by lhb412 » Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:16 pm
Watched, for the first time ever, Friday the 13th parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII. These things are like potato chips, once you have one you just can't help but just roll over to the next one. They're reliable enjoyable, but I have to say that Jason Lives was the only one I thought was legitimately great. The earliest ones are just white trash giallos, but Jason Lives purposefully turns it into something more like an '80s Hammer Horror movie. Before, Jason was a slasher, but in this one Jason is a straight-up Gothic horror monster, which is much more interesting to me. Plus, the movie has a very tongue in cheek EC Comics vibe like Creepshow and Return of the Living Dead and a bunch of other cool 80s movies. Also quite like the showdown between Jason and the psychic girl at the end of The New Blood. Having established Jason it seems to me the logical thing to carry the series forward would be to put him in different locations and situations and have him fight against different types of enemies.