The film starts with a lone female arriving at Camp Crystal Lake and inevitably, being stalked by Jason. The chase between the two of them continues outside in the woods when suddenly in a clearing, lights come on and numerous members of the army and National Guard fire everything they have at Jason, blowing his …
Continue reading Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 9- Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
A cruise ship leaves Crystal Lake en route to New York. Jason hitches a ride. Chaos ensues. The first time I heard about this film was when there was a report on its production in the classy film magazine Premiere. I’m sure a number of their readers were disgusted to see such a piece of …
Tina Shepherd has telekinetic powers. As a child she witnesses her alcoholic father attacking her mother and goes onto Crystal Lake in a boat to escape. She uses her powers to destroy the jetty her father is on and he drowns but his body is never found. Years later, Tina returns to the lake to …
Continue reading Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 7- Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood (1988)
Jason is sent to the morgue after the end of Part 3 but, guess what? He's not dead! More carnage ensues. Back in 1987, I didn't know that The Final Chapter would be released on video so soon after the release of Part 3 but I just happened to be in the video shop when …
Continue reading Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 4- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Alice, the final girl from the first Friday the 13th, is murdered by an assailant two months after this initial spate of murders. It’s not hard to guess who this is as Alice had just found Mrs Voorhees’ severed head in her fridge. A new bunch of counsellors are arriving at a camp close to …
Continue reading Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 2- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
I feel like I've grown up with the Friday the 13th movies. Jason and his lovingly psychotic mother feel like friends to me. Through the many twists and turns of life, they have remained a constant. Even if that constant is stalk, kill, repeat. Yet it would seem that the British Board of Film Classification …
Meathook Cinema 