Jason Voorhees may not have been the star of the very first Friday the 13th movie but he has since become the iconic flagship of one of the most popular horror franchises in history and with countless campers meeting their fate at the end of his machete, or whatever other various implements he finds on…
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Review
With the moderate success of Roger Moore’s first outing as James Bond, in the southern fried Live and Let Die, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman decided to have Bond return to the Far East in a thriller that would pit the world’s most famous secret agent against an evil alter ego, a notorious…
Friday the 13th (2009) – Review
How does one remake the 1980 classic yet still include the iconic character of Jason Voorhees? It’s no secret that Hollywood is all about repackaging and rebooting products so that they can wring a few more nostalgia dollars out of the public, which was pretty much the case with the 2009 version of Friday the…
Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) – Review
In 1990 a little monster film called Tremors came and went with barely a ripple at the box office, even good reviews couldn’t spur audiences to visit the town of Perfection, but with the advent of home video this overlooked gem garnered a second shot at life, and like Frankenstein’s monster it rose from the…
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) – Review
Not since Frankenstein’s monster met the Wolfman has a monster match-up been more anticipated than the one between Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, but the problem facing the filmmakers could be summed up by one simple question “When your dealing with two evil antagonists who is the audience supposed to root for?”