Amityville Reviewed- Day 17- Amityville: No Escape (2016)

Another found footage Amityville entry. This has two stories taking place in two separate time periods. This bears all of the components for Amityville franchise entries of this era- namely it’s boring, has a mercifully short running time and is a good cure for insomnia. Again, this is terrible. And what makes it worse is …

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Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 8- Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

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 …

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Friday the 13th Reviewed- Day 6- Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)

Tommy Jarvis returns to Jason’s grave to destroy his body and make sure he never returns to kill more people. But, unfortunately, he inadvertently resurrects Mr Voorhees (a metal railing that Tommy has impaled Jason’s body with is electrocuted by lightning) and resurrects the very lucrative Universal horror franchise. That sequence is great with a …

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