There were a LOT of cuts made to appease the ratings board, so unfortunately some of the violent sides of things feels muted, but we still do get one of the most iconic kills with the sleeping bag scene. The Final Chapter really does feel like it caps off the original Friday series.
A great creativity is brought back into the series here. After Pamela Voorhees is beheaded by Alice after the chaos of the first film, Camp Crystal Lake is officially shut down. A neighboring camp however is being set up, and the shores of Crystal Lake are still unsafe for the unwitting counselors beginning to gather.
Part 2 brings us our first real look at Jason, outside of memory and a dream sequence. Part 2 is still grounded in the real, not yet more a vehicle for kill montages but still finding a story to tell. Betsy Palmer the actress who played Pamela Voorhees , Tom Savini makeup and gore mastermind , and Sean S, Cunningham the director of the first film were all baffled as to why the decision to have Jason be alive all these years was made.
The Halloween influence is very apparent here, even down to the name and the direct continuation. This is a strange entry in a lot of ways, but one that feels a lot more solid in concept than a good few still to come. Suspension of disbelief is the name of the game in Part 2 , and with it, the film comes out as a great, fun, and tense entry.
After years of tormenting teens living on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger finds his power to be waning. The town of Springwood has managed to suppress the memories of the supernatural nightmare, and without knowledge of his existence and the fear of him, Freddy has faded away.
In an effort to get his power back, and bring terror back to Springwood, he decides he can drag the damned Jason Voorhees out of hell and let him loose on the sleepy town. Finally, the nightmare himself comes up against our boy Jason. References to prior entries in both abound, and the general feel of things seems quite inspired by the post- Friday the 13th Part VI slasher landscape, with self-awareness healthily mixed with a focus on the blood-soaked action, plus a dose of comedy to top things off.
The Nightmare on Elm Street films have always been kings of creative kills, and mixing with Friday leads to a pretty incredible highlight reel for slasher fans. When it boils down to it, Freddy vs. Jason is a dream match meant primarily as fan service, and it exceeds expectations in that regard.
The beginning of it all, what began as Sean S. Cunningham trying to ride on the wave Halloween made turned into a phenomenon of its own. A few years after the unfortunate drowning of a child staying at Camp Crystal Lake, as well as a grisly double murder, a group of camp counselors returns to get the camp back in good condition to reopen.
It may be a fairly low-budget film, one built on hopes and dreams as things went on, but everything comes together smoothly and fluidly. Cunningham brings an obvious passion for the horror genre into indie filmmaking. Through some expert use of voyeur shots and some well-managed mounting tension Friday the 13th stands the test of time as a thrilling slasher film.
Friday the 13th had all the right people to get a good start, from Cunningham as a passionate newer director, to the legendary Tom Savini in the makeup department, and a talented composer who brought the terror to life in Harry Manfredini.
Manfredini really brought fireworks to the film, with the decision to make the audio more subdued, without a backing music track outside of scenes where the killer is present.
Voorhees Betsy Palmer divulges a few lines of back story in the first Friday the 13th , she says that the teens were too busy having sex to save her poor Jason from drowning in Crystal Lake.
Not for nothing is this franchise the one that most accurately reflects the conservative nature of American society at the time, punishing purveyors of marijuana, booze, and pre-marital sex with brutality that's only second to the Bible itself. Indeed, sex is intertwined with death in these films, even more than in either the Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween movies, although the latter certainly has its own unique consideration of sexuality and the psyche underneath roiling within its enthusiastic, chilling butchery.
Friday the 13th remains the franchise most indebted to the psychology of sexuality, even if that's not what's really memorable about these films. This is one of those rare cases where trying to make sense or court realism actually damages the engaging, even impressive elements of these films; the main reason the reboot of the series failed on nearly every level is that it took up reason to explain Jason's miraculous abilities, as if any fan of this series was really hoping to have their feet planted in the ground while watching a film about a hockey-masked slayer who has survived more kinds of death than fucking Rasputin.
The series, started by Sean S. Cunningham , began as competent and sober, only to become more and more intoxicated with camp and lascivious pleasures and, finally, collapsing into a pile of cheap, cheesy narrative gimmicks or grim gore.
As talks begin to pile on about the production of yet another reboot , I decided to look at what has been most successful in the Friday the 13th films and what has rightly made them the subject of numerous parodies and cinephilic derision.
Hint: the fact that there's more nudity in these films than in the unused footage from Boogie Nights does not help. The film's central conceit, involving Jason being frozen for decades and then "accidentally" thawed out in the future while being transported to Earth 2, is preposterous to say the least.
And yet, director Jim Isaac , known more for his special effects work in Gremlins and David Cronenberg 's eXistenZ , doesn't have nearly as much fun with the material as one might expect, turning in an expectedly formulaic yet lazily designed science-fiction dud. The deaths aren't particularly interesting, and the social interactions don't have the punch of youthful energy that the franchise's best installments are driven by.
Sure, it gets points for the Cronenberg cameo in the beginning, but the rest of this nonsense, including the sexually charged robot, is a tremendous bore. This reboot looks better, from top to bottom, than almost every other film on this list, with the possible exceptions of Part III and The Final Chapter. Unfortunately, the script for this reboot is fucking idiotic, and mind you I'm taking into consideration how silly the other scripts are.
The script doesn't play with the mythology at all, or take the chance to reinvent anything from the first round of sequels, but rather focuses on exposition and finding reason behind the defiantly illogical premise and the ludicrous creation that is Jason Voorhees. Rather than toying with the franchise's middling tone, or finding creative new impasses in the story, or, hell, even getting more inventive with the deaths, this reboot simply takes the filmic DNA of the middle sequels and makes them more grim.
In effect, the film becomes a case study in how many exercises in modern horror have grown sadistic and faux-realistic rather than imaginative and genuinely fun. In The Final Chapter , we're introduced to the young Tommy Jarvis, who becomes the hero of the series for three installments, the second of which being this bizarre, outlandishly harebrained reconfiguration, which sets Jason's fatal shenanigans in a home for troubled teenagers on Crystal Lake.
The tone here is actually pretty spot-on, straddling horror movie and sex comedy with just the right balance, and director Danny Steinmann has a way of highlighting the unique facial expressions of the victims and giving the environs an admirably loopy style. Finally and this the brutal truth, Betsy Palmer is terrible as Pamela Voorhees. This is a film that deserves respect for being the original franchise kickstarter but it has not aged well in the slightest.
But like Batman v Superman, the end result falls well short of expectations. Unfortunately, we have to get through two acts of bad CGI, horrible characters and a contrived story to get there. Jason killing kids in the cornfield is fun and Freddy stalking teens in their sleep is always enjoyable. This is the film that deserves more love than what it gets because what we have here is one of the better slasher remakes of recent year.
Yes, some of the characters are some the most dislikeable and hated in horror history and yes, the sex scenes are borderline porno. But honestly, who cares? Because this film dared to mix it up and take chances. Turning Jason into a survivalist who runs after his victims is a great change of pace.
On top of that, the kills are brutal and sometimes satisfying to behold. This is a remake that cared about the source material and tried to honor the franchises legacy instead of just cashing in on a brand name.
Horror fans deserve it. This is the film that introduced Kane Hodder as Jason and he would go on to define what it means to play an iconic slasher. Jason versus Telepath Tina is the best third act in the franchise and one of the best third acts of any horror movie out there.
So many amazing, gory kills were cut down and tamed to the point of having no blood at all. Hopefully one day someone is able to restore the lost gore footage because outside of that, this is a fantastic entry to this franchise!
Better characters, amazing kills, perfect pacing and tighter editing makes for a sequel that surpasses the original in every facet. Friday the 13th Part 2 is endlessly rewatchable and well executed with care and craftsmanship.
This is Movie 11 in the series and for many horror fans a dream come true to see a clash of these horror titans. The gist of this movie is that Freddy Kreuger raises Jason from the dead in order to create fear among the people in his town, so he can regain power and start killing again, too.
The premise, though ludicrous, is kind of great and the logic throughout the movie is more sound than almost all the other ones in this franchise. They certainly delivered on the premise with this one. This is Movie 6 in the series and is, by far, the most fun. I laughed A LOT. There's absolutely nothing scary about this entire movie and that's because it's acutely aware of what it is, and does a great job making fun of itself and the genre.
First of all, Jason is brought back to life by a bolt of lightning ignoring the fact that in the previous film they said his body was cremated , and then he has a James Bond-like opening sequence that's kind of AMAZING. The tone of the movie is borderline comedic one of the characters even breaks the fourth wall, addressing the audience and that tone actually works with the cartoonish deaths. Now, it's still not a "great" movie in the grand scope of movies — even horror movies — but it's definitely one of the best of the entire series.
Who knew?! This is Movie 1 in the series and it's really hard to deny that it's iconic. Plus, Kevin Bacon! If I have two complaints they're this: 1 The movie is really poorly lit I'm sure on account of it being made on a budget , but some scenes are so dark you literally can't see what's happening.
And 2 the music is a total rip-off of the Psycho score. There are actually a lot of similarities Friday the 13th has to Psycho , but I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery?! Still, I have to admit, that jump-scare ending gets me every time. A true classic.
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