“ Categories Anniversaries Movies 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.
& Categories Movies Reviews 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.
2 Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
H Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month 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.
I Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
H Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
M Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies 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.
R Categories Movies August 20, 2019 Ready Or Not Review: Till Death Do Us Part A young bride fights off her murderous in-laws in a delightfully droll slasher thriller.
