Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Thinner) gives us Fright Night, a self-referential, shotgun blast of vampire cinema in a mocking horror comedy vein. The film works a majority of the time yet lags in most every respect right when Holland should have been clinching the...
With Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, one thing becomes obvious: the production company’s agenda. After the Friday the 13th Box Office peaked with Steve Minor’s Friday the 13th Part 3, our machete-carrying zombie’s returns steadily declined with each new chapter....
To date, teleplay writer Rob Hedden is only the second person to single-handedly write and direct a Friday the 13th feature. As such, the writer-director is not only to be commended for creating the best title within the Friday franchise, but for fashioning one of the...
Makeup and special effects artist John Carl Buechler, after pausing to direct Troll two years prior, steps behind the camera once again to bring Jason Voorhees back to form in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. However, in order to counter the newly-minted...
Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives is the film that turned Jason into a zombie. It’s the film that took the murderer and made him a monster. For myself as a kid who grew up in the eighties, this was the film that made Jason scary. Not to say that he...
As Ginny hypothesizes in Steve Minor’s Friday the 13th Part 2, mass murdering Jason Voorhees might not have been aware of mortality, be it his own or anyone else’s, until he witnessed his mother’s death. Of course, given that Pamela Voorhees’s demise is the only...
