After the low box-office returns of Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount Pictures decided that enough was enough and sold the character rights of Jason Voorhees to New Line Cinema. Now, it would make the most sense to any sane person that New Line would reboot the franchise, but instead, they made a Friday the 13th movie without Jason Voorhees.
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Friday the 13th (1980) – Review
“Halloween is making a shit-ton of money, let’s rip it off” and with those immortal words from producer/director Sean S. Cunningham to screenwriter Victor Miller, a horror franchise was born, of course, it was never intended to be a franchise and though Jason and his iconic hockey mask were a few years away – and…
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have crossed paths with some truly legendary monsters in their time, from the Loch Ness Monster to the Abominable Snowman; even tackling such classic foes as Dracula and the Wolfman but with Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare, our heroes must face off against something altogether different…the 80s’ slasher genre. In a clear homage…
Leprechaun Returns (2018) – Review
What do you do if the villain of your franchise has hit a critical mass level of desperation that lands him in space? In the Friday the 13th movie series, after Jason got his “In Space” entry, the next film teamed him up with a fellow horror icon Freddy Krueger, but when that failed to…
The Final Girls (2015) – Review
If Friday the 13th had a love child with Pleasantville the result would be Todd Strauss-Schulson’s ode to slasher films, The Final Girls. Written by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller, and starring a talented teen body count, this movie has everything a fan of the genre could want. What is surprising is that it…