Tag: slasher

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August 4, 2022

They/Them has a clever title, and not much else to offer

An engaging young cast & a timely premise is wasted on a plodding script that stretches the definition of a “slasher film.”
Halloween II Anniversary Featured“
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October 30, 2021

“You Don’t Know What Death Is!”: Halloween II at 40

Halloween II, the 1981 sequel, may be better than many of its successors, but that doesn't make it good.
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January 11, 2021

“Hunted” speaks out of both sides of its mouth

Vincent Paronnaud's over the top slasher film wants to say something about misogyny while treating its female lead as an object to be abused.
Friday the 13th Reboot2
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May 31, 2020

2009’s “Friday the 13th” reboot turns Jason into a murderous pot farmer

Marcus Nispel's confused, uninspired revamp of the franchise stresses the importance of not touching Jason's stash of sticky-icky.
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May 30, 2020

How I learned to stop worrying and love “Freddy vs. Jason”

Freddy vs. Jason is not a good movie - and that's not just okay, it may well be transgressive.
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May 27, 2020

“Jason X” goes to space and sucks on so many levels

New Line sends Jason to the final frontier, and sends all the thinly-drawn characters and low-budget kills of the franchise with him.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 13th&
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May 26, 2020

“Jason Goes to Hell” reinvents the Friday the 13th franchise, and not for the better

Jason Voorhees tears his way over to New Line Cinema, who promptly cranks out an entry that warps his mythos for the worse.
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May 24, 2020

In “Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan”, Jason (sort of) takes a bloody bite of the Big Apple

Paramount tried to jazz up the Friday the 13th franchise by plopping Jason in the City That Never Sleeps, but the results nearly killed the series.
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May 8, 2020

How “Friday the 13th Part 2” introduced Jason in the flesh

The first film to feature the horror icon in person, 1981's sequel marks the franchise's sway from Giallo-inspired mystery to Jason-centric mayhem.
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May 2, 2020

May’s Filmmaker of the Month: The Friday the 13th Series

For the first film's 40th anniversary, we hack and slash our way through the long, bloody saga of Jason Voorhees and his journeys from hell to Manhattan to space.