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| Friday the 13th: Franchise Binge
Me and my roommate do this thing where we watch shitty or nostalgic films while playing some Civ VI to pass the time for the more boring moments. We watched the first one, hated it so much we wanted to watch the second, and liked that so much that we wanted to watch the rest. | | 1 |  | Cannibal Corpse
The Wretched Spawn
Friday the 13th
Painfully dull and artistically inept, a clever twist and a couple creepy beats help this from being entirely forgettable. This one was a fucking wreck. There was next to no tension, especially in the long drawn out scenes of mundanity that seem to wish they were creepy but actually are just mind-numbingly boring. The script is terrible and the actors seem like they couldn't give less of a shit, clearly more interesting in the flirting bits than the horror. It's ridiculous that Carpenter's "Halloween" had half the budget of this, but ended up looking ten times as good. The cinematography is modern home-video quality and the production design is non-existent. I'll admit there were a couple cool kills and visual gross-outs that were neat, and the twist at the climax was pretty great even if their whole confrontation was drawn out a bit too long. But overall, a totally forgettable and unremarkable horror film. 4/10 | | 2 |  | Black Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Friday the 13th: Part 2
The minute we got past that unnecessary previously-on (wouldn't it have been cooler to just have the exposition of the first film be delivered through the campfire story instead of both?) and into the drawn out tracking shot of the opening, I realized that this film actually had a brain when it came to horror. There's actual tension and very clever shots that utilized great tracking movement and had a great eye for what and what not to show. The acting and writing were far more believable (including an amusing muse on the motivation of Jason while at a bar), and the climax was just stellar. Also, the heightened sex and violence sold the conviction to the material far more in this than in the last. Sure it had a lot of the same flaws and is a bit inessential, but compared to the first, it's a monumental work of art, even with the dumb shrug of an ending. 7/10 | | 3 |  | Metallica
Death Magnetic
Friday the 13th: Part III
Similar to the 2nd in many regards, except infinitely more dated and less daring. Everything from the disco theme to the biker gang scream 80s in a not-good way, plus the racism/sexism seems to be heightened more than ever. Even aside from this, the filmmaking is far lazier and content with itself than before, creating something obvious more cinematically competent than the first, but much more boring compared to the pure taught thrills of the 2nd one. Again, the exciting climax is a highlight just like the others, but this one didn't even bother to try to wrap me up in the characters or explain Jason's now non-existent motivation. Also, that implied rape scene was super pointless and just tasteless overall. Even if it wasn't rape that they were implying, the scene had no reason to be there whatsoever. So yeah, this was a perfectly okay and serviceable horror film, but it's also one that by the end of this whole binge, I won't remember in the slightest. 5/10 | | 4 |  | Sachiko M
Bar Sachiko
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
This was an absolute mess of a film. While it didn't LOOK as bad visually as the first, this one practically gave up on everything other than the formula. There was no story, there we no characters, no one had any reason for doing anything, and the ending was one of the worst I've seen in recent memory. Jason inexplicably lives and then inexplicably tries to kill a bunch of people again. Most of the deaths occur at a teen party that is COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the main characters (if you could even call them that), making everything seem even more sloppy and pointless than usual. There was an interesting idea of Jason also being hunter by some guy (who I guess his sister was killed by him? They brush it over real fast), but he has maybe 5 minutes of screen time even though this would have been a far better story. The characters are all annoying and terrible actors (except maybe the main girl), they don't even have the decency to be stereotypes | | 5 | | Sachiko M
Bar Sachiko
because I couldn't even tell them apart they had so little characterization. The kills are mostly lazy, Jason just stabs people through things with strange stealth considering he has the mind of a 5-year-old, except for one which involved him throwing someone out a window and onto a car and the car's window's shattering. That was cool. Anyway, the climax slowly came around (usually the best part of these films), and for a few minutes was actually really tense and exciting, but then the film came back on the classic idea that women are so useless that their 10-year-old kid brothers have to save them. The kid shaves his fucking head to look like a young Jason which actually confuses Jason for some fucking reason (how the fuck would he even know what he looked like and since when does Jason care about anything other than his mom). It ends in a twist(? or just final shot) some goddamn dumb I don't even want to go into it. So yeah. Everything about this was pretty much worthless. 2/10 | | 6 |  | Eagles Of Death Metal
Death By Sexy
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Not gonna lie, I had a surprising amount of fun with this one. This is where I felt that the series really started to own its cliches and rather than be held down by them or do nothing with them (i.e. Part IV), it played with them in a way that was really fun. The ridiculous hick mom-and-son had probably the most fun death scene of the franchise so far, and the red-shirt kids even had more character than just being dumb kids. The story was decent too, being the first to actually serve as a continuation of the last. While I would've preferred my Were-Jason theory (that Tommy was reverting supernaturally into Jason's psycho-state whenever he hallucinates him), the whole reveal wasn't too bad. It wasn't great, but it tied back into that doing-horrible-things-out-of-loss-of-children thing the first one established which was neat. It also was the first one of the franchise to not have a terrible ending, so that has to count for something. 6/10 | | 7 |  | Alice Cooper
Constrictor
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives!
This was just fucking great. The moment that hilariously ridiculous and awesome opening was done, I knew the series had finally found its voice. The surprising meta-humor, the engaging characters, the gleeful violence, everything just worked. This film actually made us care and enjoy characters that would die within minutes because (get this) their intros didn't rely only on sex. They were funny, bizarre, endearing, or otherwise. This thing was really funny as well, and upping the stakes by actually having kids at the camp for once was a great call. I think the most helpful thing to this one was the lack of care it had. Jason's dead? For real this time? Fuck it, just shoot him with lighting. The locations of the film suddenly don't make any sense? Fuck it, just retcon the name of the town back to Crystal Lake through dialogue. They acknowledged the insanity of it without letting it bring it down, if anything it added to it. Add a fantastic climax, | | 8 | | Alice Cooper
Constrictor
some great kills, a sense of style and purpose to the cinematography that hasn't been present since the second, and you have my favorite one yet. It might not be better than the second one (which works better as pure horror), but this one is far more entertaining in of itself, and it doesn't pretend to be anything more than it is. Also that Alice Cooper song at the end is just awesome. 8/10 | | 9 |  | Linkin Park
Recharged
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
LORDY this was bad. It actually started with a pretty interesting opening, the abusive dad implying to be killed at the hands of Jason, but it was actually the fault of the daughter with telekinesis... wait what? Skip forward ten years (so does this take place in the future? was the last one ten years in the past? Jason was still in that lake for the opener, so he spent ten years in that lake for sure), and the plot thins immediately. For a film about a girl with telekinesis fighting a zombie serial killer, it's ridiculously unimaginative and extremely boring. Instead on continuing the ridiculous fun tongue-in-cheek style of the last one, this one instead doubles-down on the seriousness, rendering the bizarre premise inert. There were a couple good kills, and the explosion at the climax is unbelievable, but Jason fake-died 6 fucking times, each one just as unsurprising as the last, and the ending was as insanely dumb as ever. 3/10 | | 10 |  | The Strokes
Is This It
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Weirdly enough, this might be the most conflicted I've felt about this series so far. It's fairly pedestrian all things considered, but the changes in location make this possibly the most memorable so far. It's amazing how just putting the same things in a boat or in the city can make things seem more engaging when you've just done the same things over and over in the same places. Still, this was weak in a lot of ways. The kills were often uninspired, it took goddamn forever to get to Manhattan (it was just the third act!), and too much time was spent on a story we couldn't care about. I give some props to the writers and especially the lead actress, she was great, for trying to give us a character we rooted for, but she was too thin and her backstory didn't live up to the hints given to it. But this was a surprisingly fun, colorful, and adventurous film for the franchise. So idk. I'll give out my first .5 score for this one. 5.5/10 | | 11 |  | Royal Blood
Royal Blood
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
An onslaught of alternately frustrating and amusing plot details, action sequences, and what-the-fuck-ery, Jason Goes to Hell is both horrendously bad filmmaking and just basely enjoyable enough as entertainment. Also that Evil Dead reference was cool until I realized the director was serious about Jason being a deadite. Also I guess I was naive in thinking that it would be about Jason in Hell. 4/10 | | 12 |  | Brand New
Science Fiction
Jason X:
So, I honestly didn't hate this one. Sure it's dumb as shit and descended into some genuinely uninspired rip-offs of other (much better) sci-fi franchises, but honestly I'm at the point where switching up anything is a plus for the franchise. The kills were sometimes really fun (other times not), the sequences could be rather inventive (or really boring), and the visuals were usually surprisingly inspired (or blatant rip-offs of other production designers). So yeah, I'm a bit mixed on this. The set-up was ridiculous(ly fun), but after a series of enjoyable and dumb scenes it just ended up watering itself down to becoming a parody of the worst bits of "Alien" and "Star Trek." Still, there are some brilliantly insipid scenes and just enough style to carry it through as fun, dumb entertainment. Not enough to consider it a good, or even competently made film though. 5/10 | | 13 |  | Jay-Z and Linkin Park
Collision Course
Freddy vs. Jason
I'm sure I'm overrating it, but I had so much fun with this. It was a satisfying culmination in almost 20 movies worth of horror, and it treated the characters with true respect. Jason was a big dumb oaf that was still invincible and terrifying for it, and Freddy was a cackling madman with far more clever and visually interesting scares up his sleeve. The script of course was ass, but the story was really clever in parts (shitty weaknesses aside), painting a pretty accurate portrayal of how we hoped a fight between them would go down. Me and my roommate had different favorites (I prefer Freddy, he prefers Jason), so it was really fun to be rooting for them like that. Also, it was interesting in that Jason almost acts as the protagonist and Freddy the antagonist, as it really is more of a Friday movie than a Nightmare one story-wise, though the visual style of Nightmare thankfully takes hold pretty solidl. Idk. I just had so much fun with this so fuck it. 7/10 | | 14 |  | Black Sabbath
Born Again
Friday the 13th (2009)
A sloppy and uninteresting remake, Friday the 13th at least serves up something baseline entertaining and slick, and it certainly lives up to the low bar set by the original. There were some decent kills, all of which were true to the boring stabbing-people-through-things style, and I really enjoyed the fake-out of the opening, thinking we were gonna be following a group of people that died instantly. However, I wasn't a fan of this portrayal ofJason. He didn't make much sense. He seemed just as dumb, and yet he was setting traps, built a crazy lair, and had weird stealth, yet he still kept some girl alive for months because hse kinda looked like his mom? Eh, whatever. I had a okay time with it enough, it's just not a good film, and certainly not a good Friday film. It left a bad taste in my mouth when I was watching it, but I wouldn't say I really "hated" it. It was just more of a missed opportunity to tell Jason right with a decent budget for once. 4/10 | |
neekafat
08.01.18 | Will update as we continue | TheGreatQ
08.01.18 | Are you going to watch Freddy vs Jason and the remake too? | neekafat
08.01.18 | Almost definitely. Maybe not Freddy vs Jason because I've only seen the first Nightmare (maybe we'll watch all of those first too lmao) | DominionMM1
08.01.18 | nice. part VI: jason lives is the best one | TheGreatQ
08.01.18 | I never made it all the way through the series. I think I got to 3 or 4 (plus FvJ) when I was 12 but haven’t gone back and done a proper watch since except the remake witch I’ve seen 4 ish times. I should do that, I have them all on DVD. | neekafat
08.01.18 | @Dominion, I've heard that too!
The remake good then? | Rowhaus
08.01.18 | Halloween or bust | Rowhaus
08.01.18 | part IV is the best tho | DominionMM1
08.01.18 | part 4 is pretty damn good too
part 5 has its moments but the ending just ruined it for me | neekafat
08.01.18 | Halloween is a 7 too | TheGreatQ
08.01.18 | I really enjoyed the remake (obviously lol) but I know some people hated it. | neekafat
08.01.18 | Can't be much worse to be fair (; | Pheromone
08.01.18 | Halloween was such a disappointment | Astral Abortis
08.02.18 | 2 > 6 > 8 > 4 > 3 > 1 > FvJ > Remake > 5 > 10 > 7 > 9 | Astral Abortis
08.02.18 | 12, really. Most of them are worthwhile. I'd say the only two completely not worth watching are 7 and 9. | Middle18
08.02.18 | 6 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > FvJ > 10 > 8 > 7 > 1 > remake > 9 | neekafat
08.02.18 | What have I done | neekafat
08.04.18 | Part 3 was lame too | Rowhaus
08.04.18 | honestly the whole series is pretty bad, most people just look at the past through rose-colored glasses | DominionMM1
08.04.18 | did you have you 3D glasses on? it's really the only way to truly appreciate greg's death scene | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | "honestly the whole series is pretty bad, most people just look at the past through rose-colored glasses"
Not really, the series is mostly loved for its ridiculous formula, funny death scenes, and trashy atmosphere. It's loved for all the reasons it is supposedly "bad". Brilliant series.
Fun game with friends: watch every film in the series and take a drink for every time you see tits or someone dies. | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | Like if you don't fucking LIVE for the CHH-CHH-CHH-AHH-AHH-AHH soundtrack then just get out of horror entirely | budgie
08.05.18 | 4 & 6 are my favs | budgie
08.05.18 | and the ~2009 remake is pretty fun, don't let anti-remake sentiment ruin it for ya | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | yeah the remake gets hate for no real reason. | Rowan5215
08.05.18 | "Almost definitely. Maybe not Freddy vs Jason because I've only seen the first Nightmare (maybe we'll watch all of those first too lmao)"
definitely do, Nightmare is one of the rare horror series that gets better/funnier/more creative as it goes. Dream Warriors and New Nightmare are its best | budgie
08.05.18 | shit, gets better as it goes? the only nightmare film is like is the first one. it's a 10/10, though, for me | Rowan5215
08.05.18 | yep. Dream Warriors and New Nightmare have way better uses of the Freddie concept than the first one. way better kills (that first in Dream Warriors is an all-timer), they embrace both the inherent humour of the concept and of Englund's performance, and the potential for meta-commentary and mindfuckery that defines the series in my eyes. those two movies make the first film, great low-key horror though it is, look uncreative and pretty simplistic | Thalassic
08.05.18 | The remake is worth it for Julianna Guill's tits | budgie
08.05.18 | suppose creativity is upped in the third and new nightmare has that proto-scream meta-commentary as you say, but they're just both overly cheesy for me, i prefer the first one because freddy has more of a malevolent attitude and is less jovial, maybe, and the film overall has a bit more of a serious spirit with that wicked evil ending | Rowan5215
08.05.18 | yeah New Nightmare was definitely a dry run for Scream, haha, I don't think the world was quite ready for it when New Nightmare dropped (then again Scream is a lot more accessible, funnier, and less tied to one existing franchise which made it an easier watch). I definitely feel where you're coming from but it's never been a series I go to for predominantly horror, moreso the creativity and all the fun they can have with with the idea. (Freddie's very first alleyway appearance is definitely a classic scary moment, but otherwise I'm entertained not scared through all the films) | budgie
08.05.18 | yeah. that alleyway scene with the extended arms is absolutely golden - i wish the series kept with that approach.
there's a 2017 film called Bedeviled which is a bit of a reimagining of nightmare, plus a bit of scream. a couple good scenes in an overall bad film, but that figure in the dark following you with the extended arms makes an appearance, and it's wonderfully creepy. worth a watch just for that segment | neekafat
08.05.18 | Dude The Final Chapter was the worst one yet by far, probably one of the worst films I've ever seen
Write up will be up tomorrow | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | You're wrong | neekafat
08.05.18 | Objectively correct | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | You dont know anything | budgie
08.05.18 | there's something about seeing "objectively correct" in a discussion about horror movies that makes my brain hurt | Rowhaus
08.05.18 | Yeah the movies aren't good. Not even in a funny/cheesy way. Jason is a big dumb oaf with mommy issues that wishes he were as cool as Myers. Nothing scary about it. Why any1 would subject themselves to the entire series in marathon format is beyond me, but hey, wot do I know. | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | Nothin, clearly | Rowhaus
08.05.18 | when was the last time you actually sat down and watched one of these Ab? | Astral Abortis
08.05.18 | Last month | Thalassic
08.05.18 | Anybody here remembers that Friday the 13th ripoff The Burning? | neekafat
08.05.18 | Okay I was being a bit sarcastic with the objective correct comment but the movie is still literal ass | budgie
08.05.18 | marathon-ing the friday movies is one of life's great joys | neekafat
08.05.18 | updated, fuck that movie | neekafat
08.05.18 | Thanks dude! Yeah? I was looking at that and it looks pretty cool tbh | wham49
08.05.18 | totally wrong on one, it is a classic, 2 is better, but one kinda creeps up on you and then a 20 minute dash to the finish, many things were introduced that they went back to in every other sequal, may that is why it is not creepy to you anymore, they remade the movie 10 times, so to go back itlooks old hat when it was pretty inovative at the time, or at least keeping up with the times | neekafat
08.05.18 | I'll admit there's some merit to 1 and that I can see why people dig it for the "lo-fi" vibes and classic quality and whatever, but to me it's just a poorly made film, and a hopeless rip-off of Halloween | Thalassic
08.05.18 | Personally I like The Burning better than the Friday the 13th classics. It just has that extra spice of 80's New York scum-trash vibe going for it and it dethrones any Friday the 13th movie in the gore department. Definitely worth checking out afaic | neekafat
08.05.18 | Yeah man, maybe me and my roomie will jam it afterwards! | Thalassic
08.05.18 | Cool! Don't expect Oscar material, just go for the sleaze. A bit like Friday the 13th on steroids in the gore, scum, filth and grime department.
I do kinda look back fondly on the first two Friday the 13th movies, mostly because of nostalgia | neekafat
08.05.18 | I really did like the 2nd one but I suppose that's not enough for hardocre fans lmao | budgie
08.05.18 | sackhead jason is goofy | neekafat
08.05.18 | agreed tho | wham49
08.06.18 | that is the best jason Budgie, it makes more sense that a down syndrome orphan living on his own in the forest without indoor plumbing would gravitate to a bag on his head than a hockey mask. | neekafat
08.06.18 | agreed tho [2] | Astral Abortis
08.06.18 | Well he gets the hockey mask from a fat kid in the third film, guys, it's probably less scratchy than the sack! | neekafat
08.06.18 | agreed tho [3] | Astral Abortis
08.06.18 | Anyway pointing out plot flaws in this series goes directly out the trash when you realise it's about a murderer who aged thirty years after his death at the age of 10, all in the span of like...I can't remember the timeline but it's not fucking 30 years. | wham49
08.06.18 | The fat kid is Shelley the jewish fat kid who looks like a Marx brother who settles for gags to get the chicks attention, which of course only disuades them. The mask itself was a gag to scare the hot chick into "smashing" him but instead pisses her off leaving him alone, enter Jason to get the said mask and harpoon gun along with it to shot the girl who dissed him, sweet revenge, that he never got to enjoy | wham49
08.06.18 | so ya, totally plausible for the mask, my bad budgie, although 2 is the best most serious and scariest of the whole lot | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | i never found any of them scary. really the best ft13 films are the ones that are the most self aware
which is why part 6 is the best of the bunch | wham49
08.06.18 | 6 is fine, and when I say scary I am referring to my 12 year old self, but is more atmospheric, 3 might be the most self aware, The pothead in the porta potty is truly great in 3 | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | isn't the port a potty scene in part 5? | Astral Abortis
08.06.18 | yeah its 5 | Astral Abortis
08.06.18 | And 5 is the least self aware I think, 6 was made as a reaction to it | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ychDAcCPFwk
"it's them damn enchiladas" lol | wham49
08.06.18 | it is 3 ya bums, 5 has the little Reggie kid with his brother in the porta potty 3 has the pothead in the shitter, and is very self aware
he is taking a shit, sparks a J, at the same time Jason shakes the shitter, the pothead responds, "heavy shit" | Astral Abortis
08.06.18 | damn it's been a while since i've seen 3 then
i usually binge 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 | wham49
08.06.18 | 3 with the motorcycle gang and shelley and the 3d, I am dating myself to say that I saw it in the theatre as a very young boy with the 3d effects, I had a bad mom who took me, the 3d was bad you can tell when you watch it now where the 3d parts are, totally different than the awesome 3d now | wham49
08.06.18 | yes Dom that is just as good as the 3 scene, 5 is terrible in the long run though | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | i guess i've forgotten about most of 3
the one part that I'll always remember is rick's death scene | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | gq did exactly what neeka is doing here a few years ago. it's worth a read imo. | budgie
08.06.18 | that the wheelchair scene? | budgie
08.06.18 | "that is the best jason Budgie" yeah maybe, i didn't mean goofy in a bad way, it's just funny watching him fall all over the place trying to kill people, so clumsy lol | neekafat
08.06.18 | "2 is the best most serious and scariest of the whole lot"
agreed, it was pretty self-aware too, but after watching 4, 3 really isn't that bad | neekafat
08.06.18 | "gq did exactly what neeka is doing here a few years ago. it's worth a read imo."
oops
I'll probably be doing Nightmare and Halloween franchises soon too | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | when you do the Halloween one just skip season of the witch | neekafat
08.06.18 | Never, what's the point of doing a franchise binge if you're gonna skip one? | DominionMM1
08.06.18 | it's debatable as to whether or not that one is truly a part of the franchise. i mean technically it is in name but it's just so far removed from the rest of the films. | wham49
08.07.18 | from interviews with Carpenter and Debra Hill it was part of the franchise, they wanted to do all these different movies surounding halloween, the plan was to continue doing more Halloweens with pifferent plots | budgie
08.07.18 | yeah season of the witch has nothing to do with the halloween franchise. was initially planned to make the franchise an anthology thing instead i think, like tales from the darkside or creepshow. no reason to watch it in a halloween marathon
also i think it's terrible lol, but it does have a cult following | neekafat
08.07.18 | Idk, what's the point of skipping it when we're totally prepared to watch a terrible film every once in a while? | Rowhaus
08.07.18 | skip H3 on the binge then maybe come back to it | neekafat
08.07.18 | Like I have as much interest in watching that as I do with any of them, which is very little, it's just for fun | Rowhaus
08.07.18 | In that case I'd say go for it. Just be ready for a drastic and isolated change of course. | neekafat
08.07.18 | Sounds good to me lmao | Rowhaus
08.07.18 | If you haven't see the OG Halloween you gotta see it pronto | neekafat
08.07.18 | It's a 7 :/ | budgie
08.07.18 | OG halloween is a 7 to you? love you dude but uh.. kill yourself | budgie
08.07.18 | in.... a nice way, i mean that in a nice way | Rowhaus
08.07.18 | Halloween a 7? bro | Astral Abortis
08.08.18 | Neeka isn't cut out for horror | Hawks
08.08.18 | Original Halloween is the best horror movie ever made etc and first Friday the 13th slays. You’re fucking up hard Neek. | Rowhaus
08.08.18 | Wot's up Hawks? | neekafat
08.08.18 | "Neeka isn't cut out for horror"
fuck you. Like it's one thing to complain about my shit taste in horror, but implying that I shouldn't watch it because I don't get it is dumb as fuck | neekafat
08.08.18 | It's a 7 because the characterization and story are terrible to the point where I don't give a shit about the characters whose lives are in danger. Why would a movie be more than a 7 is a don't give a shit what happens? That's a rule of thumb for any film, not just horror. | neekafat
08.08.18 | Other than that, it's technically and visually fantastic | neekafat
08.08.18 | Like I'm not trying to be pretentious, but a lot of my ratings come from the fact that as a filmmaker, it's really hard for me to distance myself from poor and careless approaches to basic storytelling and technique. If it helps to look at this list as being from the eyes of someone with a more critical background in film, I can put a little disclaimer up there for you. I don't think it's such a goddamn sin to ask a little bit more of the genre than the average moviegoer | budgie
08.08.18 | "i'm not trying to be pretentious, but as a filmmaker.."
the floodgates are opened! | budgie
08.08.18 | "Original Halloween is the best horror movie ever made" this is correct | Rowhaus
08.08.18 | Halloween is about the revenge of the repressed, mainly regarding Laurie Strode. The characters are (or were?) essentially caricatures of carefree teens going about their lives. It's the premise that unspeakable evil, without rhyme or reason, could befall them. That's what makes it so excellent. | Thalassic
08.08.18 | The original Halloween is actually a movie that grew on me. When I was a little kid I only wanted to see awesome kills and I was really underwhelmed after watching the movie, but eventually I started to put more emphasis on more nuanced ingredients like atmosphere and vibe and suddenly its brilliance opened itself up to me. | neekafat
08.08.18 | That's fair man, to be fair it's been two or three years since I've seen it so it'll probably grow on me by now. I just remember being impressed by it in a lot of ways and let down it others | neekafat
08.08.18 | "It's the premise that unspeakable evil, without rhyme or reason, could befall them. That's what makes it so excellent."
but like isn't that every horror/action/drama/thriller film has been about for the last 50 years? Not even trying to bait, it just doesn't stand out to me that much as unique. I get that it's innovative but at the same time that doesn't mean it's perfect, same thing with the Beatles imo | Thalassic
08.08.18 | Well in terms of movies - to be fair, any "art" for me really - everything is graded by me according to whether I feel it or not
I don't really fancy myself a professional critic in anything | neekafat
08.08.18 | I get that dude, I guess I just didn't really feel it too much the first time around | Astral Abortis
08.09.18 | Neek defs shouldnt be watching horror | budgie
08.09.18 | nah he just needs to upgrade to high culture horror that suits his refined taste, films like the gingerdead man, thankskilling, and troll 2 | Astral Abortis
08.09.18 | Barely any horror films have the characteristics he's looking for "as a filmmaker" (hahahahahahahahah). At the end of the day it's all about murder, so you need to want all the characters to die | DominionMM1
08.09.18 | agreed. the best you can hope for are MEMORABLE characters which is yet another reason why part 6 is the best in this particular franchise | neekafat
08.09.18 | Troll 2 is amazing | neekafat
08.09.18 | V was a 6 just a heads up | neekafat
08.09.18 | VI was like an 8 holy shit | budgie
08.09.18 | 6 is my fav of the bunch for sure. has the dude from ROTLD! | neekafat
08.09.18 | Astral, you're being ridiculous. I'm not trying to say anything beyond explaining where my tastes come from. I love horror. There's tons of it that is just fantastic and exhibits fantastic style and artfulness. And there's also shit like Part 6 that's just so goddamn fun because it's not boring (like a lot of these movies) and actually cares about delivering the goods in a great way | neekafat
08.09.18 | And if you think horror is only about murder than I understand your tastes completely lmao | neekafat
08.10.18 | fml | DominionMM1
08.10.18 | part 7 was supposed to be a more respectable film that the production hoped would be viewed as art and taken more seriously. apparently they looked into some big name directors including frederico fellini. as we can see it didn't work out that way but you can kind of see where their intentions were. | neekafat
08.12.18 | I liked 8 more than I thought I would
And that's actually really interesting Dominion, I guess some of that shows, just in a really unfortunate way lmao, shame they couldn't find a story to fit their intentions. | DominionMM1
08.12.18 | the kills in part 8 were lackluster in part because they were sick of dealing with the mpaa censors | Kalopsia
08.24.18 | Part VI is the only one that I truly enjoy | neekafat
08.24.18 | I forgot to update Jason Goes to Hell, was a 4/10 | neekafat
08.24.18 | And Kalopsia yeah good take tbh | Minushuman24
08.24.18 | oh maaaaan, The Final Chapter is my favorite film of the franchise qq | neekafat
08.24.18 | ...how? | Kalopsia
08.24.18 | what are your thoughts on the 'remake' neekafat? the one from... 2009 I think? with dude from Supernatural | neekafat
08.24.18 | haven't seen it yet, but I will update once I get there! | neekafat
08.25.18 | updooted
short because it's been like a week since i seen it | TheGreatQ
08.28.18 | I've been playing the (recent) Friday the 13th game, pretty fin when it doesn't glitch out. I need to watch the movies now lol | neekafat
08.28.18 | We're actually talking about getting that!
Jason X be up | Rowhaus
08.31.18 | Jason X does have one of the most memorable kills ever made | neekafat
08.31.18 | You talking bout the Freeze one? | Rowhaus
08.31.18 | yeah it's legendary | neekafat
09.19.18 | Figured I should add Freddy vs Jason to both lists, will be watching the remakes too shortly | cold
09.19.18 | Man that’s a low rating for the original
Tsk tsk | neekafat
09.19.18 | It's trash dude | MebalZahari
09.19.18 | Remember one where a lady is wearing some nice tight white jeans. Has some good shots. | neekafat
09.19.18 | I don't remember but sure lol | neekafat
09.24.18 | *smacks hands together vertically, signaling completion" | budgie
09.24.18 | ooh man if you think 2009 jason was bad you're going to looove 2010 freddy. | Insurrection
09.24.18 | 4 is my favorite tbh | butt.
09.24.18 | nice write-up. makes me want to revisit the series. however, I already decided that this year I'm going to watch all the Halloweens again in honor of the new one. Been a while since I've done it, will probably update with a list like this | neekafat
09.25.18 | Insurrection what is wrong with you
Hell yeah Buttboy, me and my roommate are thinking that's next so I'll be doing one too! |
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