John Carpenter’s horror classic Halloween ended with Jamie Lee Curtis questioning if it was, in fact, the boogeyman who had hounded them, and then Donald Pleasance responding, “As a matter of fact, it was.” That exchange is pretty much responsible for writer/director Ulli Lommel’s film The Boogeyman, an attempt to cash in Carpenter’s film, only…
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Friday the 13th Part III 3D (1982) – Review
In the 80s if the third installment in a franchise was being released there was about a 90% chance it would be in 3D and thus we got such classics as Jaws 3D and Amityville 3D but the true thriller killer was the installment of Friday the 13th Part III 3D, which had Jason Voorhees…
Friday the 13th Pt 2 (1981) – Review
When a low budget horror film, one created simply to cash in on the success of another, makes almost ten times its investment back it shouldn’t be considered all that shocking if the studio wanted a sequel right quick. Enter first-time director Steve Miner and the creation of one of horror’s most iconic screen villains,…
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…
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…