In this new regular series of reviews, I'll be watching films that are hated by many. Do these films deserve their bad reputation or do they deserve reappraisal? First up is Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Beware- there are spoilers ahead. I remember hearing about the film being in development when it …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
It was in 1986 when I discovered Fangoria Magazine. A comic book store in a beat up shopping arcade in York in the UK had started stocking it on import from the US. I instantly began buying it and fell in love with the publication. There was a brief time after that that Fangoria couldn't …
Continue reading Book/Publication of the Week- Fangoria Magazine
With the news that Female Trouble, John Waters' meisterwerk and design for living is being shown, my noggin got a joggin'. I started thinking about the films that I've been lucky enough to watch on the big screen and with an audience. My favourite filmgoing experience has to be when I got to see a …
Continue reading Excursions Into Hell: My Favourite Filmgoing Experiences
This film is basically Jason in Space. This movie massively divided fans. Some loved the innovation but some hated it to such an extent that they viewed it as the worst in the series. Yes, they even hated it more than Part 5: A New Beginning. But I loved this movie. I even went to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 18- Jason X (2001)
This is basically Never Sleep Again but for the Friday the 13th films. And that's perfect. Each film gets talked about by cast and crew regarding how it was made, the ongoing battle with the MPAA that blighted the series later on and how well the films fared when released. It's always a joy to hear …
Happy Friday the 13th! I've been digging through copies of my local newspaper The Yorkshire Evening Post and have exhumed some amazing ads for some of the exploitation films that perverts like me love so dearly. One series of movies that played well in Leeds was Friday the 13th. And the newspaper ads certainly don't …
Continue reading Friday the 13th Films Original Leeds Newspaper Ads
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 …
Jason in Space. And it works beautifully. Tongue firmly in cheek but with awesome kills (check out the liquid nitrogen death). There's also the small bugs that help things to heal super quick, Uber Jason, the female android, the cameo by David Cronenberg... Lots to like. Friday fans seem to hate this film. They're the …
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