***
When Tommy storms into the Sheriff's office stating that Jason Voorhees is alive, Sheriff Garris, (David Kagen), and the Deputy Sheriff Rick Cologne, (Vincent Guataferro), decide to shove him into the jail cell to 'cool off'. Also, Camp Crystal Lake has been re-named "Camp Forest Green", because of the murders. The Sheriff's teenage daughter Megan Garris, (Jennifer Cooke), is one of the camp counsellors, with her friends: Sissy, (Renee Jones); Paula, (Kerry Noonan); Cort, (Tom Fridley); and Nikki, (Darcy DeMoss), who are bewildered at the news of Jason Voorhees. In short, Megan awaits for the group of campers who arrive by bus, as the killer stalks them.
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When the Sheriff lets Tommy go, he tells them that Jason really is alive in the cemetery. But the Deputy Sheriff aims a red laser gun at his head. Tommy leaves town, and heads to the campgrounds, to search for Jason with the help of Megan. At night, a couple named Darren, (Tony Goldwyn), and his girlfriend Lizbeth, (Nancy McLoughlin), makes light of horror movies when they see Jason in the middle of the road. But it's no joke when he damages the car, and kills them. Afterwards, he heads to the woods. Cort then tells the campers about different types of rocks, and other things. Then three paintball players, Larry, (Alan Blumenfeld), Stan, (Mathew Faison), discuss not being splatted with paint, when Katie, (Ann Ryerson), hits them. They are enraged, then are killed by Jason. Afterwards, at night time, Cort and Nikki make out in the van. Jason attacks the couple as they make out, as the song 'Teenage Frankenstein', is played on the soundtrack. Suddenly the van is torched, and set alight. Jason then heads back to camp where a girl is scared of Jason. Sissy and Paula tell her to close her eyes, and he would leave the cabins. In the end, as they're also attacked, it is up to Megan and Tommy to battle Jason Voorhees in the lake, while the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, and other Crystal Lake police officers die in the process.
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Harry Manfredini returns to do the movie's score, (like the other five "Friday the 13th" movies). In the end, Tommy battles Jason on the lake, as he wraps a chain around his head. And, as the water burns around them, Jason is strangled, then falls downward into the dark, deep waters. Tommy struggles to breathe, as Megan performs CPR. Then they flee with the campers, unaware that Jason has opened his eyes, and setting up for yet another sequel.'
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Friday, November 23, 2018
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)-Part 2
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The movie cuts to a eighteen year old Tommy Jarvis, (John Shepard), who has mental health issues, (and is doped up with drugs); Tommy isn't obsessed with horror movies, he is 'seeing' Jason Voorhees in his dreams. He is taken to a facility for disturbed teenagers run by Matt, (Richard Young), and Pam, (Melanie Kinnaman). The teenagers are: Joey, (Dominick Brascia); Violet, (Tiffany Helm); Robin, (Juliette Cummins); Neil, (Todd Bryant)-who stutters; Vinnie, (Anthony Barrile); Eddie, (John Robert Dixon); Pete, (Corey Parker); Jake, (Jerry Pavlon); Victor, (Mark Venturini); Duke, (Caskey Swaim); Tina, (Debisue Voorhees); Reggie, (Shavar Ross), and George, (Vernon Washington), are the other members of the cast who work at the camp.
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Like the other movies, teenagers indulge in making out in the woods, and picking on Tommy until he lashes out in the breakfast scene. Matt and Pam have a file on him, and are concerned about his behaviour. When a middle aged woman named Ethel, (Carol Locatell), and her son Junior, (Ron Sloan), who swears at Sheriff Tucker, (Marco St John), and the Deputies. In short, as people die, is Tommy responsible for the deaths? In town, Billy the Nurse, (Bob De Simone), the brother of Tom De Simone, the director of "Hell Night", (1981), is on a date with waitress Lana, (Rebecca Wood-Sharkey), as he does drugs. When they die, did Jason Voorhees really leave Camp Crystal Lake to go to town? It's unlikely.
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Reggie meets his older brother Demon, (Miguel Nunez, Jr.), and his girlfriend Anita, (Jere Fields). When they die, Tommy beats Junior up, that leads to Junior crying to his mother. As they die, Tommy disappears. In the end, they see the dead bodies in the rooms. The film ends with Tommy fighting Jason Voorhees in the old barn. After Jason dies, it is revealed to be an imposter. He is in the hospital, and still nightmares. "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", is the weakest of the series, and the first sequel to the Tommy Jarvis trilogy.
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The movie cuts to a eighteen year old Tommy Jarvis, (John Shepard), who has mental health issues, (and is doped up with drugs); Tommy isn't obsessed with horror movies, he is 'seeing' Jason Voorhees in his dreams. He is taken to a facility for disturbed teenagers run by Matt, (Richard Young), and Pam, (Melanie Kinnaman). The teenagers are: Joey, (Dominick Brascia); Violet, (Tiffany Helm); Robin, (Juliette Cummins); Neil, (Todd Bryant)-who stutters; Vinnie, (Anthony Barrile); Eddie, (John Robert Dixon); Pete, (Corey Parker); Jake, (Jerry Pavlon); Victor, (Mark Venturini); Duke, (Caskey Swaim); Tina, (Debisue Voorhees); Reggie, (Shavar Ross), and George, (Vernon Washington), are the other members of the cast who work at the camp.
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Like the other movies, teenagers indulge in making out in the woods, and picking on Tommy until he lashes out in the breakfast scene. Matt and Pam have a file on him, and are concerned about his behaviour. When a middle aged woman named Ethel, (Carol Locatell), and her son Junior, (Ron Sloan), who swears at Sheriff Tucker, (Marco St John), and the Deputies. In short, as people die, is Tommy responsible for the deaths? In town, Billy the Nurse, (Bob De Simone), the brother of Tom De Simone, the director of "Hell Night", (1981), is on a date with waitress Lana, (Rebecca Wood-Sharkey), as he does drugs. When they die, did Jason Voorhees really leave Camp Crystal Lake to go to town? It's unlikely.
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Reggie meets his older brother Demon, (Miguel Nunez, Jr.), and his girlfriend Anita, (Jere Fields). When they die, Tommy beats Junior up, that leads to Junior crying to his mother. As they die, Tommy disappears. In the end, they see the dead bodies in the rooms. The film ends with Tommy fighting Jason Voorhees in the old barn. After Jason dies, it is revealed to be an imposter. He is in the hospital, and still nightmares. "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", is the weakest of the series, and the first sequel to the Tommy Jarvis trilogy.
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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)**.
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The horror continues....Danny Steinmann's "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", (1985).
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After the success of Part IV, viewers thought it was The End of the horror franchise. But due to the success of "A nightmare on Elm Street", (Wes Craven, 1984), and the first sequel, "Freddy's Revenge", (Jack Sholder), (1985), and "Fright Night", (written and directed by Tom Holland), which resurrected the tired old vampire movie, producer Frank Mancuso, Jr., with screenwriters Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, and Danny Steinmann, (who also directed the movie after "Savage Streets", (1984), with Linda Blair), thought that Jason Voorhees was dead, and wanted to change the formula in the series, creating a weak response to the "Friday the 13th", movies that viewers loved.
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Writer/director Tom Holland's "Fright Night", (1985), the modern vampire movie, made more money than "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", and "A nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge", (1985).
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The beginning of the movie has Tommy Jarvis, (a cameo by Corey Feldman), in a rain slicker, walking through the woods, and thinking Jason Voorhees is still alive. When two teenagers dig up the grave of the hockey masked killer, he uses his machete to kill them. Tommy screams, and flees in horror.
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Jason Voorhees returns to Camp Crystal Lake...but is it really him? Danny Steinmann's "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning", (1985).
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The horror continues....Danny Steinmann's "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", (1985).***
After the success of Part IV, viewers thought it was The End of the horror franchise. But due to the success of "A nightmare on Elm Street", (Wes Craven, 1984), and the first sequel, "Freddy's Revenge", (Jack Sholder), (1985), and "Fright Night", (written and directed by Tom Holland), which resurrected the tired old vampire movie, producer Frank Mancuso, Jr., with screenwriters Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, and Danny Steinmann, (who also directed the movie after "Savage Streets", (1984), with Linda Blair), thought that Jason Voorhees was dead, and wanted to change the formula in the series, creating a weak response to the "Friday the 13th", movies that viewers loved.
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Writer/director Tom Holland's "Fright Night", (1985), the modern vampire movie, made more money than "Friday the 13th Part V: A new beginning", and "A nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge", (1985).
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The beginning of the movie has Tommy Jarvis, (a cameo by Corey Feldman), in a rain slicker, walking through the woods, and thinking Jason Voorhees is still alive. When two teenagers dig up the grave of the hockey masked killer, he uses his machete to kill them. Tommy screams, and flees in horror.
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Jason Voorhees returns to Camp Crystal Lake...but is it really him? Danny Steinmann's "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning", (1985).***
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Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984)-Part 3.
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The horror of Wes Craven's 1972 debut "The last house on the Left", produced by Sean S. Cunningham, created so much controversy that no one was prepared for the terror of "Friday the 13th", (1980), and its impact, with David Hess, throughout the 1970's, and 1980's.
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"Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter", continues with a new group of teenagers in a van: Doug, (Peter Barton); Samantha, (Judie Aronson); Jimmy Mortimer, (Crispin Glover); Paul, (Alan), (Clyde) Hayes; and Sara, (Barbara Howard). As they settle at the campgrounds, Tommy Jarvis, (Corey Feldman), lives with his family: his older sister Trish, (Kimberly Beck), and their mother, (Joan Freeman), in their house near the cursed lake, and cabins.
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As they come into contact with the teenagers, there's the usual things that make the movie work. The scares, people making out, and the deaths. The fact that Tommy Jarvis is disturbed adds to the drama. His father is out of the picture, and he's obsessed with horror movies. The psychological aspect to Part IV strengthens the movie, and The End is supposed to be The End. But, sadly, it doesn't happen. Trish and Tommy then see the teenagers swimming in the lake. They make friends, and Trish meets a man named Rob, (E. Erich Anderson), whose sister was killed by Jason in Part 2 in the woods. Jimmy then dances in a comedic scene, as everyone dies at the hands of Jason Voorhees.
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In the end, Jason attacks Trish, Tommy, and their mother.
Tommy then is drags Tommy out of the window, as he screams. Then he shaves his head, and pretends to be Jason Voorhees. As Jason falls onto his machete, he collapses onto the ground. And he is dead. Tommy grabs the weapon and yells "Die! Die! Die!". Then Trish talks the psychiatrists, and doctors, as the horror continues.
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The horror of Wes Craven's 1972 debut "The last house on the Left", produced by Sean S. Cunningham, created so much controversy that no one was prepared for the terror of "Friday the 13th", (1980), and its impact, with David Hess, throughout the 1970's, and 1980's.***
"Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter", continues with a new group of teenagers in a van: Doug, (Peter Barton); Samantha, (Judie Aronson); Jimmy Mortimer, (Crispin Glover); Paul, (Alan), (Clyde) Hayes; and Sara, (Barbara Howard). As they settle at the campgrounds, Tommy Jarvis, (Corey Feldman), lives with his family: his older sister Trish, (Kimberly Beck), and their mother, (Joan Freeman), in their house near the cursed lake, and cabins.
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As they come into contact with the teenagers, there's the usual things that make the movie work. The scares, people making out, and the deaths. The fact that Tommy Jarvis is disturbed adds to the drama. His father is out of the picture, and he's obsessed with horror movies. The psychological aspect to Part IV strengthens the movie, and The End is supposed to be The End. But, sadly, it doesn't happen. Trish and Tommy then see the teenagers swimming in the lake. They make friends, and Trish meets a man named Rob, (E. Erich Anderson), whose sister was killed by Jason in Part 2 in the woods. Jimmy then dances in a comedic scene, as everyone dies at the hands of Jason Voorhees.
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In the end, Jason attacks Trish, Tommy, and their mother.
Tommy then is drags Tommy out of the window, as he screams. Then he shaves his head, and pretends to be Jason Voorhees. As Jason falls onto his machete, he collapses onto the ground. And he is dead. Tommy grabs the weapon and yells "Die! Die! Die!". Then Trish talks the psychiatrists, and doctors, as the horror continues.
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Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984)-Part 2
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The return of Camp Crystal Lake...Do you really want to go America's most cursed camping lake?...
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The movie begins with a helicopter light at Camp Crystal Lake, as ambulances arrive to take Jason Voorhees, (Ted White), away from the old barn from Part 3, and towards the hospital that's like out of "Halloween II", (1981). Axel, (Bruce Mahler), pesters Nurse Morgan, (Lisa Freeman). As she checks on the drugs, they make out after he watches television in the Morgue. Suddenly Jason attacks them, and heads out of the Morgue very much alive, then heads back home to Crystal Lake.
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From 1981 to 1983 horror movies like "Hell Night", (Tom DeSimone), with The Exorcist's Linda Blair, (William Friedkin), and Peter Barton, and other movies in the early 1980's, flooded the market; from 1984 onwards, like "The Initiation", (Larry Stewart), and Wes Craven's "A nightmare on Elm Street", was the end of the extreme horror movies until money forced producers, directors, and screenwriters, to produce more sequels from 1985 onwards.
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Right: The fantasy horror movie "A nightmare on Elm Street", written and directed by Wes Craven, re-launched his career after the gruelling "Last house on the Left", (1972); and "The hills have eyes", (1977), challenged "The Final Chapter", at the horror box office across America, (and the World). Both movies would spawn more horror sequels throughout the 1980's, and 1990's.
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The return of Camp Crystal Lake...Do you really want to go America's most cursed camping lake?...***
The movie begins with a helicopter light at Camp Crystal Lake, as ambulances arrive to take Jason Voorhees, (Ted White), away from the old barn from Part 3, and towards the hospital that's like out of "Halloween II", (1981). Axel, (Bruce Mahler), pesters Nurse Morgan, (Lisa Freeman). As she checks on the drugs, they make out after he watches television in the Morgue. Suddenly Jason attacks them, and heads out of the Morgue very much alive, then heads back home to Crystal Lake.
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From 1981 to 1983 horror movies like "Hell Night", (Tom DeSimone), with The Exorcist's Linda Blair, (William Friedkin), and Peter Barton, and other movies in the early 1980's, flooded the market; from 1984 onwards, like "The Initiation", (Larry Stewart), and Wes Craven's "A nightmare on Elm Street", was the end of the extreme horror movies until money forced producers, directors, and screenwriters, to produce more sequels from 1985 onwards.
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Right: The fantasy horror movie "A nightmare on Elm Street", written and directed by Wes Craven, re-launched his career after the gruelling "Last house on the Left", (1972); and "The hills have eyes", (1977), challenged "The Final Chapter", at the horror box office across America, (and the World). Both movies would spawn more horror sequels throughout the 1980's, and 1990's.Page 2.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984)****.
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In 1983, producer and director Sean S. Cunningham made the comedy "Spring break", that was made five year's after "National Lampoon's Animal House", (John Landis, 1978). There wasn't a sequel to Cunningham's original "Friday the 13th", (1980); other horror movies like Sleepaway Camp, (1983), written, directed, and Executive Produced by Robert Hiltzik, caused controversy with its gay themed serial killer camp horror movie, that was a cult film, and was a Box Office hit in the early 1980's, and starred Felissa Rose.
The gay themed "Sleepaway Camp", (1983), became a breakout cult horror hit that had proper teenage actors. With no "Friday the 13th" movie made that year, every movie viewer also saw Stephen King's "The Dead Zone", (1983), directed by Canadian David Cronenberg, "Shivers", 1975; and "Rabid", (1976).
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The fourth movie, written by Bruce Hidemi Sakow, and Barney Cohen, intended it to end the horror franchise, with Tom Savini back doing the special effects, and Harry Manfredini doing the music. Directed by Joseph Zito, and produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr., it is the strongest "Friday the 13th" movie. Three year's before Zito made "The Prowler", (1981), a cult slasher movie with Savini working on the movie. The film's success made Zito the right director for "The Final Chapter".
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The WWII themed "The Prowler", (1981), produced and directed by Joseph Zito, was a cult horror success that was different from other movies in that year like Rick Rosenthal's "Halloween II", and "Dead and Buried", (Gary A. Sherman), the zombie classic.
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In 1983, producer and director Sean S. Cunningham made the comedy "Spring break", that was made five year's after "National Lampoon's Animal House", (John Landis, 1978). There wasn't a sequel to Cunningham's original "Friday the 13th", (1980); other horror movies like Sleepaway Camp, (1983), written, directed, and Executive Produced by Robert Hiltzik, caused controversy with its gay themed serial killer camp horror movie, that was a cult film, and was a Box Office hit in the early 1980's, and starred Felissa Rose.
The gay themed "Sleepaway Camp", (1983), became a breakout cult horror hit that had proper teenage actors. With no "Friday the 13th" movie made that year, every movie viewer also saw Stephen King's "The Dead Zone", (1983), directed by Canadian David Cronenberg, "Shivers", 1975; and "Rabid", (1976).***
The fourth movie, written by Bruce Hidemi Sakow, and Barney Cohen, intended it to end the horror franchise, with Tom Savini back doing the special effects, and Harry Manfredini doing the music. Directed by Joseph Zito, and produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr., it is the strongest "Friday the 13th" movie. Three year's before Zito made "The Prowler", (1981), a cult slasher movie with Savini working on the movie. The film's success made Zito the right director for "The Final Chapter".
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The WWII themed "The Prowler", (1981), produced and directed by Joseph Zito, was a cult horror success that was different from other movies in that year like Rick Rosenthal's "Halloween II", and "Dead and Buried", (Gary A. Sherman), the zombie classic.
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Friday the 13th Part 3D (1982)-Part 2
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Shelly scares Vera after she tells him off for his pranks...Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).
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As in the first two movies, the teenagers and the twenty-something dope heads Chuck and Chilli, are killed off by Jason Voorhees. The lame 3D effects should've been shelved, but it didn't happen. Rick and Chris head off to the woods for a romantic reunion where she tells Rick about their date two year's ago that caused her parents to ground her. When she slept by the oak tree, she is attacked by Jason Voorhees. The inconsistency of the movies continues in further sequels. By 1982, Sean S. Cunningham directed "A Stranger is Watching", a B thriller, that wasn't as successful as the original "Friday the 13th". By the early 1980's, horror audiences wanted more of the same, so there were more sequels, and less originality in the process. Wes Craven, and John Landis, burst on the scene, with "The Hills have eyes", (1977); "Summer of Fear", (1978); and "Deadly Blessing", (1981), with Dee Wallace, Linda Blair, and Sharon Stone, and Landis's "An American Werewolf in London", (1981), were box office hits, director Steve Miner left the franchise knowing he would make other horror movies by the end of the 1980's, like "Warlock", (1988), six year's later.
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A young Sharon Stone in Wes Craven's "Deadly Blessing", (1981). It would be eleven year's later that she would be famous in the notorious movie "Basic Instinct", (1992), with Michael Douglas.
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The last part of "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982), has Chris and Rick all alone in the camp. Rick is killed, and Chris battles Jason Voorhees. She fells out of the window, limps, and heads to the van. Jason smashes the glass windows, and disappears in the old barn. In other scenes, Chris uses an axe to throw at the killer. In the end, Jason falls downward onto the ground...and remains silent. Chris flees in a canoe, (mirroring what Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), does in the first movie). We see the absurd vision of Jason Voorhees also looking out of the window, and removing the mask, letting her know he was the one who attacked her! Then, as she rests, Mrs. Voorhees, (Marilyn Poucher), drags her underneath the water.
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In the end, Chris had a mental breakdown, and is taken away by the Sheriff, and the Deputies. And the movie ends, setting up for yet another sequel.
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Shelly scares Vera after she tells him off for his pranks...Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).***
As in the first two movies, the teenagers and the twenty-something dope heads Chuck and Chilli, are killed off by Jason Voorhees. The lame 3D effects should've been shelved, but it didn't happen. Rick and Chris head off to the woods for a romantic reunion where she tells Rick about their date two year's ago that caused her parents to ground her. When she slept by the oak tree, she is attacked by Jason Voorhees. The inconsistency of the movies continues in further sequels. By 1982, Sean S. Cunningham directed "A Stranger is Watching", a B thriller, that wasn't as successful as the original "Friday the 13th". By the early 1980's, horror audiences wanted more of the same, so there were more sequels, and less originality in the process. Wes Craven, and John Landis, burst on the scene, with "The Hills have eyes", (1977); "Summer of Fear", (1978); and "Deadly Blessing", (1981), with Dee Wallace, Linda Blair, and Sharon Stone, and Landis's "An American Werewolf in London", (1981), were box office hits, director Steve Miner left the franchise knowing he would make other horror movies by the end of the 1980's, like "Warlock", (1988), six year's later.
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A young Sharon Stone in Wes Craven's "Deadly Blessing", (1981). It would be eleven year's later that she would be famous in the notorious movie "Basic Instinct", (1992), with Michael Douglas.
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The last part of "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982), has Chris and Rick all alone in the camp. Rick is killed, and Chris battles Jason Voorhees. She fells out of the window, limps, and heads to the van. Jason smashes the glass windows, and disappears in the old barn. In other scenes, Chris uses an axe to throw at the killer. In the end, Jason falls downward onto the ground...and remains silent. Chris flees in a canoe, (mirroring what Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), does in the first movie). We see the absurd vision of Jason Voorhees also looking out of the window, and removing the mask, letting her know he was the one who attacked her! Then, as she rests, Mrs. Voorhees, (Marilyn Poucher), drags her underneath the water.
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In the end, Chris had a mental breakdown, and is taken away by the Sheriff, and the Deputies. And the movie ends, setting up for yet another sequel.
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Friday the 13th Part 3D (1982)***.
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Before Part 3 begins, we see the final minutes of Part 2. The 87 minute running time of the second movie, with editor Susan E. Cunningham, (the wife of Sean S. Cunningham), and composer Harry Manfredini, creates tension for three minutes; part 3 runs 92 minutes, and is produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr., this time, with Steve Miner working for the last time on the early "Friday the 13th" horror series.
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Jason Voorhees, (Richard Brooker), dons the famous hockey mask in Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).
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The film begins with Mrs. Pamela Voorhees's head, as the credits roll. Then Jason Voorhees drags his machete in his right hand in the barn, and waiting for the new campers and counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake. Then we see Chris, (Dana Kimmell); Andy, (Jeffrey Rogers); Debbie, (Tracie Savage); Chuck, (David Katims); and Chili, (Rachel Howard), two twenty-something dope smokers. They head to Higgins Haven, (a camping retreat near the infamous camp), where they spend the weekend. Like the others, they indulge in making out, do drugs, and are scared by snakes, and other 3D scares. In town, earlier on, a couple named Harold, (Steve Susskind), a overweight middle-aged man, and his wife Edna, (Cheri Maugans), who has her hair in curlers, watches the television that deals with the previous murders. In the end, they're killed by Jason Voorhees. Maybe he left the woods, and decided to attack the Crystal Lake locals! Maybe the viewer have to suspend disbelief. The campers then see the bodies, and Chris is scared. They then pick up Spanish-American teen Vera, (Catharine Parks), whose mother, Mrs. Sanchez, (Perla Walter), warns her not to go to the camp, and Shelly, (Larry Zerner), who has a bag full of masks and other items. He is following in the footsteps of Ned and Ted, the jokers from the previous two "Friday the 13th" movies. When they reach the camp, Chris is accosted with a kiss by boyfriend Rick, (Paul Kratka). Chris is a colder female character than Alice Hardy and Ginny Field is, so there's no warmth to her. The screenplay by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson, is strong in some areas. At some parts, it is weak.
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It is dangerous to go into town when you face a bikie gang....Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).
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Before the campers arrive they see an old man called Abel, (David Wiley), who tells the campers that Jason Voorhees is still alive. Scared, they leave. Shelly pulls more pranks much to the anger of Andy, and the others. When Vera and Shelly head into town to get supplies and food in Rick's van, they run into a bikie gang led by an African-American leader named Ali, (Nick Savage); Fox, (Gloria Charles); and white gang member Loco, (Kevin O'Brien), in the supermarket. After a brief exchange, Shelly runs over their bikes. And Ali smashes the glass of the van. Then they vow revenge. Rick, on the other hand, is angry about Chris's friends, that leads to more problems for her.
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The lesson is never do drugs....Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).
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Before Part 3 begins, we see the final minutes of Part 2. The 87 minute running time of the second movie, with editor Susan E. Cunningham, (the wife of Sean S. Cunningham), and composer Harry Manfredini, creates tension for three minutes; part 3 runs 92 minutes, and is produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr., this time, with Steve Miner working for the last time on the early "Friday the 13th" horror series.
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Jason Voorhees, (Richard Brooker), dons the famous hockey mask in Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).***
The film begins with Mrs. Pamela Voorhees's head, as the credits roll. Then Jason Voorhees drags his machete in his right hand in the barn, and waiting for the new campers and counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake. Then we see Chris, (Dana Kimmell); Andy, (Jeffrey Rogers); Debbie, (Tracie Savage); Chuck, (David Katims); and Chili, (Rachel Howard), two twenty-something dope smokers. They head to Higgins Haven, (a camping retreat near the infamous camp), where they spend the weekend. Like the others, they indulge in making out, do drugs, and are scared by snakes, and other 3D scares. In town, earlier on, a couple named Harold, (Steve Susskind), a overweight middle-aged man, and his wife Edna, (Cheri Maugans), who has her hair in curlers, watches the television that deals with the previous murders. In the end, they're killed by Jason Voorhees. Maybe he left the woods, and decided to attack the Crystal Lake locals! Maybe the viewer have to suspend disbelief. The campers then see the bodies, and Chris is scared. They then pick up Spanish-American teen Vera, (Catharine Parks), whose mother, Mrs. Sanchez, (Perla Walter), warns her not to go to the camp, and Shelly, (Larry Zerner), who has a bag full of masks and other items. He is following in the footsteps of Ned and Ted, the jokers from the previous two "Friday the 13th" movies. When they reach the camp, Chris is accosted with a kiss by boyfriend Rick, (Paul Kratka). Chris is a colder female character than Alice Hardy and Ginny Field is, so there's no warmth to her. The screenplay by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson, is strong in some areas. At some parts, it is weak.
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It is dangerous to go into town when you face a bikie gang....Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).***
Before the campers arrive they see an old man called Abel, (David Wiley), who tells the campers that Jason Voorhees is still alive. Scared, they leave. Shelly pulls more pranks much to the anger of Andy, and the others. When Vera and Shelly head into town to get supplies and food in Rick's van, they run into a bikie gang led by an African-American leader named Ali, (Nick Savage); Fox, (Gloria Charles); and white gang member Loco, (Kevin O'Brien), in the supermarket. After a brief exchange, Shelly runs over their bikes. And Ali smashes the glass of the van. Then they vow revenge. Rick, on the other hand, is angry about Chris's friends, that leads to more problems for her.
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The lesson is never do drugs....Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 3D", (1982).Page 1.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)-Part 3.
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Jill Johnson, (Carol Kane), is terrorized by a psychopath in Fred Walton's "When a stranger calls", (1979). In the nineteen seventies the use of a phone was used in many horror movies from "When Michael Calls", (1972), directed by Philip Leacock, that starred Ben Gazzara and Michael Douglas; to "Black Christmas", produced and directed by Bob Clark, (1974). By the nineteen eighties, movies like "Friday the 13th", produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, had the characters go to camp, only to be killed by revenge-seeking psychopaths.
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Back at camp, earlier on in the film, all of the campers and counsellors, are sitting around the campfire. Paul tells them the Jason Voorhees story. Everyone is scared. The movie is set "Five Year's Later". If that's the case then the first movie is set in the early nineteen seventies, and the sequel in the late nineteen seventies. Then Ted scares everyone holding a spear. As Ted, Ginny, and Paul go to the Blues Club for dinner, Ted stays in town, leaving the counsellors to go back to the camp later on in the night. Soon, Jason Voorhees grabs the spear, and attacks Jeff and Sandra, and others outside the campgrounds with a knife, and other weapons. Even Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), is killed as well, leaving Paul and Ginny left to fight the killer.
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Mid-way through Part 2, the cop sees Jason Voorhees running across the road. He rushes into the deep woods, and through the deep water. He sees a dilapidated shack. Then he is killed with the hammer, and the nightmare resumes.
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When Paul finds out that something isn't right, he is knocked out by Jason. Ginny is injured. And, using her psychology, pretends to be Mrs. Pamela Voorhees. But when Jason 'sees' his mother, (a cameo by Betsy Palmer), he is mad. In the end, Ginny uses a machete to hit Jason, (Warrington Gillette), as he smashes through the window . And he falls to the ground, unconscious. Paul recovers, and removes the sack that's over the killer's head. Afterwards, they head to the cabin. Then there's one final scare, as Ginny holds onto a pitchfork in her right hand. And the door opens, and Muffin the dog returns.
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In the end, Friday the 13th Part 2 has Ginny going to hospital, and Paul disappears, (presumed dead). And the movie has the head of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, setting up for Part 3.
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Jill Johnson, (Carol Kane), is terrorized by a psychopath in Fred Walton's "When a stranger calls", (1979). In the nineteen seventies the use of a phone was used in many horror movies from "When Michael Calls", (1972), directed by Philip Leacock, that starred Ben Gazzara and Michael Douglas; to "Black Christmas", produced and directed by Bob Clark, (1974). By the nineteen eighties, movies like "Friday the 13th", produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, had the characters go to camp, only to be killed by revenge-seeking psychopaths.
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Back at camp, earlier on in the film, all of the campers and counsellors, are sitting around the campfire. Paul tells them the Jason Voorhees story. Everyone is scared. The movie is set "Five Year's Later". If that's the case then the first movie is set in the early nineteen seventies, and the sequel in the late nineteen seventies. Then Ted scares everyone holding a spear. As Ted, Ginny, and Paul go to the Blues Club for dinner, Ted stays in town, leaving the counsellors to go back to the camp later on in the night. Soon, Jason Voorhees grabs the spear, and attacks Jeff and Sandra, and others outside the campgrounds with a knife, and other weapons. Even Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), is killed as well, leaving Paul and Ginny left to fight the killer.
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Mid-way through Part 2, the cop sees Jason Voorhees running across the road. He rushes into the deep woods, and through the deep water. He sees a dilapidated shack. Then he is killed with the hammer, and the nightmare resumes.
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When Paul finds out that something isn't right, he is knocked out by Jason. Ginny is injured. And, using her psychology, pretends to be Mrs. Pamela Voorhees. But when Jason 'sees' his mother, (a cameo by Betsy Palmer), he is mad. In the end, Ginny uses a machete to hit Jason, (Warrington Gillette), as he smashes through the window . And he falls to the ground, unconscious. Paul recovers, and removes the sack that's over the killer's head. Afterwards, they head to the cabin. Then there's one final scare, as Ginny holds onto a pitchfork in her right hand. And the door opens, and Muffin the dog returns.
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In the end, Friday the 13th Part 2 has Ginny going to hospital, and Paul disappears, (presumed dead). And the movie has the head of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, setting up for Part 3.
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)-Part 2.
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After the deaths of Italy's Mario Bava, and Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1980, they didn't foresee the rise of horror movies in the 1980's not only in cinemas, and drive-ins, but on VHS tapes: the beginning of the hiring movies in movie stores exploded long before 4k arrived. While movies like "The Shining", (1980), produced, directed, and co-written by the late Stanley Kubrick, (his only foray into the genre), based on the 1977 horror classic masterpiece by Stephen King, was the movie to battle the original "Friday the 13th", at the Box Office in America, the United Kingdom, and other countries like Australia, "Friday the 13th Part 2", continues the story from the original. By 1981, other movies like Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was the only other camp-themed sequel to be released that year.
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The horror of Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was released the same year as Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981), created a lot of controversy in the early 1980's, in the Age of the "Video Nasty", nearly forty year's ago.
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The new counsellor, twenty-five year old Paul Holt, (John Furey), is the camp counsellor. When Ginny Field, (Amy Steel), a psychology major, the twenty-one year old Assistant Camp Counsellor, arrives late, they meet the other campers including Bill and Sandra. The other campers are: Mark, (Tom McBride)-who is in a wheelchair; Terry, (Kirsten Baker); Vickie, (Lauren -Marie Taylor); and Scott, (Russell Todd). After Paul introduces everyone, one of the campers dog called Muffin, disappears leading to a comedic series of events before Jason Voorhees arrives at the camp.
Friday the 13th Part 2, like the original, has the mantra of have sex=death that stems from other movies like "A bay of blood", (Mario Bava, 1971); John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978); and other movies. When Sandra convinces Jeff to go to Camp Crystal Lake, they meet a cop, (Cliff Cudney), who warns them off. He tells Paul and Ginny, and they're punished. As some of the campers stay the night, Paul, Ginny, and Ted go into town, leaving them alone.
***
Michael Myers, (Tony Moran), terrorizes Laurie Strode, (Jamie Lee Curtis), in John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978), which set the tone of the slasher horror movies in America in the late nineteen seventies, and into the nineteen eighties. The movie was independently made, and its success caused filmmakers and producers, to made similar films.
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After the deaths of Italy's Mario Bava, and Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1980, they didn't foresee the rise of horror movies in the 1980's not only in cinemas, and drive-ins, but on VHS tapes: the beginning of the hiring movies in movie stores exploded long before 4k arrived. While movies like "The Shining", (1980), produced, directed, and co-written by the late Stanley Kubrick, (his only foray into the genre), based on the 1977 horror classic masterpiece by Stephen King, was the movie to battle the original "Friday the 13th", at the Box Office in America, the United Kingdom, and other countries like Australia, "Friday the 13th Part 2", continues the story from the original. By 1981, other movies like Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was the only other camp-themed sequel to be released that year.
***
The horror of Tony Maylam's "The Burning", (1981), was released the same year as Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981), created a lot of controversy in the early 1980's, in the Age of the "Video Nasty", nearly forty year's ago.
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The new counsellor, twenty-five year old Paul Holt, (John Furey), is the camp counsellor. When Ginny Field, (Amy Steel), a psychology major, the twenty-one year old Assistant Camp Counsellor, arrives late, they meet the other campers including Bill and Sandra. The other campers are: Mark, (Tom McBride)-who is in a wheelchair; Terry, (Kirsten Baker); Vickie, (Lauren -Marie Taylor); and Scott, (Russell Todd). After Paul introduces everyone, one of the campers dog called Muffin, disappears leading to a comedic series of events before Jason Voorhees arrives at the camp.
Friday the 13th Part 2, like the original, has the mantra of have sex=death that stems from other movies like "A bay of blood", (Mario Bava, 1971); John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978); and other movies. When Sandra convinces Jeff to go to Camp Crystal Lake, they meet a cop, (Cliff Cudney), who warns them off. He tells Paul and Ginny, and they're punished. As some of the campers stay the night, Paul, Ginny, and Ted go into town, leaving them alone.
***
Michael Myers, (Tony Moran), terrorizes Laurie Strode, (Jamie Lee Curtis), in John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978), which set the tone of the slasher horror movies in America in the late nineteen seventies, and into the nineteen eighties. The movie was independently made, and its success caused filmmakers and producers, to made similar films.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)****.
A year after Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980), was released, the first sequel was rushed into production. Produced and directed by Steve Miner, and written by Ron Kurz, "Friday the 13th Part 2", contains one of the longest prologues in horror cinema.
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The new campers and counsellors at the campgrounds near Camp Crystal Lake, find out that Jason Voorhees really is alive. Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981).
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Part 2 begins with a girl saying "Incy wincy spider...", as she jumps in the deep water. Then Jason Voorhees arrives on the scene, as he breaks into Alice's house. Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), is having nightmares of the first film in which, in flashbacks, she sees Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), and the bodies of her friends; she then draws as she is scared by a cat through the window. Then she calls her mother, and tells her about her 'problems'. Then she opens feeds her cat. As she opens the fridge, she sees the head of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees. She screams, and then is killed, as the kettle whistles in the small kitchen.
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The film begins with Jeff, (Bill Randolph), and his girlfriend Sandra, (Marta Kober), two teenagers who are friends with Ted, (Stu Charno), a red-haired prankster. When Jeff calls for directions to the camp, Ted orders a friend of his to two their van up the road. Afterwards, Ted joins his friends. He then tells them about Camp Blood, (the name for Camp Crystal Lake where the deaths happened). They stop the van because someone has placed an obstruction in the middle of the road: a log. Jeff and Ted then get rid of the log, as Sandra walks around the campgrounds, unaware of the danger she's in.
Jason Voorhees wears a lumberjack's hood in the movie. It is in Part 3, that he dons the hockey mask. Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981).
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The new campers and counsellors at the campgrounds near Camp Crystal Lake, find out that Jason Voorhees really is alive. Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981).
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Part 2 begins with a girl saying "Incy wincy spider...", as she jumps in the deep water. Then Jason Voorhees arrives on the scene, as he breaks into Alice's house. Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), is having nightmares of the first film in which, in flashbacks, she sees Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), and the bodies of her friends; she then draws as she is scared by a cat through the window. Then she calls her mother, and tells her about her 'problems'. Then she opens feeds her cat. As she opens the fridge, she sees the head of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees. She screams, and then is killed, as the kettle whistles in the small kitchen.
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The film begins with Jeff, (Bill Randolph), and his girlfriend Sandra, (Marta Kober), two teenagers who are friends with Ted, (Stu Charno), a red-haired prankster. When Jeff calls for directions to the camp, Ted orders a friend of his to two their van up the road. Afterwards, Ted joins his friends. He then tells them about Camp Blood, (the name for Camp Crystal Lake where the deaths happened). They stop the van because someone has placed an obstruction in the middle of the road: a log. Jeff and Ted then get rid of the log, as Sandra walks around the campgrounds, unaware of the danger she's in.
Jason Voorhees wears a lumberjack's hood in the movie. It is in Part 3, that he dons the hockey mask. Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981).
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Friday the 13th (1980)-Part 6.
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Brenda heads outside only to be killed after hearing a voice...Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980).
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When Brenda leaves the game, and heads to her cabin dressed in a yellow rain slicker, leaving Bill with Alice, she is reading a book when she hears the cries of "Help me! Help me!". Then there's a flashback to Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), drowning in the lake in 1957. Earlier on, the group find a snake, and it is killed by Bill with a machete. And, even though Jack puts on the generator, they meet Crazy Ralph who heads out of the larder to say he's a 'Messenger of God...and they're doomed'. He then hops onto his bicycle, and leaves Camp Crystal Lake. Bill and Alice grab some lamps, and find an axe on one of the bunks. Scared, Bill leaves Alice alone to sleep.
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Alice awakens.
She opens the cabin door, and sees Bill's body that's full of arrows. She screams, and find everyone is dead, including Annie, and Steve in the woods. She barricades herself inside. Suddenly she sees a bright light outside the window of a jeep. Alice meets a middle-aged woman called Pamela Sue Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), who wears a sweater, jeans, and shoes on her feet. "They're all dead!", Alice stated to her. Mrs. Voorhees tells her about her son, Jason. And she's not afraid when she sees the bodies. Alice mentions Steve Christy. The woman ignores her. Then she has a flashback of Jason Voorhees drowning in the lake. She grabs a knife, and attacks Alice. When Alice hits her across the head with a frying pan, she collapses, and remains still. Alice runs away to the beach where she has the final battle with Mrs. Voorhees, who whispers: "Kill her Mommy! Kill her! Don't let her get away", as the full moon's glow hits the lake. During the fight, she grabs a machete and kills Mrs. Voorhees. She then heads onto a canoe, and rests. Seconds later, she screams as Jason Voorhees drags herself underneath the water.
And, seconds later, the police rescues her.
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Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), became a female murderess in "Friday the 13th", (1980), that changed modern horror cinema forever. Her madness was over her son's 'death', that led to the new murders two decades later, created a psychological edge to her behaviour. Or did Jason Voorhees really die?...
***
The ending of the "Friday the 13th", has the Sheriff being told by Alice in her hospital bed that Jason Voorhees dragged her underneath the water. Jason, who is now a monster, evokes horror that makes Tom Savini's work on the film work. The Sheriff doesn't know about Jason. "Then he's still there...", Alice says, as the 95 minute running time ends with a shot of Camp Crystal Lake, and setting up for many sequels, and the 2009 re-make.
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Brenda heads outside only to be killed after hearing a voice...Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980).
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When Brenda leaves the game, and heads to her cabin dressed in a yellow rain slicker, leaving Bill with Alice, she is reading a book when she hears the cries of "Help me! Help me!". Then there's a flashback to Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), drowning in the lake in 1957. Earlier on, the group find a snake, and it is killed by Bill with a machete. And, even though Jack puts on the generator, they meet Crazy Ralph who heads out of the larder to say he's a 'Messenger of God...and they're doomed'. He then hops onto his bicycle, and leaves Camp Crystal Lake. Bill and Alice grab some lamps, and find an axe on one of the bunks. Scared, Bill leaves Alice alone to sleep.
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Alice awakens.
She opens the cabin door, and sees Bill's body that's full of arrows. She screams, and find everyone is dead, including Annie, and Steve in the woods. She barricades herself inside. Suddenly she sees a bright light outside the window of a jeep. Alice meets a middle-aged woman called Pamela Sue Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), who wears a sweater, jeans, and shoes on her feet. "They're all dead!", Alice stated to her. Mrs. Voorhees tells her about her son, Jason. And she's not afraid when she sees the bodies. Alice mentions Steve Christy. The woman ignores her. Then she has a flashback of Jason Voorhees drowning in the lake. She grabs a knife, and attacks Alice. When Alice hits her across the head with a frying pan, she collapses, and remains still. Alice runs away to the beach where she has the final battle with Mrs. Voorhees, who whispers: "Kill her Mommy! Kill her! Don't let her get away", as the full moon's glow hits the lake. During the fight, she grabs a machete and kills Mrs. Voorhees. She then heads onto a canoe, and rests. Seconds later, she screams as Jason Voorhees drags herself underneath the water.
And, seconds later, the police rescues her.
***
Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer), became a female murderess in "Friday the 13th", (1980), that changed modern horror cinema forever. Her madness was over her son's 'death', that led to the new murders two decades later, created a psychological edge to her behaviour. Or did Jason Voorhees really die?...
***
The ending of the "Friday the 13th", has the Sheriff being told by Alice in her hospital bed that Jason Voorhees dragged her underneath the water. Jason, who is now a monster, evokes horror that makes Tom Savini's work on the film work. The Sheriff doesn't know about Jason. "Then he's still there...", Alice says, as the 95 minute running time ends with a shot of Camp Crystal Lake, and setting up for many sequels, and the 2009 re-make.
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Friday the 13th (1980)-Part 5.
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The small group of teenagers then swim in the lake. According to legend, eleven year old Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), drowned in the lake in 1957, because he couldn't swim. When Ned fakes his drowning, Jack performs CPR, only for Ned to laugh it off. Afterwards, they meet Officer Dorf, (Ron Millkie), who tells them that Crazy Ralph is "spreading the gospel". Ned, who is dressed as a Native American Indian, creates an annoying comedic scene, while he tells Jack off thinking he's on drugs. He then tells them that he won't stand any "weirdness" at Camp Crystal Lake, before he zooms off into town, leaving the camp counsellors to think that something horrific would happen to them without Steve around.
***
The next part of "Friday the 13th", concerns Ned using arrows to hit the target, angering Brenda. She casts an look of anger at his pranking. Other characters in the 1980's, had other characters who were funny in slasher movies, as if to change the tension of the movie, and the mood. Afterwards, Ned sees someone in the cabins. "Can I help you?", he asks the stranger. No one answers. Then he moves inside the cabin, and is killed off-screen, like Claudette's death at the beginning of the film.
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Mark Lewis, (Karl Boehm), a photographer, uses it to attack London women in Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom"; Powell's only horror movie in the United Kingdom, was controversial upon release, in the height of "Psycho", (director Sir Alfred Hitchcock), (also 1960); Powell's career ended and he worked in Australia in the nineteen sixties, after working with Emeric Pressburger on other genre movies in the late nineteen forties, and nineteen fifties. Both movies formed the basis of the slasher pictures in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties.
***
As Marcie and Jack talk, Marcie mentions she had a dream in which the 'rivers turn bright red'. "It's only a dream", Jack says. Suddenly a storm arrives at Camp Crystal Lake, as they rush to the cabins. As they make out, Marcie leaves him to go to the toilet. Jack smokes dope. When they both die, the camera pans upward to see Ned's body in the upper bunk. Friday the 13th plays on the idea of dreams, and legends, to create a sense of dread; other sequels ignore those themes. When Alice, Bill, and Brenda play 'strip monopoly', Steve Christy is at the Diner. He meets a middle-aged waitress named Sandy who wears glasses. When he pays for his cheap meal, it starts to rain heavily. He leaves the Diner, and is greeted by Sheriff Tierney, (Ronn Carroll), who mentions bad luck happens on Friday the 13th. He gets a call on the radio that mentions a bad accident. And he drops Christy off. He walks towards Camp Crystal Lake, only to see the killer, whom he recognizes. And, as he is killed with a knife, he knows the horror is real.
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The small group of teenagers then swim in the lake. According to legend, eleven year old Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), drowned in the lake in 1957, because he couldn't swim. When Ned fakes his drowning, Jack performs CPR, only for Ned to laugh it off. Afterwards, they meet Officer Dorf, (Ron Millkie), who tells them that Crazy Ralph is "spreading the gospel". Ned, who is dressed as a Native American Indian, creates an annoying comedic scene, while he tells Jack off thinking he's on drugs. He then tells them that he won't stand any "weirdness" at Camp Crystal Lake, before he zooms off into town, leaving the camp counsellors to think that something horrific would happen to them without Steve around.
***
The next part of "Friday the 13th", concerns Ned using arrows to hit the target, angering Brenda. She casts an look of anger at his pranking. Other characters in the 1980's, had other characters who were funny in slasher movies, as if to change the tension of the movie, and the mood. Afterwards, Ned sees someone in the cabins. "Can I help you?", he asks the stranger. No one answers. Then he moves inside the cabin, and is killed off-screen, like Claudette's death at the beginning of the film.
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Mark Lewis, (Karl Boehm), a photographer, uses it to attack London women in Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom"; Powell's only horror movie in the United Kingdom, was controversial upon release, in the height of "Psycho", (director Sir Alfred Hitchcock), (also 1960); Powell's career ended and he worked in Australia in the nineteen sixties, after working with Emeric Pressburger on other genre movies in the late nineteen forties, and nineteen fifties. Both movies formed the basis of the slasher pictures in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties.
***
As Marcie and Jack talk, Marcie mentions she had a dream in which the 'rivers turn bright red'. "It's only a dream", Jack says. Suddenly a storm arrives at Camp Crystal Lake, as they rush to the cabins. As they make out, Marcie leaves him to go to the toilet. Jack smokes dope. When they both die, the camera pans upward to see Ned's body in the upper bunk. Friday the 13th plays on the idea of dreams, and legends, to create a sense of dread; other sequels ignore those themes. When Alice, Bill, and Brenda play 'strip monopoly', Steve Christy is at the Diner. He meets a middle-aged waitress named Sandy who wears glasses. When he pays for his cheap meal, it starts to rain heavily. He leaves the Diner, and is greeted by Sheriff Tierney, (Ronn Carroll), who mentions bad luck happens on Friday the 13th. He gets a call on the radio that mentions a bad accident. And he drops Christy off. He walks towards Camp Crystal Lake, only to see the killer, whom he recognizes. And, as he is killed with a knife, he knows the horror is real.
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Friday the 13th (1980)-Part 4
Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), is the "Final Girl", as she survives the horror of Camp Crystal Lake. In the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, strong female characters in horror movies dominated the cinema screens across America, the UK, and the World, before CGI and the Internet promoted cult, low-budget, and indie movies.***
With the success of "Psycho", (1960), with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, (Sir Alfred Hitchcock), based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, there were other movies about psychopaths: from "Dementia 13", (1963), Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by Roger Corman, and "Blood and Black Lace", (1964), Mario Bava, with Cameron Mitchell, flooded the cinema of the 1960's; by the 1970's, there were Dario Argento's debut "The bird with the Crystal Plumage"; "3 on a Meathook", (1972), William Girdler; "When Michael Calls", (1972), Phillip Leacock, a made for television horror movie based on the novel by John Farris, (The Fury, 1976), directed by Brian de Palma, (1978). The movie is on YouTube with Ben Gazzara, and Michael Douglas, about a boy who is dead but calls people fifteen year's later. The use of the telephone as an object of horror pre-dates "Black Christmas", (1974); John Carpenter's Halloween, 1978; and "When a stranger calls", (1979), Fred Walton. By 1980, there was a change in horror movies as the new decade started. And "Friday the 13th", kick-started trifecta of have sex, do drugs, and die violently, that swept America and Canada from emerging directors like Tobe Hooper, 1974's ("The Texas chainsaw massacre"); and David Cronenberg's "Shivers", (1975).
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The US poster of "Psycho", (1960), which set the tone for the crime and horror genres to be mixed into the modern slasher movie we know today.
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After Annie's death, the viewer meets several teenagers in a van. Jack, (a young Kevin Bacon), his girlfriend Marcie, (Jeannine Taylor); and nerdy Ned, (Mark Nelson). Ned is a comedic character that is far removed from the other older horror movies of the past; there is no shock value other than he provides wit, wisdom, and commits acts of love towards Brenda, (Laurie Bartram), as they arrive at Camp Crystal Lake. Once they do, they meet Steve Christy, who is chopping down a tree with an axe. When he orders them to help out, Alice and Bill, (Harry Crosby), set up the camp while he leaves them in a green jeep to head into town to get supplies, leaving them alone at the campgrounds.
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Friday the 13th (1980)-Part 3
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The movie cuts to "Friday, June 13-Present Day", (late 1979, early 1980). A teenage girl named Annie, (Robbi Morgan), is wearing her backpack on her back, and she walks through the arches where she meets a dog. She then sees the Crystal Lake Diner. And she opens it, and asks the female owner about tells Enos, the truck driver, (Rex Everhart), who reluctantly takes her half-way to the camp. Before he does, Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), who rides an old bicycle, and spouts the Word of God, says she's doomed, and that the camp has a 'death curse'. Ignoring the old man's dire warning, Annie hears about the murders of Barry and Claudette two decades' before, and the bad things that happened there. She has been hired as the camp's cook by Steve Christy, (Peter Brouwer), the twenty-nine year old son of the camp's owner, who doesn't believe in ghosts, and other strange happenings. When he drops her off, he mentions 'dumb kids', and drives back into town.
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Barry and Claudette are having a romantic moment at Camp Crystal Lake in 1958, before they die early on in the movie. Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980).
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When Annie walks down the road, she is almost killed by a driver in a green jeep. She hops into the jeep, and asks the driver to go to Camp Crystal Lake. But, as she mentions the camp, the jeep goes faster and faster. Annie, who is scared, jumps out of the vehicle, injuring her leg. Her backpack falling out onto the ground. She then limps into the woods where the unseen killer kills her with a knife, and the horror starts again.
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The movie cuts to "Friday, June 13-Present Day", (late 1979, early 1980). A teenage girl named Annie, (Robbi Morgan), is wearing her backpack on her back, and she walks through the arches where she meets a dog. She then sees the Crystal Lake Diner. And she opens it, and asks the female owner about tells Enos, the truck driver, (Rex Everhart), who reluctantly takes her half-way to the camp. Before he does, Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), who rides an old bicycle, and spouts the Word of God, says she's doomed, and that the camp has a 'death curse'. Ignoring the old man's dire warning, Annie hears about the murders of Barry and Claudette two decades' before, and the bad things that happened there. She has been hired as the camp's cook by Steve Christy, (Peter Brouwer), the twenty-nine year old son of the camp's owner, who doesn't believe in ghosts, and other strange happenings. When he drops her off, he mentions 'dumb kids', and drives back into town.
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Barry and Claudette are having a romantic moment at Camp Crystal Lake in 1958, before they die early on in the movie. Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th", (1980).
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When Annie walks down the road, she is almost killed by a driver in a green jeep. She hops into the jeep, and asks the driver to go to Camp Crystal Lake. But, as she mentions the camp, the jeep goes faster and faster. Annie, who is scared, jumps out of the vehicle, injuring her leg. Her backpack falling out onto the ground. She then limps into the woods where the unseen killer kills her with a knife, and the horror starts again.
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